The standalone `--balloon` parameter being fully functional at this
point, we can get rid of the balloon options from the --memory
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
This changeset extends the documentation with the UEFI and Windows
related info. The focus is on providing consumer with a minimum
necessary and proper piece of the information to enter the features
quickly. While UEFI is a cross platform topic, it is a required
prerequisite for the Windows usage.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Belski <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>
Misspellings were identified by https://github.com/marketplace/actions/check-spelling
* Initial corrections suggested by Google Sheets
* Additional corrections by Google Chrome auto-suggest
* Some manual corrections
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@users.noreply.github.com>
Add the new option 'hotplugged_size' to both --memory-zone and --memory
parameters so that we can let the user specify a certain amount of
memory being plugged at boot.
This is also part of making sure we can store the virtio-mem size over a
reboot of the VM.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Implement a new VM action called 'resize-zone' allowing the user to
resize one specific memory zone at a time. This relies on all the
preliminary work from the previous commits to resize each virtio-mem
device independently from each others.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
In anticipation for resizing support of an individual memory zone,
this commit introduces a new option 'hotplug_size' to '--memory-zone'
parameter. This defines the amount of memory that can be added through
each specific memory zone.
Because memory zone resize is tied to virtio-mem, make sure the user
selects 'virtio-mem' hotplug method, otherwise return an error.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The goal of this commit is to rename the existing NUMA option 'id' with
'guest_numa_id'. This is done without any modification to the way this
option behaves.
The reason for the rename is caused by the observation that all other
parameters with an option called 'id' expect a string to be provided.
Because in this particular case we expect a u32 representing a proximity
domain from the ACPI specification, it's better to name it with a more
explicit name.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Based on the recent changes regarding how to describe NUMA nodes to the
guest, the documentation related to memory zones and NUMA has been
updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Writing some new documentation to help users understand how the guest
memory can be described through Cloud-Hypervisor parameters.
Fixes#1659
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Use of backing file is deprecated hence use the `hugepages` field.
Also use the `boot` field for specifying number of cpus
Signed-off-by: Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede02@gmail.com>
Use updated --memory option parameters. The field `size` needs
M/G suffix. Without the suffix cloud-hypervisor panics at
src/main.rs:353
Also the use of backing file is deprecated so use `shared` field
Signed-off-by: Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede02@gmail.com>
Add some documentation regarding the snapshot/restore feature which was
introduced earlier, explaining how the feature works and how to use it
properly.
Fixes#1490
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Add the basic infrastructure for fuzzing along with a qcow fuzzer ported
from crosvm and adapted to our code.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
With recent changes (#1030#1084), the '/vm.remove-device' API is no
longer restricted to remove VFIO PCI devices. It now supports (almost)
all hotpluggable devices, e.g. disk/net/pmem/fs/vsock.
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
Now that our CI has transitioned from ClearLinux to Ubuntu images
exclusively, let's update the documentation to refer to Ubuntu images
instead of ClearLinux's ones.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Now that the project relies on Ubuntu images, the documentation related
to the creation of a custom image has been updated. It's important to
note this procedure could be applied to any other distribution, given
that the package manager's commands would be slightly different.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Update the API documentation to reflect that the hotplug APIs return
data about the device as well as the newly added /vm.counters API.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Currently, not every feature of the cloud-hypervisor is enabled
on AArch64, which means that on AArch64 machines, the
`run_unit_tests.sh` needs to be tailored and some unit test cases
should be run on x86_64 only.
Also this commit fixes the typo and unifies `Arm64` and `AArch64`
in the AArch64 document.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
The support of AArch64 is in very early stage. The steps in building and
runing on X86 and AArch64 can not align well yet. Adding AArch64 content
to README.md would produce much divergence.
Adding a guide in docs/ folder could be a better way to start now.
Signed-off-by: Michael Zhao <michael.zhao@arm.com>
The action of "vm.delete" should not report errors on non-booted
VMs. This patch also revised the "docs/api.md" to reflect the right
'Prerequisites' of different API actions, e.g. on "vm.delete" and
"vm.boot".
Fixes: #1110
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
This config option provided very little value and instead we now enable
this feature (which then lets the guest control the cache mode)
unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
This doc describe how to use vhost-user-blk in Cloud Hypervisor
with SPDK. With this doc, we can setup simple test environment on
Ubuntu release.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@intel.com>
Currently unimplemented. Once implemented, this API will allow for
creating virtio-fs devices in the VM after it has booted.
Signed-off-by: Dean Sheather <dean@coder.com>
Add a document to illustrate how to test vhost-user-net function with
OpenVSwitch + DPDK as backend.
Signed-off-by: Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@intel.com>
The option desired_ram is in byte, make larger the amount of memory to
add.
Signed-off-by: Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz <jose.carlos.venegas.munoz@intel.com>
This commit introduces the new command "remove-device" that will let a
user hot-unplug a VFIO PCI device from an already running VM.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
