Re: Question about migrate the vm with host-passthrough cpu

2021-03-17 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[Catching up with libvirt-users list after a long while ... hence the delay in my response.] On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 03:58:21PM +0800, Guoyi Tu wrote: > Thanks for you reply. > > I checked the qemu code, the destination qemu instance actually exposed > the cpu feature of new host , and if execute

Re: [libvirt-users] lvm vs qcow (on NVMe)

2018-11-22 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:32:48PM +0100, lejeczek wrote: > hi guys, > > anybody observed, maybe has measured performance difference between > the two with qemu quests(windows OS)? > > Any conclusions, recommendations? [Cc Stefan from QEMU, probably he might have some pointers.] -- /kashyap _

Re: [libvirt-users] How to explain this libvirt oddity w.r.t machine types?

2018-10-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:05:16AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: [...] > Interesting. What is the output of 'virsh capabilities'? In attachment. > More interesting still is the fact that the guest XML you shared > looks like an *active* XML, ie. one taken from a running guest... > Does that me

Re: [libvirt-users] How to explain this libvirt oddity w.r.t machine types?

2018-10-14 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 02:28:07PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 22:38 +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: [...] > > Now check the machine type again. Bizarrely enough, libvirt "helpfully" > > auto-adds QEMU *2.11* machine type, which is o

[libvirt-users] How to explain this libvirt oddity w.r.t machine types?

2018-10-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
Context: The baremetal host previously had QEMU 2.11. But I manually downgraded the QEMU version (via `dnf downgrade qemu-system-x86`); now it is at 2.10: $ rpm -q qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-x86-2.10.2-1.fc27.x86_64 The guest is offline. Let's see (in a couple of ways) what machine typ

Re: [libvirt-users] VM I/O performance drops dramatically during storage migration with drive-mirror

2018-05-28 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > Cc the QEMU Block Layer mailing list (qemu-bl...@nongnu.org), [Sigh; now add the QEMU BLock Layer e-mail list to Cc, without typos.] > who might > have more insights here; and wrap long lines. > > On Mon, May

Re: [libvirt-users] VM I/O performance drops dramatically during storage migration with drive-mirror

2018-05-28 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
Cc the QEMU Block Layer mailing list (qemu-bl...@nongnu.org), who might have more insights here; and wrap long lines. On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 06:07:51PM +0800, Chunguang Li wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > Recently I am doing some tests on the VM storage+memory migration with > KVM/QEMU/libvirt. I use

Re: [libvirt-users] Create qcow2 v3 volumes via libvirt

2018-05-04 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 02:45:05PM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > On 01/05/2018 22:49, Gionatan Danti wrote: > > Ok, I think I'll continue to use RAW images + filesystem snapshots + > > external snapshot when required. > > It is unfortunate that we have no GUI to manage external snapshots. I > > ev

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a guest with two disks

2018-03-29 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:35:12AM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: (Just noticed this question.) > Hi, > > i just realized that i have a guest with two disks. What would be the > appropiate way to snapshot both of them ? [...] > or > > virsh snapshot-create-as --domain guest --diskspec > vda,file=

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-16 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: [...] > Hi, > > again thanks for your quick answer. I had a look on > https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit > and i liked it. I'm thinking of upgrading my systems to SLES 12 SP3. > With that i have qe

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-16 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 01:59:01PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: [...] > Hi Kashyap, > > thanks for your quick and detailed answers. Just to be complete. > The procedure in the above mentioned link does work with my old software ? It _should_ work; but please try on a test VM and see what works a

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: [...] > Hi, > > i found that: > https://dustymabe.com/2015/01/11/qemu-img-backing-files-a-poor-mans-snapshotrollback/ > > I tried it and it seemed to work, although my root fs was checked > after the commit, anything else seemed to

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:38:34PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > Hi, [...] > I have several guests running with raw files, which is sufficent for > me. Now i'd like to snapshot one guest because i make heavy > configuration changes on it. From what i read in the net is that > libvirt supports s

[libvirt-users] Reverting to external snapshots [Was: Re: Ask question]

2018-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[Adjusted the subject] On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:33:05PM +0800, 李杰 wrote: > Dear > > > Recently,I am interested in libvirt,but I found the > libvirt does't support revert and delete the external > snapshot which the raw disk based guest.My libvirt and >

