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[libvirt-users] start lxc container on fedora 19
by Aarti Sawant 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

hello, i am new to lxc, i have created a lxc container on fedora 19 i created a container rootfs of fedora 19 by using yum --installroot=/containers/test1 --releasever=19 install openssh test1.xml file for container test1 <domain type="lxc"> <name>test1</name> <vcpu placement="static">1</vcpu> <cputune> <shares>1024</shares> <period>1000000</period> </cputune> <memtune> <hard_limit unit="M">1024</hard_limit> <soft_limit unit="M">128</soft_limit> <min_guarantee unit="M">64</min_guarantee> </memtune> <blkiotune> <weight>800</weight> </blkiotune> <memory unit="KiB">102400</memory> <os> <type>exe</type> <init>/bin/bash</init> </os> <clock offset="utc"/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/"/> <target dir="/"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/var"/> <target dir="/var"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/dev"/> <target dir="/dev"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/root"/> <target dir="/root"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/home"/> <target dir="/home"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/opt"/> <target dir="/opt"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/media"/> <target dir="/media"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/bin"/> <target dir="/bin"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/lib64"/> <target dir="/lib64"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/etc"/> <target dir="/etc"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/lib"/> <target dir="/lib"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/run"/> <target dir="/run"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/srv"/> <target dir="/srv"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/sys"/> <target dir="/sys"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/tmp"/> <target dir="/tmp"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/boot"/> <target dir="/boot"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/usr"/> <target dir="/usr"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/mnt"/> <target dir="/mnt"/> </filesystem> <filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/containers/test1/sbin"/> <target dir="/sbin"/> </filesystem> <interface type="bridge"> <source bridge="br0"/> </interface> <console port="0" type="pty"/> </devices> </domain> the host network files: /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-br0 DEVICE="br0" TYPE="Bridge" USERCTL="no" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ONBOOT="yes" NM_CONTROLLED="no" /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-p2p1 DEVICE="p2p1" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" BRIDGE="br0" NM_CONTROLLED="no" ONBOOT="yes" TYPE="Ethernet" the fstab of host # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Fri Jul 26 05:26:08 2013 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # UUID=b49ce5dc-afb7-4c8e-9487-c1ed101d9166 / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=3dfa07fd-a06b-4a1a-a3fd-4e2f5e0d0e6a /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=3d1cb255-721a-48d2-b2e9-86f52b5fbec6 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup defaults 0 0 when i try to start the container using virsh i get error virsh --connect lxc:// virsh # define /containers/test1/test1.xml Domain test1 defined from /containers/test1/test1.xml virsh # start test1 error: Failed to start domain test1 error: internal error guest failed to start: PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux container=lxc-libvirt container_uuid=05a7239d-f610-4ae9-ad47-4bf47f2f9b54 LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=05a7239d-f610-4ae9-ad47-4bf47f2f9b54 LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=test1 /bin/lxc_defaultinit.sh Unable to send container continue message: Broken pipe has anyone face the same problem with fedora 19. can anyone guide me.. Thanks, Aarti Sawant

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[libvirt-users] Segfault with ruby-libvirt 0.4.0 and libvirt 1.1.1
by Bertrand Paquet 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi, I have upgraded my libvirt version, and I have a crash using ruby-libvirt (0.4.0). The same code ruby worked well before upgrade. ruby(92500,0x107092000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fdc03ea7658: pointer being freed was not allocated *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug Abort trap: 6 I'm under Mac Os, but my colleague is under Linux and have the same problem. Any idea ? Any information to how diagnosis the problem ? Regards, Bertrand

