Re: [libvirt-users] virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat files created as root

2015-11-18 Thread noxdafox
On 18/11/15 12:11, Michal Privoznik wrote: On 08.11.2015 12:43, noxdafox wrote: I've been spending a bit of time looking into libvirt's code and I believe this is not implemented as Daniel first said. The issue is in the qemuOpenFileAs function in src/qemu/qemu_driver.c which i

Re: [libvirt-users] virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat files created as root

2015-11-08 Thread noxdafox
ry that creates the dump suid? You may want to check the perms on it. Not sure if it is libvirtd or some other binary. Sent from my iPhone On May 29, 2015, at 3:39 AM, NoxDaFox <mailto:noxda...@gmail.com>> wrote: 2015-05-28 12:04 GMT+03:00 Michal Privoznik <mailto:mpriv

[libvirt-users] Hot Cloning - clone running Virtual Machines

2015-07-20 Thread NoxDaFox
Greetings, I am running a test automation service which makes use of QEMU/KVM. As the tests run for few minutes, the time spent booting the OS (Windows) is quite a waste of resources so I decided to play a bit around the idea of hot cloning running VMs. Following an old discussion I found, I proc

Re: [libvirt-users] virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat files created as root

2015-05-29 Thread NoxDaFox
2015-05-28 12:04 GMT+03:00 Michal Privoznik : > On 28.05.2015 09:29, NoxDaFox wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I am dumping a guest VM memory for inspection using the command > > "virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat" and the created files appear to belong to > >

[libvirt-users] virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat files created as root

2015-05-28 Thread NoxDaFox
Greetings, I am dumping a guest VM memory for inspection using the command "virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat" and the created files appear to belong to root (both user and group). I have searched around but didn't find any answer. Is there a way to instruct QEMU to create those files under a different

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

2015-05-25 Thread noxdafox
On 30/04/15 17:49, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/30/2015 12:28 AM, NoxDaFox wrote: Sorry for the lack of information, my bad. Also, we tend to avoid top-posting on technical lists. Sorry again. The snapshot is an internal one and the machine is running. The whole thing was set-up by another

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

2015-04-29 Thread NoxDaFox
t prevents editing snapshot configuration when running? Is it due to the fact that the snapshots are internal? Thank for the help. 2015-04-29 17:38 GMT+03:00 Eric Blake : > On 04/29/2015 01:08 AM, NoxDaFox wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > due to hardware failure I had to rep

[libvirt-users] unable to edit existing snapshot

2015-04-29 Thread NoxDaFox
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. While reverting to it, I get an error due to unsupported CPU features. Therefore, I try to edit the snapshot XML through the com

Re: [libvirt-users] virDomainMemoryPeek: bad behavior under workload

2012-09-04 Thread NoxDaFox
On 31/08/12 18:20, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:09:46AM -0700, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:23:18PM +0300, NoxDaFox wrote: Here's the typical output: File "/home/nox/workspace/NOX/src/NOX/hooks.py", line 134, in trigger

Re: [libvirt-users] virDomainMemoryPeek: bad behavior under workload

2012-09-01 Thread NoxDaFox
On 31/08/12 18:09, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:23:18PM +0300, NoxDaFox wrote: Greetings, I am working on a platform for analysis automation. I need to run several Virtual Environments concurrently and record information about their behavior. I wrote some months ago

[libvirt-users] virDomainMemoryPeek: bad behavior under workload

2012-08-31 Thread NoxDaFox
memory dump? If through virsh I use the QEMU `pmemsave` command, I get the memory dump in less than one second; is there any way to obtain the same performance? Thanks anyway for making libvirt the great tool it is! NoxDaFox ___ libvirt-users mailing li

Re: [libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2012-06-02 Thread NoxDaFox
Andrew Tappert writes: > > > A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are > interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural > fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a > guest's memory without having to introduce any extra soft

Re: [libvirt-users] Spawn new domains from a snapshot.

2012-05-27 Thread NoxDaFox
I made a couple of tests. Image A.qcow2: - 2 Gb file size (the image size is 10Gb) - OS: Windows XP sp2 installed I create the image B.qcow2 with A as backing store through virStorageVolCreateXML(): - 160 Mb file size (image size alway 10Gb) - OS in the same state as before. I do some updates

Re: [libvirt-users] Spawn new domains from a snapshot.

2012-05-25 Thread NoxDaFox
On 25/05/12 18:17, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/25/2012 07:48 AM, NoxDaFox wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to be able to spawn several domains from a given snapshot. So would I. It's not yet possible from libvirt, but we are getting closer as we discuss ideas of how to do it. Is ther

[libvirt-users] Spawn new domains from a snapshot.

2012-05-25 Thread NoxDaFox
tore the heavy base image in a single node saving storage space. Lots of cpu cycles saved once new image versions must be deployed (typical case a windows update to propagate in the nodes network). NoxDaFox ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@red

Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshot system: really confusing.

2012-05-23 Thread NoxDaFox
I played around a bit more with storages, pools and snapshots and I arrived at one conclusion. In my case I am talking about: Directory pools: I am managing only this kind of pools. qcow2 image files: They may be new and empty, populated with a fresh guest installation or with a full lifecycle (se

Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshot system: really confusing.

2012-04-28 Thread NoxDaFox
On 27/04/12 17:56, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/25/2012 03:25 AM, NoxDaFox wrote: Hello, thank you for your fast reply! To help in comprehension I'll explain you a bit what am I trying to realize so the picture will be more clear. Basically it's a platform for debug, what I need is to acc

Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshot system: really confusing.

2012-04-25 Thread NoxDaFox
re a picture can speak a thousand words; and as more > features get added into the snapshot picture, it probably becomes more > important to accurately display the various APIs and the advantages for > using each. What's basically missing is data flow and representation, you don'

[libvirt-users] Snapshot system: really confusing.

2012-04-23 Thread NoxDaFox
absolutely understand the problematic that realizing a multiplatform snapshots management raises; but I think that for an API purpose what is implemented here is completely confusing the developer. Regards, NoxDaFox. ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvi