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[libvirt-users] Libvirt problem with KVM from source
by Ekrem Sonmemis 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Dear List, I have installed a custom KVM on my Ubuntu 12.04 which I sometimes use. I would like to use it with libvirt, so I used apt-get to install libvirt, virt-viewer and virtinst. I can start virsh after installation and it says it is version 0.9.8, but once I get to trying to install a VM with virtinst, I get the error message: ERROR Host does not support any virtualisation options If I install KVM using apt-get the exact same instruction works, so perhaps the problems occurs with the custom KVM due to the configuration of the KVM install but I'm afraid I can't figure it out. I would really like to make it work with the custom KVM rather than the packaged version. I install the custom KVM at the prefix /usr/local/kvm, but I don't change anything else. Could this have anything to do with it? Thanks for reading. Regards, Ekrem

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[libvirt-users] Managing eths in vm from HV
by john fisher 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

KVM Ubuntu 12.04 libvirt 1.0 Related to my post of a day ago, but I can't reply to it... I want to control the order ( and therefore the connection) of eth devices in the vm. If I know what the MAC addresses are on my HV, as seen in virsh domiflist or in dumpxml, and I then re-write the /etc/udev/rules/70 file in the VM, I can get the eth devices ordered in a predictable way. Is there a virsh way to create a VM from a generic xml file, allowing libvirt to add randomized MAC addresses, and then edit the /etc/udev/rules/70 file in the VM, to associate the eths with the desired MAC? Better yet, is there a way to simply control the assigning of the eths in the generic xml file used to create the VM? So far I can make a wrapper script to virsh create xml, read the addresses back, and then start the VM independently, write to it, and then return control to virsh. That seems clumsy. Virsh ought to be able to control the eths in the VM without resorting to OS-dependent kludges. -- John Fisher

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[libvirt-users] Java API Migration error
by Rustam Singh 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Hi Guys, I am trying to perform live migration of a qemu+kvm guest using the libvirt java api binding. Unfortunately I keep getting this error Exception in thread "main" org.libvirt.LibvirtException: internal error unable to add domain task 1598 to cgroup: No space left on device the number after "domain task" keeps changing on every run, the problem is migration fails with that error, but it migrates just fine if I try to do it using virsh. I'll be delighted if somebody could help me out. Regards.

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Re: [libvirt-users] Virsh cmd virsh -c qemu:///system fail with ssh connect a non-root user.
by yupzhang 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

On 12/07/2012 12:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/06/2012 02:53 AM, yupzhang wrote: >> HI Eric, >> >> I have a question about remote access and usermode: >> >> 1.Install a host with graphic,and then configure libvirt environment. >> >> 2.Login with non-root user.Then run: >> $ virsh -c qemu:///system >> Authenticate dialogue will pop up,input the root password,then >> successfully connect qemu:///system. >> >> 3.On another host,connect the host in step 1 with ssh like this: >> #ssh -X yuping(a)10.66.*.* >> input yuping's password.Then ssh to remote yuping user successfully. >> >> 4.Run command: >> $ virsh -c qemu:///system >> error: authentication failed: Authorization requires authentication but >> no agent is available. >> >> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor >> >> Is this a bug? I'm not sure about this,so confirm with you. > Questions like this are better asked to the libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > list, where there are more people available to answer the question. > This particular email nearly got lost in the black hole of a hard disk > failure on my end last week. > > Does the failure also happen when you use 'ssh -A -X' and/or 'ssh -Y' > instead of plain 'ssh -X'? I suspect that this is an expected > limitation of how polkit authentication works, where a local user can be > trusted to provide the credentials needed, but where an ssh session is > not a local user; but as I am not very familiar with the libvirt code > that interacts with polkit, I recommend that you ask the list. > Hi Eric, Thanks for your reply,I have added libvirt-users@ to cc list. I have tried 'ssh -A -X' and 'ssh -Y',still failed: $ virsh -c qemu:///system error: authentication failed: Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available. error: failed to connect to the hypervisor Can anyone help me? Thanks, Yuping >> In my opinion,this command should connect qemu:///system successfully >> with input root password,even with ssh connect to non-root user,the >> behaviour should keep same.Am I right? > Authentication is a tricky matter - there is a difference between a > local user and a user connected through ssh, at least in the eyes of > polkit authentication, and I don't know if the behavior you observe is > intentional or a bug. >

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[libvirt-users] libvirt migrate error
by zhijun liu 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

hi,all when I try to migrate `vm0` from (192.168.1.102) to another host(192.168.1.200), the name `ubuntu1204` is 192.168.1.200's hostname. command is : `sudo virsh migrate --live vm0 qemu+tcp://192.168.1.200/system` the error is : unable to connect to server at 'ubuntu1204:49157': Connection refused. however,when I try to virsh connect to 192.168.1.200 by tcp is no problem. I dont know what the port 49157?how to fix it? version:libvirt:0.9.8 system:ubuntu1204 thanks in advance for any reply.

