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Re: Thoughts on VM fence infrastructure
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
Subject: |
Re: Thoughts on VM fence infrastructure |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:03:16 +0100 |
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* Felipe Franciosi (address@hidden) wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > On Sep 30, 2019, at 3:29 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > * Felipe Franciosi (address@hidden) wrote:
> >> Heyall,
> >>
> >> We have a use case where a host should self-fence (and all VMs should
> >> die) if it doesn't hear back from a heartbeat within a certain time
> >> period. Lots of ideas were floated around where libvirt could take
> >> care of killing VMs or a separate service could do it. The concern
> >> with those is that various failures could lead to _those_ services
> >> being unavailable and the fencing wouldn't be enforced as it should.
> >>
> >> Ultimately, it feels like Qemu should be responsible for this
> >> heartbeat and exit (or execute a custom callback) on timeout.
> >
> > It doesn't feel doing it inside qemu would be any safer; something
> > outside QEMU can forcibly emit a kill -9 and qemu *will* stop.
>
> The argument above is that we would have to rely on this external
> service being functional. Consider the case where the host is
> dysfunctional, with this service perhaps crashed and a corrupt
> filesystem preventing it from restarting. The VMs would never die.
Yeh that could fail.
> It feels like a Qemu timer-driven heartbeat check and calls abort() /
> exit() would be more reliable. Thoughts?
OK, yes; perhaps using a timer_create and telling it to send a fatal
signal is pretty solid; it would take the kernel to do that once it's
set.
IMHO the safer way is to kick the host off the network by reprogramming
switches; so even if the qemu is actually alive it can't get anywhere.
Dave
> Felipe
>
> >
> >> Does something already exist for this purpose which could be used?
> >> Would a generic Qemu-fencing infrastructure be something of interest?
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >> Cheers,
> >> F.
> >>
> > --
> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
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