January 2014 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] Should domain be undefined after migration, or not?
by Brian Candler 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

I have been running a lab using libvirt under Debian Wheezy (libvirt 0.9.12.3-1, qemu-kvm 1.1.2+dfsg-6, virt-manager 0.9.1-4). There are a number of machines as front-end servers and an nbd shared storage backend. When I live-migrate a domain from one machine to another, normally I observe that afterwards the domain remains on the source host (but in "shutdown" state), as well as on the target host (in "running" state). But occasionally I have observed the domain being removed from the source host. The trouble with the domain remaining on the source host is that it is all too easy to double-click on the shutdown domain in virt-manager and start it there accidentally, in addition to the copy on the target host - resulting in disaster. (I know this can be prevented using the sanlock plugin) Furthermore, there could be stale copies of the XML lying around on some machines where the domain had been running at some point in the past. My question is, what is the expected behaviour? Is not removing the domain definition from the source host a bug? Has this been changed in a newer version of libvirt? Thanks, Brian.

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[libvirt-users] jumbo frame
by Anton Gorlov 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

I would like to use jumbo frame for local interfaces, but I am not sure in which order to set it up. Should it be set on the physical interface first, then on the bridge and on the guest, or in another way? On some servers there are configurations with vlan on the bridge

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[libvirt-users] How to configure MacVtap passthrough mode to SR-IOV VF?
by opendaylight 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hi guys. These days I'm doing research on SR-IOV & Live migration. As we all know there is big problem that SR-IOV & Live migration can not exist at the same time. I heard that KVM + SRIOV + MacVtap can solve this problem. So I want to try. My environment: Host: Dell R610, OS: RHEL 6.4 ( kernel 2.6.32) NIC: intel 82599 I follow a document from intel guy, it said that I should write xml like below: ============================ <network> <name>macvtap_passthrough’</name> <forward mode=’passthrough> <interface dev=’vf0’ /> <interface dev=’vf1’ /> .. .. </forward> </network> ============================ I guess here the vf0 & vf1 should be the VFs of Intel 82599. What make me confused is that we know we can not see the vf 0 & vf 1 directly from the host server with "ifconfig", that is to say, vf 0 & vf1 are not a real physical interface. I try #: virsh net-define macvtap_passthrough.xml #: virsh net-start macvtap_passthrough When I try to configure macvtap_passthrough for a VNIC of a VM, the virt-manager told : "Can't get vf 0, no such a device". When I try from virt-manager: add hardware--->network--->host device (macvtap_passthrough:pass_through network), I got error like : "Error adding device: xmlParseDoc() failed". I guess I can not write like this " <interface dev=’vf0’ />" in the xml. I try to change as below, but the result is same. ============================ <network> <name>macvtap_passthrough’</name> <forward mode=’passthrough> <pf dev=’p2p1’ /> // p2p1 is intel sriov physical nic </forward> </network> ============================ I don't know how to write correctly. Please help me. You can refer to intel document as below. Many thanks. ==========document from intel======================== Linux/KVM VM Live Migration (SRIOV And MacVtap) By Waseem Ahmad (waseem.ahmad(a)intel.com In this scenario we are using 3 machines:  Server 1: DNS/NFS – nfs.vtt.priv  Server 2: Hv1  Server3: Hv2 HV1 and HV2 are Linux/KVM machines. We will get to them in a minute however we first must address kvm and nfs. NFS:  Create a storage area, where both HV1, and HV2 can access it. There are several methods available for this (FCOE/ISCSI/NFS). For this write-up use nfs. Configure NFS:  Create a directory on nfs.vtt.priv where you want your storage to be. In this case used /home/vmstorage  Edit /etc/exports and add the following /home/vmstorage 172.0.0.0/1(rw,no_root_squash,sync)  Now to /etc/sysconfig/nfs Uncomment RPCNFSDARGS=”-N 4” This will disable nfs v4. If you don’t do this you will have issues with not being able to access the share from within VirtManager.  Add all three machines ip addresses to each machines /hosts file. MIGRATION WILL NOT WORK WITHOUT FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAMES. KVM: On both HV1, and HV2 servers:  Edit /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=disabled  Edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf Change security_driver=none  On HV1 and HV2 start Virtual Machine Manager  Double click on localhost(QEMU)  Then click on the storage tab at the top of the window that pops up  Down in the left hand corner is a box with a + sign in it, click on that. A new window will appear entitled Add a New Storage Pool  In the name box type vmstorage, then click on the type box and select netfs: Network Exported Directory, now click next.  