My experiments with hot-attaching virtio disks to eucalyptus VMs have been partially successful. I've been able to attach/detach a virtio disk to/from a VM once, but the second attach causes a kvm segfault followed by a libvirtd segfault. Removing eucalyptus from the scenario, this problem can be reproduced by passing the attach/detach/attach commands directly using virsh as follows. Note that, although i'm using an AOE device as the 'source' in the following example, the same problem exists if you replace the source dev with a local file.
r...@sg:~# ps ax | grep kvm 25947 ? Sl 0:10 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -m 128 -smp 1 -name i-3D7E06DF -uuid 8f09357d-c295-523b-97fa-b72e0a46497b -nographic -monitor unix:/var/run/libvirt/qemu/i-3D7E06DF.monitor,server,nowait -boot c -kernel /var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06DF/kernel -initrd /var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06DF/ramdisk -append root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 -drive file=/var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06D /disk,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=d0:0d:3d:7e:06:df,vlan=0,model=e1000,name=e1000.0 -net tap,fd=17,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial file:/var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06DF/console.log -parallel none -usb r...@sg:~# cat meh <disk type='block'><driver name='virtio'/><source dev='/dev/etherd/e0.7'/><target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/></disk> r...@sg:~# virsh list Connecting to uri: qemu:///system Id Name State ---------------------------------- 1 i-3D7E06DF running r...@sg:~# virsh attach-device 1 meh Connecting to uri: qemu:///system Device attached successfully r...@sg:~# virsh detach-device 1 meh Connecting to uri: qemu:///system Device detached successfully r...@sg:~# virsh attach-device 1 meh Connecting to uri: qemu:///system error: Failed to attach device from meh error: server closed connection [44227.486821] kvm[25947]: segfault at 8d0 ip 000000000041ccd7 sp 00007fff99644d70 error 6 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+226000] [44227.730408] libvirtd[25467]: segfault at 70 ip 00000000004345a2 sp 00007f5b3f5e3b70 error 4 in libvirtd[400000+77000] Am I perhaps passing an incorrectly formatted disk XML for virtio? Versions: Host: r...@sg:~# apt-cache policy libvirt-bin libvirt-bin: Installed: 0.7.0-1ubuntu10 Candidate: 0.7.0-1ubuntu10 Version table: *** 0.7.0-1ubuntu10 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status r...@sg:~# apt-cache policy qemu-kvm qemu-kvm: Installed: 0.11.0-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.11.0-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.11.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status r...@sg:~# uname -a Linux sg 2.6.31-12-server #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 7 20:33:27 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Guest: r...@ubuntu:~# uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- dynamic block device attach/detach not functional with karmic KVM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs