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[libvirt] [RFC] API vs XML
by Stefan de Konink 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, In my previous email Daniel made clear that for many functions it is preferable to have access to the XML output. I would like to know what the general opinion is about defining a domain. I can understand that people don't mind to define a domain manually or with tools and pump it inside libvirt with the virDomainDefineXML call. But why are the XML tree manipulating features not incorporated into the API? Slightly more 'semantics based' than Attach/Detach Device. Allowing to specify the information that is going into the XML. So for example: domainptr = virDomainDefine(name) virDomainSetName(domainptr, name) virDomainSetBootloader(domainptr, path) virDomainSetOS(domainptr, type) virDomainSetMemory(domainptr, amount, live) virDomainSetVCPU(domainptr, amount, live) virDomainAttachDisk(domainptr, type, sourceptr, targetptr, live) virDomainDetachDevice(domainptr, deviceptr, live) I know there are people that love XML here, but can someone give a reasonable statement why not to support the above? (More clean, less parsing) Stefan

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[libvirt] PATCH: Pass -name argument to QEMU
by Daniel P. Berrange 19 May '08

19 May '08

This patch makes libvirt pass the -name argumet to QEMU it if it supported by the QEMU binary in question. THis allows QEMU to set the VNC title and allows Xenner to set the Xen guest name in xenstore. src/qemu_conf.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- src/qemu_conf.h | 5 +++-- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-minimal.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) Dan. diff -r aab96c0c6974 src/qemu_conf.c --- a/src/qemu_conf.c Fri May 09 19:24:37 2008 -0400 +++ b/src/qemu_conf.c Fri May 09 19:30:26 2008 -0400 @@ -492,10 +492,12 @@ *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_KQEMU; if (strstr(help, "-no-reboot")) *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NO_REBOOT; - if (strstr(help, "\n-drive")) - *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_OPT; + if (strstr(help, "-name")) + *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME; + if (strstr(help, "-drive")) + *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE; if (strstr(help, "boot=on")) - *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT_OPT; + *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT; if (*version >= 9000) *flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_VNC_COLON; ret = 0; @@ -2348,6 +2350,7 @@ len = 1 + /* qemu */ 2 + /* machine type */ disableKQEMU + /* Disable kqemu */ + (vm->qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME ? 2 : 0) + /* -name XXX */ 2 * vm->def->ndisks + /* disks*/ (vm->def->nnets > 0 ? (4 * vm->def->nnets) : 2) + /* networks */ 1 + /* usb */ @@ -2394,6 +2397,12 @@ if (!((*argv)[++n] = strdup(vcpus))) goto no_memory; + if (vm->qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME) { + if (!((*argv)[++n] = strdup("-name"))) + goto no_memory; + if (!((*argv)[++n] = strdup(vm->def->name))) + goto no_memory; + } /* * NB, -nographic *MUST* come before any serial, or monitor * or parallel port flags due to QEMU craziness, where it @@ -2472,11 +2481,11 @@ } /* If QEMU supports -drive param instead of old -hda, -hdb, -cdrom .. */ - if (vm->qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_OPT) { + if (vm->qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE) { int bootCD = 0, bootFloppy = 0, bootDisk = 0; /* If QEMU supports boot=on for -drive param... */ - if (vm->qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT_OPT) { + if (vm->qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT) { for (i = 0 ; i < vm->def->os.nBootDevs ; i++) { switch (vm->def->os.bootDevs[i]) { case QEMUD_BOOT_CDROM: diff -r aab96c0c6974 src/qemu_conf.h --- a/src/qemu_conf.h Fri May 09 19:24:37 2008 -0400 +++ b/src/qemu_conf.h Fri May 09 19:30:26 2008 -0400 @@ -249,8 +249,9 @@ QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_KQEMU = (1 << 0), QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_VNC_COLON = (1 << 1), QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NO_REBOOT = (1 << 2), - QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_OPT = (1 << 3), - QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT_OPT = (1 << 4), + QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE = (1 << 3), + QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT = (1 << 4), + QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME = (1 << 5), }; diff -r aab96c0c6974 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-minimal.args --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-minimal.args Fri May 09 19:24:37 2008 -0400 +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-minimal.args Fri May 09 19:30:26 2008 -0400 @@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ -/usr/bin/qemu -M pc -m 214 -smp 1 -nographic -monitor pty -no-acpi -boot c -hda /dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1 -net none -serial none -parallel none -usb \ No newline at end of file +/usr/bin/qemu -M pc -m 214 -smp 1 -name QEMUGuest1 -nographic -monitor pty -no-acpi -boot c -hda /dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1 -net none -serial none -parallel none -usb \ No newline at end of file diff -r aab96c0c6974 tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c Fri May 09 19:24:37 2008 -0400 +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c Fri May 09 19:30:26 2008 -0400 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ #define MAX_FILE 4096 -static int testCompareXMLToArgvFiles(const char *xml, const char *cmd, int driveFlag) { +static int testCompareXMLToArgvFiles(const char *xml, const char *cmd, int extraFlags) { char xmlData[MAX_FILE]; char argvData[MAX_FILE]; char *xmlPtr = &(xmlData[0]); @@ -47,10 +47,7 @@ vm.qemuVersion = 0 * 1000 * 100 + (8 * 1000) + 1; vm.qemuCmdFlags = QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_VNC_COLON | QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NO_REBOOT; - if (driveFlag) { - vm.qemuCmdFlags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_OPT; - vm.qemuCmdFlags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT_OPT; - } + vm.qemuCmdFlags |= extraFlags; vm.migrateFrom[0] = '\0'; vmdef->vncActivePort = vmdef->vncPort; @@ -100,7 +97,7 @@ struct testInfo { const char *name; - int driveFlag; + int extraFlags; }; static int testCompareXMLToArgvHelper(const void *data) { @@ -111,7 +108,7 @@ abs_srcdir, info->name); snprintf(args, PATH_MAX, "%s/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-%s.args", abs_srcdir, info->name); - return testCompareXMLToArgvFiles(xml, args, info->driveFlag); + return testCompareXMLToArgvFiles(xml, args, info->extraFlags); } @@ -135,15 +132,15 @@ driver.caps = qemudCapsInit(); -#define DO_TEST(name, driveFlag) \ +#define DO_TEST(name, extraFlags) \ do { \ - struct testInfo info = { name, driveFlag }; \ + struct testInfo info = { name, extraFlags }; \ if (virtTestRun("QEMU XML-2-ARGV " name, \ 1, testCompareXMLToArgvHelper, &info) < 0) \ ret = -1; \ } while (0) - DO_TEST("minimal", 0); + DO_TEST("minimal", QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME); DO_TEST("boot-cdrom", 0); DO_TEST("boot-network", 0); DO_TEST("boot-floppy", 0); @@ -152,8 +149,10 @@ DO_TEST("disk-cdrom", 0); DO_TEST("disk-floppy", 0); DO_TEST("disk-many", 0); - DO_TEST("disk-virtio", 1); - DO_TEST("disk-xenvbd", 1); + DO_TEST("disk-virtio", QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE | + QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT); + DO_TEST("disk-xenvbd", QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE | + QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT); DO_TEST("graphics-vnc", 0); DO_TEST("graphics-sdl", 0); DO_TEST("input-usbmouse", 0); -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|

