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[libvirt-users] controlling VM access to different tap devices
by Ryan Haggerty 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Sorry if this off-topic but I have a qemu related question I was going to send to the qemu users mailing list but that list appears to have vanished. I thought this community might have some insight. I am interested in controlling VM access to different tap devices so I want to have different qemu processes bound to different tun devices. I've created new tun devices (eg. /dev/net/tun_low) followed by the use of tunctl to create new tap devices based off of the new device nodes (ie tunctl -t tap0 -f /dev/net/tun_low). This also did not seem to work as the VM's seemed to still be accessing /dev/net/tun (running strace on qemu-spice I found it was still doing an open on /dev/net/tun) and not my new device /dev/net/tun_low. Any suggestions on forcing qemu to use alternative tun devices?

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[libvirt-users] controlling VM access to different tap devices
by Ryan Haggerty 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Sorry if this off-topic but I have a qemu related question I was going to send to the qemu users mailing list but that list appears to have vanished. I thought this community might have some insight. I am interested in controlling VM access to different tap devices so I want to have different qemu processes bound to different tun devices. I've created new tun devices (eg. /dev/net/tun_low) followed by the use of tunctl to create new tap devices based off of the new device nodes (ie tunctl -t tap0 -f /dev/net/tun_low). This also did not seem to work as the VM's seemed to still be accessing /dev/net/tun (running strace on qemu-spice I found it was still doing an open on /dev/net/tun) and not my new device /dev/net/tun_low. Any suggestions on forcing qemu to use alternative tun devices?

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[libvirt-users] Does current libvirt ruby support ruby 1.9.2? Or when will it support it?
by 李文兵 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

I'm using ruby 1.8.7 and going to port to ruby 1.9. I'd like to confirm whether the libvirt ruby support the latest ruby 1.9. Thanks.

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt and LXC
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

(oops accidentally sent to -owners) Hi, i'm trying to start a LXC guest on a F14 computer .. followed the examples in http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html, but got stuck when starting it .. 03:07:23.706: debug : virCgroupNew:542 : New group / 03:07:23.707: debug : lxcControllerRun:563 : Setting up private /dev/pts 03:07:23.711: debug : lxcControllerRun:589 : Mouting 'devpts' on /var/lxc/f14/dev/pts 03:07:23.711: debug : lxcControllerRun:604 : Opening tty on private /var/lxc/f14/dev/pts/ptmx 03:07:23.714: debug : lxcContainerAvailable:897 : clone call returned Invalid argument, container support is not enabled 03:07:23.714: debug : lxcContainerStart:848 : Enable network namespaces 03:07:23.718: debug : lxcContainerStart:854 : clone() completed, new container PID is -1 03:07:23.718: error : lxcContainerStart:858 : Failed to run clone container: Invalid argument 03:07:23.718: debug : vethDelete:141 : veth: veth1 03:07:23.718: debug : virRunWithHook:820 : ip link del veth1 LXC config: <domain type='lxc'> <name>f14</name> <uuid>2dcd3cac-47e6-2915-554a-9713edf6ffd1</uuid> <memory>256000</memory> <currentMemory>256000</currentMemory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem type='mount'> <source dir='/var/lxc/f14'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:b0:de:18'/> <source network='default'/> </interface> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> </devices> </domain> I dont know what the invalid arguments are... 03:07:23.718: error : lxcContainerStart:858 : Failed to run clone container: Invalid argument thanks -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail / KageSenshi Inigo Consulting (FOSS/Plone Development, Training & Services) http://www.inigo-tech.com Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331

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[libvirt-users] SCSI tape drive device
by Tom Stave 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

I have a SCSI tape backup unit attached to a kvm host managed by libvirt. Is there a way to expose the SCSI device in libvirt so I could pass the device to a virtual machine and have the virtual machine control the tape backup? Defining the device as a SCSI disk does not appear to work. In this situation, live migration is not an issue. The VM would always be tied to this host.

