- Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] getting CPU usage of KVM
by Restituto Marcus Arevalo 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Greetings sir, I am currently taking up Computer Science in my school. I just want to ask how do you get the CPU usage and Memory usage of the VMs (I'm referring sir to the graphs that the Virtual Machine Manager is displaying)? I need to get the numbers (the numbers are enough, I don't need the graph) of these informations because I will be needing it for my thesis. What suggestions can you give me? Like create a program in C or Java or Python using the libvirt API, etc. Your help will be much appreciated sir. Thank you very much. regards, Marco P.S. I could explain what my thesis is all about in an email if you want/need sir. Thanks again

2 1

[libvirt-users] Connecting to session instance without socket path is not supported by the ssh connection driver
by Theodotos Andreou 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi all, I have setup some Virtualbox VMs under my normal user session. When I try to list the vbox machines locally I get: $ virsh -c vbox:///session list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 3 Ubuntu-MASS-controller running When I try to list the machines from a remote location I get: $ virsh -c vbox+ssh://theodotos@10.0.2.2/session list setlocale: No such file or directory error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: Operation not supported: Connecting to session instance without socket path is not supported by the ssh connection driver I have setup public key authentication between the remote machine and the VBox host. Any idea what am I doing wrong?

2 3

[libvirt-users] libvirt on OpenStack
by kerwin 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi, I am running OpenStack Cluster and use libvirt + cgroup to limit vm’s performance https://wiki.openstack.org/InstanceResourceQuota What I am confusing is.. 1. After running a vm instance with some croup limit applied, I can’t find any related cgroup settings. 2. Can I change limit value after instance is running? like change disk_read_iops_sec from 10 to 20. One of the xml file like below. <domain type="kvm"> <uuid>27f49e5c-8ee0-4a09-8269-5fa31acd2983</uuid> <name>instance-000000da</name> <memory>2097152</memory> <vcpu cpuset="1-12">1</vcpu> <sysinfo type="smbios"> <system> <entry name="manufacturer">Red Hat Inc.</entry> <entry name="product">OpenStack Nova</entry> <entry name="version">2013.2.3-1.el6</entry> <entry name="serial">9fa4736a-2b02-11e1-a8e4-5cf3fcb968b4</entry> <entry name="uuid">27f49e5c-8ee0-4a09-8269-5fa31acd2983</entry> </system> </sysinfo> <os> <type>hvm</type> <boot dev="hd"/> <smbios mode="sysinfo"/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <clock offset="utc"> <timer name="pit" tickpolicy="delay"/> <timer name="rtc" tickpolicy="catchup"/> </clock> <cpu mode="host-model" match="exact"/> <devices> <disk type="file" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2" cache="none"/> <source file="/data1/lib/nova/instances/27f49e5c-8ee0-4a09-8269-5fa31acd2983/disk"/> <target bus="virtio" dev="vda"/> <iotune> <read_bytes_sec>25600000</read_bytes_sec> <write_bytes_sec>40960000</write_bytes_sec> </iotune> </disk> <interface type="bridge"> <mac address="fa:16:3e:49:04:ce"/> <model type="virtio"/> <source bridge="br-int"/> <target dev="tape30b3c05-12"/> <virtualport type="openvswitch"> <parameters interfaceid="e30b3c05-126c-45bd-ac31-e5eb5481a652"/> </virtualport> </interface> <serial type="file"> <source path="/data1/lib/nova/instances/27f49e5c-8ee0-4a09-8269-5fa31acd2983/console.log"/> </serial> <serial type="pty"/> <input type="tablet" bus="usb"/> <graphics type="vnc" autoport="yes" keymap="en-us" listen="10.13.128.43"/> </devices> </domain> ✉ -- 朴元奎 kerwin

2 1

[libvirt-users] Reg : How to boot the external system checkpoint snapshots using KVM
by Gousemeera A. 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

Hi Team, I have created a "External system checkpoint snapshot" using the following link. http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/external-system-checkpoint-snapshot.t… The disk and ram snapshot has been created successfully. The disk snapshot have the QCOW2 file format,I tried to boot the disk snapshot (qcow2)file using the KVM but it throws the error *" No bootable disk availble"* message, also i tried to revert the snapshot it throws the *"external snapshot revert not yet supported"* error message. Versions details: --------------- Libvirt - 1.0.5 (compiled) Ubuntu - 12.04 I had the following doubts on snapshots. 1. It is possible to directly boot the external system check point snapshots ??? 2. Snapshot boot is supported in libvirt kvm ? 3. If snapshot boot is possible, what are the steps to do ? can you please advice me .. Thanks in advance.... Please get back to me if you need any other clarifications... -- *With Thanks & Regards,* *Gousemeera* +91-9842450796