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 12:02:25PM +0100, Florian Haas wrote: > On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy > wrote: [...] > > I've made some minor edits to clarify a bunch of bits, and a link to the > > Kernel doc about Intel nVMX. (Hope that looks fine.) >

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-09 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Florian Haas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:07 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > We should certainly document what I have summaries here properly at a > > central palce! > > Please review the three edits I've submitted to the wiki: > https://www.linux-k

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:48:46PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 08.02.2018 11:46, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:26:14PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > >> On 07.02.2018 16:31, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > > > [...] > > >

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:07:33PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: [...] > > So to clarify things, could you enumerate the currently known > > limitations when enabling nesting? I'd be happy to summarize those and > > add them to the linux-kvm.org FAQ so others are less likely to hit > > their he

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:46:24AM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:26:14PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > On 07.02.2018 16:31, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > [...] > > > Sounds like a similar problem as in > > https://bugzilla.ker

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:26:14PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 07.02.2018 16:31, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: [...] > Sounds like a similar problem as in > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198621 > > In short: there is no (live) migration support for nested VMX ye

Re: [libvirt-users] Nested KVM: L0 guest produces kernel BUG on wakeup from managed save (while a nested VM is running)

2018-02-07 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[Cc: KVM upstream list.] On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Florian Haas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I hope this is the correct list to discuss this issue; please feel > free to redirect me otherwise. > > I have a nested virtualization setup that looks as follows: > > - Host: Ubuntu 16.04,

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot anomaly

2017-08-30 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: > Oddly, the physical file did not exist. I'm not sure it ever did? (no > proof one way or another on that) >From your example, the physical snapshot file ('overlay' file is the correct term) -- var/lib/libvirt/images/serv1r2-savesnap.qc

Re: [libvirt-users] External snapshot issue

2017-04-24 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:26:17PM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote: > I have used > >virsh snapshot-create-as "description>" --diskspec >"vda,snapshot=external,file=/path/to/external-snapshot" --disk-only >--atomic To avoid creating libvirt metadata for external snapshots, here you

Re: [libvirt-users] virt-manager, Network Manager and bridged networking

2017-04-24 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:01:00AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > The wiki suggests that Network Manager doesn't support bridges[1] but I > think that is out-of-date. Other documents like this[2] show how to set > up bridges in Network Manager. > > For users wanting to run libvirt/KVM on their

Re: [libvirt-users] Unsafe migration with copy-storage-all (non shared storage) and writeback cache

2017-02-21 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:32:08AM +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote: > On 17/02/2017 19:50, Jiri Denemark wrote: [...] > > This looks like a bug in libvirt. The code doesn't check whether an > > affected disk is going to be migrated (--copy-storage-all) or accessed > > on the shared storage. > > > >

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirtError: block copy still active: disk not ready for pivot yet

2017-01-05 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Ala Hino wrote: > I understand that libvirt provides async events that are triggered once the > block job reaches ready state and successfully pivots as it is reported by > qemu. > Whats the event that is triggered and what's the handler that we have to > i

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirtError: block copy still active: disk not ready for pivot yet

2017-01-03 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 01:26:12PM +0200, Ala Hino wrote: > Hi guys, > > When performing live merge, in few cases, we see the following exception: [...] > libvirtError: block copy still active: disk 'vdb' not ready for pivot yet You can see if the block operation is still in progress or not by

Re: [libvirt-users] export a cert

2016-11-21 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 02:47:23PM +, lejeczek wrote: > hi everybody > I'm browsing around but probably missing that obvious little thing - > exporting certs to pem format with ipa command toolkit - that must be there > somewhere, right? I'll assume you're trying to convert from PKCS#12 format

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots handout

2016-09-05 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:39:11PM +0800, gunnar.wag...@netcologne.de wrote: > hi all & @Kayshap > > does [this handout on > snapshots](https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/lc-2012/snapshots-handout.html) > by Kashyap Chamarthy (I believe from 2012) still apply to current &g

Re: [libvirt-users] Help With Nested Virtualization

2016-09-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:48:33PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:42:17PM -0400, Brandon Golway wrote: > > (Copied from my post on the Arch Linux forums: [...] > > Can someone clue me in on what the issue is? > > > > Here's the entire XML config for the FreeNAS VM >

