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[libvirt-users] guests not shutting down when host shuts down
by Lentes, Bernd 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hi, i have a SLES 11 SP2 64bit host with three guests: - Windows XP 32 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit - SLES 11 SP2 64bit The SLES guest shuts down with the host shutdown. The others not. When i shutdown these two guests with the virt-manager, they shutdown fine. ACPI is activated in virt-manager for both of them. Acpid is running in the Ubuntu Client. When the host shuts down, the two guests get a signal (excerpt from the log of the host:) =========================================================== 2013-07-07 16:39:51.674: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.15 -enable-kvm -m 1025 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name greensql_2 -uuid 2cfbac9c-dbb2-c4bf-4aba-2d18dc49d18e -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/greensql_2.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -drive file=/var/lib/kvm/images/greensql_2/disk0.raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=17,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=20 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:37:92:a9,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 Domain id=3 is tainted: high-privileges qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 24958 2013-07-08 13:58:29.651: starting up ========================================================== I'm a bit astonished about "no-shutdown" in the commandline, but the sles guest also has it in its commandline, so it should not bother. I'm using kvm-0.15.1-0.23.1, libvirt-client-0.9.6-0.23.1, libvirt-0.9.6-0.23.1 and virt-manager-0.9.0-3.19.1 in the host. Thanks for any help. Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institut für Entwicklungsgenetik Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum münchen bernd.lentes(a)helmholtz-muenchen.de phone: +49 89 3187 1241 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg Wer nichts verdient außer Geld verdient nichts außer Geld Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstädter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir´in Bärbel Brumme-Bothe Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Günther Wess Dr. Nikolaus Blum Dr. Alfons Enhsen Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671

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[libvirt-users] Connect issue - libvirt.dylib
by Utpal Das 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hi All, I am trying to use libvirt to connect to hypervisor. I need some help with this. 1. I am using mac os - Mountain Lion. 2. I have installed libvirt using macports. 3. I am able to connect to the vcenter server using virsh tool. 4. However i am not able to connect using libvirt java program. The issue it seems that virt library cannot be found. (Sample output attached). The question is how do i get libvirt.dylib on my mac. Any pointers would be really helpful Re, Utpal Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'virt': Native library (darwin/libvirt.dylib) not found in resource path

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Re: [libvirt-users] Libvirt and Glusterfs
by Vijay Bellur 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

> Hi, > > I'm trying to use qemu native glusterfs integration with libvirt. It's > all working well from the qemu side, but libvirt fails to start a domain > with a gluster drive or attach a drive. > I have exactly the same error as this person: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2013-April/msg00204.html > > I use qemu 1.5.1 with glusterfs 3.4 beta 4 and libvirt 1.0.6. > > [root bbox ~]# virsh start test > error: Failed to start domain test > error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char > device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0) > qemu-system-x86_64: -drive > file=gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw: > Gluster connection failed for server=127.0.0.1 port=0 volume=vol0 > image=test0.img transport=tcp > qemu-system-x86_64: -drive > file=gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw: > could not open disk image gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img: No data > available > Do you observe errors in the logs from gluster bricks that make up vol0? Brick logs are available at /var/log/glusterfs/bricks. Thanks, Vijay

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[libvirt-users] python equiv to perl list_domains()
by Brett Y 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hey, I'm trying to figure out a way to get a list of the running domains on a dom0. I can get the ID's but I'd prefer the names. We have another script written in perl, but I'm trying to get some other functionality in python as well as work on converting it all to python. It looks like perl has a list_domains() that will, according to the libvirt doc, "Return a list of all running domains currently known to the VMM". And this works for us, but I can't get the same thing in python as listAllDomains doesn't work with the version of libvirt running on RHEL 5.9 >From our machine that will be running the script RHEL 5.9 yum list | grep libvirt libvirt.x86_64 0.8.2-29.el5_9.1 libvirt-python.x86_64 0.8.2-29.el5_9.1 from the dom0 RHEL 5.9 yum list | grep xen xen.x86_64 3.0.3-142.el5_9.2 xen-libs.i386 3.0.3-142.el5_9.2 xen-libs.x86_64 3.0.3-142.el5_9.2 yum list | grep libvirt libvirt.i386 0.8.2-29.el5_9.1 installed libvirt.x86_64 0.8.2-29.el5_9.1 installed This is the error if I try to do listAllDomains from a FC18 box >>> conn.listAllDomains(1) libvir: Remote Driver error : unknown procedure: 273 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3695, in listAllDomains raise libvirtError("virConnectListAllDomains() failed", conn=self) libvirt.libvirtError: unknown procedure: 273

