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[libvirt-users] Libvirt-lxc packages deprecation
by syed muhammad 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Folks, I found this thread <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2015-August/msg00026.html>that talks about deprecating libvirt-lxc packages [1] [2] [3] in RHEL7.1. I am using [1] as a dependency for my application deployed on RHEL7.2 servers. For now it works fine but I am not sure about the future RHEL releases. The plan of deprecation was delayed or cancelled? Can someone please share the latest state of this announcement? [1] libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc [2] libvirt-daemon-lxc [3] libvirt-login-shell Regards, Qasim Sarfraz

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[libvirt-users] High i/o-wait in guest but no i/o-wait on host
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hi, I have an issue with one of our CentOS 7 hypervisors. The system is a Dell server equipped with Samsung 840 Pro SSDs. What happens is that the guest does about 40MB/s of writes (mostly MySQL inserts) and ends up becoming almost unusable because of high i/o-wait numbers yet when I check on the host vmstat consistently shows i/o-wait being 0 the whole time. This is weird for two reasons: a) I would not expect 40MB/s to create such an extreme congestion on the SSDs. b) If that congestion is in fact real I would expect to see non-zero i/o-wait numbers on the host created by the corresponding qemu process. Right now it looks like the i/o requests get stuck in the guest even though there is no congestion on the host. Could this be a virtio bug? Has anyone an explanation for this strange behavior? Regards, Dennis

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[libvirt-users] problem cloning storage pool volume
by Andrei Perietanu 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

I'm trying to clone a volume in a storage pool and I'm following the steps described here: http://libvirt.org/docs/libvirt-appdev-guide-python/en-US/html/libvirt_appl… My code looks like: destXML = """ <volume> <name>"""+newDiskName+""".qcow2</name> <target> <path>/jffs2/disk0/"""+poolName+'/'+newDiskName+""".qcow2</path> <format type='qcow2'/> <permissions> <owner>-1</owner> <group>-1</group> <mode>0644</mode> <label>virt_image_t</label> </permissions> </target> </volume>""" srcDisk = tmpPool.storageVolLookupByName(vDisk) newVol = sp.createXMLFrom(destXML,srcDisk, 0) According to the steps described in the link, this should be it; but I can't start any VM that are using this volume. Also comparing the volume XML files for src/dest it looks like the format is not copied over: source: <volume type='file'> <name>k.qcow2</name> <key>/jffs2/disk0/sp/vDisk.qcow2</key> <source> </source> <capacity unit='bytes'>3221225472</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>332075008</allocation> <target> <path>/jffs2/disk0/sp/vDisk.qcow2</path> *<format type='qcow2'/>* <permissions> <mode>0644</mode> <owner>0</owner> <group>0</group> </permissions> <timestamps> <atime>1455879195</atime> <mtime>1455879171</mtime> <ctime>1455879171</ctime> </timestamps> </target> dest: <volume type='file'> <name>newDiskName.qcow2</name> <key>/jffs2/disk0/sp/newDiskName.qcow2</key> <source> </source> <capacity unit='bytes'>3221225472</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>326868992</allocation> <target> <path>/jffs2/disk0/sp/newDiskName.qcow2</path> *<format type='raw'/>* <permissions> <mode>0644</mode> <owner>0</owner> <group>0</group> </permissions> <timestamps> <atime>1455878686</atime> <mtime>1455878681</mtime> <ctime>1455878681</ctime> </timestamps> </target> </volume> I this a bug in libvirt->createXMLFrom ?? Or am I missing something? Thanks, Andrei -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer immediately. It is the policy of Klas Limited to disavow the sending of offensive material and should you consider that the material contained in the message is offensive you should contact the sender immediately and also your I.T. Manager. Klas Telecom Inc., a Virginia Corporation with offices at 1101 30th St. NW, Washington, DC 20007. Klas Limited (Company Number 163303) trading as Klas Telecom, an Irish Limited Liability Company, with its registered office at Fourth Floor, One Kilmainham Square, Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland.

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[libvirt-users] Virtual ethernet delivers corrupt tcpip data
by Peter Steele 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

We came across this article recently. Does anyone know if libvirt-lxc under CentOS 7 is impacted by this bug? It mentions that a fix for this has been ported back as far as 3.14 kernels, but CentOS 7.1 is still only at 3.10. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/02/22/1715202/linux-virtual-ethernet-bug…

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[libvirt-users] Sluggish performance with virtio and Win10
by John Obaterspok 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hello, I'm using virt-manager on my F23 box to run a Windows 10 image but the performance is so bad it's killing me. I have "vmx" flag in /proc/cpuinfo # lsmod |grep kvm kvm_intel 167936 6 kvm 503808 1 kvm_intel virtio-win-0.1.112-1.noarch But no virtio modules loaded. Should they be loaded nowadays? The disk format used is vmdk with no caching and native mode. The io is 100% in windows task manager performing less than 1MB/s Any clues? /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -name win10-box -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.4,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu SandyBridge,+osxsave,+pcid,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,kvm=off -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid d4a67adb-5d30-42f8-b8c6-d3c4598700f2 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/win10-box.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x6 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6.0x2 -device ahci,id=sata0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1 -drive file=/vm/storage/win10-box.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=vmdk,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0xa,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=27,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=28 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:cc:f0:31,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,seamless-migration=on -device VGA,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -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=0x7 -msg timestamp=on

