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[libvirt-users] managedsave results in unexpected shutdown from inside Windows
by Nicolas Sebrecht 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi, I'm facing a strange behaviour of windows 2008 guests. After a virsh managedsave and start, the windows guest open a "unexpected shutdown" window. The window looks like this one (randomly taken from the web): http://toastytech.com/guis/srv2k3login2.jpg This happens in all virtualized windows in a hypervisor. Has anyone else experienced such issue? Thanks, -- Nicolas Sebrecht

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[libvirt-users] qemu-img convert to "sparse" LV
by Edoardo Comar 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Apologies as this is is not a specific libvirt question. Is qemu-img convert compatible with thin-provisioned LVs as targets ? I wanted to convert a file-based image to a LV image where the file-based image has a capacity much larger than the actual data it contains, so it has a small footprint on disk (either a qcow2 or a raw, but sparse, image). If I use qemu-img convert -O raw ... with a target LV sized to the full capacity of the file-image, all is fine. But if I try use an LV whose virtual size equals the capacity, but its size is smaller (although more than enough for the data) the LV is invariably corrupt. If I try use a thin-provisioned LV pool, and a LV backed by that pool, the LV resulting from qemu-img convert is not corrupt but it uses as much space as the file-image capacity it came from. This on both RHEL64 and Fedora18. -------------------------------------------------- regards, Edoardo Comar WebSphere Application Service Platform for Networks (ASPN) ecomar(a)uk.ibm.com +44 (0)1962 81 5576 IBM UK Ltd, Hursley Park, SO21 2JN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU

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[libvirt-users] virt-manager 0.10.0 gentoo bug on start?
by Marko Weber | ZBF 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

hello i installed virt-manager 0.10.0 on gentoo. on start i get: Fehler beim Starten des Virtual Machine Managers: cannot import name SpiceClientGtk Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager", line 303, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager", line 267, in main from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 45, in <module> from virtManager.details import vmmDetails File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 37, in <module> from virtManager.console import vmmConsolePages File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/console.py", line 28, in <module> from gi.repository import SpiceClientGtk ImportError: cannot import name SpiceClientGtk i dont set useflag spice. so why it alerts it cant import spice? any ideas ? thank you marko

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[libvirt-users] error : Failed to find user record for uid '32722'
by Tony Cebzanov 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

I'm trying to use the libvirt Python API to manage VirtualBox VMs on Mac OS X 10.8.3. I'm running libvirt 1.0.6 via Homebrew. However, the following trivial Python script: import libvirt conn = libvirt.open('vbox:///session') gives me the following error: libvirt: error : Failed to find user record for uid '32722': Success Traceback (most recent call last): File "ch3vm.py", line 3, in <module> conn = libvirt.open('vbox:///session') File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 236, in open if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: Failed to find user record for uid '32722': Success I have no idea where that uid 32722 is coming from -- it's not the uid of my user account, any of my VirtualBox files, or anything else that I'm aware of. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

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[libvirt-users] virsh can create vHBA, but returen error msg "Node device not found"
by Dennis Chen 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi, I am using the libvirt 1.0.6 with the patch applied: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=371c155 The problem I encountered is, with virsh comand 'nodedev-create /home/kvm/vHBA.xml', the vHBA can be generated as expected on the host, but error msg will show in the virsh shell: libvirt: Node Device Driver error : Node device not found I try to find the reason with gdb, and found that the 'nodedev-create' command will call virNetClientIOEventLoop() function of the remote driver, in this function, code will wait on: repoll: ret = poll(fds, ARRAY_CARDINALITY(fds), timeout); after about 50s, poll() returns, but the replied msg->header.status=VIR_NET_ERROR. I am not familiar with the rpc call in the remote driver, does anybody here can give some clues? BRs, Dennis

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[libvirt-users] Define storage pool on NFS, mounted from fstab
by Николай /Thug/ 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Good day. We've got a question, as there's a need to mount NFS over RDMA. How we should define a pool on an already mounted NFS folder? The pool must be "shared" for all KVM nodes for live migration purposes. Thanks in advance.

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[libvirt-users] snapshot-create-as for a single disk not all disks
by cmcc.dylan 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hi everyone! Is there any way to create snaphot for a single disk of a virtual machine. As I konw, "virsh snapshot-create-as domain_name snapshot_name --disk-only" traverses all block devices to create snapshot. However I don't want to create snapshot except for root partition. The version of qemu and libvirt I used is as follows: qemu-1.4.2 and libvrit-0.10.2 I meet an error when I delete the snapshot which is created by "snapshot-create-as" command. whether or not qemu(1.4.2) and libvirt(0.10.2) don't support the function currently. Look forward to your help!

