[Bug 432154] Re: dynamic block device attach/detach not functional with karmic KVM

[Daniel Nurmi]

My experiments with hot-attaching virtio disks to eucalyptus VMs have
been partially successful.  I've been able to attach/detach a virtio
disk to/from a VM once, but the second attach causes a kvm segfault
followed by a libvirtd segfault.  Removing eucalyptus from the scenario,
this problem can be reproduced by passing the attach/detach/attach
commands directly using virsh as follows.  Note that, although i'm using
an AOE device as the 'source' in the following example, the same problem
exists if you replace the source dev with a local file.

root at sg:~# ps ax | grep kvm
25947 ?        Sl     0:10 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -m 128 -smp 1 -name i-3D7E06DF -uuid 8f09357d-c295-523b-97fa-b72e0a46497b -nographic -monitor unix:/var/run/libvirt/qemu/i-3D7E06DF.monitor,server,nowait -boot c -kernel /var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06DF/kernel -initrd /var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06DF/ramdisk -append root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 -drive file=/var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06D /disk,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=d0:0d:3d:7e:06:df,vlan=0,model=e1000,name=e1000.0 -net tap,fd=17,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial file:/var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/admin/i-3D7E06DF/console.log -parallel none -usb

root at sg:~# cat meh
<disk type='block'><driver name='virtio'/><source dev='/dev/etherd/e0.7'/><target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/></disk>

root at sg:~# virsh list
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
 Id Name                 State
----------------------------------
  1 i-3D7E06DF           running

root at sg:~# virsh attach-device 1 meh
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
Device attached successfully

root at sg:~# virsh detach-device 1 meh
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
Device detached successfully

root at sg:~# virsh attach-device 1 meh
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
error: Failed to attach device from meh
error: server closed connection

[44227.486821] kvm[25947]: segfault at 8d0 ip 000000000041ccd7 sp 00007fff99644d70 error 6 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+226000]
[44227.730408] libvirtd[25467]: segfault at 70 ip 00000000004345a2 sp 00007f5b3f5e3b70 error 4 in libvirtd[400000+77000]

Am I perhaps passing an incorrectly formatted disk XML for virtio?
Versions:

Host:
root at sg:~# apt-cache policy libvirt-bin
libvirt-bin:
  Installed: 0.7.0-1ubuntu10
  Candidate: 0.7.0-1ubuntu10
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.0-1ubuntu10 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root at sg:~# apt-cache policy qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm:
  Installed: 0.11.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.11.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.11.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root at sg:~# uname -a
Linux sg 2.6.31-12-server #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 7 20:33:27 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Guest:
root at ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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dynamic block device attach/detach not functional with karmic KVM
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432154
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