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how to increase vram in windows guest?
by gansteed 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hello: I'm using kvm to host a windows 7 guest vm, I've install the latest spice guest tools from https://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tool…, and I've set video section like this: <video> <model type="qxl" ram="262144" vram="262144" vram64="262144" vgamem="131072" heads="1" primary="yes"/> <alias name="video0"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/> </video> but the graphics in windows guest is laggy, I' found that the guest have only use 16MB as vram: How can I increase the real usage of vram in the windows guest vm?

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Console of P2V?
by Ken D'Ambrosio 24 May '21

24 May '21

Hey, all. For one, apologies if this isn't quite the right list, I tried to get the right one. But, my problem: I'm firing up a Centos 6.5 box with virt-install, recently converted from a physical (I did a 'dd' to a raw image, and converted it to qcow2), and it boots fine, etc., etc., but I can't get to the console except through vnc; "virsh console" just shows a blank screen. Do I need to tell the kernel to boot in ASCII mode or somesuch? Thanks! -Ken

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virHostdevIsPCINodeDeviceUsed
by Simon Fairweather 19 May '21

19 May '21

I am looking to be able to check if a specific PCI device is allocated to a guest. An error is produced if a domain is started and the device is in use within another domain via this function. I cannot see a publicly available function to use to get this information, is there one available or is there another way to check the state of the PCI device. Regards Simon

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How to hot plugin a new vhost-user-blk-pci device to running VM?
by 梁朝军 14 May '21

14 May '21

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How to hot plugin a new vhost-user-blk-pci device to running VM?
by Liang Chaojun 13 May '21

13 May '21

Hi Guy, Does anyone clear how to hot plugin a new vhost-user-blk-pci device to a running VM? Before staring vm , I pass the disk through QEMU command line like below. <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-object'/> <qemu:arg value='memory-backend-file,id=mem0,size=4G,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on'/> <qemu:arg value='-numa'/> <qemu:arg value='node,memdev=mem0'/> <qemu:arg value='-chardev'/> <qemu:arg value='socket,id=spdk_vhost_blk721ea46a-b306-11eb-a280-525400a98761,path=/var/tmp/vhost.721ea46a-b306-11eb-a280-525400a98761,reconnect=1'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='vhost-user-blk-pci,chardev=spdk_vhost_blk721ea46a-b306-11eb-a280-525400a98761,bootindex=1,num-queues=4'/> <qemu:arg value='-chardev'/> <qemu:arg value='socket,id=spdk_vhost_blk2f699c58-d222-4629-9fdc-400c3aadc55e,path=/var/tmp/vhost.2f699c58-d222-4629-9fdc-400c3aadc55e,reconnect=1'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='vhost-user-blk-pci,chardev=spdk_vhost_blk2f699c58-d222-4629-9fdc-400c3aadc55e,num-queues=4'/> </qemu:commandline> But I don’t know how to live add a vhost-user-blk-pci device on running VM even with calling attachDevice API now. OS: redhat 7.4 Libvirt version: 3.4 Your help will be appreciated. Thanks!

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boot arm64 guest stuck
by Jiatong Shen 11 May '21

11 May '21

hello community, I am stuck at a problem where a virtual machine stuck at "guest has not initialized the display" on a arm64 (FT2000+) server and the relevant qemu process will continue to have a cpu usage of 100%. I do try with different qemu and qemu-efi combined and found out that if I use qemu build qemu-system-arm/now 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.15~cloud1 arm64 with qemu-efi/now 0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2 all and set gic-version to 2, the vm could boot. the virtual machine uses a kylink 4.0 image. I am scrubbing my head to debug the bug and find out the reason... any idea or advice will be appreciated. thank you very much for the help -- Best Regards, Jiatong Shen

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trying to understand how libvirt uses firewalld
by Felix Schwarz 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi, I recently installed a test box using CentOS 8 and installed a CentOS 8 guest via libvirt (KVM). I need to use "routed" forwarding as the datacenter only gives me individual IPs which are routed to the physical interface and the switch only accepts packets with a well-known MAC address. On the host I enabled firewalld and moved the guest to a specific firewalld zone. I verified that libvirt is detecting firewalld. My idea was that I could use this to create somewhat fine-grained filters on the host for traffic from the internet to the guest (and possibly vice-versa). However it seems like that does not work the way I wanted: It seems as if nothing changes when I allow/disallow SSH for that zone. I can still ssh from the internet to the guest. After several reads on the documentation I have a guess of what might be going on but I'd like to confirm that: https://libvirt.org/firewall.html#fw-firewalld-and-virtual-network-driver > If firewalld is active on the host, libvirt will attempt to place the bridge > interface of a libvirt virtual network into the firewalld zone named > "libvirt" (thus making all guest->host traffic on that network subject to > the rules of the "libvirt" zone). Does that mean libvirt's firewalld usage is ONLY for traffic guest->host and does not affect all other traffic (e.g. host->guest, guest<->internet)? That sounds incredibly narrow (and not very useful for me) but it would explain why I don't see any effects in my experiment... --- In a related note it would be nice if there was a way to make routed setups with individual IPs easier. This problem hunts me for more than 10 years (I think I posted something in 2009 - still the same problem basically) and it would be nice if libvirt could somehow support this use case better: I want to allow traffic guest <-> internet in a routed setup. libvirt generates iptables rules like these: Chain LIBVIRT_FWO (1 references) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 ACCEPT all -- br-private * 10.11.0.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 REJECT all -- br-private * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 0 0 ACCEPT all -- br-public * (NETWORK IP ) 0.0.0.0/0 43 3232 REJECT all -- br-public * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable I my case "NETWORK IP" is a /32 IPv4 and AFAIK I have to put the host's IPv4 here (which is basically the router) so I can assign the guest IP inside the VM. What I need is basically a rule like ACCEPT one above but with the GUEST IP. I have some elaborate Python script which I can use as a "network" hook but that requires parsing output of "iptables" due to libvirt's events (e.g. libvirtd restart triggers one "plugged" event per VM). Thank you very much, Felix

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l3 cache and cpu pinning
by Roman Mohr 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Hi, I have a question regarding enabling l3 cache emulation on Domains. Can this also be enabled without cpu-pinning, or does it need cpu pinning to emulate the l3 caches according to the cpus where the guest is pinned to? Thank you and best regards, Roman

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GlusterFS pools - do they work?
by lejeczek 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Hi guys. I've been a consumer of libvirt for a while but this is first time I'm trying this: -> $ virsh vol-create-as glusterfs-VMs2 fcos-node1.qcow2 20G --format qcow2 error: Failed to create vol fcos-node1.qcow2 error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: storage pool does not support volume creation I'm on CentOS Stream with glusterfs-8.4, libvirt-7 and qemu-kvm-5.2.0 What might be the issue here? many thanks, L.

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external snapshot create error
by Eyüp Hakan Duran 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear all, I have been creating external snapshots of my KVM/QEMU VMs for more than a year on a host machine that runs Manjaro Linux. The current version of libvirt I am using is 1:7.1.0-3. I just noticed that the script I am using for this purpose has been failing. More specifically the command below returns with the error message indicated underneath the command: sudo virsh snapshot-create-as --no-metadata --domain myVM myVM-state --diskspec hda,file=overlay.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to validate doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng Extra element disks in interleave Element domainsnapshot failed to validate content I also tried different versions of the command above with similar results, such as: sudo virsh snapshot-create-as mvVM --no-metadata myVM-state --diskspec hda,snapshot=external,file=overlay.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic Any pointers will be greatly appreciated! Hakan Duran

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