Re: [libvirt-users] active commit not supported with this QEMU binary

2016-09-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:51:54AM +0200, Ishmael Tsoaela wrote: > Hi All, > > I am creating snapshot and whilest running blockcommit I am coming acrross > this error: > > virsh blockcommit Node-A vda --verbose --pivot > error: unsupported configuration: active commit not supported with this >

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups

2016-06-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:53:08PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: > I changed our backup script to use the method explained in > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit and > this night, everything seems to have worked smoothly. The backup is even > faster now than before

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups

2016-06-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:17:28PM +0200, Markus Ellinger wrote: > Hello, > > thank you very much for your suggestions. I changed our backup script to use > the method explained in > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit and > this night, everything seems to have wo

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups

2016-06-22 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:59:24AM +0200, Markus Ellinger wrote: > Hi everyone, > > we are suddenly having a problem with executing our backup jobs. For a long > time, we have used a shell script which contains the following code to > backup all our virtual machines: > > for domain in Tes

Re: [libvirt-users] Clone VM with saved state

2016-04-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:15:16PM +0300, Michael Ravits wrote: > Hi Kashyap, > > Thanks for your answer! > > Unfortunately my use case requires cloning the exact memory state, so I > won't be able to use virt-sysprep. > But the snapshot command looks like something I could use. > Could you sugge

Re: [libvirt-users] Clone VM with saved state

2016-04-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:01:08PM +0300, Michael Ravits wrote: > Hi, > > My use case involves creating duplicates of saved virtual machines. While I realize you want to trivially clone VMs with some state at random point in time, you might want to look into `virt-builder` about cloning VMs. It

Re: [libvirt-users] 100% CPU when using nested virtualization

2016-03-11 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:29:08PM -0500, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a new laptop recently and what worked before no longer works > (Fedora 23 on the laptops in both cases)... > > I'm trying to get nested virtualization to work because I use the VMs > on the laptop to simulate an HA cl

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirtd vs XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2016-03-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:37:31PM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:01:40PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > > I ran into an odd problem today. I wanted to share it here in the > > hopes of maybe saving someone else some lost time. > > > > When you run libvirtd as

Re: [libvirt-users] Buggy 1.3.2? Disconnected from qemu:///session due to I/O error

2016-03-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:18:10PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > I think I've hit the same problem that Predrag reported in > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt.user/8825. > > With libvirt-1.3.2-1.fc23.x86_64 on Fedora 23, when I try uploading an > image with vol-upload

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirtd vs XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2016-03-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:01:40PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > I ran into an odd problem today. I wanted to share it here in the > hopes of maybe saving someone else some lost time. > > When you run libvirtd as an unprivileged user (e.g., if you target > qemu:///session from a non-root a

Re: [libvirt-users] API for retrieving resource metrics from VMs?

2016-01-06 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:27:46AM +0900, BYEONG-GI KIM wrote: > Thank you indeed! > > That information would be really great help for me. I'll look for the > libguestfs. By the way, you mentioned that the tool would be better not to > use frequently, so... Does the tool have any performance issue

Re: [libvirt-users] Efficient live disk backup with active blockcommit : Failed 'block-commit': Could not reopen file: Permission denied

2015-12-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 12:52:34PM -0800, Keyur Bhalerao wrote: [. . .] ubuntu@keyurubuntu:~$ virsh blockcommit vm-01 vda --active --verbose --pivot > error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'block-commit': Could > not reopen file: Permission denied Fairly obvious suggestions, ens

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh uses internally qemu-img ?

2015-11-30 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 01:57:24AM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > Hi, > > i read that virsh uses internally qemu-img > (http://serverfault.com/questions/692435/qemu-img-snapshot-on-live-vm). > Is that true ? so snapshotting a running vm with virsh or qemu-img is > the same ? Functionally, it is th

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh can't support VM offline blockcommit

2015-10-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:39:58AM +0800, justlibv...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi everyone! Hi, Firstly, please don't post the same message multiple times in a row. If someone hasn't responded, they're either busy, or haven't noticed this message. > I use the libvirt(version: 1.2.2) and QEMU(ve

Re: [libvirt-users] Creating external snapshots.

