libvirt users - May 2014 - Virsh Attach Volume Fails

Hi,

When trying to attach a created volume to an instance using the virsh utility I
am running into this error :-


[] $ sudo virsh attach-device instance-00000015 disk.xml

error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml

error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command
'__com.redhat_drive_add': Device 'drive-virtio-disk21' could not
be initialized


For experimental purpose I have libvirt 0.10.2 and QEMU 0.12.1. The volume to be
attached is on a remote storage.


Any idea what I might be missing ?


Thanks,

Vilobh

On 05/06/2014 02:51 AM, Vilobh Meshram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When trying to attach a created volume to an instance using the virsh
utility I am running into this error :-
> 
> 
> [] $ sudo virsh attach-device instance-00000015 disk.xml
> 
> error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml
> 
> error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command
'__com.redhat_drive_add': Device 'drive-virtio-disk21' could not
be initialized
That's an error message from RHEL qemu, and not available from upstream
qemu nor triggered by upstream libvirt (that is, a RHEL-specific
downstream patch to libvirt is attempting to use a downstream qemu
command that upstream does not have).  Have you opened a support ticket
with Red Hat?
> 
> 
> For experimental purpose I have libvirt 0.10.2 and QEMU 0.12.1. The volume
to be attached is on a remote storage.
This list is probably better suited to help if you can reproduce with
upstream versions (libvirt 1.2.4 and qemu 2.0), or at a bare minimum,
post the contents of disk.xml that is failing on you.  It's hard to say
whether the error is in libvirt (perhaps botched SELinux permissions
getting in the way?) or in qemu; but since libvirt is just parroting
qemu's error message, the investigation needs to look more at why qemu
is throwing the message.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

The contents of disk.xml
<disk type='network' device="disk">
    <driver name="qemu" type="raw"
cache="writeback"/>
    <source protocol="rbd"
name="volumes/volume-3cd6fc4d-3855-49ca-820c-2e0db8f45085">
        <host name='68.142.237.36' port='6789'/>
    </source>
    <target dev="vdg" bus="virtio"/>
    <auth username='client.admin'>
        <secret type='ceph'
uuid='c621f0e9-49fc-4ac2-82a9-34aa80122e33'/>
    </auth>
</disk>



Trying to attach a volume created on CEPH RBD backend to an VM created.
Can¹t see meaningful information in QEMU log nor in libvirt logs.

I have the needed CEPH libs installed like librbd, librados.

On 5/6/14, 4:35 PM, "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>On 05/06/2014 02:51 AM, Vilobh Meshram wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When trying to attach a created volume to an instance using the virsh
>>utility I am running into this error :-
>> 
>> 
>> [] $ sudo virsh attach-device instance-00000015 disk.xml
>> 
>> error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml
>> 
>> error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command
>>'__com.redhat_drive_add': Device 'drive-virtio-disk21'
could not be
>>initialized
>
>That's an error message from RHEL qemu, and not available from upstream
>qemu nor triggered by upstream libvirt (that is, a RHEL-specific
>downstream patch to libvirt is attempting to use a downstream qemu
>command that upstream does not have).  Have you opened a support ticket
>with Red Hat?
>
>> 
>> 
>> For experimental purpose I have libvirt 0.10.2 and QEMU 0.12.1. The
>>volume to be attached is on a remote storage.
>
>This list is probably better suited to help if you can reproduce with
>upstream versions (libvirt 1.2.4 and qemu 2.0), or at a bare minimum,
>post the contents of disk.xml that is failing on you.  It's hard to say
>whether the error is in libvirt (perhaps botched SELinux permissions
>getting in the way?) or in qemu; but since libvirt is just parroting
>qemu's error message, the investigation needs to look more at why qemu
>is throwing the message.
>
>-- 
>Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
>Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>