In most cases, disabling the secure-boot or the enrolled-keys
firmware feature will achieve the same result: allowing an
unsigned operating system to run.
Right now we're only documenting the latter configuration. Add
the former as well, and explain the difference between the two.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It should be enough to enable or disable the enrolled-keys feature
to control whether Secure Boot is enforced, but there's a slight
complication: many distro packages for edk2 include, in addition
to general purpose firmware images, builds that are targeting the
Confidential Computing use case.
For those, the firmware descriptor will not advertise the
enrolled-keys feature, which will technically make them suitable
for satisfying a configuration such as
<os firmware='efi'>
<firmware>
<feature state='off' name='enrolled-keys'/>
</firmware>
</os>
In practice, users will expect the general purpose build to be
used in this case. Explicitly asking for the secure-boot feature
to be enabled achieves that result at the cost of some slight
additional verbosity.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch introduces the
<maxphysaddr mode='passthrough'/>
<maxphysaddr mode='emulate' bits='42'/>
sub element of /domain/cpu, which allows specifying the guest virtual CPU
address size. This can be useful if the guest needs to have a large amount
of memory.
If mode='passthrough', the virtual CPU will have the same number of address
bits as the host. If mode='emulate', the mandatory bits attribute specifies
the number of address bits.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Normally when an UEFI firmware is marked as read-only, an associated
NVRAM file will be created. Some builds of UEFI firmware, however, wish
to remain stateless and so will be read-only, but never have any NVRAM
file. To represent this concept a 'stateless' tristate bool attribute
is introduced on the <loader/> element.
There are rather a large number of permutations to consider.
With default firmware selection
* <os/>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='yes'/>
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='no'/>
</os>
=> Invalid, bios is always stateless
With manual legacy BIOS selection
* <os>
<loader>/path/to/seabios</loader>
...
</os>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='yes'>/path/to/seabios</loader>
...
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='no'>/path/to/seabios</loader>
...
</os>
=> Invalid, bios is always stateless
With manual UEFI selection
* <os>
<loader type='pflash'>/path/to/edk2</loader>
...
</os>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader type='pflash' stateless='yes'>/path/to/edk2</loader>
...
</os>
=> Skip auto-filling NVRAM / template
* <os>
<loader type='pflash' stateless='no'>/path/to/edk2</loader>
...
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
With automatic firmware selection
* <os firmware='bios'/>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os firmware='bios'>
<loader stateless='yes'/>
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
* <os firmware='bios'>
<loader stateless='no'/>
</os>
=> Invalid, bios is always stateless
* <os firmware='uefi'/>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os firmware='uefi'>
<loader stateless='yes'/>
</os>
=> Skip auto-filling NVRAM / template
* <os firmware='uefi'>
<loader stateless='no'/>
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Outline how upstream issues are triaged and explain what the states of
the issue means.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add a note outling best practices around review and responding to it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
While we all understand that excessive use of ternary operator
may worsen code readability (e.g. nested, multi-line expression),
there are few cases where using it actually improves code
readability. For instance, when a function takes a long list of
arguments out of which one depends on a boolean expression, or
when formatting "yes"/"no" or "on"/"off" values based on a
boolean variable (although one can argue that the latter is a
subset of the former). Just consider alternatives to:
virBufferAsprintf(buf, "<elem>%s</elem>\n", boolVar ? "yes" : "no");
In fact, this pattern occurs plenty in our code. Exempt it from
our "no ternary operators" rule.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The G_GNUC_NO_INLINE macro will eventually be marked as
deprecated [1] and we are recommended to use G_NO_INLINE instead.
Do the switch now, rather than waiting for compile time warning
to occur.
1: 15cd0f0461
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This is just a glue to the testing article introduced in previous
commits.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's not just strategy the master CI article talks (or will talk in the
future) about.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The article was replaced with a new one in previous commit, so we don't
need this one anymore.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The new article provides more in-depth information on testing options
in libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently we don't have much information on how testing is done in
libvirt and the little we have is scattered among multiple files. This
patch creates a common landing page containing all important bits about
testing in libvirt, providing links to respective sections which
deserve their own articles.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since running our functional test suite in GitLab cannot make use of
the shared resources it makes sense to document the process of adding
own HW to run the custom libvirt executor that powers the integration
suite. This article will likely make even more sense in the future with
GitLab severely cutting down on shared CI resources.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Most importantly, how to get it, how install dependencies and how
to run it.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The dashboard itself simply takes away focus from everything else that
makes sense to have in the CI article, so move it to it's own article
and link it from the main CI article.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Some USB devices have a buggy firmware that either crashes on
device reset, or make the device unusable in some other way.
