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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Krempa
83707dc87e conf: Prepare making memory device target node optional
Adjust the config code so that it does not enforce that target memory
node is specified. To avoid breakage, adjust the qemu memory hotplug
config checker to disallow such config for now.
2015-11-18 10:32:18 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
257e2056e7 qemu: really remove last traces of Xenner support
We have twice previously attempted to remove Xenner
support

  commit de9be0ab4d
  Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
  Date:   Wed Aug 22 17:29:01 2012 +0100

    Remove xenner support

  commit 92572c3d71
  Author: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
  Date:   Wed Feb 18 16:33:50 2015 +0100

    Remove code handling the QEMU_CAPS_DOMID capability

This change really does remove the last traces of it
in the capabilities handling code

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2015-11-10 10:38:15 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
fc604c12d5 qemu: mandate QEMU version 0.12.0 or newer
Check the QEMU version and refuse to work with QEMU versions
older than 0.12.0. This is approximately the vintage of QEMU
that is available in RHEL-6 era distros.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2015-11-10 10:38:00 +00:00
Daniel Veillard
b091fef5cf Release of libvirt-1.2.21
* docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: Updated for the release
* po/*.po*: regenerated
2015-11-04 10:59:12 +08:00
Andrea Bolognani
1b4de77e85 NEWS: Fix XSLT stylesheet
This has been broken for a looong time - in fact, we've been
shipping a mostly-empty NEWS file for at least the past two years.

Including the html namespace and using it for matching elements,
like hacking1.xsl and hacking2.xsl were already doing, makes the
NEWS file useful again.

Add a note explaining that the release list has been split up
by year as well.
2015-10-20 17:30:34 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
ba4689e081 NEWS: Split releases by year
Update cfg.mk to ignore the split files during
syntax-check (thanks Martin).
2015-10-20 17:29:03 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
0331da65ed NEWS: Unify date format
There were some inconsistencies, eg. the number of digits used for
the day. The month name was also spelled out instead of abbreviated
in some instances.
2015-10-14 18:18:03 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
f84fc5a557 NEWS: Unify section titles
There were some inconsistencies; now the section title is always
one of Bug Fixes, Cleanups, Documentation, Features, Improvements,
Portability, Security.
2015-10-14 18:17:33 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
149cd07446 NEWS: Add empty lines
Make sure there is always an empty line between sections.
2015-10-14 18:17:15 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
ccc969762f NEWS: Fix indentation
Some of the paragraphs were not properly indented: while this was
not a problem in the HTML version, you could tell the difference
in the plain text version.
2015-10-14 18:16:19 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
a7a0eb531d NEWS: Fix newlines
Some <br/> tags were missing from the end of the corresponding
line, some of there were in the middle of the line instead.
2015-10-14 18:12:04 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
7b45172a06 NEWS: Fix whitespace
Mostly missing space between change description and author name or
spurious space before section title.

Reflow the introductory paragraph as well.
2015-10-14 18:11:02 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
348bb33701 NEWS: Organize old entries
Sort all items into the standard categories: Features, Bug Fixes,
Improvements, Cleanups, etc.

The sorting is somewhat arbitrary in certain instances.
2015-10-14 18:04:21 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
bb91111ce2 NEWS: Split old entries (2009)
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.

As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.

Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
2015-10-14 17:50:59 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
36c4066590 NEWS: Split old entries (2008)
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.

As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.

Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
2015-10-14 17:49:26 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
b8515b4e3a NEWS: Split old entries (2006-2007)
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.

As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.

Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
2015-10-14 17:48:57 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
5ab0598479 NEWS: Properly escape > in HTML 2015-10-14 17:44:16 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
33a6a8a95e NEWS: Split off merged sections
Portability and Bug Fixes for release 0.7.3 were merged together;
same for Features and Security for release 1.1.3. Split them off
2015-10-14 17:43:54 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
4155e5300e NEWS: Remove empty sections 2015-10-14 17:43:46 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
be153a721b NEWS: Include description for release 0.7.3
The description for this release, unlike all other descriptions,
was inside a <p> element; however, the XSLT stylesheet contains a
template that drops all <p> elements from the output file, so it
never made it to the generated NEWS file.

