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[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
by Gk Gk 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hi All, I am trying to collect memory, disk and network stats for a VM on kvm host. It seems that the statistics are not matching what the OS inside the VM is reporting. Why is this discrepancy ? Is this a known bug of libvirt ? Also I heard that libvirt shows cumulative figures for these measures ever since the VM was created. Also I tested by creating a new vm and comparing the stats without a reboot . Even in this case, the stats dont agree. Can someone help me here please ? Thanks Kumar

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Starting guest VM with default NAT network breaks host routing
by Mathias Gibbens 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

I'm running libvirt 9.0.0 on a Debian 12 bookworm host, setting up a Windows 11 guest using qemu-kvm and the default NAT network[1]. When I start the guest VM, it successfully acquires a DHCP lease, and I can ping other hosts on my local network subnet, but something then happens which messes up routing on the *host* machine, resulting in no access to anything beyond my LAN. If I shutdown the VM, network access returns to normal on the host system. I've been unable to figure out how to fix this, and unfortunately the terms are generic enough that Google isn't much help -- most of the results are about issues with NAT setup (which is working), not route configuration of the host. I did find one similar report[2], but there's no reported solution. I feel like this should be a very common use case, so maybe I've just setup something wrong. Since I haven't been able to solve it on my own, I'm hoping someone will have a pointer to get me going in the right direction. Further details are below, and I'm happy to provide anything else that might prove useful. Thanks, Mathias Before starting the guest VM, routes on the host are: > $ ip route > default via 172.20.1.1 dev wlan0 proto dhcp src 172.20.1.110 metric 600 > 169.254.0.0/16 dev virbr0 scope link metric 1000 linkdown > 172.20.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 172.20.1.110 metric 600 > 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 linkdown A few seconds after the guest finishes booting, the host gets some new routes, and connectivity outside of the local LAN subnet breaks: > $ ip route > 0.0.0.0 dev vnet0 scope link > default dev vnet0 scope link > default via 172.20.1.1 dev wlan0 proto dhcp src 172.20.1.110 metric 600 > 169.254.0.0/16 dev vnet0 proto kernel scope link src 169.254.103.112 > 169.254.0.0/16 dev virbr0 scope link metric 1000 > 172.20.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 172.20.1.110 metric 600 > 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 Within the guest, I can ping the NAT gateway (192.168.122.1), the host's IP (172.20.1.110), and another computer on the network (172.20.1.105), so NAT appears to be working correctly: > C:\Users\user>ipconfig /all > > Windows IP Configuration > > Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DESKTOP-LGNEPEC > Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : > Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid > IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No > WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No > > Ethernet adapter Ethernet: > > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 52-54-00-AE-05-B2 > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes > Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2881:98b7:34b8:fe2%11(Preferred) > IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.203(Preferred) > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 > Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, June 19, 2023 14:03:57 > Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, June 19, 2023 15:03:57 > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.1 > DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.1 > DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 340939776 > DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-2C-0E-E6-F4-52-54-00-AE-05-B2 > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.122.1 > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled > > C:\Users\user>ping 192.168.122.1 > > Pinging 192.168.122.1 with 32 bytes of data: > Reply from 192.168.122.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 192.168.122.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 192.168.122.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 192.168.122.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > > Ping statistics for 192.168.122.1: > Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), > Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: > Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms > > C:\Users\user>ping 172.20.1.110 > > Pinging 172.20.1.110 with 32 bytes of data: > Reply from 172.20.1.110: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 172.20.1.110: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 172.20.1.110: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 172.20.1.110: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > > Ping statistics for 172.20.1.110: > Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), > Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: > Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms > > C:\Users\user>ping 172.20.1.105 > > Pinging 172.20.1.105 with 32 bytes of data: > Reply from 172.20.1.105: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=63 > Reply from 172.20.1.105: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=63 > Reply from 172.20.1.105: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=63 > Reply from 172.20.1.105: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=63 > > Ping statistics for 172.20.1.105: > Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), > Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: > Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 49ms, Average = 33ms ----- [1] -- Here's the NAT configuration: > <network> > <name>default</name> > <uuid>ff6cd6ed-a8fe-4e50-8852-3c93a169e156</uuid> > <forward mode="nat"> > <nat> > <port start="1024" end="65535"/> > </nat> > </forward> > <bridge name="virbr0" stp="on" delay="0"/> > <mac address="52:54:00:4e:80:30"/> > <ip address="192.168.122.1" netmask="255.255.255.0"> > <dhcp> > <range start="192.168.122.2" end="192.168.122.254"/> > </dhcp> > </ip> > </network> [2] -- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/723091/kvm-booting-guest-breaks-ne…

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Changing EFI boot order via API
by Lukas Zapletal 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Hello, I would like to be able to change the boot order of an EFI VM via libvirt API. Specifically, I am looking into configuring a VM to boot over HTTP UEFI Boot or HTTPS UEFI Boot (also available as HTTP IPv4 in the firmware). Is this possible? I cannot find anything relevant in the documentation. Thanks. -- Later, Lukas @lzap Zapletal

