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[libvirt] How does libvirt 0.6.3 load kvm driver
by Jason Wong 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Dear all, I found that libvirt 0.6.3 seems does not load KVM driver while libvirt 0.3.3 does. Situation description: I am using CentOS 5.3, and the kernel I used is 2.6.30. I downloaded the kernel from kernel.org andcompile it. KVM was compiled as a module. libvirt: libvirt 0.6.3, released by Eucalyptus(a cloud computing infrastructure software which supports KVM as well) (1) libvirt 0.6.3 does not load KVM driver After booting the machine with kernel 2.6.30 and probe KVM related module. I started libvirtd 0.6.3 and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to "$LIBVIRT_063_HOME/lib:$LIBVIRT_063_HOME/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH". I found that I am not able to connect to libvirtd using "virsh --connect qemu:///system"(the virsh used is virsh 0.6.3 that shipped with libvirt 0.6.3), here is the debug message: ======================================= debug message ========================================= 17:41:11.219: debug : virInitialize:290 : register drivers 17:41:11.219: debug : virRegisterDriver:667 : registering Test as driver 0 17:41:11.219: debug : virRegisterNetworkDriver:567 : registering Test as network driver 0 17:41:11.219: debug : virRegisterStorageDriver:598 : registering Test as storage driver 0 17:41:11.219: debug : virRegisterDeviceMonitor:629 : registering Test as device driver 0 17:41:11.219: debug : virRegisterDriver:667 : registering Xen as driver 1 17:41:11.219: debug : vboxRegister:68 : VBoxCGlueInit failed: 0.0.0, errorval=-1 17:41:11.219: debug : virRegisterDriver:667 : registering VBOX as driver 2 17:41:11.219: debug : virConnectOpen:1050 : name=qemu:///system 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:920 : name "qemu:///system" to URI components: scheme qemu opaque (null) authority (null) server (null) user (null) port 0 path /system 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 0 (Test) ... 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:936 : driver 0 Test returned DECLINED 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 1 (Xen) ... 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:936 : driver 1 Xen returned DECLINED 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 2 (VBOX) ... 17:41:11.219: debug : do_open:936 : driver 2 VBOX returned DECLINED libvir: error : could not connect to qemu:///system 17:41:11.219: debug : virUnrefConnect:210 : unref connection 0x60dd00 1 17:41:11.219: debug : virReleaseConnect:171 : release connection 0x60dd00 libvirt error: could not connect to qemu:///system (code=5) error: failed to connect to hypervisor ================================end of debug message ========================================= It seems that libvirt 0.6.3 does not load QEMU driver. (2) libvirt 0.3.3 does load KVM driver However, when I run the command "lsmod | grep kvm". I found KVM module was present: ================================= result of lsmod ============================================== [root@node2 ~]# lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 46664 0 kvm 166224 1 kvm_intel [root@node2 ~]# ================================= end of result of lsmod ========================================= I stopped libvirtd 0.6.3 and then started libvirtd 0.3.3(the one shipped with CentOS 5.3). The virtual machine manager works well and I can use "virsh --connect qemu:///system"(the virsh used is virsh 0.3.3 that shipped with CentOS 5.3) to connect to libvirtd. I dig into libvirt source code. I found that in libvirt 0.3.3: There is qemudRegister() in libvirt.c. I think this function call is responsible for loading qemu(kvm) driver. And in libvirt 0.6.3: I cannot found qemudRegister() or virDriverLoadModule("qemu") in the source code. My question is: Does libvirt 0.6.3 support KVM? If yes, how does it load KVM driver? I want to find out why libvirt 0.3.3 works well while libvirt 0.6.3 does not work in my computer. Thanks. -- Jason Wong System engineer Cluster Technology Limited Email: hcwong(a)clustertech.com Direct Line: (852) 2655-6129 Tel: (852) 2655-6100 Fax: (852) 2994-2101 Website: www.clustertech.com ------------------------------ ************************************************************************** The information and attachment contained in this e-mail originating from Cluster Technology Limited is confidential and intended solely for the specified addressees. If you have received this email in error, please do not read, copy, distribute, disclose or use any information of this email in any way and please immediately notify the sender and delete this email. Thank you for your cooperation. **************************************************************************

