November 2012 - Users - libvirt List Archives

Re: [libvirt-users] Failed to build libvirt-1.0.0-1.fc17.src.rpm on a CentOS 6.3 system
by Abbas 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

On 11/17/2012 02:47 AM, Frank Shi wrote: > Thanks much Abbas for your prompt response. Right, I have fixed all the > dependency issues. It compiled but failed during running test cases. I > prefer building from src-rpm is because I need to install the package onto > other machines. Building from src-rpm can generate rpm so it makes > future deploy easier. Then the start off point will be CentOS' srpms. You might still need to do some patchwork and testing before you get a working rpm (a reason why there's no third party repo for latest kvm and libvirt). Installing on multiple machines sounds like you tend towards stability and Fedora's packages won't do that job anyway! > Anyway, follow your recommendation, I downloaded the source tar and tried > to compile it from source. This time I am seeing following problems. What > could be the problem? > > Thanks, Frank > > =============== > $ tar xvf libvirt-1.0.0-rc1.tar.gz > $ libvirt-1.0.0 > $ ./configure Try using the supplied autogen script first. > libxl/libxl_conf.c:471: error: 'libxl_domain_build_info' It's a missing dep error. Quick time-savers for latest KVM and Libvirt (on latest CentOS 6.3): # qemu-kvm deps yum install gcc pkgconfig SDL-devel zlib-devel alsa-lib-devel pciutils-devel gnutls-devel glib glib2-devel ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make && make install # libvirt deps yum install git python-devel libtool patch libxml2 libxml2-devel yajl-devel device-mapper-devel libnl-devel ./autogen-sh --system make && make install # packages to remove qemu-img qemu-kvm libvirt libvirt-client virt-top The kvm_intel manually loaded of course! ------ bassu

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[libvirt-users] Failed to build libvirt-1.0.0-1.fc17.src.rpm on a CentOS 6.3 system
by Frank Shi 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

Hi, List, I am seeing following problems when building libvirt-1.0.0-1.fc17.src.rpm. The first failed test case is xml2sexprtest as you can see below. $ sudo rpmbuild -ba SPECS/libvirt.spec + make check TEST: virshtest ........................................ 40 ........... 51 OK TEST: sockettest ...................................... 38 OK TEST: virbuftest .... 4 OK TEST: commandtest ..................... 21 OK TEST: virhashtest .............. 14 OK TEST: virnetmessagetest ..... 5 OK TEST: virnetsockettest ............... 15 OK TEST: viratomictest .. 2 OK TEST: utiltest ... 3 OK TEST: virnettlscontexttest ........................................ 40 ........ 48 OK TEST: shunloadtest . 1 OK TEST: virtimetest ............... 15 OK TEST: viruritest .................. 18 OK TEST: virkeyfiletest . 1 OK TEST: virauthconfigtest ...... 6 OK TEST: virbitmaptest ...... 6 OK TEST: virlockspacetest ....... 7 OK TEST: securityselinuxtest TEST: virdrivermoduletest ....... 7 OK TEST: xml2sexprtest .!.!!.....................!..!!!!.!!!!!! 40 !!!!!!!!!!... 53 FAIL TEST: sexpr2xmltest ........................................ 40 ........... 51 OK TEST: xmconfigtest ..............!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. 40 !.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!...!.!.!. 66 FAIL TEST: xencapstest .......... 10 OK TEST: statstest TEST: reconnect TEST: qemuxml2argvtest ........................................ 40 ........................................ 80 ........................................ 120 ........................................ 160 ........................................ 200 ........................................ 240 ...... 246 OK TEST: qemuxml2xmltest ........................................ 40 ........................................ 80 ................................... 115 OK TEST: qemuxmlnstest ....... 7 OK TEST: qemuargv2xmltest ........................................ 40 ................................... 75 OK TEST: qemuhelptest ................ 16 OK TEST: domainsnapshotxml2xmltest ....... 7 OK TEST: qemumonitortest .. 2 OK TEST: qemumonitorjsontest !!!!! 5 FAIL TEST: esxutilstest .... 4 OK TEST: vmx2xmltest ........................................ 40 .......... 50 OK TEST: xml2vmxtest ........................................ 40 ..... 45 OK TEST: networkxml2xmltest ................ 16 OK TEST: networkxml2argvtest ......... 9 OK TEST: nwfilterxml2xmltest ........................................ 40 . 41 OK TEST: storagevolxml2xmltest ....... 7 OK TEST: storagepoolxml2xmltest ............. 13 OK TEST: nodedevxml2xmltest ............. 13 OK TEST: interfacexml2xmltest ................... 19 OK TEST: cputest ........................................ 40 .......................... 66 OK TEST: eventtest ............... 15 OK TEST: libvirtdconftest ....................................... 39 OK make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 make: *** [check-am] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.E2o2Vs (%check) Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.E2o2Vs (%check) Not sure whether the failures are related to xml. Anyway, following is a list of xml packages installed, python-lxml-2.2.3-1.1.el6.x86_64 xmldb-api-sdk-0.1-0.4.20011111cvs.1.5.el6.noarch xmlto-0.0.23-3.el6.x86_64 xmlrpc-c-1.16.24-1209.1840.el6.x86_64 xml-commons-resolver-1.1-4.18.el6.x86_64 xmlrpc-c-client-1.16.24-1209.1840.el6.x86_64 xmldb-api-0.1-0.4.20011111cvs.1.5.el6.noarch xmlrpc3-client-3.0-4.15.el6.noarch xmlgraphics-commons-1.3.1-1.1.el6.noarch libxml2-devel-2.7.6-4.el6_2.4.x86_64 libxml2-2.7.6-4.el6_2.4.x86_64 xml-common-0.6.3-32.el6.noarch perl-libxml-perl-0.08-10.el6.noarch libxml2-python-2.7.6-4.el6_2.4.x86_64 xml-commons-apis-1.3.04-3.6.el6.x86_64 # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild(a)c6b9.bsys.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:19:21 UTC 2012 Thanks, Frank