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[libvirt-users] About the vfio error when using SR-IOV
by Xiao Ma (xima2) 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hi, All I want to use the SR-IOV of intel 82576 NIC. I enabled IOMMU and VT-d and SR-IOV in BIOS. And enabled VT-d in kernel. The OS information is bellow: [root@host3 nova]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) [root@host3 nova]# uname -an Linux host3.localdomain 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 11:36:42 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@host3 nova]# rpm -qa|grep qemu libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7.x86_64 qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-86.el7.x86_64 ipxe-roms-qemu-20130517-6.gitc4bce43.el7.noarch qemu-img-1.5.3-86.el7.x86_64 [root@host3 nova]# rpm -qa|grep libvirt libvirt-daemon-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-python-1.2.8-7.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-client-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-glib-0.1.7-3.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 And I can see the vf of the NIC after ‘ echo '7' > /sys/class/net/ens1f1/device/sriov_numvfs ' [root@host3 VTS2.1-demo]# lspci |grep -i ethernet 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. 10GbE Converged Network Adapter (TCP/IP Networking) (rev 02) 08:00.1 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. 10GbE Converged Network Adapter (TCP/IP Networking) (rev 02) 0f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 0f:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 10:10.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) 10:10.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) 10:10.5 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) 10:10.7 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) 10:11.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) 10:11.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) 10:11.5 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Virtual Function (rev 01) I configured the interface as bellow in XML: <interface type="hostdev" managed="yes"> <mac address="fa:16:3e:f7:57:5f"/> <source> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x10" slot="0x10" function="0x3"/> </source> <vlan> <tag id="1000"/> </vlan> </interface> But the error output when I boot one vm: [root@host3 VTS2.1-demo]# virsh create vtc.demo.xml error: Failed to create domain from vtc.demo.xml error: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem: 2016-02-22T07:38:42.169035Z qemu-kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=10:10.3,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3: vfio: error, group 17 is not viable, please ensure all devices within the iommu_group are bound to their vfio bus driver. 2016-02-22T07:38:42.169215Z qemu-kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=10:10.3,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3: vfio: failed to get group 17 2016-02-22T07:38:42.169233Z qemu-kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=10:10.3,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3: Device initialization failed. 2016-02-22T07:38:42.169248Z qemu-kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=10:10.3,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3: Device 'vfio-pci' could not be initialized Could you please help to solve it? Looking forward for your reply. Thanks.

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[libvirt-users] UserID Permissions: Virtual Machine Manager vs virsh and Python
by David Ashley 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

I have added a user to the libvirt group on my CentOS 7.2 server and that user can successfully access the Virtual Machine Manager without authenticating as expected. This allows the user to perform all functions in the VMS as if they were root. This is acceptable as this is a private server with no outside access so security is not a real issue. But when that same user tries to perform functions with virsh or using a Python script that uses the libvirt module, the connection is just read-only. Why are the permissions different for these environments and what must I do to give the user r/w access in virsh or the Python script? David Ashley

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[libvirt-users] VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_ACTUAL_BALLOON meaning
by Jean-Pierre Ribeauville 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Hi, I'm wondering what means the VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_ACTUAL_BALLOON value . On a Windows Guest , rammap tool gives me following information : Driver Locked size 6.6 Giga This value is relevant with virsh dominfo of this Guest (equal to Max memory - Used memory): Max memory: 8704000 KiB Used memory: 2097152 KiB >From libvirt API , VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_ACTUAL_BALLOON value is : active_balloon (2048000.000000) Could you give me some light ? Thx . Regards, J.P. Ribeauville P: +33.(0).1.47.17.20.49 . Puteaux 3 Etage 5 Bureau 4 jpribeauville(a)axway.com<mailto:jpribeauville@axway.com> http://www.axway.com<http://www.axway.com/> P Pensez à l'environnement avant d'imprimer.

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[libvirt-users] IGPU passtrough with AMD APU
by David Hlacik 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Guys Is it possible to passtrough iGPU from AMD A10-7870K to kvm virtual machine? If so then how please? Thank you David

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[libvirt-users] Amount CPU's
by Dominique Ramaekers 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Quick question. In my host, I've got two processors with each 6 cores and each core has two threads. I use iometer to do some testings on hard drive performance. I get the idea that using more cores give me better results in iometer. (if it will improve the speed of my guest is an other question...) For a Windows 2012 R2 server guest, can I just give the guest 24 cores? Just to make shure the os has all the possibilities to run as quickly as possible? Thanks in advance. Dominique.

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