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[ocata] unsupported configuration: CPU mode 'host-model' for aarch64 kvm domain on aarch64 host is not supported by hypervisor
|Assigned to
|OpenStack Compute (nova)
|OpenStack nova-compute charm
|James Page
|libvirt (Ubuntu)
|qemu (Ubuntu)
Bug Description
We hit this error in Ocata while trying to launch an arm64 instance:
2017-03-16 08:01:42.329 144245 ERROR nova.virt.
<nova:instance xmlns:nova="http://
<nova:package version="15.0.0"/>
<nova:flavor name="m1.small">
<nova:user uuid="8f431f83f
<nova:root type="image" uuid="4e864421-
<memory unit='KiB'
<currentMemory unit='KiB'
<vcpu placement=
<type arch='aarch64' machine=
<loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'
<boot dev='hd'/>
<gic version='3'/>
<cpu mode='host-model'>
<model fallback='allow'/>
<topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
<clock offset='utc'>
<timer name='pit' tickpolicy=
<timer name='rtc' tickpolicy=
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
<source file='/
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='virtio-
<controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address=
<source bridge=
<target dev='tap9a95f1e
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='virtio-
<serial type='pty'>
<log file='/
<target port='0'/>
<console type='pty'>
<log file='/
<target type='serial' port='0'/>
<memballoon model='virtio'>
<stats period='10'/>
<address type='virtio-
2017-03-16 08:01:42.333 144245 ERROR nova.virt.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
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2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
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2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
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2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
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2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
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2017-03-16 08:01:43.522 144245 ERROR nova.compute.
|dann frazier (dannf) wrote :
Can you provide the versions of libvirt and QEMU on the system?
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Hi Larry,
I quickly tried to reproduce, but the only arm system I had around was blocking me for other reasons. Beofre I spend to much on a system being incomparable anyway I'd like to confirm what type of arm system you exactly have.
Also - assuming it is in your OS test infra - if there is any chance to log into your system please ping "cpaelzer" on IRC.
host-model is supposed to copy the hosts features from virsh capabilities - could you attach the output of the following:
$ virsh capabilities
Finally is this a regression of a case that worked e.g. with Newton/Yakkety but now fails on Ocata/Zesty?
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Also subscribing Dannf for virt-on-arm experience
|Larry Michel (lmic) wrote :
Hi Christian, here's the requested data below. This is with Xenial and Ocata. It has worked with Xenial and Mitaka.
ubuntu@phanpy:~$ virsh capabilities
<topology sockets='1' cores='48' threads='1'/>
<pages unit='KiB' size='4'/>
<pages unit='KiB' size='2048'/>
<cells num='1'>
<cell id='0'>
<memory unit='KiB'
<pages unit='KiB' size='4'
<pages unit='KiB' size='2048'
<cpus num='48'>
<cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0'/>
<cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1'/>
<cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='2'/>
<cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='3'/>
<cpu id='4' socket_id='0' core_id='4' siblings='4'/>
<cpu id='5' socket_id='0' core_id='5' siblings='5'/>
<cpu id='6' socket_id='0' core_id='6' siblings='6'/>
<cpu id='7' socket_id='0' core_id='7' siblings='7'/>
<cpu id='8' socket_id='0' core_id='8' siblings='8'/>
<cpu id='9' socket_id='0' core_id='9' siblings='9'/>
<cpu id='10' socket_id='0' core_id='10' siblings='10'/>
<cpu id='11' socket_id='0' core_id='11' siblings='11'/>
<cpu id='12' socket_id='0' core_id='12' siblings='12'/>
<cpu id='13' socket_id='0' core_id='13' siblings='13'/>
<cpu id='14' socket_id='0' core_id='14' siblings='14'/>
<cpu id='15' socket_id='0' core_id='15' siblings='15'/>
<cpu id='16' socket_id='0' core_id='16' siblings='16'/>
<cpu id='17' socket_id='0' core_id='17' siblings='17'/>
<cpu id='18' socket_id='0' core_id='18' siblings='18'/>
<cpu id='19' socket_id='0' core_id='19' siblings='19'/>
<cpu id='20' socket_id='0' core_id='20' siblings='20'/>
<cpu id='21' socket_id='0' core_id='21' siblings='21'/>
<cpu id='22' socket_id='0' core_id='22' siblings='22'/>
<cpu id='23' socket_id='0' core_id='23' siblings='23'/>
<cpu id='24' socket_id='0' core_id='24' siblings='24'/>
<cpu id='25' socket_id='0' core_id='25' siblings='25'/>
<cpu id='26' socket_id='0' core_id='26' siblings='26'/>
<cpu id='27' socket_id='0' core_id='27' siblings='27'/>
<cpu id='28' socket_id='0' core_id='28' siblings='28'/>
<cpu id='29' socket_id='0' core_id='29' siblings='29'/>
<cpu id='30' socket_id='0' core_id='30' siblings='30'/>
<cpu id='31' socket_id='0' core_id='31' siblings='31'/>
<cpu id='32' socket_id='0' core_id='32' siblings='32'/>
<cpu id='33' socket_id...
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
I was able to reproduce at least partially.
I must admit that I never heard about host-model before, host-passthrough usually.
Checking the doc [1] reveals that the function is broken pre libvirt 3.2/qemu2.9 - and e.g. the qemu is not even released yet.
So even if we would make host-model pass here on the initial check it will not "do what it is supposed".
OTOH the more common host-passthrough is working - so much I could confirm.
I see why host-model is nicer than passthrough, as it would be a bit more portable.
Maybe openstack changed and on Xenial/Mitaka selected passthrough - we might want to do so again on Ocata.
@Openstack Team
1. could you check what model was passed on Mitaka/Newton, I'd assume host-passthrough but well that is only "assuming"
2. if #1 is true, what would you think about fixing this by going back to host-passthrough for Ocata on aarch64?
|Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
|New → Incomplete
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
incomplete on libvirt waiting for openstack expertise on this case
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Simple test on the option itself without Openstack
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=flash0.img bs=1M count=64
$ dd if=/usr/
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=flash1.img bs=1M count=64
$ wget http://
<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://
<memory unit='KiB'
<vcpu placement=
<cpu mode='host-model'>
<model fallback='allow'/>
<cpu mode='host-
<model fallback='allow'/>
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
<clock offset='utc'/>
|Corey Bryant (corey.bryant) wrote :
Larry, can you get domain xml from newton for comparison?
