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[libvirt-users] general protection errors
by Alex 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, Some time ago I sent a message about some general protection errors, and didn't receive a response. I hoped I could post again and that someone might have some ideas. I really don't think it is a hardware problem producing these errors, but am otherwise out of ideas. I'm having a problem with a fedora15 x86_64 host with a fedora15 x86_64 guest on a Xeon E3-1240 with 8GB RAM on the guest. This is the only guest. The server is configured as a mail server, using spamassassin, postfix, amavisd, and clamav. Have there been significant changes in the current version from 0.8.8 that is shipped with fedora15? It was previously running without error on different hardware. I migrated the disks to a more powerful server due to load. It's a new server, and has been stress tested with memtest86, mprime, and passmark's Linux test for more than 24 hours without producing a problem. However, when I run the kvm vm, I receive a bunch of errors similar to these on the guest: [169245.360511] clamscan[27448] general protection ip:7f125f2e6ffb sp:7fff117566f0 error:0 in libclamav.so.6.1.11[7f125f229000+9ce000] [29016.445470] clamd[1110] general protection ip:30df2c3981 sp:7fffa08f4fe0 error:0 in libclamav.so.6.1 .11[30df200000+9ce000] There are other applications, such as pyzor, that produce similar errors. Is this something that could be a result of some software configuration error I've made? Is there something I can do to debug this further? There also aren't any errors on the host indicating a kernel problem or hardware issue. Is it possible this is a known error? I was previously trying to improve IO performance by using 'block' instead of 'file' for the device, but had to abandon that idea because it didn't work and I had to concentrate on this problem. Could disabling the cache (cache=none) cause this? I've included some info below, in hopes someone could guide me towards a solution. # rpm -qva|egrep 'kvm|libvirt|kernel|qemu' libvirt-python-0.8.8-7.fc15.x86_64 kernel-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 qemu-img-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64 gpxe-roms-qemu-1.0.1-4.fc15.noarch kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 qemu-system-x86-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64 libvirt-0.8.8-7.fc15.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.8.8-7.fc15.x86_64 qemu-common-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64 kernel-headers-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64 I've included my domain config below in hopes it helps. <domain type='kvm'> <name>mail02</name> <uuid>ec4f3cf5-2f27-fb3e-72f6-3fa3176b13b6</uuid> <memory>6291456</memory> <currentMemory>6291456</currentMemory> <vcpu>4</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.14'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/mail02.img'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/> </disk> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:67:2c:4c'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> Thanks, Alex

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[libvirt-users] auto-set /cgroup/*/libvirt/qemu/<vm name>/ directory permissions on creation
by Ben Clay 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Is there a way to automatically set the permissions of cgroups directories created by libvirt when a VM is launched? Although it looks like I can set permissions on top-level /cgroup directories via cgconfig.conf, the cgconfig.conf manpage says "Permissions are related only to enclosing control group and are not inherited by subgroups.". From this, I believe that when libvirt creates VMs, the new directories under /cgroup/*/libvirt/qemu/<vm name>/ will not receive the cgconfig.conf permissions. Where in the libvirt config can I set this? We need users other than root to write to specific subsystems. I can ask on the libcg mailing list as well, but I thought I'd try here first since libvirt is dynamically creating / destroying these groups. Thanks. Ben Clay <mailto:rbclay@ncsu.edu> rbclay(a)ncsu.edu

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[libvirt-users] CentOS5: libvirtd filling up /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save
by Ben Clay 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

How can I disable libvirtd from attempting to suspend VMs on poweroff / reboot? It is slowly filling up our /var/ filesystem with save points at /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/<vm name>.save, even though I'm not initiating any suspend or restore functionality. I checked /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf and /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf but could not find anything. This is CentOS 5 with libvirt 0.8.2-22 and kvm-83-239. Thanks. Ben Clay <mailto:rbclay@ncsu.edu> rbclay(a)ncsu.edu

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[libvirt-users] Network filesystem pool mount options
by Joe Auty 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hello, What are the default NFS mount options used by libvirt's network filesystem pool storage management, and can these be modified? -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org <http://www.netmusician.org> joe(a)netmusician.org <mailto:joe@netmusician.org>

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[libvirt-users] Error on the site
by Alexander Biryukov 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Good afternoon. I apologize for my English. Error on page: http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html To be more precise in the line "<target *def*='hdc' bus='ide'/>" -- Biryukov Alexander ICQ: 467093457 Skype: reddog_gad

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[libvirt-users] Hard limit for the cpu usage of a VM
by sethuraman subbiah 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi , I was previously using xen and currently moved to KVM. I am using libvirt to manage these VMs. In den's credit scheduler , I had the ability to set a cap on the cpu usage for a VM. But I was not able to find a similar substitute in KVM. I find that we can use cgroups to provide shares for VM but that will be more like weight based and it doesn't set a hard cap for that VM. I tried using cpulimit but I find it inaccurate and we can give values only between 0-100. Thus, I think it cannot support multi core environments. Can any one suggest a method to set a hard limit on a VM's cpu usage? Thank you. - Regards, Sethuraman Subbiah Graduate Student - NC state University M.S in Computer Science

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[libvirt-users] [ruby-libvirt] who's using it
by Christian Parpart 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hey all, I would like to know who / what project is using this binding. So I could learn the API a bit easier than reading through the rough rdoc-based API documentation, which is not really helpful to me, as I do not know the C API yet either. my intention is, to some day, be able to create a Rails web app for managing libvirt hosts (mainly OpenVZ/vserver/LXC and possibly QEMU). Thanks in advance, Christian Parpart.

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[libvirt-users] VM with transient disk
by Till Mossakowski 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

I want to use transient disks with libvirt. According to [1], the transient disk feature has been supported since 0.9.5. Hence, I have installed libvirt 0.9.6 for Ubuntu Lucid from [2] and used the following disk configuration: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/home/till/test.img'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <transient/> </disk> However, I get: unsupported configuration: transient disks not supported yet Best, Till [1] http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html [2] http://ppa.launchpad.net/agent-8131/xen-custom/ubuntu/

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[libvirt-users] How to collect the VM bandwidth usage utilization
by vmnode guy 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi Guy, I am trying to figure out how & where can i get the bandwidth usage utilization statistic info for all the VM, so in the end i will be able to use it for metering purpose.. Anyone got any idea ? Regards, Peter

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[libvirt-users] live migration error without shared storage
by Luengffy XUE 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

command: virsh migrate --live --copy-storage-all vm qemu+ssh://destinationHost/system error : unexpected failure PS log file in the jpg

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