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Re: virsh not connecting to libvertd ?
by Jerry Buburuz 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Michal PrÃvoznÃk > On 6/12/23 20:17, Jerry Buburuz wrote: >> Just found my issue. >> After I removed the cephfs mounts it worked! >> I will debug ceph. >> I assumed because I could touch files on mounted cephfs it was working. Now virsh list works! > Out of curiosity. Do you perhaps have a storage pool defined over cephfs? I can see two possible sources for the problem: > 1) autostarted storage pool that makes libvirt mount cephfs, or My storage is hard mounted in fstab. This works and it does mount on boot. # fstab on hypervisor user@.mynamefs-01=/ /data ceph noatime,_netdev 0 0 usern@.mynamefs-02=/ /data2 ceph noatime,_netdev 0 0 > 2) a storage pool defined over a path where cephfs is mounted. > The problem with 1) is obvious (in fact it's not specific to ceph, if it was NFS/iSCSI and the server wasn't responding then libvirtd would just hang). I agree with NFS/cephfs or any storage over the network if its not available libvirtd defined pools will cause problems. > The problem with 2) is that for some types of storage pools ('dir' typically) libvirt assumes they are always 'running'. And proceeds to enumerate volumes in that pool (i.e. files under the dir). And if there's a stale mount point, this might stuck libvirtd. But again, this is not limited to ceph, any network FS might do this. > Michal In my case I built this hypervisor using cephfs as my primary storage for virtualmachines over the past year. Its has worked until recently. Recently I had issue with my ceph which likely caused a stale mount. In the past if the storage went offline, after fixing the issue I had no problems and my virualmachines came back to life. In the current case I found: * cephfs working as normal. healthy. * hypervisors mounting using fstab as usual. * libvirtd starts normally no errors (even with cephfs mounted) * virsh fails to connect to libvirt when the cephfs is mounted. If I umount /cephfs, and systemctl restart libvirtd. virsh works! Example "virsh list" , "virsh version" ..etc. I am going to try and maybe delete the iso pools I have. One interesting thing I found yesterday after I restart the hypervisor and try umount /cephfs, libvirtd has one of my pools locked and opened. Its the pool with iso in it. I know someone in a previous response to me mentioned they had issues with iso being stored on cephfs and libvirtd. In order for me to umount /cephfs I have to stop all libvirtd services(livrtd, libvirtd.socket .. ro .. and admin). This makes sense libvirtd has defined pools in my cephfs. thanks jerry

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virsh not connecting to libvertd ?
by Jerry Buburuz 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

I have identical two hypervisors same operating system: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Recently both virsh stopped talking to the libvirtd. Both stopped within a few days of each other. Currently if I run: virsh uri virsh version virsh list # virsh list ..nothing just hangs When I ran strace on these broken machines it get stuck at same spot: strace virsh list ... access("/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock", F_OK) = 0 socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 5 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock"}, 110) = 0 getsockname(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX}, [128 => 2]) = 0 futex(0x7fa716a672f0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 fcntl(5, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 futex(0x7fa716a67348, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 eventfd2(0, EFD_CLOEXEC|EFD_NONBLOCK) = 6 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(4, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(4, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x7fa70c001cb0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1 futex(0x7fa716a6786c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0x7fa716a67378, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 write(4, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x7fa70c001cb0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [PIPE CHLD WINCH], [], 8) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLOUT}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 2 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLOUT}, {fd=6, revents=POLLIN}]) read(6, "\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x5628ce6e9710, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 write(5, "\0\0\0\34 \0\200\206\0\0\0\1\0\0\0B\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 28) = 28 write(6, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [PIPE CHLD WINCH], [], 8) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1 ([{fd=6, revents=POLLIN}]) read(6, "\5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 It gets stuck at this poll(). Note I tested strace on identical new install of ubtuntu 22.04 where virsh connects fine and get identical strace, except after this poll() it continues on with read/write ..etc. I turned on debugging for libvirtd and get no errors while virsh is trying to connect. I am able to get a virsh# shell. The shell only hangs when I try "connect, uri, version". Another method of debugging I tried was: LIBVIRT_DEBUG=error LIBVIRT_LOG_FILTERS="1:* " virsh uri .. .. 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : doRemoteOpen:1128 : Trying authentication 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetMessageNew:44 : msg=0x55b996539680 tracked=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetMessageEncodePayload:383 : Encode length as 28 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: info : virNetClientSendInternal:2151 : RPC_CLIENT_MSG_TX_QUEUE: client=0x55b996538010 len=28 prog=536903814 vers=1 proc=66 type=0 status=0 serial=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetClientCallNew:2107 : New call 0x55b996535f80: msg=0x55b996539680, expectReply=1, nonBlock=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetClientIO:1920 : Outgoing message prog=536903814 version=1 serial=0 proc=66 type=0 length=28 dispatch=(nil) 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virNetClientIO:1978 : We have the buck head=0x55b996535f80 call=0x55b996535f80 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: info : virEventGLibHandleUpdate:195 : EVENT_GLIB_UPDATE_HANDLE: watch=1 events=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virEventGLibHandleUpdate:206 : Update handle data=0x55b996534d30 watch=1 fd=5 events=0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1647: debug : virEventGLibHandleUpdate:229 : Removed old handle source=0x55b996534de0 2023-06-06 20:51:22.312+0000: 1648: debug : virEventRunDefaultImpl:341 : running default event implementation Any help would be appreciated. thanks jerry

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site certificate
by Daan Hoogland 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

LS, I am sure you have already noticed but I want to report it anyway; When compiling a dependend on "https://libvirt.org/maven2/net/juniper/tungsten/juniper-tungsten-api/2.0/ju…", I get a certificate error. I get the a similar error when accessing https://libvirt.org btw hope you can do something with this information, -- Daan

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Criteria used to allow or not live migration
by Gianluca Cecchi 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Hello, I would like to know what are the criteria that allow or not live migration when source and dest hosts have same CPU type (eg Intel) but different models (eg cascade lake vs ice lake). I imagine it is libvirtd to drive this decision, correct? Does libvirt has a sort of table or list of cpu flags that are mandatory / optional? Or how is it established to prevent or not live migration across different couodels systems? Thanks, Gianluca

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