May 2022 - Users - libvirt List Archives

WinServer2016 guest no mouse in VirtManager
by John McInnes 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi! I recently converted several Windows Server VMs from HyperV to libvirt/KVM. The host is running openSUSE Leap 15.3. I used virt-v2v and I installed virtio drivers on all of them and it all went well - except for one VM. The mouse does not work for this VM in VirtualMachineManager. There is no cursor and no response. There are no issues showing in Windows Device Manager. The mouse shows up as a PS/2 mouse. Interestingly if I RDP into this VM using Microsoft Remote Desktop the mouse works fine. Any ideas? ---- John McInnes jmcinnes /\T svt.org

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Testing DKIM handling
by dberrange＠yahoo.com 17 Dec '22

17 Dec '22

Testing DKIM handling RH mail servers

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[libvirt-users] [virtual interface] detach interface during boot succeed with no changes
by Yalan Zhang 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Hi guys, when I detach an interface from vm during boot (vm boot not finished), it always fail. I'm not sure if there is an existing bug. I have confirmed with someone that for disk, there is similar behavior, if this is also acceptable? # virsh destroy rhel7.2; virsh start rhel7.2 ;sleep 2; virsh detach-interface rhel7.2 network 52:54:00:98:c4:a0; sleep 2; virsh dumpxml rhel7.2 |grep /interface -B9 Domain rhel7.2 destroyed Domain rhel7.2 started Interface detached successfully <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:98:c4:a0'/> <source network='default' bridge='virbr0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='rtl8139'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> When I detach after the vm boot, expand the sleep time to 10, it will succeed. # virsh destroy rhel7.2; virsh start rhel7.2 ;sleep 10; virsh detach-interface rhel7.2 network 52:54:00:98:c4:a0; sleep 2; virsh dumpxml rhel7.2 |grep /interface -B9 Domain rhel7.2 destroyed Domain rhel7.2 started Interface detached successfully ------- Best Regards, Yalan Zhang IRC: yalzhang Internal phone: 8389413

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Virtiofs xattr options on domain xml
by ksobrenat32 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi! I have a debian 11 (bullseye) machine running libvirtd version 7.0.0 and a RHEL 9 virtual machine that I need to share a disk and though about virtiofs. The disk is a btrfs disk and I have successfully mount it with: <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <driver type='virtiofs' queue='1024'/> <binary path='/usr/lib/qemu/virtiofsd' xattr='on'> <cache mode='always'/> <lock posix='on' flock='on'/> </binary> <source dir='/mnt/WD-Disk'/> <target dir='media'/> <alias name='fs0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </filesystem> The problem I have is with selinux, when I try to change the context of a file inside the virtual machine I get a 'Operation not permitted' error, I can change the context in the Debian host and see the changes in the virtual machine but I would want to be able to change the context from the vm to able to use podman containers with selinux enabled. I see on the docs https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/virtiofsd.html#selinux-support you can run virtiofsd with a xattr option so it is compatible with selinux but I do not find a way to change the domain xml to add this option, is there a way to add this option? Does a better option exists (maybe on the guest side)?

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something (qemu?) is leaking
by lejeczek 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi guys. I do a simple thing which should be easy to reproduce. -> $ virt-install -n rum1 --virt-type kvm --os-variant centos8 --memory $((4*1024)) --disk=/VMs3/rum1.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio --network network=10_3_1,model=virtio --graphics=listen=0.0.0.0 --cpu EPYC-Rome --vcpus 3 --cdrom /VMs3/CentOS-Stream-9-latest-x86_64-dvd1.iso During manual setup in the VM I set 'hostname' to something and when installation begins and disk config stage takes place I can see - and later when VM(c9s) is ready can confirm - that VG name is taken from another VM defined/running on the host. Host is c9s with: qemu-kvm-7.0.0-1.el9.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-8.2.0-1.el9.x86_64 5.14.0-86.el9.x86_64 Does anybody see this/similar? many thanks, L.

