[libvirt-users] virsh on mac os X
by Keith Bierman
Mac OS X 10.14.2
VirtualBox 5.2.22 and 6.0.0
libvirt installed via homebrew
virsh -V
Virsh command line tool of libvirt 4.10.0
See web site at https://libvirt.org/
Compiled with support for:
Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM VMware VirtualBox ESX Test
Networking: Remote Bridging
Storage: Dir
Miscellaneous: Daemon Secrets Debug
brew services start libvirt
virsh -c vbox:///session list
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API
Unless there's a known issue with Mojave that's escaped me, surely I've
done something clueless .. pointers to the FM or otherwise greatly
appreciated.
Keith Bierman
khbkhb(a)gmail.com
5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] xen and libvirt
by Christoph
Hi
Does someone know how it is possible these parameters:
e820_host
max_grant_frames
to set with libvirt xml config?
I use them with xl config but I want to change to libvirt config/tools.
(with libvirt 4.10 it is possible to start pvh domains)
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Greetz
5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] script called from qemu hook freezes.
by daggs
Greetings,
I'm executing an external script when the qemu hook is called with start or release, the script is rather simple, upon start it iterates over the output of lsusb -t and for each device, it looks if it should be added to the vm we started, if so, it attaches it to the vm as follows:
virsh --connect qemu:///system "${cmd}" "${domain}" /dev/stdin << END
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
<source>
<address bus='${busnum}' device='${devnum}' />
</source>
</hostdev>
END
where cmd is attach-device, domain is the vm's name, busnum and devnum come from the output of the lsusb -t.
my issue is that upon the first attach attempt, the cmd hangs, I need to kill it and after than I cannot preform any virsh cmd, I must restart the host.
if I try to execute the same cmd after the vm is up, it works great.
why the attach process gets stuck? do I need to execute it under different stage?
thanks,
Dagg.
5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] macvtap and tagged VLANs to the VM
by Marc Haber
Hi,
I would like to run a network firewall as a VM on a KVM host. There are
~ 25 VLANs delivered to the KVM host on three dedicated links, no LACP
or other things. I have the VLANs 100-180 on the host's enp1s0, the VLANs
200-280 on the host's enp2s0 and the VLANs 300-380 on the host's enp3s0.
To save myself from configuring all VLANs on the KVM host, I'd like to
hand the entire ethernet link to the VM and to have the VLAN interfaces
there. Using classical Linux bridges (brctl), things work fine.
They don't when I try macvlan:
On the host:
4: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0d:b9:34:2a:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 1 addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
5: unt382@enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0d:b9:34:2a:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
vlan protocol 802.1Q id 382 <REORDER_HDR> addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
15: macvtap3@enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500
link/ether 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
macvtap mode bridge addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
4: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0d:b9:34:2a:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe34:2afe/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: unt382@enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0d:b9:34:2a:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe34:2afe/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
15: macvtap3@enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 500
link/ether 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::5054:ff:febf:bbab/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
In the XML:
<interface type='direct'>
<mac address='52:54:00:bf:bb:ab'/>
<source dev='enp3s0' mode='bridge'/>
<target dev='macvtap3'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<alias name='net0'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
And in the VM:
root@grml ~ # ip -d link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 promiscuity 0 addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0 addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
3: vlan0@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
vlan protocol 802.1Q id 382 <REORDER_HDR> addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
root@grml ~ # ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::5054:ff:febf:bbab/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: vlan0@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.252.220/24 brd 192.168.252.255 scope global vlan0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::5054:ff:febf:bbab/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
root@grml ~ #
I then ping from the VM to 192.168.252.241, which is a differnt host on
the network, neither the VM host the VM is running on nor another VM on
the same host. That should rule out the connectivity issues that a
macvtap interface has, right? On the VM, I see ARP requests going out,
but no answers come in.
On the pinged host, I see:
22:50:23.881163 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: Request who-has 192.168.252.241 tell 192.168.252.220, length 46
22:50:23.881242 52:54:00:95:df:a6 > 52:54:00:bf:bb:ab, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Reply 192.168.252.241 is-at 52:54:00:95:df:a6, length 28
So, the packets going out from my VM are correctly delivered to the
target, the target replies, but the replies never make it back to the
VM.
Do I see correctly that tcpdump on the VM host won't give accurate
readings since macvtap will divert the frame before tcpdump will see it?
On the other hand, a VM directly configured to the host's unt382
interface works fine:
<interface type='direct'>
<mac address='52:54:00:cb:ed:34'/>
<source dev='unt382' mode='bridge'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
I would however like to avoid having 25 interface stanzas in my XML.
