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Re: [libvirt-users] The default location of vm snapshots
by SimpleCloud 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Thanks a lot for the details. From http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots, we have to pause the domain before taking snapshot and resume after. Is there any way to do "live" snapshotting for running domain or reduce pause time? Thanks, Lei ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Eric Blake"<eblake(a)redhat.com>; Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 08:24 PM To: "SimpleCloud"<simplecloud(a)qq.com>; Cc: "libvirt-users"<libvirt-users(a)redhat.com>; Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] The default location of vm snapshots On 06/06/2012 03:20 AM, SimpleCloud wrote: > Hi all, > > > Where could I find the memory dump and disk snapshots for vm after command "virsh snapshot-create <some_running_vm>"? Thanks in advance. This particular form of snapshot is called the 'system checkpoint' snapshot, and the current qemu implementation is that the snapshot creates internal snapshots in your qcow2 files. If you do 'qemu-img info $path_to_img', you will see the disk snapshots listed as internal snapshots for each image associated with the domain, as well as the first qcow2 file also having memory associated with the internal snapshot. > > > I found the xml files in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/, but hava no idea about the raw snapshot file. Looking in /var/lib/libvirt is generally unsupported (that is an internal libvirt detail, and subject to change in future releases). The only way to safely look at the snapshot XML is via the API (virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc, which is wrapped by 'virsh snapshot-dumpxml'). I am also hoping to submit a patch that will allow you the option to create an external snapshot rather than using qcow2 internal snapshots, but that's not in the code base yet. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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[libvirt-users] qemu-img snapshots with backing stores?
by Sean Abbott 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

So, I was attempting to use qemu snapshots with backing stores. The QEMU docs (http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot) make it sound like you simply point your qemu at the snapshot after it's creation, and you're golden. When attempting this with libvirt, though, it fails. I created a snapshot using the above tutorial. the resulting file is disk.0, and a qmeu-img info on it returns: image: disk.0 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 29G (31457280000 bytes) disk size: 140K cluster_size: 65536 backing file: /var/lib/one/public/lin_client_current.qcow2 (actual path: /var/lib/one/public/lin_client_current.qcow2) So that all looks groovy, right? Then, I created (via opennebula) an xml deployment file like so: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1027145/ When I attempt to do a virsh create, I get the following errors: virsh # create deployment.0 error: Failed to create domain from deployment.0 error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: file=/var/lib/one/vm/56/images/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=qcow2,cache=none qemu-kvm: boot=on|off is deprecated and will be ignored. Future versions will reject this parameter. Please update your scripts. qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/var/lib/one/vm/56/images/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=qcow2,cache=none,boot=on: could not open disk image /var/lib/one/vm/56/images/disk.0: Invalid argument So...something isn't working. Is it possible to do this, or should I give up on this path? Thanks! sean

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[libvirt-users] The default location of vm snapshots
by SimpleCloud 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hi all, Where could I find the memory dump and disk snapshots for vm after command "virsh snapshot-create <some_running_vm>"? Thanks in advance. I found the xml files in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/, but hava no idea about the raw snapshot file. Thanks, Lei

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[libvirt-users] [Fwd: error: this function is not supported by the connection driver : virConnectNumOfStoragePool]
by Onkar 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hello All, Any idea on this issue ? Regards, Onkar -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Onkar <kernzap(a)gmail.com> To: libvir-list <libvir-list(a)redhat.com> Subject: error: this function is not supported by the connection driver : virConnectNumOfStoragePool Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 21:29:42 +0530 Hello, I configured libvirt like this ./configure --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr/ --libdir=/usr/lib64/ --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-storage-dir --with-qemu --with-libvirtd --with-selinux --with-network --with-libblkid and then, make -j4 make install and then # virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - vm1 shut off # virsh pool-list --all error: Failed to list active pools error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectNumOfStoragePools getting this error , any clues on why is this error ? Regards, Onkar

