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[libvirt-users] Re-sizing qcow2 images
by Chandana De Silva 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello All, I am using Centos 6.3 with libvirt 0.910 and qemu-kvm 0.12 I had to resize a qcow2 disk, and came across several issues; I used this command to resize the image: sudo -i /usr/bin/qemu-img /var/lib/libvirt/images/mydisk.img resize +100G . The disk is attached using virtio. I then tried to use parted from within the guest to resize the partition. The first problem was that the guest os did not see the increase disk size. Is there something that I need to do, to force the guest to see the higher disk size ? I got round this by re-starting the guest, but it would be better if there is some way to force the guest to see the new size. The second problem was that parted gave an error : Error: Filesystem has an incompatible feature enable. Some reading showed that this was caused by the "resize_inode" feature on the file system. I removed this feature using debugfs, and rans fsck, but parted still gave the same error: Error: Filesystem has an incompatible feature enable. I would like some advice on how this is supposed to be done. Thanks in advance. Chandana

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[libvirt-users] Re-sizing qcow2 images
by Chandana De Silva 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello Hristo, Thanks for your comments. I was really looking for an on-line resizing tool. Eric Blake's later response seem to cover this. Regards Chandana On 30/10/12 03:00, Hristo Deshev<hristo(a)deshev.com> > For my resizes I use libguestfs's virt-resize [1] tool. It's been > working flawlessly so far -- it resizes both the image file/device and > partitions inside that image. I can't recommend it enough. > > Best, > Hristo

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[libvirt-users] virt-manager fails to connect to dbus
by sean darcy 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

On Fedora 17 updated: virt-manager-0.9.4-2.fc17.noarch libvirt-0.10.2.1-1.fc17.x86_64 after a reboot, virt-manager no longer starts. Used to! virt-manager & [1] 1676 [root@sixcore ~]# (virt-manager:1676): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-0v4E2bXlqf: Connection refused Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 386, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 321, in main config = virtManager.config.vmmConfig(appname, appversion, ui_dir) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 98, in __init__ self.conf.add_dir(self.conf_dir, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE) GError: No D-BUS daemon running [root@sixcore ~]# systemctl status dbus.service dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:53:41 -0400; 2s ago Process: 1669 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /var/run/messagebus.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 1666 ExecStartPre=/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1672 (dbus-daemon) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/dbus.service └ 1672 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --systemd-activation Any help appreciated, sean

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[libvirt-users] libvirt and thin provisionned LVM
by Daniel Berteaud 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi there. I'm trying to use thin provisionned LVM for som eguests, and I'm having a problem. Until now, I use LVM pool with success. Here's my pool definition: <pool type='logical'> <name>data</name> <uuid>7f18e030-9d2d-805e-c65f-d12d0681b0a9</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>0</available> <source> <name>data</name> <format type='lvm2'/> </source> <target> <path>/dev/data</path> <permissions> <mode>0700</mode> <owner>-1</owner> <group>-1</group> </permissions> </target> </pool> Everything is working, until I create a thin privisionned pool like this: lvcreate --thin data/pool -L 50G Now, as soon as this is created, I cannot refresh my pool from libvirt POV: LANG=C_ALL virsh pool-refresh data error: Failed to start pool sys error: erreur interne Child process (/sbin/vgchange -aln vg_gerard) status unexpected: exit status 5 If I remove this LV, everything is working again. I'm using libvirt 0.9.10, the default one in CentOS 6.3 (x86_64). Has anybody managed to get it working ? Is this something fixed in more recent release ? Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Berteaud FIREWALL-SERVICES SARL. Société de Services en Logiciels Libres Technopôle Montesquieu 33650 MARTILLAC Tel : 05 56 64 15 32 Fax : 05 56 64 15 32 Web : http://www.firewall-services.com

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[libvirt-users] virtual machine seems to run, but can't connect to it
by Douglas Russell 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I'm using ubuntu 12.04LTS I setup a bridged network: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0 Seems to work. Then I created a virtual machine using Ubuntu's vmbuilder tool like so: vmbuilder kvm ubuntu \ --suite 'precise' \ --flavour 'virtual' \ --arch 'amd64' \ --dest 'myvm' \ --hostname 'myvm' \ --mem '2048' \ --rootsize '4096' \ --swapsize '1024' \ --mirror 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu' \ --name 'MyName' \ --user 'myuser' \ --pass 'password' \ --bridge 'br0' \ --addpkg acpid \ --addpkg vim \ --addpkg openssh-server \ --addpkg avahi-daemon \ --libvirt 'qemu:///system' \ --ip '192.168.0.100' It generates fine and starts up seemingly without a problem as well when I run virsh start myvm I am then able to resolve it's IP with MDNS and try ping myvm.local So presumably the VM is running? But for some reason I can't communicate with it, I can't SSH in, I don't even get a response to my ping. Any ideas? I'd be happy to provide further information. Thanks.

