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[libvirt-users] Converting LVM to qcow2
by ort_libvirt＠bergersen.no 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi! I need to convert a KVM virtual machine from LVM to a qcow2 image, and wonder if this is the best way to do it (*1): [$] qemu-img convert -O qcow2 /dev/vg_name/lv_name/ /var/lib/libvirt/images/image_name.qcow2 If this is the best way to do this, will this keep the information on: /dev/vg_name/lv_name/ untouched? Thanks, and please point me towards another mailing list if this it not right place to ask questions related to qemu-img! Best regards, Richard Taubo *1) Via: http://nocoast-tech.blogspot.com/2010/05/converting-kvm-guests-from-lvm-to-…

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[libvirt-users] Domain XML Multicast Tunnel
by Richard M 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hello I found under networking in the Domain XML 'Multcast tunnel'. My question is does anyone know what is the intended use of multicast tunnel networking?What are the potential pitfalls of using such a configuration other than what's highlighted in the domain xml. eg: can it suffer from throughput issues? Can the tunnel be accessed from outside Libvirt? I'm struggling to find any information about it. If anyone has any information about it, Or where I can obtain such information it would be appreciated. Regards Richard

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[libvirt-users] Fail to build upstream libvirt on rhel8
by Han Han 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Hello, A compilation failure happened when I tried building libvirt latest code on rhel8 Version: gcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64 libvirt v5.9.0-352-g5e939cea89 Steps: 1. Clone libvirt source code 2. Create build dir, and run autogen.sh # cd libvirt # mkdir build && cd build # ../autogen.sh --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-runstatedir=/run --with-qemu --without-openvz --without-lxc --without-vbox --without-libxl --with-sasl --with-polkit --with-libvirtd --without-phyp --with-esx --without-hyperv --without-vmware --without-vz --without-bhyve --with-remote-default-mode=legacy --with-interface --with-network --with-storage-fs --with-storage-lvm --with-storage-iscsi --with-storage-iscsi-direct --with-storage-scsi --with-storage-disk --with-storage-mpath --with-storage-rbd --without-storage-sheepdog --with-storage-gluster --without-storage-zfs --without-storage-vstorage --with-numactl --with-numad --with-capng --without-fuse --with-netcf --with-selinux --with-selinux-mount=/sys/fs/selinux --without-apparmor --without-hal --with-udev --with-yajl --with-sanlock --with-libpcap --with-macvtap --with-audit --with-dtrace --with-driver-modules --with-firewalld --with-firewalld-zone --without-wireshark-dissector --without-pm-utils --with-nss-plugin --with-qemu-user=qemu --with-qemu-group=qemu --with-tls-priority=@LIBVIRT,SYSTEM --enable-werror --enable-expensive-tests --with-init-script=systemd --without-login-shell # make Then error appears: make[2]: Entering directory '/root/libvirt/build/include/libvirt' make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/libvirt/build/include/libvirt' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory '/root/libvirt/build/src' GEN access/org.libvirt.api.policy /bin/sh: access/org.libvirt.api.policy: No such file or directory GEN access/viraccessapicheck.h /bin/sh: access/viraccessapicheck.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [Makefile:15067: access/viraccessapicheck.h] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/libvirt/build/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:1957: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/libvirt/build' make: *** [Makefile:1850: all] Error 2 -- Best regards, ----------------------------------- Han Han Quality Engineer Redhat. Email: hhan(a)redhat.com Phone: +861065339333

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[libvirt-users] Getting "Unable to set XATTR" on libvirt 5.6.0 inside containers
by Roman Mohr 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Hi, We are updating KubeVirt to libvirt 5.6.0. Before that we were running on 5.0.0. It seems like something regarding setting xattrs on files has changed, because with libvirt 5.6.0 we are getting the following error: ``` Unable to set XATTR trusted.libvirt.security.dac on /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-410-default_vmi-fedora: Operation not permitted') ``` The main problem is for us is that container filesystems don't necessarily support setting xattrs. My questions would therfore be: * Does anyone know what has changed, and why? * Can it be disabled? Thanks a lot and Best Regards, Roman

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[libvirt-users] virsh snapshot-create --print-xml seems to ignore most arguments
by Timo Schneider 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hi, I am wondering if the --print-xml option is working correctly. The output for two snapshot-create commands are the same, even though the first one includes additional options (no-metadata and atomic). I want to use the generated XML to create a snapshot via a perl script, and Sys::Virt only seems to support snapshots using a XML description of the arguments. timos@cerberus:~$ sudo virsh snapshot-create-as --domain web guest- state1 --diskspec hda,file=overlay1.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic --no- metadata --print-xml <domainsnapshot> <name>guest-state1</name> <disks> <disk name='hda'> <source file='overlay1.qcow2'/> </disk> </disks> </domainsnapshot> timos@cerberus:~$ sudo virsh snapshot-create-as --domain web guest- state1 --diskspec hda,file=overlay1.qcow2 --disk-only --print-xml <domainsnapshot> <name>guest-state1</name> <disks> <disk name='hda'> <source file='overlay1.qcow2'/> </disk> </disks> </domainsnapshot> My libvirt version is: Compiled against library: libvirt 5.6.0 Using library: libvirt 5.6.0 Using API: QEMU 5.6.0 Running hypervisor: QEMU 4.1.0 Regards, Timo

