July 2015 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] ceph rbd pool and libvirt manageability (virt-install)
by Jelle de Jong 28 Aug '18

28 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 20 Mar '16

20 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] virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat files created as root
by NoxDaFox 18 Nov '15

18 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] How to run libvirtd as non root user
by Anshul Arora (akarora) 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Team, I note that libvertd runs as root user that is against the least privilege security model. root 307278 1 0 Jun20 ? 04:16:46 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -listen Appreciate pointers to alternate options that user could configure as a potential mitigation plan? Thanks, -Anshul

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[libvirt-users] libvirt-1.2.17 I can't define lxc container
by Marcin Mirosław 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Hello! I'd like to set up my first lxc container using libvirt. I'd like to start using the simplest configuration and next add things I need. So I've got xml as below: <domain type='lxc'> <name>vm1</name> <memory>32768</memory> <os> <type>exe</type> <init>/init</init> </os> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <features> <capabilities policy='on'> </capabilities> </features> <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem type='mount'> <source dir='/opt/vm-1-root'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='network'> <source network='default'/> </interface> <console type='pty' /> </devices> </domain> When I try to define container I'm getting: virsh # define /tmp/vm1.xml error: Failed to define domain from /tmp/vm1.xml error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for ostype=exe domaintype=lxc I can't also find similar problem using web search engine. Maybe someone here can give me advice? Marcin # virsh -V Virsh command line tool of libvirt 1.2.17 See web site at http://libvirt.org/ Compiled with support for: Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM LXC VMWare ESX Test Networking: Remote Bridging Interface udev Nwfilter Storage: Dir Filesystem SCSI LVM Miscellaneous: Daemon Nodedev Secrets Debug Readline Modular

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[libvirt-users] Custom bios image for qemu
by Phil Tooley 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Hello all, So I am trying to get a qemu guest to use a custom patched seabios image rather than the default /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin I have tried changing the domain config file to include either: <os> --SNIP-- <loader readonly='yes' type='rom'>/home/telemin/qemu/seabios_patched.bin</loader> </os> OR domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0' --SNIP-- <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> <qemu:arg value='file=/home/telemin/qemu/seabios_patched.bin'/> </qemu:commandline> --SNIP-- And neither of these approaches result in the new seabios_patched.bin being used. I am clearly missing something here, can anyone with some more experience tell me what it is please? Many Thanks Phil Tooley

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Re: [libvirt-users] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Pierre Schweitzer 26 Jul '15