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[libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image
by Andrew Tappert 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a guest's memory without having to introduce any extra software into the guest or otherwise interfere with it. Incident responders are particularly interested in getting memory dumps from systems they're investigating. Virsh has "save" and "dump" commands for storing the state of a guest to a file on disk, but memory of KVM guests doesn't get saved in the "standard" input format for memory forensics tools, which is a raw physical memory image. (This is what you'd get via the classical "dd /dev/mem" approach or the contemporary equivalent using the crash driver; and VMware Server and Workstation produce .vmem files, which are such raw physical memory images, when a guest is paused or snapshotted.) In order to analyze the memory of Libvirt/KVM guests with my Linux memory forensics software, Second Look, I've created a tool for converting Libvirt-QEMU-save files (output of virsh save command) or QEMU-savevm files (output of virsh dump command) to raw physical memory images. I've got a basic working capability, though I'm still tracking down some problems with a guest allocated 8GB RAM--not all the memory seems to be present in the save or dump file. And I haven't tested very extensively yet, version support is limited to what I myself am currently running, etc. I'd like to know if this is a capability that others are interested in. Is this something that would be of interest to the Libvirt project if I were to contribute the code, or to the KVM project, or do you think it best exists as a separate project? I've also got a proof-of-concept tool for converting hibernate images to raw physical memory images. Perhaps a collection of tools for converting various memory dump formats would be a good project. Anyone else interested in this kind of stuff? As an author of commercial memory forensics software I've got a vested interest in availability of good memory acquisition capabilities. But there are a number of people working on FOSS Linux memory analysis tools, too... Andrew

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[libvirt-users] guest fails to start: Error initializing virtio-net-pci
by Ekkard Gerlach 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi, squeeze host, winxp guest. guest fails to start: PCI: devfn 24 not available fpr virtio-net-pci, in use by virtio-blk-pci Error initializing virtio-net-pci xml-File: ======== <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/var/lib/winxp'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/> </disk> this added: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/var/lib/winxp-d'/> <target dev='hdb' bus='virtio'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='1'/> </disk> root@squeeze64:~# lsmod | grep virt virtio_balloon 2961 0 virtio_net 10573 0 virtio_blk 4225 0 virtio_pci 5511 0 virtio_ring 3258 1 virtio_pci virtio 3309 4 virtio_balloon,virtio_net,virtio_blk,virtio_pci root@squeeze64:~# dpkg -l | egrep "kvm|qemu|virt" ii etherboot-qemu 5.4.4-9 Bootstrapping for various network adapters (qemu) ii gvfs 1.6.4-3 userspace virtual filesystem - server ii kvm 1:0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8 dummy transitional package from kvm to qemu-kvm ii libvirt-bin 0.8.3-5+squeeze2 the programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt0 0.8.3-5+squeeze2 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems ii python-libvirt 0.8.3-5+squeeze2 libvirt Python bindings ii qemu 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1 fast processor emulator ii qemu-keymaps 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1 QEMU keyboard maps ii qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8 Full virtualization on x86 hardware ii qemu-system 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1 QEMU full system emulation binaries ii qemu-user 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1 QEMU user mode emulation binaries ii qemu-utils 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1 QEMU utilities ii virt-manager 0.8.4-8 desktop application for managing virtual machines ii virt-viewer 0.2.1-1 Displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine ii virtinst 0.500.3-2 Programs to create and clone virtual machines I sucessfully added a virtio NIC: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:a6:fb:ab'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> an I installed the driver from red hat "virtio-win-0.1-22.iso". But adding a virtio disk fails. any ideas? Ekkard

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[libvirt-users] PCI Passthrough, AMD, fails to initialize
by Chris Sanders 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

