[CentOS-virt] [QEMU-KVM] Centos guest VM freezing

Wed Jan 9 10:05:13 UTC 2019
John Haxby <jch at thehaxbys.co.uk>


> On 9 Jan 2019, at 09:50, Akshar Kanak <akshar.kanak1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi  
> Thanks for the reply 
> 
> We have seen the same guest VM freezing on vmware ESXi machine also , so we were interested in know in the internal condition of the guest vm when the freeze happened 	
> How can we analyse the core file generated by "virsh dump "
> 

Use crash(8).

When you've discovered the internal state of the comatose guest what are you going to do with it?   Find out when it was fixed in the years since you updated and update to that version?   Add it to the list of rediscovered bugs?  Wait to see if it happens again before you are pwned by one of the many, many security fixes since you last updated?

jch

> Thanks and regards
> Akshar
> 
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 1:58 PM Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
> On 1/9/19 10:24 AM, Akshar Kanak wrote:
>> Dear team 
>>     I am running a centos guest VM  which freezes for every few days . The qemu-kvm on  shows 100% cpu utilization.
>>     Ping to the guest might work or may not work .Please can you tell me what approach can i take to debug it .
>>     using "virsh dump" I can dump the core of the  guest vm but I am not sure how to analyse it . 
>>     Guest Centos VM : "Linux GUESTCentOS70 3.10.0-123.4.4.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jul 25 05:07:12 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
>> 					  "CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)"
>> 					  1 vcpu and 2 GB ram 
>> 					  
>> 	Host machine : "Linux HOST 3.10.51-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 1 13:14:11 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
>> 					"CentOS release 6.5 (Final)"
>> 	qemu-kvm package used : qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.10.x86_64
>> 	
>> 	Thanks and regards
>> 	Akshar
> 
> I'd say that you should start by updating the OS on both host and guest. Both OSes are heavily outdated, you lack YEARS of updates.
> 
> 
> 
>     Regards
> 
> 
> 
>     Manuel
> 
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