[libvirt] domain.info() sometimes returns state zero for running machines
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jun 19 10:59:38 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:40:08AM +0100, Andreas Sommer wrote:
> I executed the commands "export LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1" and "virsh dominfo 2"
> (ID 2 was a running domU), this is the output:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virInitialize (register drivers)
> DEBUG: xen_internal.c: xenHypervisorInit (Using new hypervisor call: 30002
> )
> DEBUG: xen_internal.c: xenHypervisorInit (Using hypervisor call v2, sys
> ver6 dom ver5
> )
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectOpenAuth (name=(null), auth=0xb7f49b60, flags=0)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (Probed xen:///)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (Probed qemu:///system)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (Using xen:/// as default URI, 2 hypervisor found)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (name "xen:///" to URI components:
> scheme xen
> opaque (null)
> authority (null)
> server (null)
> user (null)
> port 0
> path /
> )
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 0 (Test) ...)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 0 Test returned DECLINED)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 1 (Xen) ...)
> DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Trying hypervisor sub-driver)
> DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Activated hypervisor sub-driver)
> DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Trying XenD sub-driver)
> DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Activated XenD sub-driver)
> DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Trying XS sub-driver)
> DEBUG: xen_unified.c: xenUnifiedOpen (Activated XS sub-driver)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 1 Xen returned SUCCESS)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 0 Test returned DECLINED)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 1 QEMU returned DECLINED)
> DEBUG: remote_internal.c: doRemoteOpen (proceeding with name = xen:///)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 2 remote returned SUCCESS)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 0 Test returned DECLINED)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 1 storage returned DECLINED)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 2 remote returned SUCCESS)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainLookupByID (conn=0x9b49048, id=2)
> DEBUG: hash.c: __virGetDomain (New hash entry 0x9b580a0)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetID (domain=0x9b580a0)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetName (domain=0x9b580a0)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetUUIDString (domain=0x9b580a0, buf=0xbff74b07)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetUUID (domain=0x9b580a0, uuid=0xbff74aac)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetOSType (domain=0x9b580a0)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetInfo (domain=0x9b580a0, info=0xbff74b2c)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainGetAutostart (domain=0x9b580a0,
> autostart=0xbff74b44)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virDomainFree (domain=0x9b580a0)
> DEBUG: hash.c: virUnrefDomain (unref domain 0x9b580a0
> ac06e4f0-59b1-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66 1)
> DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseDomain (release domain 0x9b580a0
> ac06e4f0-59b1-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66)
> DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseDomain (unref connection 0x9b49048 xen:/// 2)
> DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectClose (conn=0x9b49048)
> DEBUG: hash.c: virUnrefConnect (unref connection 0x9b49048 xen:/// 1)
> DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseConnect (release connection 0x9b49048 xen:///)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is pretty weird because there are no debugging messages from Xen
> functions?!
Did you make the code changes I suggested below to add in the DEBUG()
statements ? If so, then probably virsh is still using the system
installed libvirto.so rather than the new built one. If you run virsh
directly from the compiled source tree it'd probably work, eg ./src/virsh ...
>
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:04:20PM +0100, Andreas Sommer wrote:
> >
> >>I'm using Xen-3.2-1 on Debian 5.0.1-lenny and retrieve information about
> >>running domains using
> >>
> >>domain.info()[0]
> >>
> >>The domain object is retrieved via connection.lookupByUUIDString(...)
> >>and stored as a variable called "domain". Usually the running domains
> >>have the state 1 (VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING) or 2 (VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCKED), but
> >>sometimes it happens that 0 (VIR_DOMAIN_NOSTATE) is returned.
> >>Why does that happen? I don't think it is an error because then it
> >>would've raised an exception...
> >>
> >
> >I think it is most likely a bug in our handling of the state info
> >from the hypervisor with certain Xen version. I'm fairly sure we
> >should never get NO_STATE for any active domain
> >
> >If you want to try and troubleshoot the code, then this handled in the
> >xenHypervisorGetDomInfo() method in src/xen_internal.c.
> >
> >It currently does this:
> >
> > domain_flags = XEN_GETDOMAININFO_FLAGS(dominfo);
> > domain_flags &= ~DOMFLAGS_HVM; /* Mask out HVM flags */
> > domain_state = domain_flags & 0xFF; /* Mask out high bits */
> > switch (domain_state) {
> > ....
> > }
> >.
> >Given that you see NO_STATE, I expect that none of the 'case' inside
> >the 'switch' are being matched. I'd be interested to know what the
> >'domain_state' value is immediately after its fetched from the HV.
> >So you might try changing it to
> >
> > domain_flags = XEN_GETDOMAININFO_FLAGS(dominfo);
> > DEBUG("Raw HV state flag %x", domain_flags);
> > domain_flags &= ~DOMFLAGS_HVM; /* Mask out HVM flags */
> > domain_state = domain_flags & 0xFF; /* Mask out high bits */
> > DEBUG("Masked HV state flag %x", domain_flags);
> > switch (domain_state) {
> > ....
> > }
> > DEBUG("libvirt state flag %x", info->state);
> >
> >And then running 'LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virsh dominfo GUEST' and
> >capturing the output when it reports 'nostate'
> >
> >Daniel
> >
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