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[libvirt-users] virsh attach-disk with cache=none and io=native for raw devices (online)
by Frido Roose 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hello, I see there is an option with virsh attach-disk to set the cache to "none" for raw devices, but I can't find how to attach the disk with io=native (needed for performance reasons). The goal is to attach a disk online, directly with the proper performance settings. I know I can set this in virt-manager, but then I have to restart the VM to apply the change, so this is an offline operation. With virsh edit, I guess I also would have to restart the VM... -- Frido Roose Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

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[libvirt-users] PCI passthrough error
by Jaap Winius 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi folks, Has anyone encountered the following PCI passthrough error? error: internal error Process exited while reading console \ log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 assigned_dev_pci_read: pread failed, ret = 0 errno = 2 It's produced after I've detached the PCI device from the base OS and have tried to start up the guest domain. To get to this point, I mostly followed these instructions: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/cha… The distro I'm using is Debian squeeze, which by default comes with libvirt 0.8.3 and qemu-kvm 0.12.5, although to avoid a different PCI passthrough error, I used Debian backports for squeeze to upgrade them to libvirt 0.9.8 and qemu-kvm 1.0. The motherboard involved has VT-d support, which I've enabled with the "intel_iommu=on" kernel option (dmesg shows "Intel-IOMMU: enabled"). I did not bother with setsebool because SELinux is disabled. According to lspci, the device I want to pass through to the guest domain, a USB controller, has bus/slot/function 00:1a.0, so I added the following stanza to the <devices> section of my guest domain: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1a' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> Actually, every time I save this configuration, libvirt changes it to: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1a' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> Huh, slot 5? I don't have any PCI devices that use slot 5. Well, at least the system doesn't complain, but I worry that this might be a symptom of something more serious. Anyway, I'd be very grateful if anyone has any tips on how I might avoid the aforementioned error and get PCI passthrough to to work. Thanks, Jaap

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt-0.9.11 compilation on Centos 5.6
by Rajat Mehrotra 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi All, I am trying to compile libvirt-0.9.11 on Centos 5.6 (32 bit) for xen 4.1. I have followed following procedure to compile the libvirt library. 1. ./autogen.sh --system --with-xen 2. make While running "make", I am receiving following errors : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC libvirt_iohelper-iohelper.o CCLD libvirt_iohelper CC libvirt_parthelper-parthelper.o CCLD libvirt_parthelper libvirt_parthelper-parthelper.o: In function `main': /root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11/src/storage/parthelper.c:103: undefined reference to `ped_device_get' /root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11/src/storage/parthelper.c:117: undefined reference to `ped_disk_new' /root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11/src/storage/parthelper.c:123: undefined reference to `ped_disk_next_partition' /root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11/src/storage/parthelper.c:173: undefined reference to `ped_disk_next_partition' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [libvirt_parthelper] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11/src' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/libvirt-0.9.11' make: *** [all] Error 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have installed parted (GNU parted) 3.0 ( previously it was 1.8.1 . I have seen that a lot of people have reported this error but no one has shared the solution. Does anyone remember the solution? Thanks in advance. Rajat

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[libvirt-users] virsh works but libvirt-java throws a 'No route to host'
by Jon Drews 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

I'm able to connect to my xenserver using virsh like so and I see the VMs. [jdrews@flynx ~]$ virsh -c xenapi://root@192.168.1.23?no_verify=1 list Enter root's password for 192.168.1.23: Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- Struct did not contain expected field memory_overhead. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_info. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_metadata. Struct did not contain expected field parent. Struct did not contain expected field children. Struct did not contain expected field bios_strings. Struct did not contain expected field protection_policy. Struct did not contain expected field is_snapshot_from_vmpp. Struct did not contain expected field appliance. Struct did not contain expected field start_delay. Struct did not contain expected field shutdown_delay. Struct did not contain expected field order. Struct did not contain expected field VGPUs. Struct did not contain expected field attached_PCIs. Struct did not contain expected field suspend_SR. Struct did not contain expected field version. 0 Control domain on host: xenserver-4 running Struct did not contain expected field memory_overhead. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_info. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_metadata. Struct did not contain expected field parent. Struct did not contain expected field children. Struct did not contain expected field bios_strings. Struct did not contain expected field protection_policy. Struct did not contain expected field is_snapshot_from_vmpp. Struct did not contain expected field appliance. Struct did not contain expected field start_delay. Struct did not contain expected field shutdown_delay. Struct did not contain expected field order. Struct did not contain expected field VGPUs. Struct did not contain expected field attached_PCIs. Struct did not contain expected field suspend_SR. Struct did not contain expected field version. 23 VM1 (RH5.2 10.4.1.69 eth0) running Struct did not contain expected field memory_overhead. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_info. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_metadata. Struct did not contain expected field parent. Struct did not contain expected field children. Struct did not contain expected field bios_strings. Struct did not contain expected field protection_policy. Struct did not contain expected field is_snapshot_from_vmpp. Struct did not contain expected field appliance. Struct did not contain expected field start_delay. Struct did not contain expected field shutdown_delay. Struct did not contain expected field order. Struct did not contain expected field VGPUs. Struct did not contain expected field attached_PCIs. Struct did not contain expected field suspend_SR. Struct did not contain expected field version. 25 DeviceSimulator (192.168.1.150) running Struct did not contain expected field memory_overhead. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_info. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_metadata. Struct did not contain expected field parent. Struct did not contain expected field children. Struct did not contain expected field bios_strings. Struct did not contain expected field protection_policy. Struct did not contain expected field is_snapshot_from_vmpp. Struct did not contain expected field appliance. Struct did not contain expected field start_delay. Struct did not contain expected field shutdown_delay. Struct did not contain expected field order. Struct did not contain expected field VGPUs. Struct did not contain expected field attached_PCIs. Struct did not contain expected field suspend_SR. Struct did not contain expected field version. 28 VM3 (RH 5.2 10.4.1.15 eth0) running Struct did not contain expected field memory_overhead. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_info. Struct did not contain expected field snapshot_metadata. Struct did not contain expected field parent. Struct did not contain expected field children. Struct did not contain expected field bios_strings. Struct did not contain expected field protection_policy. Struct did not contain expected field is_snapshot_from_vmpp. Struct did not contain expected field appliance. Struct did not contain expected field start_delay. Struct did not contain expected field shutdown_delay. Struct did not contain expected field order. Struct did not contain expected field VGPUs. Struct did not contain expected field attached_PCIs. Struct did not contain expected field suspend_SR. Struct did not contain expected field version. 30 Router 10.4.1.x (192.168.1.254) running I'm using a compiled version of libvirt that I enabled the xenapi protocol. [jdrews@flynx ~]$ virsh -v 0.9.10 I can also start and stop VMs via virsh. So the next move for me was to get this working with the java bindings, libvirt-java. I grabbed libvirt-0.4.7.jar and built it. Eclipse is set up and I can see everything correctly. I built a small runnable test jar and ran it. [jdrews@flynx ~]$ java -jar VirtAPITesting.jar connecting on: xenapi://root@192.168.1.23?no_verify=1 Enter root's password for 192.168.1.23 WARNING: THE ENTERED PASSWORD WILL NOT BE MASKED! mytestpass exception caught:org.libvirt.LibvirtException: unable to connect to server at '192.168.1.23:16514': No route to host level:VIR_ERR_ERROR code:VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR domain:VIR_FROM_RPC hasConn:false hasDom:false hasNet:false message:unable to connect to server at '192.168.1.23:16514': No route to host str1:%s str2:unable to connect to server at '192.168.1.23:16514': No route to host str3:null int1:-1 int2:-1 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.codemettle.VirtAPI.testing.VirtAPITesting.main(VirtAPITesting.java:29) ... 5 more But I know there is a route to the host as virsh could get there. Sanity check: ping works fine too. [jdrews@flynx ~]$ ping 192.168.1.23 PING 192.168.1.23 (192.168.1.23) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.23: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=1.58 ms Here is the code I'm running in the VirtAPITesting.jar. For the most part it's a direct copy of the example at the end of the libvirt java page: http://libvirt.org/java.html package com.jdrews.VirtAPI.testing; import org.libvirt.*; public class VirtAPITesting { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { System.setProperty("jna.library.path", "/usr/local/lib/"); Connect conn=null; System.out.println( ConnectAuth defaultAuth = new ConnectAuthDefault(); try{ conn = new Connect("xenapi://root@192.168.1.23?no_verify=1", defaultAuth, 0); } catch (LibvirtException e){ System.out.println("exception caught:"+e); System.out.println(e.getError()); } try { Domain testDomain=conn.domainLookupByName("DeviceSimulator (192.168.1.150)"); System.out.println("Domain:" + testDomain.getName() + " id " + testDomain.getID() + " running " + testDomain.getOSType()); } catch (LibvirtException e) { System.out.println("exception caught:"+e); System.out.println(e.getError()); } } } Does anyone know what's going on here? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Jon Drews jondrews.com

