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[libvirt-users] How to obtain rights to extend libvirt documentation pages
by Марк Коренберг 26 May '10

26 May '10

For example, http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks does not contain <serial>xxxx</serial> tag. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593266) I wrote to community (users and developers). No one has added this information to the site... -- Segmentation fault

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[libvirt-users] NAT-based network 2x-4x faster than routed network?
by Kenni Lund 22 May '10

22 May '10

Hi Is it expected behaviour that a libvirt NAT-based network is faster than a libvirt routed network? I would guess that the routed network would be the fastest one in all cases, but I'm seeing the opposite in my setup. On a 100mbit internet connection, the routed network tops at 4mbyte/sec, while the nat-based network goes all the way to 10mbyte/sec. I've spend the last 6 hours on trying to figure out the cause of this, changing settings, reinstalling the system, but the problem persists and I can't find the cause of it. It is a clean and fairly simple setup: - Clean installation of CentOS 5.5 - Installation of kvm+libvirt+virt-manager+xorg - iptables service disabled - 1 public IP for the host (xxx.yyy.zzz.215) on a /32 subnet with xxx.yyy.zzz.193 as gateway - 3 public IP for the routed network (xxx.yyy.zzz.251-253) on a /26 subnet with the same gateway as the host - 1 virtual machine with either the NAT or the routed libvirt network assigned I have no networking connection errors or similar, it works perfectly with both the NAT and the routed network, but the routed network is just 2-4 times slower than the NAT one. Do you have any suggestions of what the problem might be? When I look at the iptables rules generated by libvirt, and the routing table, everything looks fine AFAICT. Traceroute from guest doesn't reveal anything either. Ping times from the two networks are similar, so the main issue seems to be throughput. Any help or pointers to what I should look at, is highly appreciated... :) I've copy pasted some of my relevant system configuration into pastebin: http://pastebin.com/jtTrHLqA Thank you, Kenni

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[libvirt-users] Update of libvirt website required. not all information about XML tags
by Марк Коренберг 21 May '10

21 May '10

The problem desribed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593266 Please update http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html and describe NEW xml tags, like <serial>xxxx</serial> for hard drive and all cpu tags, other if any. -- Segmentation fault

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[libvirt-users] ctrl+alt+2 disabled?
by Ralf Hornik Mailings 19 May '10

19 May '10

Dear list, I need to attach pci devices using qemu command interface but when I use the vnc connection started using virsh, the key combination (or qemu interface) seems to be disabled. How can I (re)enable it? Thanks and best regards Ralf

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[libvirt-users] Can't get audio device through virt-manager
by Arthur Pemberton 19 May '10

19 May '10

virt-manager is not asking qemu to produce any sound device based on the kvm-qemu I see with 'ps aux' https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592671 -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)

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[libvirt-users] learn XML <network/>
by Michael Löblich 19 May '10

19 May '10

Can please anybody write a XML-description for the diagram shown on http://libvirt.org/archnetwork.html Michael

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[libvirt-users] virsh domxml-from-native not working
by Ralf Hornik Mailings 18 May '10

18 May '10

Dear list, when I try to convert the (working) command /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive file=/dev/xen_vol/xen_ca,cache=none,if=virtio,boot=on \ -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=00:16:3E:04:F5:6D \ -net tap,ifname=tap1 -m 256 -name ca \ -vnc 10.0.0.100:4 -daemonize -k de into an xml file: <domain type='qemu'> <name>ca</name> <uuid>dfef3884-d7a9-f6cf-5204-1615963cc0e8</uuid> <memory>262144</memory> <currentMemory>262144</currentMemory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type> </os> <features> <acpi/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver cache='none'/> <source dev='/dev/xen_vol/xen_ca'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> </disk> <interface type='ethernet'> <mac address='00:16:3e:04:f5:6d'/> <target dev='tap1'/> <model type='virtio'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='5904' autoport='no' listen='10.0.0.100'/> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> </video> </devices> </domain> Then it stops to boot while haning on "Loading Grub Stage 2". Additionally, the keyboard encoding "de" is missing. The corresponding process is: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc-0.12 -no-kvm -m 256 \ -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \ -name ca -uuid dfef3884-d7a9-f6cf-5204-1615963cc0e8 \ -nodefaults \ -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/usr/local/libvirt/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/ca.monitor,server,nowait \ -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot c \ -drive file=/dev/xen_vol/xen_ca,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,cache=none \ -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 \ -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=00:16:3e:04:f5:6d,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \ -net tap,ifname=tap1,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -usb -vnc 10.0.0.100:4 \ -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 Any Ideas, hats going wrong? Thank yout and best regards Ralf Hornik

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[libvirt-users] Sharing same storage on two diffrent KVM hosts
by shy Perets 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hello , I whould like your suggestion regarding the following problem : I got 2 host which are running under RHEL5.4 hypervizor . both of the hosts disks is a logical volume .( Each for each ) under the same VG . I want to add storage ( another logical volume ) which will be availble for both of the host as local disk . ( Share storage ) Thanks .

