On 02/19/2015 12:45 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 07:23:52PM +0100, Raphael Glon wrote:
I entcountered a similar case more recently on powerkvm 2.1.0
(defect with the libguestfs)
What's the actual bug? We've worked hard, with IBM, to make
libguestfs work on POWER 7 and POWER 8 systems. I have full access to
those systems through Red Hat. If there's a new bug I'm sure we'll be
able to fix it.
Rich.
Hi, thank you for all your answers.
Not saying there are "actual" bugs (anyway I'm stuck here because i
would need to find time+environment to recheck all/reproduce) -> i
haven't even deployed juno on pkvm yet
We've talked with ibm (and they have likely been working with you) and
they are really responsive in fixing defects with their distribution
We've entcountered two problems with powerkvm regarding nova + libguestfs.
1. since pkvm 2.1.x is forked from a Fedo 19, we fell back to this Red
Hat bug you fixed regarding the attach method
Note that one of the workaround proposed was
sudo sysctl -w fs.protected_hardlinks=0 + common user nova/qemu
-> Not a specialist here, but seems like to be able to use libguestfs to
avoid "potential" issues with fuse mounts, we open other "potential"
holes somewhere else
2. because pkvm 2.1.x is forked from fedo 19 it embeds rather old
versions of libguestfs and libvirt.
We also entcountered the following issue(as you see from the dates, it
is rather "old"). About this, i was not perfectly accurate saying it was
a libguestfs defect, it was a pkvm defect embedding an old version of
libguestfs and anyway it also has been fixed quickly
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8465699/
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 libvirtd[15894]: Domain id=2
name='guestfs-xv6mh1nvhr17ktj6'
uuid=341b09bc-6583-4b72-9df8-dc9b18116303 is tainted: custom-argv
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 libvirtd[15894]: Unable to read from
monitor: Connection reset by peer
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 kernel: [ 878.869394]
qemu-system-ppc[16250]: unhandled signal 11 at 00d8 nip
3070c0ac lr 3070bff4 code 30001
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 libvirtd[15894]: cannot lookup default
selinux label for /tmp/libguestfsrOhcjP/console.sock
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 libvirtd[15894]: cannot lookup default
selinux label for /tmp/libguestfsrOhcjP/guestfsd.sock
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 libvirtd[15894]: cannot lookup default
selinux label for /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.16152
Sep 30 14:25:33 host-power8-1 libvirtd[15894]: cannot lookup default
selinux label for /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/initrd.16152
3. Had no time to investigate on this but when using libguestfs with
nova, the ghost was not always destroyed after file injection.
Sometimes, you could find an instance spawned with the libguestfs ghost
still running in the same time. Anyway, I've got no logs to detailthis
issue, i'll try to get some one day
So summing up this patch was about:
File injection with libguestfs not working in some specific environment
(dist pkvm 2.1.0 + libguestfs pkvm packaged version + nova havana) and i
supposed i was not the only one concerned
On our side we had to temporarily disable file injection using libguestfs
Since nova still considers fuse mounts as acceptableit would have been
practical if, at the time, it had been flexible on the fact to use or
not libguestfs when this one is installed. (By the way, correct me if
wrong, but there are no current open issues with fuse mounts, and if
there are, why is it still proposed in nova ? would even say this is the
default/most used method because there is no dist considering libguestfs
is a dependency for the nova-compute package)
Get your reluctance. Giving up with the patch.
regards
raphael
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