I'm looking for assistance with pci-passthrough on CentOS 6.2. I've installed libvirt version: 0.9.4, package: 23.el6_2.8 from yum. I have a windows XP client setup via virt-manager which boots and runs fine until I attempt to assign a PCI device to it. The error log reads: -----------------/var/log/libvirt/qemu/SageTv.log---------------- 2012-06-02 22:55:07.801: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.2.0 -cpu Opteron_G3,+wdt,+skinit,+osvw,+3dnowprefetch,+cr8legacy,+extapic,+cmp_legacy,+pdpe1gb,+fxsr_opt,+mmxext,+aes,+sse4.2,+sse4.1,+ssse3,+ht,+vme -enable-kvm -m 3048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name SageTv -uuid bf80f6a5-1471-9415-e502-88c4999319c7 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/SageTv.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew -no-shutdown -boot order=c,menu=on -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/dev/vg_hdd/lv_sagetv,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -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=24,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=25 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:b9:bf:b0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga std -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device pci-assign,host=04:07.0,id=hostdev0,configfd=26,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 do_spice_init: starting 0.8.3 spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MIGRATION spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_KEYBOARD spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MOUSE spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_PLAYBACK spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_RECORD Failed to assign device "hostdev0" : Invalid argument qemu-kvm: -device pci-assign,host=04:07.0,id=hostdev0,configfd=26,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8: Device 'pci-assign' could not be initialized 2012-06-02 22:55:08.744: shutting down -----------------/var/log/libvirt/qemu/SageTv.log---------------- After this I find the dmesg shows: -----------------dmesg------------------ pci-stub 0000:04:07.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 pci-stub 0000:04:07.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x2100000, writing 0x2100002) assign device 4:7.0 failed -----------------dmesg------------------ In case this was an IRQ problem I checked my /proc/interrupts. -----------------interrupts------------------ CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 0: 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 17: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3 18: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4, ohci_hcd:usb5, ohci_hcd:usb6, ohci_hcd:usb7 19: 587 2219 1807 588 602 600 687 607 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci 21: 422 430 7316 402 410 405 429 412 IO-APIC-fasteoi 24: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge AMD-Vi 25: 12 10 9 20 11 15 15 15 PCI-MSI-edge radeon 26: 7 8 7 10 9 8 10 9 PCI-MSI-edge hda_intel 27: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd 28: 7098 36221 19 24 19 20 28 20 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 NMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 22088 22355 9472 12483 6371 11086 5211 7987 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts PND: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Performance pending work RES: 61166 42503 6683 11920 2681 3534 4120 2460 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 197 302 301 303 290 300 314 318 Function call interrupts TLB: 1406 1551 464 1749 350 897 485 563 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Machine check polls ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -----------------interrupts------------------ To get to this point I've confirmed IOMMU is loading on boot. during boot a grep for AMD-Vi returns: -----------------AMD-Vi------------------ AMD-Vi: Enabling IOMMU at 0000:00:00.2 cap 0x40 AMD-Vi: Initialized for Passthrough Mode AMD-Vi: Enabling IOMMU at 0000:00:00.2 cap 0x40 -----------------AMD-Vi------------------ I've set: allow_unsafe_assigned_interrupts. I've set selinux to permissive I've set user and group for qemu to 'root' I've set clear_emulator_capabilites = 0 I've set relaxed_acs_check = 1 Finally, if there's a better forum to ask this question in please let me know. I've already tried #kvm and #virt on IRC with no reply yet. I've tried the CentOS 6.2 forums with no reply. Thanks, Chris P.S. I didn't subscribe, just sent this email. If by some odd chance, I can't see replies w/o subscribing someone please let me know. (sanders.chris(a)gmail.com)

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[libvirt-users] Resize qcow2 disks
by Javi Legido 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Good morning. I already tried: 1. http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/resizing_a_kvm_or_qemu_disk_image.php Result: OS system can't see the disk space sudo qemu-img resize /var/lib/libvirt/images/mysql-1.qcow2 +8G ls -lath /var/lib/libvirt/images/mysql-1.qcow2 -rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 10G jun 1 15:35 /var/lib/libvirt/images/mysql-1.qcow2 # pvresize /dev/vda5 Physical volume "/dev/vda5" changed 1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized # lvextend -L8G /dev/template/root Extending logical volume root to 8.00 GiB Insufficient free space: 1630 extents needed, but only 0 available 2. http://blog.wpkg.org/2010/10/04/resizing-qcow2-images/ Result: OS system can't see the disk space My 3rd option is to install libguestfs-tools package, but I would like to avoid it since it's not part of Debian release. Any good step by step guide to enlarge a qcow2 + LVM virtual disk? Thanks

