virt April 2012

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CentOS 6.2 / kvm / Windows XP sp3 guest crashes repeatedly after a few minutes
by Philip Bondi 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hello to all: Recently upgraded from CentOS 6.0 to 6.2 to get USB passthrough support by performing "yum update". USB passthrough works great, but now my Windows XP sp3 guest crashes repeatedly after a few minutes. [root@shackleton-eth0 log]# rpm -qa|egrep '(kvm|kernel|libvirt-|qemu)'|sort abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.4-14.el6.centos.x86_64 dracut-kernel-004-256.el6_2.1.noarch gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.9.el6.noarch kernel-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 kernel-devel-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-devel-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 kernel-firmware-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.noarch kernel-headers-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.5-20.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.6.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.9.4-23.el6_2.6.x86_64 libvirt-python-0.9.4-23.el6_2.6.x86_64 qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.209.el6_2.4.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el6_2.4.x86_64 This message in /var/log/messages precedes every crash: [root@shackleton-eth0 log]# grep kvm /var/log/messages Mar 19 09:09:25 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 09:15:48 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 09:25:51 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 11:21:27 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 12:07:16 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 12:16:14 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 13:46:27 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Mar 19 14:06:49 shackleton-eth0 kernel: kvm: 2889: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 CentOS 6.0 was stable. Windows XP sp3 did not crash. Formerly, I was running virtio-win-0.1-15.iso, but now upgraded to virtio-win-0.1-22.iso and Windows XP sp3 remains unstable.

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KVM - Virtio drivers for Centos 5.1
by aurfalien 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hi all, Really enjoying KVM as I was a long time user of Xen. Both are cool, just enjoying the new thing. Wondering if any one could share some nuggets on how to get a Centos 5.1 VM guest to use virtio? Trying to use virtio over the ide. Thanks in advance, - aurf

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Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?
by Scot P. Floess 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

All, I've had a heck of a time getting Fedora 16 to run as a guest VM under CentOS 5.7 host as a paravirtualized Xen guest. I believe the issue has something to do with Fedora 16 using grub2... When I attempt to start the VM (via xm create), I get this error: Using config file "/etc/xen/fedora-workstation". Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 686, in ? fs = fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file)) IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported No handlers could be found for logger "xend" Error: Boot loader didn't return any data! In my kickstart, I had to create a partition for F16 as: part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 I didn't readily find the error when googling... Has anyone been able to run F16 as a PV guest? And if so, what did you do to make it happen????? Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare

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centos6 and xen4 dom0 memory allocation
by Peter Peltonen 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

Hi, This is slightly OT as xen is not officially supported in EL6. But maybe someone else is running it on centos6 as well and could help me out here: I have problems allocating a static amount of memory for my xen dom0. It seems to reduce when new domUs are created, even though I *think* ballooning is disabled. Can someone advise me what I'm doing wrong? I have xen-4.1.1-3 installed from http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/EL6.xen on my centos6 server. I am running 2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.xendom0.x86_64 kernel available from the same place. 'xl info' reports about available memory as follows: total_memory : 24567 free_memory : 3698 xen_commandline : dom0_mem=2048M and in xend-config.sxp I have: (dom0-min-mem 256) (enable-dom0-ballooning no) (total_available_memory 0) Now one would think that I should have 2048M memory for dom0, right? I started from there, but when starting domUs it has been reduced to 1140M even though I think ballooning is disabled and there is free memory available? And the weird thing is that dom0 has done some swapping: # free -mt total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1140 1052 88 0 2 12 -/+ buffers/cache: 1038 102 Swap: 8194 85 8109 Total: 9335 1138 8197 Shutting down domUs and making more memory available does not reverse the effect, dom0 does not allocate more memory. What am I missing here or is my xen setup acting strangely here? Best regards, Peter

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New Tutorial - RHCS + DRBD + KVM; 2-Node HA on EL6
by Digimer 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hi all, I'm happy to announce a new tutorial! https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial This tutorial walks a user through the entire process of building a 2-Node cluster for making KVM virtual machines highly available. It uses Red Hat Cluster services v3 and DRBD 8.3.12. It is written such that you can use entirely free or fully Red Hat supported environments. Highlights; * Full network and power redundancy; no single-points of failure. * All off-the-shelf hardware; Storage via DRBD. * Starts with base OS install, no clustering experience required. * All software components explained. * Includes all testing steps covered. * Configuration is used in production environments! This tutorial is totally free (no ads, no registration) and released under the Creative Common 3.0 Share-Alike Non-Commercial license. Feedback is always appreciated! -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer(a)alteeve.com Freenode handle: digimer Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org "omg my singularity battery is dead again. stupid hawking radiation." - epitron

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Display and Video modes - more info
by aurfalien 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi all, I've searched around and couldn't really find much on the subject. I am playing around with various video modes (spice, vga, etc...) while keeping the display mode to spice. Wondering why my guests defaulted to Cirrus 9MB as I don;t have that actual video adapter in my machine. And what the explanations are between video modes? I noticed vmvga doesn't work for me but rather then trial and error, it would be nice to read some docs on the subject. Thanks in advance. - aurf

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virtio drivers for Centos 5.8
by aurfalien 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi, So I updated my guest from 5.1 to 5.8 via a complete yum update, many many packages BTW. I shutdown the guest, change its "Disk bus" from IDE to Virtio and then upon boot, I get kernel panics as no disk can be found. I do get the splash screen at first however. My guest has /dev/hda, should I change its fstab to reflect /dev/vda instead? Thans in advance, - aurf

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Centos 6 - Create raid 1 + LVM during gui install
by aurfalien 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Hi all, Does any one know of a how to for creating raid 1 + LVMs during install for Centos 6? Do I create the physical LVM first and then raid or vise versa? Its seems diff then doing it for Centos 5. - aurf

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proper way to snapshot
by aurfalien 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Hi, While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard way to snapshot guests? I went through and converted from raw to pre allocated meta data qcow2 images for this purpose. Some howtos suggest to do an xml snapshot file as so; <domainsnapshot> <name>UbuntuServer_10.10-16032011</name> <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description> </domainsnapshot> And then to run as so; virsh snapshot-create UbuntuServer_10.10 UbuntuServer_10.10-ss.xml Seems a bit over kill. I was thinking more along the lines of this; qemu-img snapshot -c $date $filename qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s $date $filename $filename-$date Or something like this.Anyways, hoping to see how you all are doing this for best practice sort of thing. - aurf

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Guests pausing suddenly
by Peter Hopfgartner 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

We have a CentOS 6.2 server with KVM. That server hosts 2 virtual machines, both with Centos 6.2, too. Regularly, one or both of the virtual machines pass to state "pause" without apparent reason. On resume, I do get have messages, like the following in /var/log/messages. Feb 28 21:50:45 achernar fcoemon: Failed to connect to lldpad Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_TIMEOUT Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 06 db 70 78 00 00 38 00 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 115044472 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252047 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252048 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252049 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252050 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252051 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252052 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 14252053 Feb 29 08:23:56 achernar kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 Feb 29 08:23:57 achernar fcoemon: error 111 Connection refused I could not find any sensible message on the pysical host, neither in /var/log/messages nor in /var/log/libvirt. We do have an almost identical server, same hardware, same software which does not have this problem. How could I proceed to better diagnose the cause of the troubles? Regards, -- Peter Hopfgartner web : www.r3-gis.com

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