May 2014 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] some problem with snapshot by libvirt
by xingxing gao 21 Nov '14

21 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 27 Jul '14

27 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 12 Jun '14

12 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 03 Jun '14

03 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 30 May '14

30 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 30 May '14

30 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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[libvirt-users] nwfilter usage
by Matt LaPlante 28 May '14

28 May '14

I'm trying to accomplish what I had hoped would be a fairly simple filtering of traffic to my VMs, but I'm hitting a snag. The VMs are allowing traffic when I wouldn't expect them to. Host and Guest are both running the same platform: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.19 I have a basic bridge enabled on the host: brctl addbr brdg brctl addif brdg eth1 ip link set brdg up The host has iptables support: root@host:~# lsmod | grep filt ip6table_filter 12815 0 ip6_tables 27864 2 ip6table_filter,xt_TPROXY iptable_filter 12810 1 ip_tables 27473 4 iptable_raw,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter x_tables 29891 52 ebt_arp,ebt_ip,ip6table_filter,ebtables,xt_time,xt_connlimit,xt_realm,xt_addrtype,iptable_raw,xt_comment,xt_recent,xt_policy,ipt_ULOG,ipt_REJECT,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_ECN,ipt_ecn,ipt_CLUSTERIP,ipt_ah,xt_set,xt_TPROXY,ip6_tables,xt_tcpmss,xt_pkttype,xt_physdev,xt_owner,xt_NFQUEUE,xt_NFLOG,xt_multiport,xt_mark,xt_mac,xt_limit,xt_length,xt_iprange,xt_helper,xt_hashlimit,xt_DSCP,xt_dscp,xt_dccp,xt_conntrack,xt_connmark,xt_CLASSIFY,xt_AUDIT,ipt_LOG,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,ip_tables Guest network using bridge: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:11:22:33:44:55'/> <source bridge='brdg'/> <model type='virtio'/> <filterref filter='outbound-only'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <filter name='outbound-only' chain='root'> <uuid>0c834381-402c-faf3-019f-eb5a40ea6b61</uuid> <filterref filter='allow-arp'/> <filterref filter='allow-dhcp'/> <filterref filter='qemu-announce-self'/> <filterref filter='no-other-l2-traffic'/> </filter> My goal is to allow the guest to reach the internet, but not allow the internet or other guests to reach this guest. I realize this config is not sufficient for that, but I can't get any farther until I understand the current behavior. From the look of the config, this should essentially not be allowing anything except arp and dhcp. And yet, the host has full connectivity. I can run apt-get update on the VM, I can ping the VM from other nodes in my network, etc. It's basically wide-open. So either one of the included rules is not working as advertised, or I'm misunderstanding some feature of the filtering process. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks

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[libvirt-users] vnet device not appearing
by Liam MacKenzie 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hello I have a virtual server with 3 existing VMs running on it without issue. The host has 4 NICs installed; em1 for the host, em2 and em3 already in use by other VMs. I would like to dedicate em4 to my new VM however when I create the bridge like I did for the others I do not get a vnet3 device show up in the list as shown below. I tried using the GUI and virsh to create the bridge. I ended up with this config: [root@cbcvm network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-em4 DEVICE=em4 HWADDR=d4:ae:52:a1:53:a7 ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=www_br0 [root@cbcvm network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-www_br0 DEVICE=www_br0 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Bridge STP=on DELAY=0 [root@cbcvm network-scripts]# virsh iface-list Name State MAC Address -------------------------------------------- em1 active d4:ae:52:a1:53:a4 lo active 00:00:00:00:00:00 mon_br0 active d4:ae:52:a1:53:a6 sbs_br0 active d4:ae:52:a1:53:a5 www_br0 active d4:ae:52:a1:53:a7 How to I make the expected vnet3 device become available to my VM? Thanks! [image: Inline image 1] sdds

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[libvirt-users] problem with bond/team network interfaces
by Nerijus Baliunas 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hello, I have VM attached to bridge br0. VM can see the network (ping works) when the bridge has ethernet interfaces. But when I create bond or team device and attach it to a bridge instead of eth interface, VM does not ping anymore. Any ideas why? Thanks, Nerijus

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[libvirt-users] How to build and install python-libvirt
by Qiang Guan 28 May '14

