Bug 1660531

Summary: Garbled output on memory locking failure
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Andrea Bolognani <abologna>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 7.6CC: bugproxy, dzheng, hannsj_uhl, jdenemar, jomurphy
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression
Target Release: 7.7   
Hardware: ppc64le   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-4.5.0-12.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:14:35 UTC Type: ---
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Comment 7 Junxiang Li 2019-04-29 01:31:27 UTC
Verify steps:
0. Login a non-root user
1. qemu-img create empty.raw 1
Reproduce:
$ rpm -q libvirt
libvirt-4.5.0-10.el7.ppc64le2. 
$ virt-install \
    --connect qemu:///session \
    --import \
    --name memlock-test \
    --ram 32768 \
    --disk path=$(pwd)/empty.raw

WARNING  No operating system detected, VM performance may suffer. Specify an OS with --os-variant for optimal results.
WARNING  Unable to connect to graphical console: virt-viewer not installed. Please install the 'virt-viewer' package.
WARNING  No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1

Starting install...
ERROR    internal error: Process exited prior to exec: chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device spapr-vty,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0,reg=0x30000000 -device usb-kbd,id=input0,bus=usb.0,port=1 -device usb-mouse,id=input1,bus=usb.0,port=2 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -device VGA,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny -msg timestamp=on
libvirt:  error : cannot limit locked memory to 281018368: Operation not permitted
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///session start memlock-test
otherwise, please restart your installation.

verify:
$ rpm -q libvirt
libvirt-4.5.0-14.el7.ppc64le
2.
$ virt-install \
    --connect qemu:///session \
    --import \
    --name memlock-test \
    --ram 32768 \
    --disk path=$(pwd)/empty.raw

WARNING  No operating system detected, VM performance may suffer. Specify an OS with --os-variant for optimal results.
WARNING  Unable to connect to graphical console: virt-viewer not installed. Please install the 'virt-viewer' package.
WARNING  No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1

Starting install...
ERROR    internal error: Process exited prior to exec: libvirt:  error : cannot limit locked memory to 281018368: Operation not permitted
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///session start memlock-test
otherwise, please restart your installation.


Above all, the bug is verified.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 13:14:35 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2294