Hi Eric, Thanks! You are right, I missed declaring namespace, now, the <qemu:commandline> is saved after virsh edit. However, both namespace and <qemu:commandline> tag are lost after I run "nova start" to launch the VM. Any idea that how could I make this qemu command take effect ?
Regards, CY. On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/20/2015 08:37 AM, Chengyuan Li wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to enable virtio-blk data plane feature for VMs in my openstack > > environment, the hypervisor is ubuntu 14.04, libvirt 1.2.2 and QEMU 2.0. > > As nova doesn't support that parameter yet, I did belows > > > > 1. nova boot a VM with raw disk image. > > 2. nova stop the VM. > > 3. run "virsh edit <instance-id>" on the hyprvisor node, and adding below > > into instance xml just before </domain>. > > > > However, the <qemu:commandline> part is ignored and not saved after > closing > > virsh edit, seems that libvirt rejected these changes. Is there any XML > > syntax error here? Or libvirt doesn't support <qemu:commandline> tag? > > If XML changes disappear after virsh edit, then it is a case of you > using XML that wasn't recognized by libvirt. > > > > > <qemu:commandline> > > <qemu:arg value='-set'/> > > <qemu:arg value='device.drive-virtio-disk0.x-data-plane=on'/> > > </qemu:commandline> > > Did you also remember to declare the namespace? Per > http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html#qemucommand > > it is essential to have something like: > > <domain type='qemu' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0 > '> > > before any other <qemu:...> will be recognized. (The namespace does not > have to be named 'qemu:', but it makes it easier to stick to the naming > used by the examples) > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >
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