Also, I assume you hit this on xenial-ocata, so I think it would make sense to just use xenial-newton (vs yakkety-newton) to compare.
Note that xenial-ocata has a new version of libvirt (and qemu):
libvirt: 2.5.0-3ubuntu3
qemu: 1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2
xenial-mitaka and xenial-newton both use:
libvirt: 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.8
qemu: 1:2.5+dfsg-
|Corey Bryant (corey.bryant) wrote :
I'm not seeing any major changes in nova between newton and ocata wrt host-model. That's not to say this isn't a bug in nova.
As I noted previously, xenial-ocata is using libvirt 2.5.0 whereas xenial-mitaka and xenial-newton are using libvirt 1.3.1. This error and the function that it comes from are new since sometime after libvirt 1.3.1: "libvirtError: unsupported configuration: CPU mode 'host-model' for aarch64 kvm domain on aarch64 host is not supported by hypervisor".
This is coming from the following code, pasted from libvirt 2.5.0:
5020 static int
5021 qemuProcessUpda
5022 virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps,
5023 virCapsPtr caps,
5024 unsigned int flags)
5025 {
5026 int ret = -1;
5027 size_t nmodels = 0;
5028 char **models = NULL;
5030 if (!def->cpu)
5031 return 0;
5033 /* nothing to do if only topology part of CPU def is used */
5034 if (def->cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_CUSTOM && !def->cpu->model)
5035 return 0;
5037 /* Old libvirt added host CPU model to host-model CPUs for migrations,
5038 * while new libvirt just turns host-model into custom mode. We need
5039 * to fix the mode to maintain backward compatibility and to avoid
5040 * the CPU model to be replaced in virCPUUpdate.
5041 */
5042 if (!(flags & VIR_QEMU_
5044 def->cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_
5045 def->cpu->model) {
5046 def->cpu->mode = VIR_CPU_
5047 }
5049 if (!virQEMUCapsIs
5050 def->cpu->mode)) {
5051 virReportError(
5052 _("CPU mode '%s' for %s %s domain on %s host is not "
5053 "supported by hypervisor"),
5054 virCPUModeTypeT
5055 virArchToString
5056 virDomainVirtTy
5057 virArchToString
5058 return -1;
5059 }
This code was introduced by the following commit:
commit 7ce711a30eaf882
Author: Jiri Denemark <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jun 22 15:53:48 2016 +0200
qemu: Update guest CPU def in live XML
Storing the updated CPU definition in the live domain definition saves
us from having to update it over and over when we need it. Not to
mention that we will soon further update the CPU definition according to
QEMU once it's started.
A highly wanted side effect of this patch, libvirt will pass all CPU
features explicitly specified in domain XML to QEMU, even those that are
already included in the host model.
This patch should fix the following bugs:
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Thanks Corey!
Also for pulling out the code.
It still smells like "was never working well, but now it tells you".
To be sure it was specified that way before @Larry would you add a domain xml from Newton to round up the picture so we can continue thinking on where a fix would be appropriate.
|Sean Dague (sdague) wrote :
This looks like an upstream libvirt/qemu issue that got exposed with the version bump in Ubuntu. Closing the upstream Nova side.
|Changed in nova:
|New → Opinion
|added: arm64 uosci
|Jason Hobbs (jason-hobbs) wrote :
Here's the requested xml from an arm64 newton instance:
|Raghuram Kota (rkota) wrote :
@Corey @Christian the xml in comm#12 from Jason is Xenial-Newton.
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Snipping the interesting parts:
<type arch='aarch64' machine=
<gic version='3'/>
<cpu mode='host-model'>
<model fallback='allow'/>
That means on Xenial-Newton that worked for you.
Yet as outlined before "worked" is a bit special here as it meant more "passed but didn't work" as outlined in comment #5 - I don't know the details of this.
With that in mind for now lets simplify the Test and try to get Openstack out of the equation for now (although it might eventually be the best place for a solution).
Will update after some tests ...
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
# Similar to my test in comment #7, but with slighly modified XML as in [1]
Start on Xenial, upgrade one by one
At the spot of xx CPU xx I had one of the following:
hm - host model
<cpu mode='host-model'>
<model fallback='allow'/>
hp - host passthrough
<cpu mode='host-
<model fallback='allow'/>
maf - match allow fallback
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
<model fallback=
mff - match forbid fallback
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
<model fallback=
Those four modes to some extend mean the same "make it as close to the host cpu as possible" with slight differences, see [2]. And the "bonus" that host-model was broken until soon to be released qemu/libvirt versions.
Adding next release in sources and using "apt-get install -t" I was able to test qemu/libvirt upgrades one by one.
Testing: hm hp maf mff
LV 1.3.1 / Qemu 2.5 ok ok ok ok
LV 1.3.1 / Qemu 2.6.1 fails by LV 1.3.1 not able to handle virt-2.6
LV 2.1 / Qemu 2.6.1 ok ok ok ok
LV 2.1 / Qemu 2.8 ok ok ok ok
LV 2.5 / Qemu 2.8 fail ok ok ok
All of the rest of the system is still as on Xenial, so we can exclude other packages.
We can see that "only" host-model regressed, certainly due to the mentioned changes that it was broken so far.
By that we get to the libvirt code that corey already posted.
That code changed a lot 2.1-2.5.
To some extend it comes down to the check in virQEMUCapsIsCP
The whole call to qemuProcessUpda
The introduction of the check that now breaks was in 803497a8 that added virQEMUCapsIsCP
That in turn
Related changes:
- http://
- http://
I checked that on x86 host-model works with libvirt 2.5.
That means there the qemuCaps hold this flag.
After confirming that known it was "easy" to have a much simpler check.
The capabilities this is checked is like "the guest wants X can the emulator run X".
Not that is as easy as:
$ virsh domcapabilities --emulatorbin /usr/bin/
<mode name='host-model' supported='no'/>
$ virsh domcapabilities --emulatorbin /usr/bin/
<mode name='host-model' supported='yes'>
With that I went back to
libvirt 2.1 on arm and there the whole cpu section was not populated (and as outlined libvirt did not check against it even if it would be).
