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[libvirt] libvirt.org down
by Daniel Veillard 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

As Jim found out there is a problem on the libvirt.org box, I don't know exactly what's is going on, and I will go anc check the box tomorrow at 7am EST. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks Jim for raising the issue ! 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] win32
by Brecht Sanders 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hi, Is there any way to compile libvirt with xen some support without depending on libxenstore? The reason I ask is that libxen can be built on Windows, but libxenstore seems to depend on the linux kernel, so I doubt it can be built for Windows. Regards Brecht Sanders

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Openvz: how to use a nondefault config
by Anton Protopopov 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

2009/4/2 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:36:15PM +0400, Evgeniy Sokolov wrote: > > > > Config /etc/vz/conf/ve-XXX.conf-sample define there are many parameters > > like memory, CPU etc. This parameters are not properties of > <filesystem>. > > > > Daniel, usage of pre-defined configs in really usefull. Can we create > > additional tag inside <domain></domain>? > > The trouble with this is that given the XML config of a guest, you can > no longer determine what its configuration is, because a large amount > of configuration is hidden in this opaque 'template'. And in kvm/qemu case there is a lot of hidden information too :) In OpenVZ case we don't loose any info (see below). > > If we're to support templates, I think we need to make them first class > objects, so you can query what templates exist, and see their associated > config settings. > > eg, expose a simple API > > virDomainTemplatePtr; > > int virConnectListDomainTemplates(virConnectPtr conn, const char > **names); > virDomainTemplatePtr virDomainTemplateLookupbyName(virConnectPtr con, > const char *name) > char *virDomainTemplateGetXMLDesc(virDomainTemplatePtr tmpl); > virDomainTemplatePtr virDomainTemplateDefineXML(virConnectPtr conn, const > char *xml) > int virDomainTemplateUndefine(virDomainTemplatePtr tmpl); > int virDomainTemplateFree(virDomainTemplatePtr tmpl); > > > Then, we could either include a <template>$NAME</template> parameter in > the XML for a guest. Or have an alternate API for creating guests > > virDomainCreateXMLWithTemplate(virConnectPtr conn, > const char *xmlDesc, > const char *template) > > It depends whether we'd want to track the template <-> guest association > forever, or just use it once to fill-in the guest XML and then forget > about the template after that. It doesn't matter in OpenVZ case: template (or, "config", in openvz terminology) is used only once, when container is creating. But then per-container "copy" is created, and it is already used by libvirt to keep information about container. Per-container OpenVZ config keeps the name of the original config (in ORIGIN_SAMPLE variable). Is there need for "Template API" in case of other hypervisors?

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[libvirt] Planning and schedule
by Daniel Veillard 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Trying to keep up the promises from last week: - so 0.6.2 is released and out - I still plan for a new release 0.6.3 around Fri 24 April - which mean we should have some kind of feature commit freeze around the 17th April - and the week 20 - 24 focusing mostly on bug fixes Plannned so far for 0.6.3 are: - API for physical host interface - the VirtualBox driver if in shape and in time but that's not an exhaustive list and there is a couple of drivers submitted I need to look at (OpenNebula for example). And I will provide an update next Friday, 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] pypxeboot - libvirt
by Gian Mario 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hi to all, Can anyone tell me on which version libvirt start to support pypxeboot? tnks so much. GMario

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[libvirt] freecell gives out bytes instead of kilobytes
by Gerrit Slomma 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

The virsh-command freecell hands out bytes but affixes those with kB. The error ist found in virsh.c on line 1663 and following. I have corrected this and altered the output to the method i chose for virt-manager - in the days of 96 GB per socket (Nehalem-EP) no one cares even about a fraction of a Megabyte. --- a/src/virsh.c 2009-04-02 17:45:50.000000000 +0200 +++ b/src/virsh.c 2009-04-02 23:35:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -1661,10 +1661,23 @@ } if (cell == -1) - vshPrint(ctl, "%s: %llu kB\n", _("Total"), memory); + if (memory < 10*1024*1204*1024) + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%s: %.0f MB\n", _("Total"), (float)memory/1024/1024); + } + else + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%s: %.2f GB\n", _("Total"), (float)memory/1024/1024/1024); + } else - vshPrint(ctl, "%d: %llu kB\n", cell, memory); - + if (memory < 10*1024*1204*1024) + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%d: %.0f MB\n", cell, (float)memory/1024/1024); + } + else + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%d: %.2f GB\n", cell, (float)memory/1024/1024/1024); + } return TRUE; } eg: rr016# virsh freecell; free -m 0: 24 MB total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3884 3859 24 0 60 1306 -/+ buffers/cache: 2492 1392 Swap: 2047 248 1798 rr017# virsh freecell; free -m 0: 1490 MB total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2991 1501 1489 0 100 1283 -/+ buffers/cache: 117 2873 Swap: 2047 0 2047 rr019# virsh freecell; free -m 0: 1616 MB total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3952 2337 1615 0 5 1209 -/+ buffers/cache: 1121 2831 Swap: 2047 0 2047 Is this okay with you? Or just the fix for the output removing the kB-suffix.

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't squash file format on volume refresh
by Cole Robinson 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

A while back, code was added to storage_backend.c:virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfoFD to try to determine the volume format for iscsi volumes. Unfortunately this function is also called for refreshing file volumes, which has the effect of setting the format as 'raw' whenever a volume is refreshed (ex. after calling virsh vol-info). The attached patch moves the offending code into a wrapper function in the scsi driver. I haven't played with the scsi support yet so this is untested though it's largely code movement. Thanks, Cole

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Refresh storage volume on dumpxml
by Cole Robinson 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

The storage driver refreshes a volume's capacity+allocation data when the 'info' command is called. Seems that we should also update it when dumpxml is called, which also returns size information. Thanks, Cole

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix test driver 'restore' return value
by Cole Robinson 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

The return value for domain restore in the test driver isn't consistent with the API, and as such virsh will report failure even if the restore succeeds. The attached patch fixes this. Thanks, Cole

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix sparse volume allocation reporting
by Cole Robinson 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

I have a sparse volume with a capacity of 1000M, and an allocation of a little over 750M. 'du' prints the correct sizes, but 'virsh vol-dumpxml' shows: <capacity>1048576000</capacity> <allocation>6406307840</allocation> This is because we were calculating the allocation size using the requested fs block size, instead of what stat actually uses as a block size (DEV_BSIZE in sys/params.h). sys/params.h looks to be present in mingw32-runtime, so I didn't add a configure check for it. The attached patch fixes allocation listing for me. Thanks, Cole

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