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[libvirt-users] authentication failed, but why?
by huancong deng 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

I set the me into the group libvirt and write the config for libvirtd: ================================================== listen_tls = 0 listen_tcp = 0 auth_tcp = "none" mdns_adv = 0 unix_sock_group = "libvirt" unix_sock_ro_perms = "0770" unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770" unix_sock_dir = "/var/run/libvirt" log_filters = "1:libvirt 1:util 1:qemu" log_output = "1:file:/var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log" max_clients = 500 min_workers = 10 max_workers = 50 max_requests = 50 max_client_requests = 8 =========================================== but I can't login the libvirt: [xxxxxx@u70 ~]$ virsh error : authentication failed: Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available. who can tell me why? thanks a lot. :)

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[libvirt-users] Handling connection closes in (older) Sys::Virt
by Henrik Ahlgren 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

I hope this is the correct mailing list for discussing the Sys::Virt Perl module. It appears that the most recent version has a new method called register_close_callback that, I believe, can be used to catch errors when the connection to libvirt is closed, e.g. due to libvirt restart or a network related issue. (I've been testing this simply by killing the the SSH process in the libvirt server.) However, Debian still ships libvirt 0.9.12 in stable backports and testing, as probably do many other mainstream distributions. The latest Perl bindings that can be installed from CPAN is thus 0.9.12 and it does not have support for close callbacks. Not only that, when a Perl program loses the (ssh) connection to libvirt, Perl just crashes: Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe. 0x00007ffff73de0d0 in __write_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 Setting a $SIG{PIPE} handler does not seem to help. Is there any possibility of a Perl program surviving and gracefully handling a closed libvirt connection with libvirt version 0.9.12 or older? Henrik

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[libvirt-users] Virt-io Kernels for older RHEL/CentOS versions
by Chandana De Silva 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

