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[Libvir] Flag to virDomainReboot to immediately reboot a domain?
by Lon Hohberger 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, For fencing Xen domains, I would like the ability to guarantee an immediate reboot of a domain without notifying the OS inside. Basically, I would like something equivalent to pressing the reset button on a physical machine. There's a currently unused "flags" option to virDomainReboot which would allow such an addition without breaking the ABI. Doing getXMLDesc/Destroy/Create introduces a race condition in clusters: What if outside management software notices notices the VM is missing and decides to start it up on *another* host node before we bring up the VM again using the Create call? An immediate reboot should eliminate the race (even though it's a very small window), and probably will not add any complexity. For now, 'reboot' is done as above, and 'off' is a simple Destroy call. 'On' is not possible to implement for various reasons, the most obvious of which is that the caller does not know any of the configuration information about particular domUs (except for their names). -- Lon

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[Libvir] Release of libvirt-0.1.6
by Daniel Veillard 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Available at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Mostly a few bug fixes, preparing the upcoming xen-3.0.3, and localization support were added in the last 2 weeks: * Support for localization of strings using gettext (Daniel Berrange) * Support for new Xen-3.0.3 cdrom and disk configuration (Daniel Berrange) * Support for setting VNC port when creating domains with new xend config files (Daniel Berrange) * Fix bug when running against xen-3.0.2 hypercalls (Jim Fehlig) * Fix reconnection problem when talking directly to http xend thanks to everybody who helped testing, improving and fixing it ! 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] gettext i18n support for libvirt
by Daniel P. Berrange 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Attached is an updated version of my previous patch to add gettext support to libvirt. It should be pretty self-explanatory - basically wrapping all strings with _(..) or gettext_noop(...) where appropriate. I also took the opportunity to make some of the messages more consistent with each other. (To cut down size, I'm not including the actual libvirt.pot file ) 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] problem with virConnectClose in libvirt 0.1.5
by Philippe Berthault 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

After closing libvirt with virConnectClose, it's possible to open libvirt again in the same program with virConnectOpen but following operations on domains systematically fail. In example: conn = virConnectOpen(NULL); dom = virDomainLookupByID(conn, id); virDomainFree(dom); virConnectClose(conn); ... conn = virConnectOpen(NULL); dom = virDomainLookupByID(conn, id); ==> ERROR The second virDomainLookupByID call fails because of the do_connect() function in xend_internal.c source file. In this function, the connect() API returns ENOENT on the second virDomainLookupByID() call. ENOENT return code isn't documented in the man of connect API ! I suppose that some cleaning are missing when virConnectClose is called or in the opposite, too cleaning is done. Regards.

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[Libvir] New style CDROM config in Xen 3.0.3
by Daniel P. Berrange 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

So in a recent change to xen-unstable.hg the way CDROM devices are configured for HVM guests changed. They are now treated as regular IDE devices, and a CDROM is signified by presence of ':cdrom' suffix on the device name http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00369.html libvirt obviously needs to support both this new style config, and the old (<= 3.0.2) style configs. Thus I requested addition of 'xend_config_format' attribute in the /xend/node SEXPR data from XenD. Christian recently committed this patch, so we can now support both CDROM style configs in libvirt. I am attaching a patch to implement this support - basically it touches xend_internal.c to fix XML->SEXPR conversion, and xml.c to fix SEXPR->XML conversion. Then this is corresponding additions to the unit tests to validate the new code, and also validate that I didn't break existing code. I am attaching the patches, but I don't intend to commit them to libvirt just yet because I don't actually have the new 3.0.3 xend running on my test systems fully yet. If anyone is using 3.0.3 any testing would be appreciated, otherwise I aim to test this towards end of next week. Regards, 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] Configuration and building libvirt.
by Michel Gauthier 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

We want to configure and build libvirt library (0.1.4 for instance) from tar.gz file on a IA32 platform with RHEL4U2 distro without installing and build all Xen modules. The steps are the following: tar -xzvf libvirt-0.1.4.tar.gz cd libvirt-0.1.4 ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install Unfortunatly, the "./configure --prefix=/usr " aborts with: checking for library containing xs_read... no configure: error: Xen store library not found (see attached file) corresponding to lines: dnl search for the Xen store library AC_SEARCH_LIBS(xs_read, [xenstore], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Xen store library not found])]) in the configure file. We have then transfered the libxenstore.so file into /usr/lib directory of our machine, but the result is the same. (NB: We had previously transferred all Xen public C header files into /usr/include/xen directory) 1- Could you tell us what are the Xen files strictly necessary to achieve this operation? 2- Is this operation also possible with a IA64 building environment on our IA32 platform? Regards.

