October 2011 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] virsh list not working with xen 4
by Rogério Vinhal Nunes 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi, I'm having some trouble to get libvirt to show the correct power state of my virtual machines. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 + Xen 4.1.1 + libvirt 0.8.8. virsh list --all only shows turned off machines registered in xend. If I turn them on, they just "disappear", and when I start machines directly from xml, they just doesn't appear at all. Libvirt is correctly connecting to xen as I can use the other commands fine, just the list option doesn't seem to work at all. What can I do to change that? # virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.8 Using library: libvir 0.8.8 Using API: Xen 3.0.1 Running hypervisor: Xen 4.1.0

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[libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image
by Andrew Tappert 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a guest's memory without having to introduce any extra software into the guest or otherwise interfere with it. Incident responders are particularly interested in getting memory dumps from systems they're investigating. Virsh has "save" and "dump" commands for storing the state of a guest to a file on disk, but memory of KVM guests doesn't get saved in the "standard" input format for memory forensics tools, which is a raw physical memory image. (This is what you'd get via the classical "dd /dev/mem" approach or the contemporary equivalent using the crash driver; and VMware Server and Workstation produce .vmem files, which are such raw physical memory images, when a guest is paused or snapshotted.) In order to analyze the memory of Libvirt/KVM guests with my Linux memory forensics software, Second Look, I've created a tool for converting Libvirt-QEMU-save files (output of virsh save command) or QEMU-savevm files (output of virsh dump command) to raw physical memory images. I've got a basic working capability, though I'm still tracking down some problems with a guest allocated 8GB RAM--not all the memory seems to be present in the save or dump file. And I haven't tested very extensively yet, version support is limited to what I myself am currently running, etc. I'd like to know if this is a capability that others are interested in. Is this something that would be of interest to the Libvirt project if I were to contribute the code, or to the KVM project, or do you think it best exists as a separate project? I've also got a proof-of-concept tool for converting hibernate images to raw physical memory images. Perhaps a collection of tools for converting various memory dump formats would be a good project. Anyone else interested in this kind of stuff? As an author of commercial memory forensics software I've got a vested interest in availability of good memory acquisition capabilities. But there are a number of people working on FOSS Linux memory analysis tools, too... Andrew

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Re: [libvirt-users] ruby-libvirt 0.4.0
by Chris Lalancette 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

On 07/29/11 - 09:34:17AM, David M. Barlieb wrote: > Hi, I'm fairly new to using libvirt. I have RHEL6 servers running KVM > virtual environment. As I understand it, libvirt provides the tools to > the KVM environment so that I can create domains or virtual guests. So, > that being said, what does this ruby-libvirt provide me or enhance given > my current setup. > > > > I'll understabnd if this is a little rudimentary but I really do not > know who or where else to ask these types of question. I get quite a bit > of email from the libvirt-users groups about libvirt and really have no > idea if I can or should put any of these into my current setup, or if I > should be asking RedHat this. > > > > I certainly wouldn't mind testing and contributing to these effort to > enhance the libvirt tools and KVM hypervisor but think I need a better > understanding of exactly how libvirt and KVM interact and what the > enhancements bring to the table. In the future it is usually best to keep one of the lists on an email; that way, if I'm away or not responding, someone else can help you. I've added libvirt-users to this response. In any case, you have the right idea. Libvirt is a control plane for various different virtualization solutions. Arguably the most popular virtualization solution that libvirt can control is KVM, but it can also manage Xen, VMware ESX, LXC (linux containers), UML, etc. Libvirt provides both tools (like virsh and libvirtd) and APIs for interacting with virtual machines. The APIs are things like virDomainShutdown(), virDomainReboot(), etc. The ruby-libvirt package is a thin wrapper around these APIs, so that you can use this functionality from ruby programs. That is, you would be able to do something like: dom.reboot dom.shutdown from your ruby programs. There are also bindings for other languages such as python, php, and perl. There is a lot more information at http://libvirt.org, and there is more information specifically about the ruby bindings at http://libvirt.org/ruby -- Chris Lalancette

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[libvirt-users] no connection driver available for openvz:///system
by 张立洪 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

dears. I can not solved the problem: vzctl works. But how do I connect to Virtuozzo? Using the openvz >> > driver >> > it doesn't work out of the box: >> > virsh # connect openvz:///system >> > error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor >> > error: no connection driver available for openvz:///system Why can not I connect to the openvz??? please help me , thanks.