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[libvirt-users] Can not restore domain from a shared state file
by Zhang Qian 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hi, I have two KVM host: h1 and h2, both of them mount an NFS directory as a shared storage. I can save (virsh save <domain> <file>) a domain in h1 to a state file in the shared storage successfully, but failed to restore it from h2 with the following error message: # virsh restore testRes.dat error: Failed to restore domain from testRes.dat error: operation failed: failed to start VM I can always restore it from h1, but sometimes works for h2 (wait for a while, then "virsh restore" command may succeed in h2). I guess the state file generated by "virsh save" command is not intact from h2 point view, may be cause by the cache of NFS server? Any suggestions will be really appreciated, thanks in advance! Regards, Qian

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[libvirt-users] XML-Created domain vanishes after shutdown
by Alexander Topolanek 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hi, im migrating existing kvm-images into libvirt domains, by creating a domain in virsh from a xml file. The domain starts, is working fine, but after shutdown it is lost, and I have to recreate it. BTW, can I reset the domain count somewhere? Any ideas? thx and kind regards Alexander virsh # version Compiled against library: libvir 0.4.6 Using library: libvir 0.4.6 Using API: QEMU 0.4.6 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.9.1 This is my xml file: <domain type='qemu' id='2'> <name>munin</name> <uuid>6bb2995a-5443-2ddb-67fe-d69a9814ece4</uuid> <memory>262144</memory> <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory> <vcpu>2</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>preserve</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/var/kvm/virsh/munin.img'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:30:1c:45:40:02'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1' keymap='de'/> </devices> </domain>

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[libvirt-users] Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 592671 : can't use any sound device from virt-manager
by Arthur Pemberton 16 May '10

16 May '10

url : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592671 basically I'm not getting any sound devices when invoking from virt-manager at least. -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)

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[libvirt-users] How to eject cdrom by libvirt API
by Zhang Qian 14 May '10

14 May '10

Hi, I want to eject cdrom by calling libvirt C API, I found there is a similar feature in virt-manager: disconnect cdrom from the related iso file, I am wondering how to achieve this by libvirt API. Thanks! Regards, Qian

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[libvirt-users] remote libvirt vbox
by angelo alfano 11 May '10

11 May '10

I tried: import libvirt conn = libvirt.open("vbox+ssh://user@192.168.0.10/session") Prompted for a password for ssh connection, but returns this error: libvir: QEMU error : server closed connection Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/angelo/workspace/test.py", line 11, in <module> conn = libvirt.open("vbox+ssh://user@192.168.0.10/session") File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 169, in open if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: server closed connection

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[libvirt-users] error libvirt
by angelo alfano 11 May '10

11 May '10

I have a problem con libvirt, if running this python code: import libvirt conn = libvirt.open("vbox:///session") return this error: libvir: QEMU error : server closed connection libvir: warning : Failed to find the interface: Is the daemon running ? libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find a node driver: Is the libvirtd daemon running ? libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find a secret storage driver: Is the daemon running ? If I running the python code in sudo mode, I don't have error. I have before add the my user at the group "libvirtd" with: sudo adduser user libvirtd Angelo

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[libvirt-users] Volume not found when migrating a VM
by Mathias Tausig 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello! I want to migrate a machine from one host to another. But upon running migrate drbd01 qemu+tls://192.168.20.2/system in virsh, I get the error message Fehler: cannot open file '/dev/masterGroup/drbd01_system': No such file or directory "/dev/masterGroup/drbd01_system" is the LVM based system volume of the VM to be migrated which is of course available (the machine can be started without any problem). I tried to execute the migrate comman both locally and remote. I am using libvirt 0.8.1 under SLES11. regards Mathias

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[libvirt-users] Error connecting to console
by Anthony Davis 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hi, i have KVM running at the moment and im trying to do a text based install of centos, so i need to connect to the console via virsh virsh console servername but i get this error: error: Failed to get local hostname How do i resolve this issue to get a consol connection to the server? I have tried to put it into the /etc/hosts file, but to no avail. Hope someone can help or suggest another method of doing a headless and X less install of a guest? Kind Regards Tony

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[libvirt-users] How to prevent IP-spoofing/traffic sniffing by the guest machines? (KVM)
by guido 08 May '10

08 May '10

Hi, In a libvirt/KVM setup, what is the best way to prevent untrusted guest machines from (a) sending packets with a sender address different from their own and (b) reading packets not intended for them? Note that guests may have any number of IP addresses they are allowed to use legitimately. Guido

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[libvirt-users] migration using libvirt api
by rahul singh 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hello, I am working on xen hypervisor. I am facing problem in migating vm locally on same system using libvirt api. please help me with some c sample codes. Please send some demo programs or some related help how to migrate a vm locally using libvirt api. Thanking Yuo Rahul Singh

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[libvirt-users] How to prevent IP-spoofing/traffic sniffing by the guest machines?
by guido 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi, In a libvirt/KVM setup, what is the best way to prevent untrusted guest machines from (a) sending packets with a sender address different from their own and (b) reading packets not intended for them? Note that guests may have any number of IP addresses they are allowed to use legitimately. Guido -- Too much multitasking isn't good for you.

