September 2019 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] Live-Migration not possible: error: operation failed: guest CPU doesn't match specification
by Lentes, Bernd 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Hi, i have atwo node HA-cluster with pacemaker, corosync, libvirt and KVM. Recently i configured a new VirtualDomain which runs fine, but live Migration does not succeed. This is the error: VirtualDomain(vm_snipanalysis)[14322]: 2019/09/18_16:56:54 ERROR: snipanalysis: live migration to ha-idg-2 failed: 1 Sep 18 16:56:54 [6970] ha-idg-1 lrmd: notice: operation_finished: vm_snipanalysis_migrate_to_0:14322:stderr [ error: operation failed: guest CPU doesn't match specification: missing features: fma,movbe,xsave,avx,f16c,rdrand,fsgsbase,bmi1,avx2,smep,bmi2,erms,invpcid,md-clear,xsaveopt,abm ] The two servers are from HP, they are similar, but not identical. Their CPU's are different: One is "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz", following /proc/cpuinfo, the other is "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz". Which guest CPU should i choose for having the guest running smoothly on each host ? Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institut für Entwicklungsgenetik Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum münchen bernd.lentes(a)helmholtz-muenchen.de phone: +49 89 3187 1241 phone: +49 89 3187 3827 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg Perfekt ist wer keine Fehler macht Also sind Tote perfekt Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Prof. Dr. Veronika von Messling Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschoep, Kerstin Guenther Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671

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[libvirt-users] About vhost-user-blk support
by Su Hua 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi, everyone, ask a question, which version can fully support the device type of qemu hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c? If so, what should the format of the xml file look like? Regards Su

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[libvirt-users] Disk backup for live and offline domains
by Tim Schumacher 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

Hi, I followed the instructions on the wiki https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit for a live disk backup. Unfortunately this is not working when the domain is offline because the active blockcommit throws error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running For my use case it should be possible for the domain to shut down while the backup is in progress. I'm looking for a way to shorten the backing chain after the backup finishes and the domain is offline. Is there a way to let libvirt decide wether to shorten the backing chain using blockcommit or some alternative way which works on offline domains? As I'm writing this I might as well ask about the current state of "incremental backups". It seems like dirty bitmaps can keep track of which blocks changed and just copy those to the backup. Is there some libvirt command-line frontend for that or is it planned for the future? Thanks. - Tim

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[libvirt-users] Disk backup for live and offline domains
by Tim Schumacher 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

Hi, I followed the instructions on the wiki https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit for a live disk backup. Unfortunately this is not working when the domain is offline because the active blockcommit throws error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running For my use case it should be possible for the domain to shut down while the backup is in progress. I'm looking for a way to shorten the backing chain after the backup finishes and the domain is offline. Is there a way to let libvirt decide wether to shorten the backing chain using blockcommit or some alternative way which works on offline domains? As I'm writing this I might as well ask about the current state of "incremental backups". It seems like dirty bitmaps can keep track of which blocks changed and just copy those to the backup. Is there some libvirt command-line frontend for that or is it planned for the future? Thanks. - Tim

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[libvirt-users] Reg: <operation not permitted><netlink socket><Qemu device>
by bharath paulraj 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hi Team, I am writing a new device in QEMU, which opens and reads from Netlink socket from the hypervisor. I need this Netlink socket to support migration of connection tracking entries during VM Live migration. If I am using QEMU command directly to launch the VM, then any operation on Netlink socket works fine. But, If I am using libvirt to create the VM and attaching the device, then I am getting permission denied error. As I found out that this is related to SElinux, I added the svirt_t context as permissive *"semanage permissive -a svirt_t". *With this, I am not receiving permission denied error, instead i am receiving "operation not permitted" error. I changed the user and group field in libvirtd/qemu.conf to root/root. But still, I am facing the same problem. Any suggestions to overcome this? -- Regards, Bharath

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[libvirt-users] Recover snapshots from qcow images
by Petr Stodulka 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi guys, I had to move to the new laptop week ago and I screw migration of my virtual machines. I recovered my virtual machines on the new laptop (virsh define) using the backed up xml files, but I am missing any file with metadata about snapshots. The original storage is cleaned so I cannot take these files anymore. Using qemu-info I can see my snapshots inside the qcow images, but libvirt doesn't know about them: ########################################### # virsh snapshot-list rhlvm Name Creation Time State ------------------------------- # qemu-img info rhlvm.qcow2 image: rhlvm.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 25G (26843545600 bytes) disk size: 2.9G cluster_size: 65536 Snapshot list: ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK 1 prepared 0 2018-09-05 11:06:06 00:00:00.000 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: true refcount bits: 16 corrupt: false ########################################### Is there any nice way to regenerate snapshot metadata for libvirt from the data inside qcow images? I have bunch of VMs so if there is nice way how to recover those data, you will make me really happy :) Thanks, -- Petr Stodulka OS & Application Modernization IRC nicks: pstodulk, skytak Software Engineer Red Hat Czech s.r.o.

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[libvirt-users] KVM NAT stops from working
by Francesc Guasch 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Hi. First of all thank you for the work you are doing with libvirt. I am not sure this is the right place to ask, I'd appreciate if you can give me any hint or directions. I have several similar KVM Linux boxes and one of them has a really strange behavior with the KVM NAT: It just suddenly stops from working. This is a Linux Ubuntu Server 19.04 with - libvirt-bin 4.0.0 - qemu-kvm 1:2.11 Everything works fine and then suddenly the virtual machines can't reach outside. If I run a tcpdump in the host I see the NAT isn't working. When the server just boots I can see the packets with the server address going out: x.y.z.w.49138 > 8.8.8.8.53 Then, it may be some hours or days later, instead the server address I see the internal domains address: 192.168.122.33.19132 > 8.8.8.8.53 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I try to restart the iptables but it won't help. Any hints ? Thank you very much

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