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[libvirt-users] Xen 4.2 with libvirt 1.0.0
by Michael Beham 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi, has anyone a running environment with Xen 4.2 and libvirt 1.0.0? I do not get libvirt compiled under the use of Xen 4.2! I always get some errors during compilation of libvirt caused by libxl. But i read some posts that libvirt 1.0.0 should work with Xen 4.2 Cheers, mike

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[libvirt-users] NWFilter and IPv6
by Guido Winkelmann 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi, Libvirt's nwfilter ships a number of useful filter scripts by default, but none to handle IPv6 traffic. Is there a particular reason for that, or is that just because nobody has got around to that yet? One interesting thing about dealing with IPv6 traffic is that hosts often have several auto-configured addresses, usually at least one auto-configured link- local address under fe80::/64 and one auto-configured one from router- advertisements. For writing filter rules, it would be nice to have some function/notation to calculate those auto-configured addresses for the user, so we can write something like this: <rule action='return' direction='out' priority='500'> <ipv6 srcipaddr='ipv6_autoconf($IPV6_PREFIX[@1], $IPV6_MASK[@1], $MAC)'/> </rule> <rule action='return' direction='out' priority='500'> <ipv6 srcipaddr='$IPV6'/> </rule> <rule action='drop' direction='out' priority='1000'/> or maybe more like this: <ipv6 mode='autoconf' field='srcipaddr' prefix='$IPV6_PREFIX[@1]' netmask='$IPV6_MASK[@1]' mac='$MAC)'/> Guido

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[libvirt-users] Incorrect currentMemory for qemu-1.2+
by Andrey Korolyov 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi, Since this message(https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2012-October/msg00054… qemu folks have released one minor version in the 1.2 branch and shiny new 1.3 some days ago and the problem still persists. At first I has blamed libvirt, but I was not correct at all - since I have released package ``slices'' for myself including both newer libvirth and qemu, I wasn`t able to corner this problem and my report may be counted as completely wrong. Right now, I have the following situation: - all libvirt versions running above qemu-1.1 always reports right balloon and currentMemory sizes - for qemu 1.2 it is quite more funny: as in message above, I receive wrong currentMemory always set to ``magic'' 5398528kB at the 8gb host node, but only if ``memory'' parameter has same or higher value, even <memory unit='KiB'>5348520</memory> works okay, providing righ balloon value for the libvirt. As you can see the ~2700MB offset between current and maximum(or entire host) memory present in both configurations. 8Gb node is a simple non-numa machine so this is not related to numa miscalculation. Previous test at the link above processed on the 64GB two-head node with symmetric numa topology, if it matters. And finally, $ virsh dumpxml vm010-000-000-092 | grep curr <currentMemory unit='KiB'>5398528</currentMemory> $ virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp vm010-000-000-092 info balloon balloon: actual=1176 Until virtio_balloon initializes in the guest, libvirt reporting _right_ value for some seconds after VM start, so bug (which I unable to track by myself) almost for sure presented in parsing of received values from guest balloon.

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt migration compatible
by Timon Wang 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi all, I am use libvirt and kvm for migrate a vm from a pc to a Dell pc server, and the cpu feature are not the same, I am wondering if there is any solution to make the migration works smoothly. The PC's cpu feature is less than Dell pc server, so how to make sure the migration work. Another question is I found a post in 2007, said that AMD has make the migration from amd server to intel server by AMD-V Extended Migration and Intel Flex Migration, can I use these tech in libvirt? -- Focus on: Server Vitualization, Network security,Scanner,NodeJS,JAVA,WWW Blog: http://www.nohouse.net

