Bug 747358

Summary: KVM guest install fails with libvirtError: cannot send monitor command '{"execute":"query-balloon"}': Connection reset by peer
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.1CC: acathrow, dallan, jdenemar, jeder, jwest, kbesu, mjenner, msvoboda, mzhan, pm-eus, rwu, weizhan, ydu, yupzhang
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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If the QEMU driver failed to update information about currently allocated memory, installing a new virtual machine could have failed with the following error message: ERROR cannot send monitor command '{"execute":"query-balloon"}': Connection reset by peer With this update, the driver has been modified to not consider this behavior as fatal. Installation now proceeds and finishes as expected.
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Bug Depends On: 741217    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-10-19 15:23:29 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #741217 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.1 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 7 Miroslav Svoboda 2011-10-20 13:53:02 UTC
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If the QEMU driver failed to update information about currently allocated memory, installing a new virtual machine could have failed with the following error message:

     ERROR    cannot send monitor command '{"execute":"query-balloon"}':
     Connection reset by peer

 With this update, the driver has been modified to not consider this behavior as fatal. Installation now proceeds and finishes as expected.

Comment 8 yanbing du 2011-10-21 03:16:52 UTC
Test with libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.3.x86_64 on 6.1.z.
Both use virt-manager and virt-install tool can install win2k3 guest successfully, so bug VERIFIED.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-11-07 13:49:01 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1431.html