[Openstack-operators] Nova live-migration failing for RHEL7/CentOS7 VMs

Corbin Hendrickson corbin.hendrickson at endurance.com
Thu Sep 29 17:36:23 UTC 2016


My understanding is it will be backported to all supported redhat releases
so it's likely CentOS will rebuild them and provide them around the same
time. Glad that worked out for you.

Corbin Hendrickson
Endurance Cloud Development Lead - Manager
Cell: 801-400-0464

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 3:00 AM, William Josefsson <
william.josefson at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks everyone, I verified setting mem_stats_period_seconds = 0 as
> suggested by Corbin in nova.conf libvirt section, and then restarting
> openstack-nova-compute service and it works!
>
> While this seems to be a workable workaround I'm not sure what's the plans
> to permanently fix this in CentOS7.2? thx will
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Corbin Hendrickson <
> corbin.hendrickson at endurance.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh you can read it in the bug thread, but I forgot to mention, if you put
>> in your nova.conf under the libvirt section mem_stats_period_seconds = 0,
>> and restart nova on the destination (although i'd say just do it on both)
>> it will no longer hit the bug. I tested this a couple weeks back with
>> success.
>>
>> Corbin Hendrickson
>> Endurance Cloud Development Lead - Manager
>> Cell: 801-400-0464
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Corbin Hendrickson <
>> corbin.hendrickson at endurance.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It unfortunately is affecting virtually all of Redhat's latest qemu-kvm
>>> packages. The bug that was unintentionally introduced was done so in
>>> response to CVE-2016-5403  Qemu: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on
>>> host via guest leading to DoS.
>>>
>>> Late in the bug thread, they finally posted to a new bug created for the
>>> breaking of live migrate via *Bug 1371943*
>>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371943> - RHSA-2016-1756
>>> breaks migration of instances.
>>>
>>> Based off their posts i've been following it's likely going to "hit the
>>> shelves" when RHEL 7.3 / CentOS 7.3 comes out. It does look like they are
>>> backporting it to all their versions of RHEL so that's good.
>>>
>>> But yes this does affect 2.3 as well.
>>>
>>> Corbin Hendrickson
>>> Endurance Cloud Development Lead - Manager
>>> Cell: 801-400-0464
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Van Leeuwen, Robert <
>>> rovanleeuwen at ebay.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > There is a bug in the following:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> > qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7
>>>>
>>>> > qemu-img-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7
>>>>
>>>> > qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You might be better of using the RHEV qemu packages
>>>>
>>>> They are more recent (2.3) and have more features compiled into them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Robert van Leeuwen
>>>>
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>>
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