Re: PCI Passthrough and Surprise Hotplug

2020-10-06 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:05:05 -0400 Marc Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using QEMU/KVM on RHEL (CentOS) 7.8.2003: > # cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 > > I'm passing an NVMe drive into a Linux KVM virtual machine ( arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0'>hvm) which has the

Unable to start or create any vm's on the qemu/kvm network

2020-10-06 Thread muke101
Hi, for some reason my libvirt install has suddenly stopped working with any vm's on the qemu/kvm network, and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it or even anything that indicates what's causing the problem. I've posted my problem to discord servers, subreddits, irc's and the server fault st

Re: time in domain very unstable

2020-10-06 Thread Jim Fehlig
On 10/6/20 7:55 AM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: Hi, i have a domain (SLES 10 SP4) running with KVM. Wow, that's old! I'm surprised time keeping is your only problem :-). Time is very wrong when booting unless ntp synchronizes. What can i do ? What type of are you using? Have you tried the commo

RE: Unable to start or create any vm's on the qemu/kvm network

2020-10-06 Thread Marc Roos
So, look at the general server logs. Try and start the qemu command from the command line, enable verbose logging, increase logging etc etc. "cannot create PID file: Failed to write pid file" Disk full? -Original Message- From: muke101 [mailto:muke...@protonmail.com] Sent: dinsd

time in domain very unstable

2020-10-06 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Hi, i have a domain (SLES 10 SP4) running with KVM. Time is very wrong when booting unless ntp synchronizes. What can i do ? Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institute for Metabolism and Cell Death (MCD) Building 25 - office 122 HelmholtzZentrum München bernd.len...@helmholtz-m

Any way to persistently edit a single VM's AppArmor profile?

2020-10-06 Thread Brian Turek
In order to test a patch I submitted I've been experimenting with "qemu:commandline" to use some newer features for a QEMU host/guest file share. I quickly ran into issues with AppArmor as virt-aa-helper understandably doesn't parse "qemu:commandline" for directories to add to the dynamically gene

Re: what does "virsh destroy" really ?

2020-10-06 Thread Lentes, Bernd
- Am 6. Okt 2020 um 1:12 schrieb Digimer li...@alteeve.ca: > On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ? >> >> Bernd >> > > It forces the guest off, like pulling the power on a hardware machine. >

Re: what does "virsh destroy" really ?

2020-10-06 Thread Martin Kletzander
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:22:03AM +0200, Michael Hierweck wrote: On 06.10.20 10:16, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: You don't need to be so scared of virsh destroy. It is simply akin to pulling out the power plug, and modern OS with a decent journaling filesystem will recover from that quite reasona

Re: what does "virsh destroy" really ?

2020-10-06 Thread Michael Hierweck
On 06.10.20 10:16, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > You don't need to be so scared of virsh destroy. It is simply akin to pulling > out the power plug, and modern OS with a decent journaling filesystem will > recover from that quite reasonably. Sure you'll loose state of what's running, > but 99% of

Re: what does "virsh destroy" really ?

2020-10-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:15:57AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 07:12:34PM -0400, Digimer wrote: > > On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process > > > ? > > > > > > Bern

Re: what does "virsh destroy" really ?

2020-10-06 Thread Martin Kletzander
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 07:12:34PM -0400, Digimer wrote: On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote: Hi, what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ? Bernd It forces the guest off, like pulling the power on a hardware machine. Not sure of the exact mechanism