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[Libvir] [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Tested NUMA patches for available memory and topology
by beth kon 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Patch for accessing topology information. -- Elizabeth Kon (Beth) IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: eak(a)us.ibm.com

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[Libvir] PATCH: Allow remote driver to handle any connection URI
by Daniel P. Berrange 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

We currently have logic in the remote driver so that it handles the local QEMU driver URIs, so they get re-directed to the daemon. It also handles networking APIs for Xen driver. For normal APIs, Xen has the auto-spawned setuid proxy daemon. This was very useful at the time we wrote it, but it only supports a handful of operations, and only in read-only mode. One other factor is that SUSE, for example, do not ship it because it is setuid. I don't know whether this is just a general policy, or just because they've not had time to audit it, but that's not very good for their users. With the development of the remote driver & the flexible UNIX socket perms & group ownership, or with policykit support it is possible to replace the proxy with calls straight to the remote daemon. So this patch is the first step by allowing the remote driver to handle any hypervisor connection URI. If it doesn't have a hostname or transport specified, then it automatically tries to connect to the local libvirt daemon over UNIX sockets. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|

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[Libvir] virt-df (a 'df' tool for virtual domains)
by Richard W.M. Jones 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Brave (or foolhardy?) souls may want to try out the almost-working version of 'virt-df' that I wrote: hg clone http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-top--devel Usage is similar to ordinary 'df'. It understands the -h (human-readable) and -i (show inodes) options. You need to run it on the dom0, it won't work remotely. # virt-df.opt -c qemu:///system debian32kvm /dev/hda (3.9 GiB) /var/lib/xen/images/debian32kvm.img hda1 3662792 990276 2672516 Linux ext2/3 hda5 232908 Linux swap [The numbers are 1K blocks total, used, available] # virt-df.opt -c qemu:///system -h debian32kvm /dev/hda (3.9 GiB) /var/lib/xen/images/debian32kvm.img hda1 3.5 GiB 967.1 MiB 2.5 GiB Linux ext2/3 hda5 227.4 MiB Linux swap From the README file: virt-df is a 'df' tool for printing out the used and available disk space in all active and inactive domains. Without this tool you would need to log in to each domain individually or set up monitoring. It is only a proof-of-concept. Please bare in mind the following limitations when using this tool: (1) It does not work over remote connections. Part of the reason why I wrote virt-df was to get an idea of how the remote storage API for libvirt might look. (2) It only understands a limited set of partition types. Assuming that the files and partitions that we get back from libvirt / Xen correspond to block devices in the guests, we can go some way towards manually parsing those partitions to find out what they contain. We can read the MBR, EBR, superblocks and so on. However that's a lot of parsing work, and currently there is no library which understands a wide range of partition schemes and filesystem types (not even libparted which doesn't support LVM yet). The Linux kernel does support that, but there's not really any good way to access that work. The current implementation uses a hand-coded parser which understands some simple formats (MBR, EBR, ext2/3, not LVM yet but coming soon). In future we should use something like libparted. (3) The statistics you get are delayed. The real state of, for example, an ext2 filesystem is only stored in the memory of the guest's kernel. The ext2 superblock contains some meta-information about blocks used and free, but this superblock is not up to date. In fact the guest kernel may not update it even on a 'sync', not until the filesystem is unmounted. Some operations do appear to write the superblock, for example fsync(2) [that is my reading of the ext2/3 source code at least]. $ wc -l virt-df/*.ml 84 virt-df/virt_df_ext2.ml 24 virt-df/virt_df_linux_swap.ml 22 virt-df/virt_df_lvm2.ml 5 virt-df/virt_df_main.ml 460 virt-df/virt_df.ml 595 total Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903

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[Libvir] topology test program
by beth kon 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Daniel, As we discussed, here is the program I was using for testing different topology strings. -- Elizabeth Kon (Beth) IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: eak(a)us.ibm.com

