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[libvirt-users] Networking issues with lxc containers in AWS EC2
by Peter Steele 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

I've created an EC2 AMI for AWS that essentially represents a CentOS 7 "hypervisor" image. I deploy instances of these in AWS and create an number of libvirt based lxc containers on each of these instances. The containers run fine within a single host and have no problem communicating with themselves as well as with their host, and vice versa. However, containers hosted in one EC2 instance cannot communicate with containers hosted in another EC2 instance. We've tried various tweaks with our Amazon VPC but have been unable to find a way to solve this networking issue. If I use something like VMware or KVM and create VMs using this same hypervisor image, the containers running under these VMs can communicate with with each other, even across different hosts. My real question is has anyone tried deploying EC2 images that host containers and have figured out how to successfully communicate between containers on different hosts? Peter

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[libvirt-users] /proc/meminfo
by Peter Steele 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Has anyone seen this issue? We're running containers under CentOS 7.2 and some of these containers are reporting incorrect memory allocation in /proc/meminfo. The output below comes from a system with 32G of memory and 84GB of swap. The values reported are completely wrong. # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 9007199254740991 kB MemFree: 9007199224543267 kB MemAvailable: 12985680 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 119744 kB SwapCached: 10804 kB Active: 110228 kB Inactive: 111716 kB Active(anon): 53840 kB Inactive(anon): 57568 kB Active(file): 56388 kB Inactive(file): 54148 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 15347728 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 18446744073709524600 kB Dirty: 20304 kB Writeback: 99596 kB AnonPages: 18963368 kB Mapped: 231472 kB Shmem: 51852 kB Slab: 1891324 kB SReclaimable: 1805244 kB SUnreclaim: 86080 kB KernelStack: 60656 kB PageTables: 81948 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 104487760 kB Committed_AS: 31507444 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 354796 kB VmallocChunk: 34359380456 kAnonHugePages: 15630336 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 81684 kB DirectMap2M: 3031040 kB DirectMap1G: 32505856 kB

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[libvirt-users] Managing VMs across multiple physical hosts
by Daniel Corbe 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hello List, We’re currently managing VMs across approximately 26 physical hosts. We tend to migrate VMs around a lot to do things like spread load and keep VMs running when physical hosts are in need of package updates. Suffice it to say sometimes finding out which physical host a VM is currently running on can be a pain. Anyone know of an open source tool that will give me a snapshot of what’s running where across a list of physical hosts? Doesn’t have to be anything fancy. A command-line utility will do. Best, Daniel

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[libvirt-users] VM crash : Failed to terminate process X with SIGKILL: Device or resource busy
by Michel Villeneuve 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hello since I changed my hypervisor from centos 6.3 to Fedora-23 I had many problems with differents VMs. Very often once by day ( I have about 150 VM ), some VMs crash or freeze indifferently and I got messages like this on console. [<fffffffff8000a08bd>] wake_bit_funtion +0w0/0x23..... [<fffffffff8800a0ead>] :jbd:journal_get_write_access+0x22/0x33 ;;;; [<fffffffff800013ccd>] :ext3:ext3_dirty_inode+0x63/0x7b And so the VM is crashed and can't be accessed but often the ping command can respond Before my migration I never meet these problems, It 's strictly the same VMs between the 6.3 and fedora23 release. I just changed the parameter : <type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel-6.0.0'>hvm</type> to <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.4'>hvm</type> and do a virsh define I tried some other version of the parameters without success. and I also added a lockd manager in fedora23. Before and I used libvirt.0.9.5 or 1.0.2 on centos 6.03 without lockd A major problem with these crashs is that the VMs couldn't be destroyed by the virsh command, the qemu process is notified as defunct by the ps command If I try a virsh destroy I get in log file 2016-04-20 20:32:47.318+0000: 5541: info : virEventPollRunOnce:641 : EVENT_POLL_RUN: nhandles=11 timeout=-1 2016-04-20 20:32:55.028+0000: 5567: debug : virProcessKillPainfully:368 : Timed out waiting after SIGTERM to process 8720, sending SIGKILL 2016-04-20 20:33:00.032+0000: 5567: error : virProcessKillPainfully:398 : Failed to terminate process 8720 with SIGKILL: Périphérique ou ressource occupé or on console Failed to terminate process xxx with SIGTERM: Device or resource busy and the VM is still in the list in a "Stopping" state Result of ps ps on the the qemu process attached to the VM qemu 8720 1 0 avril20 ? 00:07:16 [qemu-system-x86] <defunct> root 8733 2 0 avril20 ? 00:00:01 [vhost-8720] root 8735 2 0 avril20 ? 00:00:00 [kvm-pit/8720] libvirtd seems to be in an anormal state. If I restart the libvirtd the virsh command just hang and never remove the VM from the list. The only seems to reboot the hypervisor but all the VMs in production too. Is there a way to remove the process qemu in defunct state without reboot the hypervisor. Perhaps the probleme come from the VM parameters which have been created on 6.3 Centos and libvirt <1.0 version. Do I need to convert some other parameters ? I 'am trying to put a new hypervisor in aFailed to terminate process X with SIGKILL: Device or resource busy version level less than fedora23 perhaps a Centos 7.2 to see what 's happen and if there is a problem like mine. Thanks PS: I put the log_level to 1 ----------------------information in logfile [root@kvmserver6 ~]# ls -al /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-TEST-VM-A total 8 drwxr-x--- 2 qemu qemu 4096 20 avril 22:01 . drwxr-x--x. 18 qemu qemu 4096 20 avril 22:01 .. srwxrwxr-x 1 qemu qemu 0 20 avril 22:01 monitor.sock /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-1-TEST-VM-A/ [root@kvmserver6 ~]# cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/TEST-VM-A.log 2016-04-20 20:01:36.714+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.3.3, package: 1.fc23 (Unknown, 2016-04-06-15:17:39, thinkpad2), qemu version: 2.4.1 (qemu-2.4.1-8.fc23), hostname: kvmserver6.univ-brest.fr LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -name TEST-VM-A,debug-threads=on -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.4,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 1e4c27e4-123e-719a-9fdf-f783d34cbb40 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-TEST-VM-A/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/POOL_PROD4/TEST-VM-A.img,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=26,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=28 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:77:11:11,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 0.0.0.0:0,password -k fr -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device ES1370,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg timestamp=on char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0) qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 5541 -- Michel Villeneuve Tel 02 98 01 71 61

