July 2014 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] Problem about Disk Dize of Destination and Source File after Do Blockcopy
by shyu 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

Hi There, There is a case I met about the destination file's disk size after do blockcopy Details as below: Env: # rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm-rhev libvirt-1.1.1-29.el7.x86_64 qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-60.el7ev_0.2.x86_64 1. Check source file # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.img image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.img file format: qcow2 virtual size: 5.0G (5368709120 bytes) disk size: 1.2G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false # ll -lash /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.img 1.2G -rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 1.2G Jul 22 11:04 /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.img Here: Disk Size is "1.2G" 2. Do blockcopy # virsh domblklist rhel6 Target Source ------------------------------------------------ vda /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.img # time virsh blockcopy rhel6 vda /var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img --wait --verbose Block Copy: [100 %] Now in mirroring phase real 0m21.285s user 0m0.038s sys 0m0.018s 3. Check destination file's disk size # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img file format: qcow2 virtual size: 5.0G (5368709120 bytes) disk size: 2.0G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false # ll -lash /var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img 2.1G -rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 1.2G Jul 22 11:10 /var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img Here: Disk Size is "2.0G" So my question is why the "disk size" is different between source file and destination file ? (Actually, the destination always change after I try many times, sometime it is same size as source, sometimes it is lager than source.) 4. Do --pivot After --pivot, the disk size is same size as after blockcopy -- Regards shyu

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[libvirt-users] Migration b/w nodes with identical cpu featureset failing
by Andrey Korolyov 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

Hello, on libvirt 1.2.4 and two nodes with E5-2620 and E5-2650, I am not able to migrate vm with cpu=host-passthrough with error: internal error: can't get vmdef the only difference between sender and receiver` cpus is the frequency and identification string. Is this behaviour expected?

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[libvirt-users] vhost-net requested but could not be initialized
by Asadullah Hussain 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

I am using a custom qemu to launch a vhost enabled VM. The qemu doesn't use the default "/dev/vhost-net" directory as character device. Due to this I am getting the error: qemu-system-x86_64: -netdev type=tap,id=net1,script=no,downscript=no,ifname=port3,vhost=on: vhost-net requested but could not be initialized Is there a way to tell libvirt to avoid using the default /dev/vhost-net file? I have tried using the pass-through arguments but libvirt still processes the command and throws the error. PS: I can successfully create a vhost VM using qemu command-line, so this is a libvirt issue. -- Cheers, Asadullah Hussain

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[libvirt-users] how to read the libvirt log file
by Yuanzhen Gu 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hi folks, I need to trace how libvirt talk with qemu monitor, log everything when give command, but does anyone know what the format, and how to read the log file? for example: 2014-07-22 17:25:22.984+0000: 18571: debug : qemuMonitorIOProcess:356 : QEMU_MONITOR_IO_PROCESS: mon=0x7f733c000a40 buf={"timestamp": {"seconds": 1406049922, "microseconds": 983916}, "event": "STOP"} where to find the qemuMonitorIOProcess function, and what :356 means? Thanks very much! Best, Yuanzhen

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Re: [libvirt-users] i686 guest failing to start at 50a2c45 (and earlier versions of 2.1-rc) with pc-i440fx-2.1
by Andrey Korolyov 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Andrey Korolyov <andrey(a)xdel.ru> wrote: > Hello, > > 2.0 model works fine > > 2.1 crashes with following: > > /tmp/buildd/qemu-2.0.92+rev1/hw/i386/smbios.c:825: smbios_get_tables: > Assertion `smbios_smp_sockets >= 1' failed > > Not sure if bisect will help much, but the commit which introduced > this platform works well (3458b2b0). > > arg set follows: > > /usr/bin/kvm -name vm28456 -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.1,accel=kvm,usb=off > -cpu qemu32 -m 256 -realtime mlock=off -smp > 1,sockets=1,cores=12,threads=12 -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,mem=256 > -uuid 46623576-d00b-42b4-b1cc-c5c780a8b5b3 -nographic -no-user-config > -nodefaults -chardev > socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/vm28456.monitor,server,nowait > -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc > base=utc,clock=vm,driftfix=slew -global > kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device > piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device > virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive > file=rbd:dev-rack2/vm28456-YoP:id=qemukvm:key=XXXXXX:auth_supported=cephx\;none:mon_host=10.6.0.1\:6789\;10.6.0.3\:6789\;10.6.0.4\:6789,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=writeback > -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 > -netdev tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=24 -device > virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:10:03:a8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 > -netdev tap,fd=25,id=hostnet1,vhost=on,vhostfd=26 -device > virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=52:54:00:10:03:a9,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 > -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device > isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev > socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/vm28456.sock,server,nowait > -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.1 Nevermind, that was a result from wrong config generation (1 vcpu and 12 topology cores in the config, probably libvirt folks may be interested for checking this because libvirt allows such configuration for now).

