June 2016 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] bridge / ubuntu / no arp reply
by François Chenais 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

Hello I'm trying to setup a bridged guest on an ubuntu 13.10 but it doesn't work. (Everything is ok with NAT) Network sniffing shows that arp replies don't come back to the guest. Test 1 ------ Guest : ping host_bridge_ip (ok) Test 2 ------ Guest: ping other_lan_host (KO) other_lan_host - receives arp who-is request - sends arp reply - arp -a shows the guest macaddr => Guest doesn't receive reply Test 3 ------ other_lan_host ping the Guest (KO) - arp -a shows "incomplete" addr - Guest receives nothing On Host ------- network tcpdump on bridge or vnet interfaces shows request but no reply ... Thanks in advance for help or ideas François

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[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] stream finish throws exception via python API
by Shahar Havivi 27 Nov '16

27 Nov '16

Hi, The following snippet works fine e.g. receiving the data but when calling stream.finish() we get the following error: stream = con.newStream() vol.download(stream, 0, 0, 0) buf = stream.recv(1024) stream.finish() libvirt: I/O Stream Utils error : internal error: I/O helper exited abnormally Traceback (most recent call last): File "./helpers/kvm2ovirt", line 149, in <module> download_volume(vol, item[1], diskno, disksitems, pksize) File "./helpers/kvm2ovirt", line 102, in download_volume stream.finish() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 5501, in finish if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virStreamFinish() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: I/O helper exited abnormally Am I doing something wrong? Thank you, Shahar.

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[libvirt-users] Windows guest and virtio serial port
by Tadas 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

I'm not sure, if it's correct mailing list to post this problem to. I'm having problems with Windows guest and virtio serial port. According to this manual: http://www.spice-space.org/page/Whiteboard/AgentProtocol I should get a named pipe on my guest VM after I create VirtIO sedial device and spicevmc channel. This works without any problems on Linux guest: ls /dev/virtio-ports/ com.redhat.spice.0 But on Windows guest I can see no such pipe: PipeList v1.01 by Mark Russinovich http://www.sysinternals.com Pipe Name Instances Max Instances --------- --------- -------- ----- InitShutdown 3 -1 lsass 4 -1 ntsvcs 3 -1 scerpc 3 -1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-2b8-0 1 1 epmapper 3 -1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-1ac-0 1 1 LSM_API_service 3 -1 TermSrv_API_service 3 -1 Ctx_WinStation_API_service 3 -1 eventlog 3 -1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-174-0 1 1 atsvc 3 -1 wkssvc 6 -1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-16c-0 1 1 SessEnvPublicRpc 3 -1 spoolss 3 -1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-550-0 1 1 trkwks 3 -1 NlaSvcTask 1 -1 srvsvc 5 -1 browser 3 -1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-710-0 1 1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-228-0 1 1 Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-230-0 1 1 HPUPDMon 1 1 MsFteWds 2 -1 PIPE_EVENTROOT\CIMV2SCM EVENT PROVIDER 1 -1 TDLN-3772-41 1 2 TDLN-3216-41 1 2 virtio serial drivers are installed on Windows guest VM. What I am missing here? Thank you.

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[libvirt-users] pci slot increases after several times interface attach and detach
by Huanle Han 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

hi, I have a question about interface hotplug. I attach and detach interface from vm for several times. I find the pci slot of interface increases in live xml while keep unchanged in config xml. Here is my test script and result: Test Script: #!/bin/bash VM=ub1504b print_xml() { echo "$* : ========inactive===========" virsh dumpxml --inactive $VM |grep -A 20 "<interface" |grep "mac\|slot" echo "$* : ======== active===========" virsh dumpxml $VM |grep -A 20 "<interface" |grep "mac\|slot" } print_xml begin_ virsh attach-device --config --live $VM if1.xml print_xml attach virsh detach-device --config --live $VM if1.xml print_xml detach Result: begin_ : ========inactive=========== <mac address='0c:da:41:1e:02:9c'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> begin_ : ======== active=========== <mac address='0c:da:41:1e:02:9c'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> Device attached successfully attach : ========inactive=========== <mac address='0c:da:41:1e:02:9c'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> <mac address='0c:da:11:11:11:11'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='*0x0c*' function='0x0'/> attach : ======== active=========== <mac address='0c:da:41:1e:02:9c'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> <mac address='0c:da:11:11:11:11'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='*0x0d*' function='0x0'/> Device detached successfully detach : ========inactive=========== <mac address='0c:da:41:1e:02:9c'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> detach : ======== active=========== <mac address='0c:da:41:1e:02:9c'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> When execute the script for more than 1 times, You can see the pci slot of attached interface in live xml differs from the one in config xml. Is this intentional or a bug ? If not a bug, why?

