[Libguestfs] HA: Accessing iSCSI disc images from the RHEV Manager using libguestfs

[Исаев Виталий Анатольевич]

Rich, you are right; the hypervisor is RHEV-H. As Itamar has just explained me, hooks are executed on the hypervisor’s side (not on the RHEV-M, as I used to think), so properly working libguestfs on the RHEV-H will resolve my issue.

Here is the output of the test tool:



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===== Test starts here =====

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

library version: 1.16.34rhel=6,release=2.el6

guestfs_get_append: (null)

guestfs_get_attach_method: appliance

guestfs_get_autosync: 1

guestfs_get_direct: 0

guestfs_get_memsize: 500

guestfs_get_network: 0

guestfs_get_path: /usr/lib64/guestfs

guestfs_get_pgroup: 0

guestfs_get_qemu: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm

guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1

guestfs_get_selinux: 0

guestfs_get_smp: 1

guestfs_get_trace: 0

guestfs_get_verbose: 1

host_cpu: x86_64

Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds.

libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum '/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d' x86_64

supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)

supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d

febootstrap-supermin-helper: failed to find a suitable kernel.

I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.

If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels

installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for

febootstrap use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).

libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /usr/lib64/guestfs)

libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance

libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x231d260 (state 0)



Thank you,

Vitaly Isaev



Виталий Исаев

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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones at redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:12 PM
To: Исаев Виталий Анатольевич
Cc: Itamar Heim; libguestfs at redhat.com; fdeutsch at redhat.com
Subject: Re: HA: [Libguestfs] Accessing iSCSI disc images from the RHEV Manager using libguestfs



[CC to Fabian - can you comment on the ovirt-node problem below]



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:02:46PM +0000, Исаев Виталий Анатольевич wrote:

> On 11/21/2013 05:56 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> > When you say "cannot access them" do you get an error message?

> > Could it be an SELinux denial?

>

> Yes, when I am trying to open some logical volume on the hypervisor side, for instance:

>     $ guestfish -a /dev/mapper/dm-xx

> libguestfs fails with an error message kind of that:

>     $ libguestfs-supermin-helper: failed to find a suitable kernel.

>     I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.

>     If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels

>     installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for

>     libguestfs use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).

> So this is correct because hypervisor's file system is minimalist and

> therefore contains kernel files neither in /boot nor in /lib/modules.



Ah I see, this is a slightly different problem.  If this is RHEV-H / ovirt-node then that's a bug in ovirt-node since it is supposed to have a working libguestfs.



Can you paste the full, unedited output of:



  libguestfs-test-tool



on the hypervisor.



> And it is still not clear for me, how should I implement interaction

> between the RHEV-M API, which tells me what logical volume (disk

> image) belongs to the every VM, and the hypervisor's, to which all the logical volume (disk images) are mapped.

>

> So can I access the VM's disk images directly from the RHEV Manager in

> case if manager, hypervisor and storage are different hosts?



I'm not sure about this, but I guess the hooks that Itamar pointed to before should work.



Rich.



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