November 2006 - Devel - libvirt List Archives

[Libvir] Release of libvirt-0.1.9
by Daniel Veillard 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

A lot of improvement and bug fixes have accumulated in the last month, so it was clearly time for a new release: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.1.9.tar.gz * python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel Berrange) * don't raise HTTP error when looking informations for a domain * some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points * better error reporting (Daniel Berrange) * fix OS reporting when running as non-root * provide XML parsing errors * extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange) * fix the reconnect regression test * python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid garbage collection and disconnect * separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML level * Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange) * add support for shareable drives * add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests(Daniel Berrange) * python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange) * new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs from scratch * hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch * added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated cleanup (Daniel Berrange) * special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange) * add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend) * pygrub bootloader informations take over <os> informations * updated the localization strings thanks to everybody who helped for this new release, with bug reports or patches ! Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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[Libvir] vif-nat network setup
by Tomas Kouba 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Hello, is it possible to setup a NAT-ed network with libvir? My dom0 is configured so that it does a router for domUs and it also does NAT for domUs. I can set this up manually but now I would like to install some other domUs automatically with virt-install. I see that it uses libvir to create new domain from the XML description so it should be easy to add some option that would configure the XML, but I cannot find if the XML supports NAT setup. If I try 'virsh dumpxml' when the domU runs I get this: Unimplemented block at xend_internal.c:1667 <domain type='xen' id='1'> <name>ce</name> <uuid>400be3cf7cedc1d388de8796a85daff1</uuid> <os> <type>linux</type> <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-prep</kernel> <initrd>/boot/initrd-2.6.18-prep.img</initrd> <root>/dev/sda1</root> <cmdline>fastboot ro root=/dev/sda1</cmdline> </os> <memory>131072</memory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices>  <console tty='/dev/pts/2'/> </devices> </domain> Thanks for any answer. -- Tomas Kouba

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[Libvir] virDomainDump() API (equivalent to xm dump) in libvirt?
by Lon Hohberger 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

There's already one for saving live domains: int virDomainSave(virDomainPtr domain, const char *to); Why not use a similar API for a function which does the equivalent of 'xm dump' ? int virDomainDump(virDomainPtr domain, const char *to, int flags); Create a kernel dump of the domain in the path contained in *to. This API must fail if the domain is not in a panicked/crashed state. If you set the lowest-bit in flags, however, you can override this behavior: if the lowest bit is set, the domain will first be crashed (similar to SysRq-C) - then a dump will be taken from that. Why? In the event that a cluster node needs to fence a Xen domain (or other management tools, to be sure), we could use the API to generate a core of the domain (if it panicked) to help debug the problem prior to restarting the domain. The 'crash-before-dump' bit is just something someone might want to use at some point; I don't think it is absolutely necessary - but it doesn't hurt anything either. -- Lon

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Re: [Libvir] Patch to attach/detach virtual devices on a running domain
by michel.ponceau＠bull.net 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

There is a bug in GetNetworkID(): return(ret) with ret=list[i], after free(list). It leads to process abort on free(xref) in caller XMLDevID(). I corrected this by replacing: ret = list[i]; by: ret = malloc(16); if (ret != NULL) strcpy(ret, list[i]); Our tests were successful afterwards. Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 20/11/2006 16:50 Veuillez répondre à veillard Pour : michel.ponceau(a)bull.net cc : libvir-list(a)redhat.com Objet : Re: [Libvir] Patch to attach/detach virtual devices on a running domain On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:19:13PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:05:47AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > 5/ virDomainXMLDevID does direct acces to xs_directory() and xs_read(), > > that's not proper it should not call xenStore directly that need to > > be cleaned up, define one high level function exported from > > xs_internal.[ch] and call that but no direct access should be done > > that leads to unmaintainable code. > > That still need to be isolated, I added a TODO in src/xml.c to this effect. Okay I have done it, as a new function xenStoreDomainGetNetworkID() from xs_internal.[ch] Could you check out the version from CVS and verify I didn't added any regression ? thanks, Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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[Libvir] Patch to attach/detach virtual devices on a running domain
by michel.ponceau＠bull.net 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

This patch adds to Libvirt-0.1.8 the two functions described in my preceding mail. It has been tested in our Bull environment. Michel Ponceau 02/10/2006 17:27 Pour : libvir-list(a)redhat.com cc : Objet : Proposal for virtual devices described in XML Proposal modified after comments from Daniel P. Berrange: /* Create a virtual device attachment to backend */ int virDomainAttachDevice(virDomainPtr domain, char *xml); /* Destroy a virtual device attachment to backend */ int virDomainDetachDevice(virDomainPtr domain, char *xml); /* @domain: pointer to domain object * @xml: pointer to XML description of one device * Returns 0 in case of success, -1 in case of failure. */ The XML is in same form as the part of domain description for a single device, either <disk.../disk> or <interface.../interface>. In Detach function, the device is identified by its target name for "disk", and its MAC address for "interface". When the MAC address has not been assigned by Libvirt user at device creation, it must be retrieved from Xen using virDomainGetXMLDesc function.

