February 2015 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[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] Freeze Windows Guests For Consistent Storage Snapshots
by Payes Anand 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Hi, Is it possible to freeze windows guests for a consistent storage level snapshot. I am using openstack icehouse on centos 6.6 Hypervisor: KVM Libvirt: 0.10.2 Qemu: 0.10.2 Guest OS: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 I was able to freeze Centos guests by issuing the command: virsh qemu-agent-command <guest_ID> '{"execute":"guest-fsfreeze-freeze"}' For CentOS guests, I enabled access between compute nodes and guests through a socket by setting metadata parameter, hw_qemu_guest_agent=yes for the guest image. And then installing qemu-guest-agent inside the guest. What steps do i have to follow for windows ? Regars, Payes

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[libvirt-users] machine='pc-q35-2.1' and sata controller
by Thomas Stein 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Hello. I'm not able to disable the sata controller on a machine='pc-q35-2.1' type VM. Whenever i delete: <controller type='sata' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> it gets added again when i close the editor. The reason i would like to delete the sata controller is this error while trying to migrate the machine: 2015-02-23 19:04:11.181+0000: 1972: error : qemuMonitorJSONCheckError:381 : internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'migrate': State blocked by non-migratable device '0000:00:1f.2/ich9_ahci' Someone has an idea to solve this? thanks and cheers t.

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[libvirt-users] Hyper-V 2008 R2 support ?
by Jean-François FILIPPI 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hi, I'm trying libvirt to connect to Hyper-V servers. It works fine for Hyper-V 2012 servers, however it doesn't work for Hyper-V 2008 R2 (the exact error is | Call to virConnectOpenAuth failed: internal error: Transport error during enumeration: Could not connect (7) (Libvirt::ConnectionError)|.). I'm using the code provided by libvirt documentation (http://libvirt.org/ruby/examples/open_auth.rb) and have authorized basic auth plus unencrypted connection on both 2008 R2 & 2012 servers (http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html#auth) Surfing the Internet to find some solutions, I found this (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00802.html) where a developer talks about stopping 2008 R2 support (because of some technical stuff), while in the documentation (http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html) it is explicitely said to be supporting 2008 R2. My question is : does the support has been stopped or does the code to connect to a 2008 R2 server is different from the 2012 server ? I'm using libvirt 1.2.2 and ruby-libvirt 1.2.2. Thanks for your help, Jean-François FILPPI

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[libvirt-users] Broken OS when booting rootfs from 9p share
by Olivier Mauras 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Hello, I've been trying to boot a VM with the rootfs being a 9P share from the host. The VM OS is centos 7. The OS boots but no services can work and it appears that the authentication system is broken. Now the funny thing is that booting the same OS on the same 9P share manually with Qemu works as expected with a fully functionnal OS... So I'm wondering what could libvirt do that render the OS on the share broken - Something with rights ? Selinux is disabled on the host, and accessmode to the share is set to passthrough in both cases. Here's my working Qemu line: qemu -kernel /srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/vmlinuz-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64 -initrd /srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/initramfs-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64.img -fsdev local,id=r,path=/srv/overlay/run/irc,security_model=passthrough -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=r,mount_tag=root -nographic -m 256M -machine pc-i440fx-2.1,accel=kvm -netdev tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:00:12:36:34 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1 -append 'root=virtfs:root rootflags=trans=virtio,version=9p2000.u ro rootfstype=9p console=ttyS0' And here my libvirt VM config: <domain type='kvm'> <name>irc</name> <uuid>ffbd32eb-a693-eadd-8923-18de80137472</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>262144</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>262144</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.1'>hvm</type> <kernel>/srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/vmlinuz-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64</kernel> <initrd>/srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/initramfs-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64.img</initrd> <cmdline>root=virtfs:root rootflags=trans=virtio,version=9p2000.u ro rootfstype=9p</cmdline> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <controller type='usb' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/srv/overlay/run/irc'/> <target dir='root'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:00:36:34'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> My libvirt version is 1.2.9, and qemu is 2.1.2. Thanks for your help, Olivier

