This introduces new XML tag "sgio" for disk, its valid values
are "filtered" and "unfiltered", setting it as "filtered" will
set the disk's unpriv_sgio to 0, and "unfiltered" to set it
as 1, which allows the unprivileged SG_IO commands.
The <hostdev> device type has long had a redundant "mode"
attribute, which has always been "subsys". This finally
introduces a new mode "capabilities", which will be used
by the LXC driver for device assignment. Since container
based virtualization uses a single kernel, the idea of
assigning physical PCI devices doesn't make sense. It is
still reasonable to assign USB devices, but for assigning
arbitrary nodes in /dev, the new 'capabilities' mode is
to be used.
The first capability support is 'storage', which is for
assignment of block devices. Functionally this is really
pretty similar to the <disk> support. The only difference
is the device node name is identical in both host and
container namespaces.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='storage'>
<source>
<block>/dev/sdf1</block>
</source>
</hostdev>
The second capability support is 'misc', which is for
assignment of character devices. There is no existing
parallel to this. Again the device node is the same
inside & outside the container.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='misc'>
<source>
<char>/dev/input/event3</char>
</source>
</hostdev>
The reason for keeping the char & storage devices
separate in the domain XML, is to mirror the split
in the node device XML. NB the node device XML does
not yet report character devices, but that's another
new patch to come
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
If there are multiple video devices
primary = 'yes' marks this video device as the primary one.
The rest are secondary video devices. No more than one could be
mark as primary. If none of them has primary attribute, the first
one will be the primary by default like what it was.
The reason of this changing is that for qemu, only one primary video
device is permitted which can be of any type. For secondary video
devices, only qxl is allowd. Primary attribute removes the restriction
that the first have to be the primary one.
We always put the primary video device into the first position of
video device structure array after parsing.
This is however supported only on domain interfaces with
type='network'. Moreover, target network needs to have at least
inbound QoS set. This is required by hierarchical traffic shaping.
From now on, the required attribute for <inbound/> is either 'average'
(old) or 'floor' (new). This new attribute can be used just for
interfaces type of network (<interface type='network'/>) currently.
The DHCPv6 support includes IPV6 dhcp-range and dhcp-host for one
IPv6 subnetwork on one interface. This support will only work
if dnsmasq version >= 2.64; otherwise an error occurs if
dhcp-range or dhcp-host is specified for an IPv6 address.
Essentially, this change provides the same DHCP support for IPv6
that has been available for IPv4.
With dnsmasq >= 2.64, support for the RA service is also now provided
by dnsmasq (radvd is no longer used/started). (Although at least one
version of dnsmasq prior to 2.64 "supported" IPv6 Router
Advertisement, there were bugs (fixed in 2.64) that rendered it
unusable.)
Documentation and the network schema has been updated
to reflect the new support.
QEMU supports setting vendor and product strings for disk since
1.2.0 (only scsi-disk, scsi-hd, scsi-cd support it), this patch
exposes it with new XML elements <vendor> and <product> of disk
device.
Based on a patch originally authored by Daniel De Graaf
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00565.html
This patch converts the Xen libxl driver to support only Xen >= 4.2.
Support for Xen 4.1 libxl is dropped since that version of libxl is
designated 'technology preview' only and is incompatible with Xen 4.2
libxl. Additionally, the default toolstack in Xen 4.1 is still xend,
for which libvirt has a stable, functional driver.
This patch adds the capability for virtual guests to do IPv6
communication via a virtual network interface with no IPv6 (gateway)
addresses specified. This capability has always been enabled by
default for IPv4, but disabled for IPv6 for security concerns, and
because it requires the ip6tables command to be operational (which
isn't the case on a system with the ipv6 module completely disabled).
This patch adds a new attribute "ipv6" at the toplevel of a <network>
object. If ipv6='yes', the extra ip6tables rules required to permite
inter-guest communications are added when the network is started. If
it is 'no', or not present, those rules will not be added; thus the
default behavior doesn't change, so there should be no compatibility
issues with any existing installations.
Note that virtual guests cannot communication with the virtualization
host via this interface, because the following kernel tunable has
been set:
net.ipv6.conf.<bridge_interface_name>.disable_ipv6 = 1
This assures that the bridge interface will not have an IPv6
link-local (fe80::) address.
To control this behavior so that it is not enabled by default, the parameter
ipv6='yes' on the <network> statement has been added.
Documentation related to this patch has been updated.
The network schema has also been updated.
