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[libvirt-users] ANNOUNCE: libvirt Perl bindings Sys::Virt 0.2.7 release
by Daniel P. Berrange 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

I am happy to announce a new release of the libvirt Perl bindings, Sys::Virt 0.2.7 is available for download: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DANBERR/Sys-Virt-0.2.7.tar.gz Changes in this release - Honour flags parameter when dumping XML - Use thread local error APIs exclusively - Fix bogus extra URI parameter in migrate_to_uri function - Implement all virStream APIs in Sys::Virt::Stream - Impement virDomainGetSysinfo binding - Call virInitialize when loading module - Add all missing error constants - Update example RPM spec to match Fedora - Requires libvirt >= 0.8.8 The permanent link for the Sys::Virt package, where all historic releases can be found, is http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Virt/ Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release through testing, bug reporting, patch submission, etc Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|

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[libvirt-users] Starting libvirtd cuts off host access to external network
by PLD 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

I've spent some hours on this without success - any help greatly appreciated. I've just done a new RHEL6 setup, with a KVM guest (first time). The basic installation works fine until I start libvirtd; at this point, the host machine loses access to the external network: step 1: ping from host to network works; external machine on network can ping both eth0 and br1 on the host step 2: /sbin/service libvirtd start step 3: ping from host to network fails; external machine on the network can't ping either eth0 or br1 on the host Stopping libvirtd (/sbin/service libvirtd stop) makes no difference - the network remains unreachable. Any idea why this would happen? I have installed a kvm guest, using the default network script at /etc/libvirtd/qemu/networks/default.xml (although I've changed the IP addresses to be on my subnet, and the DHCP server returns only one address). I have also configured a bridge; I've attached ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1, and ifcfg-br1 below. I haven't changed any iptables configuration. If I run the guest (also RHEL6) the guest can talk to the host, but it can't see the outside world. Thanks - Paul ================================================ ifcfg-eth0: ----------- NM_CONTROLLED="no" DEVICE="eth0" HWADDR=00:16:E6:8A:C7:20 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes IPV6INIT=no NAME="System eth0" NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ifcfg-eth1: ----------- NM_CONTROLLED="no" DEVICE="eth1" HWADDR=00:16:E6:8A:C7:21 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes IPV6INIT=no NAME="System eth1" BRIDGE=br1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ifcfg-br1: ---------- NM_CONTROLLED="no" DEVICE=br1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Bridge DELAY=0