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[libvirt-users] Full documentation for virsh?
by David Ehle 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hello, Does anyone know where full documentation for virsh can be found? Or if the there are any plans to update the man page? The man page lists far fewer commands than virsh lists from its interactive mode when you type help. I noticed this when I was trying to figure out the difference between pool-destroy, and pool-delete. The help entries in the virsh shell are not very informative: virsh # help pool-destroy NAME pool-destroy - destroy a pool SYNOPSIS pool-destroy <pool> DESCRIPTION Destroy a given pool. OPTIONS <pool> pool name or uuid virsh # help pool-delete NAME pool-delete - delete a pool SYNOPSIS pool-delete <pool> DESCRIPTION Delete a given pool. OPTIONS <pool> pool name or uuid ... unless you already know how virsh defines delete vs destroy. (anyone care to explain it to me?) The word pool does not occur in the virsh man page for Ubuntu Karmic release at least. Thanks for the great list!

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[libvirt-users] libvirtd loses all of its data after restart
by guido 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi, I'm having a problem with libvirtd (backend being kvm) losing its if I restart it with /etc/init.d/libvirtd restart. What I did was: Start libvirtd Connect to it using virsh Create a new storage pool with pool-create-as Create some volumes with vol-create-as Create some virtual machines with create Restart libvirtd using /etc/init.d/libvirtd restart Reconnect with virsh After this, all the previously defined pools, volumes and virtual machines would no longer be listed with pool-list or list, respectively. (list --all doesn't show anything either) The virtual machines I had started earlier are still running and I can still connect to them using vnc, but obviously, I can no longer manage them using libvirt. Why is this happening? Is libvirtd's data not supposed to be persistent? Is this maybe just an old bug? How can I get the still running virtual machines back under control? The system I'm using for this is a recently installed CentOS 5.4 with libvirt-0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 installed directly from its package repository. The only changes I made from the vanilla install was to install and configure some SSL certs in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf, as described on the libvirt website and to enable LIBVIRTD_ARGS="--listen" in /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd. Guido -- Too much multitasking isn't good for you.

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[libvirt-users] weird "no supported architecture for os type 'hvm'"
by Claude Noshpitz 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hi, I have two identical machines with exactly the same CentOS 5.4 kickstarted from the same sources, and the same packages installed. Their cpuinfos are identical, and they are running libvirt 0.6.3 with the very same libvirtd.conf. Yet... One of them works fine, the other says "no supported architecture for os type 'hvm'" for the same template (attached) and image. Any thoughts on what kind of defect or misconfiguration could cause this? Thanks much! --Claude

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[libvirt-users] FYI: Notes on setting up KVM guests using iSCSI
by Daniel P. Berrange 06 May '10

06 May '10

DV suggested that we document some libvirt setups using shared storage. I'm not a fan of NFS, so I wrote some blog posts on how to use iSCSI in the context of libvirt + KVM. There is of course more than one way todo things, so I've outlined a couple of different options. One completely manual command line approach using tgtadm on the iSCSI server: http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-i… ..and virsh/virt-install on the KVM host http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-i… Then one completely GUI based approach, using a QNAP NAS as the iSCSI server http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-i… ..and a virt-manager on the KVM host: http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-i… You can of course mix+match, doing the iSCSI server the manual way and the libvirt bits the GUI way and vica-verca. Any other commercial iSCSI server will have the same concepts so the libvirt instructions apply in all likely scenarios. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|

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[libvirt-users] Building & Installing on OpenSolaris
by gary mazzaferro 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi, I'm revisiting my libVirt install for opensolaris. I downloaded libvirt 0.8.0.. This is a bit embarassing, but I forgot how to build libVirt on opensolaris. (It's been a while) I'm currently stuck with the configure script failing to find linux kernel headers. Error: "configure: error: You must install kernel-headers in order to compile libvirt" Can anyone post the instructions to build under opensolaris? cheers, gary

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[libvirt-users] libvirt with qemu-kvm, not recognizing NIC model
by Jonathan Hoover 05 May '10

05 May '10

Is this the right list for this question, or should I be elsewhere? I am trying to specify a network card "model type" of "pcnet" (to emulate vmware esxi's network card). No matter what I put for model type in my xml config file, it comes up as an Intel e1000. I ran "qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null" and I got back a list of supported models including pcnet,e1000,virtio, and others as expected. No matter which I put in my xml file for /etc/libvirt/qemu/Symantec-bg.xml (a Symantec Brightmail Gateway virtual machine), I just get back that its an Intel card on boot (which doesn't work with Symantec BG). I am running Fedora 12, kernel is 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64. The version of libvirt is 0.7.1. I am running it on an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66 GHz. I have the same problem under Fedora 13 Beta. Thoughts? Jonathan Hoover

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