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[libvirt-users] SSD Trim needed? Physical Block Device Keep Track Of Guest FS Blocks?
by d hee 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

I am trying to figure out if a SSD drive needs to receive trim commands from the KVM guest filesystem(strictly Linux ext4 in this case).... When a file is deleted inside a KVM guest(ext4 and raw image)....If a SSD is the underlying block device that the KVM raw disk image resides on, does the SDD drive need to know which block(s) are marked for reuse within the raw image? Or is it since the Guest raw image is a container that the physical hard drive has no concern about the filesystem blocks within the Guest? Meaning the physical disk would only be concerned with the image itself as a whole...such as if the whole image was deleted? Thanks, -Darin

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[libvirt-users] Storage pool created on the "wrong" vg
by Alaric Haag 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello all, (Hopefully, I am posing this question to the correct list!) I seem to have mis-clicked through the creation of an LVM-based storage pool in virt-manager and it is using a volume group containing LVs dedicated to the root/swap filesystems. As these are active LVs, there seems no way to remove this pool. Is that true? My reading thus far suggests that, with LVM storage units, you can't delete them from the pool without REALLY deleting them from the VG. I'm "new enough" to KVM to be missing something obvious, but I'd be pretty shocked if a "structure" like a storage pool can't be deconstructed. Kind regards, Alaric

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[libvirt-users] network bridge hairpin parameter support
by Zang MingJie 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi: Currently we encounter a problem where OpenStack may forget or misconfig the bridge hairpin setting, and will cause some unexpected behavior [1]. Although this bug is marked fixed, but if we manually restart the vm by virsh will also trigger the problem. And because the bridge interface is created and managed by libvirt, we are considering move the hairpin configuration to libvirt. Now I start writing a patch to achieve this, but after digging into the source code, I found only kvm/qemu and uml backend may support this parameter. Other backends manage their own bridge, and seems no way to modify it. I expect is there any solution working in progress or should we add the new hairpin parameter in libvirt configuration ? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/933640

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[libvirt-users] network bridge hairpin parameter support
by Zang MingJie 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi: Currently we encounter a problem where OpenStack may forget or misconfig the bridge hairpin setting, and will cause some unexpected behavior [1]. Although this bug is marked fixed, but if we manually restart the vm by virsh will also trigger the problem. And because the bridge interface is created and managed by libvirt, we are considering move the hairpin configuration to libvirt. Now I start writing a patch to achieve this, but after digging into the source code, I found only kvm/qemu and uml backend may support this parameter. Other backends manage their own bridge, and seems no way to modify it. I expect is there any solution working in progress or should we add the new parameter in libvirt configuration ? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/933640

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[libvirt-users] libvirt rpm src
by Drew Morris 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi Guys, Do you know where the source RPMS are for libvirt? Can't find them in the official downloads section. -- Regards, Drew Morris

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[libvirt-users] Unable to connect to console to recently cloned VM's
by Javi Legido 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Hi all. I was using libvirt under Debian squeeze (I guess it was 0.8.3-5+squeeze4 or something similar). I was able to clone machines with below command: sudo virt-clone --connect=qemu:///system -o template -n template_clone -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/template_clone.qcow2 After that I was able to start the VM and connect to the console: sudo virsh console template_clone I recently Installed libvirt on a Debian wheezy ( libvirt-bin 0.9.12-11). I recuperated the old "template" VM, and I tried to create a new one successfully. What I CAN do: 1. Start both VM's (the template imported from the old installation and the new one) 2. Connect to the console of both VM's 3. Clone them What I CAN'T do: 1. Access to the console of the cloned VM, they stalled at the prompt. Just in case config of the VM: <domain type='kvm'> <name>template-1.dev.jj.com</name> <uuid>f75dcbdc-8fc9-b50c-6612-c34dfebea16f</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>524288</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.1'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/template-1.dev.jj.com.qcow2'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:c0:c6:24'/> <source network='default'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> Is somebody else experiencing the same problem? I'm not sure even that the clones VM is working, since I'm able to start it up but no connect to it. Thanks. Javier

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[libvirt-users] unssafe operation with virt-manager
by digvijay chauhan 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I tried to migrate with virt-manager's GUI but when i invoke migrate command it gives me error that "unable to migrate vm unsafe operation"

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[libvirt-users] How to pass USB device to the guest VM
by Marc Haber 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

Hi, I am trying to access my Galaxy Tab from Samsung KIES running on Windows 7 inside a KVM VM. This unfortunately does not seem to work as expected. My Distribution is debian unstable. I therefore have qemu-system-x86 version 1.4.0+dfsg-1exp, libvirt 1.0.3-1 and virt-manager 0.9.4-2. lsusb shows the Tab as follows: Bus 001 Device 016: ID 04e8:6877 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy S in Virt Manager, I can add a USB Host Device 001:016 SAMSUNG SAMSUNG_Android. This ends up in the VM as "USB 04e8:6877" and shows up in XML as <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x04e8'/> <product id='0x6877'/> </source> </hostdev> However, when I start Windows 7, the Galaxy Tab is not detected and also does not show up in Device Manager. The KVM process is called as: qemu-system-x86 -machine accel=kvm:tcg -name mywindows -S -M pc-1.1 -m 4096 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 8e6e01e8-2191-9dcc-e2e4-5eb7ae55c450 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snsvw001.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -drive file=/dev/luksdev/mywindows,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0 -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c4:16:65,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,seamless-migration=on -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.ram_size=67108864 -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device usb-host,hostbus=1,hostaddr=16,id=hostdev0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 This looks correct to me as a layman. Also, when I boot up the same VM with Linux as guest OS, the Galaxy Tablet does not show up in lsusb. What is happening on my system so that the USB device is not detected in Windows and Linux? Any ideas how to fix that? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062

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Re: [libvirt-users] [virt-tools-list] C'ant migrate with virt-manager or virsh
by Cole Robinson 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

On 03/14/2013 03:17 AM, Digvijay wrote: > [root@node0 ~]# virsh migrate --live try1 qemu+ssh://root@100.100.102.106/system > --unsafe > root(a)100.100.102.106's password: > error: operation failed: migration job: unexpectedly failed > error: Reconnected to the hypervisor > CC-ing libvirt-users I think that virsh command should work. Look at /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$vmname.log on both the source host and the destination host. > > I tried to run the migration but it is not doing profitably.I also used virtual > machine manager but it is giving me " unsafe operation" > > Unable to migrate guest: Unsafe migration: Migration may lead to data corruption > if disks use cache != none > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in cb_wrapper > callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/migrate.py", line 553, in _async_migrate > vm.migrate(dstconn, migrate_uri, rate, live, secure, meter=meter) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1163, in migrate > self._backend.migrate(destconn.vmm, flags, newname, interface, rate) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 822, in migrate > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainMigrate() failed', dom=self) > libvirtError: Unsafe migration: Migration may lead to data corruption if disks > use cache != none Like the error says, your disks need to have cache=None or libvirt won't allow the migration. You can change that setting per disk in the VM details UI in virt-manager. - Cole

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[libvirt-users] Check memory inside a container
by Saurabh Deochake 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi all, I'm new to LXC and libvirt. I have created a LXC container using libvirt. In domain XML file I have mentioned "memory" and "current memory" as 256 MB. Now I want to check the memory inside the container, but whenever I run top command or try to cat /proc/meminfo, it shows host machine's memory which is 3GB. So is there any command by which I can check containers memory? Regards, Saurabh Deochake.

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