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[libvirt-users] DriveReady error after live migration
by Steve Gaarder 28 Feb '15

28 Feb '15

I have three machines running libvirt under Scientific Linux (RHEL derivative) version 6. The virtual machine disk images are running SL 5 and 6, are all stored on NFS, and I can do live migrations with virsh migrate --live guestname qemu+ssh://vmhostname.math.cornell.edu/system Trouble is, within a day or two after the migration, the guest hangs up with repeated DriveReady errors and has to be shut down forcibly and rebooted. I am using Sanlock, with the lock files also stored on NFS. Any ideas? Steve Gaarder System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA gaarder(a)math.cornell.edu

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[libvirt-users] KVM management through the web with libvirt and mist.io
by Markos Gogoulos 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Hi, I would like to announce that we have integrated libvirt for managing KVM vms on mist.io. Mist.io is an open source project and a service that can assist you in managing your vms on a unified way, providing a simple interface for all of your infrastructure (multiple public cloud providers, OpenStack based public/private clouds, Docker servers, bare metal servers and now KVM hypervisors). Adding a KVM backend via libvirt will show a list of all of the virtual machines (running and terminated), along with the hypervisor itself. You can execute actions such as reboot, shutdown and start. Instead of having to log in to the hypervisor to reboot a VM that has hanged, you can do it with a few taps on your smartphone, laptop or tablet, along with the rest of your infrastructure. You can also have a web ssh shell if you add an ssh key. Creation of new VMs is not supported yet but is on our plans. You can have a look on a blog post we've written recently at http://blog.mist.io/post/110890044256/announcing-kvm-and-vcloud-support, use the open source tool (http://github.com/mistio/mist.io) or try out the service (https://mist.io) offering more features such as monitoring, adding custom metrics, scripts and logs. Hope you'll find it usefull Cheers, Markos

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[libvirt-users] Adding timestamps for all emulator output
by Andrey Korolyov 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Hello, I think it would be useful if libvirt will be able to prefix all messages from emulator pipes with the date stamping, for example I am trying to catch very rare and non-fatal race with virtio-serial-bus: Guest failure in adding device virtio-serial0.0 which is specific to the Windows guests on qemu-kvm. I have supporting infrastructure which can tell me exact times for every action upon this VM, but as bug is not frequent, the continuous monitoring looks like an overkill for a desired goal - find a correlation between emulator event and message from stderr. Patching emulator itself is barely an option, as it is ugly, requires refresh of the running code via loopback migration and completely non-universal, as every hypervisor should be modified seperately. I`d highly appreciate positive consideration for such functionality addition or can write a patch shortly, if needed. Thanks!

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[libvirt-users] Questión about DNS config on dnsmasq
by Carlos Miranda Molina (Mstaaravin) 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Hello guys... I'm using libvirt in my local laboratory and I have a question/problem about DNS settings over dnsmasq (by libvirt) I have a NAT network separately from my real network, i need simulated some DNS hosts to NAT network like ftp.debian.org (for testing purposes, etc) This is for example a dumpxml (yes, i'm using PXE boot for testing and is working fine) <network> <name>net0</name> <uuid>5a014735-f658-7a87-c7d4-e6b0f488c332</uuid> <forward mode='nat'/> <bridge name='net0' stp='on' delay='0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:b5:24:7b'/> <dns> <host ip='192.168.122.1'> <hostname>mirrors.kernel.org</hostname> <hostname>mirrors.dcarsat.com.ar</hostname> <hostname>ftp.debian.org</hostname> </host> </dns> <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <tftp root='/home/tftp'/> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.99'/> <bootp file='pxelinux.0'/> </dhcp> </ip> </network> Look <dns> & <hostname> section, that works correctly but only if I add hostnames on net0 when was offline. <dns> <host ip='192.168.122.1'> <hostname>mirrors.kernel.org</hostname> <hostname>mirrors.dcarsat.com.ar</hostname> <hostname>ftp.debian.org</hostname> </host> </dns> How i can add more hostnames with my network (net0) are still online...? virsh net-update default add-last dns-host (for example, doesn't work) and the official documentation @ http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#elementsAddress doesn't say more. I test with <forwarder > but doesn't work (192.168.10.100 is a dnsmasq outside libvirt control) <network> <name>net0</name> <uuid>5a014735-f658-7a87-c7d4-e6b0f488c332</uuid> <forward mode='nat'/> <bridge name='net0' stp='on' delay='0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:b5:24:7b'/> <dns> <forwarder addr="192.168.10.100"/> </dns> <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <tftp root='/home/tftp'/> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.99'/> <bootp file='pxelinux.0'/> </dhcp> </ip> </network> Anyone can help me...? thanks -- "La Voluntad es el único motor de nuestros logros" http://blog.ngen.com.ar/

