10:52 p.m.
HI all,
I wanted to know whether libvirt has any kind of support for virt-io serial or not
If yes then how can I use it?
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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3:24 a.m.
Hi Pankaj,
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:52:54AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
I wanted to know whether libvirt has any kind of support for virt-io
serial or not
If yes then how can I use it?
I think http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel is what you
are looking for, if it's not, please describe in more details what setup
you want to achieve.
Christophe
5:03 a.m.
Thanks for the input
Actually I wanted to have private communication channel b/w host and guest
By default I cannot have multiple console on guest through virsh console guestname ( they
all are dependent on each other , if I execute a command on one shell its output is
reflected on all of them ).
I wanted to login into guest from multiple shells(and the console should be independent of
each other)
Virtio-serial have this feature ,I have gone through various install option on web , but
they don't seem to work.
Our kernel version for host and guest is 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64
We goes through the mentioned link
And edit our xml file by adding
<channel type='pty'>
<target type='virtio' name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'
port='1'/>
</channel>
Then we tried to access the channel device through virsh console guest_name dev_name
It gives error :-
# virsh console serial vport0p1
Connected to domain serial
Escape character is ^]
error: internal error cannot find character device vport0p1
but the vport
#ls -l /dev/virtio-ports/arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 May 14 05:01
/dev/virtio-ports/arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name -> ../vport0p1
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 1:55 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
Hi Pankaj,
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:52:54AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
I wanted to know whether libvirt has any kind of support for virt-io
serial or not If yes then how can I use it?
I think http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel is what you are looking
for, if it's not, please describe in more details what setup you want to achieve.
Christophe
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5:25 a.m.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:03:11AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Actually I wanted to have private communication channel b/w host and
guest
By default I cannot have multiple console on guest through virsh console guestname
( they all are dependent on each other , if I execute a command on one shell its
output is reflected on all of them ).
I wanted to login into guest from multiple shells(and the console should be independent
of each other)
If you want multiple interactive consoles, you need to configure
multiple <console> devices.
Virtio-serial have this feature ,I have gone through various install
option on web , but they don't seem to work.
virtio-serial is not intended for consoles - it is for application
communication channels.
Our kernel version for host and guest is 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64
We goes through the mentioned link
And edit our xml file by adding
<channel type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'
name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'
port='1'/>
</channel>
Then we tried to access the channel device through virsh console guest_name dev_name
It gives error :-
# virsh console serial vport0p1
Connected to domain serial
Escape character is ^]
error: internal error cannot find character device vport0p1
The 'virsh consolve' command is only intended for use with interactive
consoles for administrators. As such it completely ignores any <channel>
devices which are for non-interactive use. So what you see here is
normal. The vkirtio serial port is definitely available for use by
your application
What you actually want is to configure multiple <consolke> devices
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
They will be given names console0, console1, etc so with virsh console
# virsh console --device console1 serial
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Well I tried it but it doesn’t work
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
All above are merged into one
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio' port='0'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml
Following error received when I tried to execute the command
# virsh console --device console1 serial
error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 3:55 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:03:11AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Actually I wanted to have private communication channel b/w host and
guest
By default I cannot have multiple console on guest through virsh console guestname
( they all are dependent on each other , if I execute a command on one shell its
output is reflected on all of them ).
I wanted to login into guest from multiple shells(and the console should be independent
of each other)
If you want multiple interactive consoles, you need to configure
multiple <console> devices.
Virtio-serial have this feature ,I have gone through various install
option on web , but they don't seem to work.
virtio-serial is not intended for consoles - it is for application
communication channels.
Our kernel version for host and guest is 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64
We goes through the mentioned link
And edit our xml file by adding
<channel type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'
name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'
port='1'/>
</channel>
Then we tried to access the channel device through virsh console guest_name dev_name
It gives error :-
# virsh console serial vport0p1
Connected to domain serial
Escape character is ^]
error: internal error cannot find character device vport0p1
The 'virsh consolve' command is only intended for use with interactive
consoles for administrators. As such it completely ignores any <channel>
devices which are for non-interactive use. So what you see here is
normal. The vkirtio serial port is definitely available for use by
your application
What you actually want is to configure multiple <consolke> devices
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
They will be given names console0, console1, etc so with virsh console
# virsh console --device console1 serial
Daniel
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:09:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Well I tried it but it doesn’t work
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
All above are merged into one
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio' port='0'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml
Hmm, what version of libvirt do you have ? This behaviour
suggest that your version is too old to support multiple
consoles.
