Re: [libvirt-users] redirecting guest stdio to the host

2014-05-28 Thread Dave Allan
; in the host vml.log. > > But I do not see /var/log/vm/vml.log created at the host. > > I'm not sure whether libvirt will pre-create the file, or whether it > insists that the file already exists. Maybe others can chime in. I know > Dave Allan has done some work with pyth

[libvirt-users] virt-sandbox of X applications

2013-08-14 Thread Dave Allan
Is it possible to use virt-sandbox to confine X applications? Dave ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

Re: [libvirt-users] virt-viewer X forwarding through ssh broken since FC17 upgrade?

2012-11-13 Thread Dave Allan
Hi Ken, Does adding a listen='localhost' to the guest's graphics tag fix it? Dave On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:59:25AM -0500, Ken Coar wrote: > Ever since I upgraded my laptop from FC15 to FC17, I've been > getting this message when I ssh to some RHEL6 hosts inside Red Hat. > In particular, I'm t

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt shortcomings of virsh domxml-to-native and domxml-from-native

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Allan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:49:57AM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote: > 2012/7/25 张光鹏 > > > ** > > Hi,all. > > we use libvirt to manage some host and vms on vmware > > hypervisor.I have found the libvirt there are some shortcomings . > > Such as virsh domxml-to-native and domxml-from-native > > .I hav

[libvirt-users] editing pools

2012-06-22 Thread Dave Allan
On Fedora 17 I used virsh pool-edit to change the directory of the default pool that virt-manager creates, and I noticed that my changes were discarded unless I made the changes with the pool stopped. Is that expected behavior? Dave ___ libvirt-users m

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh console logging and pty usage

2012-05-10 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Alex Jia wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > > > Replace your console type from 'file' to 'pty' it looks like this: > > > >   > > > > > >   > > > > > > And then append the parameter "console=ttyS0,115200" to

Re: [libvirt-users] Prevent starting a guest concurrently on multiple hosts when using shared storage

2012-03-15 Thread Dave Allan
I've not done it myself, but see: http://libvirt.org/locking.html Dave On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 02:28:01AM +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > Hi list, > > Scenario: Libvirt managing KVM-based guests on multiple physical > virtualisation hosts. These hosts are attached to some kind of shared > stora

Re: [libvirt-users] run virsh as non-root user

2012-03-11 Thread Dave Allan
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:53:28PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: > On 2012年03月09日 11:40, Qu, John (IS) wrote: > >virsh worked after I created .libvirt dir in user eucalyptus home dir. > > $HOME/.libvirt is created automatically, wondering why you have to > create manually. This is a known bug that's b

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] RFC: [was: libvirt doesn't boot kVM, hangs, qemu on 100% CPU]

2012-02-22 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 04:42:59PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/21/2012 03:46 PM, Igor Galić wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > it's been adventurous. > > Yesterday night I've started debugging this particular > > issue of why my KVMs don't boot on Ubuntu 11.10. > > On IRC, we identified the c

Re: [libvirt-users] oVirt setup issues

2012-01-23 Thread Dave Allan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:02:05PM +0100, Christian Parpart wrote: > Hi all, > > as suggested in a prior mail, I was now trying out oVirt - however, on > a non-Redhat/Debian system - > and ran into huge issues primary due to the lag of information / documenation. > > So here my assumptions: > * o

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt 0.9.9: could not open /dev/net/tun: Operation not permitted

2012-01-23 Thread Dave Allan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:03:31AM +, Fischer, Anna wrote: > > Subject: [libvirt-users] libvirt 0.9.9: could not open /dev/net/tun: > > Operation not permitted > > > > Hi, I'm running the latest libvirt 0.9.9. > > > > I'm trying to start a VIF of type "Ethernet". I know there are problems > >

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt with sasl shadow backend

2012-01-19 Thread Dave Allan
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:55:09AM +0100, Robyn Bachofer wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been thinking and I think the right question is: > - about which is libvirt access to sasl, socket? > - which is transmitted? > and > - what is expected libvirt? > > (e.g. shadow have no service/application assign

Re: [libvirt-users] web frontend for managing libvirt servers

2012-01-17 Thread Dave Allan
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:20:37AM +0100, Christian Parpart wrote: > Hi all, > > I know that redhat has some web based GUI for managing libvirt clusters, > however, I am not having purchased redhat :-) > > Is there any good open-source web frontend you can recommend for managing > your libvirt in

Re: [libvirt-users] Looking for feedback

2012-01-10 Thread Dave Allan
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:14:30AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/10/2012 02:35 AM, Zorg wrote: > > Are you, by chance, aware of an OpenSource libvirt-based solution that is > > able to keep track of each VM xmldesc, starting lost guests as transient > > domains on another hypervisor upon failure

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:07:13AM +0100, Josip Deanovic wrote: > On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Dave Allan wrote: > > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > > to get libvirt to authe

