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[libvirt-users] ceph rbd pool and libvirt manageability (virt-install)
by Jelle de Jong 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I created a rbd pool and activated it, but I can't seem to create volumes in it with virsh or virt-install? # virsh pool-dumpxml myrbdpool <pool type='rbd'> <name>myrbdpool</name> <uuid>2d786f7a-2df3-4d79-ae60-1535bcf1c6b5</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>6997998301184</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>10309227031</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>6977204658176</available> <source> <host name='ceph01.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph02.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph03.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <name>libvirt-pool</name> <auth type='ceph' username='libvirt'> <secret uuid='029a334e-ed57-4293-bb99-ffafa8867122'/> </auth> </source> </pool> # virt-install --version 1.0.1 # virsh --version 1.2.9 I ended using virsh edit ceph-test.powercraft.nl and making creating the disk manually. <disk type='network' device='disk'> <auth username='libvirt'> <secret type='ceph' uuid='029a334e-ed57-4293-bb99-ffafa8867122'/> </auth> <source protocol='rbd' name='libvirt-pool/kvm01-storage'> <host name='ceph01.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph02.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> <host name='ceph03.powercraft.nl' port='6789'/> </source> <target dev='vdc' bus='virtio'/> </disk> I use virt-install a lot to define, import and undefine domains, how can I use virt-install to manage my rdb disks? Kind regards, Jelle de Jong -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iJwEAQECAAYFAlV1xlQACgkQ1WclBW9j5HkbPQP+PjNrzvlqysslOp2Yk7wH4Mxy 2sh2dn96G0KOAHEeEn3BN6IWlnD1TADZbHdpTtMwkdv48Xwn0sP1s+3QDM4pb3gP n+z+dVxS8FouDIy/eiso3IBCj3g4TWbEX8ZHqs3jKqe0lZgAXBzB9xYSUowcEBrZ ddkPbr8p8ozWyOG+9V8= =lkK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[libvirt-users] virRandomBits - not very random
by Brian Rak 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

I just ran into an issue where I had about 30 guests get duplicate mac addresses assigned. These were scattered across 30 different machines. Some debugging revealed that: 1) All the host machines were restarted within a couple seconds of each other 2) All the host machines had fairly similar libvirtd pids (within ~100 PIDs of each other) 3) Libvirt seeds the RNG using 'time(NULL) ^ getpid()' This perfectly explains why I saw so many duplicate mac addresses. Why is the RNG seed such a predictable value? Surely there has to be a better source of a random seed then the timestamp and the pid? The PID seems to me to be a very bad source of any randomness. I just ran a test across 60 of our hosts. 43 of them shared their PID with at least one other machine.

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt bite sized tasks
by Michal Privoznik 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Dear lists, I've just started new wiki page which aim is to summarize small and trivial tasks, that starting contributors can take, investigate and implement. The aim is to give them something easy to start with while not scaring them out about complexity of our code. The page can be found here: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/BiteSizedTasks The name is copied from qemu wiki: http://wiki.qemu.org/BiteSizedTasks Please, feel free to extend the list. I plan to use it in the future when interviewing GSoC candidates. Michal

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[libvirt-users] unable to dissect libvirt rpc packets using wireshark plugin
by gowrishankar 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hi, I am trying libvirt plugin in wireshark to dissect RPC payload in TCP, but finding dissector code not really working. My env is Fedora core 21 (x86_64) and installed packages are as follow: wireshark-1.12.6-1.fc21.x86_64 libvirt-wireshark-1.2.9.3-2.fc21.x86_64 Earlier, just after installation, I noticed libvirt.so available only in /usr/lib64/wireshark/plugins/1.12.5/ . Wireshark could not load libvirt plugin. So, I copied above .so into 1.12.6/ under same plugins folder, following it wireshark could list libvirt as supported protocol. tshark -G protocols | grep libvirt Libvirt libvirt libvirt However, on checking with some pcaps which has libvirt RPC calls captured on wire, wireshark does not list libvirt RPC packets, as I search for "libvirt" protocol in pcap. Have anyone experienced this before or if you have any pointer that I could check in my env, that would be very helpful. -- Regards, Gowrishankar M

