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[libvirt-users] remote xenserver problem
by linxiao.st＠centerm.com.cn 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

HI： I’m a user of your libvirt, and it help me a lot of time. Thank you for your greate work! However,I found some understand problems,the following is my test environment: 1.I use the version of libvirt is libvirt1.1.1,when I want to use the command like this: #virsh -c xenapi://<my localip>/?no_verify=1 #virsh :list #enter username for<my localip>:root #enter password for<my localip>: it return correct list,but when i input virsh --all list this #virsh list --all it most of time return correct lists,but sometimes returns interal error:TRANSPORT_FAULT:56 why? With my good wishes! linxiao.st(a)centerm.com.cn

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[libvirt-users] Redhat VM is not getting IP from DHCP
by Praveen Kumar 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Hi, Below is the steps which I performed but not getting the IP of the guest. * Created a fresh VM (RHEL-6.4-server-x86_64) * Checked ifconfig output ( Getting IP from DHCP server) * Took xml dump. * Changed UUID in the xml * Changed MAC in the xml * Changed Name * defined a another VM using changed xml. * boot it up and checked the ifconfig status.( Not able to get IP) If same steps I follow in fedora guest then it's working as expected (getting the IP from DHCP). Any Suggestions? -- Praveen Kumar

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[libvirt-users] how to setup network filter
by Jiaan Zeng 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Hi All, I am new to libvirt and encounter a strange problem to set up network filter in a NAT network. I launched VMs in a single host using NAT, i.e. interface type='network'. Now I want to control the outbound traffic from VM instance - only allow the VM to asses a set of ip addresses. My network filter xml is as follows. The problem is once I change the VM xml, shutdown and start VM, VM cannot get ip address. /var/log/libvirt/libvirt.log shows " error : virNetDevGetIndex:656 : Unable to get index for interface vnet2: No such device" error. But when I remove the drop rule in the filter xml, VM can get IP address. I even tried the clean-traffic filter shipped with libvirt. VM throws the same error above. Any idea why this happens? How can I implement outbound traffic control in libvirt? Thanks a lot. <filter name='filter-test'> <rule action='accept' direction='in' priority='500'> <tcp dstportstart='22'/> </rule> <rule action='accept' direction='out' priority='500'> <ip dstipaddr='IP1'/> </rule> <rule action='accept' direction='out' priority='500'> <ip dstipaddr='IP2'/> </rule> <rule action='drop' direction='out' priority='500'> <all/> </rule> </filter> The VM network section XML looks like this <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:0d:f1:ce'/> <source network='default'/> <filterref filter='filter-test'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> -- Regards, Jiaan

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[libvirt-users] Migration Clarification Request
by The PowerTool 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

I built a vm with the guest OS Windows XP. I have it running exactly the way I need it. Now I need to move it to a computer at another location. My plan was to build the vm and then just copy the ISO and take it to the new system. Specifications: Host OS is a current/up-to-date Fedora 18 I used yum install @virtualization I launched boxes in gnome and installed the guest system (XP) After getting everything running to my specifications I started researching how to move the vm to another system. I have one question: Referring to the information at: http://libvirt.org/migration.html " Migration of guests between hosts is a complicated problem" Can someone please point me to documentation stating why migration is "a complicated problem"?? The vm is powered off. I didn't use encryption (that I'm aware of--and I hope that doesn't bite me but I can re-install if necessary). gnome-boxes made this a pretty-simple setup and I like it. I know with about the same effort I can do this in VMWare, if necessary. I also know with VMWare I can create vm images that are portable and easily transported from system to system. If that is not the case with libvirt and gnome-boxes I'd like to understand why. Even though gnome-boxes made the setup fairly easy I can see where it is still in it's infancy. I thought libvirt was more mature and seems to offer CL access to everything I need (which I really like). Thanks, in-advance, for your help and consideration. ThePowerTool "You're darn right, more power."--Tim "the toolman" Taylor

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[libvirt-users] Finding out CPU topology
by Peeyush Gupta 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi, I have been trying to find out CPU topology using libvirt. I understand that I can find out the number of cores/sockets/ threads etc through getCapabilities() function. What I am wondering is that is there any function that can provide me the exact topology like how many sockets, how many sockets per core and number of threads per core, if applicable or may be info about numa cells. Is there any mechanism to achieve this? Thanks, ~Peeyush Gupta

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[libvirt-users] Defining VM with snapshots?
by Skardal, Harald 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

