June 2013 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] Live Migration Without Shared Storage
by cmcc.dylan 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

I‘m very exited to hear that qemu has supported live migration without shared storage and I also have found some persons give their experiments, for example: （http://blog.allanglesit.com/2011/08/linux-kvm-management-live-migration-without-shared-storage/） # virsh migrate --live vmname qemu+ssh://kvmnode02.allanglesit.net/system --copy-storage-all --verbose --persistent --undefinesource I repeated the above experiment, but I failed. I want to know I need which version of qemu and libvirt and how the progress of the new feature.

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[libvirt-users] Not able to open Xen Connection using libvirt
by varun bhatnagar 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi, I am trying to create virtual machine through libvirt using xen hypervisor. I was able to install xen successfully but when I tried connecting to the hypervisor it gave an error. And while installing libvirt (libvirt-1.0.1) I installed it with xen support. I am pasting the snapshot of the error below: [image: Inline image 1] Can anyone tell me why I am getting this error? // Varun

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[libvirt-users] Using a Windows partition as libvirt media
by Roland Giesler 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

I'm running Ubuntu desktop 12.10 with libvirt and virt-manager (gui). I have been led to believe that it is possible to use and existing partition as the disk storage volume for a virtual machine. The windows partition is /dev/sda2, but if I use fs: Pre-formatted Block Device I can select the partion. What I can't figure out is how to tell the vitual machine to use this volume. I tried with virt-manager, but the only options I have are * Local media * Network install * Network Boot * Import Existing Disk Image How can I do this? regards Roland Giesler

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[libvirt-users] Unable to setup qemu-guest-agent
by Nehal J. Wani 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Could anyone please list out the steps required to run the command $virsh qemu-agent-command Steps that I followed: 1. Clone the latest source code of libvirt 2. Create a vm of f18 (source:liveCD) 3. Edit f18 domain xml and add this: <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> </channel> 4. On host: #./tools/virsh start f18 5. On guest: #yum install qemu-guest-agent -y 6. On host: # ./tools/virsh qemu-agent-command f18 '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}' Expected Response: {"return":[{"name":"lo","ip- addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"127.0.0.1","prefix":8},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"::1","prefix":128}],"hardware-address":"00:00:00:00:00:00"},{"name":"eth0","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"192.168.122.62","prefix":24},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"fe80::5054:ff:fe14:9998","prefix":64}],"hardware-address":"52:54:00:14:99:98"}]} Actual result: (null) Where am I going wrong? -- Nehal J. Wani UG2, BTech CS+MS(CL) IIIT-Hyderabad http://commanlinewani.blogspot.com

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[libvirt-users] Enabling route_localnet on private network
by McEvoy, James 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

I have an issue setting a persistent kernel option on a libvirt net device since that device does not exist early enough during the boot of the KVM host. I am using the 127.0.0.0 local net for cluster communication between the KVM host and its guests as well as between KVM guests. In order to use addresses on the 127.0.0.0/8 network, which is reserved for local communication, two configuration changes must be made after the system is rebooted. First the default route of 127.0.0.1/0 to the loopback device must be deleted which I did by adding an "ip route delete" command to the ifcfg-br0 file that starts the bridged network that is used by the KVM guests. The second configuration change is where I am having trouble. For the second change I need to set the kernel boolean net.ipv4.conf.pvt0.route_localnet to be true to allow routing of the 127.0.0.0/8 on the libvirt net device that I have configured to use addresses on the 127.0.0.0/8 network. Normally I would do this by adding "net.ipv4.conf.pvt0.route_localnet = 1" to /etc/sysctl.conf but this does not work because the libvirt pvt0 device does not exist when the settings in the /etc/sysctl.conf are done. My question is where can I add the command "/sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.pvt0.route_localnet=1" to the start-up files so the command is run after the libvirt device pvt0 has been autostarted? I am running on RHEL 6.4 x86_64. --jim

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[libvirt-users] [virt-tools-list] How to solve the UID repeatetion problem of virt-clone one WINDOWS virtual machine
by cochen 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Hi all: If I use "virt-clone" to clone a windows virtual machine , the new windows vm is sure be have a uid which the same with the source windows. How can I make them difference auto? Best regards; chencong