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[libvirt-users] Unable to allocate multiple vcpus using virt-install
by Peeyush Gupta 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

I am trying to run a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 which in turn is guest on Fedora 18 host. I am using qemu, kvm and libvirt. I tried to run the following command: virt-install --name dsl --ram 1024 --vcpus 2 --cdrom /home/peeyush/Downloads/some_iso_file.iso --disk path=/path_to_disk My machine here runs with only one vcpu. While when I tried the exact same thing on my Fedora 18 host, it shows two cpus. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] Xen + libvirt: VM name 'Domain-Unnamed' already exists
by Postmaster - Aton Tech 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

I had to restart a paravirt guest and could not start over again. It's a xenstore crash? Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.3 Using library: libvirt 1.0.3 Usando a API: Xen 1.0.3 Hypervisor em execução: Xen 4.2.0 CentOS 6 - x64 Linux eagle 3.9.8-1.el6xen.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jun 29 16:23:39 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I've got this error: ... [07.08.2013 08:21:45 3322] INFO (XendDomainInfo: 169) Recreating domain 13, UUID 0a1ddba3-c1d7-5675-9e5d-1b79d02b5ea2. at / local/domain/13 [07.08.2013 08:21:45 3322] WARNING (XendDomainInfo: 191) / vm/0a1ddba3-c1d7-5675-9e5d-1b79d02b5ea2/uuid / is missing. recreate is confused, trying our best to recover [07.08.2013 08:21:45 3322] ERROR (XendDomain: 447) Unable to recreate domain Traceback (most recent call last): File "/ usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 445, in _refreshTxn new_dom XendDomainInfo.recreate = (dom, False) File "/ usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 204, in recreate vmpath = vmpath) File "/ usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 455, in __ init__ self._checkName (self.info ['name_label']) File "/ usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 3524, in _checkName ("The domain% s"% str (dom.domid)) or "")) VmError: VM name 'Domain-Unnamed' already exists ...

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[libvirt-users] deadlock on connection loosing
by Александр 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

libvirtd will lock if for example kill programm which established connection, only sigkill + restart helps., to reproduce: virConnectPtr libvirt_connection = virConnectOpen("qemu:///system"); if(libvirt_connection == NULL) { std::cout<<"failed to connect to qemu:///system\n"; exit(-1); } exit(0);

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[libvirt-users] Custom Live Migration Query
by Aaron Clausen 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

I'm using KVM, libvirt and DRBD to come up with a custom mirroring and live migration setup. I have two servers, each running KVM and libvirt, and both using DRBD to mirror guests (which are stored on raw DRBD partitions). If I shut down a guest on one, I can easily get it up and running on the other without issue. I have run into some file system corruption trouble if I try to do a live migration. I have a test script just to test out the bare functionality I'm looking for (this script would run on the second KVM server; kvmserv02): #!/bin/sh if virsh -c qemu+ssh://kvmserv01/system list | grep -q " guest "; then echo "Saving state on remote server..." if ! virsh -c qemu+ssh://kvmserv01/system save guest --running ~/guest.save; then echo "Could not save state of guest" exit 1 fi echo "Setting remote drbd node to secondary..." if ! ssh root@kvmserv01 "drbdadm secondary guest"; then echo "Could not change remote host to secondary for guest's DRBD partition" exit 1 fi sleep 5 echo "Setting local drbd node to primary..." if ! drbdadm primary guest; then echo "Could not change this host to primary for guest's DRBD partition" exit 1 fi sleep 5 echo "Restoring state on local server..." if ! virsh restore ~/guest.save --running; then echo "Could not restore guest state" exit 1 fi echo "Deleting state file on local server..." rm -f ~/guest.save else echo 'guest not running on this host' fi # End of script While the state is restored and the guest comes up on the second server, I end up with filesystem corruptions. My first test guest had its file system pretty heavily damaged after a few moves back and forth. What am I missing here? Or is this just simply a really horrible way to do it? -- Aaron Clausen mightymartianca(a)gmail.com