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[libvirt-users] Strange behavior of QoS
by Davide Guerri 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi, I'm having some weird problem with the setup of the QoS on a bridged network. As the docs states, outbound/inbound average speed should be expressed in KBps (KBytes per second) but in order to get a maximum speed of 10Mbps (megabits per second) surprising enough I have to use 2560 on the guest (not 1280 as expected). Using 1280 units I get a speed og 5Mbps. I'm aware of peak and burst parameters but even with them I'm seeing the same (long-term) behavior. Here follows my configuration. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Domain definition (relevant part only) virsh # dumpxml mydomain <domain type='kvm' id='45'> [...] <devices> [...] <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:xx:xx:xx'/> <source network='br909'/> <target dev='vnet43'/> <model type='virtio'/> <bandwidth> <inbound average='2560'/> <outbound average='2560'/> </bandwidth> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> [...] </devices> </domain> The network definition: virsh # net-dumpxml br909 <network> <name>br909</name> <uuid>07319380-2025-cdcc-924a-149cd0370b56</uuid> <forward mode='bridge'/> <bridge name='br909' /> </network> And iperf result (client and server are on the same vlan and they are running on the same host) [ 5] local xx.xx.xx.xx port 5001 connected with xx.xx.xx.yy port 18396 [ 5] 0.0-30.1 sec 35.4 MBytes 9.87 Mbits/sec

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[libvirt-users] Error using virt-convert
by Chandana De Silva 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

All, I am trying to use virt-convert to convert a KVM/libvirt guest to VMWare ESX 4, and getting an error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have created a virt-image image file as shown at http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/virt-image/virt-image-xml.html. See below for the xml file. I am using the following command for the conversion, and am getting the error shown : /usr/bin/virt-convert -i virt-image -o vmx -D vmdk mon03.xml mon03 ERROR Couldn't import file "mon03.xml": Couldn't import file 'mon03.xml': Disk entry for 'mon03' not found The image file itself is readable by all: ls -la /var/lib/libvirt/imageshelf/mon03.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root m4u 8589934592 Dec 3 09:25 /var/lib/libvirt/imageshelf/mon03.img ls -la mon03.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 chandana chandana 657 Dec 5 09:08 mon03.xml <image> <name>mon03</name> <domain> <boot type="hvm"> <guest> <arch>i686</arch> </guest> <os> <loader dev="cdrom"/> </os> <drive disk="mon03" target="hda"/> </boot> <devices> <vcpu>2</vcpu> <memory>262144</memory> <interface/> <graphics/> </devices> <storage> <disk id="mon03" file="/var/lib/libvirt/imageshelf/mon03.img" use="system" size="8388608" format="raw"/> </storage> </domain> </image>

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[libvirt-users] Clone disk image common ancestry/branching.
by Mestnik, Michael J - Eagan, MN - Contractor 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to support or easily extent libvirt to perform steps like the following when cloning: # Any existing VMs must be paused or better. ln $currentimg backing-store.img qemu-img create -o backing-store.img $currentimg.tmp qemu-img create -o backing-store.img $newimg # Get any existing VM using $currentimg.tmp mv $currentimg.tmp $currentimg The idea being to create branches of an installs ancestry rather than simply duplicating the install. Cheers. Mike Mestnik, Michael J The ESM Tools Enterprise Systems Monitoring United States Postal Service O: (651) 406-2048 Michael.J.Mestnik(a)usps.gov ITEnterpriseSystemsMonitoring(a)usps.gov

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[libvirt-users] Strange QoS behavior
by Davide Guerri 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hi, I'm having some weird problem with the setup of the QoS on a bridged network. As the docs states, outbound/inbound average speed should be expressed in KBps (KBytes per second) but in order to get a maximum speed of 10Mbps (megabits per second) surprising enough I have to use 2560 on the guest (not 1280 as expected). Using 1280 units I get a speed og 5Mbps. I'm aware of peak and burst parameters but even with them I'm seeing the same (long-term) behavior. Here follows my configuration. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Domain definition (relevant part only) virsh # dumpxml mydomain <domain type='kvm' id='45'> [...] <devices> [...] <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:xx:xx:xx'/> <source network='br909'/> <target dev='vnet43'/> <model type='virtio'/> <bandwidth> <inbound average='2560'/> <outbound average='2560'/> </bandwidth> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> [...] </devices> </domain> The network definition: virsh # net-dumpxml br909 <network> <name>br909</name> <uuid>07319380-2025-cdcc-924a-149cd0370b56</uuid> <forward mode='bridge'/> <bridge name='br909' /> </network> And iperf result (client and server are on the same vlan and they are running on the same host) [ 5] local xx.xx.xx.xx port 5001 connected with xx.xx.xx.yy port 18396 [ 5] 0.0-30.1 sec 35.4 MBytes 9.87 Mbits/sec

