Bug 1285720

libvirt does not yet have its fix incorporated, but it can be tested by creating libvirt machine with unicode name already escaped.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1282846 +++

Apparently this bug has propagated to el7 and now affects RHEV-3.5 and 3.6 when deployed over RHEL-7. I assume it would block live migration of VMs with non-ascii names from el6 to el7 (which is an important feature of RHEV-3.5).

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1062943 +++

Description of problem:
libvirt can define and undefine a VM with a non-ACSII char name.
but it can not start this VM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 1.1.3.2

How reproducible:
create a VM with with a non-ACSII chars name, such as "kīмсhī-∨м" and start this VM.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. define a VM with a non-ACSII chars name. we can define it by virsh.
2. start this VM.
3. undefine this VM.

Actual results:
failed to start VM for invalid argument.


Expected results:
it should start the VM successfully.

Additional info:

the libvirtd.log report
2014-02-09 03:05:35.001+0000: 11376: error : virDBusCallMethod:1173 : Invalid argument

/var/log/libvirt/qemu/kīмсhī-∨м.log reports
2014-02-08 15:31:03.391+0000: starting up
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -name kīмсhī-∨м -S -machine pc-i440fx-1.6,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 6e8233dd-0c00-4c78-b4a6-bffcd1ced26c -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/kīмсhī-∨м.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=25,id=hostnet0 -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:3f:27:31,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -vnc 0.0.0.0:0 -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
2014-02-08 15:31:03.398+0000libvirt:  error : libvirtd quit during handshake: Input/output error

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--- Additional comment from Martin Kletzander on 2015-11-26 05:23:56 EST ---

I managed to fix this fact (intentionally not saying bug, because why couldn't we talk in utf-8 in 21st century) in libvirt, but it still didn't work.  After discussion with systemd engineers, there's also bug in machined, so I'm cloning this BZ for systemd to make sure both issues are fixed.