Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-06-08 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 08:19:47AM +0200, Christian Wittwer wrote: Hi Daniel, I'd file a bug against libvirt in Oneiric, requesting that they backport the 4 changesets mentioned in Do you know if that bug is now fixed in Oneiric? No idea I'm afraid, I only maintain libvirt upstream or

Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-14 Thread Lorin Hochstein
From what I understand, the SmokeStack integration tests are running on Ubuntu 11.10 (XenServer) and Fedora 16 (Libvirt), so as a practical matter those platforms will be more battle-tested even if they aren't officially blessed as supported platforms. Take care, Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein Lead

Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-13 Thread Justin Santa Barbara
I certainly understand your position Thierry. However, I think it is important that we target one 'golden' platform, and that we take responsibility for any issues with that platform. Otherwise we simply end up pointing fingers and being blocked on backports, and the end result is a system that

Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:17:49PM -0400, David Kranz wrote: In the spirit of Jay's message, we have a long-running cluster (diablo/kvm) where about once every 3-4 weeks a user will complain that she cannot connect to a vm. Examining the compute node shows that libvirt-bin is hung. Sometimes

Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-12 Thread Justin Santa Barbara
I just today was able to diagnose a libvirt hang. It appears to be (similar to) a known bug in libvirt, likely fixed in the latest Fedora, but it does not appear to be fixed in Ubuntu Oneirc; I think the fix is in Precise: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/953656 I believe this is the