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[libvirt-users] Questions about qcow2 file size management
by Jérôme 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Hi all. I have a few questions regarding the qcow2 format. 1/ Allocated size vs. file size When creating a VM, I indicated a size of 10 G. $ls -lsh 7,7G -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 11G oct. 14 10:04 prod.qcow2 The allocated size is lesser than max size. Alright. I think I more or less grab the difference between allocated size and file size, but I'm not sure I get the point of the auto-grow feature of qcow2. Can someone confirm that if I have, say, a 60Go partition, I can create more than six 10Go VM, as long as each don't actually use the full 10 Go? Sort of like flying companies selling more tickets than seats in the plane assuming a few people won't come. In other words, can I have this on a 60Go drive? total 53G 7,4G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 8 06:34 prod_151008.qcow2 7,4G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 9 06:37 prod_151009.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 10 06:41 prod_151010.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 2 root root 11G oct. 11 06:49 prod_151011.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 12 06:44 prod_151012.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 13 06:27 prod_151013.qcow2 7,7G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 14 06:55 prod_151014.qcow2 (Total allocated is 53 < 60 but sum of 11G sizes is 77 G.) If so, then I guess I get the point. 2/ Backup size Is there a simple way to do backups that only take the actual allocated space (7,7 G in my example) instead of the max (10 G)? I'm using snapshots and blockcommits to backup a VM, thanks to help on this list. The scripts are on GitHub for anyone interested [1]. Basically, what the script does is snapshot then cp as local backup file. Then rsync to another backup partition. Both source and destination partitions are ext4. Source dir (where I cp the snapshots): # ls -lsh vmbackup/daily/ total 53G 7,4G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 8 06:34 prod_151008.qcow2 7,4G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 9 06:37 prod_151009.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 10 06:41 prod_151010.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 2 root root 11G oct. 11 06:49 prod_151011.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 12 06:44 prod_151012.qcow2 7,5G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 13 06:27 prod_151013.qcow2 7,7G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 14 06:55 prod_151014.qcow2 Destination (where rsync copies the files): # ls -lsh /mnt/usb_hd/vm/vmbackup/daily/ total 71G 11G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 8 06:34 prod_151008.qcow2 11G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 9 06:37 prod_151009.qcow2 11G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 10 06:41 prod_151010.qcow2 11G -rw------- 2 root root 11G oct. 11 06:49 prod_151011.qcow2 11G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 12 06:44 prod_151012.qcow2 11G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 13 06:27 prod_151013.qcow2 11G -rw------- 1 root root 11G oct. 14 06:55 prod_151014.qcow2 Allocated size is as big as file size. This kind of beats the point of having qcow2 grow as needed. Ideally, I would like to create VM with a huge max file size, but only backup the actually used space. How may I achieve this? I just tested qemu-img convert -O qcow2 prod_151008.qcow2 prod_151008_resize.qcow2 and I get 7,2G -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,2G oct. 14 10:51 prod_151008_resize.qcow2 Seems to work. I could do this before rsyncing. Is this the recommanded way? Is there a higher level libvirt command to use instead of qemu-img? 3/ Playing with allocated space My VM apparently has an allocated size of 7.7 G 7,7G -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 11G oct. 14 10:04 prod.qcow2 However, loging into it shows much less than 7.7 G is used: $df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 9.8G 2.0G 7.3G 22% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 2.0G 17M 2.0G 1% /run tmpfs 4.9G 4.0K 4.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 4.9G 0 4.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /run/user/1000 I understand once qcow2 has grown to a given allocated size, it won't de-allocate space automatically (auto-allocation is one way only). Perhaps I ended up loading 7Go of files, then those were deleted and now only 2Go are used but the file still has 7G allocated. Could be, but I don't see when this might have happened. Could there be another explanation? Say I want to minimize allocated space because it is a pity to use 2 Go and keep 7 Go backups (I know disk space is cheap, this is just an example), how may I shrink allocated space to currently used space? I'm not talking about shrinking the file, just minimizing the allocated size to keep small backups as per former paragraph, still keeping max file size big to let the VM grow further when needed. In other words, I'm aiming at 2,7G -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 11G oct. 14 10:04 prod.qcow2 not at 2,7G -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 2,7G oct. 14 10:04 prod.qcow2 The guest is a Linux, BTW. 4/ Playing with qcow2 file sizes Say I've got this file 7,7G -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 11G oct. 14 10:04 prod.qcow2 I'd like to make it bigger, like 7,7G -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 100G oct. 14 10:04 prod.qcow2 AFAIU, the steps would be - power off the VM - expand the qcow2 file size - from the host, extend the volume - power on the VM - from the guest, extend the filesystem I've seen various post on the internet but I'm a bit confused and some posts may be to old to consider new libvirt/qemu possibilities, so I'd appreciate a safe pointer. (I'm also interested in reducing file size.) Thanks for any hint. [1] https://github.com/Jerome-github/vmbackup -- Jérôme