28 May '14

ubuntu@host-192-168-0-7:~/github$ git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-python.git ubuntu@host-192-168-0-7:~/github$ cd libvirt-python/ ubuntu@host-192-168-0-7:~/github/libvirt-python$ python setup.py build Package libvirt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libvirt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libvirt' found Package libvirt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libvirt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libvirt' found running build /usr/bin/pkg-config --print-errors --atleast-version=0.9.11 libvirt Package libvirt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libvirt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libvirt' found error: command '/usr/bin/pkg-config' failed with exit status 1 What's the problem? -- ------------ Jackie Best Regards

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[libvirt-users] How to open virtual machine console using python libvirt.
by deepak＠fluentsoft.com 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, How to open virtual machine console using python libvirt. I tried openConsole function,it returning integer 0 and not opening any console. code ==== import libvirt conn = libvirt.open('qemu+ssh://root@192.168.1.6/system') vm=conn.lookupByName("vm1-1") stream=onn.newStream(libvirt.VIR_STREAM_NONBLOCK) vm.openConsole(None,stream, 0) Regards, Deepak S ------------------------- Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/

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[libvirt-users] [netcf] Why netcf can not rename a existing physical interface dynamically by itself?
by Jianwei Hu 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi All, I have a usage question about netcf. Why netcf can not rename a existing physical interface dynamically by itself? If you have any other method, please share to me, or can we add support for it in netcf? You can see the following steps for details. Version: netcf-0.2.4-1.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 1. Select a existing NIC from host, for example eth1. [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool list --all eth0 eth1 lo [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool dumpxml eth1 <?xml version="1.0"?> <interface type="ethernet" name="eth1"> <start mode="none"/> <mac address="00:1B:21:27:4E:CE"/> <protocol family="ipv4"> <dhcp/> </protocol> </interface> [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:21:27:4E:CE BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool ifup eth1 Interface eth1 successfully brought up 2. Undefine eth1 from host [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool ifdown eth1 Interface eth1 successfully brought down [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool undefine eth1 eth1 undefined [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool list --all eth0 lo 3. Prepare another xml with same MAC and a new name "jiahu" [root@rhel6 ~]# cat jiahu.xml <interface type="ethernet" name="jiahu"> <start mode="none"/> <mac address="00:1B:21:27:4E:CE"/> <protocol family="ipv4"> <dhcp/> </protocol> </interface> 4. Define the "jiahu", and start it. [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool define jiahu.xml Defined interface jiahu [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool dumpxml jiahu <?xml version="1.0"?> <interface type="ethernet" name="jiahu"> <start mode="none"/> <mac address="00:1B:21:27:4E:CE"/> <protocol family="ipv4"> <dhcp/> </protocol> </interface> [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig jiahu jiahu: error fetching interface information: Device not found [root@rhel6 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-jiahu DEVICE=jiahu HWADDR=00:1B:21:27:4E:CE ONBOOT=no BOOTPROTO=dhcp [root@rhel6 ~]# ncftool ifup jiahu Interface jiahu bring-up failed! error: failed to execute external program error: Running 'ifup jiahu' failed with exit code 1: Device jiahu does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. [root@rhel6 ~]# ll /sys/class/net/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 May 23 11:32 eth0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/net/eth0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 May 23 11:35 eth1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:00.0/net/eth1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 May 23 11:32 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 May 23 11:32 virbr0 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/virbr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 May 23 11:32 virbr0-nic -> ../../devices/virtual/net/virbr0-nic 5. Reboot the host OS, the jiahu interface appeared. [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig jiahu jiahu Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:21:27:4E:CE BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) BR, Jianwei

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[libvirt-users] How i can calculate cpu utilization percentage for domain running under a host using libvirt API.
by deepak＠fluentsoft.com 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi, How i can calculate cpu utilization percentage for domain running under a host using libvirt API. Which function can i use for calulating cpu percentage? Thanks and Regards, Deepak S ------------------------- Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/

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[libvirt-users] - defining routing between guests
by Jacek Pielaszkiewicz 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi, On my host I have few lxc containers. Containers are split between let say three virtual networks. My goal is to define custom routing between networks. I can do that using for example iptables. Is it possible to do that only in libvirt (in network/domains/network filters configuration only)? I did some attempts with network filters, but it doesn't work. I have managed to limit only inbound/outbound traffic. I have found some examples that use libvirt hooks, but I would like to avoid that. I will be grateful for help and some examples. Best Regards Jacek Pielaszkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics Email: j.pielaszkie(a)samsung.com

