I executed the commands "export LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1" and "virsh dominfo 2" (ID 2 was a running domU), this is the output: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEBUG: libvirt.c: virInitialize (register drivers) DEBUG: xen_internal.c: xenHypervisorInit (Using new hypervisor call: 30002 ) DEBUG: xen_internal.c: xenHypervisorInit (Using hypervisor call v2, sys ver6 dom ver5 ) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectOpenAuth (name=(null), auth=0xb7f49b60, flags=0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (Probed xen:///) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (Probed qemu:///system) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (Using xen:/// as default URI, 2 hypervisor found) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (name "xen:///" to URI components: scheme xen opaque (null) authority (null) server (null) user (null) port 0 path / ) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 0 (Test) ...) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 0 Test returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 1 (Xen) ...) DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Trying hypervisor sub-driver) DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Activated hypervisor sub-driver) DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Trying XenD sub-driver) DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Activated XenD sub-driver) DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Trying XS sub-driver) DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Activated XS sub-driver) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 1 Xen returned SUCCESS) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 0 Test returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 1 QEMU returned DECLINED) DEBUG: remote_internal.c: doRemoteOpen (proceeding with name = xen:///) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 2 remote returned SUCCESS) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 0 Test returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 1 storage returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 2 remote returned SUCCESS) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainLookupByID (conn=0x9b49048, id=2) DEBUG: hash.c: __virGetDomain (New hash entry 0x9b580a0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetID (domain=0x9b580a0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetName (domain=0x9b580a0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetUUIDString (domain=0x9b580a0, buf=0xbff74b07) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetUUID (domain=0x9b580a0, uuid=0xbff74aac) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetOSType (domain=0x9b580a0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetInfo (domain=0x9b580a0, info=0xbff74b2c) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetAutostart (domain=0x9b580a0, autostart=0xbff74b44) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainFree (domain=0x9b580a0) DEBUG: hash.c: virUnrefDomain (unref domain 0x9b580a0 ac06e4f0-59b1-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66 1) DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseDomain (release domain 0x9b580a0 ac06e4f0-59b1-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66) DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseDomain (unref connection 0x9b49048 xen:/// 2) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectClose (conn=0x9b49048) DEBUG: hash.c: virUnrefConnect (unref connection 0x9b49048 xen:/// 1) DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseConnect (release connection 0x9b49048 xen:///) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is pretty weird because there are no debugging messages from Xen functions?! Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:04:20PM +0100, Andreas Sommer wrote:
I'm using Xen-3.2-1 on Debian 5.0.1-lenny and retrieve information about running domains using
domain.info()[0]
The domain object is retrieved via connection.lookupByUUIDString(...) and stored as a variable called "domain". Usually the running domains have the state 1 (VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING) or 2 (VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCKED), but sometimes it happens that 0 (VIR_DOMAIN_NOSTATE) is returned. Why does that happen? I don't think it is an error because then it would've raised an exception...
I think it is most likely a bug in our handling of the state info from the hypervisor with certain Xen version. I'm fairly sure we should never get NO_STATE for any active domain
If you want to try and troubleshoot the code, then this handled in the xenHypervisorGetDomInfo() method in src/xen_internal.c.
It currently does this:
domain_flags = XEN_GETDOMAININFO_FLAGS(dominfo); domain_flags &= ~DOMFLAGS_HVM; /* Mask out HVM flags */ domain_state = domain_flags & 0xFF; /* Mask out high bits */ switch (domain_state) { .... } . Given that you see NO_STATE, I expect that none of the 'case' inside the 'switch' are being matched. I'd be interested to know what the 'domain_state' value is immediately after its fetched from the HV. So you might try changing it to
domain_flags = XEN_GETDOMAININFO_FLAGS(dominfo); DEBUG("Raw HV state flag %x", domain_flags); domain_flags &= ~DOMFLAGS_HVM; /* Mask out HVM flags */ domain_state = domain_flags & 0xFF; /* Mask out high bits */ DEBUG("Masked HV state flag %x", domain_flags); switch (domain_state) { .... } DEBUG("libvirt state flag %x", info->state);
And then running 'LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virsh dominfo GUEST' and capturing the output when it reports 'nostate'
Daniel