[CentOS-virt] Failing to start or create VM, cannot connect to hypervisor host
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 14:19:41 EDT 2012
Curious, is this system (the host) on a software raid?
- aurf
On Jun 17, 2012, at 10:35 AM, jboyce at meridianenv.com wrote:
> Sorry for the mess on the message threading; responding from the daily
> digest.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I'll research any option that may provide a
> lead to a solution right now. I have not tried to touch
> /etc/qemu/krb5.tab. After a little research on what this file is for, I
> don't see that it would help me since I have never set up the system to
> use kerberos. I don't even have an /etc/qemu directory on my host. I
> would suspect that part of the error is a side effect of something else
> that is the main cause. Please keep coming with the suggestions though.
> I am working on a plan B to make the data files available to the staff on
> Monday morning.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: jboyce at meridianenv.com
>> Subject: [CentOS-virt] Failing to start or create VM, cannot connect
>> to hypervisor host To: centos-virt at centos.org
>> Message-ID:
>> <21752.184.157.241.237.1339881244.squirrel at www.meridianenv.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
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>>
>> Greetings -
>>
>>
>> I shutdown one of my Centos 6.2 VMs for some offline maintenance and am
>> now unable to get it to restart. I am also unable to create and start a
>> new VM. The host system is Centos 6.2, fully up to date. I have been
>> searching Google for two days and have not been successful in getting a
>> VM
>> to start. I have restarted libvirtd, but did not want to shutdown my other
>> two running VMs and reboot my host system, unless I felt confident that it
>> would solve the problem. The other two VMs on the box are still running
>> fine, but I am also unable to connect to a console in VirtManger with
>> them. I was able to connect to all these VM consoles from the host system
>> just a week or so ago. The only changes that I had recently made to the
>> host system was to add some restrictions in my /etc/hosts.allow and
>> hosts.deny files and installed Fail2ban. I have reversed all of the
>> changes to my hosts.allow/deny files and have stopped the Fail2ban
>> service. Still unable to start or create a VM. I am at the end of my
>> rope here and am hoping someone will be able to direct me with where I
>> should be looking next. My error and log messages are listed below.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Trying to start the VM using VirtManager at the console of the host
>> results in the following error.
>>
>> error: Failed to start domain SequoiaVM
>> error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char
>> device redirected to /dev/pts/7 inet_listen_opts: bind(ipv4, 127.0.0.1,
>> 5902) : Cannot assign requested
>> address inet_listen_opts: FAILED
>>
>>
>>
>> Each attempt at a restart results in the following set of messages in
>> /var/log/messages
>>
>>
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth kernel: device vnet2 entered promiscuous mode
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth kernel: br0: port 4(vnet2) entering learning state
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth qemu-kvm: Could not find keytab file:
>> /etc/qemu/krb5.tab: No such file or directory
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth kernel: br0: port 4(vnet2) entering disabled state
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth kernel: device vnet2 left promiscuous mode
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth kernel: br0: port 4(vnet2) entering disabled state
>> Jun 16 13:45:04 earth kernel: libfcoe_device_notification:
>> NETDEV_UNREGISTER vnet2
>>
>>
>>
>> Log messages in /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log are similar to the console
>>
>>
>> 2012-06-16 19:56:39.807+0000: 32175: error : virNetSocketReadWire:911 :
>> End of file while reading data: Input/output error
>> 2012-06-16 20:15:23.672+0000: 32176: error : qemuMonitorOpenUnix:290 :
>> failed to connect to monitor socket: No such process 2012-06-16
>> 20:15:23.672+0000: 32176: error :
>> qemuProcessWaitForMonitor:1289 : internal error process exited while
>> connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/7
>> inet_listen_opts: bind(ipv4,127.0.0.1,5902): Cannot assign requested
>> address inet_listen_opts: FAILED
>>
>>
>>
>> Log messages in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/SequoiaVM.log are similar
>>
>>
>> 2012-06-16 13:45:04.572: starting up
>> LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none
>> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp
>> 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -name SequoiaVM -uuid
>> 1ca3a14b-cd4b-f371-b3fe-1cd518480c09 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
>> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/SequoiaVM.monitor,server,
>> nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc
>> -no-shutdown -boot order=dc,menu=on -drive
>> file=/dev/vg_mei/lv_sequoiaroot,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,c
>> ache=none,aio=native -device
>> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=vir
>> tio-disk0 -drive
>> file=/dev/vg_mei/lv_sequoiaswap,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw,c
>> ache=none,aio=native -device
>> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=vir
>> tio-disk1 -drive
>> file=/dev/vg_mei/lv_sequoiavar,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk2,format=raw,ca
>> che=none,aio=native -device
>> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,drive=drive-virtio-disk2,id=vir
>> tio-disk2 -drive
>> file=/dev/vg_mei/lv_sequoiahome,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk3,format=raw,c
>> ache=none,aio=native -device
>> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8,drive=drive-virtio-disk3,id=vir
>> tio-disk3 -drive
>> file=/dev/vg_mei/lv_sequoiaecosystem,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk4,format=
>> raw,cache=none,aio=native -device
>> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9,drive=drive-virtio-disk4,id=vir
>> tio-disk4 -drive
>> file=/dev/sr0,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw
>> -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0
>> -netdev tap,fd=28,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=29 -device
>> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:9d:b2:49,bus=pci.0,add
>> r=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device
>> isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0
>> -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -vga cirrus -device
>> intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device
>> hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device
>> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0xa char device redirected
>> to /dev/pts/7 inet_listen_opts: bind(ipv4,127.0.0.1,5902): Cannot assign
>> requested address inet_listen_opts: FAILED
>> 2012-06-16 13:45:04.872: shutting down
>>
>>
>>
>> I attempted to create a new VM (TempSequoiaVM) via VirtManager which also
>> failed to be created and started. These are the messages in
>> /var/log/libvirt/qemu/TempSequoiaVM.log
>>
>>
>> 2012-06-16 13:15:23.168: starting up
>> LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none
>> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp
>> 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name TempSequoiaVM -uuid
>> ef6c99c7-7fea-e24d-447c-cf98d6ffbec3 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
>> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/TempSequoiaVM.monitor,se
>> rver,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc
>> -no-reboot
>> -no-shutdown -drive
>> file=/dev/vg_mei/lv_TempSequoia,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,c
>> ache=none,aio=native -device
>> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=vir
>> tio-disk0,bootindex=2 -drive
>> file=/dev/sr0,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw
>> -device
>> ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1
>> -netdev tap,fd=25,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=26 -device
>> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:48:59:9e,bus=pci.0,add
>> r=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device
>> isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0
>> -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -vga cirrus -device
>> intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device
>> hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device
>> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 char device redirected
>> to /dev/pts/7 inet_listen_opts: bind(ipv4,127.0.0.1,5902): Cannot assign
>> requested address inet_listen_opts: FAILED
>> 2012-06-16 13:15:23.673: shutting down
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:01:52 -0400
>> From: Travis <corasian at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Failing to start or create VM, cannot
>> connect to hypervisor host To: Discussion about the virtualization on
>> CentOS
>> <centos-virt at centos.org>
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>> A) Could be a perm issue for the krb5.tab file for the qemu system user.
>>
>>
>> B) Have you tried 'touch /etc/qemu/krb5.tab' if the file doesn't truly
>> exist?
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