26 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Regarding product activation, there's nothing I can do. You've to call Microsoft to re-activate your W2k3 licence. This is due to hardware change on virtualization. Regards, On 25/07/2015 20:54, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > I think the boot is working! ;-) I changed my image to IDE disk and > W2k3 started booting but wants Product Activation ... What can I do > with this? I can't login. I think it is a loop when I click on OK > button in the warning window. > > TIA, Ruzsi > - -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVtLm1AAoJEHVFVWw9WFsLyUsQAKv0EnHnYZ+PkWMuRPvCS4xa WnvnEkwIBxqrSXIG/b8mZ676mb+3ba9nZO22HZTKqqAndCrxQ46vsC87YSw9akcX +Dt1EC+BWMwclG4x/LSFM44uN6ZuqRqXNWIHL1B/fZ4DUO41RQDzX0yokc16+lxE OwzQQ5Rf8gYqHRBP/CdbrrPbgVnoa08ejRt0uwWhrMJtWwcFYz4YmPHBDSJV+GM7 lp6uU835mWDRR2DzIQ7gpDAAu3f1O2TPy15wFlidVn6XqjIcxIF9QqDj+ktQmyk+ im+PeVeqTGL75H2hyQMcx8z/kJm3ZktuqlTWbY4JvpNqBSodTYjVM9QnDsGf9JR7 Wvb6iEvxkLzGODXQ+YS2NOF4NJfTV0Wg1aodx5y+seMVlmAmFapq9QgNU39JTjg/ reMcVqjj3Es3DrQWWTZw0Mcvg2E/zxM3I58zg4Flylfxb/Krd3W4GRchwSx+/3u5 pA2Xb+Qq6Db/rWljVKHjN+LYW9llhr+/yu/W9+FYv2qJl0zZnHui+uDgljx1Byax urjYE2XCfSzDXvayVo7xTbSzpBi7MX0NlJZoK7kY7i4f7IV4ZSQZ+7owa05pH05v KQwjZzuSClFItIKARQ3JqXhi1ybmCH3jsoRbls6grX/tfkpzBrn1KspCFGMq7Fl/ LmU5uWVuO0o5YmQppckz =VNFx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [libvirt-users] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Pierre Schweitzer 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/07/2015 13:55, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > I got enough inspiration typing in the needed reg. keys. > > Here is a difference: What you wrote me: > > intelide >> { ErrorControl(REG_DWORD): 00000001 Group(REG_SZ): System Bus >> Extender Start(REG_DWORD): 00000000 Tag(REG_DWORD): 00000004 >> Type(REG_DWORD): 00000001 ImagePath(REG_SZ): >> system32\drivers\intelide.sys } >> > > My reg. keys: > > \ControlSet001\Services\IntelIde> ls Node has 0 subkeys and 5 > values size type value name [value if > type DWORD] 4 REG_DWORD <ErrorControl> 1 > [0x1] 40 REG_SZ <Group> 4 REG_DWORD <Start> > 4 [0x4] 4 REG_DWORD <Tag> 4 [0x4] 4 > REG_DWORD <Type> 1 [0x1] > > \ControlSet001\Services\IntelIde> cat Group Value <Group> of type > REG_SZ, data length 40 [0x28] System Bus Extender > > Do I have to change? Start and ImagePath are different. Let ImagePath, it should match your system more closely (and differences might be just in case, so no real matter). But you absolutely have to change Start. If Start isn't at 0x0, then, the driver will not be loaded at boot, and you won't be able to boot your Win2k3. - -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVs6/oAAoJEHVFVWw9WFsL8vcQAMd0C5zPHdwzoANR5peBl9mJ Z/9jY9/mF7E29yAmwKm0d3vXKgtja7v5vWar5rbyvSDpNKnUjQlwVdJEiGWwpcko 21xP7dC/IGGeEtn38wtfKOVZ0OQOAE1zs6YqbTDYSm1WgtTKNHvWjYQiPCwPmIYi cWqmXxF0SF2ADEiRjYlqZT2cd5Ersu+hy+bRlYGUxi4t2KhQf5vnz3kqZeY2BbDZ pG6xKRTvMDRqKiFdd3arUQ8ewJGjKvmKnGWz1ZgCvo75uzGoiuGmKDkIF6FJb3/+ +8nnFdYjd5b2NhryhIawxeZphAyMfIgt6Le1mFGgg2EBOD6xhFWv3WOLGSV775uu 29Q0+tPTE1+o8Ed1mtgaS1mRB/huPCMOMJtJS4sZ70wRdCz6i1pcYhQgXr44O1lz JzZxhnl79Zz0v/rlRIX2EF7t41rvIf//wgoA6jIhI7B15eGPlfGUaU2tMGGf8yGu yTcmuPKzfR1g8GJzYpNT8wFawEFOe3x2dRjA2kUdvUR1FziNdrUNxwpVOOBuOlX5 efVLf2ms+OOyIOnbSyzMOXL55K7a4HnHacCEjEvzvt60m4ZM7hcRGEE5L8Hi9LGP z2eDwRtefK6bL4Pg3hjkpBtsG42Pr6y5904MRGtLqwvmtWlTF+txafwahXQALpSi 5QEdWTWMQdI/LBZ/1LWz =tFUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[libvirt-users] libvirt events and Ruby's EventMachine
by Jonathan Barber 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Hello, I'm trying to adopt the Ruby event example from here https://www.libvirt.org/ruby/examples/event_test.rb to use EventMachine (a library for writing event driven programs). I have attached my attempt, which appears subscribe to events but never executes the callbacks I provide. I know this because when I reset domains (virsh reset VM) I see messages appear from the Handlers::notify_readable(), which should then invoke Libvirt::event_invoke_handle_callback() - but the output from the callbacks never appears. Typical output from the program looks like: add_handle fd=11 events=1 add_timer interval=-1 :notify_readable id=0 fd=11 events=1 update_timer id=0 interval=0 :notify_readable id=0 fd=11 events=1 :notify_readable id=0 fd=11 events=1 ... When I enabled debugging by setting LIBVIRT_DEBUG to 1 the output from libvirt appears to be the same as event_test.rb (excluding memory addresses). Can anyone see where I'm going wrong? Many thanks -- Jonathan Barber <jonathan.barber(a)gmail.com>

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Re: [libvirt-users] virsh dominfo does not show correct cpuTime
by changqian zuo 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

