July 2013 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] lxc-enter-namespace error: security model cannot be entered.
by hzguanqiang 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi Guys, I started a lxc container with libvit in ubuntu Operating system, and succeed using lxc-enter-namespace to enter the namespaces and security context of the container. But when I do the same thing in debian OS, It reported an error, with details as following: root@debian:/etc# vir list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 4424 instance-00000007 running 25913 instance-00000008 running root@debian:/etc# vir dumpxml 4424 <domain type='lxc' id='4424'> <name>instance-00000007</name> <uuid>f1ce5360-bb5e-4cfc-b5ef-d05f8db52618</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>3</vcpu> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> <cmdline>console=tty0 console=ttyS0</cmdline> </os> <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' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/f1ce5360-bb5e-4cfc-b5ef-d05f8db52618/rootfs'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='fa:16:3e:3a:c6:11'/> <source bridge='br100'/> <target dev='veth0'/> <filterref filter='nova-instance-instance-00000007-fa163e3ac611'/> </interface> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1'> <source path='/dev/pts/1'/> <target type='lxc' port='0'/> <alias name='console0'/> </console> </devices> <seclabel type='none'/> </domain> root@debian:/etc# vir lxc-enter-namespace 4424 /bin/sh/ libvirt: error : argument unsupported: Security model cannot be entered Is there anything that needs to be configured in debian OS for using the 'lxc-enter-namespace' interface? -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-30

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[libvirt-users] ANNOUNCE: Oz 0.11.0 release
by Chris Lalancette 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

All, I'm pleased to announce release 0.11.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user. Release 0.11.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.10.0 and 0.11.0 are: * Add support for installing Ubuntu 13.04 * Add the ability to get user-specific ICICLE information * Add the ability to generate ICICLE safely, by using a disk snapshot * Add the ability to include extra files and directories on the installation ISO * Add the ability to install to alternate file types, like qcow2, etc. * Add support for installing Ubuntu 5.04/5.10 * Add support for installing Fedora 19 * Add support for installing Debian 7 * Add support for Windows 2012 and 8 * Add support for getting files over http for the commands/files section of the TDL * Add support for setting a custom MAC address to guests during installation * Add support for user specified disk and NIC model * Add support for OpenSUSE 12.3 * Add support for URL based installs for Ubuntu A tarball and zipfile of this release is available on the Github releases page: https://github.com/clalancette/oz/releases . Packages for Fedora-18 and Fedora-19 have been built in Koji and will eventually make their way to stable. Instructions on how to get and use Oz are available at http://github.com/clalancette/oz/wiki . If you have questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact me at clalancette at gmail.com, or open up an issue on the github page: http://github.com/clalancette/oz/issues . This was one of the most active Oz releases ever, because of the feedback and patches from the community. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release through bug reports, patches, and suggestions for improvement. Chris Lalancette

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt and Glusterfs pool
by Pierre-Gilles Mialon 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

Hi, I use the QEMU-GlusterFS native integration (no Fuse mount) with the libvirt. Now I create a volume issuing : # qemu-img create gluster://localhost/gv1/test.img 5G Then using the libvirt I declare the following lines in my domain.xml : <disk type='network' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' cache='none'/> <source protocol='gluster' name='gv1/test.img'> <host name='127.0.0.1' transport='tcp' /> </source> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> It works really well. But the better way, would be to only use the libvirt. Is it planned to support a native glusterFS pool type ? That would be great to be able to define a pool like this: <pool type='glusterfs'> <name>myname</name> <source protocol='gluster' volume='gv0'> <host name='127.0.0.1'/> </source> <target> <permissions> <mode>0700</mode> <owner>-1</owner> <group>-1</group> </permissions> </target> </pool> And then create new images using vol-create. Regards, -- Pierre-Gilles Mialon

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[libvirt-users] pinVcpu not working
by Peeyush Gupta 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

Hi all, I am working with libvirt and I am trying to set cpu affinity. Now I can always use virsh vcpupin <domain_name> <vcpu> <pcpu> to pin vcpus to pcpus. I want to do it using Python API. Now, there is function pinVcpu which is supposed to do that. But this is not working. For example I gave dom.pinVcpu(0,1) but still my vcpu affinity is for all the pcpus. The function returns 0 (success). Any idea what am I doing wrong? Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] dual head with virt-manager, kvm, debian
by Thomas Koch 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi, I try to run a debian testing guest inside a debian stable host and would like to use both physical displays to show virtual displays of my guest. Is this possible? I tried setting the heads attribute in the domain xml as described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885806#c1 I've tried virt-managers internal viewer, virt-viewer and spicy without any indication of a second display. Regards, Thomas Koch

