April 2017 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] ceph rbd pool and libvirt manageability (virt-install)
by Jelle de Jong 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I created a rbd pool and activated it, but I can't seem to create volumes in it with virsh or virt-install? # virsh pool-dumpxml myrbdpool <pool type='rbd'> <name>myrbdpool</name> <uuid>2d786f7a-2df3-4d79-ae60-1535bcf1c6b5</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>6997998301184</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>10309227031</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>6977204658176</available> <source> <host name='ceph01.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph02.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph03.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <name>libvirt-pool</name> <auth type='ceph' username='libvirt'> <secret uuid='029a334e-ed57-4293-bb99-ffafa8867122'/> </auth> </source> </pool> # virt-install --version 1.0.1 # virsh --version 1.2.9 I ended using virsh edit ceph-test.powercraft.nl and making creating the disk manually. <disk type='network' device='disk'> <auth username='libvirt'> <secret type='ceph' uuid='029a334e-ed57-4293-bb99-ffafa8867122'/> </auth> <source protocol='rbd' name='libvirt-pool/kvm01-storage'> <host name='ceph01.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph02.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph03.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> </source> <target dev='vdc' bus='virtio'/> </disk> I use virt-install a lot to define, import and undefine domains, how can I use virt-install to manage my rdb disks? Kind regards, Jelle de Jong -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iJwEAQECAAYFAlV1xlQACgkQ1WclBW9j5HkbPQP+PjNrzvlqysslOp2Yk7wH4Mxy 2sh2dn96G0KOAHEeEn3BN6IWlnD1TADZbHdpTtMwkdv48Xwn0sP1s+3QDM4pb3gP n+z+dVxS8FouDIy/eiso3IBCj3g4TWbEX8ZHqs3jKqe0lZgAXBzB9xYSUowcEBrZ ddkPbr8p8ozWyOG+9V8= =lkK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[libvirt-users] virRandomBits - not very random
by Brian Rak 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

I just ran into an issue where I had about 30 guests get duplicate mac addresses assigned. These were scattered across 30 different machines. Some debugging revealed that: 1) All the host machines were restarted within a couple seconds of each other 2) All the host machines had fairly similar libvirtd pids (within ~100 PIDs of each other) 3) Libvirt seeds the RNG using 'time(NULL) ^ getpid()' This perfectly explains why I saw so many duplicate mac addresses. Why is the RNG seed such a predictable value? Surely there has to be a better source of a random seed then the timestamp and the pid? The PID seems to me to be a very bad source of any randomness. I just ran a test across 60 of our hosts. 43 of them shared their PID with at least one other machine.

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[libvirt-users] No way to stop virStream error after guest stop
by JosÉ Luis Valencia Gutierrez 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello everyone, I am opening a virChannel(unix) to a domain and receiving data with a non-blocking virStream using events, when the connected domain gets stopped(which deletes the channel unix socket) by calling destroy, shutdown, pause or migrate on that domain, with the stream open the read event is triggered repeatedly, and virStreamRecv returns 0 bytes indicating EOF but neither virStreamFinish nor virStreamFinish is working to stop the stream to trigger the event . Each time the event is called I got this errors. libvirt: I/O Stream Utils error : this function is not supported by the connection driver: virStreamRecv libvirt: I/O Stream Utils error : this function is not supported by the connection driver: virStreamFinish libvirt: I/O Stream Utils error : this function is not supported by the connection driver: virStreamEventRemoveCallback Is there other way to stop getting this errors? or perhaps this is a bug. Thanks in advance. Jose Valencia

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[libvirt-users] Libvirtd freezes
by Stefano Ricci 04 May '17

04 May '17

Hello everyone I come back to ask for a hand to solve a problem that has affected me since October 2016 and I have not yet solved using libvirt. I thought I would solve it by going to a 4.9.x kernel with qemu 2.8.1.1 and with libvirt 3.2.0. Compile it all in a stable LFS environment version 7.9 and that all checks pass without errors. The strange thing is that the libvirtd process starts without errors but has arrived at the qemu process launch to understand the system's capabilities freezes until the following process is killed /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -none-user-config -nodefaults -nographic -machine none, accel = kvm: tcg -qmp unix: /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/capabilities.monitor.sock,server,nowait-pidfile/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/capabilities.Pidfile -daemonize, since that time libvirtd resumes running and can be used with virsh. Performing qemu independently of libvirt works regularly, creates and runs virtual machines smoothly. Thanks in advance Stefano Ricci

