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[Libvir] Creating a Domain
by chetan saundankar 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi all, I am new to Libvirt. I have few questions on how to create a guest domain using libvirt, 1. I want to create a guest and say install FC6 in it. Can it be done using "virDomainCreate" or "virDomainCreateLinux" calls? and specifying iso image in Domain description XML e.g. <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <source file='/root/chelsea/fc6-x86.iso'/> <target dev='hdc'/> <readonly/> </disk> 2. In the Domain Description XML for Fully virtualized guests there is <uuid> tag so if the above mentioned method is used to create guests then is it the callers responsibility to provide a unique uuid? Thanks Chetan <http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainCreate>

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[Libvir] Bash completions for virsh
by David Lutterkort 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

The attached file provides tab completion for virsh. To use them, just source the file in bash; after that, typing 'virsh <TAB>' should do something sensible (if you are on KVM, you also need to have VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI set, otherwise virsh will complain when trying to gather various info during completion. Could this be added to the libvirt CVS in some appropriate place ? The RPM should probably install it in /etc/bash_completion.d/ David

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[Libvir] detect overflow in string-to-int conversion
by Jim Meyering 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, Not a big deal, but it's better not to accept a bogus "4294967297" and silently map it to "1". Don't accept an arbitrarily-long string of digits. * src/xml.c (parseNumber): Detect overflow. diff --git a/src/xml.c b/src/xml.c index 3e92040..5011dc2 100644 --- a/src/xml.c +++ b/src/xml.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * xml.c: XML based interfaces for the libvir library * - * Copyright (C) 2005 Red Hat, Inc. + * Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Red Hat, Inc. * * See COPYING.LIB for the License of this software * @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ skipSpaces(const char **str) { * * Parse a number * - * Returns the CPU number or -1 in case of error. @str will be + * Returns the unsigned number or -1 in case of error. @str will be * updated to skip the number. */ static int @@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ parseNumber(const char **str) { return(-1); while ((*cur >= '0') && (*cur <= '9')) { - ret = ret * 10 + (*cur - '0'); - cur++; + unsigned int c = *cur - '0'; + if (ret > INT_MAX / 10 || (ret == INT_MAX / 10 && c > INT_MAX % 10)) + return(-1); + ret = ret * 10 + c; + cur++; } *str = cur; return(ret);

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[Libvir] virt-install : *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer *** ***
by suyash jape 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi all I am getting the following output when i try to use virt-install [root@localhost]# virt-install *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08bea0a0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6[0x2f89b1] /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x2fc060] /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0xb2885e] /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0xb2a07b] /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0xb019d3] /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirtmod.so(libvirt_virConnectOpen+0x66)[0xf09ce6] . . . . b7d25000-b7f25000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 312403 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive b7f25000-b7fa9000 rw-p b7f25000 00:00 0 b7fb4000-b7fb5000 rw-p b7fb4000 00:00 0 bff2a000-bff4a000 rw-p bff2a000 00:00 0 [stack] Aborted My package versions : [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep libvirt libvirt-0.3.3-1.fc7 libvirt-python-0.3.3-1.fc7 [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-2936.fc7xen #1 SMP Fri Sep 21 12:07:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep xen xen-libs-3.1.0-6.fc7 xen-devel-3.1.0-6.fc7 xen-3.1.0-6.fc7 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.20-2936.fc7 I have attached the full back trace if anyone is interested Any suggestions ? Thanks Suyash

