iscsi multipath failure with libvirtError: Failed to open file '/dev/mapper/Mar': No such file or directory

2015-03-23 Thread mad Engineer
hello All, I know the issue is related to libvirt,but i dont know where to ask. i have centos 6.6 running KVM as compute node in openstack icehouse when i try to attach volume to instance it shows 2596: error : virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse:952 : Failed to open file

Re: Number of threads for virtual machine process

2015-02-16 Thread mad Engineer
help On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Paolo Bonzini pbonz...@redhat.com wrote: On 16/02/2015 11:54, mad Engineer wrote: Hello all, On a RHEL 6.4 server i created a vm with 2 VCPU and expecting to see single process with 2 threads on host. but top -p pid-of-qemu -H

Number of threads for virtual machine process

2015-02-16 Thread mad Engineer
Hello all, On a RHEL 6.4 server i created a vm with 2 VCPU and expecting to see single process with 2 threads on host. but top -p pid-of-qemu -H shows many threads randomly being created and destroyed,pid-of-qemu remains the same but other threads' pid keep on changing. Can

Centos 6.6 on Centos 6.6,internal error process exited

2015-01-31 Thread mad Engineer
I have a server with centos 6.5 installed and later upgraded to 6.6 after restart, installed kvm and created centos 6.5 as guest and later upgraded guest to 6.6. Now after host reboot i am not able to start guest as it shows Internal error process exited while reading console log output

Network performance drop when compared to other hypervisor with vhost_net on for UDP

2015-01-14 Thread mad Engineer
I am running RHEL6.5 as Host and Guest on HP server. Server has 128G and 48 Core[with HT enabled.] 3 VMs are running 2 pinned to first 24 PCPU with proper NUMA pinning, Guests: VM1: 6 VCPU pinned to 6 PCPU NUMA node 1,with 16G RAM VM2: 6 VCPU pinned to 6 PCPU on NUMA node 0,with 16G RAM VM3:

Re: [ovirt-users] Network performance drop when compared to other hypervisor with vhost_net on for UDP

2015-01-14 Thread mad Engineer
to experiment with other profiles. HTH Martin Pavlik RHEV QE On 14 Jan 2015, at 12:06, mad Engineer themadengin...@gmail.com wrote: I am running RHEL6.5 as Host and Guest on HP server. Server has 128G and 48 Core[with HT enabled.] 3 VMs are running 2 pinned to first 24 PCPU with proper NUMA

Again with same Cgroup issue :)

2014-12-17 Thread mad Engineer
Hello All, From the last couple of days i have been spamming this mailing list with request for configuring Cgroup with libvirtd on Centos systems. I still can not find a permanent solution to limit host RAM to particular value,tried creating a separate hierarchy mykvm

C group hierarchy and libvirtd

2014-12-15 Thread mad Engineer
On Centos 6.4 x64,with libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6.x86_64 i am trying to set memory.limit_in_bytes for all qemu process. changed cgconfig.conf group mygroup{ perm { admin { uid = root; gid = root; }

using cgroups with KVM

2014-12-14 Thread mad Engineer
hello all, i am trying to limit RAM usage of guests using memory cgroup. testing on a virtual machine with Nested virtualization enabled. What happens when memory.usage_in_bytes = memory.limit_in_bytes ? Is it going to swap extra memory? Thanks for your help -- To unsubscribe from

odd number of VCPU and performance impact?

2014-12-12 Thread mad Engineer
Hi all, Is it a good practice to always create vm with even number of VCPU? What could be the impact if we create vms with odd number of CPU on NUMA or SMP systems.Is there any recommendation Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to

ksmd high cpu usage from almost a week with just one vm running

2014-12-06 Thread mad Engineer
Hello All, I am using centos6.5 x64 on a server with 48 G RAM and 8 Cores.Managed by Ovirt There is only one running VM with RAM 34 G and with 6 VCPU (pinned to proper numa nodes) from top top - 06:42:48 up 67 days, 20:05, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.20, 0.17 Tasks: 285 total,

Allocating dedicated RAM to host that guest can not use

2014-11-27 Thread mad Engineer
Hi, Is there any way to set some RAM dedicated to host that guest can not access? Similar to setting RAM to Dom0 in Xen. I am over committing RAM for the instances but don't want host to swap. i understand that virtual machines are process,but can we achieve this Thanks -- To unsubscribe

Re: Allocating dedicated RAM to host that guest can not use

2014-11-27 Thread mad Engineer
27, 2014 at 05:12:52PM +0530, mad Engineer wrote: Hi, Is there any way to set some RAM dedicated to host that guest can not access? Similar to setting RAM to Dom0 in Xen. I am over committing RAM for the instances but don't want host to swap. i understand that virtual machines are process

Re: Allocating dedicated RAM to host that guest can not use

2014-11-27 Thread mad Engineer
a random thought can we set qemu user/group rss to a particular hard limit in limits.conf Can this work? On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:39 PM, mad Engineer themadengin...@gmail.com wrote: never tried that. can we do that transparently ie with out setting cgroups for each virtul machines