7:35 p.m.
Hello,
I'm having a problem when trying to use virt-sysprep against vms that have
rbd disk images. When I run virt-sysprep I get the following error:
> root@kitt:~/libguestfs-1.22.4# virt-sysprep -d server-clone-test
--firstboot firstboot.sh
> Examining the guest ...
> Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("rbd: image name must begin with a
'/'")
My Disk definition is as follows:
> <disk type='network' device='disk'>
> <driver name='qemu'/>
> <source protocol='rbd'
name='libvirt-pool/server-clone-test'>
> <host name='192.168.0.40' port='6789'/>
> <host name='192.168.0.35' port='6789'/>
> <host name='192.168.0.2' port='6789'/>
> </source>
> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>
> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0'
target='0' unit='1'/>
> </disk>
I can resolve this error by changing the name of the libvirt-pool:
> <source protocol='rbd'
name='/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test'>
But this causes an error when attempting to boot the vm:
> root@kitt:~/libguestfs-1.22.4# virsh start server-clone-test
> error: Failed to start domain server-clone-test
> error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: W:
kvm
binary is deprecated, please use qemu-system-x86_64 instead
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 (label charserial0)
> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1:
pool name too short
> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1:
could not open disk image
rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:
Invalid argument
I'm currently using libguestfs-1.22.4 and I did run into a known bug [1]
that I was able to patch, but I don't think that's related to the issues
with disk naming.
Is there a way to give virt-sysprep a rbd with the -a flag, or is there a
better way to sysprep vms? I would like to avoid having to edit the vm
config if possible.
Thanks,
Jon A
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/+bug/1243190
3:01 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:35:42PM -0700, Jon wrote:
Hello,
I'm having a problem when trying to use virt-sysprep against vms that have
rbd disk images. When I run virt-sysprep I get the following error:
>> root@kitt:~/libguestfs-1.22.4# virt-sysprep -d server-clone-test
--firstboot firstboot.sh
>> Examining the guest ...
>> Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("rbd: image name must begin with a
'/'")
My Disk definition is as follows:
>> <disk type='network' device='disk'>
>> <driver name='qemu'/>
>> <source protocol='rbd'
name='libvirt-pool/server-clone-test'>
>> <host name='192.168.0.40' port='6789'/>
>> <host name='192.168.0.35' port='6789'/>
>> <host name='192.168.0.2' port='6789'/>
>> </source>
>> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>
>> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0'
target='0' unit='1'/>
>> </disk>
I can resolve this error by changing the name of the libvirt-pool:
>> <source protocol='rbd'
name='/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test'>
But this causes an error when attempting to boot the vm:
>> root@kitt:~/libguestfs-1.22.4# virsh start server-clone-test
>> error: Failed to start domain server-clone-test
>> error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: W:
kvm binary is deprecated, please use qemu-system-x86_64 instead
>> char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 (label charserial0)
>> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1:
pool name too short
>> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1:
could not open disk image
rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:
Invalid argument
I'm currently using libguestfs-1.22.4 and I did run into a known bug [1]
that I was able to patch, but I don't think that's related to the issues
with disk naming.
Is there a way to give virt-sysprep a rbd with the -a flag, or is there a
better way to sysprep vms? I would like to avoid having to edit the vm
config if possible.
This is a bug basically. I have filed a bug report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026688
It would be helpful to try with a newer version of libguestfs. Ubuntu
has just pushed the 1.24.0 package. I don't know if it'll help or
not, but it would be useful to know if the behaviour changes.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/1:1.24.0-0ubuntu1/+build/...
Rich.
--
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virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
12:17 p.m.
Hello Richard,
Thanks for the reply.
Indeed this behaviour exists in 1.25.6.
Grepping through the source [1], there are a number of files in
"./po/*.po[t]?" that contain this message, but I think it's ./src/drives.c
where the fail condition is actually detected / set.
On line 300 there is an if statement that checks the first character is a
slash:
if (exportname[0] != '/') {
error (g, _("rbd: image name must begin with a '/'"));
return NULL;
}
I tried to comment this out and recompile guestfs, but I get an error:
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6/builder'
ocamlfind ocamlopt -g -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVYZX -package str,unix -I
../src/.libs -I ../ocaml -I ../mllib -package gettext-stub -c builder.ml -o
builder.cmx
File "builder.ml", line 53, characters 4-14:
Error: Unbound value List.iteri
make[2]: *** [builder.cmx] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6/builder'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Can you provide some assistance resolving this compile error please? Is
there perhaps a better place to pull the source from?
Thanks,
Jon A
[1]
http://libguestfs.org/download/1.25-development/libguestfs-1.25.6.tar.gz
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:35:42PM -0700, Jon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem when trying to use virt-sysprep against vms that
have
> rbd disk images. When I run virt-sysprep I get the following error:
>
> >> root@kitt:~/libguestfs-1.22.4# virt-sysprep -d server-clone-test
> --firstboot firstboot.sh
> >> Examining the guest ...