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:13:32AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else e

[libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-13 Thread Dave Allan
I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except the sasldb, although I didn't try Kerberos). Does anybody know off the top of their head what mechanisms/password check options work? I'm trying to figure out if

Re: [libvirt-users] Unable to acquire lock

2011-10-24 Thread Dave Allan
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:35:13AM +0530, Jatin Kumar wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to execute virsh commands on a host but it is giving errors > due to failure in acquiring lock. > > root@kvm01:~# virsh suspend blindone > error: Failed to suspend domain blindone > error: Timed out during operatio

Re: [libvirt-users] libvir: Remote error : cannot recv data: : Connection reset by peer

2011-10-04 Thread Dave Allan
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 08:30:16AM -0700, Sharad Mishra wrote: > > Check the 'max_clients' value in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf. Experiment > with increasing that value to see if your problem goes away. The OP filed a BZ about this problem that provided a bit more information about the code which

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh console

2011-09-21 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:16:03PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but when I run virsh console guestname, > should I expect to get a login prompt for my guest? If I run that > command while the OS is booting I can see the boot process...but > then it just freezes and I never get a

Re: [libvirt-users] migration in parallel

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Allan
rors are you seeing? Can you reproduce them with the current git HEAD? Dave > Regards, > > --Yih > > Yih-Herng Chuang > IBM Center for Microsoft Technologies > 3600 Carillon Point, Kirkland WA 98033 > (DID) (425) 803-7285 > (TIE) 977-7285 > yihhe...@us.ibm.co

Re: [libvirt-users] migration in parallel

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Allan
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:50:00AM -0700, Yih-Herng Chuang wrote: > > Hi, > > We ran into various errors when tried to run migration in parallel. Does > libvirt support migration in parallel? What version of libvirt? There were some problems with parallel migration in the past, but they have a

Re: [libvirt-users] the naming convention libvirt names a block based storage volume

2011-08-10 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:20:10AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:28:50PM -0700, Yih-Herng Chuang wrote: > > > > > > Seems like different libvirt versions generate a storage volume name in > > different format. We would like to learn how libvirt names a storage > >

Re: [libvirt-users] NPIV + KVM

2011-07-10 Thread Dave Allan
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 04:16:17PM -0500, Eric Ross wrote: > Is this possible: > > I would like to have a VM use a FC LUN exported to a virtual wwn > (using NPIV) as its primary disk. > > I was thinking there might be a mechanism to say VM, boot using a > LUN with this vwwn as your primary disk?

Re: [libvirt-users] Blockpeek.. A little help please

2010-07-07 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:47:37PM -0700, steven...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, >I'm trying to use blockpeek to open the contents of a file. Inside the vm > i ran debugfs: imap /test/findme and got: inode 32642 is part of block > group 4 located at block 131074, offset 0x0100 > > I try using

Re: [libvirt-users] C API example

2010-07-01 Thread Dave Allan
t; Steve > > --- On Wed, 6/30/10, Justin Clift wrote: > > > From: Justin Clift > > Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] C API example > > To: "Dave Allan" > > Cc: steven...@yahoo.com, libvirt-users@redhat.com > > Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:09 PM >

Re: [libvirt-users] C API example

2010-06-30 Thread Dave Allan
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:34:12AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > On 07/01/2010 11:12 AM, steven...@yahoo.com wrote: > >Trying to build the hellolibvirt example. I get the project to > >compile okay but when I try to run it I get: > > > >Unable to connect to '/usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libivrt-sock

Re: [libvirt-users] Multipath pools - practical for use?

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Allan
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 03:17:49AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi all, > > Writing up some Fedora documentation, and looking to figure out the > best way of mapping multipath network(!) LUNs to pools in libvirt. > > ie Infiniband SRP LUNs, but would probably apply to Fibre Channel > equal

Re: [libvirt-users] iSCSI supported initiators

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Allan
On 04/01/2010 04:55 PM, Alexander Pierce wrote: What initiators does libvirt support for the iSCSI pool? Will it work with qlogic's iSCSI HBAs for instance? The iscsi pool type supports only open-iscsi using iscsiadm. However, libvirt's scsi pool type supports any scsi adapter. If the qlog

Re: [libvirt-users] Pool, iSCSI and guest start

2010-03-19 Thread Dave Allan
On 03/19/2010 04:44 AM, Nicolas Greneche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Allan wrote: On 03/17/2010 06:38 AM, Nicolas Greneche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Former user of Xen and newbie in kvm/qemu/libvirt stuff, I give it a try on my

Re: [libvirt-users] Pool, iSCSI and guest start

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Allan
On 03/17/2010 06:38 AM, Nicolas Greneche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Former user of Xen and newbie in kvm/qemu/libvirt stuff, I give it a try on my network ;-) I need to run a VM with iSCSI target attached. I did it this way : 1) Creation of iscsi pool (equa.xml)