The new flag vsock is meant to be used in order to create a VM with a
virtio-vsock device attached to it. Two parameters are needed with this
device, "cid" representing the guest context ID, and "sock" representing
the UNIX socket path which can be accessed from the host.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
In order to support the more performant version of virtio-fs, that is
the one relying on a shared memory region between host and guest, we
introduce two new parameters to the --fs device.
The "dax" parameter allows the user to choose if he wants to use the
shared memory region with virtio-fs. By default, this parameter is "on".
The "cache_size" parameter allows the user to specify the amount of
memory that should be shared between host and guest. By default, the
value of this parameter is 8Gib as advised by virtio-fs maintainers.
Note that dax=off and cache_size are incompatible.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Poor performance was observed when booting kernels with "console=ttyS0"
and the serial port disabled.
This change introduces a "null" console output mode and makes it the
default for the serial console. In this case the serial port
is advertised as per other output modes but there is no input and any
output is dropped.
Fixes: #163
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
With the VFIO crate, we can now support directly assigned PCI devices
into cloud-hypervisor guests.
We support assigning multiple host devices, through the --device command
line parameter. This parameter takes the host device sysfs path.
Fixes: #60
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To use the implemented virtio console device, the users can select one
of the three options ("off", "tty" or "file=/path/to/the/file") with
the command line argument "--console". By default, the console is
enabled as a device named "hvc0" (option: tty). When "off" option is
used, the console device is not added to the VM configuration at all.
Signed-off-by: A K M Fazla Mehrab <fazla.mehrab.akm@intel.com>
Add a "--serial" command line that takes as input either "off", "tty"
(default and current behaviour) and "file=/path/to/file".
When "--serial off" is used the serial device is not added to the VM
configuration at all.
Integration tests added that check for interrupts present (or not) and
that when sending to a file the file contains the expected serial
output.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Now that cloud-hypervisor VMM supports virtio-pmem, it can directly
boot a VM from an image exposed as a persistent memory block device.
That's why there is no need to force the --disk option as being
mandatory.
Fixes#90
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Until now, the VMM was only accepting a single instance of virtio-net
device. This commit extends the virtio-net support by allowing several
devices to be created for a single VM.
Fixes#71
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
For every parameter dealing with a size as option, such as memory or
virtio-pmem, the CLI can now parse sizes with the suffixes K, M or G.
Fixes#70
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Until now, the VMM was only accepting a single instance of virtio-pmem
device. This commit extend the virtio-pmem support by allowing several
devices to be created for a single VM.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
This patch plumbs the virtio-pmem device to the VMM. By adding a new
command line option "--pmem", we can now expose some persistent memory
to the guest OS, backed by the provided source.
The point of having such support in cloud-hypervisor is to be able to
share some memory between the host and the guest as DAXable.
One interesting use case is to boot directly from an image passed
through virtio-pmem, instead of going through virtio-blk. This can
allow good performances while avoiding the guest cache, which would
prevent the VM memory footprint from growing too much.
Fixes#68
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Until now, the VMM was only accepting a single instance of a virtio-fs
device. This commit extend the virtio-fs support by allowing several
devices to be created for a single VM.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
In the context of vhost-user, we need the guest RAM to be backed by
a file in order to be accessed by an external process. This patch
adds the new flag "file=" to the "--memory" option so that we can
specify from the command line if the memory needs to be backed, and
by which specific file.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The user can now share some files and directories with the guest by
providing the corresponding vhost-user socket. The virtiofsd daemon
should be started by the user before to start the VM.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The command line parsing of the user input was not properly
abstracted from the vmm specific code. In the case of --net,
the parsing was done when the device manager was adding devices.
In order to fix this confusion, this patch introduces a new
module "config" dedicated to the translation of a VmParams
structure into a VmCfg structure. The former is built based
on the input provided by the user, while the latter is the
result of the parsing of every options.
VmCfg is meant to be consumed by the vmm specific code, and
it is also a fully public structure so that it can directly
be built from a testing environment.
Fixes#31
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