All, I need to run a number of guests which user older distributions of RHEL and CentOS on an RHEL 6.3 host. The versions are; 4.8 - i386 5.1 - i386 5.2 - x86_64 5.3 - i386 Currently I am running these with the E1000 network driver and the IDE driver. Where can I find kernels (or modules) for virtio for these OS's ? Thanks in advance Chandana

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[libvirt-users] virt-install kickstart local file
by Joe Linoff 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi Everybody: I am trying to get virt-install to work with a kickstart file that is on the local file system. I tried using the --initrd-inject="/tmp" --extra-args="ks=file:/myks.cfg" but I got this error message: ERROR --extra-args only work if specified with --location. Here is the basic command: virt-install \ --accelerate \ --cdrom /tools/iso/CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso \ --disk device=disk,path="/var/lib/libvirt/images/myguest.img" \ --graphics vnc \ --name myguest \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant rhel6 \ --ram 2048 \ --vpcus 1,maxvcpus=4 \ --initrd-inject "/tmp" \ --extra-args "ks=file:/myks.cfg" Why do I need the location? I thought that was only used when installatiing from a distribution tree. I am using a DVD ISO image. If I have to use it, how would I specify it? If this approach won't work, I could move the ks.cfg file to an NFS mounted file system but I am not sure what the syntax is for that. I am running this on a CentOS 6.3 system. libvirt: 0.9.10 qemu: 0.12.1 Thank you, Joe

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[libvirt-users] virt-viewer X forwarding through ssh broken since FC17 upgrade?
by Ken Coar 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Ever since I upgraded my laptop from FC15 to FC17, I've been getting this message when I ssh to some RHEL6 hosts inside Red Hat. In particular, I'm trying to do this: virt-viewer --connect \ qemu+ssh://kvm11.devlab.phx1.redhat.com/system \ bork-s01.candlepin.dev.devlab.phx1.redhat.com This is the message I get: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 A viewer window pops up for a fraction of a second and then goes away. Using -vvvv on the local ssh command gives a few possibly related messages: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/bin/xauth list :0.0 2>/dev/null debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug2: channel 0: request x11-req confirm 1 debug1: Requesting authentication agent forwarding. debug2: channel 0: request auth-agent-req(a)openssh.com confirm 0 : debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. This is new, and, not being an X maven, largely opaque to me. xauth is provided by package xorg-x11-xauth, which is typically *not* installed. Installing it on the system to which I'm trying to ssh gets rid of the message, but doesn't change the up-down behaviour of the viewer window. Temporarily moving my local /usr/bin/xauth leads to this message in addition: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 Since there's a window popping up at all, I doubt this is directly related to the problem getting the viewer to run. However, on systems *with* xauth installed 'echo $DISPLAY' shows a value, but on those *without* xauth, $DISPLAY is null. (So why am I getting any sort of X popup at all in that case?) Has anyone else seen this, and hopefully have a solution? The problem is actually two-fold: 1. Why 'X11 forwarding failed' and how to get rid of it/revert to behaviour in previous versions; and 2. Why is virt-viewer dying and how to keep it alive. (Again, how to revert to 'it *used* to work' conditions. ;-) ) Thanks! -- #ken B-)} Ken Coar, RHCE, RHCSA, Sanagendamgagwedweinini IT Engineering Tower, Red Hat/RDU "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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[libvirt-users] difference between ` virsh save ` and `virsh snapshot
by zhijun liu 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

what the difference between ` virsh save ` and `virsh snapshot`? are they all used for backup for vm?have any details articles to introduce vm bakcup or image bakcup with libvirt? thanks in advance. liuzhijun

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[libvirt-users] Threads per vCPU and vCPU clock
by Vinicius Gonçalves Braga 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hi, is there a way to get the number of threads per vCPU and the vCPU clock? Thanks!

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[libvirt-users] the acl mode of files created by libvirtd
by Hao.Zhang 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hi, all I use virsh save command to dump a domain, the mode is 0600, and belongs to "root", how can i change the mode? Thanks. William -- That night, I thanked God for seeing me thought the day of days and prayed I would make it through tomorrow. I also promised that if some day I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend rest of my life in peace.

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