[libvirt-users] Installing libvirt and Xen on Red Hat 7.5

Lianjie Cao gongbaifei at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 23:57:29 UTC 2019


Hi,

I am installing OpenStack on Red Hat 7.5. For Nova compute component, I
choose libvirt and Xen.
However, I am running into some problems. It seems libvirt is unable to
communicate with Xen.

Xen installation:
I installed Xen410 using "Xen make easy"
https://xen.crc.id.au/support/guides/install/. Here is a list of packages
installed and verification that Xen is running.

# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description:    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
Release:        7.5
Codename:       Maipo

# yum list | grep xen
 * kernel-xen: us3.mirror.crc.id.au
 * kernel-xen-extra: us3.mirror.crc.id.au
kernel-xen.x86_64                4.14.94-6.el7xen @kernel-xen
kernel-xen.x86_64                4.14.97-6.el7xen @kernel-xen
kernel-xen-devel.x86_64          4.14.97-6.el7xen @kernel-xen
kernel-xen-firmware.x86_64       4.14.97-6.el7xen @kernel-xen
kernel-xen-headers.x86_64        4.14.97-6.el7xen @kernel-xen
kernel-xen-release.noarch        1:7-13           @kernel-xen
xen410.x86_64                    4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen410-devel.x86_64              4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen410-hypervisor.x86_64         4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen410-libs.x86_64               4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen410-licenses.x86_64           4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen410-ocaml.x86_64              4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen410-runtime.x86_64            4.10.2-7.el7     @kernel-xen
xen46-licenses.x86_64            4.6.6-16.el7     @kernel-xen

# xl info
host                   : nfv-sec-cn01-pa.labs.hpecorp.net
release                : 4.14.97-6.el7xen.x86_64
version                : #2 SMP Fri Feb 1 00:33:52 AEDT 2019
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 32
max_cpu_id             : 63
nr_nodes               : 2
cores_per_socket       : 8
threads_per_core       : 2
cpu_mhz                : 1995
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:17bee3ff:2c100800:00000001:00000001:00000000:00000000:00000100
virt_caps              : hvm hvm_directio
total_memory           : 131034
free_memory            : 96587
sharing_freed_memory   : 0
sharing_used_memory    : 0
outstanding_claims     : 0
free_cpus              : 0
xen_major              : 4
xen_minor              : 10
xen_extra              : .3-pre
xen_version            : 4.10.3-pre
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : Tue Nov 20 15:45:04 2018 +0100 git:b6e203b-dirty
xen_commandline        : placeholder dom0_mem=32768M cpufreq=xen
dom0_max_vcpus=8 dom0_vcpus_pin console=tty0 console=com1 com1=115200,8n1
cc_compiler            : gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)
cc_compile_by          : mockbuild
cc_compile_domain      :
cc_compile_date        : Wed Nov 21 02:09:26 AEDT 2018
build_id               : 2d53c8b15aaf737b0351e78ad863eb5a530e7df0
xend_config_format     : 4


libvirt was installed as dependencies of openstack-nova-compute from yum.

==================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                            Arch
  Version                                Repository
                                  Size
==================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 openstack-nova-compute                             noarch
  1:17.0.9-1.el7                         openstack-queens
                                 7.9 k
Installing for dependencies:
 OpenIPMI-modalias                                  x86_64
  2.0.23-2.el7                           RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                  16 k
 attr                                               x86_64
  2.4.46-13.el7                          RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                  66 k
 dosfstools                                         x86_64
  3.0.20-9.el7                           RedHat-7.1Server-x86_64
                                101 k
 fuse                                               x86_64
  2.9.2-10.el7                           RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                  86 k
 gdisk                                              x86_64
  0.8.6-5.el7                            RedHat-7.1Server-x86_64
                                187 k
 glusterfs-cli                                      x86_64
  3.8.4-53.el7                           RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 176 k
 hivex                                              x86_64
  1.3.10-6.9.el7                         RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 101 k
 ipmitool                                           x86_64
  1.8.18-7.el7                           RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 441 k
 libguestfs                                         x86_64
  1:1.36.10-6.el7_5.2                    RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 1.9 M
 libreport-filesystem                               x86_64
  2.1.11-40.el7                          RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                  39 k
 libvirt-daemon                                     x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 852 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface                    x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 220 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-network                      x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 389 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev                      x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 221 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter                     x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 243 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu                         x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 714 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret                       x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 210 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage                      x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 173 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core                 x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 405 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk                 x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 182 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster              x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 183 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi                x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 179 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical              x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 183 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath                x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 178 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd                  x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 185 k
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi                 x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 179 k
 libvirt-daemon-kvm                                 x86_64
  3.9.0-14.el7_5.6                       RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 173 k
 libvirt-python                                     x86_64
  3.9.0-1.el7                            RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 335 k
 mdadm                                              x86_64
  4.0-13.el7                             RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 431 k
 mtools                                             x86_64
  4.0.18-5.el7                           RedHat-7.1Server-x86_64
                                203 k
 perl-hivex                                         x86_64
  1.3.10-6.9.el7                         RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                  41 k
 python-libguestfs                                  x86_64
  1:1.36.10-6.el7_5.2                    RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 203 k
 scrub                                              x86_64
  2.5.2-7.el7                            RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                  41 k
 squashfs-tools                                     x86_64
  4.3-0.21.gitaae0aff4.el7               RedHat-7.1Server-x86_64
                                101 k
 supermin5                                          x86_64
  5.1.19-1.el7                           RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 631 k
 syslinux                                           x86_64
  4.05-13.el7                            RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 990 k
 syslinux-extlinux                                  x86_64
  4.05-13.el7                            RedHat-7Server-x86_64-errata
                                 363 k