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[libvirt-users] problem with bond/team network interfaces
by Nerijus Baliunas 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hello, I have VM attached to bridge br0. VM can see the network (ping works) when the bridge has ethernet interfaces. But when I create bond or team device and attach it to a bridge instead of eth interface, VM does not ping anymore. Any ideas why? Thanks, Nerijus

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[libvirt-users] How i can calculate cpu utilization percentage for host using python libvirt API.
by deepak＠fluentsoft.com 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi, How i can calculate cpu utilization percentage for host using python libvirt API. Which function can i use for calulating cpu percentage of host and Virtual Machines? 1)Host cpu utilization ==================== I tried getCPUStats() function,it gives the following output.Is there any way to calculate cpu percentage from the following output? Is there any other function availabe for calculating cpu utilization percentage? output:{'kernel': 34870000000L, 'idle': 3522190000000L, 'user': 209930000000L, 'iowait': 132240000000L} import libvirt conn=libvirt.open('qemu+ssh://root@192.168.1.4/system') conn.getCPUStats(-1,0) Thanks and Regards, Deepak S ------------------------- Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/

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[libvirt-users] sluggish behavior
by Ainsworth, Thomas 20 May '14

20 May '14

Greetings, This is my first stab at this mailing list. Forgive me if I am over/under verbose. We have been running KVM for a while now and love it. Recently I have noticed a weird anomaly that is getting on my nerves. When I clone (GUI or virt-clone from CLI) both* virt-manager* and *virsh* enquiries get extremely sluggish. Using top I cannot see any resource issues. No I/O wait, the load average show noting outside of the normal, nothing taking CPU or Memory. I have notice that in a couple of the instances the libvirtd daemon was stopped. We have more than twenty (20 +) VM's running - they all seem fine. The metal server is a beast of an 820 with 192GB of RAM and 64 CPU's. The load average rarely creeps above 2 or 3. Do not think it is a resource issue. I can write a test file to the filesystem/volume where the images live at over 350MB/s. The sluggishness disappears after a reboot. If I clone a VM ... back again ... Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Tom Ainsworth RHCSA

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[libvirt-users] [LXC] feature request - hostdev target
by Piotr Bartosiewicz 20 May '14

20 May '14

Hi, I am trying to mount /dev/tty5 from host as /dev/tty1 inside LXC container, but libvirt currently supports only 1-to-1 mapping: <hostdev mode='capabilities' type='misc'> <source> <char>/dev/tty5</char> </source> </hostdev> What do you thing about extending this by adding target parameter? It is easy to archive manually using mknod (mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 5), but still I think it would be nice to add this feature to the libvirt. Regards, Piotrek -- Piotr Bartosiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics

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[libvirt-users] Need help with [virt net-create]
by Srinivas_G_Gowda＠dell.com 20 May '14

20 May '14

Is it possible to configure 2 virtual nics in the same ip range ? Here is what I am trying. **** This works **************** cat nw1.xml <network> <name>nw1</name> <domain name='nw1' /> <forward mode='nat' dev='eth2'/> <ip address='192.168.101.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.101.128' end='192.168.101.254'/> </dhcp> </ip> </network> [root@localhost nw]# virsh net-create nw1.xml Network nw1 created from nw1.xml [root@localhost nw]# virsh net-list --all Name State Autostart Persistent ---------------------------------------------------------- nw1 active no no default active yes yes ****** FAILS when given the same ip address range of an existing virtual interface ******* [root@localhost nw]# cat nw2.xml <network> <name>nw2</name> <domain name='nw2' /> <forward mode='nat' dev='eth2'/> <ip address='192.168.101.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.101.128' end='192.168.101.254'/> </dhcp> </ip> </network> [root@localhost nw]# virsh net-create nw2.xml error: Failed to create network from nw2.xml error: internal error: Network is already in use by interface virbr1 ****** PASS - on giving diff ip range ******* [root@localhost nw]# cat nw3.xml <network> <name>nw3</name> <domain name='nw3' /> <forward mode='nat' dev='eth2'/> <ip address='192.168.102.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.102.128' end='192.168.102.254'/> </dhcp> </ip> </network> [root@localhost nw]# virsh net-create nw3.xml Network nw3 created from nw3.xml [root@localhost nw]# virsh net-list --all Name State Autostart Persistent ---------------------------------------------------------- nw1 active no no nw3 active no no default active yes yes Any suggestions on what could be wrong here ? Thanks, G