You will see the last step of the network Storage Pool Dialog. The first option is the target path. This is the path where we will mount our storage on the local server. I have chosen to leave this alone.  The next option is format, leave this set on auto: Host name: nfs.vtt.priv Source path: /home/vmstorage  Click on finish  Repeat the above steps on HV2 server Create vms  On HV1 server go back to the connection details screen, (this is the one that showed up when you double clicked on localhost (qemu), and click on the storage tab again.  Click on vmstorage then click on new volume at the bottom.  A new dialog will appear entitled add a storage volume.  In the Name box type vm1  In the Max Capacity box type 20000  And do the same in the allocation box then click finish.  Now you can close the connection details box by click on the x in the corner.  Now click on the terminal in the corner, right underneath file, and type the name of our vm in the box that is entitled Name, vm1 choose how your installation media, probably local install media, and click forward. Click on use cdrom or dvd, and place a rh6.2 dvd in the dvd player on HV1. Select Linux, for the OS type, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for the version. Memory I chose to leave this at its default of 1024, and assigned 1 cpu to the guest. Click forward, select “select managed or other existing storage” and click the browse button. Click on vmstoarge, and select vm1.img then click forward. Then click on finish.  We will configure network after we make sure migration between the two servers works properly.  Now go ahead and install the operating system as you would normally. Create networks Create a file that looks like the following < there is no support for adding a macvtap interface from the gui as of yet, this is the only manual step in the process. Create a file named macvtap_passthrough.xml with the following contents. <network> <name>macvtap_passthrough’</name> <forward mode=’passthrough> <interface dev=’vf0’ /> <interface dev=’vf1’ /> .. .. </forward> </network> <network> <name>’macvtap_bridge’</name> <forward mode=’bridge’> <interface dev=’p3p1’/> </forward> </network> Save it and run the following commands:  virsh net-define macvtap_passthrough.xml  virsh net-start macvtap_passthrough Make sure all of your virtual interfaces that you used in the xml file are up. for i in $(ifconfig –a | awk ‘/eth/ {print $1}’); do ifconfig $i up; done Then double click on your vm and click on the big blue i On the next screen click on add hardware, then on network, then select Virtual network “macvtap_passthrough” Then click on finish. Start your vm and make sure that the macvtap was created on the host by doing ip link | grep ‘macvtap’ In the vm configure the ip information for the virtio adapter. In the virtual machine manager click on file, add connection. Then check the connect to remote host fill in the username and hostname, then click on connect Right click on your VM and select Migrate, select the host you want to migrate the machine to, then click on advanced options, check the address box, and type the ip address of the machine you want to migrate to, and click the migrate button.

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[libvirt-users] How to update filterref of a vm on the fly?
by Gao Yongwei 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Hello, I defined a vm with filterref like: <filterref filter='clean-traffic'> <parameter name='IP' value='192.168.1.161'/> </filterref> and now I need to add another IP parameter for this vm,is there any way to achieve this? thanks.

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[libvirt-users] blockcopy, userspace iSCSI support?
by Scott Sullivan 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Right now, on a virsh blockcopy, I know you can do something like this: # Connect DEST target iscsiadm -m node -p ${DESTINATION}:3260 -T ${VOLNAME} -o new iscsiadm -m node -p ${DESTINATION}:3260 -T ${VOLNAME} --login # Copy to connected iSCSI target virsh blockcopy ${DOMAIN} vda /dev/sdc --raw --bandwidth 300 However I have libiscsi compiled into my QEMU. So I can do this with the monitor directly (and avoid the need to call out to external iscsiadm): virsh qemu-monitor-command ${DOMAIN} '{"execute":"drive-mirror", "arguments": { "device": "drive-virtio-disk0", "target": "iscsi://${TARGET_IP}:3260/${DOMAIN}/1", "mode": "existing", "sync": "full", "on-source-error": "stop", "on-target-error": "stop" } }' Is there a way to use the libiscsi compiled into my QEMU with virsh blockcopy command? I haven't been able to find any examples of using blockcopy with iSCSI compiled into QEMU.