However, after installation, Nova complains "no connection driver available
for xen:///".
Also, virsh cannot connect Xen.

/var/log/nova/nova-compute.log
2019-02-01 15:13:29.965 5091 INFO nova.service [-] Starting compute node
(version 18.1.0-1.el7)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host [-] Connection to
libvirt failed: no connection driver available for xen:///: libvirtError:
no connection driver available for xen:///
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host Traceback (most
recent call last):
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py", line 460, in
get_connection
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host     conn =
self._get_connection()
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py", line 443, in
_get_connection
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host     {'msg': ex})
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 220, in
__exit__
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host
 self.force_reraise()
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 196, in
force_reraise
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host
 six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py", line 432, in
_get_connection
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host
 self._wrapped_conn = self._get_new_connection()
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py", line 386, in
_get_new_connection
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host     wrapped_conn
= self._connect(self._uri, self._read_only)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/host.py", line 242, in
_connect
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host
 libvirt.openAuth, uri, auth, flags)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 148, in
proxy_call
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host     rv =
execute(f, *args, **kwargs)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 129, in execute
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host
 six.reraise(c, e, tb)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 83, in tworker
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host     rv =
meth(*args, **kwargs)
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host   File
"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in openAuth
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host     if ret is
None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
2019-02-01 15:13:30.023 5091 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.host libvirtError: no
connection driver available for xen:///

# virsh -c xen:/// list
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: no connection driver available for xen:///


Then I check the connection drivers of libvirt. It seems the daemon driver
for xen is missing.

# ls -l /usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/
total 2664
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  115976 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_interface.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  292008 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_lxc.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  169424 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_network.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  119720 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_nodedev.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  174216 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_nwfilter.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1545344 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_qemu.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   86616 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_secret.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  202568 Jun  5  2018 libvirt_driver_storage.so


But I couldn't find the xen driver (libvirt-daemon-driver-xen) from yum. I
do find it driver on some websites (
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libvirt-daemon-driver-xen),
but I am not sure which is the right version to choose.
I also found this email
https://www.spinics.net/lists/centos-virt/msg05163.html.
Then I decided to compile libvirt from source code. So I checked out the
source code from github and tried to configure and compile it.
However, from the output of ./autogen.sh --system, I don't find driver for
xen is enabled. Actually, xen is not listed as driver in the output.