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[libvirt-users] Quick questions on virtio-serial transport
by Hari Pyla 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hi, I am using the virtio-serial transport for communication between the host and the guest. I've created the channel using virt-install: virt-install --name=centos --import --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/centos.img,size=15 \ --ram 2048 \ --vcpus=2 \ --arch=x86_64 --os-type linux --network=bridge:br1 --graphics vnc \ --noautoconsole \ --channel pty,target_type=virtio,name=guest1 This correctly creates a file "/dev/virtio-ports/guest1" in the guest for the guest to communicate with the host. So the guest side of things are good. Now on the host side, I see a two files being created in /dev/pts directory. $ ls -alt /dev/pts crw--w---- 1 qemu tty 136, 1 Jul 31 15:49 1 crw--w---- 1 qemu tty 136, 2 Jul 31 15:49 2 So here are my questions: i) I was wondering if there is anyway of knowing which of these files correspond to the other end of the channel without having to manually echoing data to each of these files and see which of the data shows up on the guest side. ii) I was also wondering if there is anyway of identifying the host side endpoint i.e., /dev/pts/FILE of the channel programatically iii) Better yet can the /dev/pts/FILE be explicitly passed as an argument while creating a channel in the guest so the host knows that it is supposed to use the /dev/pts/FILE if it wants to talk to the guest. I read a prior post on this mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-May/msg00964.html It mentions that from the host side one could dump the xml of the guest and identify the "source path" of the channel, something in the lines of <channel type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/12'/> <target type='virtio' name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/> <alias name='channel0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='2'/> </channel> but I do not find the source path in the XML description of the guest I've created. This is what I see in the XML file. <channel type='pty'> <target type='virtio' name='guest1'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> I was wondering if I am missing something. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, --Hari

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[libvirt-users] filesystem accessmode='passthrough'
by Yury Goltsov 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hello. I am trying to 'passthrough' the part of host filesystem to kvm guest. libvirt xml: <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/var/guests/mail-var'/> <target dir='mail-var'/> </filesystem> kvm is started from root. After mounting in guest mount -t 9p mail-var /mnt -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L or mount -t 9p www-var /mnt -o trans=virtio if I try to make file or directory in guest, I have problem with permissions: ruser@www:~# ls -ld /mnt/ruser/ drwxr-xr-x 2 ruser www-data 4096 May 28 13:13 /mnt/ruser/ ruser@www:~# ls -ld /mnt/tmp/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 09:01 /mnt/tmp/ root@www:~# touch /mnt/tmp/file1 OK: root@www:~# touch /mnt/ruser/file2 touch: cannot touch `/mnt/ruser/file2': Permission denied root@www:~# su ruser ruser@www:~$ touch /mnt/ruser/file3 touch: cannot touch `/mnt/ruser/file3': Permission denied ruser@www:~$ touch /mnt/tmp/file4 touch: setting times of `/mnt/tmp/file4': No such file or directory I have read in documentation, that in "passthrough" security model, files are stored using the same credentials as they are created on the guest (like NFS3). Suggest me, please, what is it: I do something wrong, or I must update qemu-kvm or/and libvirt to recent version, or I need to find other solution for sharing host filesystem? Thanks. Yury in host: root@host:~# libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.12 root@host:~# kvm --version QEMU emulator version 1.1.2 (qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg-6, Debian), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard root@host:~# uname -a Linux host 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@host:~$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"

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[libvirt-users] Fail to destroy lxc container: internal error Some container PIDs refused to die
by hzguanqiang 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hey guys, When I destroy a lxc container, It reported an error with details as following: root@debian:~$ vir destroy 901eef81-06b2-4252-aeef-53b87c402585 error: Failed to destroy domain 901eef81-06b2-4252-aeef-53b87c402585 error: internal error Some container PIDs refused to die root@debian:~$ vir version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.1.0 Using library: libvirt 1.1.0 Using API: LXC 1.1.0 Running hypervisor: LXC 3.2.46 What's the problem? How could I destroy the lxc just like this? Thanks. -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-31

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Re: [libvirt-users] Installing libvirt
by Peeyush Gupta 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi, I am not sure what exactly "libvirt-related packages" mean. But I didn't have anything else on my system. I mean, I launch a VM (with Ubuntu 12.04) and the first thing I installed is libvirt only. Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] lxc-enter-namespace error: security model cannot be entered.
by hzguanqiang 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi Guys, I started a lxc container with libvit in ubuntu Operating system, and succeed using lxc-enter-namespace to enter the namespaces and security context of the container. But when I do the same thing in debian OS, It reported an error, with details as following: root@debian:/etc# vir list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 4424 instance-00000007 running 25913 instance-00000008 running root@debian:/etc# vir dumpxml 4424 <domain type='lxc' id='4424'> <name>instance-00000007</name> <uuid>f1ce5360-bb5e-4cfc-b5ef-d05f8db52618</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>3</vcpu> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> <cmdline>console=tty0 console=ttyS0</cmdline> </os> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/f1ce5360-bb5e-4cfc-b5ef-d05f8db52618/rootfs'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='fa:16:3e:3a:c6:11'/> <source bridge='br100'/> <target dev='veth0'/> <filterref filter='nova-instance-instance-00000007-fa163e3ac611'/> </interface> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1'> <source path='/dev/pts/1'/> <target type='lxc' port='0'/> <alias name='console0'/> </console> </devices> <seclabel type='none'/> </domain> root@debian:/etc# vir lxc-enter-namespace 4424 /bin/sh/ libvirt: error : argument unsupported: Security model cannot be entered Is there anything that needs to be configured in debian OS for using the 'lxc-enter-namespace' interface? -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-30