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[libvirt-users] error: unsupported configuration: block I/O throttling not supported with this QEMU binary
by hzguanqiang 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hi, guys. I want to change block I/O throttle using 'virsh blkdeviotune' with vm not running, it reported an error: # virsh blkdeviotune instance-000000dc /dev/loop0 --total-bytes-sec 20000000 --total-iops-sec 20 --config error: Unable to change block I/O throttle error: unsupported configuration: block I/O throttling not supported with this QEMU binary I can do this when the vm is running. Is it a bug? How can I fix this problem. BTW,My libvirt version is 0.9.13: # virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.13 Using library: libvir 0.9.13 Using API: QEMU 0.9.13 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.1.2 Thanks. 2012-11-28 hzguanqiang

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[libvirt-users] iSCSI storage pool autostart
by rh ev 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hello everyone, I have recently installed libvirt 1.0.0 and am having a problem with my iSCSI storage pool's autostarting. They are just going to an inactive state right after a reboot of the host. However once the startup is complete I can manually start the pool without problem. I am getting the following errors in the libvirtd.log file but they don't really give me much as to what could be causing this. I also looked in the messages log file but didn't find anything that looked useful. *2012-11-27 20:06:50.845+0000: 1358: error : virCommandWait:2287 : internal error Child process (/sbin/iscsiadm –mode session) unexpected exit status 21 * *2012-11-27 20:06:50.890+0000: 1358: error : virCommandWait:2287 : internal error Child process (/sbin/iscsiadm –mode session) unexpected exit status 21 * *2012-11-27 20:07:10.159+0000: 1358: error : virCommandWait:2287 : internal error Child process (/sbin/iscsiadm –mode discovery –type sendtargets –portal 192.168.220.50:3260,1) unexpected exit status 4* *2012-11-27 20:07:10.159+0000: 1358: error : storageDriverAutostart:101 : Failed to autostart storage pool ‘stoPool01′: internal error Child process (/sbin/iscsiadm –mode discovery –type sendtargets –portal 192.168.220.50:3260,1) unexpected exit status 4* If anyone has any ideas what is causing this it would be a great help. If you need more information let me know. Thanks, Darcy

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Re: [libvirt-users] [Freeipa-users] libvirt with vnc freeipa
by Simo Sorce 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi Natxo, On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 13:06 +0100, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > hi, > > I'm following the howto on > http://freeipa.org/page/Libvirt_with_VNC_Consoles to authenticate > users voor virsh with ipa. > > I have it mostly working :-) except for the fact that libvirtd is not > respecting the sasl_allowed_username_list parameter. > > If I do not set it, and I have a realm ticket, then I may login virsh > or virtual manager and I get tickets for libvirt/vnc services. > > If I do set it, then it tells me the client is not in the whitelist, > so I cannot log in :-) > > > 2012-11-30 12:00:53.403+0000: 7786: error : > virNetSASLContextCheckIdentity:146 : SASL client admin not allowed in > whitelist > 2012-11-30 12:00:53.403+0000: 7786: error : > virNetSASLContextCheckIdentity:150 : Client's username is not on the > list of allowed clients > 2012-11-30 12:00:53.403+0000: 7786: error : > remoteDispatchAuthSaslStep:2447 : authentication failed: > authentication failed > 2012-11-30 12:00:53.415+0000: 7781: error : virNetSocketReadWire:999 : > End of file while reading data: Input/output error > > Is this a question for the libvirt folks or is it ok to post it here? Seem more like a libvirt or maybe even a cyrus-sasl question but I would be interested in knowing what is going on. Have you used a full principal name including the realm in the list, or just the bare user names ? CCing libvirt-users. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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[libvirt-users] error: argument unsupported: unable to handle disk requests in snapshot
by 于长江 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hello, a problem occurred during making a snapshot for a guest, ask for help... 1. the xml for snapshotdomain like this: # cat deployment.1 <domainsnapshot> <name>a</name> <disks> <disk name='/home/qcow2/disk.0'> <driver type='qcow2'/> <source file='/home/qcow2/disk.3'/> </disk> </disks> </domainsnapshot> 2. when i execute the command , a mistake occurred: # virsh snapshot-create qcow2 deployment.1 error: argument unsupported: unable to handle disk requests in snapshot 3. i add the parameter '--disk-only', another mistake occurred: # virsh snapshot-create qcow2 deployment.1 --disk-only error: Failed to take snapshot: unknown command: 'snapshot_blkdev' 4. my libvirtd version is 0.9.4 , i update to 1.0.0 , also had this problem # libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 1.0.0 5. this is my guest below: # ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 oneadmin oneadmin 1540 2012-11-27 15:27 deployment.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 2012-11-27 21:28 deployment.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5772345344 2012-11-28 17:42 disk.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 459264 2012-11-27 21:02 disk.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 372736 2012-11-27 15:25 disk.2 # virsh list Id 名� �� ---------------------------------------------------- 1 qcow2 running # qemu-img info disk.0 image: disk.0 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 20G (21474836480 bytes) disk size: 5.4G cluster_size: 65536 Snapshot list: ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK 1 1354019482 142M 2012-11-27 20:31:22 00:00:08.971 is there anyone has the same problem with me ? 于长江 | 东软 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying attachment(s) is intended only for the use of the intended recipient and may be confidential and/or privileged of Neusoft Corporation, its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates. If any reader of this communication is not the intended recipient, unauthorized use, forwarding, printing, storing, disclosure or copying is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful.If you have received this communication in error,please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail, and delete the original message and all copies from your system. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[libvirt-users] error when configuring management access via PolicyKit
by Arindam Choudhury 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hi, Libvirtd is in listen mode. /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf listen_tls = 0 listen_tcp = 1 auth_tcp = "sasl" my trying to setup polkit authentication using http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup [root@aopcach ~]# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-org.arindam-libvirt-remote-access.pkla [Remote libvirt SSH access] Identity=unix-user:arindam Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes but it fails with: [arindam@aopcach ~]$ virsh -c qemu+ssh:///system arindam@localhost's password: error: authentication failed: polkit\56retains_authorization_after_challenge=1 Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available. error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