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[libvirt-users] Ceph RBD locking for libvirt-managed LXC (someday) live migrations
by Joshua Dotson 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, I'm trying to build an active/active virtualization cluster using a Ceph RBD as backing for each libvirt-managed LXC. I know live migration for LXC isn't yet possible, but I'd like to build my infrastructure as if it were. That is, I would like to be sure proper locking is in place for live migrations to someday take place. In other words, I'm building things as if I were using KVM and live migration via libvirt. I've been looking at corosync, pacemaker, virtlock, sanlock, gfs2, ocfs2, glusterfs, cephfs, ceph RBD and other solutions. I admit that I'm quite confused. If oVirt, with its embedded GlusterFS and its planned self-hosted engine option, supported LXC, I'd use that. However the stars have not yet aligned for that. It seems that the most elegant and scalable approach may be to utilize Ceph's RBD with its native locking mechanism plus corosync and pacemaker for fencing, for a number of reasons out of scope for this email. *My question now is in regards to proper locking. Please see the following links. The libvirt hook looks good, but is there any expectation that this arrangement will become a patch to libvirt itself, as is suggested by the second link?* http://www.wogri.at/en/linux/ceph-libvirt-locking/ http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2013-August/003887.html Can anyone guide me on how to theoretically build a very "lock" safe 5-node active-active KVM cluster atop Ceph RBD? Must I use sanlock with its NFS or GFS2 with its performance bottlenecks? Does your answer work for LXC (sans the current state of live migration)? Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Dotson Founder, Wrale Ltd

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[libvirt-users] Live migration finish threshold
by Joaquim Barrera 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hello everyone, Can somebody point where I can find the code where libvirt makes the decision to complete a live migration? I mean, at some point syncronising the VM state, it has to decide that the delta left to be migrate is low enough to achieve downtime 0, so libvirt finishes the migration. This "low enough" must be defined somewhere in the code, but I am unable to find it. Thank you very much.

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[libvirt-users] vnc port/listen address ignored when setting machine?
by hubert depesz lubaczewski 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, First of all, I hope it's not a big problem - I'm running on Debian, not Redhat. To my problem: I'm starting to learn virtualization, libvirt, and decided to create some test machine. I did it with: virt-install --name debian-test \ --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=debianwheezy \ --cdrom /media/media/software/iso/debian-testing-amd64-netinst-2014-01-16.iso \ --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0,port=20001 \ --disk pool=default,format=raw,size=20 \ --ram 2048 \ --vcpus=2 \ --network bridge=virbr0 \ --hvm \ --virt-type=kvm Machine starts, but domdisplay shows: =# virsh domdisplay debian-test vnc://localhost:14101 When I tried setting it with --grpahics=vnc,...port=40001, I got it to listen on port 34101 (which is weird anyway, but at least I can change it). But whatever I do - I can't make it to listen on 0.0.0.0. I know I can use ssh port forwarding to get to this VNC, but I would very much prefer to be able to set VNC listen to 0.0.0.0 for at least some of my test domains. What am I doing wrong? Best regards, depesz -- The best thing about modern society is how easy it is to avoid contact with it. http://depesz.com/

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[libvirt-users] Does libvirt lxc driver support "cpuset" attribute?
by WANG Cheng D 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Dear all I allocate only one vcpu for the container by the following statement, that is, I want to pin the vcpu to physical core "2". <vcpu placement='static' cpuset="2" >1</vcpu> My host has 4 physical cores. Before test, all the 4 cores are idle. After I run 4 processes in the container, I found all the 4 cores in the host are 100% used. That is, the container is pinned to all the available physical CPUs. This is not what I want. My libvirt version is 1.0.3. Although "vcpupin" element also can be used to pin vcpu, according to http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html , "vcpupin" element is not supported by lxc driver. I wonder if it is the older version of libvirt that causes the problem? Thank you in advance. Cheng Wang