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[libvirt-users] ANNOUNCE: Oz 0.11.0 release
by Chris Lalancette 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

All, I'm pleased to announce release 0.11.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user. Release 0.11.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.10.0 and 0.11.0 are: * Add support for installing Ubuntu 13.04 * Add the ability to get user-specific ICICLE information * Add the ability to generate ICICLE safely, by using a disk snapshot * Add the ability to include extra files and directories on the installation ISO * Add the ability to install to alternate file types, like qcow2, etc. * Add support for installing Ubuntu 5.04/5.10 * Add support for installing Fedora 19 * Add support for installing Debian 7 * Add support for Windows 2012 and 8 * Add support for getting files over http for the commands/files section of the TDL * Add support for setting a custom MAC address to guests during installation * Add support for user specified disk and NIC model * Add support for OpenSUSE 12.3 * Add support for URL based installs for Ubuntu A tarball and zipfile of this release is available on the Github releases page: https://github.com/clalancette/oz/releases . Packages for Fedora-18 and Fedora-19 have been built in Koji and will eventually make their way to stable. Instructions on how to get and use Oz are available at http://github.com/clalancette/oz/wiki . If you have questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact me at clalancette at gmail.com, or open up an issue on the github page: http://github.com/clalancette/oz/issues . This was one of the most active Oz releases ever, because of the feedback and patches from the community. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release through bug reports, patches, and suggestions for improvement. Chris Lalancette

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt and Glusterfs pool
by Pierre-Gilles Mialon 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Hi, I use the QEMU-GlusterFS native integration (no Fuse mount) with the libvirt. Now I create a volume issuing : # qemu-img create gluster://localhost/gv1/test.img 5G Then using the libvirt I declare the following lines in my domain.xml : <disk type='network' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' cache='none'/> <source protocol='gluster' name='gv1/test.img'> <host name='127.0.0.1' transport='tcp' /> </source> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> It works really well. But the better way, would be to only use the libvirt. Is it planned to support a native glusterFS pool type ? That would be great to be able to define a pool like this: <pool type='glusterfs'> <name>myname</name> <source protocol='gluster' volume='gv0'> <host name='127.0.0.1'/> </source> <target> <permissions> <mode>0700</mode> <owner>-1</owner> <group>-1</group> </permissions> </target> </pool> And then create new images using vol-create. Regards, -- Pierre-Gilles Mialon

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[libvirt-users] pinVcpu not working
by Peeyush Gupta 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

Hi all, I am working with libvirt and I am trying to set cpu affinity. Now I can always use virsh vcpupin <domain_name> <vcpu> <pcpu> to pin vcpus to pcpus. I want to do it using Python API. Now, there is function pinVcpu which is supposed to do that. But this is not working. For example I gave dom.pinVcpu(0,1) but still my vcpu affinity is for all the pcpus. The function returns 0 (success). Any idea what am I doing wrong? Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] dual head with virt-manager, kvm, debian
by Thomas Koch 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi, I try to run a debian testing guest inside a debian stable host and would like to use both physical displays to show virtual displays of my guest. Is this possible? I tried setting the heads attribute in the domain xml as described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885806#c1 I've tried virt-managers internal viewer, virt-viewer and spicy without any indication of a second display. Regards, Thomas Koch