2015-10-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:44:15PM +, Dominique Ramaekers wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm trying to create an external snapshot for backup purposes. Only I > get an error after the command: [Please try to wrap long lines, it makes reading emails easier, I did that manually this time.] > > virsh sna

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirtd service not starting

2015-09-24 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:47:43AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:00:34PM +, Jonathan Rurka wrote: > >Hello, I'm new to using libvirt. After a few days of installing and > >removing libvirt, virt-manager and a few others to get VT-d working > >with a virtual machin

Re: [libvirt-users] Transient VM Usage

2015-09-11 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:03:20PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 11.09.2015 11:34, Mcburn wrote: > > Hey at all, > > > > my Name is Jens-Uwe Sperling. Iám a young student in computer science. > > I want install a VM for testing at home. > > > > i had install a VM with virt-install and the d

Re: [libvirt-users] Backup a VM (using live external snapshot and blockcommit)

2015-09-11 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[. . .] On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:45:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/11/2015 10:18 AM, Jérôme wrote: > > >> Yep, that about covers it. Note that the --quiesce step in snapshot > >> creation requires qemu-guest-agent running in the guest, and that you > >> trust interaction with your guest

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt-lxc

2015-08-11 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 08:31:02AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:50:04PM +0100, Mark Clarkson wrote: > >Hi, > >I noticed that libvirt-lxc will be deprecated for RedHat: > > > >"Future development on the Linux containers framework is now based on > >the docker command-

Re: [libvirt-users] So why does "destroy" not actually destroy?

2015-07-14 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:51:31AM +, KARR, DAVID wrote: > I thought it odd that if I have a running VM and I do "virsh destroy" > it results in a VM that is "shut off". To ACTUALLY destroy a VM, you > have to follow that with "undefine". Could someone elaborate on how > we ended up with thes

Re: [libvirt-users] Migrating guests

2015-06-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 07:28:10PM +0200, Dominique Ramaekers wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with the migration function of virsh. I'm doing the > migrate with following commands: > > virsh migrate --life --persistent --copy-storage-all --verbose > --abort-on-error domain qemu+ssh://root@dest

Re: [libvirt-users] preallocation=full Vs preallocation=metadata

2015-06-03 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 09:14:03AM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > Hi All > > I was reading through this: > > http://kashyapc.com/2011/12/02/little-more-disk-io-perf-improvement-with-fallocateing-a-qcow2-disk/ In my testing, the above method gives near-raw performance as it preallocated all the spac

Re: [libvirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:56:40PM +, Soeren Malchow wrote: > Dear all > > I am not sure if the mail just did not get any attention between all > the mails and this time it is also going to the libvirt mailing list. Saw your mails, but it was hard to parse them. > I am experiencing a problem

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:24:49AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > > vmdk file? Also, Stefan Hajnoczi from the QEMU project, points o

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > vmdk file? >From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK as a backing file. > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionali

Re: [libvirt-users] non failover equivalent to "virsh migrate --copy-storage-all"

2015-04-29 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:30:09AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/29/2015 09:47 AM, Andreas Buschmann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have two servers where I can push VMs from one to the other by issuing > > the command > > > > virsh migrate --live --persistent --copy-storage-all --verbose \ > >

Re: [libvirt-users] unable to edit existing snapshot

2015-04-29 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:08:54AM +0300, NoxDaFox wrote: > Greetings, > > due to hardware failure I had to replace my workstation which has a > different CPU. I have a VM with several snapshots and I need to revert > to a specific one. I'll assume these are external snapshots? You might want to

Re: [libvirt-users] domain XML tag is not working?

2015-04-21 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
erous fixes in various areas over the year and if you're in a test environment, it's preferabl to use the newest versions. -- /kashyap > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy > wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:37:13PM +0800, Chengyuan Li wrot

Re: [libvirt-users] domain XML tag is not working?

2015-04-20 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:37:13PM +0800, Chengyuan Li wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to enable virtio-blk data plane feature for VMs in my openstack > environment, the hypervisor is ubuntu 14.04, libvirt 1.2.2 [I haven't tested the virtio-blk data plane myself.] This libvirt version seems a little

Re: [libvirt-users] CPU Resource Reservation using KVM

2015-04-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 01:41:59PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > On 4/13/2015 1:18 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:14:12PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >>Hi All > >> > >>I am new to KVM world. I have been using VMware for about a y

Re: [libvirt-users] CPU Resource Reservation using KVM

2015-04-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:14:12PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > Hi All > > I am new to KVM world. I have been using VMware for about a year. > > In VMware world we can reserve cpu resources for a VM. Say for instance if > we need 4 vCPUs with a total of 8000 GHz then we can mention this > configur

