[libvirt-users] A few more questions ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Wed Aug 17 15:34:09 UTC 2011



.... I have a 64-bit CentOS 5.6 VM running on a 64-bit FC14 host, 
libvirt 0.8.3-10.fc14, 64-bit. I am getting messages in my syslog file, 
2 about every 20 min. about dnsmasq:



Aug 17 04:53:52 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 04:53:52 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 05:20:13 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 05:20:13 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 05:40:57 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 05:40:57 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 06:08:53 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 06:08:53 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 06:32:44 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 06:32:44 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 06:58:59 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 06:58:59 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 07:19:23 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 07:19:23 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 07:40:27 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 07:40:27 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:01:33 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:01:33 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:24:20 Q6600 rpc.mountd[1689]: authenticated mount request from 
192.168.122.213:1010 for /home (/home)
Aug 17 08:27:23 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:27:23 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:27:49 Q6600 kernel: [253719.519366] CIFS VFS: No username 
specified
Aug 17 08:27:49 Q6600 kernel: [253719.519394] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount 
failed w/return code = -22
Aug 17 08:27:49 Q6600 kernel: [253719.527482] CIFS VFS: No username 
specified
Aug 17 08:27:49 Q6600 kernel: [253719.527507] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount 
failed w/return code = -22
Aug 17 08:31:23 Q6600 kernel: [253932.627920] CIFS VFS: No username 
specified
Aug 17 08:31:23 Q6600 kernel: [253932.627949] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount 
failed w/return code = -22
Aug 17 08:31:23 Q6600 kernel: [253932.637894] CIFS VFS: No username 
specified
Aug 17 08:31:23 Q6600 kernel: [253932.637925] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount 
failed w/return code = -22
Aug 17 08:32:51 Q6600 rpc.mountd[1689]: authenticated mount request from 
192.168.0.15:939 for /home (/home)
Aug 17 08:38:38 Q6600 rpc.mountd[1689]: authenticated unmount request 
from 192.168.0.15:619 for /home (/home)
Aug 17 08:38:43 Q6600 rpc.mountd[1689]: authenticated mount request from 
192.168.0.15:644 for /home (/home)
Aug 17 08:44:53 Q6600 rpc.mountd[1689]: authenticated unmount request 
from 192.168.0.15:699 for /home (/home)
Aug 17 08:52:08 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:52:08 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 08:59:13 Q6600 rpc.mountd[1689]: authenticated unmount request 
from 192.168.122.213:671 for /home (/home)
Aug 17 09:16:46 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 09:16:46 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 09:43:00 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3
Aug 17 09:43:00 Q6600 dnsmasq-dhcp[1969]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 
192.168.122.213 52:54:00:a4:98:a3



They are washing other stuff out of easy view .... Is there a way to 
silence these messages ? Also, my ifconfig shows:



[root at Q6600:/etc, Wed Aug 17, 09:51 AM] 1250 # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:81:C4:F1:A8
           inet addr:192.168.0.9  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:81ff:fec4:f1a8/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:27188084 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:24641412 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:26215788177 (24.4 GiB)  TX bytes:20506959836 (19.0 GiB)
           Interrupt:16 Memory:d0100000-d0120000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:135350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:135350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:99406539 (94.8 MiB)  TX bytes:99406539 (94.8 MiB)

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:54:00:A4:98:A3
           inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  
Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:1849 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:3276 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:259897 (253.8 KiB)  TX bytes:559502 (546.3 KiB)

vnet0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:54:00:A4:98:A3
           inet6 addr: fe80::fc54:ff:fea4:98a3/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:2335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:33985 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
           RX bytes:308069 (300.8 KiB)  TX bytes:1933956 (1.8 MiB)

[root at Q6600:/etc, Wed Aug 17, 09:57 AM] 1251 #



Is there a way to get vnet0 to use IPV4 ? Where is that configured ? I 
presume that it (vnet0) is the server/host end of the virbr0 bridge, 
what type of interface is it ? The online docs are good & voluminous, 
but I haven't (yet) found any info on this question. In fact, the pages 
I have seen where brctl commands are shown show nothing for the 
interface of virbr0 (empty space, no output), where mine shows:



[root at Q6600:/etc, Wed Aug 17, 10:19 AM] 1256 # brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
virbr0          8000.fe5400a498a3       yes             vnet0
[root at Q6600:/etc, Wed Aug 17, 10:19 AM] 1257 #



hence my questions about vnet0 :-) .... TIA for any clues ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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