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[libvirt-users] starting lxcs from within a vm using libvirt
by Robb Walker 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

my goal for testing/simulations is to be able to run a vm on my desktop and within that vm run linux containers currently I can start an ubuntu trusty vm using libvirt as my broker to qemu or qemu-system-x86_64 directly and start a saucy-based lxc using lxc-tools. I invoke lxc-start -n name -f configfile and within a few seconds I'm logged into my saucy based lxc. I can't start the lxc thru libvirt i.e. virsh -c lxc:/// start domain Again, if I try to use libvirt to "install" and start the lxc from within the vm, no joy. Results below: >>> root@vullbvrt69:~# virt-install --connect lxc:/// -n vulslxc01 -r 512 --filesystem /qemu_lxc/ss_140521/,/ --serial pty --serial pty Starting install... Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00 error: failed to get domain '22542' error: Domain not found: No domain with matching name '22542' Domain creation completed. You can restart your domain by running: root@vullbvrt69:~# virsh -c lxc:/// list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - vulslxc01 shut off root@vullbvrt69:~# virsh -c lxc:/// start vulslxc01 Domain vulslxc01 started root@vullbvrt69:~# virsh -c lxc:/// console vulslxc01 --devname serial1 error: The domain is not running root@vullbvrt69:~# virsh -c lxc:/// list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - vulslxc01 shut off >>> My physical desktop is running precise 12.04.4 ----qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.15 ----libvirt-bin 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.19 ----lxc 0.7.5-3ubuntu69 This physical machine launches the trusty vm from which in turn I'm trying to run lxcs via libvirt Trusty vm ----libvirt-bin 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.1 ----lxc 1.0.4-0ubuntu0.1 The saucy lxc was not created using lxc templates just a normal minbase debootstrap. I have run virt-install with -d. Nothing obvious jumps out except the above Domain not found virsh -c lxc:/// -d4 -l debug.out start domain_name dumps nothing into debug.out thx in advance for any and all help and apolgies in advance if I've dropped critical info to help sort this out This e-mail and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and proprietary and otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, do not read, duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please immediately delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mail or any attachments. The DRW Companies make no representations that this e-mail or any attachments are free of computer viruses or other defects.

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Re: [libvirt-users] LVM Volume Creation
by Ravi Samji 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi All, I'm having issue with creating LVM Volume via libvirt. We are running libvirtd 1.2 with KVM. We are creating Volume Group (VG01) outside of libvirt and defining a storage pool for it. Here is the StoragePool XML for the Volume Group created outside libvirt. <pool type="logical"> <name>VG01</name> <target> <path>/dev/VG01</path> </target> </pool> We are creating Logical Volume (ub_test01.img) through libvirt in the Volume Group (VG01) Here is the XML to create Storage Volume in LVM Storage Pool VG01. <volume type="block"> <name>ub_test01.img</name> <allocation>0</allocation> <capacity unit="M">1</capacity> <target> <format type="lvm2" /> </target> </volume> When I create the Logical Volume from libvirt using above XML and run lvs command to list logical volumes, this is what I see. LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert --------------- ------- ------- ------- ----------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- foo VG01 -wi-a- 1.00g ub_test01.img VG01 swi-a- 4.00m [ub_test01.img_vorigin] 0.20 root ops-02 -wi-ao 227.08g swap_1 ops-02 -wi-ao 5.75g As you see, ub_test01.img shows that it has an Origin indicating that it was created as a snapshot, but, that Origin doesn't exist and wasn't specified. I'd appreciate if you anyone can help me understand what is going on and/or describe how to make libvirt create logical volumes not as a snapshot. I'm happy to enable debugging to see what command libvirt is running to create the volume if someone case describe how to enable debugging. Regards, Ravi Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/

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[libvirt-users] LVM Volume Creation
by Ravi Samji 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Hi All, I'm having issue with creating LVM volume via libvirt. XML of LVM StoragePool is: VG01 /dev/VG01 (existing vg) XML of create volume in lvm pool is: ub_test01.img 0 1 When I create the volume with above XML defn, lvs command to list logical volume shows a value in the origin column indicating it was created as snapshot.. the strange thing is that the origin volume does not exist..! something strange going on. You can see the lvs output here See http://pastebin.com/prk6VqwD [1] I'd appreciate if you anyone can help me understand what is going on and/or describe how to make libvirt create logical volumes not as a snapshot. We are running libvirtd 1.2 with KVM. Regards, Ravi ------------------------- Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/ Links: ------ [1] http://pastebin.com/prk6VqwD

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[libvirt-users] Changing the default qemu path in libvirt
by satheesh 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Hi All, I would like to change the default qemu path in libvirt xml and the changed path has to be used while installing VMs using virt-install. There was a similar question rasied some years back, I could not find the answer to the same. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg01100.html Is that possible right now?, If we have the support already, please point to the same. Thanks in advance. Regards, -Satheesh.

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[libvirt-users] configuring a lxc guest to run 32bits from a 64bits host under libvirt-lxc
by Thierry Parmentelat 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Hi there I have a couple of newbie questions concerning running a 32bits guest in a 64bits host using libvirt - lxc; I’m running libvirt-1.2.5 on fedora18 and fedora20 (a) is this supported at all, and (b) if so how do I configure this for a given guest ? guessing from the mere existence of http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-February/msg01040.html I would think the answer to (a) is yes; anybody cares to confirm ? As far as (b), I would expect some flag could be set in the XML description of my guest so that libvirt can perform the proper syscall to personality() at the right point in the process hierarchy.. However I have not been able to spot this in the documentation so far, but OTOH the page on the XML configuration here http://libvirt.org/format.html appears to be empty so this might be a temporary hiccup ? in any case, any hint or insight on this matter would be much appreciated — Thierry

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