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From: "Charles Gruener" <cgruener@gruener.us> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani@redhat.com> Cc: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek@redhat.com>, "users@ovirt.org Users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 3:56:00 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 on RHEL 6.6 hyperv enabled breaks Windows VMs
Here's what's installed on one of my hypervisors:
gpxe-roms-qemu.noarch 0.9.7-6.12.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6 libvirt.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6 libvirt-client.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6 libvirt-lock-sanlock.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 libvirt-python.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6 ovirt-release35.noarch 001-1 @/ovirt-release35 qemu-img-rhev.x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14 @ovirt-3.5
qemu-kvm-rhev.x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14 @ovirt-3.5
qemu-kvm-rhev-tools.x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm.x86_64 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm-cli.noarch 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm-jsonrpc.noarch 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm-python.noarch 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm-python-zombiereaper.noarch 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm-xmlrpc.noarch 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
vdsm-yajsonrpc.noarch 4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el6 @ovirt-3.5
virt-what.x86_64 1.11-1.2.el6 @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201301301459.x86_64/6.4
OK, seems a stock RHEL 6.6. I wonder if the recommended hv settings are really supported on old QEMUs. Need to check about this: will do and will report. If you'll be the most welcome to file a bug against oVirt for this issue, and set target release to 3.5.1, so we can track this issue.
I noticed the machines do not have the qemu-kvm package installed, only qemu-kvm-rhev. What's the difference in those two packages? When I try to manually install qemu-kvm, it won't and lets me know that:
"Package 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.445.el6.x86_64 is obsoleted by 2:qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14.x86_64 which is already installed"
This is totally expected. qemu-kvm-rhev provides additional facilities and it is better to use it.
I've also noticed that I can't live snapshot machines because it says my underlying qemu doesn't support it and thought that might be a related issue.
This is known and different issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149667 hopefully the fix will be available soon
The machines have Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 CPUs, if it makes any difference.
Charles
Thanks! -- Francesco Romani RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: 8261328 IRC: fromani