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[libvirt-users] Health check
by Ali Nikzad 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi, I want to write an application that Health checks a virtual machine to see whether the VM is up and running or not. I am using ESXi as my hypervisor. Are there any libvirt API functions that I can use for this purpose? Regards, Ali

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Re: [libvirt-users] Re-sizing qcow2 images
by Rajesh Kumar Mallah 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

----- "Chandana De Silva" <chandana(a)desilva.id.au> wrote: | From: "Chandana De Silva" <chandana(a)desilva.id.au> | To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah(a)tradeindia.com> | Cc: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com | Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:35:05 PM | Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Re-sizing qcow2 images | | Hello Rajesh, | | Thanks for the the suggestions. | | | On 28/10/12 17:43, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: | > If you have a spare guest you may consider temporarily attaching the | said cow2 image to that guest | Do you mean detach from guest A and attach to guest B ? Yes. | > and use the partition tools (like parted , fdisk,cfdisk etc) | > and filesystem tools (like xfs_grow , resize2fs etc) to grow the | filesystem. | Assuming it will be possible to detach and attach, I still have the | problem of parted giving the incompatible feature error. These disk | have GPT partitions so I can use fdisk I am not sure about the "incompatible feature error" . May be you could try fdisk or cfdisk. It is usually a good idea to "free" the device before doing partition resizes. We had done it (resizing cow2) once and it was successful , we had to although convert from cow2 to raw , append a new dd'ed file and user fdisk over the raw image. eventually it worked. what is the size of your cow2 device if its not huge you may consider backing it up and restore to a larger device. hope it helps. mallah.

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Re: [libvirt-users] Re-sizing qcow2 images
by Rajesh Kumar Mallah 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hi, If you have a spare guest you may consider temporarily attaching the said cow2 image to that guest and use the partition tools (like parted , fdisk,cfdisk etc) and filesystem tools (like xfs_grow , resize2fs etc) to grow the filesystem. use partprobe to reread the partition table into the kernel once partition editing tools are used. re-read of mounted root partions mostly do not work for me. hence i suggested using a separte vm for the image. Regards, Rajesh Kumar Mallah Tel. 91-11-46710500 (Ext:303) Cell +919811255597 Website: http://www.tradeindia.com/ \|/ \|/ \|/ stop printing \|/ \|/ \|/ | | | start planting | | | ----- "Chandana De Silva" <chandana(a)desilva.id.au> wrote: | From: "Chandana De Silva" <chandana(a)desilva.id.au> | To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com | Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:13:50 AM | Subject: [libvirt-users] Re-sizing qcow2 images | | Hello All, | | I am using Centos 6.3 with libvirt 0.910 and qemu-kvm 0.12 | | I had to resize a qcow2 disk, and came across several issues; | | I used this command to resize the image: | | sudo -i /usr/bin/qemu-img /var/lib/libvirt/images/mydisk.img resize | +100G . The disk is attached using virtio. | | I then tried to use parted from within the guest to resize the | partition. | | The first problem was that the guest os did not see the increase disk | size. | Is there something that I need to do, to force the guest to see the | higher disk size ? | I got round this by re-starting the guest, but it would be better if | there is some way to force the guest to see the new size. | | The second problem was that parted gave an error : Error: Filesystem | has | an incompatible feature enable. | Some reading showed that this was caused by the "resize_inode" feature | | on the file system. I removed this feature using debugfs, and rans | fsck, | but parted still gave the same error: Error: Filesystem has an | incompatible feature enable. | | I would like some advice on how this is supposed to be done. | | Thanks in advance. | | Chandana | | | _______________________________________________ | libvirt-users mailing list | libvirt-users(a)redhat.com | https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

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[libvirt-users] hypervisor driver not found
by p.venkatasrinivas＠tcs.com 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, I installed Virtual box software in linux open suse. Unable to connect to the vbox hypervisor driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.9.0 How reproducible: when i am giving the following command for virsh: virsh -connect vbox:///session then the following error is coming. error: no hypervisor driver available for vbox:///session error: failed to connect to the hypervisor Even I installed virtualbox the above error is coming. I am not able to find vbox hypervisor driver. Can anyone suggest where can i find vbox dirver. Awaiting Response Thanks and Regards, Srinivas. =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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[libvirt-users] virsh responds slowly
by Chun-Hung Chen 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Dear all, I have observed the virsh responds slowly with "virsh list" and used "strace virsh list" will find that it is waiting on the socket. I also use "netstat |grep libvirt" and see an opened socket /var/run/libvirt-sock-ro is always on and will not disappear. Is it caused by an abnormal termination of virsh API? Otherwise, if there is any possible issue? I have checked the cpu utilization, it is low and no waiting io. Regards, Chun-Hung

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