> >> Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("rbd: image name must begin with
a
> '/'")
>
> My Disk definition is as follows:
>
> >> <disk type='network' device='disk'>
> >> <driver name='qemu'/>
> >> <source protocol='rbd'
name='libvirt-pool/server-clone-test'>
> >> <host name='192.168.0.40' port='6789'/>
> >> <host name='192.168.0.35' port='6789'/>
> >> <host name='192.168.0.2' port='6789'/>
> >> </source>
> >> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>
> >> <address type='drive' controller='0'
bus='0' target='0'
unit='1'/>
> >> </disk>
>
> I can resolve this error by changing the name of the libvirt-pool:
>
> >> <source protocol='rbd'
name='/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test'>
>
> But this causes an error when attempting to boot the vm:
>
> >> root@kitt:~/libguestfs-1.22.4# virsh start server-clone-test
> >> error: Failed to start domain server-clone-test
> >> error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: W:
> kvm binary is deprecated, please use qemu-system-x86_64 instead
> >> char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 (label charserial0)
> >> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
>
file=rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1:
> pool name too short
> >> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
>
file=rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1:
> could not open disk image
>
rbd:/libvirt-pool/server-clone-test:auth_supported=none:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:
> Invalid argument
>
> I'm currently using libguestfs-1.22.4 and I did run into a known bug [1]
> that I was able to patch, but I don't think that's related to the issues
> with disk naming.
>
> Is there a way to give virt-sysprep a rbd with the -a flag, or is there a
> better way to sysprep vms? I would like to avoid having to edit the vm
> config if possible.
This is a bug basically. I have filed a bug report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026688
It would be helpful to try with a newer version of libguestfs. Ubuntu
has just pushed the 1.24.0 package. I don't know if it'll help or
not, but it would be useful to know if the behaviour changes.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/1:1.24.0-0ubuntu1/+build/...
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
1:22 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:17:14AM -0700, Jon wrote:
I tried to comment this out and recompile guestfs, but I get an
error:
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6/builder'
ocamlfind ocamlopt -g -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVYZX -package str,unix -I
../src/.libs -I ../ocaml -I ../mllib -package gettext-stub -c builder.ml -o
builder.cmx
File "builder.ml", line 53, characters 4-14:
Error: Unbound value List.iteri
make[2]: *** [builder.cmx] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6/builder'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Hmm, this is actually another bug :-( The attached patch should fix
this one and allow you to compile libguestfs with the older version of
OCaml that didn't have List.iteri.
Rich.
--
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virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many
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3:25 p.m.
Hello Richard,
Haha, ok, here's a good one: I commented that if statement out at line 300,
applied your patch (I see you updated the github of this code, perhaps
that's the best place to grab the code from), and when I run virt-sysprep,
I get the following parameter for my disk drive:
> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:ibvirt-pool/server-clone-test:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:auth_supported=none,cache=writeback,id=hd0,if=none:
error opening pool ibvirt-pool
Since "ibvirt-pool" doesn't exist. :)
So this says to me that the function "create_drive_non_file" is consuming
that first slash somewhere. Perhaps "safe_strdup"? I'm not sure where
"safe_strdup" is to confirm, but it looks like other functions use the
"safe_stardup" function.
With that in mind, I didn't want to have to reinvent create_drive_non_file,
and without a better understanding of how all the code works together, I
came up with a little hack which basically prepends the slash if there
isn't one.
if (exportname[0] != '/') {
// char name[(sizeof exportname) + 1];
char name[256];
snprintf(name, sizeof name, "/%s", exportname);
exportname = name;
}
My concern is long rbd-pool/rbd names, hence the commented out line, but
that causes the name of the disk to be:
> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:libvirt:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:auth_supported=none,cache=writeback,id=hd0,if=none:
could not open disk image
rbd:libvirt:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:auth_supported=none:
Invalid argument
For some reason, the commented out line in the if statement above is
truncating the end of the name. Admittedly, my C skills are a bit rusty,
so I'm probably overlooking something obvious.
Any thoughts on this approach?
Thanks,
Jon A
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:17:14AM -0700, Jon wrote:
> I tried to comment this out and recompile guestfs, but I get an error:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6/builder'
> ocamlfind ocamlopt -g -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVYZX -package str,unix -I
> ../src/.libs -I ../ocaml -I ../mllib -package gettext-stub -c builder.ml-o
> builder.cmx
> File "builder.ml", line 53, characters 4-14:
> Error: Unbound value List.iteri
> make[2]: *** [builder.cmx] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6/builder'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.25.6'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
Hmm, this is actually another bug :-( The attached patch should fix
this one and allow you to compile libguestfs with the older version of
OCaml that didn't have List.iteri.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many
powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
3:37 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:25:54PM -0700, Jon wrote:
Hello Richard,
Haha, ok, here's a good one: I commented that if statement out at line 300,
applied your patch (I see you updated the github of this code, perhaps
that's the best place to grab the code from), and when I run virt-sysprep,
I get the following parameter for my disk drive:
>> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
file=rbd:ibvirt-pool/server-clone-test:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:auth_supported=none,cache=writeback,id=hd0,if=none:
error opening pool ibvirt-pool
Since "ibvirt-pool" doesn't exist. :)
So this says to me that the function "create_drive_non_file" is consuming
that first slash somewhere.