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt and Glusterfs
by Olivier Mauras 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

Hi, I'm trying to use qemu native glusterfs integration with libvirt. It's all working well from the qemu side, but libvirt fails to start a domain with a gluster drive or attach a drive. I have exactly the same error as this person: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2013-April/msg00204.html [1] I use qemu 1.5.1 with glusterfs 3.4 beta 4 and libvirt 1.0.6. [root@bbox ~]# virsh start test error: Failed to start domain test error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0) qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw: Gluster connection failed for server=127.0.0.1 port=0 volume=vol0 image=test0.img transport=tcp qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw: could not open disk image gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img: No data available Using this command to run qemu directly works like a charm: [root@bbox ~]# qemu-system-x86_64 -name test -machine pc-i440fx-1.5,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 8G -smp 1,maxcpus=4 -drive file=/pool/st01/test_1.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -monitor stdio -qmp unix:/tmp/qmp-sock,server,nowait Image has been created using qemu-img. [root@bbox ~]# qemu-img info gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img image: gluster://127.0.0.1/vol0/test0.img file format: raw virtual size: 10G (10737418240 bytes) disk size: 341K Everything is run as root, libvirtd daemon as well. Running libvirtd in debug mode doesn't seem to log more relevant informations than the virsh error. Has anyone been able to use glusterfs disks with livbirt ?? Any help appreciated, -O. Links: ------ [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2013-April/msg00204.html

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[libvirt-users] libvirt & virtio_net - host.freeze@reset.domain
by poma 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Hello people, libvirtd (libvirt) 1.0.5.2 virsh 1.0.5.2 virt-manager 0.10.0 Host: Linux localhost 3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:24:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Guest1: Linux localhost 3.9.8-300.fc19.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:29:30 UTC 2013 i686 (none) Guest2: Linux localhost 3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:24:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Virtual NIC - source & model: macvtap/NAT/bridge & virtio(virtio_net) Host freeze at "virsh reset <domain>" or "virt-manager - Force Reset" Need kernel.sysrq or power reset. poma

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt, virtmanager & Windows 7 installation partition
by Roland Giesler 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

I need to use an existing windows 7 installation in a virtual machine form a libvirt host running Ubuntu 12.10. Windows 7 installs on two partitions. There a 100MB boot partitiona and then the main partition for the installation. If I boot the laptop (which dual boots), I can select Windows 7 and boot it just fine, or alternative Ubuntu. If I select /dev/sda1 in the virtmanager as the source path I can see dis activity, but in the VM window the "booting from hard disk..." text never does away. If I select /dev/sda2 (where the windows installation resides (and which is not marked as bootable), I get a boot failure right away. Here is what /var/log/syslog has: Jul 4 22:11:02 Matt-HP ntfs-3g[8385]: Version 2012.1.15AR.5 external FUSE 29 Jul 4 22:11:02 Matt-HP ntfs-3g[8385]: Mounted /dev/sda2 (Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1) Jul 4 22:11:02 Matt-HP ntfs-3g[8385]: Cmdline options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,uid=1001,gid=1001,dmask=0077,fmask=0177 Jul 4 22:11:02 Matt-HP ntfs-3g[8385]: Mount options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,default_permissions,fsname=/dev/sda2,blkdev,blksize=4096 Jul 4 22:11:02 Matt-HP ntfs-3g[8385]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7 Jul 4 22:11:02 Matt-HP udisksd[2569]: Mounted /dev/sda2 at /media/roland/BE26AE8326AE3C71 on behalf of uid 1001 Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.356259] audit_printk_skb: 48 callbacks suppressed Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.356265] type=1400 audit(1372968751.291:34): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="libvirt-c6a90ff5-9849-2ec5-fc8e-a331b144ceff" pid=8540 comm="apparmor_parser" Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.584252] device vnet0 entered promiscuous mode Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.588663] virbr0: topology change detected, propagating Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.588669] virbr0: port 1(vnet0) entered forwarding state Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.588685] virbr0: port 1(vnet0) entered forwarding state Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP kernel: [15366.588963] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): virbr0: link becomes ready Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP NetworkManager[986]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/vnet0, iface: vnet0) Jul 4 22:12:31 Matt-HP NetworkManager[986]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/vnet0, iface: vnet0): no ifupdown configuration found. Jul 4 22:12:32 Matt-HP NetworkManager[986]: <warn> /sys/devices/virtual/net/vnet0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring... Jul 4 22:12:33 Matt-HP avahi-daemon[935]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vnet0.IPv6 with address fe80::fc54:ff:fe8a:8f93. Jul 4 22:12:33 Matt-HP avahi-daemon[935]: New relevant interface vnet0.IPv6 for mDNS. Jul 4 22:12:33 Matt-HP avahi-daemon[935]: Registering new address record for fe80::fc54:ff:fe8a:8f93 on vnet0.*. Is there anything that I can learn from this log? What could I do to make this work. Dual booting it not an option in this case. regards Roland Giesler +27 (0)72-450-2817 http://www.giesler.za.net Disclaimer: The sender invokes the rule of "exemptus responsibilitus" pertaining to caffeine soluted inductions and/or decantations thereof into tactile communication interfaces and alternative apparatuses with respect to personal computation devices or otherwise implementations of electronic and/or bionic devices. This impartation is intended for the addressed party, unless conditions contrary to the aforementioned exist, in which case it is pertinent. Reduce without further ado to nothingness said impartation; alternatively "refrain from traversing the point of origination, be not enriched by 200 Randus and proceed without delay to enjailment".