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[libvirt-users] FYI mail problems for libvirt lists
by Daniel P. Berrangé 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

It has come to our attention that many, possibly even all, people with non-redhat.com email addresses are unable to send mail to most libvirt mailing lists, receiving bounce messages saying the address doesn't exist eg Final-Recipient: rfc822; libvirt-users(a)redhat.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Invalid Recipient - https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1369#550 [boadZMN8PrGodBBK6pzKWg.us309] In my testing, libvir-list(a)redhat.com is the only list that is currently accepting incoming mail from non-redhat.com addresses. I see bounces from libvirt-users(a)redhat.com, libvirt-ci(a)redhat.com, libvirt-announce(a)redhat.com and libvirt-security(a)redhat.com, as well as from the undocumented alias libvirt-list(a)redhat.com We believe outgoing mail delivery is still working normally in all cases. The problems appear to be caused by some changes that Red Hat administrators made to the email infrastructure recently. We have a severity 1 ticket open for this issue and are taking all possible steps to escalate it & get it resolved at the soonest opportunity. In the mean time if any users need assistance with libvirt questions, please feel free to ignore our normal guidance and use the main development list libvir-list(a)redhat.com for questions, as this appears to still be working. Alternatively you can use IRC #virt on irc.oftc.net If you need to report any security issues with libvirt, please try the libvirt-security(a)redhat.com list first, but if you get a bounce then email myself directly. Please accept our apologies for the disruption this is causing to the libvirt mailing lists. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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[libvirt-users] Descriptions of mdev types?
by Milan Zamazal 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hi, when retrieving an mdev device info using `virsh nodedev-dumpxml' or the libvirt API, something like the following is returned: <capability type='mdev_types'> <type id='nvidia-210'> <name>GRID M60-2B4</name> <deviceAPI>vfio-pci</deviceAPI> <availableInstances>4</availableInstances> </type> ... </capability> Besides device_api, available_instances and (optional) `name', `description' of the given mdev type may be optionally provided in /sys/.../mdev_supported_types/... for each of the available mdev types. I can see in the sources that libvirt doesn't try to retrieve it -- is it intentionally or is it just an omission? If the latter, could it be added, please? It looks like a useful piece of information for the user to get an idea what the given mdev type means. Thanks, Milan

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[libvirt-users] libvirt_lxc memory limit, emulator process part of the cgroup?
by Maximilian Philipps 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

hi, I am currently investigating a bug with libvirt lxc. Whenever I do a systemctl daemon-reload on the host, my container loses his memory limit and then reports having access to 8 exabyte of memory. I have tracked the issue down to two parts: memory.limit_in_bytes jumps from the correct value to 9223372036854771712. libvirt lxc appears to set the memory limit in transient way without writing a config for systemd. I can't prevent memory.limit_in_bytes changing by setting the correct value through systemctl set-property --runtime <scope> MemoryLimit= tasks in the memory cgroup gets cleaned up. After starting the container the cgroup contains 3 pid. The pid of the libvirt_lxc process, the pid of the init process in the container and third unknown pid that doesn't exists in /proc/. After a demon-reload only the init process remains in the cgroup and unless I move the libvirt_lxc process into the cgroup the memory limit isn't enforced. I have also noticed that when starting libvirtd it complains about GetMachineByPID failing for the libvirt_lxc process. This leaves me with one big question, the the emulator process libvirt_lxc supposed to be part of the container's cgroup or not? The leader of the container is the init process in the container. I am unsure on how the additional emulator process is supposed to be registered. Using: Debian Stretch, libvirt 5.0.0-4, systemd 241-7~deb10u1 and hybrid cgroups. Regards, Maximilian Philipps

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[libvirt-users] Understanding the use of virt-install from the CLI (Linux)
by jonetsu 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hello, I've created several VMs using virt-manager and am using them. This time around though, I'd like to use the CLI approach. The problem resides in defining a storage space. This is using virt-install 1.5.1 on Xubuntu 18.04. For the occasion I created a new directory to store images. So I specify this new directory: virt-install \ --name=arch01 \ --disk path=/Share2/KVMImages/arch01.qcow2 \ --disk size=10 \ [ ... ] The above will not work as it reports: 'must be a file or a device, not a directory' So I specify a file: [ ... ] --disk path=/Share2/KVMImages/arch01.qcow2 \ --disk size=10 \ [ ... ] And it reports: 'Size must be specified for non existent volume 'arch01.qcow2'' But the size is already specified as one of the options. This is where I'm puzzled about the process. What is going on ?

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[libvirt-users] Where can I find the slirp-helper?
by Han Han 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

For the libvirt 5.8 release, I find that there is a new comment in qemu.conf: #slirp_helper = "/usr/bin/slirp-helper" It indicates that there is a slirp-helper to help setup slirp network. But I cannot find it even after I built the latest qemu(v4.1.0-1378-g98b2e3c9ab) and libvirt (v5.9.0-rc1-2-g73f91d659b). Could you please tell me where I can find that helper program? Thanks -- Best regards, ----------------------------------- Han Han Quality Engineer Redhat. Email: hhan(a)redhat.com Phone: +861065339333

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