I want to check how this is populated and also the commits that lead to the doc in the xml stating that host-model was flawed before L3.2/Q2.9.
But before knowing better I'd say libvirt is right to reject ...
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
On x86 due to a compat fix host-model effectively is CUSTOM see qemuProcessUpda
I also checked where this gets populated but didn't find a sweet sport to see if is now different.
But qemuBuildCpuMod
On 2.5 and master stripped of unimportant to aarch64 it is:
- host-passthrough -> add "host"
- host-model -> fail
(remember x86 converts host-model to custom)
- custom -> add "whatever was given"
So that won't work even if we would let it pass the check.
And while the code changed the semantics did not - yet there it handled host-model "like" passthrough not in the construction but due to a fallback in detection.
That known I checked the qemu command strings it constructed in the past, it was: "-cpu host".
Aha, no specials due to host-model (as it didn't work), so on aarch64 host-model was equal to host-passthrough with the failure that the "advertised" extra that host-model has over host-passthrough did not work.
Now libvirt changed to know that and tells you that host-model is not working, but that is actually correct - even it seemed so in the first place I'd not consider this a regression in the usual sense.
- Regression: sometihng that worked now fails
- This: something that you thought works, but didn't now fails telling you so
Summarizing in next comment to catch everybody and sync with the openstack Team on this.
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
I know it is a lot of text, but not all of you have to read everything, so here my TL;DR: (IMHO)
- no libvirt regression; host-model never worked, just no one noticed so far
- Openstack should change (at least for that arch) to host-passthrough
- if the "feature" of host-model is really wanted it can be reenabled on a version check on qemu/libvirt > 2.9/3.2 (or later depending how things work out)
|Corey Bryant (corey.bryant) wrote :
Switching the status back to New for upstream nova since there may be a need to switch from host-model to host-passthrough in nova.
|Changed in nova:
|Opinion → New
|Changed in nova:
|nobody → Kevin Zhao (kevin-zhao)
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
FYI - On the Libvirt side the new 3.2 release has the following statement which is - at least -
related to the semantics of a host-* cpu specification. That is really a major change which we will unlikely SRU, but pick up naturally when we move to this or a later libvirt version - likely on aa-relase. On top this change still is x86_64 only for now, I'd expect further changes for other architectures down the road (CPU Feat detection is very different per arch anyway, so other arches might go different routes - but this sheds some light on some of the insufficiencies of the old detection at least).
So far just FYI:
- qemu: Detect host CPU model by asking QEMU on x86_64
Previously, libvirt detected the host CPU model using CPUID
instruction, which caused libvirt to detect a lot of CPU features that
are not supported by QEMU/KVM. Asking QEMU makes sure we don't start it
with unsupported features.
|Raghuram Kota (rkota) wrote :
The plan is to implement an arch specific charm change to pass in the "host-passthrough" as CPU mode until a newer libvirt with functional "host-model" parameter is available in a future Ubuntu release.
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|New → Confirmed
|Undecided → High
|nobody → Ryan Beisner (1chb1n)
|Ryan Beisner (1chb1n) wrote :
I've tried cpu modes: none, host-model, and host-passthrough. I'm not able to create nova instances on Ocata arm64 with any of these modes.
Apr 03 17:46:03 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: unsupported configuration: logfile not supported in this QEMU binary
Apr 03 17:55:31 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: End of file while reading data: Input/output error
Apr 03 17:55:48 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: this function is not supported by the connection driver: cannot get node CPU data for aarch64 architecture
Apr 03 17:55:48 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: Failed to get host CPU
Apr 03 17:55:49 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: End of file while reading data: Input/output error
Apr 03 17:56:06 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: this function is not supported by the connection driver: cannot get node CPU data for aarch64 architecture
Apr 03 17:56:06 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: Failed to get host CPU
Apr 03 17:56:07 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: End of file while reading data: Input/output error
Apr 03 17:56:25 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: this function is not supported by the connection driver: cannot get node CPU data for aarch64 architecture
Apr 03 17:56:25 juju-b15153-15 libvirtd[25804]: Failed to get host CPU
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Confirmed → Incomplete
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Hi Ryan, that is most disturbing as we proved that working in the lower layers (just switching in the guest xml) with only libvirt/qemu.
Can you provide the Guest XMLs it tries to deploy in these cases?
|Hua Zhang (zhhuabj) wrote :
I hit this problem with yakkety-newton as well today, seems nested kvm doesn't work on yakkety (mitaka doesn't have this problem), it said:
2017-04-11 12:12:21.047 19019 ERROR nova.compute.
INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_intel
INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions
KVM acceleration can be used
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_intel': Input/output error
then cause we see openstack's errors above, more info can refer the link http://
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Hi Hua, this is a different issue - forked that into 1683670
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Ryan Beisner (1chb1n) → Andrew McLeod (admcleod)
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Incomplete → New
|New → Confirmed
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Got this today via Mail, linking here:
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
The former came down to the difference of
<topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
<cpu mode='host-model'>
<model fallback='allow'/>
<topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
<cpu mode='host-
<topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
@Andrew McLeod
To clarify - your Data is a follow on to Ryan in Comment #21 tight?
And I assume you still see that all of them fail for not getting CPU Data.
Which is odd, as I stated in #22 as it worked before and we were on my and Ryans system only about tweaking host-model to host-passthrough to get things working in regard to the initial bug report.
Thanks for the full XMLs, I'm now testing with these if I can reproduce any of these new/related issues.
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
@admcleod - While my system is preparing to test this I think the logs you added are already kind of proving that the issue this bug was reported about is kind of solved.
In regard to your logs - the related error:
-> Passes the initialization but then breaks on logfile
-> Fails due to host-model being broken
-> Passes the initialization but then breaks on logfile
That might be an issue, but a different one - so I forked off bug 1697610
In regard to the cpu-types here I got it working with host-passthrough as stated before.
Keeping this bug incomplete.
