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[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't list capabilities entries if emulators can't be accessed
by Cole Robinson 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

The patch below fixes capabilities xml generation for the qemu driver if the emulators aren't found in the hardcoded paths. Current behavior will add a <guest> entry for the emulator even if it does not exist, patch fixes this to check that we actually have access. This brings up another issue, that hardcoded paths aren't exactly distro friendly. I'm not really familiar with what options we have to allow specifying these at build time (or something else). Anyone have an idea? Thanks, Cole diff --git a/src/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu_conf.c index dc9e42a..0328cc1 100644 --- a/src/qemu_conf.c +++ b/src/qemu_conf.c @@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ qemudCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, virCapsGuestPtr guest; int i; + /* Check for existance of base emulator */ + if (access(info->binary, X_OK) == -1) + return 0; + if ((guest = virCapabilitiesAddGuest(caps, hvm ? "hvm" : "xen", info->arch, @@ -241,9 +245,7 @@ qemudCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, return -1; if (hvm) { - /* Check for existance of base emulator */ - if (access(info->binary, X_OK) == 0 && - virCapabilitiesAddGuestDomain(guest, + if (virCapabilitiesAddGuestDomain(guest, "qemu", NULL, NULL, @@ -263,6 +265,7 @@ qemudCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, return -1; if (access("/dev/kvm", F_OK) == 0 && + access("/usr/bin/qemu-kvm", X_OK) == 0 && virCapabilitiesAddGuestDomain(guest, "kvm", "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm",

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[libvirt] Reminder about developer IRC channel
by Daniel P. Berrange 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

There're a few new people contributing patches to libvirt recently, so just thought I'd remind people that many of us hang out on IRC. The channel is #virt on irc.oftc.net. If we seem to be ignoring patches[1] you've sent, then do send nag-emails to this list, or say hello on IRC to ask about the status of things (most of us are currently on a European timezone) Regards, Daniel [1] We're not delibrately ignoring them - things just get missed / forgotten / delayed sometimes due to other things we work on. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -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] Libvirt Packaged Linux Distributions
by atif bajwa 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Guys, Can anyone give me list of Linux enterprise editions distributions that are packaged with xyz version of libvirt? Regards, Atif

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[libvirt] PATCH: 0/5: Enhancing the virExec function
by Daniel P. Berrange 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

The following series of patches do a bunch of work on the virExec function. Overall this leads to a more robust implementation with better error reporting, and an increased level functionality. This lets us remove all uses of fork/exec in libvirt and replace them with virExec. This was all motivated by some fork/exec bugs discovered when refactoring LXC driver which have potential to affect every use of fork/exec in our code. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -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] Unable to find node's mem and cpu api
by jovialGuy _ 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

hey, I am unable to find the api in java and perl binding to find the host node's current memory and cpu information. Any body has any idea where I can find the information? - Jovial

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[libvirt] Confirm libvirt supported distro?
by atif bajwa 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi! I have a list of Linux distributions with Xen support. Please confirm libvirt (remote access, >= version 0.3.0 ) support. 1. Solaris SPARC 81/9/10 2. Solaris x64/x86 9/10 3. Red Hat RHEL AS/ES/WS 3/4/5 4. Novell SUSE & SLES 8/9/10 Regards, Atif

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[libvirt] Remote access from libvirt windows client
by atif bajwa 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi! I am looking to add support for Xen. Please guide me which is best method to connect to remote system(host) from windows client. What privileges and binaries will be required for client program to read data only. If possible please list supported libvirt versions that can be port to windows. Also list xen-based-hypervisor distributions that I can get remote access with libvirt windows based client. Regards, Atif

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[libvirt] remote driver?
by Jun Koi 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi, I am connecting to libvirtd with virsh using qemu:///system connection type. However, it seems virsh uses "remote" driver for all the action on the VM. So this means qemu:///system considers all the action is done "remotely" even if it is on the same physical machine? I really expected that it uses "QEMU" driver, but that is not the case. So I wonder in which case "QEMU" driver is used? Many thanks, Jun

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[libvirt] console not working anymore
by Stefan de Konink 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I have reopenend the <bootloader /> bug, because with this fix I was unable to start any host again with respect to console allocation. Did anyone see this problem too? Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREKAAYFAki69PsACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn2X4QCgkHxpu0WDDCKgoRn02P6F3hxw ncIAn09ahmzjjp3LHGuzVZ8LQREOnsoL =WVQk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: virt-what 1.0 - a shell script to detect if you are running in a virtual machine
by Richard W.M. Jones 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

I'm pleased to announce the first release of 'virt-what', which is a simple shell script that detects if you are running inside a virtual machine, and prints some "facts" about that virtual machine. This is a frequently requested feature. Home page: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/ Source and RPMs: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/files/ So far we can detect: - Xen - QEMU and KVM (but not distinguish between them) - VMware - Microsoft VirtualPC I'm hoping that people who run or develop other virtualization technology will be able to contribute snippets to detect those. It's worth saying (before Dan Berrange says it anyway) that although people often think they need this sort of feature, in most cases using this script is the WRONG THING. If you need a specific virtualization feature, then add code to your application to detect that feature. eg. If you need to make Xen hypervisor calls, your application should try to open /proc/xen/privcmd. As Dan once put it: A shell script just printing out 'native', 'dom0' or 'domU' is too simplistic to be broadly useful to management applications. The concepts are also ill-defined, eg 'native' as a concept can be a baremetal kernel, or a fully-virtualized guest, or both. 'DomU' does not distinguish full or paravirt. The distinction of 'dom0' vs 'native' is irrelevant in non-Xen virtualization systems (eg KVM). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

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