I was getting vCPU use time outside of guest with libvirt-python API, and them calculate utilization with (cpuTime2 - cpuTime1) / (t2 - t1). I was not doing this inside the guest os. 2015-07-24 15:09 GMT+08:00 2020human <human2020(a)qq.com>: > You calculate is vCPU use time not utilization。 > > use_time/total_cpu_time is utilization。 > > total_cpu_time=`cat /proc/stat |sed -n '1p'|awk '{ print > sum=$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9+$10}'` > > > ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------ > *发件人:* "changqian zuo";<zuochangqian(a)gmail.com>; > *发送时间:* 2015年7月24日(星期五) 中午1:51 > *收件人:* "libvirt-users"<libvirt-users(a)redhat.com>; > *主题:* [libvirt-users] virsh dominfo does not show correct cpuTime > > Hi, > > I am doing some domain resource monitoring work. I use > > cat /dev/urandom | md5sum > > to simulate vCPU load and write a script to calculate vCPU utilization. It > seems all good at the beginning. After I abort the ``cat ... md5sum`` > command in domain, I see some strange data as below: > > CPU time: 8410960000000 > CPU util: 99.8410609331% > CPU time: 8411970000000 > CPU util: 100.843672381% > CPU time: 8412380000000 > CPU util: 40.9336949531% > CPU time: 8412440000000 > CPU util: 5.9899303915% > *CPU time: 8412440000000* > *CPU util: 0.0%* > CPU time: 8412490000000 > CPU util: 4.99165856007% > *CPU time: 8412490000000* > *CPU util: 0.0%* > *CPU time: 8412490000000* > *CPU util: 0.0%* > CPU time: 8412570000000 > CPU util: 7.987195515% > *CPU time: 8412570000000* > *CPU util: 0.0%* > CPU time: 8412590000000 > CPU util: 1.99668576091% > CPU time: 8412670000000 > CPU util: 7.98700539474% > CPU time: 8412720000000 > CPU util: 4.99167281754% > CPU time: 8412780000000 > CPU util: 5.98888552548% > > Looking at those 0.0% lines. Strange, though the guest is running, cpuTime > does not increase. How can this happen? Any one helps? Thanks. > > Host information: > > - CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) > - libvirt 1.2.8 > - qemu-kvm-rhev 2.1.2 > > ----- python script to capture cpu domain usage ---- > import libvirt > import time > > conn = libvirt.openReadOnly("qemu:///system") > dom = conn.lookupByName('cpu-test') > last_time = time.time() > last_cpu_time = dom.info()[4] > > while True: > time.sleep(1) > this_time = time.time() > dom_info = dom.info() > > print "CPU time: %s" % dom_info[4] > print "CPU util: %s%%" % ((dom_info[4] - last_cpu_time) / ((this_time - > last_time) * 10000000)) > > last_cpu_time = dom_info[4] > last_time = this_time > ----------------------------- end ----------------------------- > > >

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[libvirt-users] virsh dominfo does not show correct cpuTime
by changqian zuo 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Hi, I am doing some domain resource monitoring work. I use cat /dev/urandom | md5sum to simulate vCPU load and write a script to calculate vCPU utilization. It seems all good at the beginning. After I abort the ``cat ... md5sum`` command in domain, I see some strange data as below: CPU time: 8410960000000 CPU util: 99.8410609331% CPU time: 8411970000000 CPU util: 100.843672381% CPU time: 8412380000000 CPU util: 40.9336949531% CPU time: 8412440000000 CPU util: 5.9899303915% *CPU time: 8412440000000* *CPU util: 0.0%* CPU time: 8412490000000 CPU util: 4.99165856007% *CPU time: 8412490000000* *CPU util: 0.0%* *CPU time: 8412490000000* *CPU util: 0.0%* CPU time: 8412570000000 CPU util: 7.987195515% *CPU time: 8412570000000* *CPU util: 0.0%* CPU time: 8412590000000 CPU util: 1.99668576091% CPU time: 8412670000000 CPU util: 7.98700539474% CPU time: 8412720000000 CPU util: 4.99167281754% CPU time: 8412780000000 CPU util: 5.98888552548% Looking at those 0.0% lines. Strange, though the guest is running, cpuTime does not increase. How can this happen? Any one helps? Thanks. Host information: - CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) - libvirt 1.2.8 - qemu-kvm-rhev 2.1.2 ----- python script to capture cpu domain usage ---- import libvirt import time conn = libvirt.openReadOnly("qemu:///system") dom = conn.lookupByName('cpu-test') last_time = time.time() last_cpu_time = dom.info()[4] while True: time.sleep(1) this_time = time.time() dom_info = dom.info() print "CPU time: %s" % dom_info[4] print "CPU util: %s%%" % ((dom_info[4] - last_cpu_time) / ((this_time - last_time) * 10000000)) last_cpu_time = dom_info[4] last_time = this_time ----------------------------- end -----------------------------