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
BTW - if you want to teach the charm to check such things FYI:
$ virsh domcapabilities | grep host-model
<mode name='host-model' supported='no'/>
|Andrew McLeod (admcleod) wrote :
@paelzer #27 - yes the data was a follow up to #21
|Changed in nova:
|Kevin Zhao (kevin-zhao) → nobody
|Sean Dague (sdague) wrote :
Automatically discovered version ocata in description. If this is incorrect, please update the description to include 'nova version: ...'
|added: openstack-version.ocata
|Andrew McLeod (admcleod) wrote :
I managed to get around this issue:
libvirtError: unsupported configuration: logfile not supported in this QEMU binary
By modifying the domain xml and removing the child nodes for serial and console.
So now there are more reasonable errors for cpu-modes none and host-model
however, host-passthrough also does not work:
|Andrew McLeod (admcleod) wrote :
A general description of the workaround for 'logfile not supported in this QEMU binary' on arm64 with ocata is:
in nova/virt/
xml = etree.fromstrin
for bad in xml.xpath("//log"):
#for item in xml.findall(
# xml.remove(item)
#for item in xml.findall(
# xml.remove(item)
xml = etree.tostring(xml)
# for debugging...
txt_file = open("/
It appears removing just the 'log' element should be sufficient as this was the specific error, but i tested more thoroughly with removing console and serial elements entirely.
The workaround for the error 'libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: domain is already running' was to modify dist-packages/
Once these changes were made I could launch an instance with host-passthrough, give it a floating IP and ssh into it.
|Corey Bryant (corey.bryant) wrote :
It seems like two possible fixes are:
1) Update libvirt's qemuProcessUpda
2) In nova, it looks like host-model is set in _get_guest_
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Hi Andrew and Corey,
first of all thanks for the re-checks.
- None is usually not supported on arm, as there are too different cpus and you have to select one.
- Host-passthrough fails for "domain is already running" that seems unrelated to the types and actually means it might be running after all :-)
- Host-model, as I said is known broken so the refuse via "'host-model' for aarch64 kvm domain on aarch64 host is not supported by hypervisor" seems correct still
About Coreys suggestions:
I'm pretty sure there were reasons for the "ARCH_IS_X86" in [1] - especially on a platform as diverse in cpu models as arm just turning it to custom might have side effects we don't see.
I haven't discussed #1 with upstream and at least I didn't see anyone else doing it.
Therefore #2 might be the much safer solution if you want it to work on arm for now.
It might be worth to check the host-passthrough case to work before that, but as I said above "domain already running" sounds like an unrelated issue.
[1]: http://
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Hi trying to get the status right here.
AFAIK these things are changed in libvirt 3.2 to be good - at least for x86, not sure if/how arm followed but since there were major changes we should consider it fixed and re-analyze from there for the development release.
So the coming merge of a newer libvirt will fix it for current Ubuntu-dev.
Since it is a "known behavior" on zesty's version I added a task on won't fix as so far - as I understood - we thought to better fix it in Openstack creating the xml's.
Furthermore adding a qemu task which will need to be >=2.9 to let the code in libvirt >=3.2 really work correctly.
Read [1] for the version references.
|Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu Zesty):
|New → Triaged
|Triaged → Won't Fix
|no longer affects:
|qemu (Ubuntu Zesty)
|Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
|New → Triaged
|Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
|Incomplete → Triaged
|Ryan Beisner (1chb1n) wrote :
Update: we've got a rough diff patch as a work-around for nova, using host-passthrough. That patch is likely not exactly what we will propose upstream to Nova. Next steps will be to revise and minimize that patch, and propose a fix upstream in nova master. Once that lands, we can propose a cherry pick back to Ocata, etc.
In parallel to that, we will need to reproduce and triage the "domain is already running" issue, if it is indeed persistent and present.
|Ryan Beisner (1chb1n) wrote :
We are working to re-confirm this issue exists on Pike-B3, since that is where any upstream nova patches will be initially proposed.
|Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
This bug was fixed in the package libvirt - 3.5.0-1ubuntu1
libvirt (3.5.0-1ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium
* Merged with Debian unstable (3.5)
This closes several bugs:
- improved handling of host-model since libvirt 3.2 (LP: #1673467)
- Adding POWER9 cpu model to cpu_map.xml (LP: #1690209)
* Remaining changes:
- Disable sheepdog (universe dependency)
- Disable libssh2 support (universe dependency)
- Disable firewalld support (universe dependency)
- Disable selinux
- Enable esx support
+ Add build-dep to libcurl4-gnutls-dev (required for esx)
- Set qemu-group to kvm (for compat with older ubuntu)
- Regularly clear AppArmor profiles for vms that no longer exist
- Additional apport package-hook
- Modifications to adapt for our delayed switch away from libvirt-bin (can
be dropped >18.04).
+ d/p/ubuntu/
to old service name so that old references work
+ d/p/ubuntu/
to old service name so that old references work
+ d/control: transitional package with the old name and maintainer
scripts to handle the transition
- Backwards compatible handling of group rename (can be dropped >18.04).
- config details and autostart of default bridged network. Creating that is
now the default in general, yet our solution provides the following on
top as of today:
+ nat only on some ports <port start='1024' end='65535'/>
+ autostart the default network by default
+ do not autostart if 192.168.122.0 is already taken (e.g. in containers)
- d/p/ubuntu/
the group based access to libvirt functions as it was used in Ubuntu
for quite long.
+ d/p/ubuntu/
due to the group access change.
- ubuntu/
- d/p/ubuntu/
which provided a separate kvm-spice.
- d/p/ubuntu/
- d/p/ubuntu/
section that adapts the path of the emulator to the Debian/Ubuntu
packaging is kept.
- d/p/ubuntu/
set VRAM to minimum requirements
- d/p/ubuntu/
- Add libxl log directory
- libvirt-uri.sh: Automatically switch default libvirt URI for users on
Xen dom0 via user profile (was missing on changelogs before)
- d/p/ubuntu/
- Update README.Debian with Ubuntu changes
- Convert libvirt0, libnss_libvirt and libvirt-dev to multi-arch.
- Enable some additional features on ppc64el and s390x (for arch parity)
+ systemtap, zfs, numa and numad on s390x.
+ sys...
|Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
|Triaged → Fix Released
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|High → Critical
|Ryan Beisner (1chb1n) wrote :
We need this fix in Ocata, which is delivered via Zesty versions. I see that it is triaged as wont-fix for Zesty. Can we revisit that decision? Is the fix something that can be picked back to the libvirt in Zesty?
|Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) wrote :
Hi Ryan,
the "fix" on the libvirt side is to actually understand host-model on x86.