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Slow VM start/revert, when trying to start/revert dozens of VMs in parallel
by Petr Beneš 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hi, my problem can be described simply: libvirt can't handle starting dozens of VMs at the same time. (technically, it can, but it's really slow.) We have an AMD machine with 256 logical cores and 1.5T ram. On that machine there is roughly 200 VMs. Each VM is the same: 8GB of RAM, 4 VCPUs. Half of them is Win7 x86, the other half is Win7 x64. VMs are using qcow2 as the disk image. These images reside in the ramdisk (tmpfs). We use these machines for automatic malware analysis, so our scenario consists of this cycle: - reverting VM to a running state - execute sample inside of the VM for ~1-2 minutes - shutdown the VM Of course, this results in multiple VMs trying to start at the same time. At first, reverts/starts are really fast - second or two. After about a minute, the "revertToSnapshot" suddenly takes 10-15 seconds, which is really unacceptable. For comparison, we're running the same scenarion on Proxmox, where the revertToSnapshot usually takes 2 seconds. Few notes: - Because of this fast cycle (~2-3 minutes) and because of VMs taking 10-15 seconds to start, there is barely more than 25-30 VMs running at once. We would really love to utilise the whole potential of such beast machine of ours, and have at least ~100 VMs running at any given time. - During the time running, the avg. CPU load isn't higher than 25%. Also, there's only about 280 GB of RAM used. Therefore, it's not limitation of our resources. - When the framwork is running and libvirt is making its best to start our VMs, I noticed that every libvirt operation is suddenly very slow. Even simple "virsh list [--all]" takes few seconds to complete, even though it finishes instantly when no VM is running/starting. I was trying to search for this issue, but didn't really find anything besides this presentation: https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Scalability… However, I couldn't find those commits in your upstream. Is this a known issue? Or is there some setting I don't know of which would magically make the VMs start faster? As for steps to reproduce - I don't think there is anything special needed. Just try to start/destroy several VMs in a loop. There is even provided one-liner for that in the presentation above. ``` # For multiple domains: # while virsh start $vm && virsh destroy $vm; do : ; done # → ~30s hang ups of the libvirtd main loop ``` Best Regards, Petr

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macvtap with disconnected physical interface
by Gionatan Danti 20 May '22

20 May '22

Dear list, I just discovered the hard way that if the lower lever physical interface of a macvlan bridge is disconnected (ie: by unplugging the eth cable, resulting in no carrier), inter-guest network traffic from all virtual machines bound to the disconnected interface is dropped. This behavior surprises me, as with the classic bridges I can disconnect the underlying physical interface without causing any harm to inter-guest traffic. Am I doing something wrong, or this really is the expected behavior? If so, can I force the macvtap interfaces to bridge traffic even when the underlying physical interface is disconnected? Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti(a)assyoma.it - info(a)assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8

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Updating domains definitions via API
by Darragh Bailey 17 May '22

17 May '22

Hi, Looking into a bug in vagrant-libvirt where an error during the update will cause the domain to be completely discarded. https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt/issues/949 Basically I think it stems from doing an undefine -> create with XML new process, which if there is an issue with the new XML due to KVM module not loaded or something similar it will be rejected, but unfortunately it is also unlikely to allow the old definition to be restored either. I'm looking around to try and see if there is an API (specfically in ruby-libvirt) for updating the domain definition, so that if the new XML is rejected at least the old definition remains, and so far I'm drawing a blank. Is the only option here to write using a temporary domain name, then remove the old domain and rename the new definition to the old domain? Or have I missed the obvious API analogous to the edit functionality? -- Darragh Bailey "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool" - unknown

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Problem calling 'virsh' in a script
by Digimer 16 May '22

16 May '22

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Any size limitation on the backing store?
by Jeff Brown 10 May '22

10 May '22

We have a few QCOW2 images that have grown rather large (> 250GB) and to back them up across the VLAN is resource intensive and time consuming. What I'd like to do to optimise backups is freeze the backing store and always run the VMs in 'snapshot 1', and then run 'snapshot 2' to backup 'snapshot 1' to reciprocal failover hypervisors in the DC. I do know it's common practice to even run multiple VMs off a single "golden image" backing store, but I'm concerned about the performance impact with such a large backing store, and 'snapshot 1' growing at ~10GB a year. With that in mind, it should be feasible to pivot 'snapshot 1' into the backing image periodically. Further, I am aware of incremental backups which Debian 11 doesn't yet support. I think it's coming in Debian 12, but some of our servers are actually still on Debian 10. jeff@abacus:/var/lib/libvirt/images$ virsh backup-begin dev error: Operation not supported: incremental backup is not supported yet In a nutshell, is it feasible to run off an > 250GB and growing backing store? Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Jeff Brown Future Foundation Cell 074 101 5170 VoIP 087 550 1210 Fax: 086 532 3508

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