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[libvirt-users] global lock when executing hook scripts
by Vasiliy Tolstov 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hello. I'm try to understand, why in case of 20 workers libvirt fully locked when runs qemu hook (when domain starts) virsh list freezes. As i understand in case of using more workers it utilized to run hooks too, but as i see in pstree only main libvirt process executes hook. Why this happening? pstree -a -p 6642 libvirtd,6642 -d -l ├─qemu,9272 /etc/libvirt/hooks/qemu testvm prepare begin - │ └─prepare,9468 -x /usr/local/prepare.sh testvm │ └─sleep,9469 5000 ├─{libvirtd},6643 ├─{libvirtd},6644 ├─{libvirtd},6645 ├─{libvirtd},6646 ├─{libvirtd},6647 ├─{libvirtd},6648 -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru

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[libvirt-users] libvirtd error missing cpu model
by abhishek jain 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hi Team I'm facing following error while running libvirt on ppc platfrom with cpu model as e5500.. 2015-07-15 06:30:37.307+0000: 3976: warning : virQEMUCapsInit:1001 : Failed to get host CPU 2015-07-15 06:30:37.642+0000: 3976: error : virFirewallApply:936 : out of memory 2015-07-15 06:31:16.451+0000: 3969: error : cpuNodeData:344 : this function is not supported by the connection driver: cannot get node CPU data for ppc architecture Below is the output of important files.. cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : e5500 clock : 1400.000000MHz revision : 2.1 (pvr 8024 1021) bogomips : 75.00 cat /usr/share/libvirt/cpu_map.xml <model name='POWERPC_e5500'> <vendor name='Freescale'/> <pvr value='0x80240000'/> </model> <model name='POWERPC_e6500'> <vendor name='Freescale'/> <pvr value='0x80400000'/> </model> </arch> </cpus> Thanks Abhishek Jain

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[libvirt-users] [Libvirt ] qemu+tls failed to verify peer's certificate
by Dhaval_Shah1＠dell.com 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Dell Customer Communication Hi everyone, I am trying to do a virsh using TLS Certificate. I am getting an error that "error: authentication failed: Failed to verify peer's certificate" I am following the steps mentioned in the http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TLSSetup I have generated CA Certificate, client certificate and server certificate and placed them as mentioned in above site. After that when I am trying to do a virsh it is failing. Please let me know if anyone has encountered this kind of issue. virsh -c qemu+tls://172.14.5.6/system list error: failed to connect to hypervisor error: authentication failed: Failed to verify peer's certificate Thanks & Regards, Dhaval Shah

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[libvirt-users] Migrate KVM linux based VM to microsoft Hyper-v
by test comp 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hi, I am searching around this topic but didn't get any suitable link, can you guys please help with this. i have my linux based VM as .img which is built on top of VirtIO protocol and runs fine on KVM or qemu. i am trying to port the same on the Microsoft Hyper-V but it is not working. I get blank screen with no other actions, tried the same on virtual box also but result is same. i have converted the vm.img format to .vhd, .vhdx, .vmdk , .vdi using different tools like qemu-img , and other windows based tools. but no success. I am running hyper-v on windows 10. My existing linux based VM setup works on qemu both in Centos and windows, but other than that its not working on any other hyper visor. i am not sure whether i need to update My VM's drivers to support hyper-V. Please guide me in the right direction. Regards Roshan S

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[libvirt-users] Clustering configuration for evaluation
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hi, I need to set up a two -nodes RHEL cluster in order to check KVM guests migration stuff. Could you , please , give me some advice regarding : - HW pieces I need to setup the cluster ( I already got the two servers) - The RHEL packages and subscriptions needed for the cluster and the guests management on top of this cluster. Thx for help. J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.27.78 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] Hot Cloning - clone running Virtual Machines
by NoxDaFox 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Greetings, I am running a test automation service which makes use of QEMU/KVM. As the tests run for few minutes, the time spent booting the OS (Windows) is quite a waste of resources so I decided to play a bit around the idea of hot cloning running VMs. Following an old discussion I found, I proceeded with saving the VM state through virsh save, edit its XML file with virsh save-image-edit and restore it through virsh restore. The problem comes when I try to change some specific fields in the XML. As I run several instances on the same server, I need to provide different names and UUIDs to avoid collisions. Unfortunately, libvirt forbids this operation issuing the following error message: error: unsupported configuration: Target domain uuid 7c85e288-88fe-43d2-8b9c-89af4c83c10a does not match source 62f28517-8601-4d2e-942c-a20d087f9f4a Same thing applies with the name field. Is this a limitation of the API or it is a designed protection mechanism? Would it be possible to overcome this limit? Thank you.