As outlined before that doesn't mean anything for arm yet.
The changes are too huge in libvirt and also need a much newer qemu to work (2.9) - so they make no sense for zesty which is why it is won't fix.
The fix for Ocata has to be done in openstack (as discussed before) to send host-passthrough instead of host-model - the fix mentioned by you in comment #37, that is the fix that will be the one for UCA-O.
And even for UCA-P based on Artful we will have to test if the final combination of libvirt/qemu in Artful is enough to get it working on arm as well (as most development around this feature-fix was driven by x86 only).
|James Page (james-page) wrote :
OK - some updates
I've tested with 2.5.0 and 3.5.0 of libvirt using OpenStack Ocata.
2.5.0 libvirt/qemu does not support host-model - only host-passthrough so I agree that we should just being doing the right thing either in the charm (as we've done for other non-x86 arch) or the nova codebase - my preference is for the first as we avoid to much magic behaviour.
3.5.0 has the same limitation; I'm actually bumping into a different issue for which I'll raise another bug for arm64 instances using that libvirt stack.
tl;dr - lets just use host-passthrough and move on.
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Confirmed → Triaged
|Critical → High
|Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
|Triaged → Won't Fix
|Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
|Fix Released → Invalid
|Invalid → Won't Fix
|Changed in nova:
|New → Invalid
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Andrew McLeod (admcleod) → James Page (james-page)
Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https:/
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Triaged → In Progress
Reviewed: https:/
Committed: https:/
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master
commit b5d9b18c0afd06b
Author: James Page <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jul 26 14:35:33 2017 +0100
aarch64: set default cpu_mode to host-passthrough
Unless explicit configuration is supplied by the charm user, set
the cpu_mode configuration on the aarch64 architecture to
Change-Id: I6df2d70e7b5fed
Closes-Bug: 1673467
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|In Progress → Fix Committed
|Ryan Beisner (1chb1n) wrote :
Typo in previous comment. Sept 7 2017 is the correct date.
FYI: The charm fix component of this is slated to be fix-released along with the OpenStack Charms release on Sept 7 2017. Do bear in mind that there may still be some package changes in flight at that time, as the Charms release doesn't align to the Ubuntu distro release in all cases.
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|none → 17.08
|Changed in charm-nova-compute:
|Fix Committed → Fix Released
|Kashyap Chamarthy (kashyapc) wrote :
Speaking to a libvirt CPU modelling infrastructure developer: Apparently the "reason" for 'host-model' not being supported or AArch64 is: neither libvirt / QEMU can tell what the host CPU model is. And there's no CPU description code for ARM at this point.


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Jude Law: The world is ready for gay Dumbledore
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- 20 November 2018
Jude Law thinks "the world is ready" to see Albus Dumbledore as a gay icon, after J.K. Rowling confirmed the character is gay back in 2007
Jude Law thinks "the world is ready" to see Albus Dumbledore as a gay icon.
The 45-year-old actor stars as a young version of the wizard made famous in the 'Harry Potter' franchise in the new movie 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald', and has said he believes fans of the magical franchise are ready to see the Hogwarts headmaster embrace his sexuality.
He said: "The world is ready [for an openly gay Dumbledore], and if it isn't, it bloody well should be."
Dumbledore's sexuality was never explored in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' book series as she only made the revelation that he was gay in 2007, and was also never added to the main 'Harry Potter' movies.
But in the 'Fantastic Beasts' spin-off saga, his sexuality is explicitly portrayed, and whilst Jude can't divulge details on what's in the film, he insists that it doesn't "define" who Dumbledore is.
Speaking to the New York Times, Jude added: "Put it this way: This film is not about his homosexuality, nor does his sexuality define him. But that relationship is certainly a defining element of who he is and what he's about. I also don't think he's someone who has given his heart or his soul to many people. The aftermath of their relationship left him reeling, and he's packed his heart in ice, to be honest, and no one's quite thawed it."
Meanwhile, Jude recently revealed he received a huge confidence boost on the set of the new movie, after author J.K. Rowling told him she was pleased with his casting.
He said: "When the boss says, 'I like you,' it gives you a little bit of comfort. You can't help but step into something like this, playing a part like this without feeling a sense of responsibility, a fear of letting someone down. But when the creator gives you the thumbs up, it's a blessing."

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Dry ingredients
4 cups of flour
1/4 cup baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup grated market cheese
1 cup grated coconut
2 eggs
Wet Ingredients
2 cups coconut milk
2 tbsp melted butter
2 tbsp melted lard
- Combine all dry ingredients and mix evenly.
- Add melted butter and lard to dry ingredients.
- Slowly add coconut milk and mix together until all ingredients are combined.
- Rest in refrigerator for 30 mins.
- On a floured surface place dough and lightly flour the top of the dough.
- Pat down and shape dough into a rectangle about 1 1/2 inch thick.
- Cut circles using a glass or pastry circle to 2 to 3 inches.
- Lightly grease a cookie sheet and place rounds on sheet with enough room for rising.
- Rest for 5 mins at room temperature.
- Make an egg wash with two eggs and a bit of water.
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After spending several years treating some of the sickest patients, Cody realized he was simply treating symptoms of underlying disease and not the disease. By the time a patient ended up in the back of Cody's helicopter it was often too late for him to make a difference in that person's health. He is now convinced that treating the entire body rather than certain parts is the only effective way to manage his patients.
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Casey has over 4 years experience in the medical field and has been an integral member of our team since the clinic opened. Casey is trained in bio-identical hormone replacement, nutraceuticals and has goals to one day become a registered nurse. Her hobby is baking cakes and has now directed this talent towards supporting a ketogenic lifestyle.
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Julia is the newest member of our team. She is one of our medical assistants and enjoys working with people of all ages. She is excited for her future and to grow with the Regeneration Health team.
