[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#524434: virt-manager: info blockstats not supported by this qemu

[Andreas Unterkircher]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: normal


On an initial start of libvirtd, and the first connect of virt-manager to it,
libvirtd complains for a while (minutes) in the logs:

libvirtd: 08:14:16.141: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 'info blockstats' not supported by this qemu
libvirtd: 08:14:17.142: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 'info blockstats' not supported by this qemu
libvirtd: 08:14:18.147: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 'info blockstats' not supported by this qemu
libvirtd: 08:14:19.151: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 'info blockstats' not supported by this qemu
libvirtd: 08:14:20.155: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 'info blockstats' not supported by this qemu
libvirtd: 08:14:21.164: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: 'info blockstats' not supported by this qemu

virt-manager is configured to obtain all possible statistics (so including
disk i/o). At this time all the disk i/o stats are shown with 0 (null).

At some time, libvirtd stops writing these log entries and the disk i/o
statistic values and graph start getting displayed in virt-manager.

This is reproduceable for a local libvirtd instance as well as a remote one.

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.22.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.7-18           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.6.4-7          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.16.6-1+lenny1  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.20.5-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-common         2.22.2-2lenny1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python-dbus             0.82.4-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2           2.12.1-6         GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2           2.22.0-1         Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc          0.3.8-2          A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2             2.12.1-6         Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt          0.6.2-2          libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-urlgrabber       3.1.0-4          A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte              1:0.16.14-4      Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  python2.5               2.5.2-15         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  virtinst                0.400.3-2        Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  hal                         0.5.11-8     Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libvirt-bin                 0.6.2-2      the programs for the libvirt libra

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  virt-viewer                   0.0.3-2    Displaying the graphical console o

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