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[libvirt-users] How to trigger a script in a guest after resume? (aka guest system clock incorrect after host reboot with suspended guest)
by Nils Toedtmann 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Hi Is there a way i can trigger a script within a libvirt guest immediately after resume? E.g. i don't see any log message that indicates to a guest that it had been paused and was just woken up. The problem that i am trying to solve is that when i reboot the host (pausing all guests), the guests' system clocks are a few minutes late after resume. The guests RTC (current_clocksource = kvm-clock) are correct though, so a "hwclock --hctosys" fixed the offset. I only need to find out how to call hwclock right after resume! Right now i call hwclock every few minutes, but i'd like to shorten the window of wrong time. OTOH i'd like to avoid installing ntpd into all guests, given their perfectly fine RTCs. On the host i am using CentOS 6.4 with all patches and the packaged libvirt-0.10.2 and qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2. All guests are Ubuntu 12.04. /nils.

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[libvirt-users] API to set cpuset.cpu_exclusive flag
by Peeyush Gupta 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi all, I have been trying to set cpu_exclusive flag. Now I can do it using "echo". I want to know is there any other way (an API) to set this flag? Is it possible to set this flag using API? Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] How to monitor a lxc container started by libvirt_lxc from inside ?
by hzguanqiang 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Guys, When I created a lxc container by libvirt, I logged into the lxc container and noticed that info under /proc/ dir did not match the lxc container resource. Is the /proc dir in lxc container just showing the same thing as the lxc host? If I want to monitor the realtime resource usage inside the lxc container, What should I do? -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-23

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[libvirt-users] Is there any document about the feauture and usage of lxc supported by libvirt?
by hzguanqiang 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Guys, Recently, I'm doing some tests on openstack with lxc virtualization supported by libvirt. I need some recently new documents about libvirt lxc. Anything related is just ok. Thanks! -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-23

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[libvirt-users] Resize errors with virt-resize/vgchange
by Alex 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi, I have an fc18 system and trying to resize an LVM partition with an ext4 filesystem and receiving the following message from virt-resize: # virt-resize -d --expand /dev/sda1 --LV-expand /dev/mapper/prop-home prop-1.img prop-expand.img command line: virt-resize -d --expand /dev/sda1 --LV-expand /dev/mapper/prop-home prop-1.img prop-expand.img Examining prop-1.img ... libguestfs: trace: add_drive "prop-1.img" "readonly:true" libguestfs: trace: add_drive = 0 libguestfs: trace: add_drive "prop-expand.img" "readonly:false" libguestfs: trace: add_drive = 0 libguestfs: trace: launch libguestfs: trace: get_tmpdir libguestfs: trace: get_tmpdir = "/tmp" libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp" libguestfs: trace: disk_format "/var/lib/libvirt/images/prop-expand.img" libguestfs: trace: disk_format = "raw" libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp" [...] 100% --:-- libguestfs: trace: launch = 0 libguestfs: trace: lvm_set_filter "/dev/sda" libguestfs: trace: lvm_set_filter = -1 (error) Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("lvm_set_filter: vgchange: Couldn't find device with uuid zouQ8X-qxqJ-mp6p-pzg3-mi2i-K9YM-A763Kc. Refusing activation of partial LV home. Use --partial to override. Refusing activation of partial LV swap. Use --partial to override. R libguestfs: trace: close libguestfs: trace: internal_autosync libguestfs: trace: internal_autosync = 0 I don't understand this error message. I also see that vgchange doesn't even have a 'partial' option, so I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. Here is the filesystem layout for this system: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 7.9G 3.9M 7.9G 1% /run tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/prop-root 15G 7.4G 6.3G 55% / tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /tmp /dev/mapper/prop-boot 477M 95M 358M 21% /boot /dev/mapper/prop-home 222G 212G 9.9G 96% /home The image is the 222G /home partition only. The other partitions are on another image. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt-lxc and systemd question
by Matt Hicks 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Warning - I'm fairly new to libvirt, lxc and systemd so there is a good chance I'm doing something terribly wrong here. However, instead of continuing to struggle, I figured I would mail the list for some advice. What I'm trying to accomplish is a libvirt-lxc, systemd-based container running on my system (Fedora 19). I've read that sharing the underlying OS filesystem with the containers doesn't work, so I've installed a minimal Fedora 19 install in /srv/mycontainer. Everything seems to work okay but what I'm struggling with is how to setup the initial accounts. I've tried to attach to the container using 'nsenter' (entering all the namespaces) but it doesn't appear that the bind mounts are in place. For example, I see the /etc/passwd for my host OS, not the container. Is there a better way to setup the initial accounts on the container? Here is what I have installed: $ rpm -qa | grep lxc libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-lxc-1.0.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 $ rpm -qa | grep systemd systemd-libs-204-9.fc19.x86_64 systemd-python-204-9.fc19.x86_64 systemd-sysv-204-9.fc19.x86_64 systemd-libs-204-9.fc19.i686 systemd-204-9.fc19.x86_64 Here is the scenario I'm trying to go through: $ export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=lxc:/// $ getenforce Enforcing $ sudo yum -y --releasever=19 --nogpg --installroot=/srv/mycontainer --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=fedora install systemd passwd yum fedora-release vim-minimal ... lots of output $ ls /srv/mycontainer/ bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var $ cat test2.xml <domain type='lxc'> <name>test2</name> <memory>102400</memory> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>exe</type> <init>/bin/systemd</init> </os> <devices> <console type='pty'/> <filesystem type='mount'> <source dir='/srv/mycontainer'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> </devices> </domain> $ virsh define test2.xml Domain test2 defined from test2.xml $ virsh start test2 Domain test2 started # Attach to container to set account passwords $ sudo nsenter -m -u -i -n -p -t `pgrep -f test2` [sudo] password for mhicks: [root@localhost /]# diff -q /srv/mycontainer/etc/passwd /etc/passwd Files /srv/mycontainer/etc/passwd and /etc/passwd differ Any ideas? -Matt