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[libvirt-users] Hard limit for the cpu usage of a VM
by sethuraman subbiah 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi , I was previously using xen and currently moved to KVM. I am using libvirt to manage these VMs. In den's credit scheduler , I had the ability to set a cap on the cpu usage for a VM. But I was not able to find a similar substitute in KVM. I find that we can use cgroups to provide shares for VM but that will be more like weight based and it doesn't set a hard cap for that VM. I tried using cpulimit but I find it inaccurate and we can give values only between 0-100. Thus, I think it cannot support multi core environments. Can any one suggest a method to set a hard limit on a VM's cpu usage? Thank you. - Regards, Sethuraman Subbiah Graduate Student - NC state University M.S in Computer Science

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[libvirt-users] [ruby-libvirt] who's using it
by Christian Parpart 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hey all, I would like to know who / what project is using this binding. So I could learn the API a bit easier than reading through the rough rdoc-based API documentation, which is not really helpful to me, as I do not know the C API yet either. my intention is, to some day, be able to create a Rails web app for managing libvirt hosts (mainly OpenVZ/vserver/LXC and possibly QEMU). Thanks in advance, Christian Parpart.

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[libvirt-users] VM with transient disk
by Till Mossakowski 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

I want to use transient disks with libvirt. According to [1], the transient disk feature has been supported since 0.9.5. Hence, I have installed libvirt 0.9.6 for Ubuntu Lucid from [2] and used the following disk configuration: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/home/till/test.img'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <transient/> </disk> However, I get: unsupported configuration: transient disks not supported yet Best, Till [1] http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html [2] http://ppa.launchpad.net/agent-8131/xen-custom/ubuntu/

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[libvirt-users] How to collect the VM bandwidth usage utilization
by vmnode guy 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi Guy, I am trying to figure out how & where can i get the bandwidth usage utilization statistic info for all the VM, so in the end i will be able to use it for metering purpose.. Anyone got any idea ? Regards, Peter

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[libvirt-users] live migration error without shared storage
by Luengffy XUE 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

command: virsh migrate --live --copy-storage-all vm qemu+ssh://destinationHost/system error : unexpected failure PS log file in the jpg

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[libvirt-users] libvirt-php - API libvirt_domain_suspend() problem, doesn't work
by vmnode guy 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi Guys, I was trying to suspend a virtual machine but fail not sure why.... However i was successfully list all the vm on the host, below are my source code, can any one who have experience in this area give me some advised ? *My OUTPUT from browser* Array ( [libvirt.release] => 3 [libvirt.minor] => 9 [libvirt.major] => 0 [connector.version] => 0.4.3 [connector.major] => 0 [connector.minor] => 4 [connector.release] => 3 ) Resource id #2Array ( [0] => VM_6E472D93-F943-2D1E-B1EA-5896D95B9C84 [1] => VM_B090CFCA-77FE-962B-9D06-F85047324527 [2] => VM_7478E5EB-B843-225A-00FC-09D0E846FE61 [3] => winxpnew [4] => VM_1F9BC5A1-352D-0E7D-8BAB-F46FBFE1C80D [5] => VM_B6DA1C45-3F0D-16EF-FDF1-512935D88C37 [6] => VM_F32717EE-4AA4-A17C-8E4B-D1D5A79612A5 [7] => VM_03ABB818-D226-32FB-0A6E-458849AB7C7B [8] => nagios [9] => VM_6C158DB3-71BE-A0D1-3FFB-1EEE5854E45D [10] => VM_8D560513-036A-14FD-7546-48C370F0A057 [11] => VM_AA3DC5CA-A447-E6E5-0E7A-869416869B1D [12] => VM_C19AC7F1-AA49-92D0-336F-B8A8D7FADCD5 ) *Below are my php source : -* <?php echo "<html><body><pre>"; print_r ( libvirt_version() ); $conn = libvirt_connect('qemu+ssh://root@10.0.0.122/system', true); echo $conn; $doms = libvirt_list_domains($conn); print_r($doms); $doms = libvirt_domain_suspend('VM_7478E5EB-B843-225A-00FC-09D0E846FE61'); print_r($doms); echo "</pre></body></html>"; ?> Thanks!! Regards, Peter

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