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[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: New release virt-manager 0.6.0
by Cole Robinson 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

I'm happy to announce a new virt-manager release, version 0.6.0. The release can be downloaded from: http://virt-manager.org/download.html The direct download link is: http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.6.0.ta… This release includes: - Remote storage management and provisioning: View, add, remove, and provision libvirt managed storage. Attach managed storage to a remote VM. - Remote VM installation support: Install from managed media (cdrom) or PXE. Simple install time storage provisioning. - VM details and console windows merged: each VM is now represented by a single tabbed window. - Use Avahi to list libvirtd instances on network. - Hypervisor Autoconnect: Option to connect to hypervisor at virt-manager start up. - Option to add sound device emulation when creating new guests. - Virtio and USB options when adding a disk device. - Allow viewing and removing VM sound, serial, parallel, and console devices. - Specifying a specific keymap when adding display device. - Allow app to keep running with only a VM window open. - Allow limiting amount of stored stats history. - Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing, bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback! Thanks, Cole

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[libvirt] [PATCH] fix a error message and coding-style cleanup
by Nguyen Anh Quynh 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hi, This patch fixes a "copy&paste" error message in MemoryPeek() function of qemu driver. And while I am at it, this patch does some clean-up on coding style. Without this, my vim goes crazy while browsing the source. Please enforce the coding style (more or less similar to GNU style?) when merging. Thanks, Quynh # diffstat fix5.patch qemu_driver.c | 261 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 175 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Use gcc style for structure fields declaration
by Nguyen Anh Quynh 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hi, This patch uses gcc style to declare fields in virDriver structures. This also makes it easier to spot bugs. $ diffstat fix3.patch lxc_driver.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- openvz_driver.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- qemu_driver.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- test.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 4 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-) Thanks, Quynh

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Add more xen vnc tests, patch failures
by Cole Robinson 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Investigating an old bug made me trip over a few problems with vnc parameter handling in the xen driver. The attached patch adds test cases for these bugs and fixes the failures, particularly fixing incomplete handling of a fixed vnc port for xend managed domains. Thanks, Cole

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[libvirt] <soapbox>Thoughts on Open Source Hypervisor management
by Nathan Charles 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Over the the last few years I've setup and experimented with a large number of vm technologies. Everything from x86 based stuff like VMware, kvm, qemu, xen, to more exotic things like hercules, and z/VM. So far the solution I've found to be the most baked is VMware ESX with Virtual Center. It's pretty sweet to set up a DRS cluster and have VM's load balance across available hardware. However, It's super expensive and is in bed with windows way to much. i.e. Virtual Center and the Virtual Infrastructure Client only run on windows don't have LDAP auth and only use MSQL. I've also been working implementing a provisioning solution for our developers. We do automated installation of hundreds of machines of which many are underutilized. Many are newer machines with some pretty beefy specs (8 cores and at least 8 gigs of ram). I've done a lot of thinking in a vacuum about what would be ideal. There's a lot out there I don't know so I hope you give me some grace as I talk. So I want to be able to pull these machines into a cluster of hypervisors; a VM fabric aggregated via software. Or thought of in another way a p2p vm cluster. In some ways I think oVirt is the closest and in someways I think simply extending libvirt would be better and sometimes I think it should be a new project. So I thought I'd post this and see what people think. Since I'm still unsure as to where the proper place to abstract this is, I'll use the working package name of genet for the rest of the discussion. >From my perspective the reason I can't use most of the open source virtualization solutions for more than local vm's is one of management. They're great for one machine but as soon as you get to more than one machine there is a lot of human administrative overhead. oVirt seems like it could be really good, but in an existing environment it requires a lot of substantial changes and requires significant modification to work with an existing provisioning infrastructure. So as I imagined a silver bullet I used biology as a metaphor and used started thinking with the idea of "every piece contains the image of the whole." So the here's the 10,000 ft overview of an idea. 1. cluster administration is done from the command line 2. cluster administration can be performed from any node. 3. a new node can join a cluster on a local subnet with one command. 4. local storage resources are presented to the cluster so there is no need to have predefined NAS/SAN/iSCSI 5. cluster will load balance vm instances from node to node. 6. a node shouldn't need more than one nic but adding additional nic's provides failover and load balancing. I'm kind of ignoring storage at this point, but I think it's the biggest pieces of the puzzle as long as migration needs network/san storage. The ideal scenario would be something really simple like if I have SAN connectivity use that else I use some sort of cluster file system which adds in local storage and doesn't require reformating, but that might be wistful thinking. Use cases 1. looking for clusters on the same subnet via avahi # [yum|apt-get] install genet # genet list clusters forsythia hazelnut sumac # rhizome info sumac Password: sumac info: 8 nodes 64 Cores 128 G Ram 1.5 T storage 50% Cluster CPU utilized 75% Memory utilized 80% Storage utilized 2. a machine joins an existing cluster # genet join sumac Password: localhost has successfully joined sumac # Help output #genet -h usage: genet [options] command genet is a simple command line interface for creating and maintaining a cluster of hypervisors. Commands: create cluster [cluster name] create vm [vm name] (probably integrates with virt-install) evacuate [hostname] - migrate all vm instances off of [hostname] (defaults to localhost) list clusters [hostname] - list clusters on local subnet or via hostname on another network/subnet list vm [cluster] - list all vm instances in a cluster defaults to cluster local node is in. console [vmname] - virt-viewer to vmname So this all begs the the statement, "show me the code" and I think that perfectly valid. I may write some code, but I don't want to duplicate effort and I want to find out what other people are thinking. I welcome your thoughts. </soapbox> Regards, -- Nathan Charles