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[libvirt-users] Fake Network Interface
by Andrew Martin 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hello, Is there a supported method for creating a fake network interface in a VM's configuration file? I was using the below construct, however it is no longer working for me in recent versions of libvirt (libvirt 1.0.2 with qemu-kvm 1.4.0). Is there a different, preferred method for creating a fake virtual interface on the guest which does not exist on the host? <interface type='network'> <mac address='aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa'/> <source network='fake'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> Thanks, Andrew

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[libvirt-users] virDBusCallMethod:1173 : Launch helper exited with unknown return code
by Karoline Haus 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Good morning, I'm using libvirtd on Gentoo. This is libvirt version: 1.1.3.1 I have trouble starting a VM using virsh start $vm. I do this as root, because as non-root user it did not work at all (especially it failed attaching to the networks). So, when I run the command (with sudo), I get the following error in libvirtd.log: 2014-01-15 07:51:00.423+0000: 16158: warning : qemuDomainObjTaint:1573 : Domain id=5 name='vader' uuid=f5b8c05b-9c7a-3211-49b9-2bd635f7e2aa is tainted: high-privileges 2014-01-15 07:51:00.428+0000: 16158: error : virDBusCallMethod:1173 : Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 At the same time I get an error in /var/log/messages which seems related: Jan 15 07:51:00 dbus[15845]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.machine1' (using servicehelper) Jan 15 07:51:00 dbus[15845]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.machine1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 Anyone ever seen this issue? I have no idea where to look for errors because the message don't really tell me much. I have tried to execute the qemu-kvm command on the command line directly and that worked immediately. So the problem must be in libvirt. Thanks for any pointers.

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[libvirt-users] Best practice for custom iptables rules
by ZeroUno 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi, I'm using libvirt to manage some VMs on a CentOS host, and I need some custom iptables rules to always be in place for some communications to happen, e.g. between the VMs and the outside world in both directions. Some of these rules need to be at the top of the iptables chain, otherwise the default rules added by libvirt would block the communications I need. So I cannot just add the rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables, because libvirt adds its own rules _before_ the rules contained in this config file. I was looking at filters, but maybe not every rule can be made into a filter? Specifically, I need a rule for the POSTROUTING chain in the "nat" table. Can it be added through filters? Also, regarding the "iptables restart problem" described in the last paragraph at <http://libvirt.org/firewall.html>, is there really no acceptable way to make libvirt add its rules back automatically upon iptables/network restart? Thanks for any info. Marco -- 01