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[libvirt-users] Clipboard
by Dean Hunter 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

I am unable to cut and paste between a Fedora 19 host and a Fedora 19 guest. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem that I have not been able to find?

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[libvirt-users] Any API in Java Binding for retrieving the actual Memory and CPU usage of a domain?
by V Plus 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

I tried some like 'domain.getInfo().memory;', but it is not the actual usage..

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[libvirt-users] CfP 8th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '13)
by VHPC 12 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 8th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '13) as part of SC 13, Denver, Colorado | sponsored by ACM sighpc ================================================================= Date: November 22, 2013 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: September 23, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructures independently of their applications. Conjointly, virtualization is becoming a driving technology for a manifold of industry grade IT services. The cloud concept includes the notion of a separation between resource owners and users, adding services such as hosted application frameworks and queueing. Utilizing the same infrastructure, clouds carry significant potential for use in cpu-intensive or data-intensive computing. The ability of clouds to provide for requests and releases of vast computing resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the application community in order to foster discussion, collaboration and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections. Lightning talks are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Management, deployment and monitoring of VM-based environments - VM-cloud performance monitoring - VM cloud topology management and optimization - Operating systems virtualization supportpptimization - VM-based cloud performance modelling - Network virtualization for VM-environments - Data virtualization - Cloudbursting - Evolved grid architectures including such based on network virtualization - Workload characterization for VM-based environments - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Cloud frameworks and APIs - GPU Virtualization architectures and APIs - Checkpointing/migration of large compute jobs - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Heterogeneous virtualized environments - Paravirtualized I/O - Services in cloud HPC - Research and education use cases - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations - Energy-aware virtualization - Performance and cost modelling - QoS and and service levels - Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs - VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Cluster provisioning in the cloud Important Dates: Rolling Paper registration September 23, 2013 - Full paper submission October 21, 2013 - Acceptance notification November 8, 2013 - Camera-ready version due Lightning Talks: August 9, 2013 - Deadline for lightning talk abstracts September 2, 2013 - Lightning talk notification November 22, 2013 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece PROGRAM COMMITTEE Costas Bekas, IBM, Switzerland Jakob Blomer, CERN Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Simon Crosby, Bromium, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Ireland Casimer DeCusatis, IBM, USA William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA Krishna Kant, George Mason University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSION-PUBLICATION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 8 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. The format must be according to the ACM SIG style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/sigguide-v2.2sp Style template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Abstract Submission Link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14791 LIGHTNING TALKS Lightning Talks are non-paper track synoptical in nature that are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop will be held as part of SC’13, Denver, Colorado. SC 2013: http://sc13.supercomputing.org/

