June 2010 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] cannot acquire state change lock
by Julian Robbins 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi I keep getting libvirtError: Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock errors - what does this mean exactly ? Using Ubuntu 64 bit 10.04 host and guest -- Kind regards Julian Robbins

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[libvirt-users] libvirt API hangs
by Zhang Qian 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi, I have someVMs in my KVM hosts(RHEL 5.5), I found when run "virsh save <domain> <file>" to save a VM, the command "virsh dominfo <domain>" will hang until the save command finishes. Is this libvirt's behavior? Or KVM/QEMU's? This may impact the performance. Thanks, Qian

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[libvirt-users] Bridge with macvtap problem
by Eduardo 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Hi friends! I'm using libvirt 0.8.1 with qemu-kvm 0.12.4 on Linux 2.6.34. At the moment there are 2 virtual machines running inside that host without problem. They are using the macvtap feature for networking share. But I can't do ping from the host to the guest, but I need this. And whatever communication between them. Ping with other host is normal. Below follows the xml domain definition of one guest: <domain type='kvm' id='2'> <name>vox2</name> <uuid>2e143f6e-5506-8073-c5fc-3ea92fc2b579</uuid> <memory>524288</memory> <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory> <vcpu>2</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/virtual/vox2.qcow2'/> <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/> <alias name='scsi0-0-0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <controller type='scsi' index='0'> <alias name='scsi0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='direct'> <mac address='52:54:00:2f:fe:3d'/> <source dev='eth0' mode='bridge'/> <target dev='macvtap1'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='no' keymap='pt-br'/> <video> <model type='vmvga' vram='9216' heads='1'/> <alias name='video0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> </devices> </domain> P.S.: The default network of libvirt is disabled. -- *Eduardo Ramos* Asterisk Manager Linux User www.freedominterface.org +55 12 81129581 exten=>eduardo,1,hangup()

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[libvirt-users] howto search this mailing list archive?
by Julian Robbins 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Another quickie I've long and hard (honest !), but can't find a way to search this ml's archives. How do you do this ? -- Kind regards Julian Robbins

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[libvirt-users] apparmor and kvm/libvirt
by Julian Robbins 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Hi After kindly answering my question on snapshots not working whilst vm is on, i find that apparmor is still disturbing the process where snapshots can get written But although i should just be able to disable apparmor for my vm in virt-manager, whilst vm is off; that when i start the vm the apparmor settings go back to being enabled and set to dynamic This is stopping me from taking snapshots again whilst vm is on. :-( I have also tried disabling the apparmor profile for libvirt on the host but this appears to have had no effect. I know very little about appamor and it is not particularly important to be used in this case. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on both host and guest 64 bit. -- Kind regards Julian Robbins

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[libvirt-users] SCM_RIGHTS file error when attaching device?
by steven765＠yahoo.com 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

So I just upgraded to 0.8.1-1 and virt-manager 8.4 when i try to attach my network card that's been perfectly fine in the past i now get... virsh # attach-device gnome /etc/libvirt/qemu/nic.xml error: Failed to attach device from /etc/libvirt/qemu/nic.xml error: internal error unable to send TAP file handle: No file descriptor supplied via SCM_RIGHTS Any thoughts?

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[libvirt-users] How to configure kvm development environment
by Avdhoot Joshi 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi, Installed RHEL 5.5 on AMD Opteron. [root@wlng-ppcore-nd3 ~]# uname -a Linux wlng-ppcore-nd3 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@wlng-ppcore-nd3 ~]# virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.6.3 Using library: libvir 0.6.3 Using API: QEMU 0.6.3 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.9.1 This is the default version of virsh using libvirt 0.6.3. Downloaded libvirt 0.8.1, configured it as follows: $ configure $ make $ make install What should be done so that virsh uses the latest 0.8.1 libvirtd binary, how to completely stop 0.6.3? I want to execute a program using virDomainMemoryStats which is available only in latest libvirtd. Thanks, Avdhoot

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Re: [libvirt-users] Problems moving qemu machine to libvirt
by Gunnar Thielebein 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi Erik, thanks for the solution provided. I tried that but unfortunately it spits out this error message: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 588, in run_domain > vm.startup() > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 150, in startup > self._backend.create() > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 300, in create > if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) > libvirtError: internal error cannot parse QEMU version number in '' Looks to me that libvirt does some version checks with the emulator-node and don't get reliable output. The wrapper script: /etc/libvirt/kvmvde: > #!/bin/bash > exec /usr/bin/kvm "$@" \ > -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:61:44:21:23 \ > -net vde,vlan=0,group=libvirtd,mode=0770,sock=/var/run/vde.ctl The xml section: ... > <devices> > <emulator>/etc/libvirt/kvmvde</emulator> > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/vlxp01-gt/tmp7Jiyzz.qcow2'/> > <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> > </disk> ... Btw. is the bridge entry really necessary in the xml file? I wonder if this wouldn't also work, but I am not at this step, currently: => http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsNICSSlirp "Generic ethernet connection" > ... > <devices> > <interface type='ethernet'/> > ... > <interface type='ethernet'> > <target dev='vnet7'/> > <script path='/etc/qemu-ifup-mynet'/> > </interface> > </devices> > ... Perhaps this is a place to also start the vde hub? On 10.06.2010 13:34, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > #!/bin/bash > exec /usr/bin/kvm $@ \ > -net nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139,macaddr=52:54:61:44:21:23 \ > -net vde,vlan=0,group=vde2-net,mode=0770,sock=/var/run/kvm-vde-ctl Any reason no to use the virtio driver? Best, Gunnar

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[libvirt-users] Functionality of virsh net-edit
by Arseny Klimovsky 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Hi, I am using version libvirt on debian lenny from backports repository, version 0.7.6-1~bpo50+1, amd64. Th functionality of "virsh net-edit" command is not very clearly documented, and I think it should change a configuration of a running network. But I see it doesn't. So, I want to add new host, for example: #I have old configuration root@xxx:/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks# virsh net-edit default Network default XML configuration edited. #Here I added new line: new host definition root@xxx:/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks# cat default.xml #Here I see that new line root@xxx:/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks# virsh net-dumpxml default root@xxx:/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks# virsh net-edit default #Here I see exactly the old network definition Is this behaviour expected? If yes, how to just add new host on a running network? -- Arseny Klimovsky

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[libvirt-users] Documentation Bug: struct virSchedParameter missing value field
by Guido Winkelmann 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Hi, The libvirt documentation under http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virSchedParameter fails to list the "value" member, even though that is kind of essential for using the struct. This is what the documentation says: struct virSchedParameter{ charfield[VIR_DOMAIN_SCHED_FIELD_LENGTH] field : parameter name int type : parameter type } This is how it looks in the actual header file: typedef struct _virSchedParameter virSchedParameter; struct _virSchedParameter { char field[VIR_DOMAIN_SCHED_FIELD_LENGTH]; /* parameter name */ int type; /* parameter type */ union { int i; /* data for integer case */ unsigned int ui; /* data for unsigned integer case */ long long int l; /* data for long long integer case */ unsigned long long int ul; /* data for unsigned long long integer case */ double d; /* data for double case */ char b; /* data for char case */ } value; /* parameter value */ }; This one had me scratching my head for a while, because the way it is documented, it's absolutely not clear how the struct is supposed to be used. Only after studying the virsh source code for a while did I notice that this struct apparently has more members than the documentation lets on... Guido

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