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[libvirt-users] virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat files created as root
by NoxDaFox 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Greetings, I am dumping a guest VM memory for inspection using the command "virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat" and the created files appear to belong to root (both user and group). I have searched around but didn't find any answer. Is there a way to instruct QEMU to create those files under a different user? Thank you.

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[libvirt-users] Creating network interfaces with specific name in LXC
by Harish Vishwanath 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Hello I am trying to create interfaces within an LXC container with specific name. I am using the following XML: <interface type='network' name='blah'> <source network='dpbr_n_0'/> </interface> This doesn't seem to work; it always ends up creating interface with name as "eth0". I found some examples here: http://libvirt.org/guide/html/Application_Development_Guide-Network_Interfa… That uses interface type as "ethernet" and specifies name also, If I do that, I get back an error while starting the container as "Unsupported network type ethernet". Appreciate your help. Regards, Harish

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[libvirt-users] changeBegin() on python API
by Ramon Medeiros 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Hi, is changeBegin() working on python? I was trying to use the following method: if = conn.interfaceLookupByName("name") if.undefine() I saw that changeBegin() does not commit changes, but i can't use it. -- Ramon Nunes Medeiros Kimchi Developer Linux Technology Center Brazil IBM Systems & Technology Group Phone : +55 19 2132 7878 ramonn(a)br.ibm.com

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[libvirt-users] virDomainMemoryStats missing counters ...
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Hi, In which libvirt version are these virDomainMemoryStats() counters handled ? VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_SWAP_OUT VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_MAJOR_FAULT VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_MINOR_FAULT VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_UNUSED VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_AVAILABLE Thanks. Regards, J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.20.49 . Puteaux 3 Etage 5 Bureau 4 jpribeauville(a)axway.com<mailto:jpribeauville@axway.com> http://www.axway.com<http://www.axway.com/> P Pensez à l'environnement avant d'imprimer.

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[libvirt-users] GUEST Memory statistics secret revealed ...
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Hi, I'm wondering how to explain following metrics I got from libvirt, regarding memory stats for the two GUESTS running on my host. 1) virDomainGetXMLDesc() shows these values : memmax (1024000.000000) memcurrent(1024000.000000) memmax (2048000.000000) .memcurrent(2048000.000000) 2) As values returned by virDomainMemoryStats(), I got these values : VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_ACTUAL_BALLOON: active_balloon (1024000.000000) active_balloon (2048000.000000) VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_RSS: rss(1194195.312500) rss(2039269.531250 3) By using cgroup counters "memory.usage_in_bytes" for both Guests, I got these values : memusage (1 207 207 031 250) memusage (2 834 503 906 250) How is it possible to have a balloon size equal to memcurrent ? What "memory.usage_in_bytes" stands for (it's the maximum value of the three metrics I got for each GUEST) ? FYI , I use a 1.2.8 libvirt. Thanks. Reagrds, J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.20.49 . Puteaux 3 Etage 5 Bureau 4 jpribeauville(a)axway.com<mailto:jpribeauville@axway.com> http://www.axway.com<http://www.axway.com/> P Pensez à l'environnement avant d'imprimer.