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[libvirt-users] access remote libvirtd fail
by yd c 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

I want to manage remote libvirt , have run libvirtd in the dest host : [root@dest_host ~]# ps aux | grep libvirtd root 3293 0.0 0.1 923796 5856 ? Sl 12:59 0:00 libvirtd --daemon then I use the command in source host : 1. [root@source_host ~]# ssh -l root 211.87.***.97 ## login the dest host 2. [root@dest_host ~]# virsh -c qemu+ssh://127.0.0.1/system list --all # query vm status output: Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - ubuntu shut off - vdisk shut off also I use the command in source host 1. [root@source_host ~]# ssh -l root 211.87.***.97 ## login the dest host 2. [root@dest_host ~]# virsh -c qemu+ssh://211.87.***.97/system list --all ### query vm status output: Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - ubuntu shut off - vdisk shut off however , in the source host , execute the command : 1. [root@source_host ~]# virsh -c qemu+ssh://211.87.228.97/system list --all ### query vm status output: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection error: End of file while reading data: : Input/output error I have referred to http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Failed_to_connect_to_the_hypervisor#Other_erro… , http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHSetup and http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup . All of them don't work. how should I do ? Help .

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[libvirt-users] best way to provide disk storage for vm without shared storage system
by Vasiliy Tolstov 04 Jul '13

04 Jul '13

Hello. I'm very happy with libvirt and qemu, that great software! (after some playing i want to create golang bindings to libvirt).. Now i provide ext4 fs for qcow2 images (raid1 with two sata disks). Now i don't need live migration (but may need it in feature). What is the best way to provide disks to vm in case of performance, ability to create backups (i don't want lvm snapshots)? As i search from google more speed can take physical storage - lvm. But may be QED or FVD can provide near lvm performance to me? -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru jabber: vase(a)selfip.ru

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[libvirt-users] F19 and virt-install
by Jay Vyas 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Hi libvirt: -------- My "short" question is - is there a recipe for installing F19 100% automatically with static IPs? I'm using a combination of url based install with a kickstart script pasted to a gist in order to bootstrap the entire thing. It **used** to work (fedora16), but recently stopped. ------- Note : Right now Im not using the os-variant switch because fedora17+ arent listed as OS variant's in my version of virt-install. That in and of itself could be the problem -- any way to update virt-install's os-variant list? ------ With Fedora 16, I found that the url based install failed due to a corrupt rpm. I assume this is just because f16 isn't supported anymore so errors on the web site for it are not being fixed. With Fedora 18/19/... Im finding other types of errors related to missing downloaded components when the bootstrapping virt-install starts. In particular, a 404 (not found) error when fetching " product.img " from the OS url. Details below. <note, any insights into things I may be missing due to ignorance would also be appreciated here> -------- With Fedora 18: I've noticed that libvirt gives me some errors with the new generation of fedora formatted os's source directories. It looks for a file "product.img", which (I beleive) doesnt exist in fedora17+. In particular, it is looking for the "product.img" file, under http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedor… . virt-install --hvm --name f18x86_64a --ram 1024 --file /var/lib/libvirt/images/f18x86_64a.img,size=20 --location http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/re… 20 -x "ks=<url_to_kickstart_file>" ------- Running "virt-install list", it seems that the only fedoras known to virt-install are up to fedora16: fedora16 : Fedora 16 fedora15 : Fedora 15 fedora14 : Fedora 14 fedora13 : Fedora 13 fedora12 : Fedora 12 fedora11 : Fedora 11 fedora10 : Fedora 10 fedora9 : Fedora 9 fedora8 : Fedora 8 fedora7 : Fedora 7 fedora6 : Fedora Core 6 fedora5 : Fedora Core 5 ------- Do I need to update virt-install in order to install F17+ from source? How is the os-variant used? Im assuming maybe os-variant needs to be updated somehow in order for the virt-install command to behave correctly. -- Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com