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Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17
by m m 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Yes, I also think that iptables module should be loaded before libvirt-bin and I have seen a post which regarded loading conntrack modules and these modules also seem to be necessary... I know a little about Upstart in Ubuntu. However, I still don't know how to properly solve this problem. ip_tables module depend on other modules being loaded and since I don't know the full list of modules which should be loaded (for IP tables to work) I don't know how to handle that. Besides, even if I had this list, it could change for some time, so it is not a good idea to rely on that. Version which I have installed is the newest release from Ubuntu repositories. Thank you for help. I will be grateful for any further suggestions. 2011/6/13 <libvirt-users-request(a)redhat.com> > Send libvirt-users mailing list submissions to > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > libvirt-users-request(a)redhat.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > libvirt-users-owner(a)redhat.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of libvirt-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: libvirt-bin MOSTLY fails to create default virtual > network (Laine Stump) > 2. Boot delay (Jeff) > 3. e: How to disconnect the ISO image using virsh (Jeff) > 4. Difference between function Migrate and Migrate2 (Abhishek Gupta) > 5. Re: Boot delay (Michal Privoznik) > 6. hook scripts - not in Ubuntu packages? (Whit Blauvelt) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:03:17 -0400 > From: Laine Stump <laine(a)laine.org> > To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt-bin MOSTLY fails to create > default virtual network > Message-ID: <4DF4E345.7060104(a)laine.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 06/06/2011 03:24 PM, m m wrote: > > I have observed 3 scenarios after I reboot the host with 2 guests > > (which are supposed to autostart after boot/reboot of the host): > > 1. Default network is created but I can not ping guests. Gests don't > > have assigned IP address or they both have IP address 192.168.122.100. > > 2. Default network is not created. > > 3. Default netork is properly created and everything works fine. > > In each case guests are started and they work properly. Cases 1. and > > 2. happen a lot more often then case 3. > > > > My solutions: > > - When I restart libvirt-bin then everything is fine. > > - When I set 'sleep 40' in 'pre-start' section of > > /etc/init/libvirt-bin.conf and modify 'start on' section in the > > following way: > > > > start on (runlevel [2345] and net-device-up IFACE=br0) > > > > then everything works fine. > > > > > > However, none of the above solutions indeed solves the problem. > > Please, let me know if there is solution to this problem or what are > > your suggestions regarding this issue. > > > > **** > > HOST$ uname -a > > Linux ras 2.6.32-32-server #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 22:07:43 UTC 2011 > > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > GUEST1 and GUEST2 > > $ uname -a > > Linux server1-desktop 2.6.32-32-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 > > 21:54:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > HOST$ libvirtd --version > > libvirtd (libvirt) 0.7.5 > > > > My idea was that some kernel modules sometimes are loaded before > > libvirt-bin starts, and sometimes libvirt-bin starts earlier, or in > > the middle of loading of these modules, that is why 3 scenarios can be > > observed. > > That is why I have added: > > cp /proc/modules /home/wsadmin2/modules1 > > cp /proc/modules /home/wsadmin2/modules2 > > to 'pre-start' and 'post-start' parts respectively of > > /etc/init/libvirt-bin.conf. > > > > Of course, beween execution of > > - pre-start part > > - exec /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d > > - post-start part > > other kernel modules can be loaded, so we can not be sure which > > additional modules in file 'modules2' were indeed loaded before > > libvirtd was actually started. > > > > Here are my observations: > > Scenatio 1. > > 33 (fixed) modules were logged - call them BASE MODULES. > > > > Scenatio 2. > > Beside BASE MODULES + the following modules were loaded: > > > > > iptable_filter 1841 0 - Live 0xffffffffa007c000 > > > ip_tables 18201 1 iptable_filter, Live 0xffffffffa0172000 > > > x_tables 22361 1 ip_tables, Live 0xffffffffa0164000 > > In your "scenario 1" the modules necessary for iptables to function > haven't been loaded. Each virtual network requires a set of iptables > rules to function properly, and