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[libvirt-users] failed to pivot job for disk vdc
by Nerijus Baliunas 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Hello, I did a virsh snapshot-create-as --domain meta sn1 --diskspec vda,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/meta-sn1.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic --no-metadata Then I successfully blockcommitted 2 disks: virsh blockcommit meta vda --active --verbose --pivot virsh blockcommit meta vdb --active --verbose --pivot But when doing virsh blockcommit meta vdc --active --verbose --pivot I got: Block commit: [100 %]error: failed to pivot job for disk vdc error: block copy still active: disk 'vdc' not ready for pivot yet Domain snapshot sn1 created And now it looks like this: virsh domblklist meta Target Source ------------------------------------------------ vda /var/lib/libvirt/images/meta.qcow2 vdb /var/lib/libvirt/images/meta-home.qcow2 vdc /var/lib/libvirt/images/meta-pgsql.sn1 How do I make vdc to be the initial disk, not the snapshot one? Regards, Nerijus

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[libvirt-users] How to retrieve legacy cgroups location ?
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Hi, As told in "Control Groups Resource Management" libvirt page : Legacy cgroups layout Prior to libvirt 1.0.5, the cgroups layout created by libvirt was different from that described above, and did not allow for administrator customization. Libvirt used a fixed, 3-level hierarchy libvirt/{qemu,lxc}/$VMNAME which was rooted at the point in the hierarchy where libvirtd itself was located. So if libvirtd was placed at /system/libvirtd.service by systemd, the groups for each virtual machine / container would be located at /system/libvirtd.service/libvirt/{qemu,lxc}/$VMNAME. In addition to this, the QEMU drivers further child groups for each vCPU thread and the emulator thread(s). This leads to a hierarchy that looked like I'm trying to retrieve this layout : $ROOT | +- system | +- libvirtd.service | +- libvirt | +- qemu | | | +- vm1 | | | | | +- emulator | | +- vcpu0 | | +- vcpu1 | | | +- vm2 | | | | | +- emulator | | +- vcpu0 | | +- vcpu1 | | | +- vm3 | | | +- emulator | +- vcpu0 | +- vcpu1 How may I find where systemd has placed libvirtd ? I use libvirt 0.10.2 on a RHEL6 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 Thx for help. J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.20.49 . Puteaux 3 Etage 5 Bureau 4 jpribeauville(a)axway.com<mailto:jpribeauville@axway.com> http://www.axway.com<http://www.axway.com/> P Pensez à l'environnement avant d'imprimer.

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[libvirt-users] virsh can't support VM offline blockcommit
by justlibvirt＠gmail.com 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Hi everyone! I use the libvirt(version: 1.2.2) and QEMU(version: 2.2.1) to test qemu snapshot features: I tried virsh blockcommit when VM offline, the virsh blockcommit failed: the error messase as below: error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running when I start the VM, the virsh blockcommit work fine! my question is：we need virsh support blockcommit when VM offline。how do？ we test qemu snapshot as follows： we need create snapshot of the cycle，and by virsh blockcommit merge snapshot chain，but when VM offline， the virsh blockcommit will fail， someone suggest me：when VM offline，may use qemu-img commit to submit snapshot turn，but qemu-img can't modify snapshot chain backing relation，it need we use qemu-img rebase amend snapshot‘s backingfile， the main question is when we use qemu-img rebase modify snapshot's backingfile, if someone start the VM, it will may lead to VM filesystem readonly。 we should how to solve the question? thanks! justlibvirt(a)gmail.com

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[libvirt-users] How to find memory utilization percent of kvm guest?
by suyog jadhav 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

I currently use following approach but its failing Find Max memory using following API vdgiRet = virDomainGetInfo(domPtr, infoPtr); memTotal = infoPtr->memory; Find current utilization using following API rVal = virDomainMemoryStats (domPtr, memStats, VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_NR, 0) ; for (i = 0; i < rVal; i++) { if (memStats[i].tag == 7) memUsed = memStats[i].val; } Which is the value of "VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_RSS = 7" Then I calculate util as (memUsed/memTotal) But the value of memUsed exceeds value of memTotal by small amount resulting in memUtil to be around 101 %. I understand that VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_RSS is Resident Set Size of the process running the domain. How do I Calculate the current memory utilization using alternate way?

