5:46 a.m.
Jim,
Thanks for that, I had manually installed
libvirt-daemon-driver-xen, but also needed to install
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl. I can now create VMs and convert config
formats.
However the daemon still fails to start on bootup. It starts fine when I
manually start it with "systemctl start libvirtd" but setting it to
autostart with "systemctl enable libvirtd" seems to have no effect. When
I look at the status, it tells me that the service is "enabled" which
means that it starts on bootup (well, that's what it means for any other
service).
This is rather critical on this PC, as it has unattended restarts and
the VPN/routing is done in one of the VMs (i.e. I can't get to it unless
it auto-starts at least one VM).
Unfortunatley there is nothing appearing in the libvirtd log over a
reboot to help diagnose.
Any suggestions?
Thank you
GC
[root@testhost ~]# systemctl status libvirtd
● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
http://libvirt.org
On 25/07/2017 1:20 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
On 07/23/2017 04:25 PM, G Crowe wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to upgrade my Xen host (Dom0) and are having
> troubles getting it to work.
>
> I think that it has booted into a kernel that supports Xen (running
> 'xl info' does list some Xen capabilities), but I have three problems
> (that I have found so far).
>
> Firstly, the "libvirtd" daemon doesn't start on bootup (and as a
> result all 'virsh' commands fail). It is set to auto-start (systemctl
> enable libvirtd), and can be manually started (systemctl start
> libvirtd), but it will not auto-start on reboot.
>
> Secondly, Once I have manually started libvirtd, when I try to define
> a domain it gives me an error "could not find capabilities for
> arch=x86_64 domaintype=xen" and I haven't yet been able to define any
> domains. This domain type works fine on Fedora 21.
>
> Thirdly, I am unable to convert to/from xml config format, it gives
> me the error "error: invalid argument: unsupported config type
> xen-xl" however the format "xen-xl" works fine on the Fedora 21
machine.
It sounds like the libvirt libxl driver is not loaded. Is the
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl package installed? If it's installed,
enabling debug logging in libvirtd can provide hints why it is not
loading
http://libvirt.org/logging.html
Regards,
Jim
>
> I had these same issues when I tried to upgrade to Fedora 25 and
> assumed that something had been broken and so abandoned further
> attempts to upgrade, however since Fedora 26 is the same I am now
> assuming that I have stuffed something up myself (or missed something).
>
> Fedora 21 uses kernel 3.19.3 and xen 4.4.1
> Fedora 26 uses kernel 4.11.8 and xen 4.8.1
>
> I have tried following the info on
> https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_Host_Installation but it appears to
> be out of date now (I used this site when I started using Xen under
> Fedora 19, and when I upgraded to Fedora 21)
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? outputs from "xl info" and the
> domain config are below. I have also tried disabling SELinux, but it
> made no difference.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> GC
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> On the fedora 26 box.....
> # xl info
> host : family.mydomain.mytld
> release : 4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64
> version : #1 SMP Thu Jun 29 20:09:48 UTC 2017
> machine : x86_64
> nr_cpus : 4
> max_cpu_id : 3
> nr_nodes : 1
> cores_per_socket : 4
> threads_per_core : 1
> cpu_mhz : 2712
> hw_caps :
> b7ebfbff:77faf3bf:2c100800:00000121:0000000f:009c67af:00000000:00000100
> virt_caps : hvm hvm_directio
> total_memory : 8072
> free_memory : 128
> sharing_freed_memory : 0
> sharing_used_memory : 0
> outstanding_claims : 0
> free_cpus : 0
> xen_major : 4
> xen_minor : 8
> xen_extra : .1
> xen_version : 4.8.1
> xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p
> hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
> xen_scheduler : credit
> xen_pagesize : 4096
> platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
> xen_changeset :
> xen_commandline : placeholder
> cc_compiler : gcc (GCC) 7.0.1 20170421 (Red Hat 7.0.1-0.15)
> cc_compile_by : mockbuild
> cc_compile_domain : [unknown]
> cc_compile_date : Wed May 3 21:23:49 UTC 2017
> build_id : 1c6e5a40165e05837303942b54757ae1f2d5033d
> xend_config_format : 4
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> # cat vmtest.xml
> <domain type='xen' id='21'>
> <name>testVM</name>
> <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
> <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
> <os>
> <type arch='x86_64' machine='xenfv'>hvm</type>
> <loader type='rom'>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
> <boot dev='network'/>
> </os>
> <features>
> <acpi/>
> <apic/>
> <pae/>
> </features>
> <clock offset='variable' adjustment='0'
basis='utc'/>
> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
> <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
> <devices>
> <interface type='bridge'>
> <mac address='02:02:00:03:00:00'/>
> <source bridge='enp1s0'/>
> <script path='vif-bridge'/>
> </interface>
> <serial type='pty'>
> <target port='0'/>
> </serial>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='serial' port='0'/>
> </console>
> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
> <graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='no'
> listen='192.168.131.54'>
> <listen type='address' address='192.168.131.54'/>
> </graphics>
> </devices>
> </domain>
>
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