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[libvirt-users] building virtual desktops with libvirt, KVM, SPICE and GNOME
by Daniel Pocock 02 May '17

02 May '17

Can anybody comment on how to host virtual desktops on a headless server using libvirt and KVM on the server and a SPICE client to access the virtual desktop? Is there a standard way of doing this? I've seen many fragments of information about how to do this but I didn't come across a single guide describing the entire solution. Search engines also return a lot of information about gaining remote access to a real physical desktop but that is not what I'm looking for. I've also come across many real-world scenarios where people are manually starting VNC server processes for each user on different ports but I was hoping to find out if there is a more standard way of doing this now. When I say "virtual desktop", the type of user experience I'm thinking about is that named users can run a SPICE client anywhere and always connect to the same host/desktop. E.g. if they leave some windows open, disconnect, go to another physical machine and reconnect with the same username they will see the same desktop with the same windows open. Regards, Daniel

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[libvirt-users] Does lxc support cputune/vcpusched option
by Peter Steele 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

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[libvirt-users] virt-manager / remote desktop latency issues
by Daniel Pocock 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi, I'm using virt-viewer to launch remote desktop connections The connection to the KVM host is using ssh The virtual machines/guests are running a GNOME desktop I've observed some latency issues, for example, changing focus from one terminal to another is a bit sluggish. Typing isn't too bad. The WAN connection is gigabit fibre from my home into a local data center. Ping times are about 0.8ms to the physical server. Smokeping shows there is no packet loss and the latency is constant. Can I do anything to tweak the .ssh/config to make it better? It occurred to me that adding "IPQoS lowdelay" might be useful as it defaults to "throughput" for non-interactive connections. Maybe virt-manager should add that on the ssh command line? Is there any way to see SPICE latency statistics in the virt-manager GUI? Would any other SPICE viewer make a difference? Are there any changes I should make to the GNOME desktop configuration to make it work better through SPICE? Can anybody make any other suggestions? Regards, Daniel

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[libvirt-users] Live migration with non-shared ZFS volume
by Daniel Kučera 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi all, I'm using ZFS on Linux block volumes as my VM storage and want to do live migrations between hypervisors. If I create ZFS snapshot of used volume on source host, send it do destination host (zfs send/recv) and then run live migration with VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_DISK flag, the migration works OK. But this procedure copies the whole disk twice which is a huge downside. The best solution would be, if libvirt could send the incremental data since last snapshot itself but this feature is not there (AFAIK). So I am thinking about a workaround: 1. Create snapshot using: "virsh snapshot-create --xmlfile snap.xml --disk-only --no-metadata test-domain" which will start writing snapshot data into temporary qcow2 file <domainsnapshot> <disks> <disk name='/dev/zstore/test-volume'> <source file='/tmp/test-volume.qcow2'/> </disk> </disks> </domainsnapshot> 2. Create snapshot of backing ZFS volume and send it to destination host. 3. Migrate the domain Currently, in step 3 I need to create empty qcow snapshot file on the destination host, otherwise the migration fails with: "Operation not supported: pre-creation of storage targets for incremental storage migration is not supported" My question is: Is it possible to do live migration with blockcommit operation? If not, would it be hard to implement? I imagine it like I would start migration with some special parameter (e.g. VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_INC_COMMIT) which would only migrate data from qcow snapshot to destination storage. This would ensure the disk consistency and avoid useless whole disk copy. Or do you have any other idea how to solve this? BR. Daniel Kucera.

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[libvirt-users] Data format
by Anastasiya Ruzhanskaya 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

What is exactly the format of data being sent across remote connection ( from client to server with RPC protocol)? I see, there is XML but converted to string.

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[libvirt-users] Tunnelled migrate Windows7 VMs halted
by Eric Blake 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

