[libvirt-users] HugePages - can't start guest that requires them

2015-01-30 Thread G. Richard Bellamy
Hello All, I'm trying to enable hugepages, I've turned off THP (Transparent Huge Pages), and enabled hugepages in memoryBacking, and set my 2MB hugepages count via sysctl. I'm getting "libvirtd[5788]: Failed to autostart VM 'atlas': internal error: Unable to find any usable hugetlbfs mount for 16

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh snapshot-create persistent through destroy(undefine)

2015-01-30 Thread Yitao Jiang
Hi,Eric Thank you very much for the information On Jan 28, 2015 1:51 AM, "Eric Blake" wrote: > On 01/27/2015 03:10 AM, Yitao Jiang wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If i take a snapshot of a qcow2 image backed domain via virsh > > snapshot-create domainID and I shutdown the machine (and probably destroy >

Re: [libvirt-users] Disk space exhaustion

2015-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/30/2015 04:57 AM, Fabrizio Soppelsa wrote: > Hello, > > what happens when an instance writes data with 0% available physical > disk space, on QCOW2 images for instance, apart from destruction and > unpredictability? > I'm aware that monitoring is mandatory in production environments, but > a

[libvirt-users] Disk space exhaustion

2015-01-30 Thread Fabrizio Soppelsa
Hello, what happens when an instance writes data with 0% available physical disk space, on QCOW2 images for instance, apart from destruction and unpredictability? I'm aware that monitoring is mandatory in production environments, but are there other known industry tricks to deal with this? Sof