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[libvirt-users] Creating external snapshots with logical volumes.
by Dominique Ramaekers 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hi, Quick question regarding external snapshots. Currently, for making backups of my guests, I use external snapshots like this: virsh snapshot-create-as --domain PCVIRTdra --disk-only --atomic --quiesce --no-metadata --diskspec vda,file=/srv/poolVMS/PCVIRTdra-ONDERHOUD If I wanted to use a logical volume as destination behind the '--diskspec' option, can I do this like this? virsh snapshot-create-as --domain PCVIRTdra --disk-only --atomic --quiesce --no-metadata --diskspec vda,file=/dev/CmsrvVH3-vg/PCVIRTdra-ONDERHOUD It seems to work, but if this is never intended to be used like this, I would rather not... I ask this question because it seems libvirt is actually recognizing the logical volume as a file: root@CmsrvVH3:~# virsh domblklist PCVIRTdra --details Type Device Target Source ------------------------------------------------ file disk vda /dev/CmsrvVH3-vg/PCVIRTdra-ONDERHOUD file cdrom hdb /srv/poolVMS/Windows10_x64.iso file cdrom hdc /srv/poolVMS/virtiodrivers.iso Is there a better way of doing this? Thanks in advance, Dominique.

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[libvirt-users] block commit failed at 100%
by Ishmael Tsoaela 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hi All, I am new to libvirt and would appreciated some assistance with libvirt backups. I am backing up some VM and coming accross and issue where "Block commit" does not completely finish, causing libvirt to write to snapshot: root@xxx:~# virsh blockjob vm /mnt/diskimage-backups/vm.snap-201606210230.qcow2 --info Active Block Commit: [100 %] The state does not change, is the anyway around this ? libvirtd (libvirt) 1.3.4 QEMU emulator version 2.3.0

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[libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups
by Markus Ellinger 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

Hi everyone, we are suddenly having a problem with executing our backup jobs. For a long time, we have used a shell script which contains the following code to backup all our virtual machines: for domain in Testserver Faktura Fileserver Gitolite Jenkins Nexus SimpleHelp VpnGateway Wiki; do echo -n "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") starting backup for vm ${domain} ... " >> ${vmlog} virsh dumpxml --security-info ${domain} > ${vmdir}/${domain}.xml virsh undefine ${domain} >> ${vmlog} virsh blockcopy ${domain} /var/lib/libvirt/images/${domain}.img ${vmdir}/${domain}.img --wait --finish >> ${vmlog} virsh define ${vmdir}/${domain}.xml >> ${vmlog} done This has worked great for us, but all of the sudden (eventually triggered by an update, since of course we do regular security/package updates on this machine) we are having problems. For some virtual machines, it still works perfectly, but for others, virsh tells us that a blockjob is still active and therefore the backup fails. This seems to happen to machines at random. However, when we then try to query the active blockjob, virsh tells us that no blockjob is active. Consider the following log from the shell: root@gfii-host:~# virsh undefine Gitolite error: Failed to undefine domain Gitolite error: Requested operation is not valid: cannot undefine transient domain root@gfii-host:~# virsh blockcopy Gitolite /var/lib/libvirt/images/Gitolite.img /tmp/test-blockcopy-gitolite.img --wait --finish error: block copy still active: disk 'vda' already in active block job root@gfii-host:~# virsh blockjob Gitolite /var/lib/libvirt/images/Gitolite.img No current block job for /var/lib/libvirt/images/Gitolite.img root@gfii-host:~# virsh define /var/local/backup/vms/2016-06-22T013001/Gitolite.xml error: Failed to define domain from /var/local/backup/vms/2016-06-22T013001/Gitolite.xml error: block copy still active: domain has active block job Of course we tried to start/stop the virtual machines, rebooted the whole host multiple times etc., but the problem comes back every night. The machine is a Debian Wheezy machine with current updates. We are using the qemu-kvm package from wheezy-backports to enable blockcopy support. Best regards Markus

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[libvirt-users] virt-sparsify changing the apparent-size of files
by libvirt_users＠skagitattic.com 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hello, I am curious why when using virt-sparsify the apparent-size of the file gets reduced to the actual file size? Is there a way to get the apparent-size left as the full size? In the man page for virt-sparsify it has a section on "IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SPARSE OUTPUT IMAGES" and its output seems to indicate what I would expect where "ls -lh" shows the full apparent size and "du -sh" shows the actual size. But my actual results from testing are different. In the following example input.qcow2 is before sparsify and output.qcow2 is after. Doing ls reports full size for input but a small size for the output: root@testingbox:/tmp/test # ls -lh total 3.1G -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512M Jun 14 22:30 file.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51G Jun 14 22:30 input.qcow2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 790M Jun 14 22:36 output.qcow2 Same when asking du for apparent-size: root@testingbox:/tmp/test # du -h --apparent-size * 512M file.img 51G input.qcow2 790M output.qcow2 A normal du will show the actual size of the files: root@testingbox:/tmp/test # du -h * 0 file.img 2.4G input.qcow2 790M output.qcow2 The only way I have found to check the full virtual size of the file after virt-sparsify is with qemu-img: root@testingbox:/tmp/test # qemu-img info input.qcow2 image: input.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes) disk size: 2.3G cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: true root@testingbox:/tmp/test # qemu-img info output.qcow2 image: output.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes) disk size: 789M cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false Thanks!

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