Bug 670727

Summary: qemu discard the errors for migration failing.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Osier Yang <jyang>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Juan Quintela <quintela>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.1CC: armbru, dallan, gcosta, juzhang, jyang, lihuang, mkenneth, tburke, virt-maint
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Bug Blocks: 580954, 615941, 619846, 688804, 696948, 698141, 698496    

Description Osier Yang 2011-01-19 05:28:06 UTC
Description of problem:
libvirts use 3 URIs for migration:

1) source libvirtd URI
2) destination libvirtd URI
3) destination QEMU URI.

And if the destination QEMU URI is not specified by user, libvirt will try to execute "hostname()" on destination host to guess the hostname, and uses it to
form QEMU URI, (e.g. tcp://10.66.70.98).

So, If destination host is mis-configured, it will return a illed hostname which would not be able to address by source host, as a result, the migration will fail.

The problem here is that qemu discard the errors for migration failing (actually all of the errors related to getaddrinfo(3)/connect(2) failing?), so, libvirt can not get the exact error information for dignose log, an error like "An undefined error has occured" obviously is not what the user want to see. 

To get more info, see:
http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/mailman/private/virt-devel/2011-January/msg00239.html

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Comment 2 Osier Yang 2011-01-25 11:51:05 UTC
another bug blocked by this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619846

Comment 5 Dave Allan 2011-06-03 16:13:00 UTC
Thanks, Juan.

Comment 6 juzhang 2011-06-14 11:41:12 UTC
Hi,Juan/Osier

    would you please tell me is this issue duplicate Bug 584077 - QMP: Improve migrate command error info? seems bz584077 is key reason, libvirt call qmp.

Comment 7 Markus Armbruster 2011-07-28 14:52:24 UTC
Yes, this is the same as bug 584077.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 584077 ***