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[Libvir] Hang with virt-install graphic=no on FC 6 6.93/F7 RC2
by libvirtuser 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

I had this problem and another user confirmed the same behavior on his machine: http://pastie.caboo.se/65417 Haven't tried it with *2925.10* yet. Also, is there a way to get more verbose info about what calls are causing the "configuration file syntax error" errors? Thanks. virt-install How large would you like the disk () to be (in gigabytes)? 4 ERROR: Must provide a file, not a directory for the disk What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen/images/x6.img Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no What is the install location? http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/ Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name Retrieving Fedora... 276 kB 00:01 Retrieving vmlinuz... 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:16 Retrieving initrd.img... 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB 00:28 libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name Creating domain... 0 B 00:06 Linux version 2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen (brewbuilder(a)ls20-bc1-14.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070317 (Red Hat 4.1.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 13:51:38 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize bail 0 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000020800000 end: 0000000020800000 type: 1 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 133120 Normal 133120 -> 133120 HighMem 133120 -> 133120 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 133120 ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 132080 Kernel command line: method=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/ Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135f000 soft=c133f000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 1694.994 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8 ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 30 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 2048 ... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 1024 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 8192 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 16384 ... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 8192 memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled vmalloc area: e1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 Memory: 503936k/532480k available (2030k kernel code, 19948k reserved, 1079k data, 180k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB) pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB) vmalloc : 0xe1000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 319 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0800000 ( 520 MB) .init : 0xc130e000 - 0xc133b000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc11fb9d9 - 0xc1309714 (1079 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11fb9d9 (2030 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4262.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=8525343) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed Brought up 1 CPUs Grant table initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 Brought up 1 CPUs PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: System does not support PCI PCI: System does not support PCI NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 7256k freed IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran(a)veritas.com> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1180379657.981:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 BUG: at kernel/fork.c:994 copy_process() [<c1005d9a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c1006343>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c10063be>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<c101d044>] copy_process+0x195/0x1245 [<c101e144>] do_fork+0x50/0x117 [<c1003351>] kernel_thread+0x8e/0x96 [<c102c701>] __call_usermodehelper+0x2d/0x46 [<c102cd4f>] run_workqueue+0x89/0x145 [<c102d711>] worker_thread+0xd5/0x102 [<c102ff27>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc [<c10058db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. i8042.c: No controller found. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k ^[Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix python error reporting for some storage operations
by Cole Robinson 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

In the python bindings, all vir* classes expect to be passed a virConnect object when instantiated. Before the storage stuff, these classes were only instantiated in virConnect methods, so the generator is hardcoded to pass 'self' as the connection instance to these classes. Problem is there are some methods that return pool or vol instances which aren't called from virConnect: you can lookup a storage volume's associated pool, and can lookup volumes from a pool. In these cases passing 'self' doesn't give the vir* instance a connection, so when it comes time to raise an exception crap hits the fan. Rather than rework the generator to accomodate this edge case, I just fixed the init functions for virStorage* to pull the associated connection out of the passed value if it's not a virConnect instance. Thanks, Cole diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py index 01a17da..c706b19 100755 --- a/python/generator.py +++ b/python/generator.py @@ -962,8 +962,12 @@ def buildWrappers(): list = reference_keepers[classname] for ref in list: classes.write(" self.%s = None\n" % ref[1]) - if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork", "virStoragePool", "virStorageVol" ]: + if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork" ]: classes.write(" self._conn = conn\n") + elif classname in [ "virStorageVol", "virStoragePool" ]: + classes.write(" self._conn = conn\n" + \ + " if not isinstance(conn, virConnect):\n" + \ + " self._conn = conn._conn\n") classes.write(" if _obj != None:self._o = _obj;return\n") classes.write(" self._o = None\n\n"); destruct=None