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[libvirt-users] how to detect if qemu supports live disk snapshot
by Francesco Romani 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi everyone, Using the QEMU hypervisor, when a live disk snapshot is requested through libvirt, the request can fail if the underyling qemu binary lacks the snapshotting support. In python, we have something like libvirtError: Operation not supported: live disk snapshot not supported with this QEMU binary I'd like to detect ahead of time if the underlying QEMU can or cannot do snapshotting, and disable right from the start the snapshotting support in my application, avoiding to throw errors to the user. After reading from the docs, it seems that libvirt doesn't reports yet this information about the hypervisor in the capabilities XML: http://libvirt.org/formatcaps.html a quick test against libvirt 1.1.3 (qemu 1.6.1) on Fedora 20 seems to confirm (see XML dump below[1]). So, if I'm not mistaken, looks like the only way to test for the support in QEMU is to actually request a snapshot and see what happens. Is this right? If this is correct, I would like to craft and propose a patch to libvirt to export this information, maybe into a form of some kind of warning list/blacklist: disk snapshotting it is supposed to be available, but this particular QEMU doesn't support it. What would be the best form to export such information? the options I see are * enhance the capabilities XML * add a new API: something like (very rough first draft) int virDomainIsSnapshotSupported(virConnectPtr conn, unsigned int flags); Thoughts? Any suggestion is welcome. Best regards, +++ [1] # virsh -c qemu:///system Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # capabilities <capabilities> <host> <uuid>01c4dc83-b652-cb11-9e6d-f3bf03b35d26</uuid> <cpu> <arch>x86_64</arch> <model>SandyBridge</model> <vendor>Intel</vendor> <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='2'/> <feature name='erms'/> <feature name='smep'/> <feature name='fsgsbase'/> <feature name='rdrand'/> <feature name='f16c'/> <feature name='osxsave'/> <feature name='pcid'/> <feature name='pdcm'/> <feature name='xtpr'/> <feature name='tm2'/> <feature name='est'/> <feature name='smx'/> <feature name='vmx'/> <feature name='ds_cpl'/> <feature name='monitor'/> <feature name='dtes64'/> <feature name='pbe'/> <feature name='tm'/> <feature name='ht'/> <feature name='ss'/> <feature name='acpi'/> <feature name='ds'/> <feature name='vme'/> </cpu> <power_management> <suspend_mem/> <suspend_disk/> <suspend_hybrid/> </power_management> <migration_features> <live/> <uri_transports> <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport> </uri_transports> </migration_features> <topology> <cells num='1'> <cell id='0'> <memory unit='KiB'>7871524</memory> <cpus num='4'> <cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0-1'/> <cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0-1'/> <cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2-3'/> <cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2-3'/> </cpus> </cell> </cells> </topology> <secmodel> <model>selinux</model> <doi>0</doi> </secmodel> <secmodel> <model>dac</model> <doi>0</doi> </secmodel> </host> <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='i686'> <wordsize>32</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386</emulator> <machine canonical='pc-i440fx-1.6' maxCpus='255'>pc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.5</machine> <machine canonical='pc-q35-1.6' maxCpus='255'>q35</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>isapc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.10</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.11</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.12</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.13</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.14</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.15</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.0</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.1</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.2</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.3</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.5</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>none</machine> <domain type='qemu'> </domain> <domain type='kvm'> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> <machine canonical='pc-i440fx-1.6' maxCpus='255'>pc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.5</machine> <machine canonical='pc-q35-1.6' maxCpus='255'>q35</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>isapc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.10</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.11</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.12</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.13</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.14</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.15</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.0</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.1</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.2</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.3</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.5</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>none</machine> </domain> </arch> <features> <cpuselection/> <deviceboot/> <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/> <apic default='on' toggle='no'/> <pae/> <nonpae/> </features> </guest> <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='x86_64'> <wordsize>64</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <machine canonical='pc-i440fx-1.6' maxCpus='255'>pc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.5</machine> <machine canonical='pc-q35-1.6' maxCpus='255'>q35</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>isapc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.10</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.11</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.12</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.13</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.14</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.15</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.0</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.1</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.2</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.3</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.5</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>none</machine> <domain type='qemu'> </domain> <domain type='kvm'> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> <machine canonical='pc-i440fx-1.6' maxCpus='255'>pc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-q35-1.5</machine> <machine canonical='pc-q35-1.6' maxCpus='255'>q35</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>isapc</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.10</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.11</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.12</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.13</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.14</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-0.15</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.0</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.1</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.2</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-1.3</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.4</machine> <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-1.5</machine> <machine maxCpus='1'>none</machine> </domain> </arch> <features> <cpuselection/> <deviceboot/> <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/> <apic default='on' toggle='no'/> </features> </guest> </capabilities> -- Francesco Romani

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[libvirt-users] --persistent/--config confusion
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi, I'm wondering how to attach a network device properly to a domain. According to the man page without "--config" a device created with "attach-device" will be added to the domain yet with "--config" it will only be added to the config and only be available after a restart of the guest. Is there no way to attach the device immediately *and* also make that change persistent? Regards, Dennis

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[libvirt-users] Dedicated GDM session for a virt-manager virtual machine?
by Alex GS 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Dear list, Something has been perplexing me lately. I have a bunch of Windows 7 virtual machines running on top of Fedora 20 in KVM using virt-manager. One of the big problems is that users who need the Windows VM's don't know how to user virt-manager and when they accidentally reboot a machine I have to manually setup the virt-manager session for them and make it full-screen. That means if I'm not physically there the users are unable to use the Windows sessions and cannot do their work. Is there a way to create a GDM desktop session that just launches a virtual machine via virsh and then logs directly into a full-screen virt-viewer instance of that virtual machine? Best, AGS

