Tag: juniper vmx

When attempting to install a Juniper vMX router (release 18.3R1-S1.4) on a newly installed Centos 7.2 host I got the following error: When I checked the supported machine types with /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -machine help everything looked fine, pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0 was listed as the default: The error gmem.c:489: custom memory allocation vtable not […]

UPDATE: A new copy of the i40e driver has been provided by Juniper (unofficially). You can try this at your own risk, see here for details. When using a Juniper vMX with a Intel X520 or Intel X710 based card and SR-IOV, under load the vFPC may crash. This seems […]

After I have deployed the vMX on a CentOS 7.4 host that has an IPv6 address for management, I noticed that IPv6 stopped working when the vMX was started. In my case, the IPv6 address was originally on the interface bond0. When the vMX starts a bridge interface is created […]

When starting a Juniper vMX router you may get an error from the vMX.sh script that shows that the libvirt files could not be generated followed by “setlocale: No such file or directory” one or more times. The error looks like this: Ensure that both the hosts’s locale and your […]

When starting a Juniper vMX router you may get a warning from the vMX.sh script that shows that the IOMMU status is disabled. It will look like this: This seems to occur if the host OS is CentOS – the shell script to detect the IOMMU does not validate this […]

When starting a Juniper vMX router you may get an error from the vMX.sh script that states “Insuffecient cores to pin” (note the incorrect spelling). The error looks like this: You may have over-assigned the number of CPU’s to the vFPC/vCP. Make sure that there is less CPU’s allocated to […]

NOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. When starting a Juniper vMX router you may get an error from the vMX.sh script that shows that the I40E drivers could not be checked. The error looks like this: The first thing to do […]

NOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. When deploying a Juniper vMX router on both a CentOS and Ubuntu host I ran into an issue when starting it. The symptoms were slightly different: For CentOS when the vMX started it would get […]