[libvirt-users] ballooning option xml
Hi everybody, I need the ballooning option with kvm using libvirt xml file and virsh (virsh create domain.xml) kvm line must be appended with the -balloon virtio switch to enable ballooning. (can be disabled if there no option or with -balloon none ) I currently using Ubuntu Lucid How can I define this in the domain xml file, or what need I to do to get this option? is there any option like enabling with <balloon>virtio</balloon> or disabling with <balloon>none</balloon> Thanks in Advance Udo Attila Fischer
2010/5/13 udo1 <udo1@udo.hu>:
Hi everybody,
I need the ballooning option with kvm using libvirt xml file and virsh (virsh create domain.xml) kvm line must be appended with the -balloon virtio switch to enable ballooning. (can be disabled if there no option or with -balloon none )
I currently using Ubuntu Lucid
How can I define this in the domain xml file, or what need I to do to get this option? is there any option like enabling with <balloon>virtio</balloon> or disabling with <balloon>none</balloon>
Thanks in Advance Udo Attila Fischer
Ballooning is enabled by default and cannot be disabled via the domain XML. Do you have any specific problem that makes you think there is a problem with ballooning? Matthias
Hi Matthias, In Ubuntu lucid using kvm, the balloning is disabled by default, so I would need to enable it. (I currently have written a wrapper named as kvm adding this kvm option but this should not be the right way) br Udo Attila Fischer on 2010.05.26. 14:21, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/5/13 udo1<udo1@udo.hu>:
Hi everybody,
I need the ballooning option with kvm using libvirt xml file and virsh (virsh create domain.xml) kvm line must be appended with the -balloon virtio switch to enable ballooning. (can be disabled if there no option or with -balloon none )
I currently using Ubuntu Lucid
How can I define this in the domain xml file, or what need I to do to get this option? is there any option like enabling with <balloon>virtio</balloon> or disabling with <balloon>none</balloon>
Thanks in Advance Udo Attila Fischer
Ballooning is enabled by default and cannot be disabled via the domain XML.
Do you have any specific problem that makes you think there is a problem with ballooning?
Matthias
2010/5/30 udo1 <udo1@udo.hu>:
Hi Matthias,
In Ubuntu lucid using kvm, the balloning is disabled by default, so I would need to enable it.
How do you detect that it's disabled by default, because I cannot reproduce that here with Ubuntu 10.04. libvirt enables ballooning by default. Okay, it only does this when it detects that your QEMU/KVM version supports it, but Ubuntu 10.04 has QEMU 0.12.3 and that version has balloon support. If libvirt detects that your QEMU supports the -device flag then it adds -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 to the command line in order to enable ballooning. This what's added to the command line for me here. If your QEMU doesn't supports the -device flag, but supports the -balloon flag then -balloon virtio is added to the command line in order to enable ballooning. If your QEMU doesn't support non of these flags that you don't get ballooning. You can check the used command line in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guest>.log for qemu:///system connections or in ~/.libvirt/log/qemu/<guest>.log for qemu:///session connections. .... At this point I realize that Ubuntu 10.04 comes with libvirt 0.7.5 and now I understand your problem. A comment in the current QEMU driver code says (since libvirt 0.7.6, git commit 7a90f216): /* QEMU changed its default behavior to not include the virtio balloon * device. Explicitly request it to ensure it will be present. */ So, libvirt 0.7.5 still assumes that QEMU automatically adds the virtio balloon device. The comment and commit message don't say in which QEMU version this was changed, but I assume that QEMU 0.12.3 (as in Ubuntu 10.04) doesn't enable ballooing by default anymore. So you're suffering from a version mismatch between your libvirt and QEMU version: your libvirt is too old for your QEMU, or QEMU is too new for libvirt. I couldn't reproduce your problem at first because I don't have the Ubuntu libvirt packages installed, but compile bleeding-edge libvirt from source.