1 0

[libvirt-users] data monitored by "virDomainBlockStats" API not consistent with ones reading from /proc/[pid]/io, and corrugated with /proc/diskstats
by coperd 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Hi, all. While monitoring KVM VMs’ disk utilisation using libvirt API “virDomainBlockStats", I find that the results acquired is not consistent with the value read from /proc/[vm_pid]/io(i only care about “rd_bytes" and “wr_bytes” fields). Since libvirt doesn’t support host level monitoring, i have to calculate the host’s disk utilisation by reading from the /proc/diskstats file. What’s worse, the individual VM’s disk data may be greater that the physical disk’s total value during some sampling time. It is supposed that the VM’s disk “rd_bytes" and “wr_bytes" should never exceed the value of the physical disk respectively, right ? Doesn’t libvirt virDomainBlockStats read disk information from “proc” ? I want to calculate VM’s bandwidth, here is my way: Firstly, we can get total disk utilisation using tools like iostat("iostat -x”, the %util field represent the disk’s utilisation percentage) Then, given a sampling time period, 10s for example, i collected total bytes read/written by each VM by virDomainBlockStats and total bytes of the physical disk by /proc/diskstats, then delta(VM’s rd+wr bytes)/delta(physical disk’s rd+wr bytes) * %util is the VM’s disk utilization percentage during this time period. Since the appearance of the above situation, i can’t get correct result. I have search a lot for this question, but no answers. Any help would be appreciated.

2 4

[libvirt-users] qemu-bridge-helper issue
by abhishek jain 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi I'm able to run the below command using root permission.... sudo kvm -netdev bridge,br=qbr0ccdca50-fa,id=hostnet -M ppce500 Warning: netdev hostnet has no peer Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting However when I'm running the same command without root authority,I'm getting following logs... kvm -netdev bridge,br=qbr0ccdca50-fa,id=hostnet -M ppce500 failed to create tun device: Operation not permitted failed to launch bridge helper kvm: -netdev bridge,br=qbr0ccdca50-fa,id=hostnet: Device 'bridge' could not be initialized I need to run the above command without root authority.Please help regarding this. Thanks Abhishek Jain

2 6

[libvirt-users] [netcf]IFF_RUNNING flag on a bridge device
by Jianwei Hu 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi All, I have one netcf question, please help me to resolve it, thanks. I can set a IFF_RUNNING flag to a bridge device which are no interface device attached. What status of a flag on a bridge device in current kernel?(w/o interface), is this a new change in kernel or other component? In netcf, but there is a patch to fix that flag issue, I can't understand it. fix wrong status of bridge devices The IFF_RUNNING flag is not set on a bridge device if there are no devices attached to it. So bridges without attached devices are reported as inactive. Destroying inactive devices leads to an error and thus the device can't be removed (easily) from the operating system. This patch checks if the device is a bridge and if so ignores the IFF_RUNNING flag. https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/netcf.git/commit/?id=7fa5fa5a1e43e6e2afec… My testing results of IFF_RUNNING on non-device bridge: Version: [root@rhel6 boot]# rpm -q kernel netcf kernel-2.6.32-468.el6.x86_64 netcf-0.2.4-1.el6.x86_64 [root@rhel6 ~]# brctl show br0 bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.000000000000 no [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6A:3B:6F:DF:17:A9 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 up [root@rhel6 ~]# brctl show br0 bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.000000000000 no [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6A:3B:6F:DF:17:A9 inet6 addr: fe80::683b:6fff:fedf:17a9/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:866 (866.0 b)

3 3

[libvirt-users] get domain id or something else that can help determine domain in network ethernet
by Vasiliy Tolstov 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hello. I need to do some specific steps to bring up network for domain. I can't use bridge, nat, and other modes. I prefer ethernet type networking that bring up by script. But in case os script i have one big problem - how can i determine and get some domain data - for example if i get domain id, or mac address i can get other needed config. How can i get this data inside the script? Now i can get only interface name, that can't helps me, because it does not contains domain id... -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru jabber: vase(a)selfip.ru

1 0

Re: [libvirt-users] bridge could not be initialized
by Kashyap Chamarthy 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 05:24:01PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > [Please keep the list in CC for technical questions.] Now adding the list for real. > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 04:45:25PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm trying to run VM from controller node onto compute node and it is > > stucking at spawning state. > > There could be any number of reasons. You need to carefully examine Nova > logs (/var/log/nova/) to see what's going on when you invoke a guest via > Nova. Hard to say without more investigative details. -- /kashyap

1 0

[libvirt-users] Strange IPv6 Issues
by Tim Schumacher 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Hi folks, I'm having the problem that my guests are most of the time not reachable via IPv6 and cant connect to IPv6 hosts, but if I ping the public IPv6-Adress of my bridge, the host can use IPv6 again. This is for incomming and outgoing traffic. I've attached my network xml file. virsh version reports this: Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.4 Using library: libvirt 1.2.4 Using API: QEMU 1.2.4 Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.0.0 Routing on the guest looks like this: $ ip -6 route 2a01:4f8:200:2265:5054:ff:febe:e8e6 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 default via fe80::5054:ff:fe32:e58 dev eth0 metric 1024 Routing on the host looks like this: $ ip -6 route 2a01:4f8:200:2265::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 2a01:4f8:200:2265::/64 dev virbr0 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev vnet0 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev vnet1 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev virbr0 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev vnet2 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev vnet3 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev vnet4 proto kernel metric 256 fe80::/64 dev vnet5 proto kernel metric 256 default via fe80::1 dev eth0 metric 1024 I'm running Debian Jessy on the host and on the guest. That means that they all are running Kernel 3.14. If you have any idea what could be causing this or if you need any information please post. Thanks for your time and help Tim

1 0