-----Original Message-----
From: Kashyap Chamarthy [mailto:kashyapc@fedoraproject.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:09 AM
To: Shergill, Gurinder
Cc: virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] virsh output discrepancy with vol-list
On 04/11/2013 08:36 AM, Shergill, Gurinder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am seeing following discrepancy with virsh output for volume list,
which goes away when I restart the libvirtd daemon.
>
> Here virsh shows 4 volumes. Also, notice that first 2 volumes are
duplicates.
>
> $ virsh vol-list --pool default
> Name Path
> -----------------------------------------
> crab.vol.0.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.0.img
> crab.vol.0.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.0.img
> fish.vol.0.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/fish.vol.0.img
> fish.vol.1.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/fish.vol.1.img
>
> However, none of the above volumes currently exist (as I had just
deleted them using, again, using virsh).
>
> $ ll /var/lib/libvirt/images/
> total 0
>
> Now, I restart libvirt. And, after that virsh output is fine.
>
> $ virsh vol-list --pool default
> Name Path
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Any idea what is going on here ? Is this a known issue ?
Not sure at the first glance.
>
> I am using Fedora 17.
Version of libvirt ?
I'm using this version & I can't reproduce it -- libvirt-1.0.4-
1.fc18.x86_64
Do you find the same issue with using --
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/
For further debugging:
Add the below in in libvirtd.log
====
log_level = 1
log_outputs = 1:file:/var/tmp/libvirtd.log ====
$ service libvirtd restart
I enabled the log output and set the level to 1, just like you suggested. Interestingly,
the issue happened almost right away and, this time, I only had to create a guest from
scratch.
$ virsh vol-list --pool default
Name Path
-----------------------------------------
crab.vol.0.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.0.img
crab.vol.0.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.0.img
crab.vol.1.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.1.img
crab.vol.1.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.1.img
crab.vol.2.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.2.img
crab.vol.2.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.2.img
crab.vol.3.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.3.img
crab.vol.3.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.3.img
$ ll /var/lib/libvirt/images/
total 1248240
-rw-------. 1 root root 1271201792 Apr 10 21:53 crab.vol.0.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 2490368 Apr 10 21:47 crab.vol.1.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 2490368 Apr 10 21:47 crab.vol.2.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 2490368 Apr 10 21:47 crab.vol.3.img
Restarted libvirt ... and virsh gives correct information.
$ virsh vol-list --pool default
Name Path
-----------------------------------------
crab.vol.0.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.0.img
crab.vol.1.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.1.img
crab.vol.2.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.2.img
crab.vol.3.img /var/lib/libvirt/images/crab.vol.3.img
Monitor the log for interesting info.
The log file is HUGE - about 400k lines ! ... any suggestions on what would classify as
interesting info for this issue ?
Sunny