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[libvirt-users] The LXC container propagate the ro remount to the host mount point
by Sebastien Douche 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hi, every so often (cannot determine when it occurs at this time), the VM remount in read only the host partition (/srv here). Is it a bug? A misconfiguration? My config: <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/srv/lxc/lib/vprobe10/rootfs'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> -- Sebastien Douche <sdouche(a)gmail.com> Twitter: @sdouche / G+: +sdouche

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[libvirt-users] Image booted using libvirt with --arch=i686 gives a message: Kernel detected only i486 CPU
by Georgy Sebastian Pullolickal 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

I tried booting a gentoo image I had created using the command virt-install --name=test --ram=512 --vcpus=1 --import --os-type=Linux --arch=i686 --disk path=/vms/test.qcow2,format=qcow2 --graphics vnc,port=5910,listen=0.0.0.0,password=test123 --network bridge=virbr0 --noautoconsole --description --autostart However even though the architecture is specified as i686, the image does not boot. It gives a message This kernel requires an i586 CPU, but only detected an i486 CPU. Unable to boot- please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. The created libvirt profile xml can be found at Pastebin test.xml<http://pastebin.ca/2156937> I am able to boot it directly using qemu --enable-kvm I am at a loss about what could be causing such an issue?? Additionally is there by which I can pass additional parameters to qemu using libvirt? I understand that it is possible to pass the arguments by modifying the domain xml, but is there any way to do the same though command line? For my current work, I need to use a custom version of qemu with custom arguments. -- Regards Georgy

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[libvirt-users] Reg: Info on memory usage from within LXC.
by Alphonse Hansel Anthony 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hi All, Is it possible to report memory usage of a LXC, from within a LXC? Tools like #top, #free use /proc information and report back the host details. Is /proc namespace aware? Are there any other tools available to report memory usage from cgroups directly, but from within the container? Any info or pointers on this would be useful. Thanks, Alphonse

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[libvirt-users] NPIV setup?
by Jason Price 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

I'm missing something. The purpose of NPIV (as I understand it) is to give a guest OS an HBA that it can scan, play with new luns, etc all without making changes to the physical server(s) the guest is living in currently. However, I can't find a way to either have the guest's XML config create the HBA or for the physical server to successfully GIVE the HBA to the guest. I can give disks all day long, but I can't give the HBA to the guest. It seems like libvirt and virsh can only create the vHBA on the physical box, which defeats the purpose of working with NPIV then... I can just present the same luns to the REAL WWPNs of the physical boxes that need access, setup multipathd to give /dev/mapper names in a consistent manner, and give the raw disks to the guests. I really want to get the physical KVM servers out of the 'storage management' game aside from the basic OSes of the guests. How can I do that? (or am I missing something?) --Jason

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[libvirt-users] win-xp guest after reboot: could not open disk image /dev/sr0: mo medium found and extreme sluggisch
by Ekkard Gerlach 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hi, win-xp won't boot after installation. The CD is needed to boot from. How can I convince win-xp to boot? That's what I did: ================== I installed win-xp guest on debian squeeze: # virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name winxp-prof --ram 1024 \ --disk path=/dev/vg-levo/winxp-kvm,size=10 \ --network bridge:br0 --vnc --os-variant winxp --cdrom /dev/sr0 /dev/vg-levo/winxp-kvm is a lvm (logical volume, 10GB) Installation worked, but was extrem slow. Machine: Lenovo B560, core i3, 6 GB RAM. WinXP made a normal reboot after installation, I ejected install cd, then: virt-manager output: Error starting domain: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: chard device redirected to /dev/pts/2 qemu: could not open disk image /dev/sr0: mo medium found So I inserted the CD and a black blanc screen appeared. Windows didn't boot. I deleted installation configuration: # virsh undefine winxp-prof I invoked virt-install (see above) once again ... and win-xp is booting ... what a surprise, without installing again after undefine .. ! The reason: the lvm partition was not deleted. WinXP now always needs a CD to boot and is extreme sluggisch. Right mouse click lasts about one minute! tia Ekkard

