Bonding NICs results in errors in ncftool and virsh

Bug #1591249 reported by ALU
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Bug Description

Description of problem: Bonded two NICs and can't work with bond0 via virsh or ncftool

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
* netcf 1:0.2.8-1ubuntu1

$ virsh -V
Virsh command line tool of libvirt 1.3.1
See web site at http://libvirt.org/

Compiled with support for:
 Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM LXC UML Xen LibXL OpenVZ VMWare VirtualBox ESX Test
 Networking: Remote Network Bridging Interface netcf Nwfilter VirtualPort
 Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM RBD Sheepdog ZFS
 Miscellaneous: Daemon Nodedev AppArmor Secrets Debug Readline Modular

How reproducible: 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bond two NIC
2. Run "virsh iface-edit bond0"
3. Get error: error: internal error: could not get interface XML description: unspecified error

or

2. run "ncftool -d dumpxml bond0"
3. Get error: error: unspecified error

Actual results:
Get errors no XML output or editing

Expected results:
With virsh: Go into vim to edit XML
With ncftool: Get XML

Additional info:
$ virsh --debug=0 iface-edit bond0
iface-edit: interface(optdata): bond0
iface-edit: found option <interface>: bond0
iface-edit: <interface> trying as interface NAME
error: internal error: could not get interface XML description: unspecified error

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$ virsh iface-dumpxml bond0
<interface type='bond' name='bond0'>
  <protocol family='ipv4'>
    <ip address='192.168.1.16' prefix='24'/>
  </protocol>
  <protocol family='ipv6'>
    <ip address='REDACTED:1bf5' prefix='64'/>
  </protocol>
  <link speed='2000' state='up'/>
  <bond>
    <interface type='ethernet' name='eno1'>
      <link speed='1000' state='up'/>
      <mac address='REDACTED:1b:f5'/>
    </interface>
    <interface type='ethernet' name='eno2'>
      <link speed='1000' state='up'/>
      <mac address='REDACTED:1b:f5'/>
    </interface>
  </bond>
</interface>

------------------------------------------------------------

$ more /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eno1
allow-bond eno1
iface eno1 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto eno2
allow-bond eno2
iface eno2 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 192.168.1.16
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
bond-mode 4
bond-miimon 100
bond-lacp-rate 1
bond-slaves eno1 eno2
pre-up (sleep 1 && ifup eno1) &
pre-up (sleep 1 && ifup eno2) &

------------------------------------------------------------
$ virsh iface-dumpxml eno1
<interface type='ethernet' name='eno1'>
  <link speed='1000' state='up'/>
  <mac address='REDACTED:1b:f5'/>
</interface>
------------------------------------------------------------

$ virsh iface-dumpxml eno2
<interface type='ethernet' name='eno2'>
  <link speed='1000' state='up'/>
  <mac address='REDACTED:1b:f5'/>
</interface>

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Notes:
* Mac addresses on eno1=eno2=bond0

* I can run "virsh iface-dumpxml bond0" (see above)

* This affects the Virtual Machine Manager GUI so you can't edit network config that way either.

* I tried removing all comments from /etc/network/interfaces ... did not help

Tags: bond netcf virsh
Revision history for this message
ALU (c-launchpadmail) wrote :

I also opened a bug against virsh directly at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344552 but the comments say this bug is a problem with the Ubuntu implementation specifically.

affects: canonical-devices-system-image → netcfg
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ALU (c-launchpadmail) wrote :

This appears to be something tied to Ubuntu's back-end for processing these XML files.

I got ncftool to give a very similar dump to virsh's with --live

ncftool> dumpxml --live bond0
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<interface name="bond0" type="bond">
  <link state="up" speed="2000"/>
  <bond>
    <interface name="eno1" type="ethernet">
      <link state="up" speed="1000"/>
      <mac address="REDACTED:1b:f4"/>
    </interface>
    <interface name="eno2" type="ethernet">
      <link state="up" speed="1000"/>
      <mac address="REDACTED:1b:f4"/>yy
    </interface>
  </bond>
  <protocol family="ipv4">
    <ip address="192.168.1.16" prefix="24"/>
  </protocol>
  <protocol family="ipv6">
    <ip address="REDACTED:1bf4" prefix="64"/>
  </protocol>
</interface>

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Running
$ncftool dumpxml --live bond0 > /tmp/bond0.xml
$ncftool define /tmp/bond0.xml
error: XML invalid
error: Expecting an element start, got nothing
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This appears to be something tied to Ubuntu's back-end for processing these XML files.

Revision history for this message
ALU (c-launchpadmail) wrote :

I read in some comments that the format of /etc/network/interfaces can confuse Ubuntu's back-end processing for ncftool. I tried removing all comments and simplifying that file as

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source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eno1
allow-bond eno1
iface eno1 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto eno2
allow-bond eno2
iface eno2 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 192.168.1.16
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
bond-mode 4
bond-slaves eno1 eno2

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and rebooted. It did not solve the issue.

Revision history for this message
ALU (c-launchpadmail) wrote :

Tried moving the IP to the bridge instead of the bond.

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source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eno1
  allow-bond eno1
  iface eno1 inet manual
  bond-master bond0

auto eno2
  allow-bond eno2
  iface eno2 inet manual
  bond-master bond0

auto bond0
  iface bond0 inet manual
  bond-miimon 100
  bond-mode 4
  bond-slaves eno1 eno2

auto br0
  iface br0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.16
  gateway 192.168.1.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.1.255
  bridge_ports bond0
  bridge_hello 2
  bridge_stp off
  bridge_fd 9
  bridge_maxwait 12
------------------------------

Makes it worse.

$ ncftool list
error: unspecified error
error: errors in loading some config files

---------------------------------

$ virsh iface-list
error: Failed to list interfaces
error: internal error: failed to get number of host interfaces: unspecified error - errors in loading some config files

Revision history for this message
ALU (c-launchpadmail) wrote :

$ uname -a
Linux XXXX 4.4.0-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:27:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ more /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS \n \l

Paul White (paulw2u)
affects: ubuntu → libvirt (Ubuntu)
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