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[libvirt] Question about migration on KVM/Qemu
by Atsushi SAKAI 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi, I have a question about migration on KVM/Qemu. >From src/qemu_driver.c, domainMigrateXxxxx is not defined. But from news on 0.3.2, KVM migration is supported. http://libvirt.org/news.html Where is the code which performs migration on KVM/Qemu. Thanks Atsushi SAKAI

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Re: [libvirt] Does libvirt support Xen on Solaris?
by atif bajwa 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Thanks, But does libvirt supports xVM Virtualbox and xVM Server? I think Sun has published some web services API for these platforms. Regards, Atif On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Mark Johnson <johnson.nh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:30 AM, atif bajwa <atifbajwa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Does libvirt supports Xen on Solaris? > > Yes. > > > > If so what is version of libvirt and Solaris? > > I believe we currently have 0.4.0 integrated in current > Nevada/OpenSolaris builds. > > > > MRJ > > > Regards, > > Atif > > > > -- > > Libvir-list mailing list > > Libvir-list(a)redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > > > > >

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Implement vol delete for disk pools
by Cole Robinson 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

The patch below implements virStorageVolDelete for volumes on a disk pool. The only interesting thing here is that parted wants a partition number to delete, so we need to peel off the end of the volume's target path which will be of the form '/dev/sda1' or similar (I assume. If not, it's still better than having nothing implemented). Thanks, Cole

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[libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.4.5
by Daniel Veillard 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

