virt September 2011

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how to add file-based disk space to a guest
by thomas veymont 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

hi there, I'm following these documentations to add a file-based disk volume to a KVM guest under Centos 6.0 : http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualiz… as instructed, I created a "pool" then a "volume", file-based, e.g : mkdir /mnt/raid/kvm_pool1 virsh # pool-define-as pool1 dir - - - - "/mnt/raid/kvm_pool1" virsh # pool-autostart pool1 virsh # vol-create-as pool1 volume1 20G --allocation 15G --format qcow2 now I want to associate "volume1" to my guest OS. Following this doc: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualiz… - why does this ask me to create a file with "dd" ? it's already been created before with the virsh pool commands, isn't it? Seems to me I'm bypassing the libvirt/virsh layer if I do that. - after that, the doc tells me to do some stuff with guest XML files. Is'nt there some specific commands provided by virsh to associate a managed Pool to a managed Guest ? - in this case, should I use the virsh "attach-disk" command ? thanks. -- Tom

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kvm-qemu: unable to execute QEMU command savevm (monitor missing?)
by Jason Brian Friedrich 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

System: CentOS Linux release 6.0 (final) Kernel: 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6.x86_64 KVM: QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2) Libvirt: ibvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.1 Hi everyone, I only recently subscribed to this list and hope you can shed some light on the following error. I created a VM on my Centos 6 KVM machine, used a qcow2 image and wanted to create a snapshot via 'virsh snapshot-create' command: // [root@kvmhost ~]# virsh snapshot-create server01 error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'savevm': The command savevm has not been found \\ I googled before the post, found some [0] threads [1], but could not find an answer how to solve the problem. If the kvm-qemu lacks the support of a savevm monitor, how can I add one? Do I need to recompile kvm-qemu with special flags or is simply a RPM package or a module missing? Thanks in advance, - Jason [0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2011-July/002557.html [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-August/msg00011.html

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Second VM cannot use the network.
by Magicloud Magiclouds 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hi, I started to use libvirt and kvm yesterday. The first VM works great. Today I made another VM, same configuration as before. But its network just did not work. The guest cannot even get a dhcp ip. The network is NAT mode. The first VM got internal ip correctly. The command I made the VM is: virt-install -nzabbix1 -r2048 --vcpus=2 -c/var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel6 --disk vol=kvmguests/zabbix1 --vnc -v --virt-type=kvm --check-cpu --prompt --arch=x86_64 --vnclisten=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole --noreboot --autostart What should I do? -- 竹密岂妨流水过山高哪阻野云飞

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Network and IP's
by Thomas Rønshof 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hi, When "playing" with Cent OS 5.x Virtualization, I could have a host with IP:192.168.10.40 and the guests with IP's: 192.168.10.41, 192.168.10.42... an so on. But now after installing Cent OS 6.0 as a host, I can't figure out how to make my guest get the same IP's. My host is still 192.168.10.40, but the 1. guest i make, get an IP of 192.168.122.x ! I can see something in virtual-manager concerning virtual-networks. It looks new compared to COS 5.x. Is it not possible ? Regards Thomas

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Storage and backup considerations
by Thomas Rønshof 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hi, Some very newbie questions. I have to move an old SCO-Unix server to a Cent OS 6.0 guest on a Cent OS 6.0 Host. The space used on the SCO is 65 GB. How shall i plan the storage ? Make an image based guest of 100 GB an install on that ? Or is LVM based better regarding performance ? Should i allocate 100GB or 200 GB ? What is best ? What about backup ? Should i take backup from the guest with tar/cpio or backup of the image file on the host ? What is the preferable ? Regards Thomas.