All, Using Centos 6.4 with provided libvirt: [root@node1 ~]# rpm -q libvirt libvirt-1.0.1-2.el6.x86_64 Assume a VM with one or more live snapshots. In virsh the VM snapshots can be listed. With virsh: - Stop and undefine this VM. - Then define (and start) this VM. The new VM does not have the list of snapshots. Is there a way with virsh to rebuild the metadata such that libvirt "knows" about the snapshots in the "disk stack"? Harald

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[libvirt-users] Oracle RAC in libvirt+KVM environment
by Timon Wang 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

We wan't to setup two Oracle instance and make RAC work on them. Both VM are setup based on libvirt + KVM, we use a lvm lun which formated in qcow2 format and set the shareable properties in the disk driver like this: <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/> <source dev='/dev/81035c32-d2e4-4aaf-82fa-3e76ae587586/ca18f6a5-7c98-46ea-b562-9424e68a52f3'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <shareable/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> But when we use it as shared data disk like we use iscsi/FC disk for shared data disk, the disk can't be recognized as a share disk, and RAC can't be setup in the environment. Any body can give me some guild on this? I am wondering shareable in the libvirt config really makes the disk shareable? How can I setup the RAC environment in this situable? I found that vmware and vbox can do this according to a blog post, I am wondering if kvm has this ability to make a disk really shareable. -- Focus on: Server Vitualization, Network security,Scanner,NodeJS,JAVA,WWW Blog: http://www.nohouse.net

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[libvirt-users] How to deal with LXC cgroup access control with apparmor ?
by 止语 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

I am playing with libvirt 1.1.1 (lxc) when I was starting a LXC container, the process location of cgroup is pretty , just the root directory from the process. But I could tune the cgroup in a container as an user that logged, This is not accepted... I wonder how to restrict it with apparmor ,so one can not modify files in the cgroup fs, e.g the cpus or mem, if i restrict it with "deny /sys/fs/cgroup/** wrklx," in apparmor ,the container woulld not start up . "Permission denied", because that a process would mount the cgroup, it seems done by libvirt_lxc, Any way to restrict the cgroup in the container or just not mount cgroup in the container ?? Any help would be appreciated, thanks .

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[libvirt-users] Fwd: The error for creating a new vm for kvm
by Qian Feng 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Qian Feng <qianfeng04161001(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] The error for creating a new vm for kvm To: Humble Chirammal <hchiramm(a)redhat.com> I use lsmod | grep kvm, it shows kvm and kvm_intel. It shows: kvm_intel 39608 0 kvm 247190 1 kvm_intel BTW, I use virt-manager to create a new virtual machine for qemu/kvm, it shows no guests are supported for this connection. I tend to restart the service for libvirtd, service libvirtd restart, it shows the error: libvirtd: unrecognized service libvirtd is in the directory: /usr/sbin/libvirtd On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Humble Chirammal <hchiramm(a)redhat.com>wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Qian Feng" <qianfeng04161001(a)gmail.com> > | To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > | Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:20:03 PM > | Subject: [libvirt-users] The error for creating a new vm for kvm > | > | I checked the capabilities. I do not know why the guest is only for vbox. > | <guest> > | <os_type>hvm</os_type> > | <arch name='i686'> > | <wordsize>32</wordsize> > | <domain type='vbox'> > | </domain> > | </arch> > | </guest> > | > | I want it run qemu-kvm. and when i run virsh define > | /etc/libvirt/qemu/demo.xml. It shows error: Failed to define domain from > | /etc/libvirt/qemu/demo.xml > | error: unknown OS type hvm > > Any of the possibility listed here can contribute that error.. > http://humblec.com/error-libvirt-unknown-os-type-hvm/ > > | > | Then I use virsh-install --prompt to install kvm guest, it shows error: > | libvirtError: this function is not supported by the connection driver: > | virConnectNumOfDefinedStoragePools > | > | I really do not know how to do, please help me, thanks. > | > | -- > | Have a nice day! > | > | Qian > | > | _______________________________________________ > | libvirt-users mailing list > | libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > | https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > -- Have a nice day! Qian -- Have a nice day! Qian

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[libvirt-users] The error for creating a new vm for kvm
by Qian Feng 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

I checked the capabilities. I do not know why the guest is only for vbox. <guest> <os_type>hvm</os_type> <arch name='i686'> <wordsize>32</wordsize> <domain type='vbox'> </domain> </arch> </guest> I want it run qemu-kvm. and when i run virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/demo.xml. It shows error: Failed to define domain from /etc/libvirt/qemu/demo.xml error: unknown OS type hvm Then I use virsh-install --prompt to install kvm guest, it shows error: libvirtError: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectNumOfDefinedStoragePools I really do not know how to do, please help me, thanks. -- Have a nice day! Qian

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