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[libvirt-users] libvirt on armhf with selinux driver
by Ivan Gooten 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

hi, recently i've been busy with libvirt(d) v1.2.0 on armhf and i see, even if selinux sec driver is enabled on the configure stage, the driver is not finally created. these configure parameters are: --with-selinux --with-secdriver-selinux --with-selinux-mount=/sys/fs/selinux the /sys/fs/selinux is valid, selinux is running in permissive mode, got also libselinux DEV package installed, so no missing req. headers here. when trying to run libvirtd, i'm getting: error : virSecurityDriverLookup:78 : unsupported configuration: Security driver selinux not enabled error : lxcSecurityInit:1461 : Failed to initialise security drivers error : virStateInitialize:854 : Initialisation of LXC state driver failed: unsupported configuration: Security driver selinux not enabled error : daemonRunStateInit:909 : Driver state initialisation failed someone got any clue what may be causing this? thanks, ivan gooten

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[libvirt-users] Migration: default value for maxdowntime? (QEMU/KVM)
by Scott Sullivan 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

I am wondering what the default value for migrate-setmaxdowntime is when using QEMU/KVM. http://builder.virt-tools.org/artifacts/libvirt-virshcmdref/html/sect-migra… Is the default the same as QEMU's default in this case? I was looking at libvirts source and it appears there is no default set within libvirt, unless I missed it. I do see qemuDomainMigrateSetMaxDowntime() directly enters the monitor to change the value when set with that command. Any insight/confirmation is appreciated.

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[libvirt-users] migrate interrupted but cannot continue
by leocup 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Hello, I have 2 hosts A and B,the settings of libvirtd are A: Compiled against library: libvirt 0.10.2 Using library: libvirt 0.10.2 Using API: QEMU 0.10.2 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.1 B: Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.4 Using library: libvir 0.9.4 Using API: QEMU 0.9.4 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.1 when I migrate a guest from A to B without storage,I used the command "virsh migrate --live --copy-storage-all --verbose vm qemu+ssh://kvm/system".The first time I succeed and I wantto to emulate the local network is down when I migrate,so I close the terminal (Xshell) when migrating, when I reconnect to the terminal ,use the migration command again,it failed.The libvirtd.log says: error : qemuMonitorIORead:514 : Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer warning : qemuMonitorMigrateToFd:1941 : failed to close migration handle It seems that the migration process has not finished normally and so migration cannot go on. I want to know how to resolve it. thanks.

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[libvirt-users] ANNOUNCE: ruby-libvirt 0.5.2
by Chris Lalancette 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

All, This is a release notification for ruby-libvirt 0.5.2. ruby-libvirt is a ruby wrapper around the libvirt API. The changelog between 0.5.1 and 0.5.2 is: * Fix to make sure we don't free more entries than retrieved (potential crash) Version 0.5.2 is available from http://libvirt.org/ruby: Tarball: http://libvirt.org/ruby/download/ruby-libvirt-0.5.2.tgz Gem: http://libvirt.org/ruby/download/ruby-libvirt-0.5.2.gem It is also available from rubygems.org; to get the latest version, run: $ gem install ruby-libvirt As usual, if you run into questions, problems, or bugs, please feel free to mail me (clalancette gmail com) and the libvirt mailing list. Thanks to Guido Günther for the patch to fix this problem.

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[libvirt-users] Canceling a live migration via virsh? (QEMU/KVM)
by Scott Sullivan 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

I am using QEMU/KVM, using Live Migrations like this: virsh migrate --live ${name} qemu+ssh://${DESTINATION}/system My question, running this command makes it hang in the foreground. Is there a way for this to return immediately, so I can just poll for the migration status? Also, is there a way to _cancel_ a migration? I see the --timeout option, however if a given timeout is reached I would rather have the ability to cancel the migration than force the suspend. I do see there is a QEMU api migrate_cancel..eg: virsh qemu-monitor-command ${name} --pretty '{"execute":"migrate_cancel"}' Is that the only way to cancel a migration using libvirt?