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[libvirt-users] NFS + sanlock problems
by Kyrre Begnum 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

Hello list, In short: I am experiencing a problem where trying to start a VM which is allready running on a different libvirt host. Starting it fails, thanks to sanlock, but the disk dies on the original hypervisor and the vms filesystem is rendered read-only. Long version: i have the following setup: Two machines (H1 and H2) using CentOS 6.2 with the packages: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el6_2.4.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.9.4-23.el6_2.7.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.7.x86_64 libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.4-23.el6_2.7.x86_64 They share two NFS folders, one for filesystems ( net set up as a libvirt storage pool ) and one for sanlock. sanlock is started without watchdog. /etc/libvirt/qemu-sanlock.conf: auto_disk_leases = 1 disk_lease_dir = "/opt/mln/sanlock" host_id = 51 ( host_id is 52 on H2 ) cat /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf | grep sanlock lock_manager = "sanlock" A virtual machine is created ( with virsh create ) on H1 using the following xml: <domain type='kvm' > <name>rhel1.locktest</name> <memory>524288</memory> <vcpu></vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' >hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <alias name='ide0-0-0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <alias name='ide0-1-0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/> </disk> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <alias name='ide0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/8'/> <target port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/8'> <source path='/dev/pts/8'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <sound model='ich6'> <alias name='sound0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </sound> <graphics type='spice' /> <video> <model type='qxl' heads='1'/> <alias name='video0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <alias name='balloon0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux' relabel='yes'> <label>system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c141,c961</label> <imagelabel>system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c141,c961</imagelabel> </seclabel> </domain> Here is the qemu log ( with debugging enabled ) from H1: 2012-04-08 22:03:13.346: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name rhel1.locktest -uuid e3bc07fe-8b01-5f90-7c91-ad154630379e -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -drive file=/opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1,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 -device rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:b6:8d:14,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net tap,fd=25,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: info : libvirt version: 0.9.4, package: 23.el6_2.7 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2012-03-26-14:12:59, c6b5.bsys.dev.centos.org) 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virCommandHook:1920 : Run hook 0x484a70 0x7faa81356610 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : qemuProcessHook:2147 : Obtaining domain lock 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virDomainLockManagerNew:123 : plugin=0x7faa74018450 dom=0x7faa680008c0 withResources=1 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerNew:291 : plugin=0x7faa74018450 type=0 nparams=4 params=0x7faa81355a60 flags=0 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:98 : key=uuid type=uuid value=e3bc07fe-8b01-5f90-7c91-ad154630379e 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:94 : key=name type=string value=rhel1.locktest 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:82 : key=id type=uint value=2 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:82 : key=pid type=uint value=3485 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virDomainLockManagerNew:135 : Adding leases 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virDomainLockManagerNew:140 : Adding disks 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virDomainLockManagerAddDisk:86 : Add disk /opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1 2012-04-08 20:03:13.351+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerAddResource:320 : lock=0x7faa680021d0 type=0 name=/opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1 nparams=0 params=(nil) flags=0 2012-04-08 20:03:13.352+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerAcquire:337 : lock=0x7faa680021d0 state='(null)' flags=3 fd=0x7faa81355bcc 2012-04-08 20:03:13.352+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerSanlockAcquire:725 : Register sanlock 3 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerSanlockAcquire:783 : Acquire completed fd=3 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virLockManagerFree:374 : lock=0x7faa680021d0 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : qemuProcessHook:2172 : Moving procss to cgroup 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupNew:602 : New group /libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 0:cpu at /cgroup/cpu in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 1:cpuacct at /cgroup/cpuacct in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 2:cpuset at /cgroup/cpuset in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 3:memory at /cgroup/memory in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 4:devices at /cgroup/devices in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 5:freezer at /cgroup/freezer in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 6:blkio at /cgroup/blkio in 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:523 : Make group /libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/memory/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/devices/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/freezer/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/blkio/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:03:13.353+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.359+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.367+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.375+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/memory/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.383+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/devices/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.391+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/freezer/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.399+0000: 3485: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/blkio/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '3485' 2012-04-08 20:03:13.407+0000: 3485: debug : qemuProcessHook:2178 : Setup CPU affinity 2012-04-08 20:03:13.407+0000: 3485: debug : qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity:1464 : Setting CPU affinity 2012-04-08 20:03:13.407+0000: 3485: debug : qemuProcessHook:2185 : Setting up security labelling 2012-04-08 20:03:13.407+0000: 3485: debug : virSecurityDACSetProcessLabel:630 : Dropping privileges of VM to 107:107 2012-04-08 20:03:13.408+0000: 3485: debug : qemuProcessHook:2192 : Hook complete ret=0 2012-04-08 20:03:13.408+0000: 3485: debug : virCommandHook:1922 : Done hook 0 2012-04-08 20:03:13.408+0000: 3485: debug : virCommandHook:1935 : Notifying parent for handshake start on 27 2012-04-08 20:03:13.408+0000: 3485: debug : virCommandHook:1956 : Waiting on parent for handshake complete on 28 2012-04-08 20:03:13.409+0000: 3485: debug : virCommandHook:1972 : Hook is done 0 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_QXL red_worker_main: begin spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_PLAYBACK spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_RECORD handle_dev_input: start I can log in to the VM and everything is fine. Next, i try to start the VM on H2, i get the following error: error: Failed to create domain from libvirt/rhel1.locktest.xml error: internal error Failed to acquire lock: error -243 All seems well, but now the VMs filesystem is in read-only state.... This is the qemu log from H2: 2012-04-08 22:05:27.833: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name rhel1.locktest -uuid b1aa8f3f-4391-1014-3759-79d47a4dffdd -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -drive file=/opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1,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 -device rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:d7:a4:4d,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net tap,fd=25,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 2012-04-08 20:05:27.847+0000: 5141: info : libvirt version: 0.9.4, package: 23.el6_2.7 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2012-03-26-14:12:59, c6b5.bsys.dev.centos.org) 2012-04-08 20:05:27.847+0000: 5141: debug : virCommandHook:1920 : Run hook 0x484a70 0x7f9b3c673610 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : qemuProcessHook:2147 : Obtaining domain lock 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virDomainLockManagerNew:123 : plugin=0x7f9b30016aa0 dom=0x7f9b2000b6a0 withResources=1 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerNew:291 : plugin=0x7f9b30016aa0 type=0 nparams=4 params=0x7f9b3c672a60 flags=0 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:98 : key=uuid type=uuid value=b1aa8f3f-4391-1014-3759-79d47a4dffdd 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:94 : key=name type=string value=rhel1.locktest 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:82 : key=id type=uint value=9 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerLogParams:82 : key=pid type=uint value=5141 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virDomainLockManagerNew:135 : Adding leases 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virDomainLockManagerNew:140 : Adding disks 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virDomainLockManagerAddDisk:86 : Add disk /opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1 2012-04-08 20:05:27.848+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerAddResource:320 : lock=0x7f9b2000dd90 type=0 name=/opt/mln/projects/root/locktest/images/rhel1 nparams=0 params=(nil) flags=0 2012-04-08 20:05:27.849+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerAcquire:337 : lock=0x7f9b2000dd90 state='(null)' flags=3 fd=0x7f9b3c672bcc 2012-04-08 20:05:27.850+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerSanlockAcquire:725 : Register sanlock 3 2012-04-08 20:05:27.850+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerSanlockAcquire:783 : Acquire completed fd=3 2012-04-08 20:05:27.850+0000: 5141: debug : virLockManagerFree:374 : lock=0x7f9b2000dd90 2012-04-08 20:05:27.850+0000: 5141: debug : qemuProcessHook:2172 : Moving procss to cgroup 2012-04-08 20:05:27.850+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupNew:602 : New group /libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 0:cpu at /cgroup/cpu in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 1:cpuacct at /cgroup/cpuacct in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 2:cpuset at /cgroup/cpuset in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 3:memory at /cgroup/memory in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 4:devices at /cgroup/devices in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 5:freezer at /cgroup/freezer in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupDetect:261 : Detected mount/mapping 6:blkio at /cgroup/blkio in 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:523 : Make group /libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/memory/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/devices/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/freezer/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupMakeGroup:545 : Make controller /cgroup/blkio/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/ 2012-04-08 20:05:27.851+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.865+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.873+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.881+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/memory/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.893+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/devices/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.901+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/freezer/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.909+0000: 5141: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:319 : Set value '/cgroup/blkio/libvirt/qemu/rhel1.locktest/tasks' to '5141' 2012-04-08 20:05:27.917+0000: 5141: debug : qemuProcessHook:2178 : Setup CPU affinity 2012-04-08 20:05:27.917+0000: 5141: debug : qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity:1464 : Setting CPU affinity 2012-04-08 20:05:27.918+0000: 5141: debug : qemuProcessHook:2185 : Setting up security labelling 2012-04-08 20:05:27.918+0000: 5141: debug : virSecurityDACSetProcessLabel:630 : Dropping privileges of VM to 107:107 2012-04-08 20:05:27.918+0000: 5141: debug : qemuProcessHook:2192 : Hook complete ret=0 2012-04-08 20:05:27.918+0000: 5141: debug : virCommandHook:1922 : Done hook 0 2012-04-08 20:05:27.918+0000: 5141: debug : virCommandHook:1935 : Notifying parent for handshake start on 27 2012-04-08 20:05:27.919+0000: 5141: debug : virCommandHook:1956 : Waiting on parent for handshake complete on 28 2012-04-08 20:05:27.920+0000: 5141: debug : virCommandHook:1972 : Hook is done 0 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_QXL red_worker_main: begin spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_PLAYBACK spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_RECORD 2012-04-08 22:05:28.141: shutting down qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 3138 Back on H1 there are multiple lines in the qemu log for the VM: block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Input/output error (5) block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Input/output error (5) block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Input/output error (5) block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Input/output error (5) block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Input/output error (5) Can someone please help me understand why the filesystem dies on the original host? Is this an NFS problem? What should I do differently? Many thanks in advance, K