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[Libvir] [PATCH 0/6] Inactive domain support
by Daniel P. Berrange 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

The following series of patches is an update of my previous patches for supporting inactive domains in libvirt. A rough highlight of changes since last time: - Can override /etc/xen by setting LIBVIRT_XM_CONFIG_DIR env variable for people who move it to non-standard location - Several memory corruption bugs in config file refresh were solved - Fixed booting with paravirt framebuffer + grub - Added support for new APIs to python binding - Removed logic for supressing 404 errors (already merged earlier) - More complete device handling support (now creates network devices) Previous posting was here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2006-September/msg00003.html Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|

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[Libvir] Request and proposition about hardware capabilities in virNodeInfo
by Philippe Berthault 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hello, To administrate virtual machines by using livbvirt, we need to known if the underlying hardware platform supports hvm (Intel-VT or AMD-V) or not. Currently, this information is returned by the "xm info" command of Xen in the "xen_caps" line but there is no equivalent in libvirt. So we propose to add this information in libvirt API. There is three possibilities for doing that: 1) Add one or several fields in the virNodeInfo structure returned by the virNodeGetInfo() function. These fields would be either strings such as strings returned by "xm info" or either bit fields with one bit per hardware capability. 2) Add one or several specific functions returning a boolean value for each hardware capability we want to test. 3) Add a specific function which returns either a bit fields of all the hardware capabilities or a structure such as virNodeInfo but far more complete. The problem with the proposition #1 is that the size of the virNodeInfo structure is changed. This implies for all libvirt users to recompile their programs linked with libvirt to avoid a 'core dump' at the execution. This is the reason why propositions 2 and 3 exist. NB: On an IA32 system, we can check flags in /proc/cpuinfo but on an IA64 platform with Montecito processors, there is no information about hardware capabilities in /proc/cpuinfo and the only way to known if the hardware supports hvm is by using the 'xm info' command. What is your opinion about these propositions ? Regards.

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Re: [Libvir] Patch to attach/detach virtual devices on a running domain
by michel.ponceau＠bull.net 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

I cannot see the bug in virParseXMLDevice. The 'error' label sequence is ended by 'goto cleanup', and 'cleanup' sequence calls xmlFreeDoc(xml). Is it not the way to free the xmlDocPtr object 'xml'? Maybe I should reverse the sequence order to be more clear, as follows: + goto cleanup; +error: + free(buf.content); + buf.content = NULL; +cleanup: + if (xml != NULL) + xmlFreeDoc(xml); + return buf.content; "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com> 14/11/2006 19:36 Veuillez répondre à "Daniel P. Berrange" Pour : michel.ponceau(a)bull.net cc : libvir-list(a)redhat.com Objet : Re: [Libvir] Patch to attach/detach virtual devices on a running domain On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:34:05PM +0100, michel.ponceau(a)bull.net wrote: > This patch adds to Libvirt-0.1.8 the two functions described in my > preceding mail. It has been tested in our Bull environment. This looks good to me - only one small bug I see - in the virParseXMLDevice function there is a memory leak. If you take 'goto errror' path through the function, then the xmlDocPtr object will never be free'd. Thanks for taking the time to implement all this ! Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|

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[Libvir] [PATCH] Fixed integer wraparound in python binding
by Daniel P. Berrange 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

The attached patch fixes a problem with integrate wraparound in the python bindings. THe problem is thus: - the memory & max-memory fields in the virDomainInfo struct are of type 'unsigned long'. - The python bindings, however, then stick this into a python 'Int' which is signed. Now, on 64-bit this is not an issue. For DomU guests on 32-bit it is not an issue either, but for Dom0 XenD sets the max-memory field to be 2^32-1 whcih causes wraparound when converting to python int. This patch simply switches the python binding over to using a python Long which is 64 bits on all platforms. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|

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[Libvir] Support non-bridged network configs
by Daniel P. Berrange 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

The current code for parsing/serializing VIFs only really deals with the default bridged networking config for Xen. So if one uses network-route or network-nat it completely breaks. There is also no support for dealing with IP address in the XML / SEXPR. The attached patch fixes both of these issues, so we should be able to deal with any of the standard Xen networking configs. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|

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