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[libvirt-users] A RFE for libvirt
by shyu 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi libvirt guys, I am an newbie to libvirt. There is an requirement for libvirt: Every time I want to rename an guest by virsh command, I need to virsh edit origin_guest(edit the name,delete/edit the uuid) after that a new guest with the same configuration as origin_guest was defined, then virsh undefine origin_guest. Seems it's a little complex, so should be there an virsh command like "virsh rename origin_guest new_guest"? I know I can use virt-manager to rename an guest,but if there is an virsh command can do it, I think it's much useful. Thanks -- Regards shyu

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[libvirt-users] Automatically assign static ipv4 via dhcp to new VMs
by Tim 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi guys, I'm running a KVM/libvirt host in a datacenter and got a fancy IPv4 subnet from my provider. I'm able to assign IPs from that subnet via dhcp to my VMs: host01 ~ # virsh net-dumpxml internet <network connections='3'> <name>internet</name> <uuid>37b888cc-510f-46f1-9246-346da96222ed</uuid> <forward dev='enp5s0f0' mode='route'> <interface dev='enp5s0f0'/> </forward> <bridge name='virbr1' stp='on' delay='0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:13:39:d5'/> <ip address='XX.YY.253.2' netmask='255.255.255.224'> <dhcp> <range start='XX.YY.253.4' end='XX.YY.253.30'/> <bootp file='pxelinux.0' server='XX.YY.99.100'/> </dhcp> </ip> </network> What I would like to do: 1) Right know it seems like dnsmasq assigns ip-addresses randomly to VMs, is there any way to assign them in ascending order? 2) IPs are not statically assigned. Is it possible to add something like this automatically at the first VM-start to the xml definition?: <host mac='AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF' ip='192.168.122.2' name='foobar'/>

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[libvirt-users] bridged networking using VLAN : guest with 2 NIC
by Dan Sa 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

hello all, I have been trying to set-up bridged network with VLAN and not able to succeed as many tutorials address only single NIC. I am trying to setup 2 guests (backtrack instance) each guest has NIC1 and NIC2. following is snippet for guest1 I am not able to get 192.168.0.2 address back on guest eth0. VIRT-MANAGER GUI : guest1-lan details radio button left side panel NIC1 ------------------> Virtual Network Interface Source Device : Virtual Network "default" NAT Device Model : Hypervisor default MAc Address : xxxxxxxxxxxxxx NIC2 ------------------> Virtual Network Interface Source Device : Specify Shared Device Name Bridge name : guest1-lan Device Model : virto MAc Address : xxxxxxxxxxxxxx HOST MACHINE : brctl show has br0 for bridge and virbr0 with 192.168.122.x address (created by default virtual network NAT) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ 1) Bridge BR0 (cat ifcfg-br0) DEVICE="br0" TYPE="Bridge" ONBOOT="yes" NM_CONTROLLED="no" BOOTPROTO="static" IPADDR="xx.xx.xx.xx" NETMASK="255.255.254.0" GATEWAY="xx.xx.xx.xx" DNS1="x.y.z.s" DNS2="x.y.q.s" 2) cat ifcfg-em1 NM_CONTROLLED="yes" HWADDR="02:12D:E2:B1:32" BOOTPROTO="static" DEVICE="em1" BRIDGE="br0" ONBOOT="yes" 3) ifcfg-em2 NM_CONTROLLED="yes" HWADDR="02:24:7e:d0:b1:42" BOOTPROTO="static" DEVICE="em2" ONBOOT="yes" 4) THIS IS GUEST (cat ifcfg-guest1-lan) DEVICE=guest1-lan TYPE=Bridge ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static DELAY=1 5) GUEST VLAN (cat ifcfg-em2.620) DEVICE=em2.620 VLAN=yes ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=guest1-lan BRCTL Show Command : br0 8000.00237de0a132 no em1 vnet0 guest1-lan 8000.00237de0a133 no em2.620 virbr0 8000.5254003e19b3 yes virbr0-nic VIRSH : virsh # net-list Name State Autostart ----------------------------------------- guest1-lan active yes default active yes virsh # iface-list Name State MAC Address -------------------------------------------- br0 active 00:23:7d:e0:a1:32 guest1-lan active 00:23:7d:e0:a1:33 iface-edit : virsh # iface-edit guest1-lan <interface type='bridge' name='guest1-lan'> <start mode='onboot'/> <bridge delay='1'> <interface type='vlan' name='em2.620'> <vlan tag='620'> <interface name='em2'/> </vlan> </interface> </bridge> </interface> ------------------------------------------------------------------ /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks cat guest1-lan.xml <network> <name>guest1-lan</name> <uuid>a12747ec-21c9-0d21-ab06-064ba204bc52</uuid> <forward mode='bridge' dev="br0"/> <bridge name='guest1-lan' /> <ip address='192.168.0.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.0.2' end='192.168.0.254' /> </dhcp> </ip> </network> cat default.xml <network> <name>default</name> <uuid>8778244b-1a0c-c15f-c348-26462a07a639</uuid> <forward mode='nat'/> <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0' /> <mac address='52:54:00:3E:19:B3'/> <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> any guidance will be appriciated regards dan

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[libvirt-users] sr-iov with openvswitch possible?
by Vasiliy Tolstov 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi all. I'm try to find answer for my qustion in google, but i can't. if i use openvswitch virtualport in domain and want to use sr-iov does it possible? Or if i use sr-iov traffic not goes to openvswitch? -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru jabber: vase(a)selfip.ru

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[libvirt-users] Installing tcp/ssh drivers for libvirt
by Shiva Bhanujan 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