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[libvirt] hooking a physical nic to a bridge with net-create
by Shahar Klein 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Hi I trying to set up a network configuration using libvirt The setup is: 1. a VM using virtio using a tap device connected to a bridge device 2. on the host side eth0 added to the same bridge device(without ip) using libvirt application (say virsh) I want to launch this set up: virsh net-create for the second part virsh create for the first part(tap, virtio, vm etc) I can set the first part(vm, tap, virtio) using the domain xml but I'm also interested in XMLing the second part and net-create it. I tried but only suceeded in creating the bridge Is it possible? am I missing somthing? Thanks in advance

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[libvirt] HACKING file on website
by Daniel P. Berrange 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

FYI, I just committed a patch to add the contents of the 'HACKING' file to the website, under the section 'Documentation -> Internals -> Contributor Guidelines No content changes from HACKING, just html-ized existing content. Regards, 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] identi.ca micro-blogging group for libvirt & related apps
by Daniel P. Berrange 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Micro-blogging is very popular these days and I know a number of people working on / with libvirt are using twitter/identi.ca So I decided it was worth creating a libvirt group on identi.ca for targetting notices relating to libvirt and any apps built using libvirt. You can find it here http://identi.ca/group/libvirt Any posting you make containing the magic word '!libvirt' will appear in the group page. Regards, 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] [PATCH] Fixing issues in re-detection of transient VMs
by Federico Simoncelli 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Re-detection of transient VMs had two issues described in bugs 507304 and 507537: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507304 Summary: After a migration the domain status is saved as "paused" and it is not updated to "running". A following libvirtd restart will detect the vm as "paused" (instead of "running"). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507537 Summary: Destroying a transient re-detected domain leaves the domain defined (instead of completely remove it). Patches in attachment (and available in the bug report). -- Federico Simoncelli.

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[libvirt] [PATCH] don't break on libnuma failures
by Daniel Veillard 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Another patch hanging in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506590 sometimes libnuma can't handle some topologies, but those failures should not completely break libvirt, patch by Dan Berrange. Look sane to me, fixes the main problem for the reporter, so I applied and commited it, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[libvirt] unchecked malloc+syscall uses
by Jim Meyering 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

I was looking through recent changes and spotted two potential NULL-dereferences in this change set: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=70c01b4c1adea75e9 In src/opennebula/one_client.c: + one_client.url=(char *)malloc(64); + snprintf(one_client.url, 63, "http://localhost:%d/RPC2", ONED_PORT); +#else + one_client.url=(char *)"http://localhost:2633/RPC2"; +#endif -- + file_text=(char *)malloc(size+1); + bytes_read=read(file, file_text, size); + close(file); + + if(bytes_read==size) { Perhaps of more immediate concern, these syscalls are not checked for failure: + file=open(template_file, O_RDONLY); + size=lseek(file, 0, SEEK_END); + lseek(file, 0, SEEK_SET); and same for the "read" syscall above. Note, this is just the result of a few minutes cursory review.

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[libvirt] More then one pci device possible with libvirt and pci passthrough?
by Mirko Raasch 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Hi, i want to use more then one pci card in my debian guest. But when i start the guest, the log says: libvirtd: 15:44:55.459: warning : pciTrySecondaryBusReset:483 : Other devices on bus with 0000:05:01.0, not doing bus reset With "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -name test -hda /media/vm/test.img -boot c -vnc :2 -k de -pcidevice host=05:01.0 -pcidevice host=05:02.0 -pcidevice host=05:03.0" there seems to be no problems. How can i start my guest with three pci devices passed through and libvirt? My hostdev section in the xml looks like this: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> Greetings Mirko

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[libvirt] Can't scale XP on remote
by sean darcy 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop. Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64 On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586 The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are? sean

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[libvirt] [PATCH] avoid dumpXML segfault with recent Xen (3.4.0)
by Daniel Veillard 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

This is basically the patch by Sascha at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503254 with a couple of cleanups. I think it's low risk, and avoid a crash so I commited it. Basically ths SXPR syntax changed from (type vnc) to (vnc 1) for VNC vfb devices, and assuming something similar for sdl. The code checks first for type then backoff for vnc/sdl so I think this is backward compatible. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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