fc.qemu 0.6

Qemu VM management utilities

This package provides a utility to manage virtual machines and their life cycle in the Flying Circus. We try to keep specifics of our environment out of there, but we make a few assumptions:

• VM disks (root, swap, tmp) are stored in Ceph

• There is a script create-vm that will prepare a fresh root disk image.

The utility allows you to

• start, stop and migrate VMs between hosts

• run a daemon that enforces the policy about running VMs given by a set of config files

• resize disks.

Config format

Generic template

The Qemu config file will be generated from a template. If no template is found in /etc/qemu/qemu.vm.cfg.in, a built-in default template will be used. Refer to qemu.vm.cfg.in in the source distribution.

Per-VM configuration

Expects a config file for each VM in /etc/qemu/vm/*.cfg.

The config file format is YAML.

Format:

name: test00
parameters:
    id: 12345
    resource_group: test

    online: true
    kvm_host: bob

    disk: 5
    memory: 512
    cores: 1

    nics:
    - srv: 00-01-02-03-05-06
    - fe: 00-01-02-03-05-06

Release notes

0.6 (2015-01-15)

• Implement live migration. Use “inmigrate” and “outmigrate” commands to coordinate the process (#13229).

• Note that the qemu.cfg.in template has changed!

• Improve test coverage.

0.5.1 (2014-11-22)

• Bugfix: remove Ceph discard call since it seems to be unstable (#13414).

• Improve operability by reworking what is logged to fc-qemu.log.

0.5 (2014-11-21)

• Root filesystem shrink during VM start (#13414).

• Add ‘force-unlock’ action to break stale locks (e.g., after a VM host went down).

0.4.3 (2014-11-13)

• Read Qemu config file template from /etc/qemu/qemu.vm.cfg.in.

• Fix tests and documentation.

0.4.2 (2014-11-12)

• Rate limit entropy transfer from host to guest (#13751).

• Add ‘restart’ command to simplify VM restarts.

0.4.1 (2014-09-24)

• Do not require the PID to match the machine name for determining online status. This caused issues for VMs with names longer than 11 characters: http://status.flyingcircus.io/incidents/3j8wsrszlx2w

0.4 (2014-09-16)

• Allow selecting the specific command line to call for creating a VM using a config file + formatting syntax.

• Add test coverage to show that we gracefully recover from crashed VMs upon a subsequent ‘ensure’.

0.3 (2014-09-13)

• Refactor and rename to ‘fc.qemu’. Integrate most functionality that was previously placed in our init scripts and localconfig (fc.agent) utilities.

• Add a lot of test coverage.

0.2.6 (2014-08-21)

• Fix incoming VM detection for an already locked _and_ started VM.

0.2.5 (2014-08-20)

• Implement a safety-belt to prohibit migrating VMs that have not yet been started with the supported /run/kvm.*.cfg.in format.

fc.qemu development

Prepare working copy in a personal box:

host$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/flyingcirucs/fc.qemu
host$ cd fc.qemu
host$ vagrant up
host$ vagrant ssh

Run the tests:

vm$ cd /vagrant
vm$ sudo bin/py.test

Test execution automatically updates a coverage report in the htmlcov directory.