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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 0/3] Fix ppc64 CPU configuration for QEMU 2.11+
by Jiri Denemark 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

The original fix was both incomplete and too general. It only fixed domain startup, but libvirt would still report empty list of supported CPU models with recent QEMU for ppc64. On the other hand, while ppc64 QEMU ignores case when looking up CPU model names, x86_64 QEMU does case sensitive lookup. Jiri Denemark (3): Revert "domcaps: Treat host models as case-insensitive strings" util: Introduce virStringListSearch qemu: Adapt to changed ppc64 CPU model names src/conf/domain_capabilities.c | 2 +- src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 3 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 2 +- src/util/virstring.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ src/util/virstring.h | 3 ++ .../qemu_2.12.0.ppc64.xml | 6 +++- .../caps_2.12.0.ppc64.xml | 12 ++++---- 9 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.17.0

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[libvirt] [PATCH v4 0/8] Virtio-crypto device support
by Longpeng(Mike) 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

As virtio-crypto has been supported in QEMU 2.8 and the frontend driver has been merged in linux 4.10, so it's necessary to support virtio-crypto in libvirt. --- Changes since v3: - spilt the capabilities part into a separate patch. [Boris] - include Boris's virtio-crypto ccw support(PATCH 6 & 8). [Boris] - add the missing capabilities in caps_2.9.0.x86_64.xml. [Boris] - fix Indentation and missing virDomainCryptoDefFree. [Marc] Changes since v2: - PATCH 1: modify docs as Martin & Boris's suggestion. [Martin & Boris] - PATCH 2: add the missing 'ToString'. [Martin] - PATCH 3: use virAsprintf instead of virBufferAsprintf. [Martin] remove pointless virBufferCheckError. [Martin] - rebase on master. [Longpeng] Changes since v1: - split patch [Martin] - rebase on master [Martin] - add docs/tests/schema [Martin] - fix typos [Gonglei] --- Boris Fiuczynski (2): qemu: virtio-crypto: add ccw support qemu: virtio-crypto: add test for ccw support Longpeng(Mike) (6): docs: schema: Add basic documentation for the virtual docs: news: Add virtio-crypto devices conf: Parse virtio-crypto in the domain XML caps: Add qemu capabilities about virtio-crypto qemu: Implement support for 'builtin' backend for virtio-crypto tests: Add testcase for virtio-crypto parsing docs/formatdomain.html.in | 61 ++++++ docs/news.xml | 10 + docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 30 +++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 213 ++++++++++++++++++++- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 32 ++++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 5 + src/qemu/qemu_alias.c | 20 ++ src/qemu/qemu_alias.h | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 6 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 4 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 130 +++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_command.h | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_domain_address.c | 25 +++ src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 6 + src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 1 + tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.s390x.xml | 2 + tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.9.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml | 26 +++ .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.args | 22 +++ .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.xml | 16 ++ .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto.args | 22 +++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 6 + .../qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml | 31 +++ tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 2 + 25 files changed, 679 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml -- 1.8.3.1

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[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add new mdev type for aggregated resources
by Zhenyu Wang 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Current mdev device create interface depends on fixed mdev type, which get uuid from user to create instance of mdev device. If user wants to use customized number of resource for mdev device, then only can create new mdev type for that which may not be flexible. To allow to create user defined resources for mdev, this RFC trys to extend mdev create interface by adding new "instances=xxx" parameter following uuid, for target mdev type if aggregation is supported, it can create new mdev device which contains resources combined by number of instances, e.g echo "<uuid>,instances=10" > create VM manager e.g libvirt can check mdev type with "aggregation" attribute which can support this setting. And new sysfs attribute "instances" is created for each mdev device to show allocated number. Default number of 1 or no "instances" file can be used for compatibility check. This RFC trys to create new KVMGT type with minimal vGPU resources which can be combined with "instances=x" setting to allocate for user wanted resources. Zhenyu Wang (2): vfio/mdev: Add new instances parameters for mdev create drm/i915/gvt: Add new aggregation type drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.c | 26 ++++++++++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h | 14 +++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 9 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/vgpu.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c | 3 +- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 11 ++++--- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h | 6 +++- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++---- include/linux/mdev.h | 3 +- samples/vfio-mdev/mbochs.c | 3 +- samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c | 3 +- samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c | 3 +- 12 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) -- 2.18.0.rc2

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[libvirt] [PATCH 00/30] syntax: Remove spaces after casts
by Martin Kletzander 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

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[libvirt] [RFC] cgroup settings and systemd daemon-reload conflict
by Nikolay Shirokovskiy 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hi, all. It turns out that systemd daemon-reload reset settings that are managable thru 'systemctl set-property' interface. > virsh schedinfo tst3 | grep global_quota global_quota : -1 > virsh schedinfo tst3 --set global_quota=50000 | grep global_quota global_quota : 50000 > systemctl daemon-reload > virsh schedinfo tst3 | grep global_quota global_quota : -1 This behaviour does not limited to cpu controller, same for blkio for example. I checked different versions of systemd (219 - Feb 15, and quite recent 236 - Dec 17) to make sure it is not kind of bug of old version. So systemd does not play well with direct writes to cgroup parameters that managable thru systemd. Looks like libvirtd needs to use systemd's dbus interface to change all such parameters. I only wonder how this can be unnoticed for such long time (creating cgroup for domain thru systemd - Jul 2013) as daemon-reload is called upon libvirtd package update. May be I miss something? Nikolay

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