[moderator note: I'm forwarding a stripped down version of the original mail which was rejected in the moderator queue. I stripped the 3.3 megabyte .tar.bz2 of the log file attachment, which is inappropriate for a technical list. Either trim the log to the relevant portion, or host the log externally and have your list email merely give a URL of the externally-hosted file] > ForwardedMessage.eml > > Subject: > Tunnelled migrate Windows7 VMs halted > From: > 邓林文 <dlworld0(a)163.com> > Date: > 04/25/2017 11:12 PM > > To: > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > > > > I migrated a Windows 7 VM with libvirtd tunnelled, the VM halted on the target although the status is running. > > > [root@test15 ~]# virsh migrate --live --p2p --tunnelled i-000000ac qemu+tcp://192.168.65.13/system > > > But when migrated with qemu native mode, the VM runs well. > > > [root@test15 ~]# virsh migrate --live --p2p i-000000ac qemu+tcp://192.168.65.13/system > > > System Info: > Release: Centos 7.2 > Kernel: 3.10.0-327.28.3.el7.x86_64 > Qemu: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0 > Libvirt: libvirt-1.2.17/libvirt-2.0.0 > CPU: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6212 > > > As CPUFrequency may lead windows migrate halt, I have disabled Power Management. > > > Does anyone have some sugestions? > > > Thanks, > Linwen Deng > > > vm.xml > > > <domain type='kvm' id='8'> > <name>i-000000ac</name> > <uuid>53f0710f-b25e-4f47-a7cf-c15a9409fdc3</uuid> > <metadata> > <nova:instance xmlns:nova="http://openstack.org/xmlns/libvirt/nova/1.0"> > <nova:package version="12.0.0-4"/> > <nova:name>c7-vm15-test15-7</nova:name> > <nova:creationTime>2017-04-14 06:48:54</nova:creationTime> > <nova:flavor name="oeflavor-4-2048-20"> > <nova:memory>2048</nova:memory> > <nova:disk>20</nova:disk> > <nova:swap>0</nova:swap> > <nova:ephemeral>0</nova:ephemeral> > <nova:vcpus>4</nova:vcpus> > </nova:flavor> > <nova:owner> > <nova:user uuid="b0f21b1d16b147ffb3f7713716cc894a">admin</nova:user> > <nova:project uuid="ae883f160c3c41db850d5cde8de8208b">service</nova:project> > </nova:owner> > </nova:instance> > </metadata> > <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory> > <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory> > <memoryBacking> > <hugepages> > <page size='2048' unit='KiB' nodeset='0'/> > </hugepages> > </memoryBacking> > <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> > <cputune> > <shares>4096</shares> > <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4-7'/> > <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='4-7'/> > <emulatorpin cpuset='4-7'/> > </cputune> > <resource> > <partition>/machine</partition> > </resource> > <sysinfo type='smbios'> > <system> > <entry name='manufacturer'>Fedora Project</entry> > <entry name='product'>OpenStack Nova</entry> > <entry name='version'>12.0.0-4</entry> > <entry name='serial'>95637afe-453f-42a8-b198-df673ab59c91</entry> > <entry name='uuid'>53f0710f-b25e-4f47-a7cf-c15a9409fdc3</entry> > <entry name='family'>Virtual Machine</entry> > </system> > </sysinfo> > <os> > <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0'>hvm</type> > <boot dev='cdrom'/> > <boot dev='hd'/> > <boot dev='fd'/> > <smbios mode='sysinfo'/> > </os> > <features> > <acpi/> > <apic/> > </features> > <cpu mode='host-model'> > <model fallback='allow'/> > <topology sockets='2' cores='1' threads='1'/> > </cpu> > <clock offset='utc'> > <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> > <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> > <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> > </clock> > <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> > <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> > <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> > <devices> > <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator> > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/> > <source file='/opt/ssd/win7.qcow2'/> > <backingStore type='file' index='1'> > <format type='raw'/> > <source file='/opt/ssd/_base/win7.qcow2'/> > <backingStore/> > </backingStore> > <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> > <serial>8164a82d-6066-46d7-8a92-8391620fc58c</serial> > <alias name='virtio-disk0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> > </disk> > <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> > <alias name='usb'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x7'/> > </controller> > <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> > <alias name='usb'/> > <master startport='0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> > </controller> > <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> > <alias name='usb'/> > <master startport='2'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x1'/> > </controller> > <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> > <alias name='usb'/> > <master startport='4'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x2'/> > </controller> > <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'> > <alias name='pci.0'/> > </controller> > <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> > <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> > </controller> > <serial type='file'> > <source path='/var/lib/nova/instances/53f0710f-b25e-4f47-a7cf-c15a9409fdc3/console.log'/> > <target port='0'/> > <alias name='serial0'/> > </serial> > <serial type='pty'> > <source path='/dev/pts/2'/> > <target port='1'/> > <alias name='serial1'/> > </serial> > <console type='file'> > <source path='/var/lib/nova/instances/53f0710f-b25e-4f47-a7cf-c15a9409fdc3/console.log'/> > <target type='serial' port='0'/> > <alias name='serial0'/> > </console> > <channel type='spicevmc'> > <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0' state='connected'/> > <alias name='channel0'/> > <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> > </channel> > <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> > <alias name='input0'/> > </input> > <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'> > <alias name='input1'/> > </input> > <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'> > <alias name='input2'/> > </input> > <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'> > <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> > </graphics> > <graphics type='spice' port='5901' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'> > <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> > <image compression='auto_glz'/> > <streaming mode='filter'/> > <mouse mode='client'/> > </graphics> > <sound model='ich6'> > <alias name='sound0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> > </sound> > <video> > <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' primary='yes'/> > <alias name='video0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> > </video> > <memballoon model='virtio'> > <stats period='10'/> > <alias name='balloon0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> > </memballoon> > </devices> > <seclabel type='none' model='none'/> > <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'> > <label>+0:+107</label> > <imagelabel>+0:+107</imagelabel> > </seclabel> > </domain> > -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