I would appeciate any ideas to solve this issue. I know this is most
probably not a libvirt issue, but this list is about the only place that
comes to my mind where people knowledgeable about those complex network
stuff might hang around. If there is a better place to ask, I am open
for suggestion. Please pardon my intrusion.
Greetings
Marc
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5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] assigning PCI addresses with bus > 0x09
by Riccardo Ravaioli
Hi,
My goal is to assign PCI addresses to a number of devices (network
interfaces, disks and PCI devices in PCI-passthrough) without delegating to
libvirt the generation of those values. This should give me more control
and for sure more predictability over the hardware configuration of a
virtual machine and consequently the name of the interfaces in it. I'm
using libvirt 4.3.0 to create qemu/KVM virtual machines running Linux
(Debian Stretch).
So, for every device of the type mentioned above, I add this line:
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x__' slot='0x__' function='0x0'/>,
... with values from 00 to ff in the bus field, and from 00 to 1f in the
slot field, as described in the documentation.
Long story short, I noticed that as soon as I assign values > 0x09 to the
bus field, the serial console hangs indefinitely, in both Debian and
Ubuntu. The VM seems to be started correctly and its state is "running"; in
the XML file created by libvirt, I see all controllers from 0 the largest
bus value I assigned, so everything from that side seems ok.
What am I missing here?
Thanks!
Riccardo
5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] guest runs into watch dog reset
by b f31415
I'm spinning up a guest, using virt-install. i'm passing the guest a
single vcpu and many network interfaces. On the guest side all the
interfaces are initially in the down state. I've notice then when I
manually bring a specific one of these interfaces up (eg the 64th
interface), the guest system hangs. Doing an "strace ifconfig etX up", it
looks like the system hangs when doing the ioctl to bring the interface up.
This guest is 18.04. Host is 16.04.
Are there any qemu/virt commands i can run from the host which would
provide me a better understanding as to why the guest gets into this hung
state?
If I pass two vcpu, I don't suffer from this hang issue.
Thanks
5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] avoiding PCI bus 8 / using PCI function / virt-install
by b f31415
I’m using virt-install to spin up VMs. At times I have a need to spin up
VMs which have 100s of interfaces. I ran into the PCI issue mentioned in
this previous thread based on how virt-install assigns PCI addresses to
interfaces:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2018-December/msg00064.html
Using the info mention there I was able to part hand / part sw re-write an
XML where I would remove PCI bus references above the value of 8 and
re-address the per interface PCI info to use the function field (I don’t
need hot pluggable).
But the process I’ve built is brittle.
Wondering what options i might have to better deal with this PCI issue.
Is there a way to tell virt-install, when building the info it passes to
qemu, to use the function field during the PCI assignment process so as to
support many more interfaces before hitting the PCI bus == 8 issue?
If not, is there a way with one of the virt command line tools to create
the XML (with the PCI addresses specified) so that I can process that XML
and re-write the PCI addressing values? Right now the only way I’ve been
able to get that detailed XML file is to 1) virt-install and let the VM
begin the boot process and then do a 2) virsh dumpxml and then 3) virsh
destroy/undefine that VM, 4) modify the XML and then 5) virsh create
./modified.xml. Is there a cleaner way to do this?
Thanks
5 years, 10 months
[libvirt-users] Network filters with clean-traffic not working on Debian Stretch
by fatal
Hello,
I'm recently stumbled over the libvirt network filter capabilities and
got pretty excited. Unfortunately I'm not able to get the the
"clean-traffic" filterset working. I'm using a freshly installed Debian
Stretch with libvirt, qemu and KVM.
My config snippet looks as follows:
sudo virsh edit <VM>
[...]
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:0c:14:07'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<filterref filter='clean-traffic'>
<parameter name='IP' value='10.10.1.2'/>
</filterref>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'
function='0x0'/>
</interface>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:0c:24:17'/>
<source bridge='br1'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<filterref filter='clean-traffic'>
<parameter name='IP' value='172.16.1.2'/>
</filterref>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'
function='0x0'/>
</interface>
[...]
I restarted the VM from within the VM, did a "virsh reboot <VM>",
restarted libvirtd and even did a reboot of the host - just to be sure.
Unfortunately neither "iptables -L" nor "ebtables --list" show any
entries added by libvirt. Also omitting the "parameter name='IP'" part
didn't change anything.
There are no error messages in /var/log/syslog nor in
/var/log/libvirt/qemu/<VM>
My main references were:
https://libvirt.org/firewall.html
https://libvirt.org/formatnwfilter.html
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/...
https://www.berrange.com/posts/2011/10/03/guest-mac-spoofing-denial-of-se...
Any help really would be much appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
Sam
5 years, 10 months
