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[libvirt-users] Some question about code of xenapi
by netcas 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Hello, guys! I am doing some experiment to control XenServer with libvirt, when I define a domain, it always fails and gives the following message: error: Failed to define domain from /root/new.xml error: internal error: Couldn't get VM information from XML so I diving into the souce and found it always fails at network creating, and the code in libvirt-1.3.5\src\xenapi\xenapi_utils.c, line 437 is following: xen_vif_create(session, &vif, vif_record); if (!vif) { xen_vif_free(vif); xen_vif_record_free(vif_record); xen_network_record_free(net_rec); xen_network_set_free(net_set); return 0; } xen_vif_record_free(vif_record); xen_network_record_free(net_rec); ... ... return -1; should this if be if (vif) {...}, if the vif is null, why need to free it?

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[libvirt-users] Live Disk Backup
by Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Dear All, using CentOS 7.2.1511, and libvirt from ovirt repositories (currently 1.2.17-13.el7_2.5, but without otherwise using ovirt) I am regularly backing up my VMs which are on qcow2 files. In general, I am trying to follow http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit A typical backup script would be #!/bin/bash dt=`date +%y%m%d` if virsh dominfo dockers10a | grep -q -E '^Status: *laufend|^State: *running' then virsh snapshot-create-as --domain dockers10a dockers10a --diskspec vda,file=/home/dockers10asnap.qcow2 --disk-only --no-metadata --atomic cp /kvm01/dockers10a.qcow2 /backup/dockers10a$dt.qcow2 virsh blockcommit dockers10a vda --active --verbose --pivot virsh snapshot-delete dockers10a dockers10a rm /home/dockers10asnap.qcow2 fi I am fully aware that the third line from the end "virsh snapshot-delete ..." will fail under regular circumstances. It is just there as a precaution to delete unnecessary snapshots should a previous backup have failed. For some time, I am noticing that from time to time backup fails in the way that the xml definition file of the VM backed up keeps the temporary file (in the example above /home/dockers10asnap.qcow2) as the source file. Then, at least upon rebooting the host, it will be unable to restart the VM. In addition, lots of other troubles can arise (following backups failing, storage issues). I am using a similar setup on four hosts. It seems that the better the resources of the host are, the lower the likelihood of the problem occurring - but that cannot be an acceptable state. Can someone please point me to how to avoid this? Regards, Michael Schefczyk

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[libvirt-users] Network without forward mode
by Vincent Bernat 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Hey! Another question. The documentation about networks say: ╭─────┤ http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#elementsConnect ├───── │Inclusion of the forward element indicates that the virtual network is │to be connected to the physical LAN.Since 0.3.0. The mode attribute │determines the method of forwarding. If there is no forward element, the │network will be isolated from any other network (unless a guest │connected to that network is acting as a router, of course). ╰───── That's exactly what I want: just a vnet interface, no bridge, no routing, no forwarding. However, if I create a network with just that: #v+ <network> <name>public</name> <uuid>4629ba54-9e33-4a1f-9e45-78a1c8faaddc</uuid> </network> #v- libvirt (2.0.0) adds a bridge stanza: #v+ <network> <name>public</name> <uuid>4629ba54-9e33-4a1f-9e45-78a1c8faaddc</uuid> <bridge name='virbr1' stp='on' delay='0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:15:45:da'/> </network> #v- The bridge is created. If I spawn a VM attached to this network, it gets added to the bridge. Any way to have a network where absolutely no setup is done? Thanks! -- Use the "telephone test" for readability. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)

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[libvirt-users] Routing isolated network
by Erwin Straver 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