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Re: [libvirt-users] Suggestions on building VM disks from scratch
by Richard W.M. Jones 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

> Then I created my blank 'disk' file and tried to > run virt-rescue on it. It crashed out with an > error from febootstrap. First of all, debug this properly: (1) What is the full error message? (2) What is the complete, unedited output of 'libguestfs-test-tool'? (3) What version of libguestfs & febootstrap are using and where did you get them from? You can post the details on our mailing list libguestfs(a)redhat.com (no need to subscribe if you don't want to). > After finding nothing terribly > useful or current on this in searching, I tried > guestfish instead. After some fiddling I got it > to attach my blank disk. However I cannot find a > reasonable way to partition it with the part-add which > seems to want me to count sectors. All I want is > a 9G linux and a 2G swap. Assuming the filesystem was in /tmp/root.tar.gz, the following code will do this: guestfish <<EOF sparse /tmp/test.img 11G run part-init /dev/sda mbr # 9GB sda1 part-add /dev/sda p 64 $(( 9*1024*1024*2 )) # remainder in sda2 part-add /dev/sda p $(( 9*1024*1024*2 + 1 )) -64 mkfs ext4 /dev/sda1 mkswap /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda1 / tgz-in /tmp/root.tar.gz / EOF Example: $ sh test.sh $ virt-df -a test.img -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% test.img:/dev/sda1 9.0G 276M 8.3G 4% $ ll -h test.img -rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 11G Apr 4 09:39 test.img Whether this would actually boot is another question: you may also need to add some grub commands to set up the bootloader, *or* (better and easier IMHO) set up libvirt so that it boots from an external kernel + initrd. > It also lacks access to rsync. It's not the first time that someone has asked for rsync, and it wouldn't be too hard to add. However note that rsync really gives you no benefit when you're creating a filesystem from scratch, because there's no original to rsync against. If you are updating a filesystem image then rsync makes sense. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org

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[libvirt-users] Is this Race Condition?
by Zhihua Che 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi, everyone I'm writing application using libvirt and I need call virDomainGetCPUStats to get domain cpu stats . I learn from API reference that this function has to be called when domain is running. So my question is if there is an atomic way to test the domain's state and get its stats? Or, it's ok to call this function when domain is not active, but caller just gets error returned. In my code, I just call it directly and return error. I wonder if this programming practice has subtle problem like race condition.

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[libvirt-users] Bare libvirt web interface
by RaSca 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi, I set up a virtual environment based upon KVM/libvirt/pacemaker. When managing this I cannot use virt-manager or virsh, since everything is managed by the cluster. So when I need to migrate a vm I must drive the operation from pacemaker (via crm shell program). I'm ok with this kind of management, but what I need now is just a bare web interface to make the users see just the position (= on which node) and the state of the vm (cpu, memory and so on, like virt-top output). I don't want to use things like ovirt or similar, because I'm managing everything with the cluster and also I cannot use LCMC (http://lcmc.sourceforge.net/) since it is java based and is not as simple as I want. I need just those information to be printed in a self refreshing web page, and before doing it by myself I was just wondering if something already exists. I saw projects like http://karesansui-project.info and https://fedorahosted.org/virt_web but maybe there is something easier and more focused to obtain just the informations I need. Thanks to all of you for your suggestions, -- RaSca Mia Mamma Usa Linux: Niente è impossibile da capire, se lo spieghi bene! rasca(a)miamammausalinux.org http://www.miamammausalinux.org