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[libvirt-users] Virtual Machines Stay Off If Rebooted
by Andrew Martin 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hello, I am using libvirt on Ubuntu 10.04 Server and the following versions of these packages: libvirt-bin, libvirt0, python-libvirt - 0.7.5-5ubuntu27.22 qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.18 Recently, when restarting a VM (either by issuing "sudo reboot" on a Linux guest or choosing "Restart" from the Start Menu on a Windows guest) the VM shuts down and remains off rather than simply restarting. I cannot test "virsh restart <domain>" on this server as the version of libvirt does not appear to support restarting - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/368962 I do not receive any errors in /var/log when the shutdown occurs. Powering the VM back on works, however I would prefer to have hot restart working so VMs that are automatically rebooted to install updates will come back up automatically. Do you have any suggestions on how to debug this behavior? Thanks, Andrew

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[libvirt-users] How to configure cpu frequency of guest
by hongming 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hi Experts I want to know how to configure cpu frequency of guest. Why it always display "cpu MHz : 3092.974" , If it needs to offer user a KVM guest with 1 GHz cpu using libvirt , How to do it ? Thanks a lot in advance. Hongming

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[libvirt-users] how to store an internal disk snapshot by use
by Rujie Xu 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hello everyone, I am trying to find a way to store an internal disk snapshot and supposed to restore later. Here is the problems I met: 1) when I use SnapshotCreateXML() to create a disk_only snapshot while the domain is inactive, there is an error happened: disk snapshot of inactive domains not implemented yet. I am wondering is there and way I can save the disk_only snapshot when the domain is inactive right now? 2) also use snapshotCreateXML() to create a disk_only snapshot while the domain is active, and use the xml to set the <disk name="hda" snapshot="internal"> there is also an error happened: unsupported configuration: active qemu domains require external disk snapshot; disk hda requested internal 3) when I use snapshotCreateXML() to create a disk_only snapshot using external file, it could be done, but when I try to use revertToSnapshot() to revert this snapshot there is another error happened: revert to external snapshot not supported yet. Is there anyone can help me about this, or we just can't use libvirt to managed the disk snapshot right now? Thanks very much! -- Best Regards, Roger Xu

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Re: [libvirt-users] some problem with snapshot by libvirt
by xingxing gao 29 May '12

29 May '12

sure you can add the list back in, 2012/5/29 Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com>: > On 05/29/2012 09:03 AM, xingxing gao wrote: >> to create snapshot ,I did step below: > > I'd really rather answer this in public; do I have your permission to > add the list back in, or better yet, can you repost to the list? > > Also, the list tends to frown on top-posting. > >>> Did you mean for this to go to the list, so that others may chime in or >>> benefit from the answers? >>> > > > -- > Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >

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[libvirt-users] create net if, but not connect
by Sergio Kvjato 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hello, is there a way to create net if but not connect to any bridge? <interface type='ethernet'/> is not work becaue its need to run in root mode not user mode Thanks.

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[libvirt-users] What features of kernel are required to support virDomainGetCPUStats?
by Zhihua Che 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, Weeks ago, I developed my app under ubuntu-11.10 (kernel 3.0) with lilbvirt-0.9.10. In my code , I used virDomainGetCPUStats to query cpu usage info of domains, and it worked well. However, today, I port my code to ubuntu-10.04.4 (kernel 2.6.32) with libvirt-0.9.10, I find the function virDomainGetCPUStats can't work and complains "this function is not supported by the connection driver: virDomainGetCPUStats". I guess the kernel difference cause this problem because the libvirt is the same on two operating systems. I wonder what features of kernel are required to support virDomainGetCPUStats? I thought cgroup is a prerequisite. The following are .config files of two kernels. ubuntu-11.10 CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y CONFIG_CPUSETS=y CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET=y CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED=y CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF=y CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y ubuntu-10.04.4 CONFIG_CGROUP_NS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y CONFIG_CPUSETS=y CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET=y CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_MM_OWNER=y As you can see, CPUSET and CPUACCT are enabled in both kernels. So what else features of kernel are required to support virDomainGetCPUStats? harvey