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[libvirt-users] How can I set the advertised value of MTU for virbr0 interface?
by George Trakatelis 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Hi all, I want to set the advertised value of MTU for virbr0 interface on a Fedora 21 host to 1454 to accommodate the installation of new VMs for testing purposes. The aforementioned host is an OpenStack VM actually, which explains the need for a lower than 1500 MTU. I noticed Pieter Hollants' patch to set dhcp-option=<number>,"<value>" for an interface, but it seems that it has not been implemented yet. Is there a possibility to have such an option? George

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[libvirt-users] net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding
by lejeczek 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

hi everybody I'd like to ask how libvirtd influences net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding, would you know? I've noticed that if I use host's bridge, therefor there is no <forward mode= > in my network then "net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding" goes back to 0. Is this intended I wonder? Looks like libvirt decides it's user responsibility now. many thanks

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[libvirt-users] openvz driver
by Volker Janzen 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

Hi, I've a question regarding the openvz driver. I noticed that the virsh dumpxml output does not contain the memory settings. E.g.: <domain type='openvz'> <name>104</name> <uuid>ad2e9d0b-d242-482a-8640-5102e49d0f9b</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>0</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>0</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <os> <type>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> </devices> </domain> Can someone explain why this data is missing? As far as I know the driver reads the container configuration files, which contains the missing information. Regards Volker Viele Grüße Volker

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[libvirt-users] noVNC with qemu over ssh
by Digimer 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

Hi all, I have a little webserver interface for managing VMs running on a RHEL 6 based HA cluster hosting KVM/qemu VMs. I'd like to use noVNC to provide access to the hosted VMs, but I am not finding much information on how to do this (or rather, I can't find it in the large number of ovirt related posts). Has anyone done this or could someone point me in the right direction to docs on how to do this? Trying to even get direct access isn't getting me far (/usr/bin/novnc_server --vnc localhost:5900 -> click URL -> enter password, hangs on "Starting VNC handshake"). Thanks! PS - while testing, iptables and selinux are disabled... I'm trying to get a most basic setup working -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt from source problem
by Muhammad Asif 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

Hi Geeks, When I install libvirt from source, there is no libvirtd. how can i start or restart libvirt deamon. Moreover it give some permission error. What issue can be. Thanks

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt-LXC, container get stuck if it prints too much logs in the console
by Bertrand NOEL 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

Hi, I am creating containers using libvirt-lxc. My problem is that a process at bootup gets stuck at some point. My usecase is Puppet, but I can reproduce with a loop in bash. I noticed it is stuck until I connect to the console of the container (virsh -c lxc:/// console id). Then after disconnecting the console, waiting some times, the process gets stuck again. The more the process outputs to the console, the quicker it becomes stuck. To test that behavior, at bootup (in rc.local), in a loop I curl some server that I monitor. In my server logs I can see requests stops after some time. (I tweaked rc.local systemd service to output to console) Host and container are CentOS 7.1 Libvirt v1.2.8 Below is my libvirt.xml <domain type="lxc"> <uuid>9fbe3d43-e1b4-4244-8dab-b42995ab7403</uuid> <name>instance-000002f6</name> <memory>4194304</memory> <vcpu>2</vcpu> <os> <type>exe</type> <cmdline>console=tty0 console=ttyS0</cmdline> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <clock offset="utc"/> <devices> <filesystem type="mount"> <source dir="/root/rootfs"/> <target dir="/"/> </filesystem> <interface type="bridge"> <mac address="02:16:3E:00:F6:0E"/> <source bridge="virbr0"/> </interface> <console type="pty"/> </devices> </domain>

