Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 04:00:38PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:35:08AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Richard W.M. Jones > >> wrote: > >> > User-Mode Linux is also a possibi

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-29 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:35:08AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Richard W.M. Jones >> wrote: >> > User-Mode Linux is also a possibility. Slow but consistent >> Slow is a big concern... > > There are so

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:35:08AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > User-Mode Linux is also a possibility. Slow but consistent > Slow is a big concern... There are some measurements here: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/performance-

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:22:19AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> Yes, I am trying to run it in Xen Domain0. I thought that we can use >> Domain0 as a public libguestfs VM, This will avoid starting a new >> guest for virt-xxx every time, B

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:22:19AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > Yes, I am trying to run it in Xen Domain0. I thought that we can use > Domain0 as a public libguestfs VM, This will avoid starting a new > guest for virt-xxx every time, But Domain0 has no corresponding qemu > task. So this way isn't av

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:55:04AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Richard W.M. Jones >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:43:17PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> >> Yeah, but why did it happen when i d

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:55:04AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Richard W.M. Jones > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:43:17PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > >> Yeah, but why did it happen when i directly issue guest VM via above > >> command? > > > > OK I see.

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:43:17PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> Yeah, but why did it happen when i directly issue guest VM via above command? > > OK I see. When libguestfs runs qemu-kvm, it sets up a TCP socket > first [on RHEL 5 -- it

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:43:17PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > Yeah, but why did it happen when i directly issue guest VM via above command? OK I see. When libguestfs runs qemu-kvm, it sets up a TCP socket first [on RHEL 5 -- it works differently upstream]. Without the socket existing (and sendi

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:04:11PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Ric

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:04:11PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > >> wrote: > >> > Which version of libguestfs is th

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones >> wrote: >> > Which version of libguestfs is this? I think you'll have no hope of >> #rpm -qa | grep libguestfs >> li

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Which version of libguestfs is this? I think you'll have no hope of > #rpm -qa | grep libguestfs > libguestfs-1.20.8-1 > libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.8-1 > > getting upstream l

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:30:37PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> HI, >> >> On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by >> libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it >> exited exceptionally. >>

Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:30:37PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > HI, > > On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by > libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it > exited exceptionally. > > Does anyone also hit the issue or know the reason? As it says i

[Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

2014-09-28 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
HI, On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it exited exceptionally. Does anyone also hit the issue or know the reason? #/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off -nodefconfig -nodefaults