This patch introduces the RNG schema and updates necessary data strucutures
to allow various hypervisors to make use of Gluster protocol as one of the
supported network disk backend. Next patch will add support to make use of
this feature in Qemu since it now supports Gluster protocol as one of the
network based storage backend.
Two new optional attributes for <host> element are introduced - 'transport'
and 'socket'. Valid transport values are tcp, unix or rdma. If none specified,
tcp is assumed. If transport is unix, socket specifies path to unix socket.
This patch allows users to specify disks on gluster backends like this:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume1/image'>
<host name='example.org' port='6000' transport='tcp'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume2/image'>
<host transport='unix' socket='/path/to/sock'/>
</source>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Each <domainsnapshot> can now contain an optional <memory>
element that describes how the VM state was handled, similar
to disk snapshots. The new element will always appear in
output; for back-compat, an input that lacks the element will
assume 'no' or 'internal' according to the domain state.
Along with this change, it is now possible to pass <disks> in
the XML for an offline snapshot; this also needs to be wired up
in a future patch, to make it possible to choose internal vs.
external on a per-disk basis for each disk in an offline domain.
At that point, using the --disk-only flag for an offline domain
will be able to work.
For some examples below, remember that qemu supports the
following snapshot actions:
qemu-img: offline external and internal disk
savevm: online internal VM and disk
migrate: online external VM
transaction: online external disk
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='no'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
implies that there is no VM state saved (mandatory for
offline and disk-only snapshots, not possible otherwise);
using qemu-img for offline domains and transaction for online.
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='internal'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
state is saved inside one of the disks (as in qemu's 'savevm'
system checkpoint implementation). If needed in the future,
we can also add an attribute pointing out _which_ disk saved
the internal state; maybe disk='vda'.
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='external' file='/path/to/state'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
This is not wired up yet, but future patches will allow this to
control a combination of 'virsh save /path/to/state' plus disk
snapshots from the same point in time.
=====
So for 1.0.1 (and later, as needed), I plan to implement this table
of combinations, with '*' designating new code and '+' designating
existing code reached through new combinations of xml and/or the
existing DISK_ONLY flag:
domain memory disk disk-only | result
-----------------------------------------
offline omit omit any | memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline no omit any |+memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline omit/no no any | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
offline omit/no int any |+memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline omit/no ext any |*memory=no disk=ext, via qemu-img
offline int/ext any any | invalid combination (no memory to save)
online omit omit off | memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online omit omit on | memory=no disk=default, via transaction
online omit no/ext off | unsupported for now
online omit no on | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
online omit ext on | memory=no disk=ext, via transaction
online omit int off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online omit int on | unsupported for now
online no omit any |+memory=no disk=default, via transaction
online no no any | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
online no int any | unsupported for now
online no ext any |+memory=no disk=ext, via transaction
online int/ext any on | invalid combination (disk-only vs. memory)
online int omit off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online int no/ext off | unsupported for now
online int int off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online ext omit off |*memory=ext disk=default, via migrate+trans
online ext no off |+memory=ext disk=no, via migrate
online ext int off | unsupported for now
online ext ext off |*memory=ext disk=ext, via migrate+transaction
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (memory): New RNG element.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* src/conf/snapshot_conf.h (virDomainSnapshotDef): New fields.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefFree)
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString, virDomainSnapshotDefFormat):
Manage new fields.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmltest.c: New test.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/*.xml: Update existing tests.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/*.xml: Likewise.
This documents the following whitespace rules
if(foo) // Bad
if (foo) // Good
int foo (int wizz) // Bad
int foo(int wizz) // Good
bar = foo (wizz); // Bad
bar = foo(wizz); // Good
typedef int (*foo) (int wizz); // Bad
typedef int (*foo)(int wizz); // Good
int foo( int wizz ); // Bad
int foo(int wizz); // Good
There is a syntax-check rule extension to validate all these rules.
Checking for 'function (...args...)' is quite difficult since it
needs to ignore valid usage with keywords like 'if (...test...)'
and while/for/switch. It must also ignore source comments and
quoted strings.
It is not possible todo this with a simple regex in the normal
syntax-check style. So a short Perl script is created instead
to analyse the source. In practice this works well enough. The
only thing it can't cope with is multi-line quoted strings of
the form
"start of string\
more lines\
more line\
the end"
but this can and should be written as
"start of string"
"more lines"
"more line"
"the end"
with this simple change, the bracket checking script does not
have any false positives across libvirt source, provided it
is only run against .c files. It is not practical to run it
against .h files, since those use whitespace extensively to
get alignment (though this is somewhat inconsistent and could
arguably be fixed).