Use a <li> element, same as all other releases, instead.
2015-10-14 17:43:20 +02:00
Cole Robinson
bdcc2f80a6 docs: domain: Show canonical pvspinlock XML
The example pvspinlock XML is:

  <pvspinlock/>

While this is accepted by libvirt and works correctly, it's currently
always output as a tristate like

  <pvspinlock state='on'/>

So document that format instead
2015-10-06 10:26:59 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
37e85cff06 docs: Add Cuckoo Sandbox into apps.html
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-10-02 16:14:26 +02:00
Daniel Veillard
439760214c Release of libvirt-1.2.20
* docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for new release
* po/*.po*: regenerate localization
2015-10-02 13:17:16 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
3824c19df8 docs: Add yet another libvirt based app
As announced on the list [1], Cherrypop is a management
application based on libvirt. It's a decentralized cloud software
with nice scaling ability.

1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/msg00670.html

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-09-24 10:45:28 +02:00
Christian Loehle
d3f6173086 Minor typo fixes in documentation
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <cloehle@linutronix.de>
2015-09-15 11:27:35 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange
80dca1eba9 docs: Update devguide.html to point to the new Python dev guide
We have a new libvirt-appdev-guide-python which we need to
promote to users. Rewrite the existing page to mention it
too. Also use the new URL location which is automatically
refreshed once a day.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2015-09-10 12:15:45 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
6d91d70190 Revert "docs: Drop unused rule for internals/%.html.tmp target"
This reverts commit e5470dd0e0.

This has been ACK'd by the original author in the original mail thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/msg00310.html

The reason to revert this is due to the patch breaking the generation of
internal subsites.  The original issue still needs to be dealt with,
though.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-09-09 11:52:24 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
0f3989c172 docs: Remove last use of double semicolon in Makefile
Double semicolons have special meaning in makefiles, but they would have
to be combined with other rules witch such separators in order to be
used as intended.  Since there are no other rules like that, let's
clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-09-08 15:07:08 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
29b5167417 examples: Add example polkit ACL rules
Creating ACL rules is not exactly easy and existing examples are pretty
simple. This patch adds a somewhat complex example which defines several
roles. Admins can do everything, operators can do basic operations
on any domain and several groups of users who act as operators but only
on a limited set of domains.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2015-09-04 17:26:04 +02:00
Jonathan Toppins
5c668a78d8 qemu: add udp interface support
Adds a new interface type using UDP sockets, this seems only applicable
to QEMU but have edited tree-wide to support the new interface type.

The interface type required the addition of a "localaddr" (local
address), this then maps into the following xml and qemu call.

<interface type='udp'>
  <mac address='52:54:00:5c:67:56'/>
  <source address='127.0.0.1' port='11112'>
    <local address='127.0.0.1' port='22222'/>
  </source>
  <model type='virtio'/>
  <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</interface>

QEMU call:
	-net socket,udp=127.0.0.1:11112,localaddr=127.0.0.1:22222

Notice the xml "local" entry becomes the "localaddr" for the qemu call.

reference:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg00629.html

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2015-09-02 10:17:50 +02:00
Daniel Veillard
66c5f02b96 Release of libvirt-1.2.19
* docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: updated for the release
* po/*.po*: regenerated
2015-09-02 10:19:20 +08:00
Sergey Bronnikov
0c83568fbd Fix link to page for Virtuozzo driver 2015-08-26 09:05:59 -04:00
ik.nitk
c27553b6e2 lxc: Inherit namespace feature
This patch adds feature for lxc containers to inherit namespaces.
This is very similar to what lxc-tools or docker provides.  Look
for "man lxc-start" and you will find that you can pass command
args as [ --share-[net|ipc|uts] name|pid ]. Or check out docker
networking option in which you can give --net=container:NAME_or_ID
as an option for sharing +namespace.

>From this patch you can add extra libvirt option to share
namespace in following way.

 <lxc:namespace>
   <lxc:sharenet type='netns' value='red'/>
   <lxc:shareipc type='pid' value='12345'/>
   <lxc:shareuts type='name' value='container1'/>
 </lxc:namespace>

The netns option is specific to sharenet. It can be used to
inherit from existing network namespace.