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[libvirt-users] How to passthru a block device from host to the quest os in kvm?
by Dennis Chen 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi, Is there any APIs or some XML scheme can passthru a local block device of the host, eg, /dev/sda1 to its running guest OS? Specifically, say there is a block device /dev/sda1 in the host, mount it: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt; ls /mnt: a.file, b.file After passthru, the same /dev/sda1 can be used by the quest os(maybe the dev name is changed): mount /dev/sda1 /mnt; ls /mnt: a.file, b.file. BRs, Dennis

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[libvirt-users] Live migration with non-shared storage leads to corrupted file system
by Xinglong Wu 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi, We have the following environment for live-migration with non-shared stroage between two nodes, Host OS: RHEL 6.3 Kernel: 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 Qemu-kvm: 1.2.0 libvirt: 0.10.1 and use "virsh" to do the job as virsh -c 'qemu:///system' migrate --live --persistent --copy-storage-all <guest-name> qemu+ssh://<target-node>/system The above command itself returns no error, and the migrated domain in the destination node starts fine. But when I log into the migrated domain, some commands failed immediately. And if I shutdown the domain, it won't boot up any more, complaining about the corrupted file system. Furthermore, I can confirm that the domain before migration works flawlessly after thorough test. The log file in /var/log/libvirt/qemu looks fine without any warnings or errors. And the only error message I can observe is found at /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log 2012-11-25 10:00:55.001+0000: 15398: warning : qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal:838 : Cannot start job (query, none) for domain testVM; current job is (async nested, migration out) owned by (15397, 15397) 2012-11-25 10:00:55.001+0000: 15398: error : qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal:842 : Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock 2012-11-25 10:00:57.009+0000: 15393: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1184 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error I also noticed that the raw image file used by the migrated domain has the different sizes (reported by "du") before and after the migration. Is there anybody having the similiar experience with live migration on non-shared storage? It apparently leads to failed migrations in libvirt but no cirtical errors ever reported. Brett

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[libvirt-users] IPV6 configuration
by Patrick Chemla 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi, I am running package libvirt-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64 on a kernel-3.6.5-1.fc17.x86_64 Fedora 17. I have set up the host with an IPv6 address, and I made some successfull tests transferring in IPv6 mode to/from other hosts. I want to set up libvirt to get an IPv6 address for his local network interface, same for the guests. I want the guests to be able to communicate directly on the internet through this ipv6 address. I have had a <ip family="ipv6" address="2001:xxxxxxx" /> line to the /etc/libvirtd/qemu/network/default.xml file but when I restart the host, this line disappears and no ipv6 address is added to the libvirt interface. I have added an ipv6 address to the guest in the same range of the host address. I can ping6 the address locally on the guest, but can't access the host. Is there somewhere a howto-libvirt-ipv6 to understand how to set up the whole stuff? Thanks for help Patrick

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[libvirt-users] Block device IO limits
by Davide Guerri 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi all, is there a way to limit the throughput (or the number of operations per seconds) of a block device? I ask because I've a couple of misconfigured VMs that are performing a lot of disk activity (swapping I'd bet but I haven't access to their OS). Since their storage is on a NFS share they are slowing down other VMs on the same share. Thank you. Davide.

