May 2014 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] some problem with snapshot by libvirt
by xingxing gao 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi,all,i am using libvirt to manage my vm,in these days i am testing the libvirt snapshot ,but meet some problem: the snapshot was created from this command: snapshot-create-as win7 --disk-only --diskspec vda,snapshot=external --diskspec hda,snapshot=no but when i tried to revert from the snapshot which created from the above command ,i got error below: virsh # snapshot-revert win7 1338041515 --force error: unsupported configuration: revert to external disk snapshot not supported yet version: virsh # version Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.4 Using library: libvir 0.9.4 Using API: QEMU 0.9.4 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.0.93

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[libvirt-users] redirecting guest stdio to the host
by Alexander Binun 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Dear Friends, I would ask you a question ; grateful in advance! I have a program running on a VM guest. Its output is valuable (for VM introspection) so I want to let the host module know about it. I prefer to redirect ' stdio" of a guest into a device at the host (a text file or my device that has the name "mydev" and the driver is written for it). I have the XML definition file for my VM in /etc/libvirt/qemu. I have added the section: <serial type="file"> <source path="/var/log/vm/vml.log"/> <target port="0"/> </serial> into the /devices section. That is I want the stdio to be streamed into the file /var/log/vm/vml.log at the host. Then I run simple textual commands at the guest (ls, pwd and so on). But I do not see /var/log/vm/vml.log created at the host. Please help me. Thanks in advance, Alexander Binun > > The command string for qemu will look like qemu -serial /dev/mydev ... But I would like to > modify the libvirt definition XML file (in /etc/libvirt/qemu). Stefan notes in his blog > (http://blog.vmsplice.net/2011/04/how-to-pass-qemu-command-line-options.html) that the options will > look like: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:06:10 +0300 From: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com> To: Alexander Binun <binun(a)cs.bgu.ac.il> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha(a)gmail.com> yagel(a)cs.bgu.ac.il kahilm(a)post.bgu.ac.il qemu-devel(a)nongnu.org boaz.menuhin(a)gmail.com Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini(a)redhat.com> markbl(a)post.bgu.ac.il Subject: Re: excuse me for incorrect question... On 05/28/2014 08:43 AM, Alexander Binun wrote: > Eric, I aplogize for making your work complicated. [You top-posted again] No need to apologize - these lists exist to help people, and we were all new once. > > Should I send questions to libvirt-users(a)redhat.com instead ? I would ask more questions. Yes, if your questions are related to libvirt, then asking on a libvirt list will get you a better audience that may have better answers to your questions. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org On 05/28/2014 08:43 AM, Alexander Binun wrote: > Eric, I aplogize for making your work complicated. [You top-posted again] No need to apologize - these lists exist to help people, and we were all new once. > > Should I send questions to libvirt-users(a)redhat.com instead ? I would ask more questions. Yes, if your questions are related to libvirt, then asking on a libvirt list will get you a better audience that may have better answers to your questions. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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[libvirt-users] [netcf]IFF_RUNNING flag on a bridge device
by Jianwei Hu 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi All, I have one netcf question, please help me to resolve it, thanks. I can set a IFF_RUNNING flag to a bridge device which are no interface device attached. What status of a flag on a bridge device in current kernel?(w/o interface), is this a new change in kernel or other component? In netcf, but there is a patch to fix that flag issue, I can't understand it. fix wrong status of bridge devices The IFF_RUNNING flag is not set on a bridge device if there are no devices attached to it. So bridges without attached devices are reported as inactive. Destroying inactive devices leads to an error and thus the device can't be removed (easily) from the operating system. This patch checks if the device is a bridge and if so ignores the IFF_RUNNING flag. https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/netcf.git/commit/?id=7fa5fa5a1e43e6e2afec… My testing results of IFF_RUNNING on non-device bridge: Version: [root@rhel6 boot]# rpm -q kernel netcf kernel-2.6.32-468.el6.x86_64 netcf-0.2.4-1.el6.x86_64 [root@rhel6 ~]# brctl show br0 bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.000000000000 no [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6A:3B:6F:DF:17:A9 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 up [root@rhel6 ~]# brctl show br0 bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.000000000000 no [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6A:3B:6F:DF:17:A9 inet6 addr: fe80::683b:6fff:fedf:17a9/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:866 (866.0 b)

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt with virtualbox
by Dr. Boris Neubert 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Hi, has anyone of you successfully used libvirt with VirtualBox? I ask because I haven't managed to connect to my machines and would like to benefit from your experience. Cheers Boris

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[libvirt-users] Updating domain XML issue
by Brian Rak 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