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[libvirt-users] Can't figure out how to restart VM after making config changes in virt-manager
by KARR, DAVID 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

I finally figured out my VNC configuration, so I can now run virt-manager to inspect and manipulate my VM. I initially created the VM with "virt-install", but I haven't been able to see the console or do anything with it. When I ran virt-manager, I tried to configure the vcpus (1->4) and change the boot order (cdrom, then disk, as I created the VM with an ISO). When I made these changes, virt-manager said they would take effect on the next restart of the VM. So, then I tried to restart the VM from virt-manager. The "Run" button is disabled, so I assume that means it detects that the VM is running. I've tried clicking "Shut Down" and selecting "Reboot" from the dropdown, but neither of those seem to do anything. I've tried to view the console window, but I've only ever seen a black screen there. I believe some people mentioned that I should try sshing to the VM. I would do that if I could find an IP address or hostname that appears to correspond to this VM. The obvious, using the VM name, didn't work. I'm not sure what to do here.

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[libvirt-users] Cannot migrate vm between servers
by Chris Lewis 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hello, I issue the command below to migrate virtual machine "jabber" from host vmserver5 to vmserver3 I see the machine is created at the destination, paused on both sides, but the process fails with the error below (and the destination VM is removed) root@vmserver5:~/# virsh migrate --p2p --unsafe jabber qemu+ssh://vmserver3/system error: internal error: migration was active, but no RAM info was set Relevant Software versions: vmserver5: ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============================================-============================-============================-= vmserver3: ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==================================-=============================-============-============================ ii kvm 1:1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u8 amd64 dummy transitional package from kvm to qemu-kvm ii libvirt-bin 1.2.9-9~bpo70+1 amd64 programs for the libvirt library ii qemu-kvm 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u8 amd64 Full virtualization on x86 hardware Both machines have shared storage mounted in same place. Very little info on web regarding this error. Can anyone suggest what is going on? Thanks in advance Chris Lewis

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[libvirt-users] So why does "destroy" not actually destroy?
by KARR, DAVID 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

I thought it odd that if I have a running VM and I do "virsh destroy" it results in a VM that is "shut off". To ACTUALLY destroy a VM, you have to follow that with "undefine". Could someone elaborate on how we ended up with these slightly confusing semantics?

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[libvirt-users] How to enable vmx (virtual machine extensions) in virt-manager
by KARR, DAVID 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

I need to enable virtual machine extensions, like as described at http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Ubuntu_14.04&p=kvm&f=8 . I could do this in virsh, but I'd like to know if it's possible to do in virt-manager. I don't see an obvious way to do that.

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[libvirt-users] Debug VM boot from ISO issues
by KARR, DAVID 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

I'm having trouble booting a VM from an ISO, but my problems may not be virtualization issues, just general confusion. I'm running virt-manager on Ubuntu, but I need to boot a VM with an ISO that is based on CentOS. Is that possible? How do I define the VM in virt-manager to boot from an ISO? I initially created the VM with virt-install, but I started over with virt-manager, and now I'm not sure how to specify the ISO to boot from.

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[libvirt-users] IPMI in Libvirt
by Anderson Kaiser 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Greetings all, I am looking for a solution to use IPMI (BMC) in with LibVirt (Virt-Manager). Actually there is a Customer behind this request as well. Trying to be short: We are looking for a Solution in OpenStack Environment. Customer wants to have the entire environment running in Virt-Manager (probably for a P.O.C or tests purposes). So here is what he is trying to do: http://red.ht/1HfNn9r This template you can find in the Red Hat's OpenStack Install Guide. So far so good. But OpenStack works with High Availability and in some moment of the procedure you have to create an IPMI (BMC) interface in order to Fence the HA Nodes and Controllers. (Just for curiosity in this first moment customer is setting the Nodes - Hypervisors - as Nested KVM - so he can use the VM as an Hypervisor as well). That said the 3 VMs which are the controller, and also the 2 nodes, should have an IPMI Interface. Is it possible to have it in KVM? I mean, seems that in SeaBIOS we already have this support: http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2012-August/004405.html Also I found a Red Hat BugZilla regarding this request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815136 . but it seems to be "abandoned" since the beginning. So the point is: - Is it possible to have a NIC or a Device emulating an IPMI (BMC) interface? - If yes, how can we export it to the VM? Maybe we can do a pass-trough if the hardware is available. But Lets think in a Notebook or a Desktop, for instance (we are working with a POC, remember?) and maybe the IPMI Interface could not be available or oesn't exist. I thought if it was possible to have some kind of IPMI NIC emulated and also an "brdge" and then an additional virtual network for this bridge. Am I going to far? ;-) Anderson Kaiser (RHCE, RHCVA) Team Lead - Red Hat Global Support Services Latin America Red Hat Inc,. akaiser(a)redhat.com Ph: +55 11 3529-6000 Red Hat Support: 0800-602-5222

