On 09/29/2015 07:55 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:37:25PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 09:04:23PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I just upgraded some of my el6xen boxes to latest CentOS 6.7, Xen 4.4.3 and dom0 3.18.17 rpms, and noticed these new problems: >>>> >>> >>> And third issue aswell: >>> >>> 3) Creating an HVM guest using virt-manager with file-based storage uses loopback-mount, not blktap >>> >>> When I manually create a new Xen HVM guest using virt-manager, and choose file-based image for storage of the VM, it seems to be set up to use file: backend/driver with loopback-mounted image file: >>> >>> <disk type='file' device='disk'> >>> <driver name='file'/> >>> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/testvm2.img'/> >>> <backingStore/> >>> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> >>> </disk> >>> >>> # losetup -a >>> /dev/loop0: [fd00]:1709109 (/var/lib/libvirt/images/testvm2.img) >>> >>> With earlier versions of rpms similar setup used blktap2 backend.. (and yes, I do have blktap module loaded in dom0 kernel). >> >> I remember having to patch some dependency of virt-manager to give it >> the correct default driver name (something like, it got 'tap' but >> needed to be 'tap2'). In all likelihood, someone has sussed that >> 'tap' doesn't work and just replaced it with 'file'. Actually, it's >> fairly likely if they've updated stuff in CentOS that you're not >> getting the re-build virt-manager stuff either -- I may have to respin >> that one as well. >> > > I think it's specified at least in python-virtinst. See these emails from a few years back about the tap/tap2-issue: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-June/msg00037.html > https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-June/msg00039.html This is indeed where it was patched before (as a stand alone program) .. have they now rolled that into virt-manager? > > >> While we're here, could you give me a couple of virt-install and >> virt-viewer "smoketest" commands that I could add to my automated test >> scripts? ATM I'm testing libvirt by using virsh to import an xl .cfg >> file, but it would be better to have something that created the config >> end-to-end. Using virt-manager directly is probably more work than >> I'm up for in most cases, but hopefully if I can test the things it >> depends on I can notice this sort of breakage. >> > > The problem with virt-viewer issue is that it gives the "error popup" in the GUI, > so there's no way to figure out it didn't work without looking at the GUI and interacting with the gui.. > > Not easy to script/automate.. > > >> Thanks, >> -George > > > -- Pasi > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20150929/625e075f/attachment-0003.sig>