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Bed bug infestationBMJ 2013; 346 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f138 (Published 22 January 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f138
- Celine Bernardeschi, dermatologist1,
- Laurence Le Cleach, dermatologist1,
- Pascal Delaunay, parasitologist-entomologist2,
- Olivier Chosidow, professor of dermatology13
- 1AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Henri-Mondor, Department of Dermatology, Créteil, France
- 2Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Hôpital de l'Archet, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice-Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis/Inserm U1065, Nice, France
- 3UPEC-Université Paris Est-Créteil Val-de-Marne, France
- Correspondence to: O Chosidow, Service de Dermatologie, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94010 Créteil Cedex, France olivier.chosidow{at}hmn.aphp.fr
- Accepted 3 January 2013
Summary points
Bed bug infestation seems to be re-emerging worldwide
The diagnosis of bed bug infestation starts with consultation for clinical reactions to bites but symptoms vary greatly
Suspect bed bug bites whenever a patient consults for papules positioned in groups of three or four bites forming a "breakfast-lunch-dinner" curve or line
Eradication requires patient education and the help of pest eradication professionals to identify pests and perform non-chemical and chemical interventions
Bed bugs are bloodfeeding insects that seem to be resurging in developed countries,1 possibly due to international travel and changes in pest control practices.2 Diagnosis of bed bug infestation relies on clinical manifestations of bites and direct observation of the arthropod, which is rarely recognised by those who are bitten.3 Evidence is lacking on the bed bug's capacity to transmit disease, management of eradication, and the economic impact of infestations. This summary of the available evidence on the diagnosis and management of bed bug infestation aims to help general practitioners identify the clinical signs of bed bug bites and help patients identify and manage infestations.
Sources and selection criteria
We focused on articles published since October 2008 to update Goddard and colleagues' systematic review.2 We searched PubMed and Embase databases until July 2012, using the search terms "bedbugs [Mesh] OR bed bugs OR bed bug OR Cimex". We also manually searched textbooks, newspapers, and websites, mainly those listed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/topics/bedbugs.htm). Our selection criteria were case reports on more than five patients, and results related to humans in the field of prevention and elimination of bed bugs or clinical manifestations of their bites.
What are bed bugs?
The two main species of bed bugs are Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus, which are found in tropical zones and temperate areas, respectively. They are brown, wingless, flat, 2-5 mm long insects that resemble apple seeds. If in doubt, contact an entomologist for precise identification. The bugs have a multi-stage developmental life cycle and require a human blood meal every 3-5 days to progress from one stage to another (fig 1⇓).1 After contamination by a few bed bugs, their number increases exponentially. They can survive for one year without eating.
Where are bed bugs found?
Over the past 10 years, bed bugs—which had almost disappeared after the second world war—have increasingly been found in low budget and upmarket hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, private homes, night trains, cruise ships, and even nursing homes.1 4
Bed bugs are usually transported passively, mainly in clothing and luggage, but also on furniture (such as mattresses). Less commonly, they spread actively from room to room in communities, mostly through electric wiring or ventilation ducts. During the day they hide in dark places—such as spaces under baseboards, loose or peeling wallpaper, and crevices in furniture and mattresses—and they feed at night. They fear light and usually avoid smooth or glossy surfaces, such as tiles.2 Despite being easily visible, most people cannot recognise bed bugs—in a survey conducted in three counties in the United Kingdom, only 10% of 358 people identified them from pictures (fig 2⇓).3
How common are bed bug infestations?
The idea of a resurgence is based on Australian and European observational studies that have shown increases in pest manager interventions (700% increase between 1997-2000 and 2001-04 in Australia, 100% rise from 2002 (383 cases) to 2006 (770 cases) in Sweden). There were also increases in calls received about bed bugs in two London boroughs between 2000 (87 calls) and 2006 (334 calls), and more inquiries about species (nine samples of bed bugs submitted to the Department of Medical Entomology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia in 1997 compared with 37 samples in 2000). The identification of bed bugs in Australian laboratories also increased between 2001 and 2004 as did the number of bed bugs intercepted by Australian customs officials between 1999 and 2003.5 6 7
The reasons for this resurgence are unknown. Contributing factors may include increased domestic and international travel.8 As a consequence, bed bugs, which were most common among the disadvantaged social classes in the first half of the last century, can now be encountered in all economic contexts. Other factors are enhanced resistance to pyrethroid insecticides,2 9 perhaps because of multiple mutations conferring metabolic resistance,10 and the fact that newer techniques for controlling cockroaches with bait do not kill bed bugs.11
What are the symptoms of bed bug infestation?
Because bed bugs feed at night and inject an anaesthetic when biting, the initial bite is not felt and most patients have no reaction; moreover, symptom onset, caused by allergic reactions to saliva, can be delayed.2 In 2009, an ethics committee approved experiment,12 conducted by laboratory scientists who volunteered to be bitten by bed bugs placed on their arms, confirmed that reactions to bites manifest up to 11 days later. In a recent questionnaire based study, only 30% of people living in bed bug infested households reported skin reactions.13
A 2009 systematic review of 18 articles on clinical reactions to bed bug bites reported the most common reactions to be 2-5 mm pruritic maculopapular lesions with a central haemorrhagic punctum, corresponding to the bite site, that are usually located on uncovered areas of the body.2 Skin lesions, such as three or four bites forming a curve or line ("breakfast-lunch-dinner alignment," fig 3A⇓), are suggestive of but not specific to bed bugs. Other cutaneous symptoms include isolated pruritis, papules, nodules (fig 3B), and bullous eruptions (fig 3C).14
Some isolated case reports have reported systemic reactions, such as diffuse urticaria (fig 3D), asthma, and anaphylaxis.2 Bed bug infestation is usually looked for after a clinical diagnosis of bed bug bites. Similar symptoms in people sharing a bed, onset of the lesions after travelling or sleeping away from home, detection of bed bug faecal matter (small dark marks) in or around the bed, or disappearance of symptoms after changing sleeping place should trigger suspicion of infestation. However, the discovery of bed bugs on site confirms active infestation.
What are the differential diagnoses of bed bug bites?
The most common differential diagnoses are other arthropod bites,15 especially those of fleas, which form similar three or four bite lines or curves. Scabies can be confounding but differs from bed bug bites by the absence of visible puncta and the predominance of scratching in sites such as forearms, nipples, and genitals (table 1⇓).