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Re: [libvirt-users] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Pierre Schweitzer 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

On 07/13/2015 03:25 PM, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote: > - - cd ControlSet001 >> - - cd Control >> - - cd CriticalDeviceDatabase >> - - Check you have the following keys: primary_ide_channel, >> secondary_ide_channel, pci#ven_8086&dev_7010, pci#ven_8086&dev_7111 >> keys. Some will be missing (otherwise, you'd boot ;-)). >> > Here is my keys: > ... > <pci#cc_0600> > <pci#cc_0604> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_244e> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27b8> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27c0> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27d0> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27da> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27df> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27e0> > <pci#ven_8086&dev_27e2> > <pci#ven_9005&dev_0080&subsys_e2a09005> > <primary_ide_channel> > ... > > Can I remove them and add the new ones what you wrote me? Let the one already in place, and just add the missing ones. Existing ones won't cause troubles. > Do I type in the registy entries under [1] and [2] exactly using copy paste? Yup. > I'll check those vendor IDs above. > > How can I check the ones what Qemu using? (IDE/SATA/SCSI/Virtio) One easy way to find out is to use lspci -nn in a Linux host running Qemu with your target configuration. For instance, for the IDE bus, you'll get something like: 00:01.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] [8086:7010] -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

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Re: [libvirt-users] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Pierre Schweitzer 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/13/2015 09:58 AM, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote: >> Here is the first problem. I can't mount sdi1! sdi1 not >> existent. >>> :-( >> >> What if you partprobe /dev/sdi? >> > Nothing. Empty output. When partprobe properly works (ie encounters no error), it doesn't print anything to console, it just adds the appropriate entries in /dev. (I guess some answers got lost on libvirt-users, sorry about that). - -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVo4GDAAoJEHVFVWw9WFsLEpAP/jXOTqFf+Uog9/J5iuBh9ktU X4tEPEBa6j2V8Pkyv5YHKFe1T4JWvZw0AcbAuEQMS0glt3PUY7lsKFmqcYzJEukB w95vqMbvtguRneMh1G9tbEdOk47/T0zEnDXBz6/wyHGxkz3xGNqkoD6gxL0w2gui 5WAAdv8CPKptUZKKWGxABdZBxMobUNwtowTL0/Ir5BEiMl9wCHbgq6NOrU4Aungm kjLfR6BcecUkYh9lFeiyakYuENohNkZiP1f+zA8AlsZQDwAZP5Qe/J1vvfdawLiW pmYOT8Cmb6lp+O9iZhIQCAcE8EgZ9I6O0+J1vbVESSb+s4V1p1/Psu5zNqYMHMZJ 3He9X1Jj8vD0qliPW/YpRVMyRde77H7NNHSuX9QU/3Z2RFMLLT5Hx0ywElDLYJI/ aYiQgD1+bEp8T6frpmaowj1jXt7OraLnblaa92md4vwMm0Bl/Oui7y+kr5XO1gjD yri+YxAtptdge6nm2evLorQFrRi5DaVbjx0WPPHY2UJActo9lCHMciCyzAnUpsz3 c99Vlvk8jc2gTywst/rRgs7Ww9S+rxIRJZ6vck/lIjMjviIViH3aN0sQRB0cynLp DPhkB/Yedmj8PpNQstl8srg1D34Itir80Ve/uk7/vdlZp1D1670r7nXN6p46IGh5 Fn3/SNUE5Hfa0DBSqo9o =ovns -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [libvirt-users] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Ruzsinszky Attila 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hi Vincent, I can access to the source physical machine but it is an almost 24h running machine. I heard about VMware P2V program. I've never used it, yet. I don't want to virtio. I want a booting W2k3. That's all. ;-) TIA, Ruzsi

