From e88bdaf789b6f1cc5347b217240f15afd86a94c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Hrdina Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:59:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: introduces new vhostuser disk type MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa --- docs/formatdomain.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 19 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst index 3a2fe7fa16..0f78aa3a8c 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst @@ -2419,6 +2419,13 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element. + + + + + + + ... @@ -2429,8 +2436,8 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element. ``type`` Valid values are "file", "block", "dir" ( :since:`since 0.7.5` ), "network" ( :since:`since 0.8.7` ), or "volume" ( :since:`since 1.0.5` ), - or "nvme" ( :since:`since 6.0.0` ) and refer to the underlying source for - the disk. :since:`Since 0.0.3` + or "nvme" ( :since:`since 6.0.0` ), or "vhostuser" ( :since:`since 7.1.0` ) + and refer to the underlying source for the disk. :since:`Since 0.0.3` ``device`` Indicates how the disk is to be exposed to the guest OS. Possible values for this attribute are "floppy", "disk", "cdrom", and "lun", defaulting to @@ -2581,6 +2588,23 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element. is not involved (compared to passing say ``/dev/nvme0n1`` via ```` and therefore lower latencies can be achieved. + ``vhostuser`` + Enables the hypervisor to connect to another process using vhost-user + protocol. Requires shared memory configured for the VM, for more details + see ``access`` mode for `memoryBacking <#elementsMemoryBacking>` element. + + The ``source`` element has following mandatory attributes: + + ``type`` + The type of char device. Currently only ``unix`` type is supported. + ``path`` + Path to the unix socket to be used as disk source. + + Note that the vhost server replaces both the disk frontend and backend + thus almost all of the disk properties can't be configured via the + ```` XML for this disk type. Additionally features such as blockjobs, + incremental backups and snapshots are not supported for this disk type. + With "file", "block", and "volume", one or more optional sub-elements ``seclabel``, `described below <#seclabel>`__ (and :since:`since 0.9.9` ), can be used to override the domain security labeling policy for just that @@ -2703,6 +2727,15 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element. of these attributes is omitted, then that field is assumed to be the default value for the current system. If both ``user`` and ``group`` are intended to be default, then the entire element may be omitted. + ``reconnect`` + For disk type ``vhostuser`` configures reconnect timeout if the connection + is lost. It has two mandatory attributes: + + ``enabled`` + If the reconnect feature is enabled, accepts ``yes`` and ``no`` + ``timeout`` + The amount of seconds after which hypervisor tries to reconnect. + For a "file" or "volume" disk type which represents a cdrom or floppy (the ``device`` attribute), it is possible to define policy what to do with the diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng index 239ae3f347..7a2706a4fb 100644 --- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng +++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng @@ -1646,6 +1646,7 @@ + @@ -2156,6 +2157,24 @@ + + + vhostuser + + + + unix + + + + + + + + + + + (ioemu:)?(fd|hd|sd|vd|xvd|ubd)[a-zA-Z0-9_]+