[Users] VM stops slow, backup ETA and vznetstat question :): vznetstat answer

[Konstantin Khorenko]

On 09/06/2016 08:26 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> - When stopping a VM (qemu), it take around 1 minute to do. The node is
>> not running on SSD, but with nothing running on it... we expect that
>> there is something wrong here.
>
> What OS is the VM running?  Just out of curiosity, is there any difference in shutdown time if it is initiated from with the VM vs. prlctl?
>
>> - When running a backup, we get a implementation error: Failed to backed
>> up the CT: Unimplemented. This feature is not implemented yet.
>> There is a ETA on the backup implementation?
>
> I think the backup feature is going to be a Virtuozzo 7-only (aka pay) feature per this comparison chart on the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.openvz.org/Comparison
>
> That doesn't mean you can't backup containers and VM with various methods, just that it won't be integrated solution in OpenVZ.  That's my guess anyway.  I've been backing up containers with OpenVZ Legacy using a ploop-based snapshot method and can report that it is not difficult... just slightly different in VZ7 for containers and VMs.
>
>> - We don't found how to reset to 0 (zero) the stats reported on
>> "vznetstat". We are working on a control panel and we want do on each
>> VM/CT a reset the first day of the month.

No userspace tool to reset the statistics right now,
but there are 2 ioctls for this functionality, so you can write your own tool.

Part of kernel commit

commit b1cd150666a738018080b5e85516a9d35d27bbc5
Author: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at parallels.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 24 14:41:57 2015 +0400

     vznetstat: Port diff-vznetstat-support-of-resetting-of-traffic-statistics-on-running-CTs

@@ -748,6 +848,13 @@ static int venet_acct_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd
                         err = 0;
                         venet_acct_destroy_all_stat();
                         break;
+               case VZCTL_TC_CLEAR_STAT:
+                       err = venet_acct_clear_stat(arg);
+                       break;
+               case VZCTL_TC_CLEAR_ALL_STAT:
+                       err = venet_acct_clear_all_stat();
+                       break;
+
                 case VZCTL_TC_GET_BASE:
                         err = venet_acct_get_base(arg);
                         break;
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vzctl_netstat.h
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ struct vzctl_tc_set_base {

  #define VZCTL_TC_CLASS_NUM_V6          _IO(VZTCCTLTYPE, 16)

+#define VZCTL_TC_CLEAR_STAT            _IO(VZTCCTLTYPE, 17)
+#define VZCTL_TC_CLEAR_ALL_STAT                _IO(VZTCCTLTYPE, 18)
+