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<h1>Virtual machine lock manager, virtlockd plugin</h1>
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<p>
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This page describes use of the <code>virtlockd</code>
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service as a <a href="locking.html">lock driver</a>
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plugin for virtual machine disk mutual exclusion.
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<h2><a id="background">virtlockd background</a></h2>
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The virtlockd daemon is a single purpose binary which
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focuses exclusively on the task of acquiring and holding
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locks on behalf of running virtual machines. It is
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designed to offer a low overhead, portable locking
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scheme can be used out of the box on virtualization
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hosts with minimal configuration overheads. It makes
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use of the POSIX fcntl advisory locking capability
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to hold locks, which is supported by the majority of
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commonly used filesystems.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="sanlock">virtlockd daemon setup</a></h2>
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In most OS, the virtlockd daemon itself will not require
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any upfront configuration work. It is installed by default
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when libvirtd is present, and a systemd socket unit is
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registered such that the daemon will be automatically
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started when first required. With OS that predate systemd
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though, it will be necessary to start it at boot time,
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prior to libvirtd being started. On RHEL/Fedora distros,
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this can be achieved as follows
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<pre>
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# chkconfig virtlockd on
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# service virtlockd start
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</pre>
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<p>
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The above instructions apply to the instance of virtlockd
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that runs privileged, and is used by the libvirtd daemon
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that runs privileged. If running libvirtd as an unprivileged
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user, it will always automatically spawn an instance of
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the virtlockd daemon unprivileged too. This requires no
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setup at all.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="lockdplugin">libvirt lockd plugin configuration</a></h2>
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Once the virtlockd daemon is running, or setup to autostart,
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the next step is to configure the libvirt lockd plugin.
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There is a separate configuration file for each libvirt
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driver that is using virtlockd. For QEMU, we will edit
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<code>/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf</code>
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<p>
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The default behaviour of the lockd plugin is to acquire locks
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directly on the virtual disk images associated with the guest
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<disk> elements. This ensures it can run out of the box
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with no configuration, providing locking for disk images on
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shared filesystems such as NFS. It does not provide any cross
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host protection for storage that is backed by block devices,
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since locks acquired on device nodes in /dev only apply within
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the host. It may also be the case that the filesystem holding
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the disk images is not capable of supporting fcntl locks.
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</p>
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<p>
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To address these problems it is possible to tell lockd to
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acquire locks on an indirect file. Essentially lockd will
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calculate the SHA256 checksum of the fully qualified path,
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and create a zero length file in a given directory whose
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filename is the checksum. It will then acquire a lock on
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that file. Assuming the block devices assigned to the guest
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are using stable paths (eg /dev/disk/by-path/XXXXXXX) then
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this will allow for locks to apply across hosts. This
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feature can be enabled by setting a configuration setting
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that specifies the directory in which to create the lock
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files. The directory referred to should of course be
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placed on a shared filesystem (eg NFS) that is accessible
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to all hosts which can see the shared block devices.
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</p>
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<pre>
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2016-11-11 22:40:27 +00:00
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$ su - root
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# augtool -s set \
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/files/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf/file_lockspace_dir \
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"/var/lib/libvirt/lockd/files"
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</pre>
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<p>
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If the guests are using either LVM and SCSI block devices
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for their virtual disks, there is a unique identifier
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associated with each device. It is possible to tell lockd
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to use this UUID as the basis for acquiring locks, rather
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than the SHA256 sum of the filename. The benefit of this
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is that the locking protection will work even if the file
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paths to the given block device are different on each
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host.
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ su - root
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# augtool -s set \
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/files/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf/scsi_lockspace_dir \
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"/var/lib/libvirt/lockd/scsi"
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# augtool -s set \
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/files/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf/lvm_lockspace_dir \
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"/var/lib/libvirt/lockd/lvm"
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</pre>
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<p>
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It is important to remember that the changes made to the
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<code>/etc/libvirt/qemu-lockd.conf</code> file must be
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propagated to all hosts before any virtual machines are
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launched on them. This ensures that all hosts are using
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the same locking mechanism
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</p>
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2017-07-26 14:52:42 +00:00
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<h2><a id="qemuconfig">QEMU/KVM driver configuration</a></h2>
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<p>
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The QEMU driver is capable of using the virtlockd plugin
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since the release <span>1.0.2</span>.
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The out of the box configuration, however, currently
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uses the <strong>nop</strong> lock manager plugin.
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To get protection for disks, it is thus necessary
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to reconfigure QEMU to activate the <strong>lockd</strong>
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driver. This is achieved by editing the QEMU driver
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configuration file (<code>/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf</code>)
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and changing the <code>lock_manager</code> configuration
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tunable.
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ su - root
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# augtool -s set /files/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf/lock_manager lockd
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# service libvirtd restart
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</pre>
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<p>
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Every time you start a guest, the virtlockd daemon will acquire
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locks on the disk files directly, or in one of the configured
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lookaside directories based on SHA256 sum. To check that locks
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are being acquired as expected, the <code>lslocks</code> tool
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can be run.
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