October 2023 - Users - libvirt List Archives

ANNOUNCE: Forthcoming changes to libvirt mailing list hosting
by Daniel P. Berrangé 13 Oct '23

13 Oct '23

Hello Libvirt Community, For the last 18(!) years, libvirt community mailing lists have been kindly hosted by Red Hat Corporate IT on the redhat.com Mailman installation. In retrospect this wasn't the ideal home for community mailing lists but that decision is ancient history. Unfortunately as a consequence of infrastructure changes, the redhat.com Mailman service is scheduled to be decomissioned, and in the very near future ($low weeks) will cease to be able to send/receive mail for libvirt lists. As a result, all the libvirt mailing lists will need to move to a new Mailman installation, managed on our behalf by the Red Hat Open Source Community Infrastructure team[1], who provide services for a variety of OSS projects. It is intended that this new service will be dedicated for our community and thus located somewhere under the libvirt.org domain. It should go without saying that all existing mail archives will be migrated over to the new server. None of the historical record should be lost. It is not considered appropriate netiquette, however, to bulk-resubscribe all current list members under a new domain. Thus anyone who wants to remain on the community lists will soon be requested to take action to enroll on the new mailman service. The new service is not quite ready for use yet. This mail serves as a heads up that the changes will be coming in the next couple of weeks that will require action. A further announcement will be sent when the new mailman is ready to accept subscriptions, as well as warnings before the old lists stop accepting messages. With regards, Daniel [1] https://www.osci.io/ -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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Problem starting Windows 11 EE
by Rahul S 13 Oct '23

13 Oct '23

Hi, I configured a W11EE VM using virt-manager and joined it to my work domain. Everything was fine for a while. Later when I tried to reboot, I got the "Preparing Automatic Repair" message and when I selected "Startup Repair", I got the error "Startup repair couldn't repair your PC". I then went to command prompt, started 'diskpart' and ran "list disk" and got the error "there are no fixed disks to show". I have tried re-installing several times - it always ends up in this state. A few details of my system: host OS: OpenSUSE 15.5 libvirt version: 9.0.0-150500.4.3 virtio drivers: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-vi… Disk device type: virtio bitlocker is enabled in VM I am able to configure and use W11-professional without joining my work domain. The above problem isn't seen there. I booted the broken VM using my linux rescue disk image and examined the partition table. Everything seems to be proper. But windows isn't able to find the disk as I explained above. Can anybody provide any pointers for troubleshooting this ? Thanks, -Rahul

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any advantage to using pool type glusterfs if no GFAPI
by W Kern 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

I have used fuse mounted gluster with 'dir' for years. Works great, aside from having to use the --unsafe flag on migrations. I am building up a new system and wondering if using the glusterfs type would be a better/safer choice. I'm not concerned about gfapi (host is U22LTS so I'm not even sure if it has it). I'm not concerned about the automount feature as that happens on start up anyway. I'm more interested if there is any technical or performance reasons to prefer 'glusterfs' pool type over 'dir' of course not having the --unsafe flag would be nice, but thats all scripted in anyway. -wk

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Issue accidentally creating a '--type' defined pool
by Joshua Blake 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

Hello, I seem to have accidentally created a pool called "--type", but it doesn't appear in 'virsh pool-list'. See below. [root@vh01 /]# virsh pool-define-as --name --type dir --target /data/storage/ Pool --type defined [root@vh01 /]# virsh pool-list Name State Autostart ------------------------------ isos active yes jblake active yes [root@vh01 /]# virsh pool-destroy '--type' error: command 'pool-destroy' doesn't support option --type I can't also create a new "default" type because the directory exists for this defined '--type' [root@vh01 /]# virsh pool-define-as --name default --type dir --target /data/storage/ error: Failed to define pool default error: operation failed: Storage source conflict with pool: '--type' [root@vh01 /]# virsh pool-delete "--type" error: command 'pool-delete' doesn't support option --type Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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