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[libvirt-users] [virt-tools-list] How to solve the UID repeatetion problem of virt-clone one WINDOWS virtual machine
by cochen 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Hi all: If I use "virt-clone" to clone a windows virtual machine , the new windows vm is sure be have a uid which the same with the source windows. How can I make them difference auto? Best regards; chencong

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[libvirt-users] can virsh set the cpuset attribute of <vcpu ..> (CPU Allocation) ?
by Edoardo Comar 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Is it possible to use virsh to set the cpuset attribute of the CPU Allocation element in a domain ? <domain> ... <vcpu placement='static' cpuset="1-4,^3,6" current="1">2</vcpu> ... </domain> I have seen that virsh vcpupin and virsh emulatorpin can be used to query and set the cpusets of the <vcpupin> and <emulatorpin> children elements of <cputune> which override the cpuset of <vcpu>. If i did not have to pin to different PCPUs, I would execute just one command for the whole domain rather than one command per VCPU + one per the emulator threads. Thanks! -------------------------------------------------- regards, Edoardo Comar WebSphere Application Service Platform for Networks (ASPN) ecomar(a)uk.ibm.com IBM UK Ltd, Hursley Park, SO21 2JN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU

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Re: [libvirt-users] How to mount / use a hard disk partition for libvirt instead of created a new virtual disk
by Roland Giesler 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

I change the topic to be more descriptive. I hope this doesn't break the message threading of this list! On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Roland Giesler <roland(a)giesler.za.net> wrote: > Surely there must be someone here that knows how to do this? Maybe > someone that has used some other partition type in this way? > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Roland Giesler <roland(a)giesler.za.net> wrote: >> I'm running Ubuntu desktop 12.10 with libvirt and virt-manager (gui). >> >> I have been led to believe that it is possible to use and existing partition >> as the disk storage volume for a virtual machine. >> >> The windows partition is /dev/sda2, but if I use fs: Pre-formatted Block >> Device I can select the partion. What I can't figure out is how to tell the >> vitual machine to use this volume. >> >> I tried with virt-manager, but the only options I have are >> >> * Local media >> * Network install >> * Network Boot >> * Import Existing Disk Image >> >> How can I do this? >> >> regards >> >> Roland Giesler >>

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[libvirt-users] Starting libvirt management daemon: failed!
by Евгений Суворов 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Hello all, I had Debian 6.0.6 and libvirt 0.8.3 but it is was default installed without ESXi support (sudo apt-get install libvirt-bin). And it was working. I downloaded libvirt 0.9.12 and and have result: $ ./configure --with-exsi $ make $ sudo make install oneadmin@debian:~$ virsh virsh: /usr/local/lib/libvirt.so.0: version `LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_0.9.12' not found (required by virsh) oneadmin@debian:~$ /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin start Starting libvirt management daemon: libvirtd/usr/sbin/libvirtd: /usr/local/lib/libvirt.so.0: version `LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_0.9.12' not found (required by /usr/sbin/libvirtd) failed! What me do? -- С уважением, Евгений. Тел: +79060665574 ICQ: 380264507

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[libvirt-users] virsh snapshot-create and blockcopy
by Thomas Stein 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hello. I just tried the following: virsh dumpxml --security-info gentoo-template > gentoo-template.xml virsh snapshot-create gentoo-template virsh undefine gentoo-template virsh blockcopy gentoo-template vda /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 --wait --verbose --finish virsh define gentoo-template.xml virsh snapshot-delete gentoo-template --current But if i restore the /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 the snapshot is gone. Someone has an idea what i'm missing? I suppose i'm just missunderstandig the snapshot mechanism. thanks an best regards t.

