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Bug 1598281 - Can NOT convert an existing guest to the native qemu-argv configuration format
Summary: Can NOT convert an existing guest to the native qemu-argv configuration format
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 7.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
QA Contact: Lili Zhu
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-05 02:30 UTC by Lili Zhu
Modified: 2018-10-30 09:58 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-4.5.0-2.el7
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Last Closed: 2018-10-30 09:57:31 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3113 0 None None None 2018-10-30 09:58:30 UTC

Description Lili Zhu 2018-07-05 02:30:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
Can NOT convert an existing guest to the native qemu-argv configuration format

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. List the existing vms
# virsh list --all
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 1     avocado-vt-vm1                 running

2. Conver avocado-vt-vm1 to native qemu-argv configuration format
# virsh domxml-to-native qemu-argv  --domain avocado-vt-vm1
error: Unable to bind to UNIX socket path '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-avocado-vt-vm1/monitor.sock': No such file or directory


Expected results:
Conversion should be successful.

Additional info:
When I tried this virsh cmd on libvirt-4.4.0-2.el7.x86_64

# virsh domxml-to-native qemu-argv  --domain avocado-vt-vm1
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name guest=avocado-vt-vm1,debug-threads=on -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-avocado-vt-vm1/master-key.aes .....

The conversion succeed.
Comment 3 Lili Zhu 2018-07-05 02:33:19 UTC 
The bug is found on libvirt-4.5.0-1.el7.x86_64
Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2018-07-05 07:24:15 UTC 
We need this fix from upstream

commit 7ac08cc929dc512e8682fbfcc5d33518058f20e4
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange>
Date:   Thu Jun 28 12:49:12 2018 +0100

    qemu: don't use chardev FD passing with standalone args
    
    When using domxml-to-native, we must generate CLI args that can be used
    in a standalone scenario. This means no FD passing can be used. To
    achieve this we must clear the QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV_FD_PASS capability bit.
    
    Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan>
    Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange>
Comment 7 Lili Zhu 2018-07-23 04:58:58 UTC 
Verify this bug with:
libvirt-4.5.0-3.el7.x86_64

Steps to verify:
1. List the existing vms
# virsh list --all
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 22    win16                          running


2. Conver avocado-vt-vm1 to native qemu-argv configuration format
# virsh domxml-to-native qemu-argv  --domain win16
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name guest=win16,debug-threads=on -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-win16/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.6.0,.....
Comment 8 Lili Zhu 2018-07-26 10:48:14 UTC 
 # ps aux |grep qemu
qemu     25896  112  0.8 2717260 132536 ?      Sl   18:35   0:12 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name guest=win16
....
-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=29,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor
....

As the guest can be started successfully, and did not change the other functions of the guest.

Mark the bug as verified.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 09:57:31 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-2018:3113
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