configure:
configure: Configuration summary
configure: =====================
configure:
configure: Drivers
configure:
configure:       QEMU: yes
configure:     OpenVZ: yes
configure:     VMware: yes
configure:       VBox: yes
configure:     XenAPI: no
configure:      libxl: yes
configure:        LXC: yes
configure:       PHYP: no
configure:        ESX: no
configure:    Hyper-V: no
configure:         vz: no
configure:      Bhyve: no
configure:       Test: yes
configure:     Remote: yes
configure:    Network: yes
configure:   Libvirtd: yes
configure:  Interface: yes
configure:
configure: Storage Drivers
configure:
configure:        Dir: yes
configure:         FS: yes
configure:      NetFS: yes
configure:        LVM: yes
configure:      iSCSI: yes
configure: iscsi-direct: no
configure:       SCSI: yes
configure:      mpath: yes
configure:       Disk: no
configure:        RBD: no
configure:   Sheepdog: no
configure:    Gluster: no
configure:        ZFS: no
configure: Virtuozzo storage: no
configure:
configure: Security Drivers
configure:
configure:    SELinux: yes
configure:   AppArmor: no
configure:
configure: Driver Loadable Modules
configure:
configure: driver_modules: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='-ldl')
configure:
configure: Libraries
configure:
configure:        acl: no
configure:   apparmor: no
configure:       attr: no
configure:      audit: no
configure:      avahi: no
configure: bash_completion: no
configure:      blkid: no
configure:      capng: no
configure:       curl: no
configure:       dbus: no
configure:     dlopen: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='-ldl')
configure:  firewalld: no
configure: firewalld-zone: no
configure:       fuse: no
configure:  glusterfs: no
configure:     gnutls: yes (CFLAGS='-I/usr/include/p11-kit-1  '
LIBS='-lgnutls  ')
configure:        hal: no
configure:   libiscsi: no
configure:      libnl: yes (CFLAGS=' ' LIBS='-lnl  ')
configure:    libpcap: no
configure:     libssh: no
configure:      libxl: yes (CFLAGS='  -DLIBXL_API_VERSION=0x040500'
LIBS='-lxenlight   -lxlutil -lxenstore -lxentoollog')
configure:     libxml: yes (CFLAGS='-I/usr/include/libxml2  ' LIBS='-lxml2
')
configure:    macvtap: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='')
configure:      netcf: no
configure:        NLS: yes
configure:        nss: yes
configure:    numactl: no
configure:  openwsman: no
configure:  pciaccess: yes (CFLAGS=' ' LIBS='-lpciaccess  ')
configure:   pm_utils: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='')
configure:     polkit: no
configure:        rbd: no
configure:   readline: no
configure:    sanlock: no
configure:       sasl: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='-lsasl2')
configure:    selinux: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='-lselinux')
configure:       ssh2: no
configure:       udev: yes (CFLAGS=' ' LIBS='-ludev  ')
configure: virtualport: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='')
configure:        xdr: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='')
configure:     xenapi: no
configure:       yajl: yes (CFLAGS='' LIBS='-lyajl')
configure:
configure: Windows
configure:
configure:     Cygwin: no
configure:      MinGW: no
configure:       MSVC: no
configure:    windres: no
configure:
configure: Test suite
configure:
configure:          Coverage: no
configure:         Alloc OOM: no
configure:
configure: Miscellaneous
configure:
configure:              Debug: yes
configure:        Use -Werror: yes
configure:      Warning Flags:  -fno-common -W -Waddress
-Waggressive-loop-optimizations -Wall -Wattributes -Wbad-function-cast
-Wbuiltin-macro-redefined -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wclobbered
-Wcomment -Wcomments -Wcoverage-mismatch -Wcpp -Wdeprecated-declarations
-Wdiv-by-zero -Wdouble-promotion -Wempty-body -Wendif-labels -Wextra
-Wformat-contains-nul -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k
-Wformat-zero-length -Wfree-nonheap-object -Wignored-qualifiers -Wimplicit
-Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Winit-self -Winline
-Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-memory-model -Winvalid-pch -Wlogical-op
-Wmain -Wmaybe-uninitialized -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations
-Wmissing-field-initializers -Wmissing-include-dirs
-Wmissing-parameter-type -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmultichar -Wnarrowing
-Wnested-externs -Wnonnull -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition
-Woverflow -Woverride-init -Wpacked-bitfield-compat -Wparentheses
-Wpointer-arith -Wpointer-sign -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wpragmas -Wpsabi
-Wreturn-local-addr -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow
-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wsuggest-attribute=const -Wsuggest-attribute=format
-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn -Wsuggest-attribute=pure -Wswitch -Wsync-nand
-Wtrampolines -Wtrigraphs -Wtype-limits -Wuninitialized -Wunknown-pragmas
-Wunused -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wunused-but-set-variable
-Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-local-typedefs -Wunused-parameter
-Wunused-result -Wunused-value -Wunused-variable -Wvarargs
-Wvariadic-macros -Wvector-operation-performance -Wvolatile-register-var
-Wwrite-strings -Wnormalized=nfc -Wno-sign-compare -Wjump-misses-init
-Wswitch-enum -Wno-format-nonliteral -fstack-protector-strong -fexceptions
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fipa-pure-const -Wno-suggest-attribute=pure
-Wno-suggest-attribute=const -Werror
configure:             DTrace: no
configure:              numad: no
configure:        Init script: systemd
configure:  Char device locks: /var/lock
configure:     Default Editor: vi
configure:       Loader/NVRAM:
configure:   virt-login-shell: yes
configure: virt-host-validate: yes
configure:       TLS priority: NORMAL
configure:
configure: Developer Tools
configure:
configure: wireshark_dissector: no
configure:
configure: Privileges
configure:
configure:       QEMU: root:root
configure:


My question is how should I install the libvirt-daemon-driver-xen driver
and make Nova work with Xen?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Best regards,
Lianjie Cao
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