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[libvirt] Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] update from gnulib
by Richard W.M. Jones 19 May '08

19 May '08

Did this huge patch go in? If not, it should because I noticed gnulib problems also with mingw which were fixed by updating. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v

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[Libvir] How to get the memory used by a guest domin
by Pranay Prasoon 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, It appears to be no API available to provide the memory used by a guest domin. I looked at the availble libvirt api called "virNodeGetCellsFreeMemory" using which it is possible to get the free mem. But looking further I found that this is free memory of the "whole box" rather than based upon the guest domain. How can I get the memory used by a guest domin. Thanks n Regards, -Pranay.

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[libvirt] [virt-manager] PATCH: Support nonstandard ssh-port for tunnels
by ClaesBas 19 May '08

19 May '08

If you have ssh moved/hidden somewhere else then port 22 this patch makes it possible to open the vnc/console. I have to add the entry from commandline like this: virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://username@some_machine:22222/system If ssh is running on port 22222. I've also submitet this on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447070 Regards Claes --- a/src/virtManager/details.py Tue May 13 15:59:25 2008 -0400 +++ b/src/virtManager/details.py Sun May 18 23:07:37 2008 +0200 @@ -975,7 +975,11 @@ class vmmDetails(gobject.GObject): os.close(1) os.dup(fds[1].fileno()) os.dup(fds[1].fileno()) - argv = ["ssh", "ssh", "-p", "22"] + if not server.count(":"): + sshport = 22 + else: + (server, sshport) = server.split(":") + argv = ["ssh", "ssh", "-p", sshport] if username: argv += ['-l', username] argv += [ server, "nc", vncaddr, str(vncport) ]