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[libvirt-users] VM destroy faiing in 1.0.1
by Chandrashekhar Jamadarkhani (cjamadar) 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Hi, Virsh destroy is always failing with below error. [host:~]$ virsh destroy XYZ--2 error: Failed to destroy domain XYZ--2 error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running [host:~]$ virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - XYZ--2 shut off [host:~]$ host:~]$ libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 1.0.1 [host:~]$ host:~]$ virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.1 Using library: libvirt 1.0.1 Using API: QEMU 1.0.1 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.13.0 [host:~]$ same VM was working with older libvirt vrsion: [host:~]$ virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.7 Using library: libvir 0.8.7 Using API: QEMU 0.8.7 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.13.0 [host:~]$ when we upgrade to latest libvirt version:1.0.1, VM destroy is failing. Appreciate your help on this. Thanks, Chandrashekhar

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[libvirt-users] fsck and guest images
by Jamie Fargen 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Hey! I have some RHEL6 hypervisors and the VMs are in raw qemu image files in a local raid array linux raid + lvm + ext3. When a kernel update is installed a reboot is necessary, usually it has been more than 180 days since the last reboot and the file system is fsck'd and this takes 2-3 hours. I am curious to know if there is any documentation that addresses the pro's and con's of fsck'ing the volume containing /var/lib/libvirt/images. Could fsck make a change to the underlying file system that the guest images are stored on, which the guest operating system may not be able to handle when it runs its own file system maintenance, i.e. fsck or chkdsk. Is file system maintenance on the hypervisor volume storing the VM images redundant to the VM's own file system consistancy utilities. Regards, Jamie Ian Fargen

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Re: [libvirt-users] backup procedure using blockcopy
by Thomas Stein 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

> virsh dumpxml --security-info dom > dom.xml > virsh undefine dom Hello. Someone was talking about this (undefining the VM) would not be neccessary anymore when qemu-1.5 has been released. Is that true? > virsh blockcopy dom vda /path/to/backup-vda > polling loop - check periodically until 'virsh blockjob dom vda' > shows 100% completion > virsh suspend dom > virsh save dom /path/to/memory-backup --running This does not work for me. hn ~ # virsh blockjob gentoo-template vda Block Copy: [100 %] hn ~ # virsh save gentoo-template /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template-memory-backup --running error: Failed to save domain gentoo-template to /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template-memory-backup error: Requested operation is not valid: domain has an active block job Obviously i can not save while the blockjob is running. cheers t.

