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Bug 1113668

Summary: libvirt failed to start a domain with unix+guestfwd channel
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1CC: dyuan, honzhang, jiahu, mzhan, rbalakri
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Upstream
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-1.2.7-1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 1112066 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-03-05 07:40:29 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1112066    
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Description Martin Kletzander 2014-06-26 15:07:39 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1112066 +++

Description of problem:
libvirt failed to start a domain with unix+guestfwd channel

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.10.2-38.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.428.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-468.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:

[root@rhel6 ~]# virsh dumpxml r7 | grep channel -A5
    <channel type='unix'>
      <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/foo'/>
      <target type='guestfwd' address='127.0.0.1' port='2445'/>
    </channel>
...
[root@rhel6 ~]# virsh start r7
error: Failed to start domain r7
error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: 2014-06-19T09:02:41.371927Z qemu-kvm: -netdev user,guestfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2445,chardev=charchannel0,id=user-channel0: Invalid parameter 'chardev'

Actual results:
As shown above step.

Expected results:
Domain should be started successfully.

--- Additional comment from Martin Kletzander on 2014-06-26 10:57:46 EDT ---

Fixed upstream with v1.2.6-rc1-12-g39931f5:

commit 39931f5ee8314137dba453bad9742310fc275f5b
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Date:   Thu Jun 26 16:09:46 2014 +0200

    qemu: fix guestfwd chardev option back how it was

Comment 3 Hu Jianwei 2014-11-13 03:28:45 UTC
The bug has been fixed.

[root@ibm-x3850x5-06 ~]# rpm -q libvirt kernel
libvirt-1.2.8-6.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-187.el7.x86_64

[root@ibm-x3850x5-06 ~]# virsh dumpxml r7 | grep "/channel" -B3
    <channel type='unix'>
      <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/foo'/>
      <target type='guestfwd' address='10.0.2.9' port='2445'/>
    </channel>
[root@ibm-x3850x5-06 ~]# virsh start r7
Domain r7 started

[root@ibm-x3850x5-06 ~]# ps aux | grep qemu-kvm
qemu     14241 99.6  0.1 1717284 33644 ?       Sl   11:22   0:02 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name r7 -S -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid a70da21c-ffe1-4dca-b348-62e44035a6b6 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/r7.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device ahci,id=ahci0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/r7.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fds=23:24,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfds=25:26 -device virtio-net-pci,mq=on,vectors=6,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:e5:fa:de,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/foo,server,nowait -netdev user,guestfwd=tcp:10.0.2.9:2445-chardev:charchannel0,id=user-channel0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,seamless-migration=on -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.ram_size=67108864 -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -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=0x6 -msg timestamp=on
root     14251  0.0  0.0 112640   964 pts/2    S+   11:22   0:00 grep --color=auto qemu-kvm
[root@ibm-x3850x5-06 ~]#

Comment 4 Hu Jianwei 2014-11-28 05:36:41 UTC
According to comment 3, move to Verified.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 07:40:29 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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0323.html