I want to create a network like this: Internet -- physical router -- host (network 192.168.178.x) -- virtual machine dmz -- eth0 (connected to pyshical router) -- eth1 (connect to isolated network 10.0.0.x) -- virtual machine www - eth0 (connect to isolated network 10.0.0.x) [image: network design] <http://i.stack.imgur.com/QoCz9.png> I have a virtual host which is conntected to my physical router with eth0 and ip4 address 192.168.178.100. I create a virtual machine dmz which connects 'direct' to my router via my physical device eth0 on the virtual host: <network connections='1'> <name>direct</name> <uuid>379d4687-445e-4bc6-8354-b555c7f18b15</uuid> <forward dev='eth0' mode='bridge'> <interface dev='eth0' connections='1'/> </forward> </network> On my virtual machine i create a second nic eth1 which is connected on a virtual network virbr-local: <network> <name>local</name> <uuid>d31b2e0d-810b-4ba0-8ac4-02bc53746142</uuid> <bridge name='virbr-local' stp='on' delay='0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:92:06:5c'/> <domain name='local.box'/> <dns> <forwarder addr='192.168.178.1'/> </dns> <ip address='10.0.0.1' netmask='255.0.0.0'> <dhcp> <range start='10.0.0.100' end='10.0.0.255'/> <host mac='52:54:00:51:31:86' ip='10.0.0.30'/> </dhcp> </ip> <route address='10.0.0.0' prefix='8' gateway='10.0.0.30'/> </network> Now I want to create a second virtual machine which connects to the internet through the virtual machine dmz on the virbr-local subnet. Is there a way to accomplish this kind of setup? My routing table on the virtual host looks likes this: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default fritz.box 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 virbr-local 10.0.0.0 10.0.0.30 255.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 virbr-local 192.168.178.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 But when I want to ping an address from the www virtual machine I get a unreachable network message. I setup a DNAT om the virtual machine dmz. But looking witch tcpdump on eht1 there's no traffic.I appreciate some help to setup the network. I clearly missing something. Get a signature like this: Click here! <http://ws-promos.appspot.com/r?rdata=eyJydXJsIjogImh0dHA6Ly93d3cud2lzZXN0YW…>

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Re: [libvirt-users] How can I run command in containers on the host?
by Daniel P. Berrange 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 05:19:22PM +0800, John Y. wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I forgot to tell you that I using mips64 fedora. Has any effect on this > case? > 2016-07-26 09:05:59.634+0000: 16406: debug : virDomainLxcEnterNamespace:131 > : dom=0xaaad4067c0, (VM: name=fedora2, > uuid=42b97e4d-54dc-41b4-b009-2321a1477a9a), nfdlist=0, fdlist=0xaaad4007c0, > noldfdlist=(nil), oldfdlist=(nil), flags=0 > libvirt: error : Expected at least one file descriptor > error: internal error: Child process (16406) unexpected exit status 125 This is shows nfdlist=0, whicih means that virDomainLxcOpenNamespace didn't provide any file descriptors. This in turn seems to suggest that /proc/$PID/ns didn't contain any files. Is this perhaps a misconfiguration of the mips kernel. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|

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[libvirt-users] How can I run command in containers on the host?
by John Y. 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

How can I run command in containers on the host? Just like the lxc command lxc-attach. I run : virsh -c lxc:/// lxc-enter-namespace fedora2 --noseclabel /bin/ls but get error: libvirt: error : Expected at least one file descriptor error: internal error: Child process (14930) unexpected exit status 125 Here is my libvirt.xml <domain type='lxc'> <name>fedora2</name> <memory>190000</memory> <vcpu>2</vcpu> <cputune> <shares>1000</shares> </cputune> <os> <features> <privnet/> <capabilities policy='allow'> </capabilities> </features> <type>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <devices> <filesystem type="mount"> <source dir="/home/lxc-fedora"></source> <target dir="/"></target> </filesystem> <console type='pty'/> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:e8:96:88'/> <source bridge='virbr0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <guest dev='eth0'/> </interface> </devices> </domain> version of libvirt: Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.9 Using library: libvirt 1.2.9 Using API: QEMU 1.2.9 Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.1.2 Is there any mistake? Thanks, John

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[libvirt-users] Blockpull behavior when interrupted
by Andrew Martin 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

Hello, I use snapshot-create-as followed by blockpull when creating external snapshots of VMs. This works well, however I am curious about the behavior of blockpull after an unexpected shutdown (or SIGKILL). If a blockpull is in progress and an unexpected power loss occurs, will the VM continue to reference the backing file for the parts of it that have not yet been copied? Or, will will the disk image no longer be usable? Thanks, Andrew