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[Libvir] [PATCH] Support setting vnc port
by Jeremy Katz 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

We display the vncport, but never used it when creating the Xen sexpr. Attached fixes that. It also adds support for "port=-1" implying "use the first unused port"[1] Jeremy [1] The xen and qemu "vncunused" parameter

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[Libvir] Proposal for virtual devices
by michel.ponceau＠bull.net 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

I previously made a proposal for block devices. It was rejected because it was VBD-specific and Xen-specific. Here is a proposal for transparent interface with Xen or other. The virtual device attributes (VDA) are transferred from/to application without considering their meaning, except backend domain, previously requested to be the name for user, while it is the ID for Xen. typedef struct virVDA { /* virtual device attribute */ char name[16]; char value[64]; } virVDA; int virDomainGetVdevs(virDomainPtr domain, char *type, virVDA *attr, int maxattr); * @type: pointer to device type, "disk", "network" ... * @attr: pointer to an array of virVDA structures * @maxattr: number of structures in attr array * Return: (number of VDAs per device)<<16 + (number of devices), if success; * -1 if failure. For "disk" type, Xen provides the following VDA names: "virtual-device" (virtual device number) "backend-id" (backend domain ID) "state" "backend" (backend device or file) "ring-ref" "event-channel" This function changes "backend-id" to "bkdom-name" and translates value ID into name. int virDomainCreateVdev(virDomainPtr domain, char *type, virVDA *attr, int nbattr); * @type: pointer to device type, "disk", "network" ... * @attr: pointer to an array of virVDA structures * @nbattr: number of structures in attr array For "disk" type, Xen requires the following VDA names: "uname" (backend device, value either "phy:<>" or "file:<>" "dev" (virtual device number) "mode" (value "ro" for read-only, or "rw" for read/write) "backend" (backend domain ID) This function translates "backend" user value (name) into ID. int virDomainDestroyVdev(virDomainPtr domain, char *type, char *ref); * @type: pointer to device type, "disk", "network" ... * @ref: pointer to virtual device reference (number for Xen...)

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[Libvir] libvirt-0.1.5 release
by Daniel Veillard 05 Sep '06

05 Sep '06

With the recent Xen hypervisor breakage, I think it was urgent to push a new release for testing even if some parts are still in development and not finished. So expect a new release in a couple of weeks. In the meantime 0.1.5 is available at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ * Support for new hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b * bug fixes: - virParseUUID() was wrong, netwoking for paravirt guests (Daniel Berrange) - virsh on non-existent domains (Daniel Berrange) - string cast bug when handling error in python (Pete Vetere) - HTTP 500 xend error code handling (Pete Vetere and Daniel Berrange) * improvements: - test suite for SEXPR <-> XML format conversions (Daniel Berrange) - virsh output regression suite (Daniel Berrange) - new environ variable VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for the default URI when connecting (Daniel Berrange) - graphical console support for paravirt guests (Jeremy Katz) - parsing of simple Xen config files (with Daniel Berrange) - early work on defined (not running) domains (Daniel Berrange) - virsh output improvement (Daniel Berrange) Thanks for everyone who helped out, please check that everything is working with the new hypervisor code, I could not test all entry points, I am on the road ! 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 3/4]: Xen inactive domains: stop xend/xs/xen using inactive domains
by Daniel P. Berrange 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

The existing xend, xs, xen, proxy driver backends all assume that if they're given a virDomainPtr object, the handle member is non-zero (ie its a running domain). With the addition of inactive domain support this assumption is no longer value. Thus this patch modifies all these drivers, so that if the handle is -1, then they return without doing any work. This lets the operation be correctly delegated to the new driver for inactive domains. In addition, the XenD driver assumed that if XenD returns a 404 when looking up a domain based on its name, this was a fatal error condition. Since inative domains are not known to XenD, this assumption is also now false. The attached patch modifies xend_internal so that if a 404 is returned, the error is not propagated to the libvirt error handlers. Instead the methods in question simply return -1, and control continues to the new backend for managing inactive domains. 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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