It was really time for a new release, the ChangeLog is huge ... Main features are the improvement of OpenVZ and LXC, the uniform XML handling (and hence format) though all drivers, improvements in devices handling for QEmu/KVM and storage pool source discovery. Available as usual at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Full log of change is huge: * New features: - NETNS support for Linux containers (Dan Smith) - unified XML domain and network parsing for all drivers (Daniel Berrange) - OpenVZ features improvements (Evgeniy Sokolov) - OpenVZ and Linux containers support now default - USB device passthrough for QEmu/KVM (Guido Günther) - storage pool source discovery (David Lively) * Portability: - fixes for MinGW (Atsushi SAKAI and Daniel Berrange) - detection of xen lib improvement (David Lively) - storage backend portability for SLES (David Lively) - fix make distclean and distcheck (Jim Meyering) - fix build failures on RHEL4 - lot of MinGW portability fixes (Atsushi SAKAI and Daniel Berrange) - HTML generation fix - -lpthread explicit linking when needed (Jim Meyering) * Documentation: - various typo fixes (Anton Protopopov, Toth István, Atsushi SAKAI, Nguyen Anh Quynh) - Java bindings docs - remove Xen centric comments (Guido Günther) - various typo in comments (Chris Lalancette) - docs and API comments fixes (Charles Duffy) - how to contribute to open source link (Richard Jones) - memory unit fixups (matthew chan) * Bug fixes: - memory leaks and testing for OOM (Daniel Berrange) - do_open driver bug(Evgeniy Sokolov) - don't use polkit auth when running as non-root (Daniel Berrange) - boot of CDRom devices in QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange) - fix OpenVZ probe function (Evgeniy Sokolov) - ID related lookup fixes in OpenVZ (Evgeniy Sokolov) - pool cration for netfs (Cole Robinson) - check for migrate support with QEmu (Guido Günther) - check against double create with QEmu (Guido Günther) - broken open failure detection in QEmu (Guido Günther) - UUID string conversions in QEmu (Guido Günther) - various small cleanup and bug fixes (Daniel Berrange) - ID related fixes in the test driver (Daniel Berrange) - better error reporting on XML parsing (Daniel Berrange) - empty CD-ROM source device section (Chris Lalancette) - avoid crashes for interface without a name in QEmu (Guido Günther) - provide the real vncport (Charles Duffy) - fix forward delay (Daniel Berrange) - new VM state is initialized to be SHUTOFF (Daniel Berrange) - virsh attach-disk bug fixes (Chris Lalancette) - veth clash of device names (Dan Smith) - connection lookup fixes on storage creation (Cole Robinson) - parted call fix (Cole Robinson) - use "server" option when using serial/telnet with QEmu (Mark McLoughlin) - duplicate virInitialize calls (Nguyen Anh Quynh) - many fixes to virExec and related functions (Daniel Berrange) - size of disk without partitions (Cole Robinson) - creating and cleaning up logical volumes with target path (Cole Robinson) - fix reporting of virConnectOpen problems (Daniel Berrange) - veth cleanup at shutdown (Dan Smith) - lookup of Xen VMs after define (Cole Robinson) - fix emulator reported capabilities (Cole Robinson) - avoid segfault on KVM CD eject (Cole Robinson) - fix disk ordering and avoid duplicate in QEmu XML parsing (Cole Robinson) - update domain XML after device hotplug (Cole Robinson) - use poweroff instead of halt when shutting down a Xen domain (John Levon) - don't dump core of Xen domain live by default (John Levon) - vgcreate command line size bug (Jim Fehlig) - signed/unsigned issue in probing file (Cole Robinson) - Fix Xen domains without PVFB console (Daniel Berrange) - OpenVZ config read bug fix (Evgeniy Sokolov). * Improvements: - improved failure diagnostic for TAP (Jim Meyering) - better exec and error diagnostic for OpenVZ commands (Evgeniy Sokolov) - OpenVZ auto start and stop of domains (Evgeniy Sokolov) - OpenVZ domain cpu time consumption (Evgeniy Sokolov) - virsh shutdown improvements and test (Jim Meyering) - better report of XML well formedness errors (Richard Jones) - new XML elements (Daniel Berrange) - virsh "edit" command (Richard Jones) - save UUID of OpenVZ domains (Evgeniy Sokolov) - improve xen blocks statistics (Chris Lalancette) - gnulib updates (Jim Meyering) - allow to add disk as USB devices (Guido Günther) - LXC container process should survive libvirtd restarts (Daniel Berrange) - allow to define static host domain configs - number of CPU used by OpenVZ domains (Evgeniy Sokolov) - private root fs for LXC (Daniel Berrange) - storage source information in storage pools (David Lively) - virsh reports attach and detach success (Cole Robinson) - detect failure in QEmu eject command (Cole Robinson) - add support for eect on floppy and SCSI cdroms for QEmu (Cole Robinson) - LXC hypervisor version extraction (Dan Smith) - Augeas config file support (Daniel Berrange) - support for a domain name in network config (JJ Reynolds). * Cleanups: - Python verbosity cleanup (Ryan Scott) - space and tabs cleanups (Atsushi SAKAI) - OpenVZ and LXC drivers cleanup and unification of XML handling (Daniel Berrange) - updates to Relax-NG XML schemas (John Levon and Daniel Berrange) - more printf format checkings (Jim Meyering) - VIR_FREE related cleanups (Jim Meyering) - integer string parsing cleanup (Evgeniy Sokolov) - initial OpenVZ xml refactoring (Evgeniy Sokolov) - better error message on domain redefine (Charles Duffy) - check XML files against the RNG Schemas (Daniel Berrange) - const-correctness in virsh (Richard Jones and Jim Meyering) - const-correctness and cleanups in LXC and OpenVZ drivers (Daniel Berrange) - virFileLinkPointsTo rewrite (Jim Meyering) - cleanup of the conditional compilation of C files (Daniel Berrange) - shell quoting fixes (Jim Meyering) - parallel build support (James Morris and Jim Meyering) - new convenenience virFileReadLimFD function (Jim Meyering). A lot of people contributed to this release with patches, reports or documentations, thanks everybody ! 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] libvirt vs XenAPI
by atif bajwa 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi! I am looking to integrate the Xen Management. Please guide me advantages of using libvirt over XenAPI and please list xen-based-hypervisor distributions(versions) that will be supported with libvirt. And what is future of libvirt as XenSource is more focused on XenAPI. Regards, Atif

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