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[libvirt-users] vcpupin and kvm
by Geoff Galitz 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi. Can anyone confirm if vcpupin works correctly with kvm? If set I pin a vcpu it shows up correctly via vcpuinfo, but querying via taskset shows the cpu is not pinned. Thanks, -Geoff -- ---- Geoff Galitz, ggalitz(a)shutterstock.com WebOps Engineer, Europe Shutterstock Images http://wwww.shutterstock.com/

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[libvirt-users] [Building Error] cannot stat `t-af.gmo': No such file or directory
by Zhihua Che 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi, everyone I'm building the newest libvirt from git repository, of version 782afa98e4a5fa9a0927a9e32f9cf36082a2e8e7 and failed complaining as the following. make[3]: Entering directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po' cd ../../libvirt/po && : --update af.po libvirt.pot cd ../../libvirt/po && rm -f af.gmo && : -c --statistics -o af.gmo af.po mv: cannot stat `t-af.gmo': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [../../libvirt/po/af.gmo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po' make[2]: *** [stamp-po] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 My building steps are cd <build-dir> <src-dir>/autogen.sh --help ./configure --prefix=xxx make

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[libvirt-users] Suggestions on building VM disks from scratch
by Dale Amon 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

This may not be the best forum to ask, but it does seem to be one where it is as likely as anywhere that someone will have dealt with a similar problem. I need to define a procedure for last resort disaster recovery from an incremental file level backup of the root partition (and any others that are critical.) Now it is easy enough to create a raw virtual disk with dd, then to losetup and do a cfdisk and mkfs, then mount it and rsync the backup onto it. At this point I would like to be able to install grub and make the virtual disk bootable. I have 'issues' with the way grub does things and the way it seems to make certain assumptions for you. The virtual disk is in actuality going to become an hd(0) on the virtual machine; but my past experience with grub is that it is going to assume you really intend to install the MBR on your running system disk; but if you tell it hd(1) then when you try to boot it ain't gonna work. Has anyone dealt with these issues? It's more than just a VM one; I run up against it time and again. A few months ago I attempted to attach a brand new SATA disk via a USB converter to my laptop so I could build a system on it for a machine that has not CD, no floppy, etc, etc. I damn near clobbered my laptop but fortunately caught the problem in time and fixed it before a reboot... in which case I'd have *really* had issues.

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[libvirt-users] setvcpus
by Bhasker C V 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi all, I am facing a bit of a trouble with setvcpus on a kvm libvirt The guest is crashing right after the command is given. I have no trouble with virtio_balloon and that is working fine when I use setmem command in virsh. The guest is running 3.3.1 kernel (the command fails both on the stock kernel 2.6.X as-well-as the latest 3.3.1) I have seen it working in xen. But this is kvm. Does this feature work with kvm ? Am I missing any kernel config which enables this ? thanks eg:- virsh # start fedora12 Domain fedora12 started virsh # vcpuinfo fedora12 VCPU: 0 CPU: 1 State: running CPU time: 7.3s CPU Affinity: yyyy VCPU: 1 CPU: 3 State: running CPU time: 2.3s CPU Affinity: yyyy virsh # vcpu fedora12 vcpucount vcpuinfo vcpupin virsh # vcpucount fedora12 maximum config 8 maximum live 8 current config 2 current live 2 virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 14 fedora12 running virsh # setvcpus fedora12 4 error: operation failed: could not change CPU online status virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------- virsh # virsh # version Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.1 Using library: libvir 0.9.1 Using API: QEMU 0.9.1 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.14.1 -- Bhasker C V Secure Mails: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4D05FEEC54E47413

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[libvirt-users] Openvswitch support - port tagging
by Daniele Milani 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

I was looking at the release candidate of libvirt (0.9.11-rc2) and I have not been able to understand if the openvswitch support includes the port tagging support. So my question is: is it possible to create a tagged port? How? Otherwise, would it be useful to add this functionality? Thanks, Daniele Milani

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[libvirt-users] Reality check requested...
by Dale Amon 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Is this going to do what I think it will do? ie will the output be runable on a current licensed vmware server? qemu-img convert -f raw test.img -O vmdk test.vmdk

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[libvirt-users] (no subject)
by Bo Bo 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

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[libvirt-users] call for volunteer: FLOSS weekly podcast opportunity
by Eric Blake 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

