[libvirt-users] RHEL6 cgroup error after a few days of uptime

[Dax Kelson]

I have a RHEL6 that hosts many kvm virtual machines. It has been
working fine for a couple years. I apply errata updates about once a
week.

In the last couple weeks, I've ran into a bug where the virtual
machines start failing to start with a cgroup error message. If I
reboot the host (very disruptive) then things start working normaly
for a few days.

Can I configure qemu/libvirt not to use cgroups at all as a temporary
workaround? How would I do that?

Here is example of trying to start a vm (that hasn't been started
since boot) after the problem manifests itself.

[root at virthost ~]# find /cgroup | grep r04s14
[root at virthost ~]# virsh start r04s14
error: Failed to start domain r04s14
error: Unable to create cgroup for r04s14: No such file or directory
[root at virthost ~]# find /cgroup | grep r04s14
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpu.rt_period_us
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpu.rt_runtime_us
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpu.stat
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpu.cfs_period_us
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpu.cfs_quota_us
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpu.shares
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cgroup.event_control
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/notify_on_release
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cgroup.procs
/cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/tasks
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpuacct.stat
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpuacct.usage_percpu
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cpuacct.usage
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cgroup.event_control
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/notify_on_release
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/cgroup.procs
/cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/r04s14/tasks
[root at virthost ~]#