I'm trying to unmount a guest cdrom using libvirt_domain_update_device (via php-libvirt). The guest cdrom is currently mounted via Ceph, via this XML: <disk type='network' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <auth username='cdroms'> <secret type='ceph' uuid='XXXX'/> </auth> <source protocol='rbd' name='cdrom/test'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> In order to unmount it, I'm trying to use this XML: <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <alias name='ide0-1-0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> However, I'm getting an error from libvirt: 'internal error: invalid secret type 'ceph''. I suspect this is because it's still trying to use the authentication information from the old cdrom definition. How do I convince it to not do this? I've tried specifiying an empty <auth/> block, but that generates it's own error ('missing username for auth')

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[libvirt-users] Live snapshots of a single block device
by Andrew Martin 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hello, I am working on a script to automatically create live snapshots of running VMs using qemu-kvm 1.4.0 and libvirt 1.0.2. If a VM has multiple disks, I'd like to back them up individually with separate calls to snapshot-create-as, so I can more easily manage the disk images. The code I have now is essentially as follows: virsh snapshot-create-as --domain "vmname" --name "snapshotname" --description "snapshot description" --disk-only --atomic --no-metadata --diskspec "vda" I run this command for each block device (e.g vda, vdb, etc). However, after running the above command (to only backup vda), I see that a snapshot has also been created for vdb. I tried running it with --print-xml, which gives this output: <domainsnapshot> <name>05-22-14_17-09-25</name> <description>05-22-14_17-09-25</description> <disks> <disk name='vda'/> </disks> </domainsnapshot> What am I doing wrong - how can I tell snapshot-create-as to create an external snapshot for a specific block device only (not all block devices)? Also, while looking at the manpage, does the --live option do anything different if used with the above command? Thanks, Andrew Martin

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[libvirt-users] Libvrt Migrate an Offline VM
by Sijo Jose 31 May '14

31 May '14

Hi, Is it possible to migrate an Offline VM using libvirt API ? Regards Sijo Jose

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[libvirt-users] Host OS, Storage Info
by Sijo Jose 31 May '14

31 May '14

Hi, Is there any way to get host OS information and host Storage in formations using libvirt API...? Rgds -Sijo

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[libvirt-users] More than one certificate authority
by Емил Гелев 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hello. I have a question about libvirt remote access. I read carefully how to set up TLS authorization guide and I have done all the steps. Everything works, but for my virtualization infrastructure I need more flexibility. How can I configure a single host to trust more than one certificate authority. Lets say, for example, that I have 10 virtualization hosts and each of them has certificates signed by the same CA (lets say CA1) and they trust each other. But I have a client which does not have a client certificate signed by CA1, but has a certificate signed by CA2. I do not want my virtualization hosts to trust the CA2 except for just one of them. I want to provide this client with authorized access to one of my hosts. So this specific host must trust CA1 and CA2 as well, but in the '/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf' file I can point the certificate of only one CA. How can I set up such a configuration ? The same question is valid for the client. How can I configure a client to trust CA1 and CA2 ?

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[libvirt-users] Hot memory and cpu update
by usha.basavaraju＠fluentsoft.com 30 May '14

30 May '14

Runing domain xml vv.XMLDesc(0) n ub_test1n 714dde02-76c9-7d45-25af-e50f0a54f4bcn 545792n 545792n 4n n hvmn n n n n n n destroyn restartn destroyn n /usr/bin/kvmn n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n nn" >>> vv.info() [1, 545792L, 545792L, 1, 6320000000L] 1. >>> vv.setMemoryFlags(545794) libvir: QEMU Driver error : invalid argument: cannot set memory higher than max memory Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/fluent/cvt/convirt-enterprise/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1781, in setMemoryFlags if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainSetMemoryFlags() failed', dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: invalid argument: cannot set memory higher than max memory >>> vv.setMemoryFlags(545790) 0 >>> vv.info() [1, 545792L, 545792L, 1, 6480000000L] >>> vv.setMemoryFlags(545788) 0 >>> vv.info() [1, 545792L, 545792L, 1, 6480000000L] If increase memory giving the above. if decreased memory it is running the command successfully but not changing the value 2.Vcpu update >>> vv.setVcpusFlags(2) libvir: QEMU Driver error : internal error got wrong number of vCPU pids from QEMU monitor. got 4, wanted 2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/fluent/cvt/convirt-enterprise/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1884, in setVcpusFlags if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainSetVcpusFlags() failed', dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: internal error got wrong number of vCPU pids from QEMU monitor. got 4, wanted 2 >>> vv.setVcpusFlags(5) libvir: QEMU Driver error : invalid argument: requested vcpus is greater than max allowable vcpus for the domain: 5 > 4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/fluent/cvt/convirt-enterprise/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1884, in setVcpusFlags if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainSetVcpusFlags() failed', dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: invalid argument: requested vcpus is greater than max allowable vcpus for the domain: 5 > 4 Cant increase or decrease vcpu. ------------------------- Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/

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