The FLOSS weekly podcast is interested in doing an interview about libvirt development on June 6, at 9:30am Los Angeles time (UTC-7). For more information on past podcasts, see: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly With prodding from Justin Clift, I have volunteered to take on the task, but the show host, Randal, prefers to have two developers per show, so I'm looking for anyone else who has developed for or with libvirt, who would be interested in sharing the opportunity. You don't have to have a lot of commits under your belt, so much as having enough active interest in the project and what it enables you to do. In fact, having someone not directly tied to Red Hat as the second contact will probably provide a nicer balance to the interview. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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[libvirt-users] libvirt-lxc Cannot SSH into container
by Shweta Shinde 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hi, I am trying to run containers on rhel 6.2 using libvirt-lxc. I want to migrate my containers from sf.net lxc to libvirt-lxc. So, I am using the same root file system for libvirt-lxc, which I used for sf.netlxc. After starting the container, and getting console for it, I can see the boot log for the container, it shows all the services started successfully. I get ping reply from the IP assigned to this container, but cannot ssh into the container. After entering the password for ssh, connection closed error comes up. I tried chroot to the root filesystem, and checked sshd service status. It shows that sshd is stopped. Also the /proc of container is empty. Am I missing out something in configuration? This is my xml file for container <domain type='lxc'> <name>test01</name> <memory>332768</memory> <os> <type>exe</type> <init>/sbin/init</init> </os> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <filesystem type='mount'> <source dir='/srv/lxc/test01'/> <target dir='/'/> </filesystem> <interface type='network'> <source network='default'/> </interface> <console type='pty' /> </devices> </domain> Thanks, Shweta

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[libvirt-users] virsh - specifying openvz vm sample in domain creation xml
by Jamshaid 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Hello I need to specify the "vm sample name" in domain creation xml. This is the option which is provided to vzctl wtih --config parameter, I can see that in openvz_driver.c there is below code ..... if ((vmdef->profile && *(vmdef->profile))) { ADD_ARG_LIT("--config"); ADD_ARG_LIT(vmdef->profile); } But i am not sure what to put in "domain creation xml" to avail that option ? I cant find anything about it in documentation or around google. Regards James

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[libvirt-users] Libvirt source code cannot built with libnettle.
by Chatsiri Ratana 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Hello All, I try to build dependency library name is gnutls which require by libvirt, but show error us below. $./configure checking for shared library run path origin... done checking whether to use nettle... yes checking for libnettle... no configure: error: *** *** Libnettle 2.4 was not found. I specify macros are LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH/path_of_nettle_2.4/lib and "PATH:path_of_nettle_2.4/bin/:$PATH" on ~/.bashrc . Why show an errors for requiring libnettle version 2.4? VIM command line for show data in config.log. it's show as below. 739 | #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1 740 | #define _ALL_SOURCE 1 741 | #define _DARWIN_C_SOURCE 1 742 | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 743 | #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1 744 | #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1 745 | #define HAVE_FSEEKO 1 746 | #define STDC_HEADERS 1 747 | /* end confdefs.h. */ 748 | #include <nettle/ripemd160.h> 749 | int 750 | main () 751 | { 752 | ripemd160_init (0) 753 | ; 754 | return 0; 755 | } 756 configure:8887: result: no 757 configure:8913: error: 758 *** 759 *** Libnettle 2.4 was not found. Best Regards, Chatsiri Rattana. -- :-------------------------------------------------------- http://about.me/chatsiri.ratana

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[libvirt-users] vzctl 3.1 not supported in virsh ?
by Jamshaid 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hello If i use virsh with vzctl 3.1 i get below error virsh -c openvz:///system error: /Could not extract vzctl version It works ok with vzctl 3.0.x Is there any way i can use virsh with vzctl 3.1 ? ---------------------------------------------------------------- [root@test ~]# /usr/bin/virsh --version=long Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.9.11 See web site at http://libvirt.org/ Compiled with support for: Hypervisors: QEmu/KVM UML OpenVZ VirtualBox Test Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Nwfilter Storage: Dir Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM Miscellaneous: Secrets Debug -------------------------------------------------------- [root@test ~]# vzctl --version vzctl version 3.1 -------------------------------------------------------- Regards James /

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[libvirt-users] virsh create failed: cannot set CPU affinity on process 0
by 杨镭 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hello Everyone: We can't create vm on a physical server with 64 CPU(as reported by /proc/cpuinfo). The error message is: "cannot set CPU affinity on process 0" The following is the capabilities detected by libvirt: <arch>x86_64</arch> <model>Westmere</model> <vendor>Intel</vendor> <topology sockets='4' cores='10' threads='2'/> I wonder if libvirt uses incorrect CPU topology information to set process affinity which lead to the error above.