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[libvirt-users] Performance monotoring: Perf Event support
by Hui Jing 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Hi everyone, I am using libvirt 2.5.0. I'd like to enable the "perf events" to monitoring my vm performance such as l3 cache. But it failed with "error: argument unsupported: unable to enable host cpu perf event for cmt". 1. Could you please give some hints on how to check if my host CPU supports cmt,mbm, is it displayed in /proc/cpuinfo? 2. Does the kernel version matters as well to support it? Thanks, Hui

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[libvirt-users] External snapshot issue
by Leroy Tennison 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

I have used virsh snapshot-create-as <VM name> <snapshot name> "<snapshot description>" --diskspec "vda,snapshot=external,file=/path/to/external-snapshot" --disk-only --atomic to create an external snapshot of a running VM. I followed it with virsh blockpull <VM name> --path /path/to/external-snapshot and monitored it until done. I confirmed it with qemu-img info /path/to/external-snapshot which shows no backing store. However, when I do grep {/etc,/run}/libvirt/qemu/<VM name>.xml the xml for the VM still shows a backing store in the /run/... definition (but not in the /etc/... definition, my understanding is that the /etc/... definition won't be updated until the VM is shut down): <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/external-snapshot.qcow2'/> <backingStore type='file' index='1'> <format type='qcow2'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/original-image-file.qcow'/> <backingStore/> </backingStore> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <alias name='ide0-0-0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> This is using libvirtd version 1.3.1 and qemu-img version 2.5.0. How do I resolve this situation? I don't want to have to rely on a backing store permanently. Thanks for any help or pointers.

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[libvirt-users] ZFS: creating a pool in a created zfs does not work, only when using the whole zfs-pool.
by Thies C. Arntzen 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hi, I’m new here so apologies if this has been answered before. I have a box that uses ZFS for everything (ubuntu 17.04) and I want to create a libvirt pool on that. My ZFS pool is named „big" So i do: > zfs create big/zpool > virsh pool-define-as --name zpool --source-name big/zpool --type zfs > virsh pool-start zpool > virsh pool-autostart zpool > virsh pool-list > virsh vol-create-as --pool zpool --name test1 --capacity 1G > virsh vol-list zpool Everything seems to work (no error message, vol-list shows the created volume, I can see the volume via zfs list -t all). -BUT- I cannot use that volume via virt-manager and after a short while it’s no longer listed via virsh vol-list zpool. The very same thing works as expected if I create a new zfs pool which I hand into libvirt. So instead of creating a pool from "big/zpool“ I create a pool names „somepool“ on a free device and -voila- everything works. Hope I did make myself clear? Best regards, thies

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[libvirt-users] virt-manager, Network Manager and bridged networking
by Daniel Pocock 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

The wiki suggests that Network Manager doesn't support bridges[1] but I think that is out-of-date. Other documents like this[2] show how to set up bridges in Network Manager. For users wanting to run libvirt/KVM on their desktop system, can they now configure a bridge through Network Manager and then use it in virt-manager to create a guest without editing any of their configuration files by hand? Would it be possible for virsh or virt-manager to be enhanced to go one step further and automatically create bridges in Network Manager (using some API) on demand so the user doesn't have to do anything outside of virt-manager? Regards, Daniel 1. https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Fedora.2FRHEL_Bridging 2. http://ask.xmodulo.com/configure-linux-bridge-network-manager-ubuntu.html

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[libvirt-users] External snapshot issue addendum
by Leroy Tennison 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

I made a mistake in my original post, --diskspec in snapshot-create-as should have shown "hda ...". I also just noticed that 'virsh edit <VM name>' has the correct information (no backing store, only the external snapshot file shown), I was under the impression that /run/... showed the current state, incorrect?