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[libvirt-users] Cloning of Running Domain
by Thomas 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hello, I have a running transient domain with a storage volume that utilizes a backing file (both QCOW2 format). I'd like to capture the disk and memory state of the domain preferably to external file(s) (which I understand is an 'external checkpoint'), so that other independent domains can be instantiated and effectively "resumed" from this point-in-time profile. My network configuration is such that domains are network-isolated at L2, so resolving MAC/IP address and similar conflicts within the guest are not of concern. Is it possible to accomplish this? I've looked at both the snapshot/checkpoint and migration APIs and it appears as though the pieces are there, but am having difficulty defining the proper workflow. For instance, an external online checkpoint can be created using virDomainSnapshotCreateXML, but is it possible to disassociate the snapshot from the source domain (effectively returning it to its pre-snapshot state) and at a later time instantiate new domains using the the disk/memory data from the snapshot files? Any recommendations, insight, or guidance is appreciated. Thanks, -Thomas

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[libvirt-users] routed mode
by JvR O 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hi, I have installed a centos65_guest_1 system on a centos65 host with virt-manager. By default libvirt has a default network in NAT mode. At centos65_guest_1 when pinging to google it works. But I would like to use a routed mode for production enviroment with some services online, like http, ftp, ssh, etc. I have created the virtual network 192.168.100.0/24 with routed mode, and I have installed another guest system, centos65_guest_2, that is using this network. The problem is that I can't ping to the outside world. ping to 192.168.100.1 is working Why is not working? Any suggestion? Thank you

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[libvirt-users] help to implement LXC terminal
by Fl＠sh 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hi, guys! I began to write qt-virt-manager (https://github.com/F1ash/qt-virt-manager) using libvirt API. I'm currently trying to implement a terminal for LXC-containers, but I do not have enough knowledge and experience. As I understand it, i must use virDomainOpenConsole, which binds virStream with working domain (Virtual Machine). But how to use this stream, I do not know ( I found qterminalwidget to implement the terminal, but I do not know how to tie them). Can anyone suggest how can I do? -- Fl@sh

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[libvirt-users] Invoking virsh console from Java
by Nagaraj Mandya 16 May '14

16 May '14

Hello, I have a Java application from which I am invoking the "virsh console" command to access the console of a VM. I invoke the virsh command using ProcessBuilder.start(). However, I am unable to communicate with the stdin of the VMs console through the OutputStream of the Process object. When I invoke "virsh console" from within Java, I see the following messages on stderr: info : libvirt version: 0.9.8 error : vshRunConsole:318 : unable to get tty attributes: Inappropriate ioctl for device Does anybody know how I can workaround this? Thanks. -- Regards, Nagaraj

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[libvirt-users] convert physical windows 8 machine to virtual machine
by arnaud gaboury 15 May '14

15 May '14

I dual boot w8 and Arch Linux. Both are on the same ssd drive (each OS have of course a partition). Now I would like to virtualize w8 and run it inside Arch Linux using KVM/QEMU and Libvirt. w8 has already been installed on a ntfs partition. As it is brand new, it will not be difficult to reinstall it on a image.raw I have been reading some articles and found myself a little bit confused. 1- Some articles point to driver issues on the windows size, which could lead to an unusable OS. Is this a real issue ? Workaround found is to uninstall IDE/SATA driver in w8 and then install general/universal driver. 2- I can of course copy my w8 partition to a image.raw in my second HD, then create the VM. But in this case, after time, I will not have the same w8 on my ssd and my VM. What I am looking for is a VM that will ever replicate w8 on ssd. In this case, I guess I need to reinstall w8 on a raw qemu-img then use this image for the VM. Am I correct ? Is there anyother solution ? Is it worth keeping the raw image on the ssd for better performance,or moving the image to the other HD will make no difference? 3- Most of the reading talk about virtualise a physical windows using Virtualbox or VMware, which I certainly don't want. I would appreciate any good pointer for the overall set-up. Thank you in advance for hints, tips and advices.