The only limitation is that it cannot detect a violation where
the first arg starts with a '*', eg
foo(*wizz);
since this generates too many false positives on function
typedefs which can't be supressed efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for the new release
* po/*.po*: update from transifex, a lot of added support e.g. Indian
languages, and regenerate
Also remove warnings for upcoming versions. There hadn't been any
compatibility problems with new ESX version over the whole lifetime
of the ESX driver, so I don't expect any in the future.
Update documentation to mention vSphere 5.x support.
On F17 at least, every time libvirtd starts we get this in syslog:
libvirtd: Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: No such file or directory
This comes from cyrus-sasl, and happens regardless of whether the
gssapi plugin is requested, which is what actually uses
/etc/libvirt/krb5.tab.
While cyrus-sasl shouldn't complain, we can easily make it shut up by
commenting out the keytab value by default.
Also update the keytab comment to the more modern one from qemu's
sasl config file.
At one point, the code passed through arbitrary strings for file
formats, which supposedly lets qemu handle a new file type even
before libvirt has been taught to handle it. However, to properly
label files, libvirt has to learn the file type anyway, so we
might as well make our life easier by only accepting file types
that we are prepared to handle. This patch lets the RNG validation
ensure that only known strings are let through.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (driverFormat): Limit to list of
supported strings.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (driver): Likewise.
Hypervisors are starting to support HyperV Enlightenment features that
improve behavior of guests running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
This patch adds support for the "relaxed" feature that improves timer
behavior and also establishes a framework to add these features in
future.
Given Daniel's announcement[1], code targetting the next release will
be in 1.0.0, not 0.10.3. Changed mechanically with:
for f in $(git grep -l '0\(.\)10\13\b') ; do
sed -i -e 's/0\(.\)10\13/1\10\10/g' $f
done
[1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg00403.html
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use 1.0.0 for next release.
* src/interface/interface_backend_udev.c: Likewise.
These 3 elements conflicts with each other in either the doc
or the underlying codes.
Current problems:
Problem 1:
The doc shouldn't simply say "These settings are superseded
by CPU tuning. " for element <vcpu>. As except the tuning, <vcpu>
allows to specify the current, maxmum vcpu number. Apart from that,
<vcpu> also allows to specify the placement as "auto", which binds
the domain process to the advisory nodeset from numad.
Problem 2:
Doc for <vcpu> says its "cpuset" specify the physical CPUs
that the vcpus can be pinned. But it's not the truth, as
actually it only pin domain process to the specified physical
CPUs. So either it's a document bug, or code bug.
Problem 3:
Doc for <vcpupin> says it supersed "cpuset" of <vcpu>, it's
not quite correct, as each <vcpupin> specify the pinning policy
only for one vcpu. How about the ones which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified? it says the vcpu will be pinned to all
available physical CPUs, but what's the meaning of attribute
"cpuset" of <vcpu> then?
Problem 4:
Doc for <emulatorpin> says it pin the emulator threads (domain
process in other context, perhaps another follow up patch to
cleanup the inconsistency is needed) to the physical CPUs
specified its attribute "cpuset". Which conflicts with
<vcpu>'s "cpuset". And actually in the underlying codes,
it set the affinity for domain process twice if both
"cpuset" for <vcpu> and <emulatorpin> are specified,
and <emulatorpin>'s pinning will override <vcpu>'s.
Problem 5:
When "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto" (I.e. uses numad to
get the advisory nodeset to which the domain process is
pinned to), it will also be overridden by <emulatorpin>,
This patch is trying to sort out the conflicts or bugs by:
1) Don't say <vcpu> is superseded by <cputune>
2) Keep the semanteme for "cpuset" of <vcpu> (I.e. Still says it
specify the physical CPUs the virtual CPUs). But modifying it
to mention it also set the pinning policy for domain process,
and the CPU placement of domain process specified by "cpuset"
of <vcpu> will be ingored if <emulatorpin> specified, and
similary, the CPU placement of vcpu thread will be ignored
if it has <vcpupin> specified, for vcpu which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified, it inherits "cpuset" of <vcpu>.
3) Don't say <vcpu> is supersed by <vcpupin>. If neither <vcpupin>
nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified, the vcpu will be pinned
to all available pCPUs.