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[libvirt-users] Proper way to remove a qemu-nbd-mounted volume usnig lvm
by Leroy Tennison 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

I either haven't searched for the right thing or the web doesn't contain the answer. I have used the following to mount an image and now I need to know the proper way to reverse the process. qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 <qcow2 image using lvm> vgscan --cache (had to use --cache to get the qemu-nbd volume to be recognized, lvmetad is running) vgchange -ay lvdisplay mount <selected qemu-nbd related 'LV Path' found from lvdisplay above> <mount point> I have done the following: umount <mount point> lvchange -an <all qemu-nbd related 'LV Path's found from lvdisplay above> vgchange -an <qemu-nbd related volume> Now what? How do I get the volume out of the list so I can use 'qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0' to dis-associate the image with /dev/nbd0? vgreduce seems to be for volumes which have multiple underlying devices. I started to use vgremove but, when it started prompting for confirmation about removing logical volumes, I wasn't sure exactly what it was going to do and responded 'no'. If there is a web reference explaining this specific situation just point me to it - I'm not opposed to reading. Thanks for the help.

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[libvirt-users] subscribe to domain start/stop/panic events
by Vasiliy Tolstov 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Hi! How can i'm subscribe in my app to domain lifecycle messages? Does it possible to subscribe for all domains and not just one? -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru

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[libvirt-users] libvirtd segfault when using oVirt 4.1 with graphic console - CentOS7.3
by Rafał Wojciechowski 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

hello, I am getting such error: libvirtd[27218]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f4940725721 sp 00007f4930711740 error 4 in libvirt.so.0.2000.0[7f4940678000+353000] when I am trying to start VM with graphic spice/vnc console - in headless mode(without graphic console) it is running I noticed this after update oVirt 4.0 to oVirt 4.1 however I noticed that also libvirtd and related packages were upgraded from 1.2.7 to 2.0.0: libvirt-daemon-kvm-2.0.0-10.el7_3.5.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-2.0.0-10.el7_3.5.x86_64 I am running up to date CentOS7.3 with 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 I have same issue with SELinux and without SELinux(checked after reboot with permissive mode) I tried to get information about this issue from oVirt team, but after mail conversation both me and oVirt team thinks that it might be issue in libvirtd in below link I am putting xmls generated by vdsm which are passing to the libvirtd to run the VMs first one is from vdsm log and second one is extracted from dump after segfault of libvirtd https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/eqpe8Byu2l-3SRdXc6LTLl5M1UNdIGYhyRLiv… Regards, Rafal Wojciechowski

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[libvirt-users] libvirt remote connection
by Anastasiya Ruzhanskaya 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Hello, I have some questions about libvirt remote connection. Am I right that internally libvirt uses only tcp ( ssh and tls are only encryption based on this) + ftp ( when working with image itself)? Also I have found that it uses RPC. However, as I know RPC runs above tcp but I cannot capture these packets with wireshark when I am connecting remotely to the host with vm? Is it somehow possible to find out, what data, what messages, in what format are send from my server to the remote libvirt (daemon I suppose?)?

