Bug 1045131 - [engine-backend] Guaranteed RAM memory of a VM can be set to a higher value than the actual memory size
Summary: [engine-backend] Guaranteed RAM memory of a VM can be set to a higher value t...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ovirt-engine
Version: 3.3.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
: 3.4.0
Assignee: Arik
QA Contact: Nikolai Sednev
URL:
Whiteboard: virt
: 1102664 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: rhev3.4snapshot2
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-19 16:45 UTC by Elad
Modified: 2014-06-12 14:09 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: av5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed:
oVirt Team: ---
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
engine, vdsm, libvirt and qemu logs (1.59 MB, application/x-gzip)
2013-12-19 16:45 UTC, Elad
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Description Elad 2013-12-19 16:45:33 UTC
Created attachment 839072 [details]
engine, vdsm, libvirt and qemu logs

Description of problem:
Engine allows user to allocate a value of guaranteed RAM memory to VM which is higher than the actually memory size.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
is27
rhevm-3.3.0-0.40.rc.el6ev.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a VM with 1G of RAM memory size and install OS
2. power off the VM and edit its guaranteed memory size to 2GB without changing the actual memory size 

Actual results:
Engine doesn't block user from setting a higher value of guaranteed RAM memory size than the actual RAM memory size. 

Expected results:
The operation should be blocked by engine

Additional info:
engine, vdsm, libvirt and qemu logs

Comment 1 Michal Skrivanek 2013-12-22 10:41:05 UTC
I wouldn't even fix this....why block it, it does no harm. Wontfix?

Comment 2 Omer Frenkel 2013-12-22 10:48:25 UTC
well, we can, i thought it might be confusing, setting guaranteed mem will use the host memory, although the vm wouldnt be able to use it, no?

Comment 3 Doron Fediuck 2013-12-23 07:47:45 UTC
(In reply to Omer Frenkel from comment #2)
> well, we can, i thought it might be confusing, setting guaranteed mem will
> use the host memory, although the vm wouldnt be able to use it, no?

Actually guaranteed is being used for scheduling. So it may fail scheduling in some scenarios. From SLA perspective it should be fixed.

Comment 4 Michal Skrivanek 2013-12-23 08:28:15 UTC
I know it doesn't seems to make a real sense to have more, but exactly for scheduling purposes I don't see a reason why block it. There might be various reasons why someone would want to do that, to trigger a specific scheduler behavior. Whereas blocking it doesn't really help anything

Comment 5 Arik 2014-03-06 07:44:38 UTC
(In reply to Michal Skrivanek from comment #4)
> I know it doesn't seems to make a real sense to have more, but exactly for
> scheduling purposes I don't see a reason why block it. There might be
> various reasons why someone would want to do that, to trigger a specific
> scheduler behavior. Whereas blocking it doesn't really help anything

so any objection to close it as won't-fix?

Comment 6 Doron Fediuck 2014-03-07 00:05:20 UTC
(In reply to Arik from comment #5)
> (In reply to Michal Skrivanek from comment #4)
> > I know it doesn't seems to make a real sense to have more, but exactly for
> > scheduling purposes I don't see a reason why block it. There might be
> > various reasons why someone would want to do that, to trigger a specific
> > scheduler behavior. Whereas blocking it doesn't really help anything
> 
> so any objection to close it as won't-fix?

Yes.
Currently mom is enforcing a minimum of "Guaranteed RAM" for each vm.
If this is more than the maximum allowed we're getting into useless error-flows.
So if you feel like changing mom and all relevant logic to the new behavior this
issue reveals, please let us know. If not, this issue /has/ to be fixed.

Comment 7 Michal Skrivanek 2014-03-09 08:22:47 UTC
(In reply to Doron Fediuck from comment #6)
alright, then it contradicts my assumption of "no harm":-)
mom error-flows should be fixed regardless, but fixing this bug makes sense as well then. Do you want to take ownership of this one perhaps?

Comment 9 Nikolai Sednev 2014-04-02 16:25:16 UTC
Not fixed, checked following exactly the same steps as described by Elad.

Used repos and rhevm version:

rhevm-3.4.0-0.5.master.el6ev.noarch

[root@dhcp163-99 ~]# rpm -qa rhevm
rhevm-3.4.0-0.5.master.el6ev.noarch
[root@dhcp163-99 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rhev.repo
[qa-latest]
name=QA Latest build
baseurl=http://bob.eng.lab.tlv.redhat.com/builds/av5/el6/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[rhel-65]
name=RHEL_65
baseurl=http://globalsync.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-6/6.5/Server/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[rhel-65-optional]
name=RHEL_65_OPTIONAL
baseurl=http://globalsync.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-6/6.5/Server/optional/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[rhel-65-zstream]
name=RHEL_65_Z
baseurl=http://download.eng.bos.redhat.com/rel-eng/repos/RHEL-6.5-Z/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[JBoss_latest]
name=jboss_latest
baseurl=http://download.devel.redhat.com/devel/candidates/JBEAP/JBEAP-6.2.2.CP.CR2/rpms/jbappplatform-6.2-x86_64-server-6-rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[JBoss_stable]
name=jboss_stable
baseurl=http://download.eng.rdu2.redhat.com/released/JBEAP-6/6.2.1/puddle/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Comment 10 Arik 2014-04-03 10:58:15 UTC
av5 should be tested with rhevm-3.4.0-0.12 (instead of rhevm-3.4.0-0.5)

Comment 11 Nikolai Sednev 2014-04-03 13:37:18 UTC
Please provide the link for latest repo as I'm using this one:

[qa-latest]
name=QA Latest build
baseurl=http://bob.eng.lab.tlv.redhat.com/builds/av5/el6/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0




root@dhcp163-99 ~]# yum info rhevm
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager, versionlock
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
Installed Packages
Name        : rhevm
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 3.4.0
Release     : 0.5.master.el6ev
Size        : 1.5 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : qa-latest
Summary     : Management server for Open Virtualization
URL         : http://www.redhat.com/products/virtualization
License     : ASL 2.0
Description : Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a feature-rich server virtualization management
            : system that provides advanced capabilities for managing Red Hat
            : virtualization infrastructure for Servers and Desktops.

Comment 12 Nikolai Sednev 2014-04-03 14:13:54 UTC
My misconfiguration issues, didn't knew that I should run "rhevm-setup" after "yum update rhevm-setup".

Now after getting to right version, test flow gives results as expected.

System returns an error and blocks user from the action as follows:

Error while executing action:

RHEL6_5_VM3:

    Cannot edit VM. Physical Memory Guaranteed cannot exceed Memory Size.

Comment 13 Martin Sivák 2014-05-29 15:43:58 UTC
*** Bug 1102664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Itamar Heim 2014-06-12 14:09:14 UTC
Closing as part of 3.4.0


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