[libvirt-users] automatically detaching PCI host devices from guest for SRIOV usage.

Mon Aug 27 10:53:10 UTC 2012

Hi Rajesh,
I saw the following XML configuration in your case-1-virsh_attach_device_first.log.txt,
what's "#012"? it seems you copy-paste it from a web, please remove it from XML then
attach it again.

virDomainAttachDevice:9235 : dom=0x6b20a0, (VM: name=new-installed, uuid=6122cebb-e33c-a66a-9b71-a0047c91d7bb), xml=    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>#012      <source>#012        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x10' function='0x0'/>#012      </source>#012      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>#012    </hostdev>#012

In addition, I tried to assign/unassign a normal NICs to/from the running guest with managed='yes' again,
indeed, the NICs hasn't been returned to host with 'managed' mode although virsh said "Device detached successfully", 
I must to stop the guest then manually return the NICs device to host via 'virsh nodedev-reattach pci_$domain_$bus_$slot_$function'
such as virsh nodedev-reattach pci_0000_04_10_0, here is a similar bug "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843016".

BTW, rhel6.2 isn't necessary, it should work for other platform such as fedora, centos, etc.

-- 
Regards,     
Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah at tradeindia.com>
To: "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com>
Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com, "vikas pandey" <vikas_pandey at tradeindia.com>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:18:01 PM
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] automatically detaching PCI host devices from guest for SRIOV usage.

Dear Alex ,

What do you have in the Host ? Does the guests behave as we are expecting
them to behave in our setup ?

<offtopic>
can i get rhel6.2 for trying?
</offtopic>

Also i have attached the files this time.

Regards,
Rajesh Kumar Mallah
Tel. 91-11-46710500 (Ext:303)
Cell +919811255597
Website: http://www.tradeindia.com/
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----- "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com> wrote:

| From: "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com>
| To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah at tradeindia.com>
| Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com, "vikas pandey" <vikas_pandey at tradeindia.com>
| Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:55:14 PM
| Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] automatically detaching PCI host devices from guest for SRIOV usage.
|
| Hi Rajesh,
| I guess you forgot to attach your attachments in here.
| As usual, I tried to directly assign a PF or VF of the Intel82576
| to guest on RHEL6.2, my box is Dell Optiplex 755.
| 
| -- 
| Regards,     
| Alex
| 
| 
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah at tradeindia.com>
| To: "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com>
| Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com, "vikas pandey"
| <vikas_pandey at tradeindia.com>
| Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 2:31:20 PM
| Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] automatically detaching PCI host devices
| from guest for SRIOV usage.
| 
| Dear Alex/List  ,
| 
| I am attaching a zip file that contains a set of files.
| The files that start with case-1 is the case when the PCI
| device is detached prior to shutdown. case-2 is otherwise.
| 
| Kindly have a look when you have time and see if there
| is any hints. 
| 
| BTW can you suggest in what free platform does SRIOV and direct
| PCI assignment *really* works so that we could try on that as well.
| 
| Regards,
| Rajesh Kumar Mallah
| Tel. 91-11-46710500 (Ext:303)
| Cell +919811255597
| Website: http://www.tradeindia.com/
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| 
| ----- "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com> wrote:
| 
| | From: "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com>
| | To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah at tradeindia.com>
| | Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com, "vikas pandey"
| <vikas_pandey at tradeindia.com>
| | Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:21:58 AM
| | Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] automatically detaching PCI host
| devices from guest for SRIOV usage.
| |
| | ----- Original Message -----
| | From: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah at tradeindia.com>
| | To: "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com>
| | Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com, "vikas pandey"
| | <vikas_pandey at tradeindia.com>
| | Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:37:05 PM
| | Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] automatically detaching PCI host
| devices
| | from guest for SRIOV usage.
| | 
| | | 
| | | 
| | |   Could you attach your libvirtd.log? which's version your
| libvirt?
| | | in addition, if your guest has a desktop, please login and check
| if
| | 
| | | the network configuration exists issues.
| | | 
| | | Thanks,
| | | Alex
| | 
| | Dear Alex ,
| | 
| | What logging level is useful for you ? 
| | 
| | Dear Rajesh,
| | 
| | Level 1 (Debug) should be enough, but I guess it probably hasn't
| more
| | help for us,
| | you had better to login the guest then check network when you were
| | meeting this issue
| | again, for example, to check if network configuration is valid and
| try
| | to restart
| | relevant network services to see if the guest network can work
| again
| | or something
| | like that, In addition, you shut down the guest via running 'halt'
| in
| | the guest,
| | Does it work for you if you use libvirt relevant interface such as
| | 'virsh shutdown guest'
| | or 'virsh destroy guest'?    
| | 
| | 
| | Regards,
| | Alex
| | 
| | 
| | 
| | Regards,
| | Rajesh Kumar Mallah
| | Tel. 91-11-46710500 (Ext:303)
| | Cell +919811255597
| | Website: http://www.tradeindia.com/
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