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[libvirt-users] Mapping physical interface to a container
by Peter Steele 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

In the "other" LXC project (linuxcontainers.org) you can map a host's physical ethernet interface to a container, e.g. lxc.network.type = phys lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = eth1 lxc.network.name = eth1 Is there an equivalent option for doing this with libvirt lxc? Peter

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[libvirt-users] uefi built from tiancore via edk2 can't persist boot changes
by jsl6uy js16uy 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Apologies if this has been gone over, but I believe I have checked the intertubes more than a bit..... I am using libvirt and have vms booting under an OVMF.fd to use an efi firmware. I can create vms, linux ubuntu, and they will boot up. However, everytime I reboot am I dropped into the default efi shell provide by the tianocore build. Then I must walk the FS to the booting efi app and run, in this case grubx64.efi, to actually finish booting the host. I had tried adding boot entries with efibootmgr within the OS and also bcfg with the efi shell. I get no errors when adding an entry, and the new entry shows up and I can manipulate the entry i.e. set it to next boot and the like. Soon as I reboot I get dumped back to efi shell. Am I missing something? Are the var changes not being stored? Is there someplace to look for an error perhaps? I also can use the same efi bootloader under libvirt to boot a hybrid iso. location of the efi application on the hybrid iso is /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. Drops me right into my grub menu, after falling thru from EFI FLOPPY1 and EFI FLOPPY2 to EFI DVD So since that was/is working, tried adding that to my efi partition so it has /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. The thinking being that since I can't add an entry, I will setup for the "known" efi boot path. Of course that didn't work either I am on arch linux: Linux X 4.4.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 10 07:38:19 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux local/libvirt 1.3.2-3 API for controlling virtualization engines (openvz,kvm,qemu,virtualbox,xen,etc) local/libvirt-python 1.3.1-1 libvirt python binding UEFI: Shell> ver UEFI Interactive Shell v2.1 EDK II UEFI v2.50 (EDK II, 0x00010000) for this host....my nvram setting look like <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.5'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/home/xyz/OVMF.fd</loader> <nvram template='/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd'>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/X_VARS.fd</nvram> <boot dev='hd'/> </os>

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[libvirt-users] ssh-askpass in libvirt
by Alex Roithman 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

It seems, that libvirt use system environments for finding the ask-pass application. You can to tell me this variables? Or libvirt uses another mechanism for call to ssh-askpass application?

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[libvirt-users] Create multiple domains from single saved domain state (is UUID/name fixed?)
by Jonas Finnemann Jensen 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

Hi, I would like to save a running domain (ie. disk + memory) and be able to restore it multiple times creating duplicates of the orignal domain all starting from the same state. Use case: I'm building a task-processing system for use in a CI flow. I want to run multiple VMs in parallel using the same image (always starting from the same state). And to avoid needlessly booting between each task, I would like to save (and distribute) the domain state, so that I just restore from memory. However, I can't seems to change the UUID or the name of a domain once it is saved. Nor do I seem able to rename a domain while it is running. I can obviously duplicate both the disks and the file to which I saved the domain state using "virsh save". But I seem unable to rename before I restore.. Any ideas? Could I do this with snapshots? I suspect not since I see virDomainSnapshotRedefinePrep() calling virDomainDefCheckABIStability which raises the error here: https://fossies.org/dox/libvirt-1.3.3/domain__conf_8c_source.html#l17991 Out of curiosity does anyone know what horrors might befall me if I were to remove the lines protecting against name and UUID changes? Then compile my own libvirt... The comment in the code says name can be changed, but I'm guessing I would have to change the UUID too. Does anyone see how that would create issues? I'm not sure how libvirt uses the UUID internally. -- Regards Jonas Finnemann Jensen.

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[libvirt-users] this function is not supported by the connection driver: virDomainCoreDump
by Alex Font 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, I'm facing problems trying to get a full dump of a VM machine on ESXi 6.0, using libvirt 1.3.3. When I try to do: virsh$: dump vm_machine dump.dmp I get the following error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virDomainCoreDump Is there any way to get dumps of VM's? Thanks in advance. Alex

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[libvirt-users] Make disk "unaffected by snapshots"
by Basin Ilya 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi. Is it possible to make a virtual disk unaffected by snapshots just like writethrough disks in VBox? I tried raw with shareable flag, but snapshot creation fails with: "internal snapshot for disk vdb unsupported for storage type raw".

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