[libvirt-users] [RESOLVED] Re: P2P live migration with non-shared storage: fails to connect to remote libvirt URI qemu+ssh

2015-04-03 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:27:07PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > > Migration without --p2p works just fine, i

Re: [libvirt-users] P2P live migration with non-shared storage: fails to connect to remote libvirt URI qemu+ssh

2015-04-03 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > Migration without --p2p works just fine, ie. the below works: > > > > > > $ virsh migrate --verbose --copy-storage-all \ &

Re: [libvirt-users] P2P live migration with non-shared storage: fails to connect to remote libvirt URI qemu+ssh

2015-04-03 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > Migration without --p2p works just fine, ie. the below works: > > > $ virsh migrate --verbose --copy-storage-all \ > --live cvm1 qemu+ssh://kashyapc@devstack3/system > Migration: [100 %] &g

[libvirt-users] P2P live migration with non-shared storage: fails to connect to remote libvirt URI qemu+ssh

2015-04-03 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
Migration without --p2p works just fine, ie. the below works: $ virsh migrate --verbose --copy-storage-all \ --live cvm1 qemu+ssh://kashyapc@devstack3/system Migration: [100 %] Result: - On the source host, the guest is shut off - On the destination host, the

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh dom state

2015-03-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 05:49:36PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 23.03.2015 16:02, Fiorenza Meini wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm running KVM under Openstack . > > > > When I give virsh list command, I see some VM in NON persistent state. > > What does it mean? How can I move it to a persisten

Re: [libvirt-users] how to get disk snapshot size

2015-03-16 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:51:21AM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:28:30PM +0800, Yitao Jiang wrote: > > Hi,guys > > I wanna to get the disk snapshot size, but found nothing libvirt commands > > related,except qemu-img. > > I create two

Re: [libvirt-users] how to get disk snapshot size

2015-03-16 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:28:30PM +0800, Yitao Jiang wrote: > Hi,guys > I wanna to get the disk snapshot size, but found nothing libvirt commands > related,except qemu-img. > I create two disk snapshots, but nothing return its' size The below does not seem like snapshots. They're *internal* qcow2

Re: [libvirt-users] Issues with XML validation after upgrade to 1.2.12

2015-03-10 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:31:17AM -0400, Brian Rak wrote: > After we upgraded to 1.2.12, we've been having issues with libvirt... it > complains that our formerly valid guest definitions are now invalid: Yeah, w/ 1.2.12, I've noticed similar XML validation errors. E.g. the XML fragment in the be

Re: [libvirt-users] Broken OS when booting rootfs from 9p share

2015-02-26 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:56:50PM +0100, Olivier Mauras wrote: > > > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 16:05 -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > > On 02/24/2015 03:37 PM, Olivier Mauras wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I've been trying to boot a VM with the rootfs being a 9P share from > > >> the host. The VM OS

Re: [libvirt-users] Fwd: Unattended guest installation fails

2015-02-25 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:14:52AM +0530, ChandraShekar Shastri wrote: > Hi, > > I am following the below link to install a Fedora19 guest on Fedora19 Host. > http://kashyapc.com/2011/08/18/unattended-guest-install-with-a-local-kickstart/ [. . .] > I have the iso which I loop mounted and created

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt live migration, qcow2 image, nbd server

2015-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:03:49PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/13/2015 03:15 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:41:31PM -0600, Edward Young wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> When I live migrate a vm using > >> &

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt live migration, qcow2 image, nbd server

2015-02-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:41:31PM -0600, Edward Young wrote: > Hi all, > > > When I live migrate a vm using > > "migrate --live --copy-storage-all mig-vm qemu+ssh://192.168.1.3/system > tcp://192.168.1.3" > > > I got the following error > > > WARNING: Image format was not speci

Re: [libvirt-users] redistribute virtual machines from vps hosting to end users

2015-01-28 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:57:28PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: > 2015-01-28 12:47 GMT+03:00 Kashyap Chamarthy : > > I don't have immediate steps with `virt-manager` as I don't use it much > > in my workflow. But if you have users who're comfortable with CLI, you &