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[libvirt-users] New Bugzilla components for upstream bug reporting
by Daniel P. Berrange 28 May '12

28 May '12

Historically we have told people to report all upstream bugs against Product: Virtualization Tools Component: libvirt We now provide much more than just the core libvirt package though. Thus we have created a large number of new components for reporting upstream bugs against, one for each package we distribute: Component: libvirt-appdev-guide - Libvirt application development guide Component: libvirt-glib - Libvirt GLib, GConfig & GObject libraries Component: libvirt-cim - Libvirt CIM provider Component: libvirt-csharp - Libvirt C# language bindings Component: libvirt-java - Libvirt Java language bindings Component: libvirt-ocaml - Libvirt OCaml language bindings Component: libvirt-perl - Libvirt Perl language bindings Component: libvirt-php - Libvirt PHP language bindings Component: libvirt-publican - Libvirt Publican documentation templates Component: libvirt-sandbox - Libvirt application sandbox toolkit Component: libvirt-snmp - Libvirt SNMP agent Component: libvirt-tck - Libvirt TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) Component: libvirt-test-API - Libvirt test API Component: libvirt-virshcmdref - Libvirt virsh command reference Component: ruby-libvirt - Libvirt Ruby language bindings The bug reporting form is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Virtualization%20Tools NB, if you are using a binary package provided by your OS vendor, then you should use their bug tracker for reporting bugs first. Feel free to also report it to the libvirt upstream bug tracker at the same time though. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|

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[libvirt-users] [libivrt-users] What features of kernel are required to support virDomainGetCPUStats?
by Zhihua Che 28 May '12

28 May '12

Hi, Weeks ago, I developed my app under ubuntu-11.10 (kernel 3.0) with lilbvirt-0.9.10. In my code , I used virDomainGetCPUStats to query cpu usage info of domains, and it worked well. However, today, I port my code to ubuntu-10.04.4 (kernel 2.6.32) with libvirt-0.9.10, I find the function virDomainGetCPUStats can't work and complains "this function is not supported by the connection driver: virDomainGetCPUStats". I guess the kernel difference causes this problem because the libvirt is the same on two operating systems. I wonder what features of kernel are required to support virDomainGetCPUStats? I thought cgroup is a prerequisite. The following are .config files of two kernels. ubuntu-11.10 CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y CONFIG_CPUSETS=y CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET=y CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED=y CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF=y CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y ubuntu-10.04.4 CONFIG_CGROUP_NS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y CONFIG_CPUSETS=y CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET=y CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_MM_OWNER=y As you can see, CPUSET and CPUACCT are enabled in both kernels. So what else features of kernel are required to support virDomainGetCPUStats? harvey

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[libvirt-users] Cannot connect to the existing LXC containers (console)
by Sebastien Douche 28 May '12

28 May '12

Hi, after 2 years of "pure" LXC usage, I'm trying now to administrate our LXC containers with libvirt No problem with a LXC container I create "from Scratch" (lxc-create), but with our existing containers, I've a strange behavior with the console: vsonde43 login: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 vsonde43 console vsonde43 login: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 vsonde43 tty1 vsonde43 login: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 vsonde43 console vsonde43 login: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 vsonde43 tty1 vsonde43 login: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 vsonde43 console vsonde43 login: root Password: z Login incorrect vsonde43 login: Login incorrect vsonde43 login: root Password: Password: Login incorrect vsonde43 login: root INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Characters sometimes appears, and sometimes all keys are like the enter key. Any ideas? I tried many xml configurations w/o sucsess. Thanks. PS: libvirt 0.9.8 / lxc 0.7.5 -- Sebastien Douche <sdouche(a)gmail.com> Twitter: @sdouche / G+: +sdouche

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[libvirt-users] Spawn new domains from a snapshot.
by NoxDaFox 27 May '12