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[libvirt-users] understanding --idmap for containers (v2.5.0)
by mailing lists 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Hello, I'm testing containers on a host machine without selinux so I'm trying use the idmap feature, but I must be missing something because all that I get is a readonly container for the root user. # virsh version --daemon Compiled against library: libvirt 2.5.0 Using library: libvirt 2.5.0 Using API: QEMU 2.5.0 Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.8.1 Running against daemon: 2.5.0 # virsh --connect lxc:/// dumpxml lab-gentoo-01 <domain type='lxc'> <name>lab-gentoo-01</name> <uuid>a9f73091-b716-4b61-95ad-fa1d0c061bef</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>524288</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>524288</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>exe</type> <init>/bin/sh</init> </os> <idmap> <uid start='0' target='900' count='10'/> <gid start='0' target='900' count='10'/> </idmap> <features> <privnet/> </features> <cpu mode='host-model'> <model fallback='allow'/> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/media/containers/lab-gentoo-01/'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:3e:c8:13:14'/> <source bridge='bridge-01'/> </interface> <console type='pty'> <target type='lxc' port='0'/> </console> </devices> </domain> # ls -l /media/containers/lab-gentoo-01/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 07:33 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 boot drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Apr 18 12:45 dev drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Apr 18 12:49 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Apr 13 06:13 lib -> lib64 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 06:14 lib32 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Apr 13 07:33 lib64 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Apr 13 03:18 proc drwx------ 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 31 Apr 13 07:32 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 07:36 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18 Apr 13 03:28 sys drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 18 Apr 13 07:36 tmp drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 18 12:49 usr drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 102 Apr 13 03:28 var # virsh --connect lxc:/// start --console lab-gentoo-01 Domain lab-gentoo-01 started Connected to domain lab-gentoo-01 Escape character is ^] sh-4.3# /usr/bin/id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) sh-4.3# pwd / sh-4.3# touch asdf touch: cannot touch 'asdf': Permission denied sh-4.3# indeed the container is using the idmap feature because the efective uid/gid map (900/900) is not allowing writes in the filesystem, but it doesn't seems very usefull. is it possible to have read/write containers while using idmap?

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[libvirt-users] VHPC at ISC extension - Papers due May 2
by VHPC 17 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2017 (extended), Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Keynotes: Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology and John Goodacre, Professor in Computer Architectures University of Manchester, Director of Technology and Systems ARM Ltd. Research Group and Chief Scientific Officer Kaleao Ltd. Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems - GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Container security - Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.) - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Rolling Abstract Submission May 2, 2017 - Paper submission deadline (extended) May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day July 18, 2017 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Maria Girone, CERN, Europe Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway Na Zhang, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt and libssh2 with openauth
by spiperac 16 Apr '17

16 Apr '17

Hi all, i have same question as this one https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2014-March/msg00158.html. ( Only im using python) Is there any new follow-up on this? Thanks

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[libvirt-users] Windows Guest Server 2016, bad performance of whole virtualisation system
by Marko Weber | 8000 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

hello , i did a kvm guest with virt-manager and installed windows server 2016. performance settings for the disk: hypervisor default for cache & io mode i added a 2nd disk to the guest , also with hypervisor default settings on cache & io mode Under disk settings in windows server 2016 i set "format whole disk NTFS" i did not choose the "quick format" option. when windows is formatting this 1TB drive the performance on the virtualisation host goes down loging via ssh take ages, top take 2 mins to start up. the physical disks are connected to a raid controller LSI and FS on virtualisation server where the qcow2 files are is XFS. DO i have to set another options for "performance options" as "hypervisor default" to keep the system performant on formatting the disk? thanks for any hints. marko -- zbfmail - Mittendrin statt nur Datei!

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[libvirt-users] Windows Guest Server 2016, bad performance of whole virtualisation system
by Marko Weber | 8000 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

hello list, i did a kvm guest with virt-manager and installed windows server 2016. performance settings for the disk: hypervisor default for cache & io mode i added a 2nd disk to the guest , also with hypervisor default settings on cache & io mode Under disk settings in windows server 2016 i set "format whole disk NTFS" i did not choose the "quick format" option. when windows is formatting this 1TB drive the performance on the virtualisation host goes down loging via ssh take ages, top take 2 mins to start up. the physical disks are connected to a raid controller LSI and FS on virtualisation server where the qcow2 files are is XFS. DO i have to set another options for "performance options" as "hypervisor default" to keep the system performant on formatting the disk? thanks for any hints. marko -- zbfmail - Mittendrin statt nur Datei!

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[libvirt-users] Cannot save domain
by Tony Arnold 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

I have a domain running a Windows 10 system on an Ubuntu 16.10 host system. The domain has 4096MiB of memory. When I try to save the domain, or managedsave the domain, I get an error when it's about 96% complete. The terminal session looks like this: virsh # save Windows10 windows10-20170402.save --bypass-cache --verbose Save: [ 95 %]error: Failed to save domain Windows10 to windows10- 0170402.save error: operation failed: domain is not running It seems the domain closes before the save has completed. libvirt is at version 2.1.0 Should I submit this as a bug, or is there something I can change to fix this? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold MBCS, CITP | Senior IT Security Analyst | Directorate of IT Services | G64, Kilburn Building | The University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | T: +44 161 275 6093 | M: +44 773 330 0039

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