if there is no iptables, the rules can't > be added and network creation fails. Your libvirtd.log confirms that > problem: > > 10:06:06.980: error : networkAddIptablesRules:750 : failed to add > iptables rule to allow DHCP requests from 'virbr0': Invalid argument > > > 0.7.5 is quite old (> 1 year), is there perhaps a newer pre-built > version of libvirt available for your release of Ubuntu? > > It seems that Ubuntu's method of starting up libvirtd (at least on your > machine) is missing a dependency to force iptables to be loaded before > libvirtd starts. I'm unfamiliar with Ubuntu/debian startup stuff > (upstart, I guess), but that's where you need to look for the solution. > > I found the following in the ubuntu bug database, which seems similar, > but not identical (basically the system networking isn't completely > ready by the time the autostart domains are brought up): > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/495394 > > > > > Scenatio 3. > > Beside BASE MODULES + the following modules were loaded: > > > > $ diff modules1 modules2 > > 1c1,6 > > < iptable_filter 1841 0 - Live 0xffffffffa008b000 > > --- > > > xt_state 1490 14 - Live 0xffffffffa01ab000 > > > xt_tcpudp 2667 12 - Live 0xffffffffa01a5000 > > > nf_conntrack_ipv4 12742 14 - Live 0xffffffffa019b000 > > > nf_conntrack 73326 2 xt_state,nf_conntrack_ipv4, Live > 0xffffffffa017d000 > > conntrack is used by iptables. I haven't tried it, but wouldn't be > surprised if adding rules that required conntrack failed if it hadn't > been loaded, or something like that. > > > > nf_defrag_ipv4 1481 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4, Live 0xffffffffa0177000 > > > iptable_filter 1841 1 - Live 0xffffffffa008b000 > > 3c8 > > < x_tables 22361 1 ip_tables, Live 0xffffffffa0162000 > > --- > > > x_tables 22361 3 xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables, Live 0xffffffffa0162000 > > > > Other observations: > > Scenatio 1. > > No errors in libvirtd.log > > Scenario 2. > > > > 10:06:06.980: error : networkAddIptablesRules:750 : failed to add > > iptables rule to allow DHCP requests from 'virbr0': Invalid argument > > (...) > > 10:06:08.630: error : qemudNetworkIfaceConnect:1445 : Failed to add > > tap interface to bridge 'virbr0': No such device > > 10:06:08.630: error : qemuAutostartDomain:584 : Failed to autostart VM > > 'cluster_server1': Failed to add tap interface to bridge 'virbr0': No > > such device > > > > 10:06:08.921: info : qemudDispatchSignalEvent:390 : Received > > unexpected signal 17 > > 10:06:08.927: debug : virExecWithHook:617 : LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/kvm -help > > 10:06:08.938: info : qemudDispatchSignalEvent:390 : Received > > unexpected signal 17 > > 10:06:09.000: error : qemudNetworkIfaceConnect:1445 : Failed to add > > tap interface to bridge 'virbr0': No such device > > 10:06:09.000: error : qemuAutostartDomain:584 : Failed to autostart VM > > 'cluster_server2': Failed to add tap interface to bridge 'virbr0': No > > such device > > (...) > > Scenatio 3. > > No errors in libvirtd.log > > > > > > I didn't see any valuable logs in /var/log/boot.log, > > /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog. Please let me know if you want to > > see them anyway or have any suggestions right away. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > libvirt-users mailing list > > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:25:00 -0500 > From: Jeff <jwk1230(a)gmail.com> > To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Subject: [libvirt-users] Boot delay > Message-ID: <4609858C-FB73-4E8A-B81B-3EDCBB83B755(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Is there a method of tweaking the boot sequence of a KVM instance so that > you can delay the process for X number of seconds? I don't have enough time > between starting the KVM and connecting via VNC. > > Thanks > > Jeff > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:12:36 -0500 > From: Jeff <jwk1230(a)gmail.com> > To: Osier Yang <jyang(a)redhat.com>, libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Subject: [libvirt-users] e: How to disconnect the ISO image using > virsh > Message-ID: <F301FBCE-65F1-411A-980E-EF8B6A46241B(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I am trying to detach an ISO from a KVM machine and I've tried both > attach-disk using " " in the file path as well as the update-device option > but am getting this error > > error: Failed to update device from /var/run/libvirt/qemu/kvmtest1.xml > error: XML description for unknown device type is not well formed or > invalid. > > I tried doing a virsh edit on the xml file to remove the source file path > to the ISO, as I assume is the correct method, and then running the virsh > update-device but it's not working. > > Can anyone advise the correct steps to detach a device from a running > and/or offline domain? > > Additionally - anyone have any guidance on how to attach a CD device to a > domain that is currently shutdown, for example, if I wanted to boot the > domain to a rescue CD image? > > Thanks > > Jeff > > > ? 