27 May '12

Hello everybody, I would like to be able to spawn several domains from a given snapshot. Here's a possible scenario: - I start from disk image A.qcow2. - I made some changes to A and I take different snapshots: 1 - 2 - 3 - While A is still running I would like to run domains B and C from snapshot 2 I don't want to revert a domain, I want to create new ones. The original should be still running but it may be stopped if necessary. The idea I had was to create a qcow2 image through qemu-img (let's call it Z.qcow2), as I'm using copy on write for performances then I'd need to commit the changes contained in Z to A always using qemu-img. Is there any other better way? I would love to do it through libvirt, maybe specifying in the config file the backing store path of the whole disk and then giving as a source file the one containing deltas. This could be a good idea for realizing a cloud based system as a incredible amount of time would be saved though it. Imagine moving only qcow2 file containing deltas through the network and then give the base image to each node so that it can use it for start it's own domain. As well would be possible to store the heavy base image in a single node saving storage space. Lots of cpu cycles saved once new image versions must be deployed (typical case a windows update to propagate in the nodes network). NoxDaFox

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[libvirt-users] How to specify the libvirtd in connect call
by Zhihua Che 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hi, Here is my situation, I install libvirt in a non-default directory and start libvird with sudo. While I can connect virsh to libvirtd using "virsh --connect qemu:///system", I fail to connect my app using "virConnectOpen("qemu:///system")", which complains "unable to locate libvirtd daemon in $PATH". Then, I take another try and add the path of libvirtd in env variable PATH. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I read through the api reference and find no place to specify this path explicitly. Thanks for any tip. Harvey

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[libvirt-users] monitor socket did not show up.: No such file or directory
by vipul borikar 23 May '12

23 May '12

I am using a Nimbus Cloud Middleware which in turn use Python libvirt binding to start VM's. Hypervisor is KVM. # virsh -c qemu:///system version Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.7 Using library: libvir 0.8.7 Using API: QEMU 0.8.7 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.1 Some time i get the error in the Nimbus Logs it says : UnexpectedError: Problem creating the VM: monitor socket did not show up.: No such file or directory I googled but this particular not able to find. I checked the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427.log 2012-05-23 10:09:13.494: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin HOME=/root USER=root LOGNAME=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 2024 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name wrksp-427 -uuid e8c5c171-392c-02e4-b43c-b0b4279e55c5 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -boot c -drive file=/VM/Nimbus/secureimages/wrksp-427/ param-vm.cdacb.in/cloud/5f4f0dcd//RHEL5.5_64bit_MPI,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 -netdev tap,fd=24,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=a2:aa:bb:2e:d6:58,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:22 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 10:09:13.512: 14116: info : libvirt version: 0.8.7, package: 18.el6 (Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>, 2011-04-18-10:28:30, x86-008.build.bos.redhat.com) 10:09:13.512: 14116: debug : virCgroupNew:566 : New group /libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 0:cpu at /cgroup/cpu in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 1:cpuacct at /cgroup/cpuacct in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 2:cpuset at /cgroup/cpuset in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 3:memory at /cgroup/memory in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 4:devices at /cgroup/devices in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 5:freezer at /cgroup/freezer in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupDetect:245 : Detected mount/mapping 6:blkio at /cgroup/blkio in 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:497 : Make group /libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:509 : Make controller /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/ 10:09:13.513: 14116: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:509 : Make controller /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/ 10:09:13.514: 14116: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:509 : Make controller /cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/ 10:09:13.514: 14116: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:509 : Make controller /cgroup/memory/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/ 10:09:13.514: 14116: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:290 : Set value '/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/tasks' to '14116' 10:09:13.714: 14116: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:290 : Set value '/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/tasks' to '14116' 10:09:14.467: 14116: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:290 : Set value '/cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/tasks' to '14116' 10:09:15.467: 14116: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:290 : Set value '/cgroup/memory/libvirt/qemu/wrksp-427/tasks' to '14116' 2012-05-23 10:09:16.537: shutting down There is no suspect in the log file. Any Ideas??? -- Thanks Vipul Borikar "Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

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