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[Libvir] virt-install virt-install virt-install : *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer *** *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: ******
by suyash jape 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi I am getting the following output when i try to use virt-install [root@localhost]# virt-install *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08bea0a0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6[0x2f89b1] /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x2fc060] /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0xb2885e] /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0xb2a07b] /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0xb019d3] /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirtmod.so(libvirt_virConnectOpen+0x66)[0xf09ce6] . . . . b7d25000-b7f25000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 312403 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive b7f25000-b7fa9000 rw-p b7f25000 00:00 0 b7fb4000-b7fb5000 rw-p b7fb4000 00:00 0 bff2a000-bff4a000 rw-p bff2a000 00:00 0 [stack] Aborted My package versions : [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep libvirt libvirt-0.3.3-1.fc7 libvirt-python-0.3.3-1.fc7 [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-2936.fc7xen #1 SMP Fri Sep 21 12:07:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep xen xen-libs-3.1.0-6.fc7 xen-devel-3.1.0-6.fc7 xen-3.1.0-6.fc7 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.20-2936.fc7 I have attached the full back trace if anyone is interested Any suggestions ? Thanks Suyash

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[Libvir] Re: Should we settle on one SSL implementation?
by Richard W.M. Jones 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > I remember this topic being discussed some time ago, > but software is fluid and maybe it's time to respin > the topic. > > It would seem a worthwhile goal to unify SSL/TLS > implementations like we did for spell checkers. > Or, if it turns out to be too hard, at least it would > be nice to their pki files. I've asked whether we have a standard layout for /etc/pki before, but no one seems to know. > We're now shipping no less than 4 different implementations > of SSL: > > - openssl (OpenBSD's implementation) > - nss (Netscape's implementation) > - gnutls (LGPL implementation) > - puretls (Java implementation) Make that at least five - ocaml-ocamlnet has a pure-OCaml SSL impl. I'm sure Perl & Python probably have their own too. > But which one should replace the others? When we implemented encryption in libvirt, we chose gnutls because it has excellent examples which allow you to actually write code to use it in a short period of time. The others have (or we perceived them to have) hideous, confusing or undocumented APIs. For a short while I documented the certificate management code in terms of the OpenSSL command line tools. But after I found out about 'certtool' (part of GnuTLS), I was able to rewrite that documentation and make it considerably simpler[1]. 'certtool' is a lot more sane than the OpenSSL stuff. Nevertheless, I don't think you're going to get rid of the competing SSL libraries. Rewriting code to use a different API is a lot of make-work that no one wants to do, and doesn't contribute much benefit to anyone. Rich. [1] http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_certificates -- 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] Small cleanup patch for Xen NUMA
by Daniel Veillard 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

xenHypervisorNodeGetCellsFreeMemory was calling xend to find the number of cells on a node and keeping the information thereafter in a static variable. This patch just move the lookup code in the xen_unified driver, using the unified call (and hence the hypervisor instead of xend rpc). Provides the same for CPUs. Also helps centralizing those lookup in case Xen supports dynamic CPUs or cells in the future. 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] PATCH: 0/4 Implement CDROM media change for QEMU/KVM driver
by Daniel P. Berrange 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

This series of patches provides CDROM media change for QEMU/KVM driver. It builds on the previous patch, incorporating the feedback everyone gave. I split the refactoring out from the main new feature patch hence the series of 4... 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] save and restore guest
by Farkas Levente 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

hi, if i use xen with xendomain it's possible to save and restore guest state. if i use libvirt it's not working (at least by default with kvm). i mean if i stop or restart libvirtd all guests a stopped and even if i restart libvirtd i've to start all guests manually. imho this's a very essential feature. what is the reason this not working with libvirtd?: - this feature is missing from libvirtd? or - this feature is not turned on by default? or - this feature is missing from kvm/qemu? or something else? thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Libvir] Proposal for the storage API (for discussion only)
by Richard W.M. Jones 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

This is an outline for the storage API, for discussion only. It is mostly unimplemented, but presented as a kind of "literate patch", so you can read the API calls and how they could be implemented. I've tried to follow as far as possible operations which are needed in order to make virt-install / virt-manager work in the remote case, and also to support discovery and creation of partitions / LVs / iSCSI LUNs. The new API calls are: virStorageFileLocations - returns a list of locations which can be used for creating file-backed guests virStorageFileStat virStorageFileStatVFS virStorageCreateFile - for creating file-backed guest storage virStorageListGroups virStorageCreateVolume - for discovering and creating partitions, LVs, LUNs, &c. 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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