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[libvirt-users] libvirt problems. Create bridged network via cmdline?
by Денис Барышев 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hello! I've faced a weird problem. And I totally can't understand how libvirt handles networks. The thing that i need to do is simple. I create a bridge in my ubuntu host, the following config: *iface eth0 inet manual* * * *auto br0* *iface br0 inet dhcp* * bridge_ports eth0* * bridge_stp on* * bridge_maxwait 0* That's OK, and my bridge turns up automatically. But I don't understand why libvirt can't use it, it always want to create bridge on its own. So that when I try to create bridged network with the command: virsh virsh net-create net.xml net.xml contents: * <network>* * <name>virbreth0</name>* * <bridge name='br0' stp='on' delay='0' />* * </network>* I always get error ===> error: Failed to create network from net.xml error: cannot create bridge 'br0': File exists That's pretty obvious that libvirt wants to create bridge on its own. But what should I do in my specific situation. May be there is a workaround. I appreciate any help and ideas... Thanks for your answers. Best regards, Denis Barishev.

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[libvirt-users] qemu sdl parameters via libvirt
by Bruce Hohl 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hello List, I run a few VMs via libvirt using '--sdl'. I would like to use qemu parameters -no-quit, -no-frame and -ctrl-grab with libvirt. Does libvirt support a way to use these qemu parameters? Does libvirt provide a way to add these options under <graphics/> in the domain.xml using 'virsh edit domain.xml'? My current <graphics/> is as follows: <graphics type='sdl' display=':0' xauth='/home/admin1/.Xauthority'/> I know I could just create a regular kvm start-up script and include these parameters but I would like to manages all VMs via libvirt & virt-manager.

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[libvirt-users] Compiling libvirt-0.8.4 for NFSv4
by paul.worner＠thomsonreuters.com 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi all, Not sure if this will be useful to anyone. Worse, it's probably not complete or correct, but I thought I would throw this out there for comment. I asked earlier about configuring libvirt for NFSv4 support. I wanted to define NFSv4 pool from xml config, but it's not an option. I decided to hack a bit. Added the following to source code: storage_conf.h(417): enum virStoragePoolFormatFileSystemNet { VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_AUTO = 0, VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_NFS, VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_NFS4, VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_GLUSTERFS, VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_CIFS, VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_LAST, }; storage_conf.c(64): VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virStoragePoolFormatFileSystemNet, VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_LAST, "auto", "nfs", "nfs4", "glusterfs", "cifs") Compiled libvirt and then created storage pool xml: <pool type="netfs"> <name>pool2</name> <source> <host name="test_filer"/> <dir path="/libvirt"/> <format type="nfs4"/> </source> <target> <path>"/usr/local/var/lib/libvirt/images/nfsds2"</path> </target> </pool> 'Virsh pool-create [above xml]' works, using 'mount -t nfs4'. Again, this seemed too easy, so I won't be surprised if things break. However, I was just trying to demonstrate functionality in lab, so failures are fine short term. Please comment on flaws or improvements to this approach. Thanks, Paul Worner

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[libvirt-users] List volumes of a domain
by Andrea Turli 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi all, I'm using libvirt java binding (libvirt-java-0.4.6) I'd like to know if the Domain class offers an API to query volumes attached to a particular domain or should I parse the XML domain description? Thanks for your support -- Andrea Turli Ricercatore Direzione Ricerca e Innovazione andrea.turli(a)eng.it Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa Via Riccardo Morandi, 32 00148 Roma (RM) Tel. +39 06 8307 4710 Fax +39 06 8307 4200 www.eng.it

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[libvirt-users] Fwd: undefining and redefining a Domain from libvirt java bindings
by Ravi Pawar 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

hi, i am trying to undefine a domain by using dm.undefine(); and then trying to create one with same name is giving me error saying 'Domain not found: no domain with matching uuid 'aeae9d4e-17cb-b661-a612-88ac677c28c1' i have attached my test program which reproduces the issue. please let me know where i am going wrong? configuration: libvirt : 0.6.3 Java Bindings: 0.4.2 -- Thanks & Regards Ravi Pawar

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