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[libvirt-users] image transfer incompletely in live migration
by yli＠cloudiya.com 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hi all, I am using libvirt version 0.10.1 and qemu-kvm version 1.2.0 with RHEL 6.3 When I use libvirt API to make block migrate with a VM, it failed frequently. I check the migrated VM and found that the filesystem damaged. But sometimes it works very fine, I don't know why, it seems to be random. All failed tests have the same condition, image transfer incompletely in live migration. The image I used is 10GB size, after a failed migration it has only about 400MB to 3GB in remote host. Here is the code: import libvirt from xml.dom import minidom name = "vm-01" host = libvirt.open("qemu:///system") vm = host.lookupByNmae(name) vm_xml_file = "/etc/libvirt/qemu/%s.xml" % name vm_xml = minidom.parse(vm_xml_file).documentElement.toxml() remote_host = "qemu+ssh://host02/system" remote = libvirt.open(remote_host) try: vm.migrate2(remote, vm_xml, 89, name, None, 0) except Exception,e: print str(e) Before run the code I have already create a image for migration in remote host 'host02'. Path, size, and privilege all OK. Here is the related log: in source host 'host01': 2012-11-24 05:14:40.001+0000: 24888: warning : qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal:838 : Cannot start job (query, none) for domain wrksp-776; current job is (async nested, migration out) owned by (24890, 24890) 2012-11-24 05:16:16.398+0000: 24888: error : qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal:842 : Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock 2012-11-24 05:16:21.317+0000: 24887: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1184 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error in remote host 'host02': 2012-11-24 05:14:00.776+0000: 11065: warning : qemuDomainObjEnterMonitorInternal:993 : This thread seems to be the async job owner; entering monitor without asking for a nested job is dangerous 2012-11-24 05:14:01.196+0000: 11065: warning : qemuDomainObjEnterMonitorInternal:993 : This thread seems to be the async job owner; entering monitor without asking for a nested job is dangerous 2012-11-24 05:14:01.198+0000: 11065: warning : qemuDomainObjEnterMonitorInternal:993 : This thread seems to be the async job owner; entering monitor without asking for a nested job is dangerous 2012-11-24 05:14:01.208+0000: 11065: warning : qemuDomainObjEnterMonitorInternal:993 : This thread seems to be the async job owner; entering monitor without asking for a nested job is dangerous 2012-11-24 05:14:01.211+0000: 11065: warning : qemuDomainObjEnterMonitorInternal:993 : This thread seems to be the async job owner; entering monitor without asking for a nested job is dangerous I try to use command "virsh migrate vm-01 --live --copy-storage-all --persistent --undefinesource qemu+ssh://host02/system --verbose", the test results have no change, common but not regular. Even after my once successful test, it will certainly fail when I try to make a second migrate with the same VM. How can I solve this problem？ Anything is helpful. Thanks.

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[libvirt-users] how can i get rid of the password for accessing the console in virt-manager ?
by Lentes, Bernd 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi, i'm using virt-manager to manage serveral guests on a sles 11 host. For one guest, i configured a password to enter the console via virt-manager (not via VNC). How can i get rid of it ? Thanks in advance. 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 Wir sollten nicht den Tod fürchten, sondern das schlechte Leben 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 und Dr. Nikolaus Blum Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671

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[libvirt-users] About IBM PowerVM hypervisor support
by Dennis Chen 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi, I noticed that libvirt support the following hypervisors currently: * The KVM/QEMU <http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html> Linux hypervisor * The Xen <http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html> hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts. * The LXC <http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html> Linux container system * The OpenVZ <http://libvirt.org/drvopenvz.html> Linux container system * The User Mode Linux <http://libvirt.org/drvuml.html> paravirtualized kernel * The VirtualBox <http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html> hypervisor * The VMware ESX and GSX <http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html> hypervisors * The VMware Workstation and Player <http://libvirt.org/drvvmware.html> hypervisors * The Microsoft Hyper-V <http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html> hypervisor /"the goal of libvirt: *to provide a common and stable layer sufficient to securely manage domains on a node, possibly remote*."/ My question is, does redhat's libvirt team have the plan to support IBM PowerVM hypervisor? If the answer is NO, what's the reason to make the support for IBM PowerVM hypervisor doesn't make sense... BRs, Dennis

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