Fortunately, QEMU offers a way to skip device reset either
completely, or if device is not initialized yet. Expose this
ability to users under:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
<source guestReset='off'/>
</hostdev>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fix docs illustrating call with an obsolete macro.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
While libvirt solves most of the problem of ensuring compatibility, when
there is incompatibility it can be hard for users to track down the
cause. Everything knows to check the physical CPU model, but there are a
surprisingly large number of other factors influencing compatibility.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We accept TPM version in the domain XML. However, supported
version depends on the host (swtpm_setup binary) and thus it may
be tricky for users (or mgmt applications) chose a version.
Introduce machinery for reporting supported version in domain
capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Surprisingly, we don't document TPM part of domain capabilities.
Fortunately, the information exposed is pretty much self
explanatory, but we should document it regardless.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
When using runtime setting of logging with 'virt-admin' it can be
confusing that the settings are discarded when the shutdown timeout of a
daemon is reached.
Add a note about this behaviour along with a suggestion to use
virt-admin to disable the behaviour if needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a simple command to drive the new 'virAdmConnectSetDaemonTimeout'
API.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The commit v8.3.0-rc1~199 introduced <address/> to <iommu/>
device. And while it updated the RNG it forgot to update the
docs. Fix that.
Fixes: b0eb1e193f
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Treat the 'protocolVer' field as a string so that e.g. '4.1' can be
used. Forbid only ',' in the string as it's a separator of arguments for
mount options.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Provide simple recipes for the most common high-level tasks.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Document the format of the 'readahead' and 'timeout' XML elements more
accurately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The mailman for mailing lists hosted by Red Hat seems to have moved
to listman.redhat.com. While the old links still seem to work,
point our docs to the new location to avoid the redirect.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
While you can chain the virsh output up to a later 'xmllint' or 'xpath'
command, integrating it into virsh avoids needs for installing extra
binaries which we've often found to be missing on production installs
of libvirt. It also gives better response if the initial virsh command
hits an error, as you don't get an aborted pipeline.
$ virsh pool-dumpxml --xpath //permissions default
<permissions>
<mode>0711</mode>
<owner>1000</owner>
<group>1000</group>
<label>unconfined_u:object_r:svirt_home_t:s0</label>
</permissions>
If multiple nodes match, they are emitted individually:
$ virsh dumpxml --xpath '//devices/*/address[@type="pci"]' --wrap demo
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
...snip...
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
but if intending to post-process the output further, the results
can be wrapped in a parent node
$ virsh dumpxml --xpath '//devices/*/address[@type="pci"]' --wrap demo
<nodes>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
...snip...
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</nodes>
Fixes https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/244
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add an element to configure the thread pool size:
...
<binary>
<thread_pool size='16'/>
</binary>
...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072905
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Update the default "driver" value for hostdev interface since
the default is not "KVM" anymore (refer to "Host device
asssignment" part and by test results). And update the mac
address in one xml example.
Signed-off-by: Yalan Zhang <yalzhang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This patch introduces the logic to format and parse remote NVRAM.
Update NVRAM element schema, and docs for supporting network backed
NVRAM. NVRAM backed over network would give the flexibility to start
the VM on any host without having to worry about where to get the latest
nvram image.
<nvram type='network'>
<source protocol='iscsi' name='iqn.2013-07.com.example:iscsi-nopool/0'>
<host name='example.com' port='6000'/>
</source>
</nvram>
or
<nvram type='file'>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/nvram/guest_VARS.fd'/>
</nvram>
In the qemu driver we will support the new definition only with qemu's
supporting -blockdev.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna.saxena@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Schmidt <flosch@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Kumar <rohit.kumar3@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Rohit Kumar <rohit.kumar3@nutanix.com>
As of v7.0.0-877-g70ac26b9e5 QEMU exposes its default event loop
for devices with no IOThread assigned as an QMP object. In the
very next commit (v7.0.0-878-g71ad4713cc) it was extended for
thread-pool-min and thread-pool-max attributes. Expose them under
new <defaultiothread/> element.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Since virsh implements a wrapper over virDomainSetIOThreadParams()
(command iothreadset) let's wire up new typed parameters there too.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
At least in case of QEMU an IOThread is actually a pool of
threads (see iothread_set_aio_context_params() in QEMU's code
base). As such, it can have minimal and maximal number of worker
threads. Allow setting them in domain XML.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Certain documentation bits tried to put a reference of a value into
quotes, but that's not needed for both the pure view of the rST source
and the rendered output.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In many cases we move around or rename internal anchors which may break
links leading to the content.
docutils handle the case of links inside a document, but we are lacking
the same form of checking between documents.
Introduce a script which cross-checks all the anchors and links in HTML
output files and prints problems and use it as a test case for the
'docs' directory.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