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[libvirt-users] A problem with converting an OVA appliance
by Marko Dimjašević 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Hi all, I've been having a problem when trying to convert an Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) format appliance to the "virt-image" format. This is how I try to convert the appliance: $ virt-convert --arch=i686 -i ovf appliance.ova The result is: ERROR Couldn't import file "appliance.ova": must be string without null bytes or None, not str This happens on a Debian Wheezy (7.8) machine. virt-convert is at version 0.600.1. All libvirt* packages are at version 1.2.9. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone else through web searches having the same issue and then applying their solution. It'd be great if someone can help with trying to figure out what is going on here... -- Regards, Marko http://dimjasevic.net/marko

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[libvirt-users] Fwd: Unattended guest installation fails
by ChandraShekar Shastri 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Hi, I am following the below link to install a Fedora19 guest on Fedora19 Host. http://kashyapc.com/2011/08/18/unattended-guest-install-with-a-local-kickst… Version : libvirtd (libvirt) 1.0.5.1, QEMU emulator version 1.4.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard I have the iso which I loop mounted and created a http repo using python module "python -m SimpleHTTPServer". This repo is properly accessible and the guest is able to pull the initrd.img and vmlinuz but further it fails. Please find the attached xml and console messages and let me know how to proceed further. Thanks, Chandrashekar

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[libvirt-users] libvirt unprivileged user and containers
by Vasiliy Tolstov 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Hello. I need to create container on remote host that runs libvirt. Does it possible to download container image, extract it and run via libvirt? As i see in all cases libvirt need prepared dir with root file system, but in my case i'm not able to unpack archive on remote side because it need root privileges. How can i solve my problem? -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru jabber: vase(a)selfip.ru

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[libvirt-users] live migration
by Thomas Stein 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Hola. Just tried a live migration after fixing the pc-q35-2.1 error. Now i have new problem. It seems during live migration only the ram gets migrated. I use the following command. # virsh migrate --live domain qemu+ssh://newhost/system --copy-storage-all --verbose --persistent It works without problems. Apart from beeing way to fast. # virsh migrate --live domain qemu+ssh://newhost/system --copy-storage-all --verbose --persistent Migration: [100 %] On the destination i can enter the VM but thats it. There is no filesystem and so on. Did the migration syntax change? I use libvirt 1.2.12 and qemu 2.2.0. Thanks for any hints. best regards

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[libvirt-users] libvirt 1.2.12 + xen 4.4 wont migrate
by albie 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Hi, We have been trying to get live migration working between two xen boxes running libvirt 1.2.12, However i seem to be getting the following error root@libvirt-xen1:~# virsh migrate --live trusty-image qemu+ssh://192.168.13.9/system --copy-storage-all --verbose --persistent --undefinesource root(a)192.168.13.9's password: error: unsupported flags (0x48) in function libxlDomainMigrateBegin3Params root@libvirt-xen1:~# virsh migrate --live trusty-image xen+ssh://192.168.13.9/system --copy-storage-all --verbose --persistent --undefinesource root(a)192.168.13.9's password: error: unsupported flags (0x48) in function libxlDomainMigrateBegin3Params Any ideas as to why this might be happening ? Regards, Albie Thomson