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[libvirt-users] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Ruzsinszky Attila 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

Hi, I made a disk image with CloneZilla from the original physical machine. That image was restored on an iSCSI volume. It isn't booting. I got BSOD. I tried IDE, SATA, SCSI disk type without any success. I tried to using virtio driver and if I use my image+W2k3 install CD+virtio VFD the Windows repair console see the disk and I can use the repair console with my image but the windows not start (or not booting because the system disk can't be seen by original "registry"). The drivers from virtio VFD image were copied to Windows' Driver directory manually. I tried to use virt-win-reg: rattila@amd1:~$ virt-win-reg SJ-SIMISPC /dev/disk/by-path/<iSCSI-path>:simispc-lun-2: Engedély megtagadva at /usr/bin/virt-win-reg line 260. (it means: Permission denied.) What can I do changing the original driver to virtio (or IDE/SATA/SCSI in KVM)? I can't do anything with the physical machine so the only option is playing with the disk image. TIA, Ruzsi

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[libvirt-users] libvirt beginner needs to create and start VMs entirely on command line
by KARR, DAVID 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

I'm a beginner to libvirt and creating VMs, for that matter. I have a set of specifications for VMs I need to create and log into, but I have to create them on an Ubuntu box that I only have ssh access to. I won't have desktop GUI access, although I do have dynamic port forwarding, so I can access a browser GUI from my desktop. Reading through the libvirt info, I see numerous mentions about using VNC to do additional work, but I won't be able to use VNC (not allowed within our firewall). I could use some advice on how to move forward with this. I've started at https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/libvirt.html for initial information. I managed to create a disk image for my first VM, and I believe I created the first VM using an ISO (based on CentOS, I believe), but I'll probably have to rebuild that, because I think I have to configure networks on the VM, which I didn't do on initial creation. I was confused by the initial results from "virt-install", because it seemed to hang after a second or two (I posted this SO question about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31302871/trouble-using-virt-install-on-u… ). The reply from this makes it seem like it was trying to present a GUI for next steps, but I of course never saw that. The VM appears to exist, but in a "shut off" state.

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[libvirt-users] Fw: Error attaching tape drive device to KVM guest
by Jake Kugel 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

A quick follow-up in case anyone else is trying to use IBM tape device within a KVM guest. I didn't get SCSI passthrough below working, but there were two alternatives recommended to me: (1) Use PCI passthrough to give the KVM guest dedicated access to the Fibre Channel HBA PCI card. PCI passthrough seems to be more solid. (2) Use ISCSI to share the tape devices and tape changer devices from physical host, and use ISCSI client on KVM guest to access. We were successful using option 2 even though there is performance penalty for bridging with ISCSI. It gives us greater flexibility, we don't have to dedicate a PCI card to the KVM guest. ----- Forwarded by jkugel us ibm com on 07/10/2015 01:50 PM ----- jkugel us ibm com wrote on 07/06/2015 10:23:45 AM: > From: jkugel us ibm com > To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Date: 07/06/2015 10:23 AM > Subject: Error attaching tape drive device to KVM guest > > Hello, > > i'm trying to configure a host SCSI device (tape drive) so that it > is available in a KVM guest VM, but am receiving an error when > attempting to attach the device. My guest xml has the following > scsi controller defined: > > <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'> > <alias name='scsi0'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' > function='0x0'/> > </controller> > > I created tapedrive.xml with following contents: > > <disk type='block' device='lun' sgio='unfiltered'> > <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/> > <source dev='/dev/st0'/> > <target dev='st0' bus='scsi'/> > <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> > </disk> > > I then attempt to attach using following command, and receive this error: > > # virsh attach-device instance-0000002d tapedrive.xml --config > error: Failed to attach device from tapedrive.xml > error: internal error: Invalid harddisk device name: st0 > > Does anyone know cause of the error? In <address> section of tape > drive definition I am using type='drive', I tried type='tape' also > but same error. is there a different property value I should use > here, or general advice for attaching tape drive to KVM guest? Thanks, Jake

