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by gautam.sharma＠iitg.ac.in 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

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Enabling libiscsi with libvirt on Rocky 9
by will.gorman＠joyent.com 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

I am running into a problem attaching an iscsi disk to a VM in libvirt using "virsh attach-device" on Rocky 9 with the following error: "unable to execute QEMU command 'blockdev-add': Unknown driver 'iscsi'". I've found some indications that libiscsi is being removed from RHEL 9, like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967133 but it's not clear to me what alternatives might be available for libvirt users that depend on the libiscsi-based block device driver. Are there alternate packages that can be installed to re-enable the iscsi block device driver for qemu on RHEL 9 based systems? Or would it be necessary to rebuild libvirt/qemu to get this block device driver to work again? Thanks, Will Gorman

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Enabling libiscsi with libvirt on Rocky 9
by Will Gorman 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

I am running into a problem attaching an iscsi disk to a VM in libvirt using "virsh attach-device" on Rocky 9 with the following error: "unable to execute QEMU command 'blockdev-add': Unknown driver 'iscsi'". I've found some indications that libiscsi is being removed from RHEL 9, like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967133 but it's not clear to me what alternatives might be available for libvirt users that depend on the libiscsi-based block device driver. Are there alternate packages that can be installed to re-enable the iscsi block device driver for qemu on RHEL 9 based systems? Or would it be necessary to rebuild libvirt/qemu to get this block device driver to work again? Thanks, Will Gorman

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Libvirt and Ceph: libvirtd tries to open random RBD images
by Jayanth Reddy 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Hello Users, We're using libvirt with KVM and the orchestrator is Cloudstack. I raised the issue already at Cloudstack at https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/8211 but appears to be at libvirtd. Below is our environment & issue description: It appears that one of our Cloudstack KVM clusters having 8 hosts is having the issue. We have HCI on these 8 hosts and there are approximately 700+ VMs running. But strange enough, there are these logs like below on hosts. Oct 25 13:38:11 hv-01 libvirtd[9464]: failed to open the RBD image '087bb114-448a-41d2-9f5d-6865b62eed15': No such file or directory Oct 25 20:35:22 hv-01 libvirtd[9464]: failed to open the RBD image 'ccc1168a-5ffa-4b6d-a953-8e0ac788ebc5': No such file or directory Oct 26 09:48:33 hv-01 libvirtd[9464]: failed to open the RBD image 'a3fe82f8-afc9-4604-b55e-91b676514a18': No such file or directory Oct 26 10:38:17 hv-01 libvirtd[9464]: End of file while reading data: Input/output error We've got DNS servers on which there is an`A` record resolving to all the IPv4 Addresses of 8 monitors and there have not been any issues with the DNS resolution. But the issue of "failed to open the RBD image 'ccc1168a-5ffa-4b6d-a953-8e0ac788ebc5': No such file or directory" gets more weird because the VM that is making use of that RBD image lets say "087bb114-448a-41d2-9f5d-6865b62eed15" is running on altogether different host like "hv-06". On further inspection of that specific Virtual Machine, it has been running on that host "hv-06" for more than 4 months or so (looked at "Last updated" field). Fortunately, the Virtual Machine has no issues and has been running since then. Thanks, Jayanth