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[libvirt-users] HugePages - can't start guest that requires them
by G. Richard Bellamy 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Hello All, I'm trying to enable hugepages, I've turned off THP (Transparent Huge Pages), and enabled hugepages in memoryBacking, and set my 2MB hugepages count via sysctl. I'm getting "libvirtd[5788]: Failed to autostart VM 'atlas': internal error: Unable to find any usable hugetlbfs mount for 16777216 KiB" where atlas is one of my guests and 16777216 KiB is the amount of memory I'm trying to give to the guest. Yes, i can see the hugepages via numastat -m and hugetlbfs is mounted via /dev/hugepages and there is a dir structure /dev/hugepages/libvirt/qemu (it's empty). HugePages is big enough to accommodate the 16G i'm allocating... and changing the perms on that directory structure to 777 doesn't work either. Any help is much appreciated. HOST: http://sprunge.us/SEdc GUEST: http://sprunge.us/VCYB Regards, Richard

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[libvirt-users] Broken OS when booting rootfs from 9p share
by Olivier Mauras 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Hello, I've been trying to boot a VM with the rootfs being a 9P share from the host. The VM OS is centos 7. The OS boots but no services can work and it appears that the authentication system is broken. Now the funny thing is that booting the same OS on the same 9P share manually with Qemu works as expected with a fully functionnal OS... So I'm wondering what could libvirt do that render the OS on the share broken - Something with rights ? Selinux is disabled on the host, and accessmode to the share is set to passthrough in both cases. Here's my working Qemu line: qemu -kernel /srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/vmlinuz-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64 -initrd /srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/initramfs-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64.img -fsdev local,id=r,path=/srv/overlay/run/irc,security_model=passthrough -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=r,mount_tag=root -nographic -m 256M -machine pc-i440fx-2.1,accel=kvm -netdev tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:00:12:36:34 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1 -append 'root=virtfs:root rootflags=trans=virtio,version=9p2000.u ro rootfstype=9p console=ttyS0' And here my libvirt VM config: <domain type='kvm'> <name>irc</name> <uuid>ffbd32eb-a693-eadd-8923-18de80137472</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>262144</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>262144</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.1'>hvm</type> <kernel>/srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/vmlinuz-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64</kernel> <initrd>/srv/overlay/kernels/grsec-3.14.33-101/initramfs-3.14.33-101.el6.x86_64.img</initrd> <cmdline>root=virtfs:root rootflags=trans=virtio,version=9p2000.u ro rootfstype=9p</cmdline> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <controller type='usb' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/srv/overlay/run/irc'/> <target dir='root'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:00:36:34'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> My libvirt version is 1.2.9, and qemu is 2.1.2. Thanks for your help, Olivier

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[libvirt-users] virtio nic dosent use 10gbe speed.
by Kalil de A. Carvalho 21 Feb '15

21 Feb '15

Hello all. We are moving from Xenserver 6.5 environment to KVM because we can't use 10gbe speed in our VM's so we decided to test KVM. To inicial test I've create script, using qemu commands, to build two VM's and test the nic speed. Each VM has one nic, using virtio, into it own bridge. In this bridge we associate one 10gbe physical nic. They can communicate each other. When we try do a copy, through SCP, the speed is 300mbps. And if we open another copy this speed been the half. What we are using: S.O: CentOS 7 Kernel 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 qemu-kvm.x86_64 10:1.5.3-60.el7 libvirt-daemon.x86_64 1.1.1-29.el7 Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R720 16GB RAM 2TB SAS Two Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Command to start VM's: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 1024 -enable-kvm -k en-us -hda teste1.img -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=00:01:02:aa:bb:cc -net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no -vnc :0 What Do I doing wrong? Is my test right? Is my interpretation right? Is my enviroment correct? Can I improve or fix any think with my libvirt or command arguments? Best regards -- Atenciosamente, Kalil de A. Carvalho

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[libvirt-users] encryption
by Henry Noack 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hello you guys, it is possible to decrypt a kvm volume only by using the command line after starting it? Best regards Henry

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[libvirt-users] spice session locking
by Jon Doe 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Hi List, Is it possible to prevent other clients from stealing my libvirtd hosted spice session? This is a problem for me where multiple co-workers access the same guest over a qemu+ssh:// connection. Instead of simply disconnecting clients, I'd like libvirtd to deny the new client. I've been looking at polkit acl rules and the vnc sharePolicy attribute but so far no luck.

