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Hi, I have noticed that virt-manager has the ability to show me the current cpu- and memory-usage of both the host and running guest machines. How does it do that? I could make good use of that information myself in the client applications I'm writing, however, from what I can see on http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html, I have no idea how to go about getting it from libvirt. In

Hi, In a libvirt/KVM setup, what is the best way to prevent untrusted guest machines from (a) sending packets with a sender address different from their own and (b) reading packets not intended for them? Note that guests may have any number of IP addresses they are allowed to use legitimately. Guido -- Too much multitasking isn't good for you.

Hi, When creating many virtual machines from a template (disk image), you often need to set some different parameters for each vm. Those usually include root passwords and/or ssh public keys for login, ssh Host keys (so that a) not all the VMs have the same host key and b) the user can know the real host key for his vm before connecting for the first time) plus any number of user-defined

Hi, According to the docs on http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainDetachDeviceFlags I ought to be able to do virDomainDetachDeviceFlags( <domain>, <devicexml>, VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_MODIFY_LIVE | VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_MODIFY_CONFIG); to detach a volume both from a currently running VM instance and permanently from the defined config file. If I actually try that,

Hi, The libvirt documentation under http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virSchedParameter fails to list the "value" member, even though that is kind of essential for using the struct. This is what the documentation says: struct virSchedParameter{ charfield[VIR_DOMAIN_SCHED_FIELD_LENGTH] field : parameter name int type : parameter type } This is how it looks in

Hi, After using libvirt+qemu for a while, I'm finding that I can no longer reliably start new domains. Most of the time when I try, I'm getting this, or something like it: virsh # start dhcpv6server error: Failed to start domain dhcpv6server error: monitor socket did not show up.: No such file or directory The same thing happens when trying to start the domain using the C-API. This

Hi, When I add a new LUN on an iscsi target and then issue a pool-refresh command on the respective storage pool in libvirt, libvirt will not find the new lun (or notice if luns have been removed). I'm using a Dell PowerVault MD3200i iSCSI Array to hold the volumes for virtual servers in libvirt. In libvirt, I have defined the storage pool as this: <pool type='iscsi'>

Hi, As the subject line indicates, when I'm calling virDomainCreate() to start a defined domain, and that command fails because the domain is already running at that point, virGetLastError() will return NULL, instead of a proper pointer to an error code. Libvirt will, however, print an error to the console: libvir: QEMU error : Requested operation is not valid: domain is already running

Hi, After recently upgrading to 0.9.11 (as shipped with Fedora 17), I was just trying to migrate a qemu domain from one host to another (using virDomainMigrateToURI()), when I got this error message: Unsafe migration: Migration may lead to data corruption if disks use cache != none Okay, this is explainable (if a bit disappointing - I would have hoped that qemu would be able to disable disk

Hi, Libvirt's nwfilter ships a number of useful filter scripts by default, but none to handle IPv6 traffic. Is there a particular reason for that, or is that just because nobody has got around to that yet? One interesting thing about dealing with IPv6 traffic is that hosts often have several auto-configured addresses, usually at least one auto-configured link- local address under

Hi, I am trying to prevent my qemu guest machines from sending IPv6 router advertisements over their network device. To that end, I have written this filter definition: <filter name='no-ipv6-router-advertisement' chain='root' priority='-690'> <rule action='drop' direction='out' priority='600'> <icmpv6 type='134'/>

Hi, I am trying to update the network filters on running guest machines (qemu backend) without having to restart the domain. Say I have a running domain "test" with this interface: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:84:6d:6d'/>

Hi, What's the best way to tell if a virConnect object is not good to use anymore? (For example because the libvirtd on the other side crashed/has been stopped or because of some network failure) When I try this, the first API call I do on a broken connection yields an error with error number 38 (VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR) and all subsequent calls yield an error number 1

Hi, I'm trying to install the newest version of libvirt and libvirt-client from the rpms at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ on a Fedora 14 machine. The naming of the rpms as "libvirt-0.9.4-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm" suggests that this is exactly the system this was made for, however, installation still does not go smoothly. When I try to install these packages with yum install

Hi, I'm having a problem with libvirtd (backend being kvm) losing its if I restart it with /etc/init.d/libvirtd restart. What I did was: Start libvirtd Connect to it using virsh Create a new storage pool with pool-create-as Create some volumes with vol-create-as Create some virtual machines with create Restart libvirtd using /etc/init.d/libvirtd restart Reconnect with virsh After

Hi, After upgrading to libvirt 0.8.1, I can no longer create empty volumes with no backing store and an explicit format of qcow2. This XML volume definition: <volume> <name>testserverb-data2.img</name> <allocation>0</allocation> <capacity units='G'>20</capacity> <target> <format type='qcow2'/>

Hi, Sometimes when stopping a virtual domain using virDomainDestroy(), I come across a domain that is already stopped. (For example when someone already stopped the domain manually using virsh or because the guest OS issued a shutdown.) This is a special case that I absolutely need to catch and handle. Unfortunately, when this happens, and I call virGetLastError() afterwards, I always just

Hi, I just tried using vol-update to copy an image file to a storage pool, and I noticed that, at least in my configuration (qemu backend, storage pool of type "dir"), this command does not appear to be doing any kind of format conversion. It simply copied the source file as-is over the file in which the target volume was stored with no checks whether that even makes sense. The

Hi, I'm using libvirt 0.8.3 on Fedora 14 (as I wrote earlier, I'm having some trouble updating to the newest version), and I'm having problems getting iscsi and mpath storage pools to work in a usable and consistent manner. I have two storage pools defined on the host machine, one for raw iscsi- devices and one for those same iscsi devices device-mapped by multipath. They look