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[libvirt-users] libvirtd terminates running instances after monitor's socket inode id is changed
by Gavin Nicholson 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

We accidentally moved /var/lib/libvirt/qemu to another directory which is on a different disk partition, then we moved it back; however, that caused changing the inode ids of the files inside /var/lib/libvirt/qemu including the socket files ( <instance>.monitor ) of the running VMs. The problem we are facing is that when libvirtd is restarted it terminates the running VMs with "error : qemuMonitorOpenUnix:315 : monitor socket did not show up.: Connection refused” We are trying to find a workaround so that when libvirtd is restarted it doesn’t stop the running VMs. We are running libvirt 0.9.13 Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Gavin

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Re: [libvirt-users] [Qemu-devel] VFIO PCIe Extended Capabilities
by Spenser Gilliland 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi Marcel, >> Indeed, if a device is attached to a PCI bus it makes no sense to advertise the extended configuration space. >> Can you please share the QEMU command line? Maybe is possible to make the device's bus PCIe in QEMU? Changing the following should make the tweak I proposed irrelevant. - device vfio-pci,host=03:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x4 + device vfio-pci,host=03:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x4 Here's the full command for reference. 2016-07-19 18:42:22.110+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.17, package: 13.el7 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2015-11-20-16:24:10, worker1.bsys.centos.org) qemu version: 2.3.0 (qemu-kvm-ev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.10.9) LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name instance-00000019 -S -machine pc-q35-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu Haswell-noTSX,+abm,+pdpe1gb,+rdrand,+f16c,+osxsave,+dca,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme -m 8192 -realtime mlock=off -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1 -smbios type=1,manufacturer=Fedora Project,product=OpenStack Nova,version=13.1.0-1.el7,serial=a1068a93-24d1-4da2-8903-f9b8307fb0d8,uuid=8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1,family=Virtual Machine -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-instance-00000019/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device i82801b11-bridge,id=pci.1,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1e -device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,id=pci.2,bus=pci.1,addr=0x1 -drive file=/var/lib/nova/instances/8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1/disk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.2,addr=0x2,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/var/lib/nova/instances/8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1/disk.swap,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.2,addr=0x3,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -netdev tap,fd=29,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=30 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=fa:16:3e:9c:cf:60,bus=pci.2,addr=0x1 -chardev file,id=charserial0,path=/var/lib/nova/instances/8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1/console.log -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev pty,id=charserial1 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1 -vnc 0.0.0.0:0 -k en-us -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1 -device vfio-pci,host=03:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x4 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x5 -msg timestamp=on char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial1) It seems very reasonable to change the qemu command line. However, I'm using OpenStack Nova to launch the instance, which then uses libvirt, which finally uses qemu. So, the issues is very buried. > I think that any instance of a q35 machine where the assigned device is > placed on the conventional PCI bridge will create this scenario. It's > the default for attaching devices to a libvirt managed q35 VM AFAIK. > Yes, I discussed with Laine from libvirt the possibility to assign > devices to a PCIe port instead. Yes, I see this as the issue as well. The VM is being created by libvirt with the following xml. The problem is that the device is auto-assigned to the pci-bridge by default. <domain type="kvm"> <uuid>8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1</uuid> <name>instance-00000019</name> <memory>8388608</memory> <vcpu>8</vcpu> ... <snip> ... <devices> ... <snip> ... <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address bus="0x03" domain="0x0000" function="0x0" slot="0x00"/> </source> </hostdev> ... <snip> ... </devices> </domain> If I do a dumpxml I get the following <domain type="kvm"> <uuid>8b6865eb-2118-430e-a7e0-2989696576b1</uuid> <name>instance-00000019</name> <memory>8388608</memory> <vcpu>8</vcpu> ... <snip> ... <devices> ... <snip> ... <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'> <alias name='pcie.0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge'> <alias name='pci.1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1e' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pci-bridge'> <alias name='pci.2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> ... <snip> ... <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> </devices> </domain> If I manually change the domain as follows <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev0'/> - <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> I can reimport and the device and it attaches successfully to the pcie-root hub. The problem is I need to either manually specify this in nova or update the behavior of libvirt to auto assign pcie devices to pcie busses. This would involve reading pci configuration space to check if the device is a pcie devices. Then attaching to the pcie-root, if possible. >>> >>> In fact, I've tried to fix this multiple times: >>> >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg05384.html >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg02422.html >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03259.html >>> >>> Yet the patch remains unapplied :( >> >> I thought is it in already. Maybe Michael can add it as part of the hard freeze. >> And if the patch will be applied, the tweak above wouldn't help, right Alex? > > The tweak Spenser suggested above should be unnecessary with my proposed > patch applied. > I think I finally understand this. The bus is not pcie -> we return > from vfio_add_ext_cap without "breaking" the extended capabilities > chain and the bare metal SR-IOV capability will be visible to guest. > With your patch the PCI bridge will "interfere" and mask the extended > configuration space completely. > Only now searching for that patch did I notice Michael's > comment hidden at the bottom of his reply, which I assume is why it > never got applied: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8057411/ > > I just saw it too! It seems Michael wants to cache this info > in device instead of re-calculating it every time. >> Anyway, the current behavior is clearly a bug, so QEMU hard freeze >> should be irrelevant. If anyone wants to take over the patch, feel >> free. Thanks, > I suppose I can handle it, but sadly not for 2.7. > If Spencer has some time now he can help by testing it and reviewing it quickly :) I'd be happy to help; but that patch really just more permanently breaks my current workaround ;-) . 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[libvirt-users] Fwd: Please help see issue: conn.storageVolLookupByPath('/var/lib/xen/images/xen-pv-rhel5.9-x64-nolvm.img')
by Junqin Zhou 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi all, Please see the attachment for vdsm.log details, thanks. Best Regards, juzhou. ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Junqin Zhou" <juzhou(a)redhat.com> > To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Cc: "Shahar Havivi" <shavivi(a)redhat.com>, "Tingting Zheng" <tzheng(a)redhat.com>, "Min Zhan" <mzhan(a)redhat.com>, "Ming > Xie" <mxie(a)redhat.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 6:24:15 PM > Subject: Please help see issue: conn.storageVolLookupByPath('/var/lib/xen/images/xen-pv-rhel5.9-x64-nolvm.img') > > Hi guys, > While testing v2v integration to rhevm4.0, I met following error when import > virtual machine from xen server. > > I.rhevm4.0 prompt error message > Failed to communicate with the external provider, see log for additional > details > > Steps： > 1. In order to import VMs password-less SSH access has to be enabled between > VDSM host and the Xen host. The following steps needed to be done at the > VDSM host: > Refer to > https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/blob/master/source/develop/release-mana… > > 2. Then login rhevm 4.0 and try to import virtual machine from Xen. > Virtual Machines-->Import-->Fill items on 'Import Virtual Machine(s)' window > with: > Data Center:xx > Source: Xen(via RHEL) > URI: xen+ssh://root@xxxxxx > Proxy Host: xxxxxx > > Result: > Step2 failed to load xen server's guests with error: > Failed to communicate with the external provider, see log for additional > details > > Part of vdsm.log > ... > jsonrpc.Executor/3::WARNING::2016-07-13 > 08:18:40,588::v2v::959::root::(_add_disks) Disk {'alias': > '/var/lib/xen/images/xen-pv-rhel5.9-x64-nolvm.img', 'type': 'disk', 'dev': > 'xvda'} has unsupported format: <built-in function format> > jsonrpc.Executor/3::ERROR::2016-07-13 > 08:18:41,504::v2v::923::root::(_add_disk_info) Error getting disk size > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/v2v.py", line 920, in > _add_disk_info > vol = conn.storageVolLookupByPath(disk['alias']) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4596, in > storageVolLookupByPath > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virStorageVolLookupByPath() failed', > conn=self) > libvirtError: Storage volume not found: no storage vol with matching path > > Please help me check how to resolve this issue, thanks. > > > Best Regards, > juzhou. > > >

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