Re: [libvirt-users] redistribute virtual machines from vps hosting to end users

2015-01-28 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:32:12AM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: > Hi. I need to get ability to download backups of kvm virtual machines > (raw images) to end users. Virtualbox users can import ovs images, > that i can create, but in case of linux and virt-manager - how users > can import images an

Re: [libvirt-users] questions around using numatune/numa/schedinfo

2015-01-26 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 01:08:50PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 23.01.2015 19:46, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running into some problems with libvirt and hoping someone can point > > me at some instructions or maybe even help me out. > > > > > > First, are there any requireme

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] libvirt 1.2.10 and latest EL6 qemu-kvm

2015-01-20 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:25:55PM +0100, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > > > Kashyap Chamarthy schreef op 19 januari 2015 19:00:23 > CET: [. . .] > >> And as a result, when doing 'virsh start' (virsh define worked ok), > >the following error occured: &g

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] libvirt 1.2.10 and latest EL6 qemu-kvm

2015-01-19 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[Dropping libvir list and adding libvir-users list.] On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 04:12:46PM +0100, liede...@telenet.be wrote: > Hi all, > > I had libvirt 1.2.10 running without issues together with the qemu package > qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14.x86_64.rpm That's a really old QEMU and the lib

Re: [libvirt-users] domain has active block job

2015-01-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 08:49:53AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/13/2015 07:21 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: [. . .] > > Seems like you're hitting an old bug[1] where 'blockcopy' (or > > 'blockcommit') missed to execute a cleanup routine which dest

Re: [libvirt-users] domain has active block job

2015-01-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:07:07PM +0100, Fiorenza Meini wrote: > Il 13/01/2015 10:51, Kashyap Chamarthy ha scritto: [. . .] > >>In libvirt log file I can see: > >>error : qemuDomainDefineXML:6312 : block copy still active: domain has > >>active block job > >&

Re: [libvirt-users] domain has active block job

2015-01-13 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:10:53AM +0100, Fiorenza Meini wrote: > Hi there, > I receive this error when I run nova image-create name>: Okay, you're talking in the context of OpenStack. You can also check the Nova compute.log for more contextual details of why the operation failed. > Exception

Re: [libvirt-users] Using virsh blockcopy -- what's it supposed to accomplish?

2015-01-09 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 06:14:05PM -0600, Gary R Hook wrote: > On 1/8/15 2:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > >On 12/23/2014 05:24 PM, Gary R Hook wrote: > >>I read that article. > >> > >>Now shut down the domain (post-pivot) which is using the new disk file, > >>and start it up, without using a block devi

Re: [libvirt-users] [Qemu-devel] Using virsh blockcopy -- what's it supposed to accomplish?

2015-01-09 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 06:04:20PM -0600, Gary R Hook wrote: > On 1/8/15 2:21 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > >>qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 > > > >A typo? You also need to provide a size here: > > > > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp

Re: [libvirt-users] Using virsh blockcopy -- what's it supposed to accomplish?

2015-01-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 01:44:58PM -0600, Gary R Hook wrote: > On 12/24/14 4:42 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:38:57PM -0600, Gary R Hook wrote: > > > >[. . .] > > > >In my case, the block device is a QCOW2 disk image file. If I boot >

Re: [libvirt-users] Please help me!Thank You!

2015-01-02 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 08:17:42PM +0800, 75124955 wrote: > I am using Libvirt virsh command by vmware esx created a virtual host, has > been unable to create success. > My creation process is as follows : > > Create a virtual host XML file content is as follows: > > test1 > 524288 >

Re: [libvirt-users] Using virsh blockcopy -- what's it supposed to accomplish?

2014-12-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:50:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/22/2014 03:27 PM, Gary R Hook wrote: > > I am experimenting with the blockcopy command, and after figuring out > > how to integrate qemu-nbd, nbd-client and > > dumpxml/undefine/blockcopy/define/et. al. I have one remaining questio

Re: [libvirt-users] How to use blockcopy in libvirt-java

2014-12-11 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[Dropping libvir-l...@redhat.com] On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:04:52PM +0800, Star Guo wrote: > Hi, ALL, > > I just find the page on git: > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/live-block-ops.txt Just to note, that document might not be fully up to date. > This metion “Live block copy”,

Re: [libvirt-users] some problem with snapshot by libvirt

2014-11-21 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:51:33PM +, Payes wrote: > Eric Blake writes: [. . .] > > > > Yep. You've run into a case where I haven't yet been able to code > > things. The problem is that reverting to a disk image has a question - > > you are starting with two files (the snapshot backing fi

Re: [libvirt-users] Is there a way to disable libvirt qemu monitor while creating kvm vm using virsh?

