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231 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Sebastien Boeuf
0223cf8c2b ci: Update ClearLinux image
A new ClearLinux image has been uploaded to the Azure storage account.
It is based off of the ClearLinux cloudguest image 31310 version, with
three extra bundles added to it.

First bundle is curl, which adds the curl binary to the image, second
bundle is iperf, adding the iperf binary to the image, and third bundle
is sysadmin-basic to include utility like netcat.

The image is 2G in size.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2020-03-04 07:31:15 +00:00
Sebastien Boeuf
53481aabe5 docs: Update documentation related to multiqueue network
Just updating the documentation regarding the pre-creation of a tap
interface supporting multiqueue, by adding what the cloud-hypervisor
--net parameter should look like.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2020-02-12 18:05:42 +00:00
Samuel Ortiz
0cd3325a06 docs: Cloud Hypervisor API documentation
We document both the internal and external APIs, and how they relate to
each others.

Fixes: #318

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2020-02-07 11:26:41 +01:00
Rob Bradford
3c8cf0988d docs: Update device model to clarify how to enable vhost-user-block
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2020-01-29 08:06:37 +00:00
Rob Bradford
f322e924ad docs: Update device model to clarify how to enable vhost-user-net
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2020-01-28 12:39:26 +00:00
Cathy Zhang
e483cde1bb docs: Update networking.md with multiple queue support
Signed-off-by: Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@intel.com>
2020-01-17 12:06:19 +01:00
Rob Bradford
14041e97e7 docs: Add memory resizing documentation
Add documentation for memory resizing.

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2020-01-15 20:21:22 +01:00
Rob Bradford
32506dadfc docs: Document CPU unplug
This newly added feature wasn't yet documented.

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2020-01-15 20:21:22 +01:00
Sebastien Boeuf
f427d94422 virtio-fs: Update virtiofs daemon parameters
With the latest version of virtiofsd, some changes have been made
to the socket path parameter. This needs to be updated in the cloud
hypervisor codebase, so that our CI keeps running correctly.

Fixes #611

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2020-01-13 15:55:34 +00:00
Sebastien Boeuf
ad223f2b50 fs: Use cache=none by default
The cache= option from the virtiofsd backend is meant to be used
depending on how the user wants to use the guest page cache. For most
use cases, we want to bypass the guest page cache to reduce the guest
memory footprint, which is why "cache=none" should be the default.

"cache=always" is the other option when the user wants to do something
specific by using the guest page cache, but should not be the default
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2020-01-08 09:27:07 +01:00
Sebastien Boeuf
143471b739 fs: Update mount command to mount virtiofs filesystem
With latest kernel, virtio-fs mount command has been simplified, and
this needs to be applied everywhere in our tests and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2020-01-08 09:27:07 +01:00
Rob Bradford
6444e29b04 docs: Add CPU hot plug documentation
Add details of how to add vCPUs to the running VM.

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2019-12-13 10:34:41 +00:00
Sebastien Boeuf
c81e808e98 docs: Update instructions regarding virtiofsd
The documentation was out of date since the URL to download virtiofsd
binary was not valid anymore. Instead, the updated documentation now
describe how to build virtiofsd from source.

Fixes #491

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-12-03 12:16:43 +00:00
Rob Bradford
338beebc83 misc: Update locations to point to new kernel fork
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2019-11-28 14:28:12 +01:00
Rob Bradford
8ec89bc884 misc: Update to new repository locations
Update all references to the new repository locations. Many of these will
redirect however the one used for the hypervisor-fw binary does not so
this is required to allow the builds to pass.

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
2019-11-21 11:39:11 +00:00
Sebastien Boeuf
64305dab16 docs: device_model: Fix formatting error
Fix the summary table format.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-11-19 15:45:52 -08:00
Sebastien Boeuf
b55d75ea62 docs: Add device model
This commit introduces a dedicated document describing the device model
supported by cloud-hypervisor VMM.

It needs to be updated anytime a new device will be added in the future.