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[Libvir] /etc/sysconfig/keyboard syntax subtilities
by Guillaume Rousse 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

virtmanager split content of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard on '"' for determining keyboard. On mandriva system, there isn't any quote in this file: see http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=34190 Here is a patch making parsing of this file a bit more robust. -- Guillaume Rousse Moyens Informatiques - INRIA Futurs Tel: 01 69 35 69 62

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[Libvir] trouble using ssh tunnel for remote hypervisor
by Guillaume Rousse 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hello. I'm trying to use ssh tunnel for remote hypervisor access. However, I'm can't make it working... [guillaume@oberkampf ~]$ LC_ALL=C virsh --connect xen+ssh://root@acacia.futurs.inria.fr list --all libvir: error : could not connect to xen:// error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection On the remote host: [root@acacia ~]# libvirtd --verbose libvir: error : could not connect to xen:// It seems the error lies between libvirtd and the local hypervisor. And indeed, local usage of virsh with xen:// URLs fail: [root@acacia ~]# LC_ALL=C virsh -c xen:// list libvir: error : could not connect to xen:// error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection Using xen:///, instead of xen://, as explained at http://libvirt.org/uri.html, is OK, despite a few error messages: [root@acacia ~]# LC_ALL=C virsh -c xen:/// list libvir: Remote error : No such file or directory libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ? Id Name State ---------------------------------- 0 Domain-0 running 1 barman blocked 2 cocktail blocked 3 mojito blocked >From the documentation, it seems xen:// transport implies TLS, and requires an host name, so it is quite normal it fails here (I didn't generated any certificate). But how can I force libvirtd to use xen:/// transport then ? I don't see anything related in libvirt configuration documentation at http://libvirt.org/remote.html ? Neither about how to configure it for listening on unix transport, as explained in svn+ssh transport requirements on the same page (but I presume it is the default) ? Also, from where does those error and warning come ? [root@acacia ~]# LC_ALL=C virsh -c xen:/// list libvir: Remote error : No such file or directory libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ? [..] I'm using libvirt 0.3.2 on mandriva 2007.1, with xen 3.1.0. -- Guillaume Rousse Moyens Informatiques - INRIA Futurs Tel: 01 69 35 69 62

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[Libvir] python libvirt methods to virDomainBlockStats and virDomainInterfaceStats
by Marco Sinhoreli 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hello all, I'm using libvirt from cvs, and in libvirt.h there are virDomainBlockStats, and virDomainInterfaceStats calls. I think it is compiled into libvirtmod, then I'm trying to write two methods, blockStats, and interfacesStats in the class virDomain at the libvirt.py library file. I'm not a specialist in python programming and it's not working. Bellow folow the code I have been wrote: def blockStats(self): """Block device stats for virDomainBlockStats """ ret = libvirtmod.virDomainBlockStats(self._o) if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainBlockStats() failed', dom=self) return ret def interfaceStats(self): """Network interface stats for virDomainInterfaceStats.""" ret = libvirtmod.virDomainInterfaceStats(self._o) if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainInterfaceStats() failed', dom=self) return ret Any help will be welcome. Best regards -- Marco Sinhoreli

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[Libvir] [RFC][PATCH 1/2] NUMA memory and topology patches
by beth kon 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

[PATCH 1/2] - add capability to access free memory information on each NUMA cell. Signed-off-by: Beth Kon (eak(a)us.ibm.com) -- Elizabeth Kon (Beth) IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: eak(a)us.ibm.com

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[Libvir] [PATCH] virsh NUMA command freecell
by Daniel Veillard 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Useful for testing the virNodeGetCellsFreeMemory() call, it requires the 3 precedent NUMA patches. The patch lack the documentation update. The function takes an optional argument which is the cell number. If no cell is provided it will print the total free memory available on the Node. A more useful function would be to find the cell with the most available memory, but that one should still be useful and not just for testing. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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[Libvir] [RFC][PATCH 2/2] NUMA memory and topology patches
by beth kon 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

[PATCH 2/2] - add capability to access topology information (cell to cpu mapping) for each numa cell. Signed-off-by: Beth Kon (eak(a)us.ibm.com) -- Elizabeth Kon (Beth) IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: eak(a)us.ibm.com

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