Hello, Can somebody please point me to documentation regarding installing libvirt and the associated drivers from .rpms? I tried to compile from sources, but not sure where can I get the drivers from. What I get from the ./configure script is the following - configure:71547: Drivers configure:71549: configure:71551: Xen: no configure:71553: QEMU: yes configure:71555: UML: yes configure:71557: OpenVZ: yes configure:71559: VMware: yes configure:71561: VBox: yes configure:71563: XenAPI: no configure:71565: xenlight: no configure:71567: LXC: no configure:71569: PHYP: no configure:71571: ESX: no configure:71573: Hyper-V: no configure:71575: Parallels: no configure:71577: Test: yes configure:71579: Remote: yes configure:71581: Network: yes configure:71583: Libvirtd: yes configure:71585: Interface: no configure:71587: macvtap: no configure:71589: virtport: no If there were a yum repository where I could download the daemon and the drives, that'd be great? Any advice would be appreciated. Regards, Shiva

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[libvirt-users] Unable to provision VM attaching it directly to a OVS bridge
by Lucas Brasilino 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

Reposting from virt-tools mailing list: Hi! I'm facing a problem that could be triggered by some lacking of support from libvirt on Open vSwitch (or could be my mistake). I have interests in researching on virtual networks and SDN. To keep things simple, I've decided to use libvirt/virt-tools to manage VM's since my focus is on the network, instead of using a full feature system like OpenStack. I'm quite new with libvirt/virt-tools, but I have a good experience with openvswitch and other virtualizations technologies (which I dropped in libvirt/kvm favor). I'm using Fedora 19 packages openvswitch (1.11.0-1.fc19.x86_64) libvirt (1.0.5.6-3.fc19.x86_64) virt-install (0.10.0-4.fc19.noarch) I've created an OVS bridge (databr0) outside libvirt, and then defined it inside libvirt with: <network> <name>databr0</name> <forward mode='bridge'/> <bridge name='databr0'/> <virtualport type='openvswitch'/> </network> And then 'net-autostart' and 'net-start' it with virsh. Now I've got: # virsh net-list Name State Autostart Persistent ---------------------------------------------------------- databr0 active yes yes When I try to provision an VM, if I use the virt-install option "--network=bridge:databr0,model=virtio,mac=00:00:00:00:00:03" I got the following error: # virt-install --connect qemu:///system --virt-type kvm --name vm2 --ram 768 --disk path=/home/lucas/local/vm/images/vm2.img --vnc --cdrom /home/lucas/local/vm/fc19-x86_64.iso --network=bridge:databr0,model=virtio,mac=00:00:00:00:00:03 --os-type=linux --os-variant fedora19 Starting install... ERROR Unable to add bridge databr0 port vnet0: Operation not supported Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start vm2 otherwise, please restart your installation. I just managed to create a VM when I use '--nonetworks' option and after I do a 'virtsh edit vm2' and add: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:00:00:00:00:03'/> <source bridge='databr0'/> <virtualport type='openvswitch'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </interface> Well, I read elsewhere that openvswitch bridging isn't fully supported. Is it the case or I'm facing another kind of problem ? regards Att Lucas Brasilino MSc Student @ Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) twitter: @lucas_brasilino

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[libvirt-users] Is it possible to define serial port speed?
by Marco André Dinis 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi I would like to know if it's possible to define serial port speed using libvirt. I'm trying to connect the guest with the host for communication. Usually only small messages are transferred, but i might need to transfer huge files, so i would like to know if i can use SerialPort interface to do that. Thanks anyway, Marco Dinis

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[libvirt-users] how can I use libvirt to connect vbox
by hackxay 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi. I want to connect hypervisor vbox using command of "virsh connect vbox:///session". But there is an error occurred: [root@vbox ~]# virsh connect vbox:///session error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API And my os is Fedora 19. The VirtualBox is 4.3. Some other info is there: [root@vbox ~]# virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.5 Using library: libvirt 1.0.5 Using API: QEMU 1.0.5 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.4.2 Thanks.

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[libvirt-users] virsh migrate fails with Input/output error
by Tim 27 Oct '13

27 Oct '13

Hey guys, I'm running the following setup on a few hosts: ~ # virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.8 Using library: libvir 0.9.8 Using API: QEMU 0.9.8 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.0.0 Online Migrations with local storage are working smooth, Host OS is always Ubuntu 12.04, CPUs are Intel E3-1245 V2, 32GB Ram. Now I installed the same software on different hardware: Intel E5-2620, ~128GB Ram The problem: Online migrations from an E5-2620 to another E5-2620 aren't possible: ~ # virsh --debug=1 migrate --verbose my-virtual-maschine qemu+ssh://virt@192.168.99.16:222/system migrate: verbose(bool): (none) migrate: domain(optdata): vm-42800 migrate: desturi(optdata): qemu+ssh://virt@192.168.99.16:222/system migrate: found option <domain>: vm-42800 migrate: found option <domain>: vm-42800 error: End of file while reading data: : Input/output error error: Reconnected to the hypervisor I can't find anything related to this in the libvirt logfile or via an strace. Let me know if you have any ideas or if you need more information.

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[libvirt-users] Automated hashdeep and upgrade for VMs
by Sean Alexandre 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Are there any utilities or scripts that automate the process of upgrading VMs, along with other maintenance such as doing a hashdeep check of system files? The key features I'm looking for would do something like: - A: Shut down VM. - B: Do a hashdeep check of system files. - C: Optionally restore VM from a previous backup. - D: Restart VM. - E: Upgrade packages. - F: Shut down VM. - G: Backup VM (for next "C".) - H: Run hashdeep on system files (for next "B".) - I: Restart VM. Other features, but less important, would backup/restore application files as well.

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