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[libvirt-users] Specifying the KVM binary to use with libvirt
by Alexander Lyakas 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Greetings everybody, I am running stock ubuntu-natty with kernel 2.6.38-8, KVM 0.14.0 and libvirt 0.8.8. I am spawning virtual machines with libvirt. I would like to test a new KVM version built aside without installing it over existing KVM. Is there a way to tell libvirt which KVM binary to pick up? I've been searching and saw that QEMU driver looks in /usr/bin for KVM executable. Is there a way to adjust that? Thanks, Alex.

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[libvirt-users] Constantly changing USB product ID
by Jaap Winius 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi folks, Recently I learned how to configure libvirt with USB pass-though functionality. In my case I configured my guest domain with this block of code: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x0c93'/> <product id='0x1772'/> <address bus='1' device='4'/> </source> </hostdev> At first this worked fine, but then later the guest domain refused to start because the USB device was absent. When I checked, I found that its product ID had mysteriously changed to 1771. Later it was back at 1772. Now it appears that the USB device I am dealing with has a product ID that changes back and forth between 1771 and 1772 at random. Apparently, the Windows program running on the guest domain is designed to deal with this nonsense, but the question is, Can the guest domain be configured to deal with it? Something like <product id='0x177?'/> would be useful, but that doesn't work, nor does omitting the product tag. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks, Jaap

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[libvirt-users] Problems with nwfilters/iptables
by Nicolai Stange 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi all, I've got a problem with nwfilters/iptables. For one of my guest's interfaces, I have established the following filter: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- <filter name='p-mgmt' chain='root'> <uuid>94fdd15b-b380-ba8c-6685-91206829adc7</uuid> <filterref filter='clean-traffic'/> <rule action='accept' direction='in' priority='500'> <tcp dstportstart='22'/> </rule> <rule action='drop' direction='inout' priority='1000'> <all/> </rule> </filter> </filter>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The intent is to allow incoming ssh only. However, ssh from my host to my guest does not work. This is the relevant iptables excerpt with the filter given as above: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- root:~# iptables -L HI-vnet5 Chain HI-vnet5 (1 references) target prot opt source destination RETURN tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp spt:ssh state ESTABLISHED ctdir ORIGINAL DROP all -- anywhere anywhere root:~# --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The chain relations are: INPUT -> libvirt-host-in -> HI-vnet5. The interesting thing is: If I insert the same rule again, but with ctdir reversed, everything works just fine: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- root:~# iptables -I HI-vnet5 1 -p tcp --sport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -m conntrack --ctdir REPLY -j RETURN root:~# iptables -L HI-vnet5 Chain HI-vnet5 (1 references) target prot opt source destination RETURN tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp spt:ssh state ESTABLISHED ctdir REPLY RETURN tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp spt:ssh state ESTABLISHED ctdir ORIGINAL DROP all -- anywhere anywhere root:~# --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I am not an iptables expert, but if my guest's ssh daemon replies to my host's requests (and thus the packets are traversing my host's INPUT chain), I would guess that the direction is "REPLY" rather than "ORIGINAL". I'm really stuck with this and it would be really great if someone could clarify things to me! I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel 3.2.0-20-generic) coming with libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu1. Best, Nicolai

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[libvirt-users] Problem using virt-manager to create a VM remotely
by Dale Amon 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Well, not that remote. I'm trying to get it working from my laptop to an ancient workstation behind me I use for testing. I appear to get the connection okay. virt-manager --connect qemu+ssh://root@<host_ip>/system I can click on the entry on the panel that comes up and see facts about the remote machine. I then tried the "Create a new virtual machine" item on the tool bar. Fine so far. I get a nice looking panel for New VM and since this is just an experiment, I call it "test". The correct Connection is showing, ie the host ip (QEMU). I accept the default "Local install media (ISO or CDROM)" and go to the next panel. I take the "Use ISO Image" and then give it the full directory path and name of the iso on the remote machine <host_ip>. I have tried leaving OS Type and version Generic; I have also tried setting them to match the iso (an 11.10 i386 server). When I attempt to go forward, it gives me an error panel, "Error Setting install media location. Checking installer location failed: Could not find media '/KdevArchive1/ubuntu-11.10-server-i386.iso' On the off chance that it was trying to mount the iso from my laptop instead of the test machine, I have also tried pointing to the path of the same iso there as well with no joy. I am finding very little documentation on the GUI mode and none of it seems to give me any indication of what is going wrong. Ideas?

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