Following error received when I tried to execute the command
# virsh console --device console1 serial
error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Doh, I mean --devname
Daniel
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11:26 p.m.
# libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.4
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 5:30 PM
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Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:09:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Well I tried it but it doesnt work
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
All above are merged into one
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio' port='0'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml
Hmm, what version of libvirt do you have ? This behaviour
suggest that your version is too old to support multiple
consoles.
Following error received when I tried to execute the command
# virsh console --device console1 serial
error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Doh, I mean --devname
Daniel
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6:08 a.m.
Hi ,
I installed fedora17 on my system, the libvirt version is 0.9.11
I configured guest.xml as specified
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml I can see the port assigned to it
Now when I try to access the console via
#virsh console --devname console0 guest
Or
#virsh console --devname console1 guest
My console get stuck , I am not getting any prompt.
Is something I am missing?
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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Pankaj Rawat
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:56 AM
To: Daniel P. Berrange
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Christophe Fergeau
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
# libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.4
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 5:30 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:09:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Well I tried it but it doesnt work
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
All above are merged into one
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio' port='0'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml
Hmm, what version of libvirt do you have ? This behaviour
suggest that your version is too old to support multiple
consoles.
Following error received when I tried to execute the command
# virsh console --device console1 serial
error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Doh, I mean --devname
Daniel
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7:25 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:08:16AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Hi ,
I installed fedora17 on my system, the libvirt version is 0.9.11
I configured guest.xml as specified
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml I can see the port assigned to it
Now when I try to access the console via
#virsh console --devname console0 guest
Or
#virsh console --devname console1 guest
My console get stuck , I am not getting any prompt.
Is something I am missing?
Without knowing anything about your setup, I'd guess you have no getty
running.
Dave
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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Pankaj Rawat
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:56 AM
To: Daniel P. Berrange
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Christophe Fergeau
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
# libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.4
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 5:30 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:09:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
> Well I tried it but it doesnt work
>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
>
> All above are merged into one
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio' port='0'/>
> </console>
>
> When I define the guest xml
Hmm, what version of libvirt do you have ? This behaviour
suggest that your version is too old to support multiple
consoles.
> Following error received when I tried to execute the command
>
> # virsh console --device console1 serial
> error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Doh, I mean --devname
Daniel
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12:57 a.m.
Well I tried many times. But result is still the same
I am not able to connect to guest using this console ,
How can I ensure that the problem is getty , without entering into guest.
And the main problem is if I use virtio-console alone , even ssh don't work.seems like
there is some error
Can you tell me if the problem is getty how can I resolve it, or it is something else ?
The host is fedora17
And guest is rhel6.2, fedora17
The Host is running on a Intel I5 processor
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 5:56 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Daniel P. Berrange; libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Christophe Fergeau
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:08:16AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Hi ,
I installed fedora17 on my system, the libvirt version is 0.9.11
I configured guest.xml as specified
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml I can see the port assigned to it
Now when I try to access the console via
#virsh console --devname console0 guest
Or
#virsh console --devname console1 guest
My console get stuck , I am not getting any prompt.
Is something I am missing?
Without knowing anything about your setup, I'd guess you have no getty
running.
Dave
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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Pankaj Rawat
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:56 AM
To: Daniel P. Berrange
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Christophe Fergeau
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
# libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.4
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 5:30 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:09:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
> Well I tried it but it doesnt work
>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
>
> All above are merged into one
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio' port='0'/>
> </console>
>
> When I define the guest xml
Hmm, what version of libvirt do you have ? This behaviour
suggest that your version is too old to support multiple
consoles.
> Following error received when I tried to execute the command
>
> # virsh console --device console1 serial
> error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Doh, I mean --devname
Daniel
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1:58 a.m.
