LibVMI Initialization Fails with KVM Patch

[hakim]

I am having some difficulty initializing LibVMI using KVM patch. LibVMI process list example gives following debug output.

xencall: error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface: No such file or directory
VMI_ERROR: Failed to open libxc interface.
Failed to find a suitable xenctrl.so!
--found KVM
LibVMI Version 0.11.0
LibVMI Driver Mode 1
--completed driver init.
--got id from name (Ubuntu-Test --> 39)
**set image_type = Ubuntu-Test
--libvirt version 1003001
--qmp: virsh -c qemu:///system qemu-monitor-command Ubuntu-Test '{"execute": "pmemaccess", "arguments": {"path": "/tmp/vmixH4py0"}}'
--kvm: using custom patch for fast memory access
--connect() failed to /tmp/vmixH4py0, No such file or directory
Failed to init LibVMI library.

This is the output of the kernel log that I feel relevant.

Mar  6 15:19:18 ubuntu-kvm2 kernel: [695179.410321] audit: type=1400 audit(1520367558.201:1070): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="libvirt-9ed3debd-01ec-4bca-8de4-5ec15b3cb55a" name="/tmp/vmixH4py0" pid=24075 comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=64055 ouid=64055

FYI, I start the VM using Virt-Manager which issues the following command to create the vm:

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name Ubuntu-Test -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.8,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu Broadwell -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 9ed3debd-01ec-4bca-8de4-5ec15b3cb55a -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-Ubuntu-Test/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x6 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6.0x2 -drive file=/data/ctam/vhd_images/Ubuntu-Test.img,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=26,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:2b:c0:38,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -msg timestamp=on

For whatever reason, it is unable to create the temporary file. Any suggestion is much appreciated.

[hakim]

Also I made sure that the QMP is enabled. Here is the output of my test.

virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp Ubuntu-Test 'info kvm'

kvm support: enabled

[hakim]

Hi Tamas,

Can you provide some input regarding this issue? I have confirmed that libyajl is installed and kvm patch is also installed. But it is unable to create a temporary file and hence falling back to human-monitor mode. Using human-monitor mode, I was able to run process-list example for Linux virtual machine, but it never worked for Windows VM. Have you had success to run kvm version for both Windows and Linux vms?

Thanks

Hakim

[hakim]

Wanted to add some information so it can save some time for others. Following message appeared because of apparmor. Apparmor disabled qemu to create a domain socket. Disable apparmor profile to fix it.

Mar  6 15:19:18 ubuntu-kvm2 kernel: [695179.410321] audit: type=1400 audit(1520367558.201:1070): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="libvirt-9ed3debd-01ec-4bca-8de4-5ec15b3cb55a" name="/tmp/vmixH4py0" pid=24075 comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=64055 ouid=64055

I was using qemu-kvm version 2.8. On the provided patch there was some issue related to structure memory padding. A fix was added in https://github.com/libvmi/libvmi/pull/587