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[libvirt-users] NAT-based network 2x-4x faster than routed network?
by Kenni Lund 22 May '10

22 May '10

Hi Is it expected behaviour that a libvirt NAT-based network is faster than a libvirt routed network? I would guess that the routed network would be the fastest one in all cases, but I'm seeing the opposite in my setup. On a 100mbit internet connection, the routed network tops at 4mbyte/sec, while the nat-based network goes all the way to 10mbyte/sec. I've spend the last 6 hours on trying to figure out the cause of this, changing settings, reinstalling the system, but the problem persists and I can't find the cause of it. It is a clean and fairly simple setup: - Clean installation of CentOS 5.5 - Installation of kvm+libvirt+virt-manager+xorg - iptables service disabled - 1 public IP for the host (xxx.yyy.zzz.215) on a /32 subnet with xxx.yyy.zzz.193 as gateway - 3 public IP for the routed network (xxx.yyy.zzz.251-253) on a /26 subnet with the same gateway as the host - 1 virtual machine with either the NAT or the routed libvirt network assigned I have no networking connection errors or similar, it works perfectly with both the NAT and the routed network, but the routed network is just 2-4 times slower than the NAT one. Do you have any suggestions of what the problem might be? When I look at the iptables rules generated by libvirt, and the routing table, everything looks fine AFAICT. Traceroute from guest doesn't reveal anything either. Ping times from the two networks are similar, so the main issue seems to be throughput. Any help or pointers to what I should look at, is highly appreciated... :) I've copy pasted some of my relevant system configuration into pastebin: http://pastebin.com/jtTrHLqA Thank you, Kenni

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[libvirt-users] Update of libvirt website required. not all information about XML tags
by Марк Коренберг 21 May '10

21 May '10

The problem desribed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593266 Please update http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html and describe NEW xml tags, like <serial>xxxx</serial> for hard drive and all cpu tags, other if any. -- Segmentation fault

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[libvirt-users] ctrl+alt+2 disabled?
by Ralf Hornik Mailings 19 May '10

19 May '10

Dear list, I need to attach pci devices using qemu command interface but when I use the vnc connection started using virsh, the key combination (or qemu interface) seems to be disabled. How can I (re)enable it? Thanks and best regards Ralf

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[libvirt-users] Can't get audio device through virt-manager
by Arthur Pemberton 18 May '10

18 May '10

virt-manager is not asking qemu to produce any sound device based on the kvm-qemu I see with 'ps aux' https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592671 -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)

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[libvirt-users] learn XML <network/>
by Michael Löblich 18 May '10

18 May '10

Can please anybody write a XML-description for the diagram shown on http://libvirt.org/archnetwork.html Michael

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[libvirt-users] virsh domxml-from-native not working
by Ralf Hornik Mailings 17 May '10

17 May '10

Dear list, when I try to convert the (working) command /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive file=/dev/xen_vol/xen_ca,cache=none,if=virtio,boot=on \ -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=00:16:3E:04:F5:6D \ -net tap,ifname=tap1 -m 256 -name ca \ -vnc 10.0.0.100:4 -daemonize -k de into an xml file: <domain type='qemu'> <name>ca</name> <uuid>dfef3884-d7a9-f6cf-5204-1615963cc0e8</uuid> <memory>262144</memory> <currentMemory>262144</currentMemory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type> </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-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver cache='none'/> <source dev='/dev/xen_vol/xen_ca'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> </disk> <interface type='ethernet'> <mac address='00:16:3e:04:f5:6d'/> <target dev='tap1'/> <model type='virtio'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='5904' autoport='no' listen='10.0.0.100'/> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> </video> </devices> </domain> Then it stops to boot while haning on "Loading Grub Stage 2". Additionally, the keyboard encoding "de" is missing. The corresponding process is: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc-0.12 -no-kvm -m 256 \ -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \ -name ca -uuid dfef3884-d7a9-f6cf-5204-1615963cc0e8 \ -nodefaults \ -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/usr/local/libvirt/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/ca.monitor,server,nowait \ -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot c \ -drive file=/dev/xen_vol/xen_ca,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,cache=none \ -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 \ -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=00:16:3e:04:f5:6d,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \ -net tap,ifname=tap1,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -usb -vnc 10.0.0.100:4 \ -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 Any Ideas, hats going wrong? Thank yout and best regards Ralf Hornik

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[libvirt-users] Sharing same storage on two diffrent KVM hosts
by shy Perets 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hello , I whould like your suggestion regarding the following problem : I got 2 host which are running under RHEL5.4 hypervizor . both of the hosts disks is a logical volume .( Each for each ) under the same VG . I want to add storage ( another logical volume ) which will be availble for both of the host as local disk . ( Share storage ) Thanks .

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[libvirt-users] Can not restore domain from a shared state file
by Zhang Qian 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hi, I have two KVM host: h1 and h2, both of them mount an NFS directory as a shared storage. I can save (virsh save <domain> <file>) a domain in h1 to a state file in the shared storage successfully, but failed to restore it from h2 with the following error message: # virsh restore testRes.dat error: Failed to restore domain from testRes.dat error: operation failed: failed to start VM I can always restore it from h1, but sometimes works for h2 (wait for a while, then "virsh restore" command may succeed in h2). I guess the state file generated by "virsh save" command is not intact from h2 point view, may be cause by the cache of NFS server? Any suggestions will be really appreciated, thanks in advance! Regards, Qian

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[libvirt-users] XML-Created domain vanishes after shutdown
by Alexander Topolanek 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hi, im migrating existing kvm-images into libvirt domains, by creating a domain in virsh from a xml file. The domain starts, is working fine, but after shutdown it is lost, and I have to recreate it. BTW, can I reset the domain count somewhere? Any ideas? thx and kind regards Alexander virsh # version Compiled against library: libvir 0.4.6 Using library: libvir 0.4.6 Using API: QEMU 0.4.6 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.9.1 This is my xml file: <domain type='qemu' id='2'> <name>munin</name> <uuid>6bb2995a-5443-2ddb-67fe-d69a9814ece4</uuid> <memory>262144</memory> <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory> <vcpu>2</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>preserve</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/var/kvm/virsh/munin.img'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:30:1c:45:40:02'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1' keymap='de'/> </devices> </domain>

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[libvirt-users] Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 592671 : can't use any sound device from virt-manager
by Arthur Pemberton 16 May '10

16 May '10

url : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592671 basically I'm not getting any sound devices when invoking from virt-manager at least. -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)

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