(I currently have written a wrapper named as kvm adding this kvm option but this should not be the right way)
So you can fix this version mismatch with that script, or upgrade libvirt to a version >= 0.7.6. There is a PPA on Launchpad that offers more up-to-date libvirt packages for Ubuntu. https://launchpad.net/~dnjl/+archive/virtualization Matthias
br Udo Attila Fischer
on 2010.05.26. 14:21, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/5/13 udo1<udo1@udo.hu>:
Hi everybody,
I need the ballooning option with kvm using libvirt xml file and virsh (virsh create domain.xml) kvm line must be appended with the -balloon virtio switch to enable ballooning. (can be disabled if there no option or with -balloon none )
I currently using Ubuntu Lucid
How can I define this in the domain xml file, or what need I to do to get this option? is there any option like enabling with <balloon>virtio</balloon> or disabling with <balloon>none</balloon>
Thanks in Advance Udo Attila Fischer
Ballooning is enabled by default and cannot be disabled via the domain XML.
Do you have any specific problem that makes you think there is a problem with ballooning?
Matthias
Hi Mattias, Thanks, I will check if there any new package is available for Ubuntu Lucid, and if not I will open a problem ticket on Ubuntus Launchpad for it. In a mean time I will use the wrapper, or I have written a control script to control kvm hosts. Best Regards Udo Attila Fischer on 2010.05.30. 13:27, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/5/30 udo1<udo1@udo.hu>:
Hi Matthias,
In Ubuntu lucid using kvm, the balloning is disabled by default, so I would need to enable it.
How do you detect that it's disabled by default, because I cannot reproduce that here with Ubuntu 10.04.
libvirt enables ballooning by default. Okay, it only does this when it detects that your QEMU/KVM version supports it, but Ubuntu 10.04 has QEMU 0.12.3 and that version has balloon support.
If libvirt detects that your QEMU supports the -device flag then it adds
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
to the command line in order to enable ballooning. This what's added to the command line for me here.
If your QEMU doesn't supports the -device flag, but supports the -balloon flag then
-balloon virtio
is added to the command line in order to enable ballooning.
If your QEMU doesn't support non of these flags that you don't get ballooning.
You can check the used command line in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guest>.log for qemu:///system connections or in ~/.libvirt/log/qemu/<guest>.log for qemu:///session connections.
....
At this point I realize that Ubuntu 10.04 comes with libvirt 0.7.5 and now I understand your problem.
A comment in the current QEMU driver code says (since libvirt 0.7.6, git commit 7a90f216):
/* QEMU changed its default behavior to not include the virtio balloon * device. Explicitly request it to ensure it will be present. */
So, libvirt 0.7.5 still assumes that QEMU automatically adds the virtio balloon device. The comment and commit message don't say in which QEMU version this was changed, but I assume that QEMU 0.12.3 (as in Ubuntu 10.04) doesn't enable ballooing by default anymore.
So you're suffering from a version mismatch between your libvirt and QEMU version: your libvirt is too old for your QEMU, or QEMU is too new for libvirt.
I couldn't reproduce your problem at first because I don't have the Ubuntu libvirt packages installed, but compile bleeding-edge libvirt from source.
(I currently have written a wrapper named as kvm adding this kvm option but this should not be the right way)
So you can fix this version mismatch with that script, or upgrade libvirt to a version>= 0.7.6. There is a PPA on Launchpad that offers more up-to-date libvirt packages for Ubuntu.
https://launchpad.net/~dnjl/+archive/virtualization
Matthias
br Udo Attila Fischer
on 2010.05.26. 14:21, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/5/13 udo1<udo1@udo.hu>:
Hi everybody,
I need the ballooning option with kvm using libvirt xml file and virsh (virsh create domain.xml) kvm line must be appended with the -balloon virtio switch to enable ballooning. (can be disabled if there no option or with -balloon none )
I currently using Ubuntu Lucid
How can I define this in the domain xml file, or what need I to do to get this option? is there any option like enabling with <balloon>virtio</balloon> or disabling with <balloon>none</balloon>
Thanks in Advance Udo Attila Fischer
Ballooning is enabled by default and cannot be disabled via the domain XML.
Do you have any specific problem that makes you think there is a problem with ballooning?
Matthias
Hi everybody, I have one more question but virsh related: Is there a reset equivalent option in virsh, like system_reset in QEMU monitor? In the help list I do not see it. Best Regards, Udo Attila Fischer
On 05/31/2010 04:01 AM, udo1 wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have one more question but virsh related: Is there a reset equivalent option in virsh, like system_reset in QEMU monitor? In the help list I do not see it.
No, libvirt doesn't have a reset API, so you there is currently know way to invoke system_reset via virsh. - Cole
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