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[libvirt-users] Pools are not persistent
by Daniel Bareiro 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi all! I'm trying virt-manager on Debian Wheezy and I noticed that it has already defined a "default" pool. But if I run: # /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart I lose the definition of the pools. Actually, there are the definitions of the pools; but these are not read after restarting libvirt. ss01:/etc/libvirt/storage# ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jun 1 09:36 autostart -rw------- 1 root root 664 jun 1 13:46 default.xml ss01:/etc/libvirt/storage/autostart# ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 may 24 07:24 default.xml -> /etc/libvirt/storage/default.xml After restart libvirt: virsh # pool-list Name State Autostart ----------------------------------------- This is what I see in libvirtd.log: 2013-06-02 01:05:29.709+0000: 19289: info : libvirt version: 0.9.12 2013-06-02 01:05:29.709+0000: 19289: error : virStorageDefParsePerms:613 : XML error: malformed owner element 2013-06-02 01:05:30.210+0000: 19289: error : virExecWithHook:424 : Cannot find 'pm-is-supported' in path: No existe el fichero o el directorio 2013-06-02 01:05:30.211+0000: 19289: warning : qemuCapsInit:949 : Failed to get host power management capabilities 2013-06-02 01:05:33.014+0000: 19289: error : virExecWithHook:424 : Cannot find 'pm-is-supported' in path: No existe el fichero o el directorio 2013-06-02 01:05:33.014+0000: 19289: warning : lxcCapsInit:77 : Failed to get host power management capabilities 2013-06-02 01:05:33.025+0000: 19289: error : virExecWithHook:424 : Cannot find 'pm-is-supported' in path: No existe el fichero o el directorio 2013-06-02 01:05:33.025+0000: 19289: warning : umlCapsInit:87 : Failed to get host power management capabilities could this be due to some type of error in the XML file that defines the pool? ss01:/etc/libvirt/storage# cat default.xml  <pool type='dir'> <name>default</name> <uuid>3174232f-3d63-3167-aa25-3949671bf4c2</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>0</available> <source> </source> <target> <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images</path> <permissions> <mode>0700</mode> <owner>4294967295</owner> <group>4294967295</group> </permissions> </target> </pool> These are the versions of the packages I'm using: libvirt-bin: 0.9.12-11 (Architecture: i386) virt-manager: 0.9.1-4 (Architecture: all) Thanks in advance for your reply. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Bareiro - GNU/Linux registered user #188.598 Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux with uptime: 21:50:39 up 17 days, 8:14, 12 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.00

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[libvirt-users] libvirt_lxc and sysfs
by pr.G 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hello. Is it possible to start container via libvirt_lxc without mounting /sys inside container? When I start container via lxc-start and do not add mount point to config, then /sys inside container is empty. When I do it via virsh -c lxc:// container.xml, then /sys contains sysfs of the host and /sys on host becomes remounting read-only. Am I doing something wrong or is this feature of libvirt_lxc? Thanks. root@host:~# uname -a Linux host 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@host:~# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy)" ... root@host:~# dpkg -l | grep libvirt ii libvirt-bin 0.9.12-11 amd64 programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt0 0.9.12-11 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems container.xml: <domain type='lxc'> <name>ns1</name> <memory>524288</memory> <os> <type>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem type='mount'> <source dir='/var/lxc/ns1/rootfs'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:de:74:06'/> </interface> <console type='pty' /> </devices> </domain>

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[libvirt-users] transient domains with saved state of persistent doamin
by Alexandr 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good day, i writing testing system and want to use libvirt for it, now i reading libvirt development guide and found info about transient domains which looks like what i need, but it's still unclear for me if it possible to implement what i want using libvirt. my idea is to make persistent domain, prepare it for testing (install os, needed software, drivers, e.t.c.), save it's state when system are running (for quick start later) and after this use this saved state with new transient domain which use new hard drive image with backing store instead of snapshot (qcow2 allow this) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRtMPuAAoJEH3ap8veG8EH6B4IAKpRbXjphIYEhD5achPTyu/T vIN7SPV1NaYhZpdwmQmspcOLXgawHuCP2gMYgJkXhH+/p1d/MXQXXWX77a/8WS9t Lajuin3yG9F1Bq/1EoCNFZtARMtWvimAXeq4KMUKeNrVqrU+WPZ5/a0m6kN7xAOe wErFMnvpiefIysOb3Z0WWvwMuyPfjzZKehkYM03NyVec/1K//jXzNNvjBFUylvXX Sz5EcNGr6/SN23uS218GVPJzb+uM6ZlmIvxsxs30+AWK+r8DW/9imvhTXqnbLiJV TaTAwMekCwqs0xqRf9yk8mTI6dXt5nfnMAAUpMcinaIGMn9/oZFpDq0K2L6C5L8= =bWmZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[libvirt-users] Setting RBD cache parameters for libvirt+qemu
by John Nielsen 08 Jun '13