In addition to arthropod bites, there are several dermatological differential diagnoses.16 These include erythema multiforme, which is characterised by target lesions on the extremities, and, sometimes, mucous membrane erosions; Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, which includes papulonodular lesions on the extremities associated with general symptoms, such as arthralgias, fever, and leucocytosis; bullous dermatitis, which can affect the mucous cavities and unlike bed bug bites, can be seen on covered areas of the body; and vasculitis, which is characterised by polymorphous lesions, usually on the lower limbs, and sometimes affecting several organs. When such manifestations are seen, refer the patient to a dermatologist for further investigations, including a skin biopsy, if necessary.
What complications can arise from bed bug infestations?
Scratching can cause secondary infection—usually Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus spp—of skin lesions (usually impetigo).17
Evidence for disease transmission is less clear. Some pathogens have been detected in or on bed bugs. These include hepatitis B virus, Trypanosoma cruzi,1 hepatitis C virus,18 HIV,2 Aspergillus spp, and, more recently, meticillin resistant S aureus,19 but no study has yet demonstrated their vectorial role—their capacity to transmit diseases to humans.1
The psychological burden of bed bug infestation remains to be evaluated.
Although the economic impact is not known, bed bugs result in loss of productivity and costs include those of pest managers' interventions and replacement of infested furniture.11
How are bed bug infestations managed?
Bed bug control is difficult, mainly because of the parasite's hiding behaviour, and also because chemical and non-chemical technologies need to be combined for optimal effect.1 "Integrated pest management (IPM)" combines detection of the pest with non-chemical and chemical elimination strategies.
A randomised study conducted in 16 highly infested dwellings, divided into two groups, compared IPM using traps containing a killing agent and chemical treatment with diatomaceous earth dust (D-IPM) versus IPM in which bed bugs were sprayed with chlorfenapyr (S-IPM) but traps were not used.20 Both groups received patient targeted information provided by a brochure. They were also given advice on searching mattresses for hiding bugs; laundering bed linens weekly; and steaming floors, bed frames, sofas, and other infested furniture and sites. Insecticides were applied every two weeks over 10 weeks. Bed bug counts decreased by 97.6% and 89.7% after the intervention in the S-IPM and D-IPM groups, respectively.
Such eradication strategies were grouped together in documents called "Codes of practice" written by experts in Europe, the United States, and Australia,21 but their use, although recommended by some municipalities, is not mandatory.
How should bed bug bites be treated?
Guidelines based on expert opinions recommend treating the symptoms of bed bug bites with topical steroids (such as hydrocortisone 1%) once or twice a day for no longer than seven days.22 Prescribe systemic antihistamines only when pruritis is associated with sleeping difficulties.22 Antibiotics, either topical (such as mupirocin or fusidic acid three times a day for 7-10 days) or systemic, might be needed for secondary impetigo, depending on its severity.23
How can bed bugs be identified and eradicated?
Patient education
Professionals need to educate patients on how to identify bed bugs and prevent spread (box). GPs can educate patients to use a "search and destroy" strategy by providing basic knowledge about the parasite. They should stress that each insect needs to bite a human every three to five days to grow and reproduce but can survive for one year without feeding, and how to detect and identify the arthropod (fig 4A⇓) or its faecal traces (fig 4B) in suspected areas, mostly mattresses and cracks and crevices in wooden furniture. This detection strategy should be applied whenever travelling.
Patient education
Look for brown insects no bigger than apple seeds on the mattress, sofa, and curtains and in darker places in the room (especially cracks in the walls, crevices in box springs, and furniture)
Look for black spots on the mattress or blood traces on the sheets
Contact a pest management company
Wash clothes at 60°C or freeze delicate clothing, vacuum, and clean your home before the pest manager visits
Collaborate with professionals who are used to dealing with bed bug infestation to increase eradication efficacy
Carefully examine secondhand furniture to assure the absence of bed bugs before purchase so as not to contaminate your home
When sleeping in a hotel, even an upmarket establishment, lift mattresses to look for bed bugs or black spots
Do not leave luggage in dark places, near furniture, or close to your bed. Before going to bed, close suitcases and put them in the bathroom—in the bathtub or shower stall
Non-chemical intervention
Small case series suggest that washing at 60°C, tumble drying at 40°C, or dry cleaning is effective against all life stages.24 A recent trial also suggested that freezing can be used to decontaminate infested clothing.24 However, because bed bugs can survive for up to one year without feeding, keeping an infested room vacant is not an effective option.1 Disposal of highly infested items, together with physical removal of bed bugs and mattress covers and vacuuming, are recommended by pest managers' codes of practice,21 even though scientific evidence of their efficacy is lacking.
The silicates (mostly diatomaceous earth dust) are somewhere between non-chemical and chemical treatments, and require further investigation before being used in pest management programmes.20
Chemical treatment
Although insecticides can be bought in supermarkets and on the internet, for efficacy and safety reasons they must be used only by professionals. Clinicians should be aware that misuse of insecticides may have clinical consequences. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently identified 111 cases of illness attributed to insecticide misuse in an attempt to control bed bugs.25 Pyrethroids were implicated in 89% of those events and caused neurological, respiratory, and gastrointestinal symptoms.
The three main groups of currently used insecticides for bed bug infestations are pyrethroids (the most common),26 insect growth regulators, and carbamates. The organophosphates, like dichlorvos, are no longer used in Europe except in impregnated strips.27 Several large well conducted experimental studies have found high levels of bed bug resistance to all available products.9 28 Moreover, product formulation may influence their efficacy—a laboratory study showed that pyrethroid dusts kill bed bugs more effectively than sprays.29
Because of different resistance levels among bed bugs, a combination of insecticides should be applied to all harbourage areas: mattress seams; cracks in furniture, box springs, and bed frames; peeling wallpaper; and under carpets and floorboards.21
It is unclear how often these techniques should be applied, but because insecticides have a limited ovicidal effect, expert guidelines recommend a second look by the pest manager, with eventual retreatment 4-20 days after the first intervention. The length of this waiting time depends on the average temperature of the infested site.
How can infestation be prevented?
Evidence is lacking about the effectiveness of prevention procedures. Experts recommend washing mattress encasement and bed linens at temperatures above 60°C,21 and advise against purchasing second hand mattresses or furniture. However, it is not recommended that mattresses are pretreated with insecticides or preventive insecticide applications.