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[libvirt-users] question about libvirt and qemu
by Ahmed Amer 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hello, I am wondering what is the difference between libvirt and qemu?and how they are related to KVM? -- Ahmed Amer **+2 0111 0353505

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[libvirt-users] Permission denied
by Roland Giesler 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

System: $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l $ uname -a Linux Matt-HP 3.5.0-34-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 20:20:19 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux I have a converted VMWare virtual machine which I converted by using: $ vmware2libvirt -f ./WinXPPro.vmx > WinXPPro.xml $ virsh -c qemu:///system define WinXPPro.xml After various efforts to start the machine, I changed some of the setting (as advised by the error messages I got). My changes were: <domain type='kvm'> to <domain type='qemu'> and <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> to <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386</emulator> and whatever it was before (i guess type 'raw') to <driver name='qemu' type='vmdk'/> Now "virsh edit WinXPPro" gives me: <domain type='qemu'> <name>WinXPPro</name> <uuid>8f83332d-d1c7-4ca9-a171-48823aeb30a8</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='i686' machine='pc-1.2'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='vmdk'/> <source file='/home/roland/WinXPPro/WinXPPro.vmdk'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <interface type='network'> <mac address='00:0c:29:1e:37:c4'/> <source network='default'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'> <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> When I got the "permission denied" error, I found advice to change the user to libvirt-qemu and the group to kvm. Both exist on my system. $ ls -la total 15899728 drwxrwxr-x 2 roland roland 4096 Jun 25 16:05 . drwxr-xr-x 92 roland roland 4096 Jun 25 18:15 .. -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 1474560 Jun 24 20:00 floppy_disk_image -rw------x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 1073741824 Jun 24 20:27 WinXPPro-c21a8baf.vmem -rw------x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 135507536 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro-c21a8baf.vmss -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 8684 Jun 24 20:18 WinXPPro.nvram -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2145255424 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro-s001.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146238464 Jun 24 20:33 WinXPPro-s002.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146631680 Jun 24 20:25 WinXPPro-s003.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 3211264 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro-s004.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2106261504 Jun 24 20:18 WinXPPro-s005.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146697216 Jun 24 20:00 WinXPPro-s006.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2162688 Jun 24 20:27 WinXPPro-s007.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146107392 Jun 24 20:06 WinXPPro-s008.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2099511296 Jun 24 19:58 WinXPPro-s009.vmdk -rw-rw-r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 128446464 Jun 24 20:19 WinXPPro-s010.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 857 Jun 25 15:54 WinXPPro.vmdk -rw-r--r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 0 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro.vmsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 4209 Jun 25 15:56 WinXPPro.vmx -rw-r--r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2932 Jun 25 15:57 WinXPPro.vmxf -rw-rw-r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 852 Jun 25 16:05 WinXPPro.xml $ virsh start WinXPPro error: Failed to start domain WinXPPro error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-i386: -drive file=/home/roland/WinXPPro/WinXPPro.vmdk,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=vmdk: could not open disk image /home/roland/WinXPPro/WinXPPro.vmdk: Permission denied However, despite not using "sudo" and running the command as me, the WinXPPro.vmdk file is now owned by root, so I get the complaint that the file cannot be accessed. If I sudo the command, it gives me the exact same result. $ ls -la total 15899728 drwxrwxr-x 2 roland roland 4096 Jun 25 16:05 . drwxr-xr-x 92 roland roland 4096 Jun 25 18:15 .. -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 1474560 Jun 24 20:00 floppy_disk_image -rw------x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 1073741824 Jun 24 20:27 WinXPPro-c21a8baf.vmem -rw------x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 135507536 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro-c21a8baf.vmss -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 8684 Jun 24 20:18 WinXPPro.nvram -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2145255424 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro-s001.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146238464 Jun 24 20:33 WinXPPro-s002.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146631680 Jun 24 20:25 WinXPPro-s003.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 3211264 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro-s004.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2106261504 Jun 24 20:18 WinXPPro-s005.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146697216 Jun 24 20:00 WinXPPro-s006.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2162688 Jun 24 20:27 WinXPPro-s007.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2146107392 Jun 24 20:06 WinXPPro-s008.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2099511296 Jun 24 19:58 WinXPPro-s009.vmdk -rw-rw-r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 128446464 Jun 24 20:19 WinXPPro-s010.vmdk -rw----r-x 1 root root 857 Jun 25 15:54 WinXPPro.vmdk -rw-r--r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 0 Jun 24 20:12 WinXPPro.vmsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 4209 Jun 25 15:56 WinXPPro.vmx -rw-r--r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2932 Jun 25 15:57 WinXPPro.vmxf -rw-rw-r-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 852 Jun 25 16:05 WinXPPro.xml roland@Matt-HP:~/WinXPPro$ What is going on here? Roland

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[libvirt-users] libvirt: xen error
by varun bhatnagar 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hi, I am trying to install xen and provide libvrit support to it but while installing at some point of time it tries to connect to GIT repository and creates a clone but I am behind firewall and it is getting timed out.... :( I am pasting a screenshot below. Can anyone of you please help me out with this one. // Varun

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