[libvirt] Libvirtd and OSX... with QEMU

[Martin Kletzander]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:04:44PM +0000, Justin Clift wrote:
>On 18 Jan 2016, at 14:00, Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:16:54PM +0000, Justin Clift wrote:
><snip>
>>>> With debug level logging, although more verbose there's nothing that
>>>> seems smoking-gun like.  Except maybe this?
>>>>
>>>> 2016-01-17 22:07:51.008+0000: 18446744073709551615: debug : virEventPollRunOnce:644 : Poll got error event 9
>>>> 2016-01-17 22:07:51.008+0000: 18446744073709551615: error : virEventPollRunOnce:648 : Unable to poll on file handles: Bad file descriptor
>>>> 2016-01-17 22:07:51.008+0000: 18446744073709551615: debug : virNetDaemonRun:703 : Loop iteration error, exiting
>>
>> So we're passing invalid FDs to poll() function.  I can't think of
>> anything else than bisection or pausing the process around
>> vireventpoll.c:644 (the call to poll()) and checking what the FDs point
>> to, which one is the invalid one and then going back to see how it got
>> there, what is it, who forgot to delete it and so on.
>
>Gah.  Sounds like I may need to go and relearn GDB.  Not quite sure I'm
>motivated enough tbh.  We'll see... :)
>
>
>> Did this not happen with the release candidates?
>
>As far as I know, on OSX people mainly use virsh.  eg for connecting to
>libvirt on Linux/BSD/whatever hosts.  So libvirtd support may or may
>not have been working for a while.  I don't know, as I only tested
>virsh when updating the recent Homebrew port. ;)
>
>But last night I had the realisation that libvirtd itself might work too
>since it functions on the other BSD's.  So, took a few minutes to try
>it out.  Without QEMU installed, libvirtd doesn't error out like the
>above.  That only happens when QEMU is around.  So, it's related to that
>somehow. :)
>

Sorry for not replying for a while.  Unfortunately I have no new info
about this and why it might be happening.  Did you get any further?

>
>> Does it happen every single start?
>
>Yeah, completely reliable.
>
>One other weirdness showed up too, probably not related though.  Without
>QEMU installed, when starting up libvirtd with -l enabled (for listening),
>it exists complaining about missing cert file.  That in itself is not
>surprising... except it happens even when TLS is disabled is in libvirtd.conf.
>
>According to the wiki, turning off listen_tls + turning on listen_tcp should
>stop the need for cert files:
>
>  http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/The_daemon_cannot_be_started
>
>Does that sound like a bug too, or more like the wiki is out of date? :)
>

If you have no certificate installed and you have listen_tls=0 and
listen_tcp=1, it should not be a problem.

>+ Justin
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