4) If neither <emulatorpin> nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified,
the domain process (emulator threads in the context) will be
pinned to all available pCPUs.
5) If "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto", <emulatorpin> is not allowed.
6) hotplugged vcpus will also inherit "cpuset" of <vcpu>
Codes changes according to above document changes:
1) Inherit def->cpumask for each vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin>
specified, during parsing.
2) ping the vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin> specified to def->cpumask
either by cgroup for sched_setaffinity(2), which is actually done
by 1).
3) Error out if "placement" == "auto", and <emulatorpin> is specified.
Otherwise, <emulatorpin> is honored, and "cpuset" of <cpuset> is
ignored.
4) Setup cgroup for each hotplugged vcpu, and setup the pinning policy
by either cgroup or sched_setaffinity(2).
5) Remove cgroup and <vcpupin> for each hot unplugged vcpu.
Patches are following (6 in total except this patch)
When startupPolicy set for a USB devices allows such device to be
missing, there was no way this could be detected from domain XML. With
this patch, libvirt emits a new missing='yes' attribute for such devices
when active domain XML is generated.
USB devices can disappear without OS being mad about it, which makes
them ideal for startupPolicy. With this attribute, USB devices can be
configured to be mandatory (the default), requisite (will disappear
during migration if they cannot be found), or completely optional.
While the changes to sanlock driver should be stable, the actual
implementation of sanlock_helper is supposed to be replaced in the
future. However, before we can implement a better sanlock_helper, we
need an administrative interface to libvirtd so that the helper can just
pass a "leases lost" event to the particular libvirt driver and
everything else will be taken care of internally. This approach will
also allow libvirt to pass such event to applications and use
appropriate reasons when changing domain states.
The temporary implementation handles all actions directly by calling
appropriate libvirt APIs (which among other things means that it needs
to know the credentials required to connect to libvirtd).
While current on_{poweroff,reboot,crash} action configuration is about
configuring life cycle actions, they can all be considered events and
actions that need to be done on a particular event. Let's generalize the
code by renaming life cycle actions to event actions so that it can be
reused later for non-lifecycle events.
Use of the wrong attribute name caused the table of contents to
be useless. Fix suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.
* docs/migration.html.in: Use correct anchoring attribute.
Getting a artifact into Maven central has a lot of restrictions as
where the artifact should be hosted.
This seemed like a big hassle which we don't want to go through now.
Document a way for users to use libvirt.org as a repository so they can
fetch the Java bindings with maven.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
This allows the user to control labelling of each character device
separately (the default is to inherit from the VM).
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Noticed this by reading the page. It would be so much nicer if our
tools could automatically flag things like this as part of 'make'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Remove extra '>'.
This patch adds to relatedlinks.html a link to an article about libvirt
describing how the Linux audit subsystem can be used to track qemu
guest's life-cycle.
Sometimes when guest machine crashes, coredump can get huge due to the
guest memory. This can be limited using madvise(2) system call and is
being used in QEMU hypervisor. This patch adds an option for configuring
that in the domain XML and related documentation.
Whenever the guest machine fails to boot, new parameter (reboot-timeout)
controls whether it should reboot and after how many ms it should do so.
Docs included.
The introduction of APIC EOI patches had a few little details that
could look better, so this patch fixes that and one more place in the
file as well (same problem).
With this script you can run libvirt programs without needing to
install them first. You just have to do for example:
./run ./tools/virsh [args ...]
If you are already in the tools/ subdirectory, then the following
command will also work:
../run ./virsh [...]
You can also run the C programs under valgrind like this:
./run valgrind [valgrind opts...] ./program
or under gdb:
./run gdb --args ./program
This also works with sudo (eg. if you need root access for libvirt):
sudo ./run ./tools/virsh list --all
Derived from libguestfs and simplified. The ./run script in
libguestfs is much more sophisticated:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/run.in
A block commit moves data in the opposite direction of block pull.
Block pull reduces the chain length by dropping backing files after
data has been pulled into the top overlay, and is always safe; block
commit reduces the chain length by dropping overlays after data has
been committed into the backing file, and any files that depended
on base but not on top are invalidated at any point where they have
unallocated data that is now pointing to changed contents in base.
Both directions are useful, however: a qcow2 layer that is more than
50% allocated will typically be faster with a pull operation, while
a qcow2 layer with less than 50% allocation will be faster as a
commit operation. Committing across multiple layers can be more
efficient than repeatedly committing one layer at a time, but
requires extra support from the hypervisor.