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[libvirt-users] aliases for graphic devices
by Francesco Romani 15 May '14

15 May '14

Hello, AFAIK, aliases cannot be set for Graphics devices. I tried this very simple experiment with libvirt 1.2.4 (from virt-preview on F20) relevant part of the input xml: <graphics type='spice' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'> <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/> <alias name='display.0'/> </graphics> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'> <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/> <alias name='display.1'/> </graphics> # virsh -c qemu:///system virsh # create testdom_spice_vnc_aliases.xml # see attachment Domain fedora19 created from testdom_spice_vnc_aliases.xml virsh # dumpxml fedora19 # only relevant part, see attachment for full output [...] <graphics type='spice' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'> <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/> </graphics> <graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'> <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/> </graphics> [...] So, are really aliases not allowed for the Graphics Devices or am I doing something wrong? If aliases aren't allowed, any plans to support them? Thanks and best regards, -- Francesco Romani RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: 8261328 IRC: fromani

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[libvirt-users] Is there a way to get host uptime in remote libvirt
by coffeeball 14 May '14

14 May '14

We manage hypervisors (VMWare ESXi/vCenter, KVM, XEN, Hyper-V) by remote Libvirt API, in our case we need to get the host uptime via the same libvirt interface. Is there a way get this info now for all the aforementioned hypervisor types? The APIs virConnectGetSysinfo(), virNodeGetInfo() provide host info but it doesn't include the system uptime. The virNodeGetCPUStats() can returns CPU usage in nanosecond, can we add the user + system + idle + iowait to calculate the system uptime? Looks like the sum value has a huge gap with the real uptime value returned by "uptime" CLI. virsh # nodecpustats user: 2985046540000000 system: 1368209710000000 idle: 388018933920000000 iowait: 43371960000000

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[libvirt-users] strange and annoying messages from lib-virtd
by Pal, Laszlo 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi, Since a few weeks I'm getting lot of messages in syslog in FC20 sent by libvirt. I've tried to find the reason using our best friend, but all I can find is some kind of bug related to CPU feature reporting. I'm not really interested what is the reason of the message (I'm sure it will be fixed in an upcoming release), but I would like to get rid of these annoying messages libvirtd[1319]: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'qom-get': guest hasn't updated any stats yet do you have any idea? Thank you L:

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[libvirt-users] [VHPC’14] LAST Call for Papers - Deadline in 4 weeks
by VHPC 14 12 May '14

12 May '14

================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, August 25-29, Porto, Portugal (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 26, 2014 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2014 (extended) Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory Hobbes: Using Virtualization to Enable Exascale Applications and Helge Meinhard, CERN CALL FOR PAPERS Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to dynamically manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion for varying workloads and hosted applications, independently of the customers deploying software or users submitting highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to virtualization, we have the ability to manage vast computing and networking resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple under-utilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization, with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. These technologies have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance, responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified Service- Level Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services. Indeed, among emerging and increasingly interesting application domains for virtualization, we can find big-data application workloads in cloud infrastructures, interactive and real-time multimedia services in the cloud, including real-time big-data streaming platforms such as used in real-time analytics supporting nowadays a plethora of application domains. Distributed cloud infrastructures promise to offer unprecedented responsiveness levels for hosted applications, but that is only possible if the underlying virtualization technologies can overcome most of the latency impairments typical of current virtualized infrastructures (e.g., far worse tail-latency). What is more, in data communications Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming a key technology enabling a shift from supplying hardware-based network functions, to providing them in a software-based and elastic way. In conjunction with (public and private) cloud technologies, NFV may be used for constructing the foundation for cost-effective network functions that can easily and seamlessly adapt to demand, still keeping their major carrier-grade characteristics in terms of QoS and reliability. The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, and lightning talks, limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Language-process virtual machines - Performance monitoring for virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Paravirtualized I/O - Improving I/O and network virtualization including use of RDMA, Infiniband, PCIe - Improving performance in VM access to GPUs, GPU clusters, GP-GPUs - HPC storage virtualization - Virtualized systems for big-data and analytics workloads - Optimizations and enhancements to OS virtualization support - Improving OS-level virtualization and its integration within cloud management - Performance modelling for virtualized/cloud applications - Heterogeneous virtualized environments - Parallel virtualized - virtualization aware file systems - Network virtualization - Software defined networking - Network function virtualization - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloudbursting - Evolved European grid architectures including such based on network virtualization - Workload characterization for VM-based environments - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Checkpointing/migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Job scheduling/control/policy with VMs - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Research, industrial and educational use cases - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations - Services in cloud HPC - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - Cluster provisioning in the cloud - Performance and cost modelling - Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs - VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - Energy-aware virtualization Important Dates Rolling Paper registration June 9, 2014 - Full paper submission (extended) July 4, 2014 - Acceptance notification October 3, 2014 - Camera-ready version due August 26, 2014 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Costas Bekas, IBM Jakob Blomer, CERN Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Piero Castoldi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Paolo Costa, MS Research Cambridge, England Jorge Ejarque Artigas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Herbert Poetzl, VServer, Austria Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa, Italy Josh Simons, VMware, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Vangelis Tasoulas, Simula Research Lab, Norway Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSION-PUBLICATION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html EasyChair Abstract Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, 25-29 August, Porto, Portugal