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[libvirt-users] "failed to connect to the hypervisor"
by Ken D'Ambrosio 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi, all. Ubuntu host, attempting to get virsh working with VirtualBox... and failing. Here's what happens: root@foobox:~# virsh -c vbox:///session list error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API ------------------------------------------------------ Now, most of the docs I read about "failed to connect to the hypervisor" have other errors that happen *before* the "failed to connect" one, that are the root cause (e.g., unable to open socket, or bad cert, or whatever). But that's not the case, here. And what puzzles me more is that -- while I don't know what the output *should* look like -- to my eye, strace seems to say that we're getting information back: 1940 read(5, "Node 1 MemTotal: 33011680 kB\nNode 1 MemFree: 32565612 kB\nNode 1 MemUsed: 446068 kB\nNode 1 Active: 57948 kB\nNode 1 Inactive: 77036 kB\nNode 1 Active(anon): 27688 kB\nNode 1 Inactive(anon): 84 kB\nNode 1 Active(file): 30260 kB\nNode 1 Inactive(file): 76952 kB\nNode 1 Unevictable: 52 kB\nNode 1 [...] ------------------------------------------------------ In my googling, I see mention of per-VM XML files that... do something. But what they do, and how they're generated, doesn't seem clear. (E.g., XML mentioned here: http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html -- it just sort of sits there, with no context.) Is that something I need? Thanks for any enlightenment you might be able to offer me, -Ken

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[libvirt-users] enable aes for guest
by Parvathi 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hi, How do I enable aes for guest VM? Host CPU supports aes (cat /proc/cpuinfo has aes in its flags and virsh capabilities also displays aes as a feature). When I add <features> <aes/> </features> to the xml file, I am unable to create the VM. It complains with the below error: virsh create /tmp/tmp.xml error: Failed to create domain from /tmp/tmp.xml error: internal error: unexpected feature aes Best!

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[libvirt-users] selective virsh host permissions
by Jamie Fargen 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

As a Systems Administrator, I would like to grant permissions to a certain VM using unix groups. In this example there is a hypervisor with VMs A,B,C,D and there is a group called fortadmins. The solution I am searching forI would just allow fortadmins to use libvirt/virsh commands on VM D. Does libvirt/virsh provide any way to easily accomplish this goal? Regards, Jamie Ian Fargen

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[libvirt-users] virsh blockcopy without undefine
by Nathan Shearer 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

I have a script that performs a backup with the following steps: virsh dumpxml --inactive "$DOMAIN" > "$TMP/${DOMAIN}.xml" && \ virsh dumpxml --inactive "$DOMAIN" > "$DESTINATION_XML" && \ virsh undefine "$DOMAIN" && \ virsh blockcopy "$DOMAIN" "$SOURCE_DISK" "$DESTINATION_DISK" --wait --verbose --finish && \ virsh define "$TMP/${DOMAIN}.xml" It's basic and did work for creating basic backups. Is there a way to do this without undefining the domain? I recently had to redefine the VM from a backup XML because this script failed during the block copy step. Why can't I blockcopy a domain that is defined? Why does it need to be undefined first?

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[libvirt-users] virsh can't support VM offline blockcommit
by 陈明 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Hi everyone! I use the libvirt(version: 1.2.2) and QEMU(version: 2.2.1) to test qemu snapshot features: I tried virsh blockcommit when VM offline, the virsh blockcommit failed: the error messase as below: * error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running* when I start the VM, the virsh blockcommit work fine! my question is : we need virsh support blockcommit when VM offline。how do？ we test qemu snapshot as follows： we need create snapshot of the cycle，and by virsh blockcommit merge snapshot chain，but whenVM offline， the virsh blockcommit will fail， someone suggest me：when VM offline，may use qemu-img commit to submit snapshot turn，but qemu-img can't modify snapshot chain backing relation，it need we use qemu-img rebase amend snapshot‘s backingfile，* the main question* is when we use qemu-img rebase modify snapshot's backingfile, if someone start the VM, it will may lead to VM filesystem readonly。 we should how to solve the question? thanks!

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