08 Jun '13

I am running some qemu-kvm virtual machines via libvirt using Ceph RBD as the back-end storage. Today I was testing an update to libvirt-1.0.6 on one of my hosts and discovered that it includes this change: [libvirt] [PATCH] Forbid use of ':' in RBD pool names ...People are known to be abusing the lack of escaping in current libvirt to pass arbitrary args to QEMU. I am one of those people--I have been storing colon-separated arguments in my disk source 'name' attribute to control the RBD cache settings on a per-volume basis. Under libvirt-1.0.6 such VM's refuse to start: error: Failed to start domain foo error: unsupported configuration: ':' not allowed in RBD source volume name 'mypool/foo:rbd_cache_size=268435456:rbd_cache_max_dirty=134217728:rbd_cache_target_dirty=33554432:rbd_cache_max_dirty_age=5' So my question is how do I control the cache settings now? Thanks, JN

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[libvirt-users] [offtopic] OpenNebulaConf2013: Extended keynote lineup and deadline for talk proposals
by Javier Fontan 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hello, I hope you don't find this email too offtopic. We have just published an expanded keynote line-up for the OpenNebula Conference 2013 (http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=4707) that includes experts from leading institutions using OpenNebula. The first ever OpenNebula Conference will be held on Sept. 24-26 in Berlin and is intended to serve as a meeting point for OpenNebula cloud users, developers, administrators, builders, integrators and researchers. As you may know OpenNebula uses libvirt to manage KVM and VMware VMs and some of you may be using it in production. I think your experiences will be very valuable. There are only 10 days left to submit talk proposals (the deadline is June 15th). We are looking forward to welcoming you personally in Berlin!. Cheers -- Join us at OpenNebulaConf2013 in Berlin from the 24th to the 26th of September 2013! Javier Fontán Muiños Project Engineer OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization www.OpenNebula.org | jfontan(a)opennebula.org | @OpenNebula

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[libvirt-users] a problem about nested vm
by denghuancong 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

hi, I have a problem that confuse me so long. I run a guest os(VM1) on a physical machine(PM1) that had enabled virtualization . Now, I also want to run a guest os (VM2) under VM1,but VM1 print the following message to me: [2013-06-05 10:43:04,379][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,382][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,409][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,412][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,414][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,418][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,421][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,426][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,428][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.[2013-06-05 10:43:04,432][ERROR] machine:init_vm(57271)|state:init_vm|Create domain failed, unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualization is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules. so, how can i enable the virtualization option in vm1??? thanks a lot. :)

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[libvirt-users] libvirt tls error
by yue 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

centos6.3,libvirt 0.9.10. [root@ovirtdev private]# virsh -c qemu+tls://ovirtdev.localhost/system list 2013-04-22 03:37:09.362+0000: 9898: info : libvirt version: 0.9.10, package: 21.el6_3.8 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2013-01-28-19:24:16, c6b10.bsys.dev.centos.org) 2013-04-22 03:37:09.362+0000: 9898: warning : virNetClientIncomingEvent:1665 : Something went wrong during async message processing error: Unable to read TLS confirmation: Input/output error error: failed to connect to the hypervisor thanks

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[libvirt-users] About the change of a VM's vcpu count in runtime?
by Dennis Chen 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Hi, We know that there is a command "setvcpus" in virsh used to "change number of virtual CPUs", now we just have the need to change vcpu count dynamically for a running VM, so I tried this command (the vcpu count is 2 in the VM xml file), below is the result: virsh # setvcpus 3 --count 4 error: invalid argument: requested vcpus is greater than max allowable vcpus for the domain: 4 > 2 virsh # setvcpus 3 --count 1 error: Operation not supported: qemu didn't unplug the vCPUs properly So I tried another way: log into the running VM, and "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online", after that I can find only one processor in the vm through '/proc/cpuinfo', but in virsh, the vcpuinfo still shows: virsh # vcpuinfo 3 VCPU: 0 CPU: 0 State: running CPU time: 13.5s CPU Affinity: yyyy VCPU: 1 CPU: 1 State: running CPU time: 6.9s CPU Affinity: yyyy So the question is: is there any method I can't find yet to change the vcpu count of a running vm dynamically? BRs, Dennis

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