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[libvirt-users] [Solved]：LibvirtError: Operation not supported : JSON monitor is required
by xeon_feng 09 May '14

09 May '14

Hello everyone I have solved the problem(LibvirtError: Operation not supported : JSON monitor is required). yajl-devel package must be intalled before compile and install libvirt 1.2.4 ..... then rebuild and install libvirt-python 1.2.4 every thing is OK..... Hi Thanks for chenhanxiao(a)cn.fujitsu.com help , I have resole the problem (libvirt 1.2.4 and virt-manager 0.9.0 are not incompatible)..but when I created VM by virt-manager ,it reported : unable to complete install: 'Opertation not supported: JSON monitor is required.' Traceback(most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py",line 44, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) ...... LibvirtError: Operation not supported : JSON monitor is required. what is wrong ? Please help me....... Tanks a lot .... Xeon.Feng last problem: libvirt 1.2.4 and virt-manager 0.9.0 are not incompatible """""""""" Hello everyone I encountered a problem when I completed the update of libvirt from 0.10 to 1.2.4 . The problem was that virt-manager(version 0.9.0) could not start and reported error : "ImportError: /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0: version 'LIBVIRT_PRIVIATE_0.10.2' not found (required by /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirtmod.so)". I found the libvirt.so.0 link file just in the /usr/lib64/ directory , but it was linking to libvirt.so.0.1002.4 .not to the libvirt.so.0.10.2 I made libvirt.so.0 to link to libvirt.so.0.10.2 and restarted virt-manager , virt-manager started normally then restarted libvirtd failure, reporting error:l “ibvirtd: /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0: version 'LIBVIRT_1.2.3' not found (require by libvirtd) .....” I made libvirt.so.0 to link to libvirt.so.0.1002.4 and restart libvirtd , libvirtd started normally again. Please help me to resolve the problem and give me some advise.... Thanks a lot.. Xeon.Feng """""""

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[libvirt-users] Is tunnelled "managed direct" live migration actually possible?
by Richard W.M. Jones 09 May '14

09 May '14

I have three servers set up as in this diagram: http://libvirt.org/migration.html#flowmanageddirect My control application has separate libvirt connections to both the source and destination nodes. I want to migrate entirely over those connections, not involving any third (peer-to-peer) connection between nodes (a third connection isn't possible because of firewalls and SSH keys). Is this actually possible? I've been playing with the API and reading docs, and it seems like "direct managed" migration is simply not possible :-( dom.migrate (dconn, libvirt.VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE|libvirt.VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED) libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: cannot perform tunnelled migration without using peer2peer flag Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

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[libvirt-users] snapshot-current vs snapshot-revert
by bitozoid 08 May '14

08 May '14

If I want to go back to a snapshot, what is the difference between snapshot-current and snapshot-revert? What happens to disk sectors of the current state when reverting to another snapshot? I'm using qemu qcow2.

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[libvirt-users] LibvirtError: Operation not supported : JSON monitor is required
by xeon_feng 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi Thanks for chenhanxiao(a)cn.fujitsu.com help , I have resole the problem (libvirt 1.2.4 and virt-manager 0.9.0 are not incompatible)..but when I created VM by virt-manager ,it reported : unable to complete install: 'Opertation not supported: JSON monitor is required.' Traceback(most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py",line 44, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) ...... LibvirtError: Operation not supported : JSON monitor is required. what is wrong ? Please help me....... Tanks a lot .... Xeon.Feng last problem: libvirt 1.2.4 and virt-manager 0.9.0 are not incompatible """""""""" Hello everyone I encountered a problem when I completed the update of libvirt from 0.10 to 1.2.4 . The problem was that virt-manager(version 0.9.0) could not start and reported error : "ImportError: /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0: version 'LIBVIRT_PRIVIATE_0.10.2' not found (required by /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirtmod.so)". I found the libvirt.so.0 link file just in the /usr/lib64/ directory , but it was linking to libvirt.so.0.1002.4 .not to the libvirt.so.0.10.2 I made libvirt.so.0 to link to libvirt.so.0.10.2 and restarted virt-manager , virt-manager started normally then restarted libvirtd failure, reporting error:l “ibvirtd: /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0: version 'LIBVIRT_1.2.3' not found (require by libvirtd) .....” I made libvirt.so.0 to link to libvirt.so.0.1002.4 and restart libvirtd , libvirtd started normally again. Please help me to resolve the problem and give me some advise.... Thanks a lot.. Xeon.Feng """""""