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[libvirt-users] Changing CPU cache size of guest
by Peter Matulis 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

Hi everybody, Using libvirt 1.0.0 how does one change the L2 cache size of the virtual CPU? I can change the CPU model but the cache size never changes: <cpu mode='host-passthrough'/> <model>Nehalem</model> OR <cpu match='exact' mode='custom'/> <model>Nehalem</model> Is there a qemu requirement? -- peter matulis

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[libvirt-users] How to handle IP-based Networkfilters
by Matthias Babisch 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hello People. We are currently exploring the possibility to use libvirt and kvm/quemu for production purposes. The general stability seems good enough and the performance is great. There are some issues we do not understand here yet. For security reasons we are considering the extensive use of Networkfilters for virtual machines. But we found some simple scheme for a test-server not to be working as we expected. It might well be that we misunderstand something here, so I am hoping someone could point out to us, where either we or perhaps libvirt failed in this example. We are using an ubuntu 13.04 Server running the provided "1.0.2-0ubuntu11.13.04.2" libvirt-bin using amd64-architecture. The type of VM should not be relevant for this problem. Its a linux-based xmpp-Server which uses ucarp. I reduced the used filter-file just so i could prove my point. It contains: <filter name='linux-based-xmpp-server' chain='root'> <uuid>fb539996-eed5-11e2-8bd3-00e081e0f040</uuid> <rule action='accept' direction='in' priority='999'> <tcp state='NEW' dstportstart='5222'/> </rule> <rule action='accept' direction='in' priority='999'> <tcp state='NEW' dstportstart='5269'/> </rule> <rule action='accept' direction='inout' priority='999'> <ip dstipaddr='224.0.0.18' proto='112'/> </rule> <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='999'> <all/> </rule> </filter> Practically it should allow TCP-traffic on Ports 5222,5269 incoming and incoming and outgoing traffic for ip protocol 112 to destination ip 224.0.0.18 (VRRP used by ucarp). All other traffic should be rejected. There is only one VM on the system and the VM has this ruleset attached. Note: It is clear to me that this example won't work as areal world example, because packets of the state ESTABLISHED,RELATED are not allowed through the firewall. I removed these rules because they where in a filter-file i referenced. After reloading the libvirt-bin i do get part of the rules in would expect in iptables: Chain FI-vnet0 (1 references) target prot opt source destination REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable Chain FO-vnet0 (1 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:5222 state NEW ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:5269 state NEW REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable Chain HI-vnet0 (1 references) target prot opt source destination REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable What is missing is any reference to the rule for ucarp (protocol 112). Please note though that removing the protocol and just allowing any ip traffic to 224.0.0.18 as a rule, does not appear in the iptables either. Am i misunderstanding anything here? Is there a bug in libvirt? How do you interpret this? Do you know of any other way to achieve the simple ruleset intended? I am hoping to get more information from this list. If you are replying, please cc me (matthias.babisch(a)bmiag.de) because i receive this list as a digest. Sincerely Matthias Babisch IT/Organisation *b+m Informatik AG* Rotenhofer Weg 20 24109 Melsdorf T +49 4340/404-1444 F +49 4340/404-111 M +49 160/8866426 matthias.babisch(a)bmiag.de Aktuelle Informationen unter www.bmiag.de <%5C%22http://www.bmiag.de%5C%22> Die b+m Informatik AG ist ein Unternehmen der Allgeier Gruppe <%5C%22http://www.allgeier-holding.de%5C%22> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Dr. Marcus Goedsche Vorstand: Dipl-Ing. Frank Mielke Amtsgericht Kiel, HRB 5526