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix compile error for stable 1.2.9
by Yang hongyang 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Seems a backport miss. An extra member is passed to struct virLXCBasicMountInfo. Signed-off-by: Yang hongyang <hongyang.yang(a)easystack.cn> --- src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c index 28dabec..1c65fa9 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ typedef struct { static const virLXCBasicMountInfo lxcBasicMounts[] = { { "proc", "/proc", "proc", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV, false, false }, - { "/proc/sys", "/proc/sys", NULL, MS_BIND|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, false, false, false }, + { "/proc/sys", "/proc/sys", NULL, MS_BIND|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, false, false }, { "sysfs", "/sys", "sysfs", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, false, false }, { "securityfs", "/sys/kernel/security", "securityfs", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, true, true }, #if WITH_SELINUX -- 1.7.1

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[libvirt] [PATCH] web docs -- macvtap mode explanation
by Stefan Berger 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

This adds more information about the different macvtap device modes. Regards, Stefan

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[libvirt] Supporting vhost-net and macvtap in libvirt for QEMU
by Anthony Liguori 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Disclaimer: I am neither an SR-IOV nor a vhost-net expert, but I've CC'd people that are who can throw tomatoes at me for getting bits wrong :-) I wanted to start a discussion about supporting vhost-net in libvirt. vhost-net has not yet been merged into qemu but I expect it will be soon so it's a good time to start this discussion. There are two modes worth supporting for vhost-net in libvirt. The first mode is where vhost-net backs to a tun/tap device. This is behaves in very much the same way that -net tap behaves in qemu today. Basically, the difference is that the virtio backend is in the kernel instead of in qemu so there should be some performance improvement. Current, libvirt invokes qemu with -net tap,fd=X where X is an already open fd to a tun/tap device. I suspect that after we merge vhost-net, libvirt could support vhost-net in this mode by just doing -net vhost,fd=X. I think the only real question for libvirt is whether to provide a user visible switch to use vhost or to just always use vhost when it's available and it makes sense. Personally, I think the later makes sense. The more interesting invocation of vhost-net though is one where the vhost-net device backs directly to a physical network card. In this mode, vhost should get considerably better performance than the current implementation. I don't know the syntax yet, but I think it's reasonable to assume that it will look something like -net tap,dev=eth0. The effect will be that eth0 is dedicated to the guest. On most modern systems, there is a small number of network devices so this model is not all that useful except when dealing with SR-IOV adapters. In that case, each physical device can be exposed as many virtual devices (VFs). There are a few restrictions here though. The biggest is that currently, you can only change the number of VFs by reloading a kernel module so it's really a parameter that must be set at startup time. I think there are a few ways libvirt could support vhost-net in this second mode. The simplest would be to introduce a new tag similar to <source network='br0'>. In fact, if you probed the device type for the network parameter, you could probably do something like <source network='eth0'> and have it Just Work. Another model would be to have libvirt see an SR-IOV adapter as a network pool whereas it handled all of the VF management. Considering how inflexible SR-IOV is today, I'm not sure whether this is the best model. Has anyone put any more thought into this problem or how this should be modeled in libvirt? Michael, could you share your current thinking for -net syntax? -- Regards, Anthony Liguori

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Let virt-manager 1.4.0+ work to access console of VM
by Bryan Quigley 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Also see Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1668681 First reported https://askubuntu.com/questions/833964/virt-manager-cant-connect-to-graphic… --- examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu index a9020aa..19d99e5 100644 --- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu +++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu @@ -151,3 +151,6 @@ /etc/udev/udev.conf r, /sys/bus/ r, /sys/class/ r, + + # allow connect with openGraphicsFD to work + unix (send, receive) type=stream peer=(label=/usr/sbin/libvirtd), -- 2.10.2

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[libvirt] [libvirt-sandbox PATCH 0/2] virt-sandbox-image: unbreak start from library
by Guido Günther 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

This is basically a V2 of "Drop library/ from template name and image path" with Dan's comment implemented. Guido Günther (2): Drop library/ from image path Sanitize domain name libvirt-sandbox/image/cli.py | 8 ++++++-- libvirt-sandbox/image/sources/docker.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0

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[libvirt] [PATCH] tpm: Use /dev/null for cancel path if none was found
by Stefan Berger 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