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Packet loss between Xen machines
by Aaron Linnen 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

We are experiencing some packet loss between xen machines which we haven't seen before. Is this a problem anyone's run into before and/or has ideas on how to diagnose the issue? The setup is CentOS 5 xen-3.0.3-80.el5_3.3 Aaron

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Connection does not support host device enumeration
by Kaushal Shriyan 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi, I have "20:04.0 Network controller: Sangoma Technologies Corp. A104d QUAD T1/E1 AFT card" on Host OS, Its not visible on guest OS using linux KVM application. I did open the window for guest from virt-manager on my Ubuntu Linux Desktop 11.04, shut down the guest, then select the "Details" view from the menu on that window, and click "Add Hardware" at the bottom, select "PCI Host Device" in the selections on the left, and find your device in the list of host devices on the right. Then click "Finish". Finally, start your guest up again, and the device should appear. I get "Connection does not support host device enumeration" Any clue ? libvirt-0.8.2-22.el5 version running on CentOS Linux Server version 5.6 Please let me know if you need any additional information Regards, Kaushal

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Linux KVM on CentOS 5.6
by Kaushal Shriyan 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, I have IBM x3650M3 Server with 2 Physical CPU each with quad core configs and 32GB of physical RAM and 600 GB usable space. I am using linux kvm for this purpose. Please correct or suggest me if i am doing wrong I have installed CentOS 5.6 on physical server as host OS. I need to create 2 Virtual Machines with similar configs. virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vm1 -r 15000 --cpuset=auto -f /var/tmp/vm1.qcow2 -s 200 -c /var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type linux --os-variant generic26 --accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vm2 -r 15000 --cpuset=auto -f /var/tmp/vm2.qcow2 -s 200 -c /var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type linux --os-variant generic26 --accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm Please let me know the recommended method if there are any changes need to be done in the above command line. I would be eventually running asterisk PBX application on these 2 VM's and also let me know if 2 GB of physical RAM is sufficient for Host OS. Regards, Kaushal

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KVM CO 5.6 VM guest crashes running iSCSI
by Momonth 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi All, I'm running KVM host on CentOS 5.6 x64, all of my guests are CO 5.6 x64 as well. I create / run VMs via libvirt. Here are the packages I have: # rpm -qa | egrep "kvm|virt" kvm-83-224.el5.centos python-virtinst-0.400.3-11.el5 kvm-qemu-img-83-224.el5.centos kmod-kvm-83-224.el5.centos libvirt-python-0.8.2-15.el5 etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5 libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5 The problem: I attached an iSCSI LUN (netapp appliance) to a guest and everything work fine with iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-6.el5: LUN discovery, attaching to the host etc. After that I'm trying to copy ~ 140Gb of data to that LUN via scp from another server in the network and the VM crashes after ~ 1 hour of copying .. Nothing in the VM / KVM host logs importunately. Who has / had similar issues with iSCSI LUNs being connected to a guest? Thanks, Vladimir

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Network traffic control/shaping of guest interfaces
by Emmanuel Noobadmin 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I've been using tc/htb for network control previously to control bandwidth available to different services running on their own IPs on a unvirtualized host. Now, I have put them into their own guest VM. I would like to be able to do something similar to ensure the more crucial service gets more bandwidth as well as ensuring ssh always get reserved bandwidth. However, when I try the good old tc/htb commands on the host, it fails to do anything useful. My script that works on the non-virtualized setup was this TCADD="tc class add dev eth0 parent" $TCADD 1:0 classid 1:1 htb rate 1250kbps ceil 1250kbps $TCADD 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 25kbps ceil 150kbps prio 0 $TCADD 1:1 classid 1:11 htb rate 100kbps ceil 300kbps prio 1 $TCADD 1:1 classid 1:12 htb rate 300kbps ceil 600kbps prio 1 $TCADD 1:1 classid 1:19 htb rate 75kbps ceil 150kbps prio 2 TFADD="tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent" $TFADD 1:0 prio 0 u32 match ip dport 10022 0xffff flowid 1:10 $TFADD 1:0 prio 1 u32 match ip dst <public ip ipaddress 1> flowid 1:11 $TFADD 1:0 prio 1 u32 match ip dst <public ip address 2> flowid 1:12 I can't put the restrictions within the guest because I don't want the individual VM admins to be able to stop the script from running. On my new host, I have bridged networking with br0, eth0 and guests running off vnet<n>. I've tried applying tc on br0, eth0, vnet<n> but they don't seem to have any effect based on a 20MB FTP test. I've been googling for a while to find an solution but haven't hit on anything apart from using yet another firewall/router sitting between everything and the Internet. Is there any other solution apart from that?

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