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[libvirt] XML network model type stripped on define.
by Adrian Garay 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Greetings! I am currently testing Centos5.3, KVM-84, libvirt from the Centos default packages and a Vista 32 guest. I am unfortunately experiencing difficulties with the default realtek8139 network driver, the solution for which I've read would be to change the emulated network device type to e1000. When editing the xml file for my guest, I change: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:3e:38:a8:ad'/> <source bridge='br0'/> </interface> to: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:3e:38:a8:ad'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='e1000'/> </interface> and then doing a: virsh --connect qemu:///system define /etc/libvirt/qemu/vista32.xml The correct guest is updated, but the model type information I've just added is stripped from my XML and I'm once again left with an 8139 emulated nic. According to the command: qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null I should be able to use the e1000 driver. My sincerest apologies if this is already known, or I'm missing something terribly obvious. I am new to mailing lists (this would be my first!) Thanks in advance.

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[libvirt] libvirt 0.3.3 and unix_sock_group
by Daniel Labrosse 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi All, I've been using libvirt 0..4.4 for a few weeks now. I have unix_sock_group = "mygroup" set so that i can perform non-root management capabilities on the host. I have recently installed a new host running Scientific Linux 5.3 and libvirt 0.3.3 comes as default. First off, there is no libvirtd.conf file included with 0.3.3, so I copied the file from libvirt 0.4.4 (which is running on my Fedora 8 box). I am still unable to get non-root management capabilities (i.e virsh create etc) after a restart of libvirtd. Is this feature supported in libvirt 0.3.3? Perhaps the file format is different between versions and hence unix_sock_group isnt being read correctly? hope you can help. thanks Daniel

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[libvirt] [PATCH] trivial fix for virsh return value bug
by Daniel Veillard 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495954 virsh ttyconsole [node] always sets a return code of 1 we initialize ret to FALSE, but don't set it to TRUE when the operation succeeds Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[libvirt] [PATCH] add some text to http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html
by Serge E. Hallyn 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

--- drvlxc-orig.html 2009-04-15 09:36:48.000000000 -0500 +++ drvlxc.html 2009-04-15 09:44:27.000000000 -0500 @@ -140,7 +140,89 @@ </div> <div id="content"> - <h1>LXC container driver</h1> +<h1>LXC container driver</h1> +<p> +The libvirt LXC driver manages "Linux Containers". Containers are sets of processes +with private namespaces which can (but don't always) look like separate machines, but +do not have their own OS. Here are two example configurations. The first is a very +light-weight "application container" which does not have it's own root image. You would +start it using +</p> + +<h3>Example config version 1</h3> +<p> +<pre> +<domain type='lxc'> + <name>vm1</name> + <memory>500000</memory> + <os> + <type>exe</type> + <init>/bin/sh</init> + </os> + <vcpu>1</vcpu> + <clock offset='utc'/> + <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> + <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> + <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> + <devices> + <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> + <interface type='network'> + <source network='default'/> + </interface> + <console type='pty' /> + </devices> +</domain> +</pre> +</p> + +<p> +The next example assumes there is a private root filesystem +(perhaps hand-crafted using busybox, or installed from media, +debootstrap, whatever) under /opt/vm-1-root: +</p> +<p> +<pre> +<domain type='lxc'> + <name>vm1</name> + <memory>32768</memory> + <os> + <type>exe</type> + <init>/init</init> + </os> + <vcpu>1</vcpu> + <clock offset='utc'/> + <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> + <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> + <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> + <devices> + <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> + <filesystem type='mount'> + <source dir='/opt/vm-1-root'/> + <target dir='/'/> + </filesystem> + <interface type='network'> + <source network='default'/> + </interface> + <console type='pty' /> + </devices> +</domain> + +</pre> +</p> + +<p> +In both cases, you can define and start a container using: +<pre> +lxc --connect lxc:/// define v1.xml +lxc --connect lxc:/// start v1.xml +</pre> +and then get a console using: +<pre> +lxc --connect lxc:/// console v1 +</pre> +Now doing 'ps -ef' will only show processes in the container, for +instance. +</p> </div> </div> <div id="footer">