TPM 2 does not implement sysfs files for cancellation of commands. We therefore use /dev/null for the cancel path passed to QEMU. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- src/util/virtpm.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virtpm.c b/src/util/virtpm.c index 6d9b065..d5c10da 100644 --- a/src/util/virtpm.c +++ b/src/util/virtpm.c @@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ virTPMCreateCancelPath(const char *devpath) VIR_FREE(path); } if (!path) - virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", - _("No usable sysfs TPM cancel file could be " - "found")); + ignore_value(VIR_STRDUP(path, "/dev/null")); } else { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, _("TPM device path %s is invalid"), devpath); -- 2.5.5

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[libvirt] [PATCH v4 0/3] Add support for Veritas HyperScale (VxHS) block device protocol
by Ashish Mittal 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

From: Ashish Mittal <ashish.mittal(a)veritas.com> QEMU changes for VxHS (including TLS support) are already upstream. This series of patches adds support for VxHS block devices in libvirt. Patch 1 adds the base functionality for supporting VxHS protocol. Patch 2 adds two new configuration options in qemu.conf to enable TLS for VxHS devices. Patch 3 implements the main TLS functionality. Ashish Mittal (3): Add support for Veritas HyperScale (VxHS) block device protocol conf: Introduce TLS options for VxHS block device clients Add TLS support for Veritas HyperScale (VxHS) block device protocol docs/formatdomain.html.in | 31 ++++- docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 18 +++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 19 +++ src/libxl/libxl_conf.c | 1 + src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug | 4 + src/qemu/qemu.conf | 23 +++ src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 7 + src/qemu/qemu_conf.h | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_parse_command.c | 25 ++++ src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in | 2 + src/util/virstoragefile.c | 77 +++++++++- src/util/virstoragefile.h | 10 ++ src/xenconfig/xen_xl.c | 1 + .../qemuargv2xml-disk-drive-network-vxhs-fail.args | 24 ++++ tests/qemuargv2xmltest.c | 17 ++- ...ml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-err-vxhs.xml | 34 +++++ ...-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-multidisk-vxhs.args | 41 ++++++ ...k-drive-network-tlsx509-multidisk-vxhs.args.new | 41 ++++++ ...v-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-multidisk-vxhs.xml | 56 ++++++++ ...muxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-vxhs.args | 28 ++++ ...emuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-vxhs.xml | 34 +++++ .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.args | 25 ++++ .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml | 34 +++++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 10 ++ tests/virstoragetest.c | 30 ++++ 27 files changed, 748 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuargv2xmldata/qemuargv2xml-disk-drive-network-vxhs-fail.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-err-vxhs.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-multidisk-vxhs.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-multidisk-vxhs.args.new create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-multidisk-vxhs.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-vxhs.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-tlsx509-vxhs.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-network-vxhs.xml -- 2.5.5

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[libvirt] [PATCH 0/8] qemu: Default to video type=virtio for machvirt
by Cole Robinson 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

This series aim is to change the qemu machvirt video type default to virtio, but rather than continue to hack things into place in domain_conf.c, this rearranges things to allow drivers to set a video type default. Patches 1-4 are small cleanups/improvements in this area Patches 5-7 are the plumbing to allow drivers to set their own default Patch 8 is the actual default change https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404112 Cole Robinson (8): qemu: parse: drop redundant video config qemu: domain: Move some validation out of DeviceDefPostParse qemu: annotate some VIDEO_TYPE enum switch conf: add virDomainVideoDefNew conf: domain: add VIDEO_TYPE_DEFAULT conf: domain: move video type validation to DeviceDefValidate qemu: Set default video type in qemu PostParse qemu: Default to video type=virtio for machvirt src/conf/domain_conf.c | 54 +++++++++++------- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 2 + src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 7 +-- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 66 ++++++++++++++-------- src/qemu/qemu_domain_address.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 16 ++---- src/qemu/qemu_parse_command.c | 14 +---- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 7 +-- src/vz/vz_sdk.c | 3 +- tests/domaincapsschemadata/full.xml | 1 + .../qemuxml2argv-aarch64-video-default.args | 24 ++++++++ .../qemuxml2argv-aarch64-video-default.xml | 17 ++++++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 6 ++ .../qemuxml2xmlout-aarch64-video-default.xml | 46 +++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 6 ++ 16 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-aarch64-video-default.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-aarch64-video-default.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-aarch64-video-default.xml -- 2.13.0

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