Co-authored: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2015-08-26 11:28:30 +01:00
Sergey Bronnikov
ed7b4814b6 Rename page about vz driver 2015-08-25 07:36:37 -04:00
Sergey Bronnikov
4076d30f85 docs: Rename 'parallels' to 'vz'
Parallels driver was renamed to Virtuozzo. Replace old name by new
one for libvirt docs and schemas.
2015-08-25 07:21:33 -04:00
Guido Günther
e5470dd0e0 docs: Drop unused rule for internals/%.html.tmp target
We're using the %.html.tmp for all html files now so drop the unused one
and rather make sure the needed directory exists.

This fixes build failures as described in

    https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-August/msg00603.html
2015-08-20 10:19:27 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
35eecddee3 conf: Add ioeventfd option for controllers
This will be used with a virtio-scsi controller later on.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-08-10 15:05:34 +02:00
Laine Stump
76379a6ec1 conf: new pcie-controller model "pcie-switch-downstream-port"
This controller can be connected only to a port on a
pcie-switch-upstream-port. It provides a single hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device, as well as any device requiring a
pcie-*-port (the only current example of such a device is the
pcie-switch-upstream-port).
2015-08-09 22:30:47 -04:00
Laine Stump
38ea9515af conf: new pci controller model "pcie-switch-upstream-port"
This controller can be connected only to a pcie-root-port or a
pcie-switch-downstream-port (which will be added in a later patch),
which is the reason for the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_PORT. A pcie-switch-upstream-port provides
32 ports (slot=0 to slot=31) on the downstream side, which can only
have pci controllers of model "pcie-switch-downstream-port" plugged
into them, which is the reason for the other new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_SWITCH.
2015-08-09 22:12:29 -04:00
Laine Stump
dce3b8beb3 conf: new pci controller model "pcie-root-port"
This controller can be connected (at domain startup time only - not
hotpluggable) only to a port on the pcie root complex ("pcie-root" in
libvirt config), hence the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_ROOT. It provides a hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device.

New attributes must be added to the controller <target> subelement for
this - chassis and port are guest-visible option values that will be
set by libvirt with values derived from the controller's index and pci
address information.
2015-08-09 21:52:52 -04:00
Laine Stump
8dc88aeed6 conf: add new <target> subelement with chassisNr attribute to <controller>
There are some configuration options to some types of pci controllers
that are currently automatically derived from other parts of the
controller's configuration. For example, in qemu a pci-bridge
controller has an option that is called "chassis_nr"; up until now
libvirt has always set chassis_nr to the index of the pci-bridge. So
this:

  <controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'/>

will always result in:

  -device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,...

on the qemu commandline. In the future we may decide there is a better
way to derive that option, but even in that case we will need for
existing domains to retain the same chassis_nr they were using in the
past - that is something that is visible to the guest so it is part of
the guest ABI and changing it would lead to problems for migrating
guests (or just guests with very picky OSes).

The <target> subelement has been added as a place to put the new
"chassisNr" attribute that will be filled in by libvirt when it
auto-generates the chassisNr; it will be saved in the config, then
reused any time the domain is started:

  <controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'>
    <model type='pci-bridge'/>
    <target chassisNr='2'/>
  </controller>

The one oddity of all this is that if the controller configuration
is changed (for example to change the index or the pci address
where the controller is plugged in), the items in <target> will
*not* be re-generated, which might lead to conflict. I can't
really see any way around this, but fortunately if there is a
material conflict qemu will let us know and we will pass that on
to the user.
2015-08-09 21:35:00 -04:00
Laine Stump
bf20251048 conf: add new <model> subelement with name attribute to <controller>
This new subelement is used in PCI controllers: the toplevel
*attribute* "model" of a controller denotes what kind of PCI
controller is being described, e.g. a "dmi-to-pci-bridge",
"pci-bridge", or "pci-root". But in the future there will be different
implementations of some of those types of PCI controllers, which
behave similarly from libvirt's point of view (and so should have the
same model), but use a different device in qemu (and present
themselves as a different piece of hardware in the guest). In an ideal
world we (i.e. "I") would have thought of that back when the pci
controllers were added, and used some sort of type/class/model
notation (where class was used in the way we are now using model, and
model was used for the actual manufacturer's model number of a
particular family of PCI controller), but that opportunity is long
past, so as an alternative, this patch allows selecting a particular
implementation of a pci controller with the "name" attribute of the
<model> subelement, e.g.:

  <controller type='pci' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge' index='1'>
    <model name='i82801b11-bridge'/>
  </controller>

In this case, "dmi-to-pci-bridge" is the kind of controller (one that
has a single PCIe port upstream, and 32 standard PCI ports downstream,
which are not hotpluggable), and the qemu device to be used to
implement this kind of controller is named "i82801b11-bridge".