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[libvirt] virsh ttyconsole [node] has rc of 1?
by Darryl L. Pierce 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I have a script that's breaking when trying to get the ttyconsole for a node. The script gets the console by invoking: virsh ttyconsole [nodename] The script also has trap on error enabled, and the above command has a return code of 1. This is causing the script to exit at that point. Is this a bug? Or is there a reason that return code is 1 and not 0? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Virtual Machine Management - http://www.ovirt.org/ Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste ná Béarla cliste.

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[libvirt] How to prevent libvirt from adding iptables rules?
by Mariano Absatz 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi, I'm new to libvirt but not a complete neophite. I'm using libvirt and kvm in ubuntu with "vmbuilder". I'm creating a couple of VMs inside a host that is directly connected to internet with a public routeable address. Since I only have one public address, I won't use bridging. I'm using shorewall (www.shorewall.net) to configure my iptables rules. I intend to use DNAT to route specific ports in the host to one or other VM. With standard masquerading, I give the VMs access to the outside world. At first I used the 'default' network (with a different rfc1918 network)... everything was kinda working until I rebooted the host... at that point I lost connectivity between the outside world and the VMs. From inside the host I had no trouble connecting to the VMs. If I restarted shorewall (which actually cleans all iptables rules and regenerate them according to its configuration) everything works fine. After sending a report and some debugging in the shorewall mailing list, it was clear that libvirt was adding rules to iptables. After reading a bit (http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#examplesPrivate) I created a new network called "isolated". I stopped default (and disabled its autostart), and defined and started isolated. This is the content of isolated.xml: <network> <name>isolated</name> <uuid>51cffbcc-88f5-4edc-a81c-1765c1045691</uuid> <bridge name='virbr%d' stp='on' forwardDelay='0' /> <ip address='10.3.14.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='10.3.14.128' end='10.3.14.254' /> </dhcp> </ip> </network> I modified my VMs to use isolated rather than default, but rules keep being added to iptables when libvirt-bin is started. Is there a way to convince libvirt not to add these rules? Feel free to ask for any data that I didn't send here. TIA. -- Mariano Absatz - "El Baby" el.baby(a)gmail.com www.clueless.com.ar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr Danish physicist (1885 - 1962) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org