Fixes #437

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-11-19 14:10:36 -08:00
Sebastien Boeuf
d9695a0fd9 docs: fs: Update virtio-fs documentation
The cloud-hypervisor supports the DAX shared region for better virtio-fs
performances, but it was not updated in the documentation. This commit
takes care of this and also update the mount command since it changed
with virtio-fs v0.3.

Fixes #433

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-11-15 10:51:31 -08:00
Emin Ghuliev
c204d5404b docs: networking: Fix typo in hyperlink
An extra double quote was introduced by mistake in one of the hyperlink.

Signed-off-by: Emin Ghuliev drmint80@gmail.com
2019-11-13 13:18:26 +01:00
Sebastien Boeuf
5822969afa docs: Update instructions to create custom ClearLinux image
Based on recent update of the cloudguest image used by Cloud Hypervisor,
we identified some missing or incorrect details in the instructions.
This patch is here to fix those.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-10-18 08:10:06 +02:00
Sebastien Boeuf
defc33927f docs: iommu: Improve VM boot time and performance
This patch extends the existing virtual IOMMU documentation, explaining
how the use of huge pages can drastically improve the VM boot time.

Particularly, how in case of nested VFIO, the impact is significant and
the rationales behind it.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-10-18 07:21:40 +02:00
Sebastien Boeuf
5fc3f37c9b vmm: Add iommu=on|off option for --device
Having the virtual IOMMU created with --iommu is one thing, but we also
need a way to decide if a VFIO device should be attached to the virtual
IOMMU or not. That's why we introduce an extra option "iommu" with the
value "on" or "off". By default, the device is not attached, which means
"iommu=off".

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-10-16 07:27:06 +02:00
Sebastien Boeuf
2c50c963f5 docs: Explain how to use the virtual IOMMU
This patch introduces a specific documentation for the virtual IOMMU
device. This is important to understand what the use cases are for this
new device and how to properly use it with virtio devices.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-10-07 10:12:07 +02:00
Sebastien Boeuf
4b8d7e718d vmm: Add iommu=on|off option for --disk
Having the virtual IOMMU created with --iommu is one thing, but we also
need a way to decide if a virtio-blk device should be attached to this
virtual IOMMU or not. That's why we introduce an extra option "iommu"
with the value "on" or "off". By default, the device is not attached,
which means "iommu=off".

One side effect of this new option is that we had to introduce a new
option for the disk path, simply called "path=".

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-10-07 10:12:07 +02:00
Sebastien Boeuf
f5a44ea1ad docs: Explain how to create a custom Clear Linux cloud image
This is a quick guide on how to create a custom Clear Linux image based
on the official tooling provided by Clear Linux. If for any reason, the
image we are using is missing some interesting bundles that are packaged
by Clear Linux, this documentation will be the guide on how to proceed.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-09-11 19:13:29 +02:00
Johan Kuijpers
0affdd0df7 docs: Add networking HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Johan Kuijpers <johan.kuijpers@ericsson.com>
2019-08-15 17:52:09 +01:00
Samuel Ortiz
c8364172a3 docs: Add debug I/O port HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2019-08-15 16:06:54 +02:00
Samuel Ortiz
3cc6f48c31 docs: Add VFIO usage example
Fixes: #117

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2019-07-24 07:17:03 -07:00
Sebastien Boeuf
c0336e83ea docs: Add virtio-fs documentation
Add some documentation specific to virtio-fs and how to perform
filesystem sharing between host and guest with cloud-hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2019-06-27 21:46:00 +02:00
Samuel Ortiz
74a21f24e1 vendor: Remove vendoring
The cargo interaction with the .cargo/config does not meet our
requirements.

Regardless of .cargo/config explicitly replacing our external sources
with vendored ones, cargo build will rely first on Cargo.lock to update
its local source cache. If a dependency has been push forced, build
fails because of our top level Cargo.toml description.
This prevents us from actually pinning dependencies, which defeats the
vendoring purpose.

We're removing vendoring for now, until we understand it better.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2019-06-06 10:00:16 +01:00
Samuel Ortiz
89fc75d5d3 docs: Initial vendoring documentation
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2019-06-04 17:51:52 +02:00