Early detection of the bed bugs may be an effective way to prevent their spread. Notably, experimental studies have shown the efficacy of bed bug traps in attracting the parasites, especially when combined with carbon dioxide and heat,30 but their ability to control infestation without the addition of chemical techniques has not been assessed. Results of a comparative study indicated that canine detection may be an option but is operator dependent,31 and further evaluation of this method is needed.
Tips for non-specialists
Inform patients who are about to travel of the resurgence of bed bugs and teach them how to recognise the arthropod
Suspect bed bug infestations in patients who consult for pruritic linear papules, especially when similar symptoms are found in people sharing a bed, and onset of the lesions after travelling or sleeping away from home Look for atypical skin reactions (blisters, crusts, necrosis) or general symptoms (fever) that may justify skin biopsy or further dermatological investigations
Encourage infested patients to call a pest manager as soon as the pest has been identified
Prescribe a mild potency topical steroid treatment once or twice a day for seven days to treat symptomatic bed bug bites
Additional educational resources
Resources for healthcare professionals
University of Kentucky (www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/entfactpdf/ef636.pdf)—Comprehensive lesson on bed bugs
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/topics/bedbugs.htm)—Link to various articles on bed bugs
NHS Choices (http://nhs.uk/conditions/bites-insect/pages/introduction.aspx)—Clinical knowledge summary about insect bites
Resources for patients
Easing bedbug anxiety: what you need to know about the recent bedbug resurgence. Harvard's Women's Health Watch 2011;18:7
Up to Date (www.uptodate.com/contents/bedbugs?source=search_result&search=bedbugs&selectedTitle=1~10)—Provides accurate general knowledge about bed bugs
Bed-Bugs.co.uk (http://bed-bugs.co.uk/)—Provides an interesting picture gallery of bed bugs and their bites, together with practical tips for eradication
Pest Control UK (www.pestcontrol-uk.org/pests/bed-bugs)—DIY control of bed bugs
Questions for future research
What are the risk factors for bed bug infestation?
What are the psychological complications of bed bug bites?
Can bed bugs transmit diseases to humans?
What is the best eradication strategy?
What are the mechanisms of pesticide resistance?
Are prevention approaches (sniffing dogs, resin strips, traps) effective?
Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f138
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Tu-Anh Duong, Arnaud Canet, Sebastien Larréché, and Pierre Wolkenstein for their collaboration and Janet Jacobson for editorial assistance.
Contributors: OC conceived the project, which was drafted by CB and revised by all authors. OC finally approved the article. All authors are guarantors.
Funding: No special funding received.
Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.


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Ontario Appoints Special Advisor on Flooding
A man walks through flood waters around a home on Friday, April 26, 2019 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Ontario is appointing a Special Advisor on Flooding to look into the spring flooding across the province.
Speaking on Newstalk 580 CFRA and CTV Morning Live Thursday morning, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry John Yakabuski and Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, Minister of Long-Term Care, announced the appointment of Doug McNeil as the Special Advisor. McNeil will advise the province on ways to reduce the impacts of flooding and ensure communities can recover quickly.
Yakabuski says the "Special Advisor will help better prepare our province for flooding in the future."
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"I've had the conversation with [Ontario Power Generation] and they will open up their technical records to the independent advisor so that he has full access to any of their operational decisions that were made," he says.
The appointment comes after flooding this spring along the Ottawa River and in cottage country.
The Ontario Government held Flood Engagement Sessions in Ottawa, Pembroke and Muskoka to hear from municipalities and industry leaders on how to prepare and respond to floods.
Yakabuski says there have been calls from municipal leaders and residents along the Ottawa River for an independent review of dam management. He says appointing an independent advisor is prudent.
"People don't believe what we're telling them," he says. "So, we think it's the prudent thing to do. Doug McNeil, from Manitoba, whom I've never met, has a tremendous resume of credentials for this job to do it from the Ontario perspective."
Yakabuski has also written to his federal counterparts asking for an independent review of the Ottawa River system.
McNeil has spent 36 years working in the public service with the City of Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba. He recently retired as Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Winnipeg.
Yakabuski tells CTV Morning Live the salary for McNeill will be capped at $60,000.
Fullerton, who is the Progressive Conservative MPP for Kanata–Carleton, says residents have been requesting more information from the government about the flooding.
"We heard, I heard, very, very clearly from people, from the very beginning of the flooding, that they wanted accurate information, that they wanted to be informed, and that they wanted the information to be unbiased, and I think that's what we're doing here," she says.
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Four of the men photographed by Special Branch police taking part in exercises in the Lake District have been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
Police surveillance pictures of the group on the campsite in Great Langdale
A jury at Woolwich Crown Court today delivered its verdict on Muktar Said Ibrahim, Hussain Osman, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Hassan Omar. It has yet to decide on the guilt of two further defendants, Adel Yahya and Manfo Asiedu. In January this year, grough reported how covert surveillance photographs had shown five of the men taking part in activities in Great Langdale.
The four later attempted to explode home-made bombs made from hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour on London's transport system on 21 July, 2005. The devices, in rucksacks, failed to go off properly.
Experts revealed for the first time during the trial that the improvised bombs which failed to explode during the 21 July attacks were similar to those used in the devastating attacks which killed 52 people and the suicide bombers two weeks earlier.
Mohammed and Ibrahim are believed to have attended training camps in Pakistan before the attacks. Police photographed five of the group at Baysbrown Farm campsite in May 2004. The jury was told during the six-month trial that members of the group had also taken part in camping expeditions in Scotland.
Mr Sweeney said: "The failure of those bombs to explode owed nothing to the intention of these defendants, rather it was simply the good fortune of the travelling public that day that they were spared."
The bombers claimed during the trial that the devices, which were packed with shrapnel as well as explosives were merely dummy bombs meant as a protest at the involvement of Britain in the war in Iraq.
The Judge, Mr Justice Fulford QC, told the jury he would accept a 10-2 majority verdict on the remaining two men.
See also
Court shown Lakeland photos of bomb suspects
London bomb suspects 'took part in Langdale camp'
Arrested men 'linked to Lake District terror camps'
Terror suspects 'trained in Lakes'