2011?03?31? 15:17, Masanari Iida ??: > Somebody sent me a tips. > Following command do what I wanted to do. > Thanks. > > attach-disk guest01 " " hdc --driver file --type cdrom > --mode readonly > Also using "update-device" with an xml which doesn't specify > the source file path will work. > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Masanari Iida<standby24x7 gmail com> > wrote: > Hello, > > I can attach disc ISO image to cd-rom from virsh. > And I can replace the ISO image from disc1 to disc2 using the 2nd example. > > (example) > attach-disk guest01 /root/disc1.iso hdc --driver file --type cdrom > --mode readonly > attach-disk guest01 /root/disc2.iso hdc --driver file --type cdrom > --mode readonly > > My question is, how can I disconnect the image from the cdrom drive using > virsh. > Because, if I try to detach-disk hdc, I got following errors. > > virsh # detach-disk guest01 hdc > error: Failed to detach disk > error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: > This type of device cannot be hot unplugged > > What I can do is possible from virt-manager's "Disconnect" button, > (next to source path: line) from Hardware's TAB, Disk hdc screen. > I want to do this from virsh. > > OS: RHEL5.6 > libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5_6.1 is used. > > Regards, > Masanari Iida > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users redhat com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/attachments/20110610/f4acfe4c… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:39:46 +0530 > From: Abhishek Gupta <cs1090174(a)cse.iitd.ernet.in> > To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Subject: [libvirt-users] Difference between function Migrate and > Migrate2 > Message-ID: <BANLkTinv6XiRMz=rS88A-U-b2Hz3SVTesg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I was reading the API reference for the libvirt, when I came across > the function? virDomainMigrate and virDomainMigrate2. I am unable to > find the difference between the two. Can someone please tell the > difference in the application of the two? > > -- > Abhishek > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:21:02 +0200 > From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com> > To: Jeff <jwk1230(a)gmail.com> > Cc: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Boot delay > Message-ID: <4DF62ADE.60209(a)redhat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 13.06.2011 15:25, Jeff wrote: > > Is there a method of tweaking the boot sequence of a KVM instance so that > you can delay the process for X number of seconds? I don't have enough time > between starting the KVM and connecting via VNC. > > > You might consider using virt-viewer. It simply waits for domain to > boot, if it is down. > > Your other option is to create hook script: > http://libvirt.org/hooks.html > and put conditional sleep there, because libvirt just before running a > domain tries to execute qemu with some arguments (e.g. -help) to qeury > its capabilities. And you don't want your hook script to delay that. > > So you need something like this: > > if [ $2 == "start" ]; then > sleep 5 > fi > > > Thanks > > > > Jeff > > > > _______________________________________________ > > libvirt-users mailing list > > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > > Michal > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:42:44 -0400 > From: Whit Blauvelt <whit.virt(a)transpect.com> > To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > Subject: [libvirt-users] hook scripts - not in Ubuntu packages? > Message-ID: <20110613154244.GA28777(a)black.transpect.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:21:02PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > > > Your other option is to create hook script: > > http://libvirt.org/hooks.html > > That looks useful. > > On several Ubuntu systems, with Ubuntu libvirt 0.8.8 and 0.8.3 packages > installed, there's no libvirt/hooks/ directory at all. Is this a directory > that can simply be created and used under libvirt, or does using this > feature on Ubuntu require custom installation? > > Thanks, > Whit > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > > End of libvirt-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17 > ********************************************* >

