Re: How to disable kvm_steal_time feature

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:31:56PM +0100, Piotr Rybicki wrote:
Hi.

I would like to workaround a bug, when after live-migration of KVM
guest, there is a 100% steal time shown in guest.

I've read, that disabling 'kvm_steal_time' feature should workarund
this bug, but i can't find a way to disable it in libvirt's domain xml
file.


There is no support for that in libvirt.  Either we must addit ad a
feature (patches welcome), but if that's there just for a workaround,
I would suggest chasing the original bug.

If you just want to check that the workaround works, you could check
how the '-cpu ' parameter looks like when the domain is running and
then use the unsupported way of adding parameters to the qemu
commandline to specify the -cpu parameter again (qemu should use the
last one, so it should work), something like this:

<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
...
 <qemu:commandline>
   <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/>
   <qemu:arg value='${CPU_SPEC},-kvm_steal_time'/>
 </qemu:commandline>
</domain>

where ${CPU_SPEC} is the next parameter after the '-cpu' one from the
command line, so for qemu command line similar to this:

 qemu-kvm ... -cpu Nehalem,+feat,something ...

the line in XML would be:

 <qemu:arg value='Nehalem,+feat,something,-kvm_steal_time'/>

HTH,

Martin

Tried in <cpu> section:
<feature policy='disable' name='kvm_steal_time'/>
but that doesn't work.

Also, couldn't find any related information in libvirt documentation.
Google helps neither.

How can I disable this feature?

Thanks in advance.
Piotr Rybicki

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