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[libvirt-users] Hotplug of disk devices in LXC failed with libvirt of version 1.0.2
by hzguanqiang 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hi Daniel, I noticed that the patch "Add support for hotplug/unplug of disk devices in LXC" you wrote had been merged into libvirt of version 1.0.2. But when I used this function, it report an error with details as following: ubuntu@lxc:~$ vir attach-device instance-0000002c disk.xml --config error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml error: Unable to create device /proc/18377/root/dev/sdb: Permission denied ubuntu@lxc:~$ vir attach-device instance-0000002c disk.xml error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml error: Unable to create device /proc/18377/root/dev/sdb: Permission denied ubuntu@lxc:~$ cat disk.xml <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver type='raw' cache='none'/> <source dev='/dev/dm-0'/> <target dev='sdb' bus='scsi'/> </disk> ubuntu@lxc:~$ ll /dev/dm-0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 0 Jul 15 03:39 /dev/dm-0 ubuntu@lxc:~$ dpkg -l|grep libvirt ii libvirt-bin 1.0.2-0ubuntu11 programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt0 1.0.2-0ubuntu11 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems ii python-libvirt 1.0.2-0ubuntu11 libvirt Python bindings And in this lxc vm, through dmesg the following information can be seen: ubuntu@lxc2:~$ dmesg [433287.227288] type=1400 audit(1373874475.861:55): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" info="Failed name lookup" error=-13 parent=1 profile="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" name="dev/sdb" pid=1541 comm="libvirtd" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=0 ouid=0 What's the real problem and How can I fix it. I really appreciate your help. Thanks! -------------- Best regards! GuanQiang 2013-07-15

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt "tc ingress qdisc" automatically removed by ovs vlan tag setting, how?
by Qiu Yu 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

With outbound QoS setting in Libvirt XML, libvirt will add a tc ingress qdisc for traffic shaping. Then if you set VLAN tag to that tap device, this qdisc will automatically gone by no reason. Could anyone shed some lights where should I look into? I'm really confused and got no clue here. Thanks! Steps to reproduce -- # virsh start instance-name # virsh dumpxml instance-name ... <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='fa:16:3e:b9:8f:2a'/> <source bridge='br-int'/> <virtualport type='openvswitch'> <parameters interfaceid='0a2b02ca-4824-4bda-baa9-05fff7a3146d'/> </virtualport> <target dev='tap0a2b02ca-48'/> <model type='virtio'/> <bandwidth> <outbound average='256' peak='512' burst='512'/> </bandwidth> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> ... # tc qdisc ls dev tap0a2b02ca-48 qdisc htb 1: root refcnt 2 r2q 10 default 1 direct_packets_stat 0 qdisc sfq 2: parent 1:1 limit 127p quantum 1514b perturb 10sec qdisc ingress ffff: parent ffff:fff1 ---------------- (<-- already showed up) # ovs-vsctl set port tap0a2b02ca-48 tag=1 # tc qdisc ls dev tap0a2b02ca-48 qdisc htb 1: root refcnt 2 r2q 10 default 1 direct_packets_stat 0 qdisc sfq 2: parent 1:1 limit 127p quantum 1514b perturb 10sec (<-- ingress qdisc is gone) After that, if add this qdisc manually and re-set vlan tag, problem no longer exists. But it can always be reproduced after "virsh destroy / start" cycle. # tc qdisc add dev tap0a2b02ca-48 handle ffff: ingress # ovs-vsctl clear port tap0a2b02ca-48 tag # ovs-vsctl set port tap0a2b02ca-48 tag=1 # tc qdisc ls dev tap0a2b02ca-48 qdisc htb 1: root refcnt 2 r2q 10 default 1 direct_packets_stat 0 qdisc sfq 2: parent 1:1 limit 127p quantum 1514b perturb 10sec qdisc ingress ffff: parent ffff:fff1 ---------------- (<-- still exists) Other information -- # ovs-vsctl --version ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 1.9.2 Compiled May 27 2013 14:19:16 # uname -r 2.6.32-358.111.1.openstack.el6.x86_64 # virsh --version (This is a version I built from libvirt upstream origin/v0.9.11-stable branch) 0.9.11.9 -- Qiu Yu

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[libvirt-users] Cluster discovery using Libvert
by Narendra 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hello, I'm beginner user of Libvert. I want to find out the nodes (ESX servers) in cluster. I'm using following way but unable to get results. I'm not sure whether I'm using correct command or not. Please help me to achieve the expected result. ========================================================= Virsh # connect esx://192.168.10.1/DatacenterC2/Cluster2?no_verify=1 Enter username for 192.168.10.1 [administrator]: Enter administrator's password for 192.168.10.1: error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor error: invalid argument: Path '/DatacenterC2/Cluster2' does not specify a host system ========================================================= Regards, Narendra

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