Unfortunately this code is rather intricate (and intricately broken),
but the problem is likely to be here:
src/drives.c:
/* Skip the mandatory leading '/' character on exportname. */
return safe_asprintf (g, "rbd:%s:mon_host=%s%s%s%s",
&src->u.exportname[1],
mon_host,
username ? username : "",
auth,
secret ? secret : "");
The problem that this code is trying (and failing) to deal with is
that when you use the URL on the guestfish command line, the URL is
something like "rbd://example.com/foo/bar" and the path part of this
has to start with a "/" character. There is simply no way to specify
a URL without this.
However this assumption should *not* have made its way into the
libguestfs library, since other paths into this code, such as from
libvirt XML, have no such restrictions.
So it's currently somewhat broken.
Rich.
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3:50 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:37:01PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
when you use the URL on the guestfish command line, the URL is
something like "rbd://example.com/foo/bar" and the path part of this
has to start with a "/" character. There is simply no way to specify
a URL without this.
(I mean, a URL that has a path that doesn't start with a "/".)
Rich.
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3:52 p.m.
Hello Rich,
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
When you specify an rbd on the command line for virt-sysprep, do you expect
the path to include the monitor address?
e.g.:
> virt-sysprep -a rbd://host-name/pool-name/device-name
If I understand correctly, libvirt is able to understand the ceph
configuration, so when I create a device with qemu-img I only specify the
protocol and pool/device.
e.g.:
> qemu-img create rbd:pool-name/device-name 5G
(there is some voodoo that I don't understand, I've got a whole thread on
trying to get qemu-img to create format 2 rbds by default... but that's for
another thread)
Would it be possible to specify rbds like this instead? Or is the scope
bigger than I'm understanding and that would cause issues with other disk
types specified for the --add parameter. It seems like --add can take
either a URI or a physical disk path.
Thanks for all your help helping me to understand.
Best Regards,
Jon A
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:25:54PM -0700, Jon wrote:
> Hello Richard,
>
> Haha, ok, here's a good one: I commented that if statement out at line
300,
> applied your patch (I see you updated the github of this code, perhaps
> that's the best place to grab the code from), and when I run
virt-sysprep,
> I get the following parameter for my disk drive:
>
> >> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive
>
file=rbd:ibvirt-pool/server-clone-test:mon_host=192.168.0.40\:6789\;192.168.0.35\:6789\;192.168.0.2\:6789:auth_supported=none,cache=writeback,id=hd0,if=none:
> error opening pool ibvirt-pool
>
> Since "ibvirt-pool" doesn't exist. :)
>
> So this says to me that the function "create_drive_non_file" is consuming
> that first slash somewhere.
Unfortunately this code is rather intricate (and intricately broken),
but the problem is likely to be here:
src/drives.c:
/* Skip the mandatory leading '/' character on exportname. */
return safe_asprintf (g, "rbd:%s:mon_host=%s%s%s%s",
&src->u.exportname[1],
mon_host,
username ? username : "",
auth,
secret ? secret : "");
The problem that this code is trying (and failing) to deal with is
that when you use the URL on the guestfish command line, the URL is
something like "rbd://example.com/foo/bar" and the path part of this
has to start with a "/" character. There is simply no way to specify
a URL without this.
However this assumption should *not* have made its way into the
libguestfs library, since other paths into this code, such as from
libvirt XML, have no such restrictions.
So it's currently somewhat broken.
Rich.
--
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4:07 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:52:06PM -0700, Jon wrote:
Hello Rich,
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
When you specify an rbd on the command line for virt-sysprep, do you expect
the path to include the monitor address?
e.g.:
>> virt-sysprep -a rbd://host-name/pool-name/device-name
Note that these URIs are not Ceph URIs.
They are something that libguestfs virt tools invent, implemented in
fish/uri.{c,h} and described here:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#adding-remote-storage
Below that layer is the interface to libguestfs-as-a-library,
described here:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#remote-storage
So if I understand your question correctly, then I guess the answer is
"no", although I'm not sure what a "monitor address" is. Because
libguestfs virt tools URIs are nothing like and unrelated to Ceph URIs.
If I understand correctly, libvirt is able to understand the ceph
configuration, so when I create a device with qemu-img I only specify the
protocol and pool/device.
e.g.:
>> qemu-img create rbd:pool-name/device-name 5G
(there is some voodoo that I don't understand, I've got a whole thread on
trying to get qemu-img to create format 2 rbds by default... but that's for
another thread)
Would it be possible to specify rbds like this instead? Or is the scope
bigger than I'm understanding and that would cause issues with other disk
types specified for the --add parameter. It seems like --add can take
either a URI or a physical disk path.
I don't know, but see above.
Rich.
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