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[libvirt] Libvirt PHP binding
by Radek Hladik 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi, I am trying to develop PHP binding for Libvirt API. As discussed previously on the list the best way is to create a ZEND extension. There is a great tutorial on the net ( http://devzone.zend.com/tag/Extension ) and PHP provides a lot of macros and functions to make extension writing easier. I've implemented functions for connecting, listing domains, getting info about domains and node, dumping domain XML, some basic domain life-cycle actions and very basic error reporting. Before moving to other functions I need to solve a few issues :-) The biggest issue is that PHP used from webserver can (and usually does) run multithread. One thread can process more than one request and the threads can run in parallel. PHP/ZEND provides "tools" to solve this. It provides "request-global" variables, resources (containers for objects like file handles or connection pointers) and much more. In single threaded environment (like calling from command line) all these fallback to usual behavior. In addition ZEND has its own memory manager to be able to better manage the memory on per request basis (functions are called emalloc(), efree(),...). One can still use malloc() and free() but this is bypassing the ZEND memory manager. Free()ing emalloced memory or vice versa leads to crash. So one thing is that every memory allocated by libvirt (using malloc()) I need to copy to memory allocated using emalloc(). Also every memory, that would be free()ed by libvirt I need to malloc() and copy from emmaloc()ed memory. The first one is done by simple macro: #define RECREATE_STRING_WITH_E(str_out, str_in) \ str_out = estrndup(str_in, strlen(str_in)); \ free(str_in); The second case I encountered only on authentication callback and I use simple strndup() to copy it for libvirt. When running from command line everything seems to work fine. This is of course singlethreaded and potential resource leaks need not to cause a problem. However when running from webserver, the result is much more interesting. When connecting to qemu:///system (via local socket) using <? libvirt_connect($uri,true); ?> I can crash the libvirt daemon after cca 10 page reloads - sometimes with message Apr 13 15:32:44 kvmtest kernel: libvirtd[8263]: segfault at 4 ip 00000039d7223fc0 sp 00007fa6fbc29a88 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.4.0[39d7200000+3c000] in system log, sometimes without any message. (When running the same script from command line it worked for 1000 executions without noticing a problem). When connecting to qemu+tcp:///system using credentials (explained later): <? libvirt_connect($uri,true,Array(VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME=>"fred",VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE=>"fred")); ?> It works but httpd processes open a lot pipes and after a few hours with page refreshing every 10 sec I even ran into error: [Mon Apr 13 02:40:26 2009] [error] [client 10.38.25.152] PHP Warning: libvirt_connect() unable to make pipe: Too many open files Next issue I am not sure about is callbacks. I need them mainly for authentication. As PHP is intended to run the whole script non-interactively at most times, I've created this solution. When calling the libvirt_connect() PHP function you can provide list of credentials in form of an array Array(VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME=>"fred",VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE=>"fred"). This PHP array is parsed to C array and this prepopulated array is passed to my authentication callback function. That function receives the requested credential, looks it up in the provided array and returns it. I think this suits more the PHP nature but in future I may provide real callback solution. Little trouble is that libvirt free()s the values returned by callback so I need to copy them to malloc()ed memory. I am not sure about multithread safety of callback functions but I think that if the function only obtains the parameters via cbdata and operates only with them then it should be safe. However sometimes I get error: [Mon Apr 13 14:19:48 2009] [error] [client 10.38.25.152] PHP Warning: libvirt_connect(): Failed to collect auth credentials and I need to restart http daemon for a few times to make it work again. The last trouble is with error callback, where I am not sure whether it is thread safe. I need to call PHP function for reporting error, storing the error in "global" variable for next use and the PHP may even terminate the whole processing of the request... And if you are still reading then I can point you to http://phplibvirt.cybersales.cz/ where you can download the source code and browse the documentation - you can find there list of implemented functions and brief instructions how to install the extension. But be warned it really can crash your libvirt and maybe apache! For completeness: I use Fedora 10 with some rawhide updates: httpd-2.2.11-6.x86_64 php-5.2.9-1.fc11.x86_64 php-devel-5.2.9-1.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.0-2.fc11.x86_64 qemu-0.9.1-12.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-devel-0.6.0-2.fc11.x86_64 php-cli-5.2.9-1.fc11.x86_64 kvm-83-5.fc10.x86_64 php-common-5.2.9-1.fc11.x86_64 Radek

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[libvirt] [Patch] Fix vcpupin to inactive domains on Xend3.0.3.
by Takahashi Tomohiro 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi, I made the patch that corrected the following problem. It is that when I execute the "virsh vcpupin" command to inactive domains on Xend3.0.3, Libvirt outputs the following Segmentation fault. # virsh vcpupin guest_dom 0 0,1,2 Segmentation fault Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Takahashi <takatom(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Thanks, Tomohiro Takahashi --- xm_internal.c.org 2009-04-07 21:50:17.000000000 +0900 +++ xm_internal.c 2009-04-13 20:53:22.000000000 +0900 @@ -1700,7 +1700,8 @@ int xenXMDomainPinVcpu(virDomainPtr doma ret = 0; cleanup: - VIR_FREE(mapstr); + if( *mapstr != '\0' ) + VIR_FREE(mapstr); VIR_FREE(cpuset); xenUnifiedUnlock(priv); return (ret);

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[libvirt] [PATCH] lxc: Add lxcGetHostname()
by Dan Smith 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

This patch adds the getHostname method to the lxc driver structure (using the qemu driver's generic code). Apparently virsh started using that method during console attachment recently. Without this implementation, the virsh refused to attach to lxc consoles. Signed-off-by: Dan Smith <danms(a)us.ibm.com> -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center email: danms(a)us.ibm.com Index: src/lxc_driver.c =================================================================== RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/lxc_driver.c,v retrieving revision 1.65 diff -u -r1.65 lxc_driver.c --- src/lxc_driver.c 31 Mar 2009 15:47:17 -0000 1.65 +++ src/lxc_driver.c 14 Apr 2009 18:22:45 -0000 @@ -1404,6 +1404,20 @@ return ret; } +static char *lxcGetHostname (virConnectPtr conn) +{ + char *result; + + result = virGetHostname(); + if (result == NULL) { + virReportSystemError (conn, errno, + "%s", _("failed to determine host name")); + return NULL; + } + /* Caller frees this string. */ + return result; +} + /* Function Tables */ static virDriver lxcDriver = { VIR_DRV_LXC, /* the number virDrvNo */ @@ -1413,7 +1427,7 @@ NULL, /* supports_feature */ NULL, /* type */ lxcVersion, /* version */ - NULL, /* getHostname */ + lxcGetHostname, /* getHostname */ NULL, /* getMaxVcpus */ NULL, /* nodeGetInfo */ NULL, /* getCapabilities */

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[libvirt] vcpuinfo returns wrong CPU value for kvm
by Gerrit Slomma 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

vcpuinfo returns a wrong value for kvm with libvirt 0.6.2: virsh # nodeinfo CPU-Modell: x86_64 CPU(s): 2 CPU-Frequenz: 2333 MHz CPU-Socket(s): 1 Kern(e) pro Socket: 2 Thread(s) pro Kern: 1 NUMA-Zelle(n): 1 Speichergrösse: 3062956 kB virsh # dominfo rr019v3 Id: 2 Name: rr019v3 UUID: ff1ba599-5801-fca9-ab33-8962c2dfa46c OS Typ: hvm Status: laufend CPU(s): 2 CPU-Zeit: 46,5s Max Speicher: 1572864 kB Verwendeter Speicher: 1572864 kB Automatischer Start: deaktiviert As default a kvm-vm has a affinity on all cpus provided by the node virsh # vcpuinfo rr019v3 VCPU: 0 CPU: 0 Status: laufend CPU-Affinität: yy VCPU: 1 CPU: 0 Status: laufend CPU-Affinität: yy When i set the affinity of the vCPUs to dedicated CPUs of the node vcpuinfo returns CPU 0 as the assigned CPU. virsh # vcpupin rr019v3 0 0 virsh # vcpupin rr019v3 1 1 virsh # vcpuinfo rr019v3 VCPU: 0 CPU: 0 Status: laufend CPU-Affinität: y- VCPU: 1 CPU: 0 Status: laufend CPU-Affinität: -y Furthermore even when pinning all - in my case both - vCPUs of the domain to the second CPU of the node virsh reports the first cpu as the assigned cpu. virsh # vcpupin rr019v3 0 1 virsh # vcpuinfo rr019v3 VCPU: 0 CPU: 0 Status: laufend CPU-Affinität: -y VCPU: 1 CPU: 0 Status: laufend CPU-Affinität: -y Watching at the code in virsh.c i am a little bit on my wits end where virVcpuInfoPtr is defined as i am no c-programmer - only some java on my side. On my xen-machine with libvirt 0.3.3 the CPU is shown correctly though: virsh vcpuinfo rr010v2 VCPU: 0 CPU: 0 Status: blockiert CPU-Zeit: 550,4s CPU-Affinität: y--- VCPU: 1 CPU: 1 Status: blockiert CPU-Zeit: 27,9s CPU-Affinität: -y-- VCPU: 2 CPU: 2 Status: blockiert CPU-Zeit: 31,2s CPU-Affinität: --y- VCPU: 3 CPU: 3 Status: blockiert CPU-Zeit: 49,1s CPU-Affinität: ---y Is this only working with the xen-driver?

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