Implementing the above now will allow us in the future to add a new
kind of dmi-to-pci-bridge that doesn't use qemu's i82801b11-bridge
device, but instead uses something else (which doesn't yet exist, but
qemu people have been discussing it), all without breaking existing
configs.

(note that for the existing "pci-bridge" type of PCI controller, both
the model attribute and <model> name are 'pci-bridge'. This is just a
coincidence, since it turns out that in this case the device name in
qemu really is a generic 'pci-bridge' rather than being the name of
some real-world chip)
2015-08-09 21:29:27 -04:00
John Ferlan
4ae72f131b docs: Add Fibre Channel NPIV supported option for volume lun config
"Further" clarification (and testing) shows that using a SCSI Fibre
Channel NPIV device/lun from a storage pool as a <disk type='volume'
device'lun'> will work. So just add that to the allowable options

Related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230179
2015-08-04 07:16:54 -04:00
John Ferlan
0d8b24f6b6 conf: Change when virDomainHostdevAssignAddress is called
Rather than calling virDomainHostdevAssignAddress during the parsing
of the XML, move the setting of a default hostdev address to domain/
device post processing.

Since the parse code no longer generates an address, we can remove
the virDomainDefMaybeAddHostdevSCSIcontroller since the call to
virDomainHostdevAssignAddress will attempt to add the controllers
that were not already defined in the XML.

This patch will also enforce that the address type is type 'drive'
when a SCSI subsystem <hostdev> element is provided with an <address>.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-08-03 16:48:45 -04:00
Daniel Veillard
bcfdd8e836 Release of libvirt-1.2.18
* docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for release
* po/*.po*: regenerated
2015-08-03 17:36:39 +08:00
Roman Bogorodskiy
5965c4f3e2 docs: bhyve: document clock configuration 2015-07-22 19:30:56 +03:00
Moshe Levi
ac3ed2085f nodedev: add RDMA and tx-udp_tnl-segmentation NIC capabilities
Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow
it query the interface for the availability of RDMA and
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation Offloading NIC capabilities

Here is an example of the feature XML definition:

<device>
<name>net_eth4_90_e2_ba_5e_a5_45</name>
  <path>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:08:00.1/net/eth4</path>
  <parent>pci_0000_08_00_1</parent>
  <capability type='net'>
    <interface>eth4</interface>
    <address>90:e2:ba:5e:a5:45</address>
    <link speed='10000' state='up'/>
    <feature name='rx'/>
    <feature name='tx'/>
    <feature name='sg'/>
    <feature name='tso'/>
    <feature name='gso'/>
    <feature name='gro'/>
    <feature name='rxvlan'/>
    <feature name='txvlan'/>
    <feature name='rxhash'/>
    <feature name='rdma'/>
    <feature name='txudptnl'/>
    <capability type='80203'/>
  </capability>
</device>
2015-07-21 07:08:35 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
b84a2cd87d docs: Document how libvirt handles companion controllers
The information on companion controllers we give in our documentation is
rather sparse.  For example, it looks like any controller can be used as
a companion one.  Also, when using ich9-uhci2, for example, we are able
to set some sensible defaults, but it might get confusing for the user
as we don't do that for all controller models.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069590

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-07-17 09:17:36 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
9d0a2af6c2 Introduce virErrorCopyNew
A helper function for copying error objects.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2015-07-10 11:47:13 +02:00
John Ferlan
4f4ac3913a docs: Clarify unprivileged sgio feature
Update the descriptions for disk and hostdev sgio in order to indicate
not all hypervisors and OS's support this feature

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-07-08 15:07:22 -04:00