2014-11-09 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:28:57PM -0700, Min Du wrote: > Hi, > > Now for some reason, I need to add “ -qmp tcp:127.0.0.1:1235” when > creating a KVM VM using libvirt. You might need to elaborate how exactly you're doing this. > This command meaning in “qemu-kvm --help” is: -qmp devlike

Re: [libvirt-users] backup KVM qcow2 over btrfs or zfs

2014-11-07 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 06:08:38PM +0100, Francesco Morosinotto wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thank you a lot for your reply; > > You should really consider using libvirt live snapshots. With new > > enough libvirt and qemu, you can even get optimal behavior with

Re: [libvirt-users] Revert to internal snapshot - XML error: Non-empty feature list specified without CPU model

2014-10-30 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > Versions: > > $ rpm -q libvirt-daemon-kvm qemu-system-x86 > libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.9-3.fc21.x86_64 > qemu-system-x86-2.1.2-4.fc21.x86_64 > > > When I attempt to revert to an internal snapshot:

Re: [libvirt-users] problem with libvirt and ovs bridge

2014-10-28 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
t'll fill your disk space pretty quickly, otherwise.) -- /kashyap > - Original Message - > > From: "Kashyap Chamarthy" > > To: "Anna Giannakou" > > Cc: libvirt-users@redhat.com > > Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 5:46:46 PM > > Subje

Re: [libvirt-users] problem with libvirt and ovs bridge

2014-10-28 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Anna Giannakou wrote: > Hello, > I have created an ovs bridge on which i have attached a port. I would like to > connect my vm to that port,so i have created an xml defining the network. > The xml is: > > ovs-snort > > > > > but when i do vir

[libvirt-users] Revert to internal snapshot - XML error: Non-empty feature list specified without CPU model

2014-10-24 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
Versions: $ rpm -q libvirt-daemon-kvm qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.9-3.fc21.x86_64 qemu-system-x86-2.1.2-4.fc21.x86_64 When I attempt to revert to an internal snapshot: $ virsh snapshot-list node1 Name Creation Time State --

Re: [libvirt-users] drive-backup command permission denied.. and need some clarification

2014-10-16 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:56:20PM -0700, Jd wrote: > On 10/15/14, 2:37 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:08:41PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >>On 10/14/2014 11:52 AM, Jd wrote: > >>>Hi > >>> > >>> * Trying

Re: [libvirt-users] drive-backup command permission denied.. and need some clarification

2014-10-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:08:41PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:52 AM, Jd wrote: > > Hi > > > > * Trying to get drive-backup command, getting permission denied. :( > > > >sudo virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp my-instance --cmd > > drive_backup drive-virtio-disk0 /tmp/fo

Re: [libvirt-users] KVM incremental backup using CBT

2014-10-14 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 08:11:44PM +0200, Thomas Stein wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2014 16:35:15 Thomas Stein wrote: > > Am 13.10.14 16:25, schrieb Eric Blake: > > > On 10/13/2014 03:56 AM, Thomas Stein wrote: > > >> Hello. > > >> > > >>> blockcommit vm1 vda --active --verbose --pivot > > >> >

Re: [libvirt-users] KVM incremental backup using CBT

2014-10-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 07:32:06PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/10/2014 11:37 AM, Jd wrote: > > Hi > > Looking in to implementing (CBT like) delta backup for KVM. > > Not quite sure what you mean by CBT. > > > > > The following looks promising..(last paragraph) > > http://wiki.q

Re: [libvirt-users] unattended cloning

2014-09-19 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Adam King wrote: > Morning, > > I have a KVM guest running Win 2012 with MS SQL 2012. > In order to provide a quick method of restoring the service should the > live server die, we've decided to clone it to a preserved state. > Ideally, this clone should

Re: [libvirt-users] Behavior of disk caching with qcow2 disks

2014-08-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:06:54PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: > Hello, > > I am running several virtualization servers with QEMU 1.4.x and > libvirt 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 and am working on optimizing the cache= > and aio= options for the virtual machines. These VM images are mostly > qcow2, and a

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