Re: [libvirt-users] Starting processes inside VMs using Libvirt?

2014-03-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/24/2014 01:31 PM, Taimur Al Said wrote: > Thank you Eric, [please don't top-post on technical lists] > > I am using KVM: qemu.. I'll try to see how I can use qemu-guest-agent.. > If you have links to examples on how to start with it let me know please. > Consider the following simple scena

Re: [libvirt-users] Starting processes inside VMs using Libvirt?

2014-03-24 Thread Taimur Al Said
Thank you Eric, I am using KVM: qemu.. I'll try to see how I can use qemu-guest-agent.. If you have links to examples on how to start with it let me know please. Consider the following simple scenario.. I am using KVM to run several VMs; one of OSs in the guests is Windows XP. I want to send to i

[libvirt-users] Clock problems on live migration

2014-03-24 Thread Paul Boven
Hi everyone, While doing a live migration, Linux guests will frequently get stuck and become unresponsive, while the CPU utilization on the host for that guest goes to 100%. Sometimes they recover, and dmesg then shows that there's been a clock problem during the live migration: Clocksource

Re: [libvirt-users] Starting processes inside VMs using Libvirt?

2014-03-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/24/2014 10:36 AM, Taimur Al Said wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a beginner with Libvirt. I was practicing using Python bindings with > libvirt to do some basic stuff like starting a VM, rebooting a VM, > displaying the number of domain,etc. I was wondering since the hypervisor > has control ove

[libvirt-users] Starting processes inside VMs using Libvirt?

2014-03-24 Thread Taimur Al Said
Hi there, I am a beginner with Libvirt. I was practicing using Python bindings with libvirt to do some basic stuff like starting a VM, rebooting a VM, displaying the number of domain,etc. I was wondering since the hypervisor has control over the VMs, it is possible to use Libvirt to inject code in

Re: [libvirt-users] io mode=native precisions

2014-03-24 Thread Raphael Bauduin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 03/24/2014 03:57 AM, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Raphael Bauduin > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Before switching to io mode=native, I wanted to check if there

Re: [libvirt-users] can I undo the snapshot apply of a qcow2 image

2014-03-24 Thread Cole Robinson
On 03/24/2014 05:56 AM, lyz_pro wrote: > Hi all > I have a problem. > Two days ago , I used kvm-img create a snapshot of an qcow2 format image. > And today I apply the snapshot of this image. > > The question is can I recovery the image to the last point . > I mean Undo this snapshot apply No

Re: [libvirt-users] io mode=native precisions

2014-03-24 Thread Cole Robinson
On 03/24/2014 03:57 AM, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Raphael Bauduin > wrote: > > Hi, > > Before switching to io mode=native, I wanted to check if there are any > disadvantages or potential problem with this setting. >

[libvirt-users] can I undo the snapshot apply of a qcow2 image

2014-03-24 Thread lyz_pro
Hi all I have a problem. Two days ago , I used kvm-img create a snapshot of an qcow2 format image. And today I apply the snapshot of this image. The question is can I recovery the image to the last point . I mean Undo this snapshot apply -- lyz_pro

Re: [libvirt-users] io mode=native precisions

2014-03-24 Thread Raphael Bauduin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > Hi, > > Before switching to io mode=native, I wanted to check if there are any > disadvantages or potential problem with this setting. > I virtio-blk data plane required to use this setting effectively? (as > illustrated here: > http://blo