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[libvirt-users] How to set cpuset.cpus dynamically?
by Peeyush Gupta 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Hi all, I have been trying to run a VM on some particular cpu cores. Now the thing is I can set cpuset with virt-install and that will reflect in VM's XML and it will define the affinity. But what about cpuset.cpus? That is inherited directly from the parent. Is there any way to set it when launching the VM? Again, if I have given cpuset during virt-install, why doesn't cpuset.cpus reflect the value instead of inheriting it from parent? Thanks. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] Not able to create two cpusets with exclusive access
by Peeyush Gupta 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi all, I am trying to set up exclusive cpu access for two different VMs. Now, in the hierarchy, the directories of both the VM's are inside /libvirt/qemu/$VM. I have 3 cpus on my machine. I have done echo 0 > cpuset.cpus and echo 1 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive for one VM. Now, I am launching another VM using virt-install and I have given the option --cpuset 1. There is no overlapping of cpus here, but still libvirt is showing error that it's unable to create cgroup for the new VM. Is it possible to have two exclusive cpusets inside a same hierarchy? ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] cpuset attribute not working with virt-install
by Peeyush Gupta 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi all, I have been trying to use cpuset with virt-install. I am using the following command: $ virt-install --virt-type kvm --name Ubuntu13 --ram 1024 --cdrom=/home/peeyush/Downloads/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-i386.iso --cpuset=0,2 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/guest.qcow2,size=10,format=qcow2 Now, according to virt-install man page, my VM's cpu affinity should be set to pcpu 0 and 2 . But when I did virsh vcpuinfo $VM, it shows that the affinity is to all cpus. I checked the xml file of my VM and it has the cpuset attribute, but still my VM is running on all cpus. ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] nova-compute, libvirt and authentication
by Maciej Gałkiewicz 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hello I have a question about live migration when libvirt requires sasl authentication. I have managed to configure remote access for user nova with sasl enabled (credentials stored in auth.conf - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/12706/) It looks like live migration do not use these credentials at all. What is more it thinks that sasl is not not configured: 2013-07-01 09:49:09.317+0000: 17997: error : virNetSASLSessionClientStart:484 : authentication failed: Failed to start SASL negotiation: -4 (SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found) 2013-07-01 09:49:09.317+0000: 17997: error : doPeer2PeerMigrate:2527 : operation failed: Failed to connect to remote libvirt URI qemu+tcp://n12c1/system I execute migration like this: nova live-migration c923af69-4cb3-46dd-8bd2-871812d7d223 n12c1 Nova.conf: live_migration_flag=VIR_MIGRATE_UNDEFINE_SOURCE,VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER,VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE Could you please let me know whether nova/libvirt support p2p live migration with sasl and if so point out what might be misconfigured? Disabling sasl solves all my problems but I have to configure some authentication. I would really appreciate your help. regards -- Maciej Gałkiewicz Shelly Cloud Sp. z o. o., Sysadmin http://shellycloud.com/, macias(a)shellycloud.com KRS: 0000440358 REGON: 101504426

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[libvirt-users] Same credentials stored in auth.conf for many servers
by Maciej Gałkiewicz 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Hello According to client authentication in documentation ( http://libvirt.org/auth.html) it is possible to store credentials in auth.conf file and make appropriate mappings to servers: [auth-$SERVICE-$HOSTNAME] credentials=$CREDENTIALS Is it possible to use the same credentials for many servers without explicitly describing it? For example replacing: [auth-libvirt-myhost1] credentials=mycred [auth-libvirt-myhost2] credentials=mycred with: [auth-libvirt-myhost*] credentials=mycred or [auth-libvirt-any] credentials=mycred regards -- Maciej Gałkiewicz Shelly Cloud Sp. z o. o., Sysadmin http://shellycloud.com/, macias(a)shellycloud.com KRS: 0000440358 REGON: 101504426

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[libvirt-users] VMware distributed port groups..Supported?
by Morgan McLean 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Hi, I installed libvirt on CentOS 6 today, only to find I could create the volume, create the VM, but could not assign the interface to a distributed port group. I then downloaded the latest source, compiled, and it looks to be the same...unless its under a command I'm not recognizing? Does anybody have the great tip that is going to set me free? I hope? Everything we use is on the vSwitches, as we run 60-80 VLAN's to each cluster member. -- Thanks, Morgan

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[libvirt-users] add support to vde2
by Rodolfo Andres 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

what about add support to vde2??, in vde2-svn you can find a patch but is outdated, try to apply to current version but lots of rej. sadly im not a dev so cant help.. Regards. --

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[libvirt-users] managedsave results in unexpected shutdown from inside Windows
by Nicolas Sebrecht 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi, I'm facing a strange behaviour of windows 2008 guests. After a virsh managedsave and start, the windows guest open a "unexpected shutdown" window. The window looks like this one (randomly taken from the web): http://toastytech.com/guis/srv2k3login2.jpg This happens in all virtualized windows in a hypervisor. Has anyone else experienced such issue? Thanks, -- Nicolas Sebrecht

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