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[libvirt-users] Can I assign a dedicated NIC to a container?
by WANG Cheng D 07 May '14

07 May '14

Dear all, There are two containers hosted by my host machine. And the host machine has two same 1G NICs. I want to assign a dedicated NIC to one container. The host and the other container share the second NIC. How can I achieve this? Any comments will be highly appreciated. Cheng

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[libvirt-users] Libvirtd failed to start inside container: libvirt-qemu.so.0: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
by Konstantin Danilov 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi all. I run into trouble, while try to start libvirtd inside docker container (actually it is LXC container). During startup libvirtd can't load shared library libvirt-qemu.so.0 (and strace results looks very odd). * I run libvirtd as root. * libvirt-bin - 0.9.8-2ubuntu17 * selinux/apparmor both disabled. * No other security extension are used. * No sticky bits are set. * Required library are present in appropriate folder and have all required permissions. * I also successfully load it to other process (python). * No file locks are holds. * OS ubuntu linux 12.04 x64 ___running inside LXC container__(docker). Container is privileged (I can run vm using kvm in it) * On host system libvirtd starts ok, but stopped now # uname -a Linux 27119997ee44 3.11.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 11 18:48:34 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # dpkg -l | grep libvirt ii libvirt-bin 0.9.8-2ubuntu17 programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt0 0.9.8-2ubuntu17 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems ii python-libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17 libvirt Python bindings # libvirtd libvirtd: error while loading shared libraries: libvirt-qemu.so.0: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied # whoami root # ls -l `which libvirtd` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1211712 Apr 16 2012 /usr/sbin/libvirtd # ldd `which libvirtd` ...... libvirt-qemu.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvirt-qemu.so.0 (0x00007fd6ed29c000)Environment: .... # ls -l /usr/lib/libvirt-qemu.so.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6144 May 6 21:46 /usr/lib/libvirt-qemu.so.0 # strace libvirtd execve("/usr/sbin/libvirtd", ["libvirtd"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x1d74000 .... (~30 lines) open("/usr/lib/libvirt-qemu.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) <<<< !!!! stat("/usr/lib", 0x7fffbd127840) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)-- <<<< !!!! Before try to load /usr/lib/libvirt-qemu.so.0 libvirtd make only stat, open, access and brk system calls (no change user or other security related calls) # stat /usr/lib File: `/usr/lib' Size: 8192 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 53h/83d Inode: 70 Links: 68 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2014-04-02 12:38:18.171617082 +0000 Modify: 2014-05-06 21:46:39.450449491 +0000 Change: 2014-05-06 21:46:39.450449491 +0000 Birth: - # selinuxenabled ; echo $? 1 # kvm-ok INFO: /dev/kvm exists KVM acceleration can be used on host system - $ docker -v Docker version 0.9.1, build 3600720 Thanks ---- Kostiantyn Danilov aka koder.ua Principal software engineer, Mirantis skype:koder.ua http://koder-ua.blogspot.com/ http://mirantis.com

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[libvirt-users] Virsh Attach Volume Fails
by Vilobh Meshram 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi, When trying to attach a created volume to an instance using the virsh utility I am running into this error :- [] $ sudo virsh attach-device instance-00000015 disk.xml error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command '__com.redhat_drive_add': Device 'drive-virtio-disk21' could not be initialized For experimental purpose I have libvirt 0.10.2 and QEMU 0.12.1. The volume to be attached is on a remote storage. Any idea what I might be missing ? Thanks, Vilobh