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[libvirt] libvirtd forgets about domain if started two time
by Thomas Mueller 17 May '08

17 May '08

hi there i filed a bug for debian's libvrit-bin package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481619 in short: start 2 times the same domain and "virsh list" will not show it anymore, altough kvm process ist still there. tried also without emulator defined in the xml. same error. now i managed to compile from source (cvs, 2008-05-17). i get the error also with this version of libvirtd. - Thomas

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[libvirt] PATCH: Use -help arg with QEMU probing
by Daniel P. Berrange 17 May '08

17 May '08

This patch makes the code that probes QEMU args explicitly add the -help argument. This works around a problem with certain KVM builds which refuse to run if executed without -help, and no KVM modules are present. It also removes the set of setenv() since that changes libvirtd's environ and instead uses execle() to set the child's environment Dan Index: src/qemu_conf.c =================================================================== RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/qemu_conf.c,v retrieving revision 1.64 diff -u -p -r1.64 qemu_conf.c --- src/qemu_conf.c 15 May 2008 20:07:34 -0000 1.64 +++ src/qemu_conf.c 16 May 2008 14:34:42 -0000 @@ -447,6 +447,8 @@ static int qemudExtractVersionInfo(const } if (child == 0) { /* Kid */ + const char *const qemuenv[] = { "LANG=C", NULL }; + if (close(STDIN_FILENO) < 0) goto cleanup1; if (close(STDERR_FILENO) < 0) @@ -457,8 +459,7 @@ static int qemudExtractVersionInfo(const goto cleanup1; /* Just in case QEMU is translated someday.. */ - setenv("LANG", "C", 1); - execl(qemu, qemu, (char*)NULL); + execle(qemu, qemu, "-help", (char*)NULL, qemuenv); cleanup1: _exit(-1); /* Just in case */ -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|

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[libvirt] [PATCH] plug two leaks
by Jim Meyering 16 May '08

16 May '08

Running "make check" under valgrind exposed at least the first. Then, I spotted the other. * src/qemu_conf.c (qemudParseXML): Free "obj" unconditionally. --- src/qemu_conf.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu_conf.c index ff7c63e..47d49a2 100644 --- a/src/qemu_conf.c +++ b/src/qemu_conf.c @@ -1716,11 +1716,11 @@ static struct qemud_vm_def *qemudParseXML(virConnectPtr conn, (obj->stringval != NULL) && (obj->stringval[0] != 0)) { strncpy(def->os.bootloader, (const char*)obj->stringval, sizeof(def->os.bootloader)); NUL_TERMINATE(def->os.bootloader); - xmlXPathFreeObject(obj); /* Set a default OS type, since <type> is optional with bootloader */ strcpy(def->os.type, "xen"); } + xmlXPathFreeObject(obj); /* Extract OS type info */ obj = xmlXPathEval(BAD_CAST "string(/domain/os/type[1])", ctxt); @@ -1733,9 +1733,9 @@ static struct qemud_vm_def *qemudParseXML(virConnectPtr conn, } } else { strcpy(def->os.type, (const char *)obj->stringval); - xmlXPathFreeObject(obj); - obj = NULL; } + xmlXPathFreeObject(obj); + obj = NULL; if (!virCapabilitiesSupportsGuestOSType(driver->caps, def->os.type)) { qemudReportError(conn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_OS_TYPE, -- 1.5.5.1.249.g26848

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[libvirt] how to pass qemu options?
by David Abrahams 16 May '08

16 May '08

I normally launch my kvm VM from the command line with "-redir tcp:3389:3389" but have been unable to find a way to set up virt-manager to launch it the same way. Ditto for other qemu options such as "-soundhw all". Is there a way? TIA, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com

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[libvirt] Question about more finer access control permission on libvirt
by Atsushi SAKAI 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, Dan I have a question of libvirt with Polkit. Currently, the libvirt w/ Polkit has 2 access control permissions. (Read Only and Read Write) Have you planned to expand the access control more finer? In my use case, Policy should define by domain, operation, operator. Of course, operator is already considered on current libvirt w/ Polkit. So at this point, it needs to add domain and operation policy. The use case is for many(about 100 or more) domain operation. I just want to know how to minimize granting access control permission of each user on libvirt in future. Any comment appreciated. Thanks Atsushi SAKAI

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