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[libvirt-users] libvirt live migration, qcow2 image, nbd server
by Edward Young 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Hi all, When I live migrate a vm using "migrate --live --copy-storage-all mig-vm qemu+ssh://192.168.1.3/system tcp://192.168.1.3" I got the following error WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'nbd://node2:49155/drive-virtio-disk0' and probing guessed raw. 258 Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted. 259 Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. >From the error itself, I can tell that nbd server treat this image as raw, rather than qcow2. My platform is libvirt+qemu. the image type of this vm is indeed qcow2. I do not know how to let nbd know this image format. Thanks! Ed

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[libvirt-users] way to see the bootmenu via serial?
by mail list 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Maybe this should go to the qemu mail list, but I have domains configured to dump to serial. Works fine I see Grub menu/kernel messages and the like, but the "bootmenu" listing only shows up over vnc. Is there a way to have that show up over serial? I definitely can hit up the qemu mail list as well if inappropriate for here

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[libvirt-users] spice session locking
by Jon Doe 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hi List, Is it possible to prevent other clients from stealing my libvirtd hosted spice session? This is a problem for me where multiple co-workers access the same guest over a qemu+ssh:// connection. Instead of simply disconnecting clients, I'd like libvirtd to deny the new client. I've been looking at polkit acl rules and the vnc sharePolicy attribute but so far no luck.

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[libvirt-users] QEMU 2.2.0 managedsave: Unknown savevm section type 5
by Paul Apostolescu 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hello, I am running into issues restoring VMs during reboot for some of my XP VMs - the environment is QEMU 2.2.0, libvirt 1.2.12 on CentOS 6.5 with KVM and libvirt-guests is set to suspend at shutdown. The weird part is Windows 7 is restored properly from the managedsave however XP does not, doing a start from virsh shows this: virsh # start xp-check error: Failed to start domain xp-check error: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem: Unknown savevm section type 5 2015-02-04T23:55:37.117515Z qemu-kvm: load of migration failed: Invalid argument (qemu-kvm is a link to qemu-system-x86_64). Any ideas how to fix this ? Thanks

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[libvirt-users] vm live storage migration with snapshots
by Edward Young 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hi all, I'm investigating the ways to improve the live migration performance in libvirt. I have a question about the vm live storage migration. the platform is libvirt + qemu + kvm If we want to migrate a running vm with its virtual disk images to another node. we can use 'virsh migrate ....' commands. What if this vm has a number of disk-only external snapshots? In the current version, how can live migrate this vm? Is it possible to blockcommit the snapshots to the base image and later perform the migration, without shutting down the running vm? Or is it possible to iteratively transfer all the snapshots to the destination and later live migrate only the latest new data? Thanks in advance. Best, Ed

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[libvirt-users] libvirt/virsh change boot order
by Robb Walker 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hello, hope all are well. Am I missing something? If I add a cdrom and change boot order in a running vm with virsh edit, I have to shutdown the vm and restart to see the change in boot order. I can not just restart the vm via reboot inside the vm or virsh reboot vm. I don't see anything under /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/saved where I might expect conflict if I was battling against a saved configuration. If obvious, DUH, apologies and virtually bonk me on the head. Note: This is actually okay. Just don't want to miss on something that would allow me to just cycle the vm after make changes. on ubu -- 14.04 ii libvirt-bin 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.9 amd64 programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt-dev 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.9 amd64 development files for the libvirt library ii libvirt-doc 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.9 all documentation for the libvirt library ii libvirt0 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.9 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-trusty'>hvm</type> <boot dev='cdrom'/> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/home/foo/Downloads/archlinux-2015.02.01-dual.iso'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> Thanks and Kind Regards all 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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