Scenario:-
The host is fedora17
Libvirt:0.9.11
And guest is rhel6.2, fedora17
The Host is running on a Intel I5 processor
Our xml file contain entry for
1 serial console , 2 virtio console
The xml file get properly defined, and proper port assigned to each console
Now when guest is started.
I am not able to connect via virtio console
#virsh console --devname console1 guest
My console get stuck , I am not getting any prompt.
#virsh console guest
It works fine but it connect to guest via serial console , not by virtion console.
Now in guest I look for the virtio_console driver which I found is not loaded, also not
separate getty started for any virtio console
When I manually load the virtio console , even then I am not able to login using the
virtio console
A
virtio console device is exposed in the guest as /dev/hvc[0-7]
But /dev/hvc0 .. are already present.
What does above mean?
Is something special needed to be done. Does we have to even modify guest to support
multiple console,
Instead of modifying just the guest xml.
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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From: Dave Allan [mailto:dallan@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 5:56 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Daniel P. Berrange; libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Christophe Fergeau
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:08:16AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Hi ,
I installed fedora17 on my system, the libvirt version is 0.9.11
I configured guest.xml as specified
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
When I define the guest xml I can see the port assigned to it
Now when I try to access the console via
#virsh console --devname console0 guest
Or
#virsh console --devname console1 guest
My console get stuck , I am not getting any prompt.
Is something I am missing?
Without knowing anything about your setup, I'd guess you have no getty
running.
Dave
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
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From: libvir-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of
Pankaj Rawat
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:56 AM
To: Daniel P. Berrange
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Christophe Fergeau
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
# libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.4
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 5:30 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:09:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
> Well I tried it but it doesnt work
>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio'/>
> </console>
>
> All above are merged into one
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='virtio' port='0'/>
> </console>
>
> When I define the guest xml
Hmm, what version of libvirt do you have ? This behaviour
suggest that your version is too old to support multiple
consoles.
> Following error received when I tried to execute the command
>
> # virsh console --device console1 serial
> error: command 'console' doesn't support option --device
Doh, I mean --devname
Daniel
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5:57 a.m.
Hi,
Can Anyone please tell me if there is any option in virt-install by which we can specify
this many consoles
I mean I don’t want to edit xml file and then define it as it is a post installation
process.
I want to enable the multiple console port when I install the guest using virt-install
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
Regards
Pankaj Rawat
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 3:55 PM
To: Pankaj Rawat
Cc: Christophe Fergeau; libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt Support Virtio-serail
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:03:11AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Actually I wanted to have private communication channel b/w host and
guest
By default I cannot have multiple console on guest through virsh console guestname
( they all are dependent on each other , if I execute a command on one shell its
output is reflected on all of them ).
I wanted to login into guest from multiple shells(and the console should be independent
of each other)
If you want multiple interactive consoles, you need to configure
multiple <console> devices.
Virtio-serial have this feature ,I have gone through various install
option on web , but they don't seem to work.
virtio-serial is not intended for consoles - it is for application
communication channels.
Our kernel version for host and guest is 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64
We goes through the mentioned link
And edit our xml file by adding
<channel type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'
name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'
port='1'/>
</channel>
Then we tried to access the channel device through virsh console guest_name dev_name
It gives error :-
# virsh console serial vport0p1
Connected to domain serial
Escape character is ^]
error: internal error cannot find character device vport0p1
The 'virsh consolve' command is only intended for use with interactive
consoles for administrators. As such it completely ignores any <channel>
devices which are for non-interactive use. So what you see here is
normal. The vkirtio serial port is definitely available for use by
your application
What you actually want is to configure multiple <consolke> devices
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='virtio'/>
</console>
They will be given names console0, console1, etc so with virsh console
# virsh console --device console1 serial
Daniel
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4:50 a.m.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:57:34AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
Hi,
Can Anyone please tell me if there is any option in virt-install by which we can specify
this many consoles
I mean I don’t want to edit xml file and then define it as it is a post installation
process.
I want to enable the multiple console port when I install the guest using virt-install
Have you tried using multiple --console switches?
Christophe
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