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Problem setting up SGX domain
by Wojtek Porczyk 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi, users@, I'm attempting to set up domain with SGX EPC memory. When starting it, I get this error: # virsh start astoria-test-1 error: Failed to start domain 'astoria-test-1' error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: libnuma: Warning: /sys not mounted or invalid. Assuming one node: Permission denied 2023-11-16T14:04:26.919285Z qemu-system-x86_64: The nodes select no CPUs When removing <memory model='sgx-epc'> node from XML, the domain starts fine. I've attached is domain.xml for it, with the section commented. Also there are logs from happy and sad case. The libnuma error seems to stem from this place: https://github.com/numactl/numactl/blob/fc999282e6663d6844773e6065bbee3270f… This makes no sense to me, because the file is there and available: # sudo -u libvirt-qemu cat /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpumap fff I also don't understand why qemu says "The nodes select no CPUs" (https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/34a5cb6d8434303c170230644b2a7c1…) DDG has failed me in all cases. I've also tried to follow the recommendation from https://libvirt.org/formatdomaincaps.html#sgx-capabilities: For more details on the SGX feature, please follow resources in the SGX developer's document store. ...and the only think that I've found relevant to libvirt was this document: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/virtua… which suggests to play with <qemu:commandline> instead. host: Debian 12, libvirt 9.0.0, QEMU 7.2, virtinst 4.1 (see dpkg-l attachment) guest: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) cloud image The domain in quesion was defined using virt-install with cloud-init, then I was editing XML with `virsh edit`. Relevant snippet from `virsh domcapabilities`: <sgx supported='yes'> <flc>yes</flc> <sgx1>yes</sgx1> <sgx2>no</sgx2> <section_size unit='KiB'>95744</section_size> <sections> <section node='0' size='95744' unit='KiB'/> </sections> </sgx> System-wide logs do not contain anything relevant. I'm happy to provide additional info if needed. Anyone can point me to a solution? -- pozdrawiam / best regards Wojtek Porczyk Gramine / Invisible Things Lab I do not fear computers, I fear lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov

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windows install fails with error 0x80070001
by daggs 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

Greetings, following an issue with my windows install, I've had to reinstall windows 11 on kvm. I start the vm and the install starts, the install process starts, I add the virtio scsi controller and the hdd gets detected. next I start the install and get the same error as see here: https://howfix.net/computer/0x80070001/ on when getting to the "Getting files ready for installation" stage. I suspect that there is a bug with the windows scsi virtio driver when using hdd pass-through this is the vm's xml: https://bpa.st/63RA my host system is based on qemu-8.1.2, libvirt-9.8.0, virtiofsd-1.8.0, virtio-win-0.1.229.1 and kernel-6.6.0. what can I do?

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by Miguel Ping 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

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[FOSDEM] Call for participation: Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure Room at FOSDEM 2024
by Piotr Kliczewski 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2024, to be hosted on February 3rd 2024. This devroom is a collaborative effort, and is organized by dedicated folks from projects such as OpenStack, Xen Project, KubeVirt, QEMU, KVM, and Foreman. We would like to invite all those who are involved in these fields to submit your proposals by December 8th, 2023. About the Devroom The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open source hypervisors or virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, bhyve and VirtualBox as well as Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, QEMU and OpenNebula. This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared interest, such as KVM; libvirt; shared storage; virtualized networking; cloud security; clustering and high availability; interfacing with multiple hypervisors; hyperconverged deployments; and scaling across hundreds or thousands of servers. Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at developers working on these platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared infrastructure or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. Important Dates Submission deadline: 8th December 2023 Acceptance notifications: 10th December 2023 Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2023 Devroom: 3rd February 2024 Submit Your Proposal All submissions must be made via the Pretalx event planning site[1]. It is a new submission system so you will need to create an account. If you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you won’t be able to use your existing account. During submission please make sure to select Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure from the Track list. Please fill out all the required fields, and provide a meaningful abstract and description of your proposed session. Submission Guidelines We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All presentation slots are 30 minutes, with 20 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations will be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>." In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.) Code of Conduct Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, we'd like to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all times. If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you. Questions? If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with other attendees. See you all at FOSDEM! [1] <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17> https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp [2] virtualization-devroom-manager at fosdem.org

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Passing through a YubiKey to a Windows VM for physical touch activation
by Michael Kjörling 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

I have a need to pass through a YubiKey to a Windows (10) VM guest such that Windows in the guest will let me use it with physical touch activation for 2FA. For those times, I am physically at the VM host, so I don't need _remote_ redirection into the guest, and I'm fine with plugging and unplugging the YubiKey physically on an as-needed basis. If I simply redirect the USB device through the virt-manager GUI, my experience is that it has at best worked very much unreliably, and often not at all. Searching the web hasn't helped. Does anyone have a recipe for that to work _reliably_? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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Clocks and Timers
by Simon Fairweather 05 Nov '23

05 Nov '23

Hi, If I have the following XML section does this imply that presence is default of on for rtc and pit? <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> Are there any other reference guides to best setup of timers apart from the XML document for different OS types? Regards Simon.

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