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[libvirt-users] libvirt 1.2.4 and virt-manager 0.9.0 are not incompatible
by xeon_feng 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello everyone I encountered a problem when I completed the update of libvirt from 0.10 to 1.2.4 . The problem was that virt-manager(version 0.9.0) could not start and reported error : "ImportError: /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0: version 'LIBVIRT_PRIVIATE_0.10.2' not found (required by /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirtmod.so)". I found the libvirt.so.0 link file just in the /usr/lib64/ directory , but it was linking to libvirt.so.0.1002.4 .not to the libvirt.so.0.10.2 I made libvirt.so.0 to link to libvirt.so.0.10.2 and restarted virt-manager , virt-manager started normally then restarted libvirtd failure, reporting error:l “ibvirtd: /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0: version 'LIBVIRT_1.2.3' not found (require by libvirtd) .....” I made libvirt.so.0 to link to libvirt.so.0.1002.4 and restart libvirtd , libvirtd started normally again. Please help me to resolve the problem and give me some advise.... Thanks a lot.. Xeon.Feng

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[libvirt-users] Virtualbox HOWTO?
by Dr. Boris Neubert 04 May '14

04 May '14

Hi, I have the latest libvirt from the git repo successfully compiled and up and running under CentOS 6.5. I can connect to the daemon (started with /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd -d --listen) both locally and remotely. I cannot see my virtualbox virtual machines. They run as the user "virtualbox". I connect with virsh -c vbox+tcp://virtualbox@vmserver/session and all list --all gets me is Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- I probably miss something elementary, especially because I am not asked for a password for the virtualbox user and did not configure any machines beforehand. But I did not find how do to the trick in the documentation. Anybody out there with a working Virtualbox setup can help me out? Thanks and kind regards, Boris

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[libvirt-users] newbee questions
by John Smith 04 May '14

04 May '14

Hi, Im very new to virtualization on Linux, wanting to kick the tires some, and am wondering where best to go next. Right now, ive done the 'all in one install' of ovirt 3.4 on a single fedora 19 machine. Its a desktop with a wifi network interface, and im trying to set up the kvm hypervisor in combination with macvtap. Any pointers to docs on what best to do next is appreciated. Im currently trying to make sense of this: http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide Also, as far as I can tell, there seems to be an issue with the detection of my wireless wifi network interface 'wlp2s0' as it doesnt seem to show up anywhere in the interface. I can attach the 'ovirtmgmt' network to my standard wired ethernet interface 'p2p2', but that device is not in use on the machine and it is disconnected from the network. Reading about linux virt and issues with bridging with wifi NIC's on the web made me, perhaps incorrectly here, assume that a wifi nic might be an issue, so thats where the idea to use macvtap came from. Manual setup of macvtap seems to work, as i can do this without issues on a root prompt on the same machine: ip link add link wlp2s0 name macvtap0 type macvtap ip link set macvtap0 address 1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7b up ip link show macvtap0 But the wifi interface 'wlp2s0' does not seem to show up in the ovirt web gui interface. Im sorry if I sound confusing here, but that may be just because im really still confused about ovirt. ;) So any pointers on what to read up on or do next is appreciated, Thanks, Regards, John Smith.

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[libvirt-users] Corrupt image?
by mattias 02 May '14

02 May '14

I took a gzipped qcow2 image And do a gunzip on it But what? [root@mjw vm]# fdisk w.qcow2 -l Disk w.qcow2: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 [root@mjw vm]# The disc should not be 0 mb!!! The disc worked before i gzipped it

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[libvirt-users] virsh update-device: need to clear network filters
by Oleg Bondarev 01 May '14

01 May '14

Hi, Can anyone please help with the following: I have a running instance with interface <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='fa:16:3e:ba:a4:67'/> <source bridge='br100/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <filterref filter='nova-instance-instance-00000001-fa163ebaa467'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> what I need is to clear network interface on the instance. I tried virsh update-device with following xml: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='fa:16:3e:ba:a4:67'/> <source bridge='br100/> <model type='virtio'/> </interface> but this results in the following error: $ sudo virsh update-device 13 xml.xml --persistent --live --config error: Failed to update device from xml.xml error: End of file while reading data: Input/output error error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor and libvirt is restarted. Is it possible to clear nw filter at all? Thanks, Oleg

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[libvirt-users] Some odd quriks of libvirt and xen on fedora 20.
by Alvin Starr 01 May '14

01 May '14

for pv systems the vnc console display is on the correct port with the following call do qeum-dm libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -domain-name libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: paravirt libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -vnc libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: 127.0.0.1:1 but for hv systems xl is being passed libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -domain-name libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: fullvirt libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -vnc libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: 127.0.0.1:0 libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -vncunused libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -serial libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: pty libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: -videoram libxl: debug: libxl_dm.c:1213:libxl__spawn_local_dm: 8 Where would I look to correct this? -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin(a)netvel.net ||

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