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[libvirt-users] How to trigger a script in a guest after resume? (aka guest system clock incorrect after host reboot with suspended guest)
by Nils Toedtmann 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Is there a way i can trigger a script within a libvirt guest immediately after resume? E.g. i don't see any log message that indicates to a guest that it had been paused and was just woken up. The problem that i am trying to solve is that when i reboot the host (pausing all guests), the guests' system clocks are a few minutes late after resume. The guests RTC (current_clocksource = kvm-clock) are correct though, so a "hwclock --hctosys" fixed the offset. I only need to find out how to call hwclock right after resume! Right now i call hwclock every few minutes, but i'd like to shorten the window of wrong time. OTOH i'd like to avoid installing ntpd into all guests, given their perfectly fine RTCs. On the host i am using CentOS 6.4 with all patches and the packaged libvirt-0.10.2 and qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2. All guests are Ubuntu 12.04. /nils.

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[libvirt-users] API to set cpuset.cpu_exclusive flag
by Peeyush Gupta 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi all, I have been trying to set cpu_exclusive flag. Now I can do it using "echo". I want to know is there any other way (an API) to set this flag? Is it possible to set this flag using API? Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] How to monitor a lxc container started by libvirt_lxc from inside ?
by hzguanqiang 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Guys, When I created a lxc container by libvirt, I logged into the lxc container and noticed that info under /proc/ dir did not match the lxc container resource. Is the /proc dir in lxc container just showing the same thing as the lxc host? If I want to monitor the realtime resource usage inside the lxc container, What should I do? -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-23

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[libvirt-users] Is there any document about the feauture and usage of lxc supported by libvirt?
by hzguanqiang 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi Guys, Recently, I'm doing some tests on openstack with lxc virtualization supported by libvirt. I need some recently new documents about libvirt lxc. Anything related is just ok. Thanks! -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-23

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[libvirt-users] Resize errors with virt-resize/vgchange
by Alex 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi, I have an fc18 system and trying to resize an LVM partition with an ext4 filesystem and receiving the following message from virt-resize: # virt-resize -d --expand /dev/sda1 --LV-expand /dev/mapper/prop-home prop-1.img prop-expand.img command line: virt-resize -d --expand /dev/sda1 --LV-expand /dev/mapper/prop-home prop-1.img prop-expand.img Examining prop-1.img ... libguestfs: trace: add_drive "prop-1.img" "readonly:true" libguestfs: trace: add_drive = 0 libguestfs: trace: add_drive "prop-expand.img" "readonly:false" libguestfs: trace: add_drive = 0 libguestfs: trace: launch libguestfs: trace: get_tmpdir libguestfs: trace: get_tmpdir = "/tmp" libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp" libguestfs: trace: disk_format "/var/lib/libvirt/images/prop-expand.img" libguestfs: trace: disk_format = "raw" libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp" [...] 100% --:-- libguestfs: trace: launch = 0 libguestfs: trace: lvm_set_filter "/dev/sda" libguestfs: trace: lvm_set_filter = -1 (error) Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("lvm_set_filter: vgchange: Couldn't find device with uuid zouQ8X-qxqJ-mp6p-pzg3-mi2i-K9YM-A763Kc. Refusing activation of partial LV home. Use --partial to override. Refusing activation of partial LV swap. Use --partial to override. R libguestfs: trace: close libguestfs: trace: internal_autosync libguestfs: trace: internal_autosync = 0 I don't understand this error message. I also see that vgchange doesn't even have a 'partial' option, so I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. Here is the filesystem layout for this system: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 7.9G 3.9M 7.9G 1% /run tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/prop-root 15G 7.4G 6.3G 55% / tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /tmp /dev/mapper/prop-boot 477M 95M 358M 21% /boot /dev/mapper/prop-home 222G 212G 9.9G 96% /home The image is the 222G /home partition only. The other partitions are on another image. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex

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