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[libvirt-users] cpuacct and emulator/cpuacct
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hello, Does it exist some documentation concerning following topic ? What's difference between following perf counters : /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/test/cpuacct.usage and /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/test/emulator/cpuacct.usage Thx . Regards, J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.27.78 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] adding devices and chardev in .xml configuration file ...
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi, As I want to start qemu by adding following parameters : -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=test -device virtserialport,chardev=test,name=port.0 Is it possible to add them in the .xml configuration file of the guest , so they will be automatically added when the guest is started ? If yes , any doc describing the syntax ? Thx. Regards, J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.27.78 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] Migrate Win2k3 to KVM
by Ruzsinszky Attila 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi, I made a disk image with CloneZilla from the original physical machine. That image was restored on an iSCSI volume. It isn't booting. I got BSOD. I tried IDE, SATA, SCSI disk type without any success. I tried to using virtio driver and if I use my image+W2k3 install CD+virtio VFD the Windows repair console see the disk and I can use the repair console with my image but the windows not start (or not booting because the system disk can't be seen by original "registry"). The drivers from virtio VFD image were copied to Windows' Driver directory manually. I tried to use virt-win-reg: rattila@amd1:~$ virt-win-reg SJ-SIMISPC /dev/disk/by-path/<iSCSI-path>:simispc-lun-2: Engedély megtagadva at /usr/bin/virt-win-reg line 260. (it means: Permission denied.) What can I do changing the original driver to virtio (or IDE/SATA/SCSI in KVM)? I can't do anything with the physical machine so the only option is playing with the disk image. TIA, Ruzsi

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[libvirt-users] Access to virtualization on a multi-user system
by sbaugh＠catern.com 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hi libvirt-users, I find myself wanting to do something that seems like it must have some obvious solution: I have multiple users (let's just assume local Unix accounts) on a Linux system, and I want them all to have access to KVM-accelerated virtualization. But, I don't want them to be able to meddle with each other's virtual machines. Is there a solution to this problem? Methods of attack that have occured to me: - Use PolicyKit to only allow a user to access qemu:///system VMs that are somehow marked as owned by that user - Run multiple libvirt qemu:///system daemons and restrict access to each on a per-user basis - Allow qemu:///session VMs to actually be KVM-accelerated (this seems like the best way to do it, but I have no idea if that's even possible) Again, the third seems like the best way, but I'm not sure of how to allow such VMs to be KVM-accelerated, and not sure if it's possible for them to use anything other than usermode networking. Hopefully I'm missing some obvious way to do it! Thanks for any assistance!

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[libvirt-users] Error attaching tape drive device to KVM guest
by Jake Kugel 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hello, i'm trying to configure a host SCSI device (tape drive) so that it is available in a KVM guest VM, but am receiving an error when attempting to attach the device. My guest xml has the following scsi controller defined: <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'> <alias name='scsi0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </controller> I created tapedrive.xml with following contents: <disk type='block' device='lun' sgio='unfiltered'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/> <source dev='/dev/st0'/> <target dev='st0' bus='scsi'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> I then attempt to attach using following command, and receive this error: # virsh attach-device instance-0000002d tapedrive.xml --config error: Failed to attach device from tapedrive.xml error: internal error: Invalid harddisk device name: st0 Does anyone know cause of the error? In <address> section of tape drive definition I am using type='drive', I tried type='tape' also but same error. is there a different property value I should use here, or general advice for attaching tape drive to KVM guest? Thanks, Jake

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[libvirt-users] Slow network performance issues
by Alex Regan 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hi, I have a fedora21 system that's been running fine under normal network activity, but trying to perform a full backup of the 300GB filesystem is taking forever because the network speed appears to be very slow. Using rsync, the transfer speeds reach a max of like 180kB/s. Using rsync to copy files on the local filesystem is greater than 55MB/s, so I don't think it's a disk issue. What kind of network speed can I expect copying data across the network from the guest to another host on the same gigabit network? I'm using the virtio driver: # lsmod|grep virtio virtio_console 28672 0 virtio_balloon 16384 0 virtio_net 32768 0 virtio_blk 20480 4 virtio_pci 24576 0 virtio_ring 20480 5 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_pci,virtio_balloon,virtio_console virtio 16384 5 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_pci,virtio_balloon,virtio_console ethtool on the vnet0 interface shows the speed at only 10Mb/s. Is that normal? Or even changable? I've included the qemu command-line below. # ps ax|grep propguest 1582 ? Sl 25433:37 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -name propguest -S -machine pc-1.2,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 16384 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid b67e10fe-7ef0-a1ca-cecf-3f3506d54e1a -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/propguest.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -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=/var/lib/libvirt/iso-images/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/propguest.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/propguest-2.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk2,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9,drive=drive-virtio-disk2,id=virtio-disk2 -netdev tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=24 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:11:66:5a:51,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,seamless-migration=on -device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex

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