[libvirt-users] libvirt logging of virDomainAttachDeviceFlags()

[Jean-Pierre Ribeauville]

Hi,

Michel, you're right ; I got this error :

virDomainAttachDeviceFlags( ) error operation forbidden: read only access prevents virDomainAttachDeviceFlags


Either via "virsh attach-device" or via "virDomainAttachDeviceFlags()" , I  encounter an error due to the fact that an authorized user is required.

Script-wise the error is the following :

Please enter your authentication name:
> Please enter your password:
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: no valid connection
> error: authentication failed: Failed to step SASL negotiation: -1 
> (SASL(-1): generic failure: All-whitespace username.)


I have now to add a user , following this ovirt people recommendation :

When you attach a compute node to oVirt, it sets up auth with libvirt to prevent admins from connecting to libvirt. 
If you want to override that you need to create yourself a SASL user + password using the saslpasswd2 command


Thx for help.

Regards,

J.P.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Michal Privoznik [mailto:mprivozn at redhat.com] 
Envoyé : lundi 7 décembre 2015 13:48
À : Jean-Pierre Ribeauville; libvirt-users at redhat.com
Objet : Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt logging of virDomainAttachDeviceFlags()

On 07.12.2015 13:14, Jean-Pierre Ribeauville wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When using «  virsh attach-device  ....."  to add a channel device to a Guest , I see following entry in libvirt log :
> 
> 2015-12-07 11:14:47.307+0000: 14551: debug : virDomainAttachDeviceFlags:10433 : dom=0x7f2a58252fc0, ........
> 
> Great !!
> 
> But , when calling virDomainAttachDeviceFlags( )  from a C program , I got return code -1 but nothing appears related  to virDomainAttachDeviceFlags( ) in the libvirt log file .
> Others libvirt calls of this C program are correctly logged .
> 
> Did I misunderstand something ?

This looks like the client has not even gotten into RPC call. This means that you are passing a wrong argument somewhere. You can:

1) check here what arguments are being checked for:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/libvirt-domain.c;h=b91388e77e00bf30674f3e25fbdfd38b8626c351;hb=HEAD#l8301

2) Use virGetLastError() to check the actual error.

Michal