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[libvirt-users] Bypass USB to Xen VM
by Lorenzo Milesi 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi. I'm trying to bypass an USB device from the host to a paravirtualized Xen VM. I found this page: http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsUSB which says how to bypass usb and pci devices to guests. It says that works on KVM only, but is that notice about PCI or about ALL? Anyway I tried both from virt-manager and from virsh edit domain by adding the following: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'> <source> <vendor id='0x03f0'/> <product id='0x0114'/> </source> </hostdev> but the edit is ignored, right after I save, if I do a dumpxml the "hostdev" stanza is not present. Why? Any other way to bypass? usbip? thanks

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[libvirt-users] Display port allocation
by Tom Hughes 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

The automatic port allocation algorithm for displays in libvirt seems to assume that it is the only thing that will be allocating ports in the normal VNC range starting at port 5900. My host is running vino to export it's display, which has bound itself to port 5900, yet libvirt is still trying to use port 5900 for both VNC and Spice displays if I leave it in auto allocation mode. I thought that this used to work in F14 but having just tried it again it looks like I may have been mistaken. Certainly it doesn't seem to work properly in F15 either with the standard libvirt or with the virt-preview one. Tom -- Tom Hughes (tom(a)compton.nu) http://compton.nu/

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Re: [libvirt-users] virsh slow on execution
by Lorenzo Milesi 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

> Also, when I start a VM via OCF, while guest is booting the command > virsh domstate mydom > returns "no state". This makes PaceMaker believe the resource is not > running and continuously stops and restart the machine. I've let a shell open with virsh domstate mydom active in loop, and it seems that it returns the correct state one time once very much requests! Say over 20 requests, only one or two says "idle" or "running", all the others return "no state". I'd like to know why virsh fails so many times returning correct state... thanks

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[libvirt-users] virsh slow on execution
by Lorenzo Milesi 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Hi. I've set up a Debian6+Xen4+libvirt0.9 server. VMs are going to be managed by PaceMaker with VirtualDomain primitive. As found on some mailing list I've set export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI="xen:///" in root's .bashrc, but when I run virsh commands, it takes up to 10s to get the result! Is this normal? At some point today I had issues connecting to libvirt, and in this case it was responding fast, less than couple of seconds. Also, when I start a VM via OCF, while guest is booting the command virsh domstate mydom returns "no state". This makes PaceMaker believe the resource is not running and continuously stops and restart the machine. How can I speed up virsh output? Thanks

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[libvirt-users] Problems migrating xen domains
by Lorenzo Milesi 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Hi. I've set up a cluster with two Debian 6 nodes, running Xen 4 and libvirt 0.9 (from backports). My VMs run over a DRBD resource, to allow live migration between the nodes. I've successfully tried live migration using xm migrate, now I'd like to make it work using virsh, but cannot make it. Here's the error I'm getting: # virsh migrate efw xen+ssh://10.22.22.152/ error: POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err "can't connect: (-2, 'Name or service not known')") As said, xm migrate worked at first, so xend should be set up correctly. I've done several searches but with no luck. What could be the problem? thanks Relevant configs: # cat /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp |grep -v ^#|grep -v ^$ (xend-http-server yes) (xend-unix-server yes) (xend-relocation-server yes) (xend-port 8000) (xend-relocation-port 8002) (vif-script vif-bridge) (dom0-min-mem 196) (enable-dom0-ballooning yes) (total_available_memory 0) (dom0-cpus 0) (vncpasswd '') # env|grep VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI=xen:/// root@xensrv01:~# virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.0 Using library: libvir 0.9.0 Using API: Xen 3.0.1 Running hypervisor: Xen 4.0.0

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[libvirt-users] basic network setup
by Jerry Worley 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

I am setting up a network with 2 guests, each on different subnets. The physical machine has 2 NICS, one on each subnet. I want the physical and guest machines to have IP addresses with no NAT, in their respective subnets, and then I want a separate subnet where the 2 guests can connect directly to each other. Can somebody explain conceptually the best way to use physical adapters, bridges, virtual bridges, virtual networks to accomplish this.

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[libvirt-users] Virsh Console - Changes in guest
by Abhishek Gupta 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hello Virsh Console was not working on my setup. (also it required ctrl + shift + ] instead of ctrl+alt+] for interrupt) But after I create a file /etc/init/ttyS0.conf # ttyS0 - getty # # This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is # started until it is shut down again. start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] stop on runlevel [!2345] respawn exec /sbin/getty -L 38400 ttyS0 vt102 Reload libvirt-bin, and restart the vm the console starts working. Is there any other way of doing this without the need of changing the guest files and independent of guest OS? I am using libvirt version 0.8.8. -- Abhishek abhishekgupta92.info

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