[libvirt-users] Information needed regarding the libvirt version libvirt-1.0.6-1

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:06:21AM +0200, arun abhinay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have upgraded the libvirt version from libvirt-1.0.5 to libvirt-1.0.6-1
> on our linux machine. After this upgrade "virsh cpu-stats <domain>" command
> is not working on our HardWare.
> 
> *virsh # cpu-stats test
> error: Failed to retrieve CPU statistics for domain 'test'
> error: internal error error accessing cgroup cpuacct for vcpu*
> **
> *# cat /proc/cgroups
> #subsys_name    hierarchy       num_cgroups     enabled
> cpuset  3       4       1
> ns      0       1       1
> cpu     1       6       1
> cpuacct 7       3       1
> memory  2       3       1
> freezer 0       1       1
> net_cls 0       1       1
> blkio   0       1       1
> *
> *# chkconfig --list | grep cg
> cgroups_mount   0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off*
> 
> We have also found that there is no "cgroup" directory created by
> kenel under "/sys/fs/".  We suspect that the 'cgroup' controllers are not
> mounted properly and hence the issue is observed. While using the
> libvirt-1.0.5 version below mentioned mount commands were sufficient to
> mount cgroup controllers
> 
> *mkdir -p /dev/cgroup_cpuacct
> mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct cpuacct /dev/cgroup_cpuacct*
> 
> As cgroups hieracrhy inside libvirtd has changed in libvirt-1.0.6-1, we

Actually it changed in version 1.0.5

> feel that the above commands are now not sufficient. We feel we have to do
> some more steps get the 'cgroups' mounted properly on our hardware.
> 
> Since we are new to libvirt and can you please help us by providing some
> pointers to fix the above issue and get cpu-stats working on our HardWare.
> Since we have to fix this on top priority, can you please reply as soon as
> possible. Please let us know if you need any further information from our
> side.

Libvirt will never attempt to mount any cgroups controllers. It delegates
this task to the base OS. Historically the 'cgconfig' init script would
be used. On distros which use systemd though, systemd will take care of
this task. There's a bit more info here

  http://libvirt.org/cgroups.html

Basically our recommendation is to mount all the controllers individually
at /sys/fs/cgroup/<controllername>

Regards,
Daniel
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