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[libvirt-users] Ownerships of VMs and Image files
by Christoph Pleger 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Hello, I installed libvirt and qemu/kvm on a machine. I testet a little with those and found out that all users having an account on that machine can start every VM of every other user on the machine, in some conditions even directly access the image file on the real host. What I would like to have is that every user can only access the VMs and image files he or she created himself/herself, as long as he/she does not explicitly set other permissions. Is it possible to achieve that? Regards Christoph

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[libvirt-users] How to start the linux container's network interface automatically
by WANG Cheng D 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Dear all, I failed to start the linux container's network interface automatically. I have to start it manually each time after the container finishes booting. I know that in a native fedora, if we want the network interface to start automatically, we should edit "/etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 and add the string "ONBOOT=yes". My host is fedora 16. I used "yum --installroot=/root/fedoralxc --releasever=16 install -y openssh, bridge-utils" to setup the rootfs for my container (Laine thought that my fedora version is a little bit older, I wonder if the newer version fedora container can automatically start its network interface ) After rootfs installation, in the container's file system, there is no sub-directory named "network-scripts" in "/etc/sysconfig" . So, I created this directory manually and added a file named "ifcfg-eth0", but the container's network interface still cannot start automatically. I tried to add files ".bash_profile" and ".bashrc" in which I added the "ifconfig" in the shell script to try to configure eth0 automatically, but it still doesn't work. I wonder if there is a ".bashrc" for the root of a container? If there is, where should this file be located? Any comments will be highly appreciated. Cheng

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[libvirt-users] How to start the container's network interface automatically
by WANG Cheng D 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Dear all, I failed to start the container's network interface automatically. I have to start it manually each time after the container finishes booting. I know that in a native fedora, if we want the network interface to start automatically, we should edit "/etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 and add the string "ONBOOT=yes". My host is fedora. I used "yum --installroot=/root/fedoralxc --releasever=16 install -y openssh, bridge-utils" to setup the rootfs for my container After rootfs installation, in the container's file system, there is no sub-directory named "network-scripts" in "/etc/sysconfig" . So, I created this directory manually and added a file named "ifcfg-eth0", but the container's network interface still cannot start automatically. I tried to add files ".bash_profile" and ".bashrc" in which I added the "ifconfig" in the shell script to try to configure eth0 automatically, but it still doesn't work. I wonder if there is a ".bashrc" for the root of a container? If there is, where should this file be located? Any comments will be highly appreciated. Cheng

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[libvirt-users] ANNOUNCE: Oz 0.12.0 release
by Chris Lalancette 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

All, I'm pleased to announce release 0.12.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user. Release 0.12.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 are: * Fixes to concurrent oz-install invocations * Python 3 compatibility in the test suites * Support for Ubuntu 12.04.3 * Support for Mageia * Allow a MAC address to be passed in (instead of auto-generated) * Support for RHEL5.10 * Support for Ubuntu 13.10 * Use lxml instead of libxml2 for XML document processing (it has much better error messages) * Remove the unused "tunnels" functionality * Support FreeBSD 10.0 * Remove deprecated functions from the Guest class * Speed up guest customization on guests that support NetworkManager * Follow subprocess commands as they are executed (makes debugging easier) * Ensure that any paths from the user are absolute, otherwise things don't work properly * Add support for OpenSUSE 13.1 * Add support for Fedora 20 * Add support for RHEL-7 A tarball and zipfile of this release is available on the Github releases page: https://github.com/clalancette/oz/releases . Packages for Fedora-19, Fedora-20, and EPEL-6 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 . Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release through bug reports, patches, and suggestions for improvement. Chris Lalancette

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Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] [RFC] Implementing ftrace support for libvirt
by Mauricio Tavares 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:46 AM, yuxh <yuxinghai(a)cn.fujitsu.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Happy new year! > > The existing trace mechanism in libvirt is dtrace. Although the dtrace > can work, it's not work well enough. Every time we want get information > from the trace point we must write a systemtap script and run it > together with libvirt. > > That's really unpractical on some occasion, especially on production > server since the systemtap script can't be executed automatically. > And some problems may be not easy to reproduce, then it will cost a > lot of time to get the trace information again. > > So I think it is essential to add supporting for record the trace > information automatically in libvirt to satisfy the user's requirement. > That's why I'm currently implementing ftrace support in libvirt. > > How do you think about my idea? Any comment will be appreciated! > How hard/painless it would be to implement it? And, can you have both and then select which one to use? > Thanks, > Yu > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

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