This API matches Jeff Cody's proposed qemu command 'block-commit':
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg02226.html
Jeff's command is still in the works for qemu 1.3, and may gain
further enhancements, such as the ability to control on-error
handling (it will be comparable to the error handling Paolo is
adding to 'drive-mirror', so a similar solution will be needed
when I finally propose virDomainBlockCopy with more functionality
than the basics supported by virDomainBlockRebase). However, even
without qemu support, this API will be useful for _offline_ block
commits, by wrapping qemu-img calls and turning them into a block
job, so this API is worth committing now.
For some examples of how this will be implemented, all starting
with the chain: base <- snap1 <- snap2 <- active
+ These are equivalent:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, "active", 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "base", NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "base", "active", 0, 0)
but cannot be implemented for online qemu with round 1 of
Jeff's patches; and for offline images, it would require
three back-to-back qemu-img invocations unless qemu-img
is patched to allow more efficient multi-layer commits;
the end result would be 'base' as the active disk with
contents from all three other files, where 'snap1' and
'snap2' are invalid right away, and 'active' is invalid
once any further changes to 'base' are made.
+ These are equivalent:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "snap2", NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, NULL, 0, _SHALLOW)
they cannot be implemented for online qemu, but for offline,
it is a matter of 'qemu-img commit active', so that 'snap2'
is now the active disk with contents formerly in 'active'.
+ Similarly:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "snap2", NULL, 0, _DELETE)
for an offline domain will merge 'active' into 'snap2', then
delete 'active' to avoid leaving a potentially invalid file
around.
+ This version:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, "snap2", 0, _SHALLOW)
can be implemented online with 'block-commit' passing a base of
snap1 and a top of snap2; and can be implemented offline by
'qemu-img commit snap2' followed by 'qemu-img rebase -u
-b snap1 active'
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainBlockCommit): New API.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockCommit): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.10.2): Export it.
* src/driver.h (virDrvDomainBlockCommit): New driver callback.
* docs/apibuild.py (CParser.parseSignature): Add exception.
New options is added to support EOI (End of Interrupt) exposure for
guests. As it makes sense only when APIC is enabled, I added this into
the <apic> element in <features> because this should be tri-state
option (cannot be handled as standalone feature).
Links to the FAQ didn't work on pages in subdirectories, like
devhelp/libvirt-virterror.html or internals/command.html, because
they have had href_base prepended to them.
An email came to libvir-list wondering why the git send-email command
was missing in spite of having git installed; this is due to the
send-email command being in a sub-package of the main git package.
While touching the hacking file, I thought it would be useful to 1)
indicate the location of the source (docs/hacking.html.in) in the
message at the top of HACKING, and also to make the note about running
"make check" and "make syntax-check" a bit more stern.
On a machine without xsltproc, the build failed with:
Scripting search.php
/usr/local/bin/bash: line 1: search.php.tmp: No such file or directory
rm: ./search.php: No such file or directory
Regression introduced in commit 28183590.
* docs/Makefile.am (%.php): Skip in the same conditions when the
.tmp file is skipped.
After discussion with DB we decided to rename the new iolimit
element as it creates the impression it would be there to
limit (i.e. throttle) I/O instead of specifying immutable
characteristics of a block device.
This is also backed by the fact that the term I/O Limits has
vanished from newer storage admin documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is a new <pm/> element implemented that can control what ACPI
sleeping states will be advertised by BIOS and allowed to be switched
to by libvirt. The default keeps defaults on hypervisor, otherwise
forces chosen setting.
The documentation of the pm element is added as well.
Introducing a new iolimits element allowing to override certain
properties of a guest block device like the physical and logical
block size.
This can be useful for platforms with 'non-standard' disk formats
like S390 DASD with its 4K block size.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch introduces support of setting emulator's period and
quota to limit cpu bandwidth when the vm starts. Also updates
XML Schema for new entries and docs.
This patch adds a new xml element <emulatorpin>, which is a sibling
to the existing <vcpupin> element under the <cputune>, to pin emulator
threads to specified physical CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
A hypervisor may allow to override the disk geometry of drives.
Qemu, as an example with cyls=,heads=,secs=[,trans=].
This patch extends the domain config to allow the specification of
disk geometry with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch updates the domain and capability XML parser and formatter to
support more than one "seclabel" element for each domain and device. The
RNG schema and the tests related to this are also updated by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch updates the network driver to properly utilize the new
attributes/elements that are now in virNetworkDef
Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
This patch introduces the new forward mode='hostdev' along with
attribute managed. Includes updates to the network RNG and new xml
parser/formatter code.
Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
The following config elements now support a <vlan> subelements:
within a domain: <interface>, and the <actual> subelement of <interface>
within a network: the toplevel, as well as any <portgroup>
Each vlan element must have one or more <tag id='n'/> subelements. If
there is more than one tag, it is assumed that vlan trunking is being
requested. If trunking is required with only a single tag, the
attribute "trunk='yes'" should be added to the toplevel <vlan>
element.
Some examples:
<interface type='hostdev'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
<mac address='52:54:00:12:34:56'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>vlan-net</name>
<vlan trunk='yes'>
<tag id='30'/>
</vlan>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='vlan-net'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>trunk-vlan</name>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
<tag id='43'/>
</vlan>
...
</network>
<network>
<name>multi</name>
...
<portgroup name='production'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='test'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='666'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='multi' portgroup='test'/>
...
</interface>
IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this patch there is no backend support for the
vlan element for *any* network device type. When support is added in
later patches, it will only be for those select network types that
support setting up a vlan on the host side, without the guest's
involvement. (For example, it will be possible to configure a vlan for
a guest connected to an openvswitch bridge, but it won't be possible
to do that for one that is connected to a standard Linux host bridge.)
<portgroup> allows a <bandwidth> element, but the schema didn't have
this. Since this makes for multiple elements in portgroup, they must
be interleaved.
<interface type='bridge'> needs to allow <virtualport> elements
for openvswitch, but the schema didn't allow this.
Let's change URI to parallels:///system. Parallels Server supports
creating VMs from non-privileged accounts, but it's not main usage
scenario and it may be forbidden in the future.
Also containers, which will be supported by the driver, can be managed
only by root, so /system path is more suitable for this driver.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
Following commit added suport the CPU quota/period to the LXC driver.
Update the documentation to reflect that.
commit d9724a81b3
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 10 12:16:26 2011 +0000
Add support for CPU quota/period to LXC driver
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just as each physical device used by a network has a connections
counter, now each network has a connections counter which is
incremented once for each guest interface that connects using this
network.
The count is output in the live network XML, like this:
<network connections='20'>
...
</network>
It is read-only, and for informational purposes only - it isn't used
internally anywhere by libvirt.
One of the original ideas behind allowing a <virtualport> in an
interface definition as well as in the <network> definition *and*one
or more <portgroup>s within the network, was that guest-specific
parameteres (like instanceid and interfaceid) could be given in the
interface's virtualport, and more general things (portid, managerid,
etc) could be given in the network and/or portgroup, with all the bits
brought together at guest startup time and combined into a single
virtualport to be used by the guest. This was somehow overlooked in
the implementation, though - it simply picks the "most specific"
virtualport, and uses the entire thing, with no attempt to merge in
details from the others.
This patch uses virNetDevVPortProfileMerge3() to combine the three
possible virtualports into one, then uses
virNetDevVPortProfileCheck*() to verify that the resulting virtualport
type is appropriate for the type of network, and that all the required
attributes for that type are present.
An example of usage is this: assuming a <network> definitions on host
ABC of:
<network>
<name>testA</name>
...
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
...
<portgroup name='engineering'>
<virtualport>
<parameters profileid='eng'/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='sales'>
<virtualport>
<parameters profileid='sales'/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
</network>
and the same <network> on host DEF of:
<network>
<name>testA</name>
...
<virtualport type='802.1Qbg'>
<parameters typeid="1193047" typeidversion="2"/>
</virtualport>
...
<portgroup name='engineering'>
<virtualport>
<parameters managerid="11"/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='sales'>
<virtualport>
<parameters managerid="55"/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
</network>
and a guest <interface> definition of:
<interface type='network'>
<source network='testA' portgroup='sales'/>
<virtualport>
<parameters instanceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"
interfaceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"\>
</virtualport>
...
</interface>
If the guest was started on host ABC, the <virtualport> used would be:
<virtualport type='openvswitch'>
<parameters interfaceid='09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f'
profileid='sales'/>
</virtualport>
but if that guest was started on host DEF, the <virtualport> would be:
<virtualport type='802.1Qbg'>
<parameters instanceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"
typeid="1193047" typeidversion="2"
managerid="55"/>
</virtualport>
Additionally, if none of the involved <virtualport>s had a specified type
(this includes cases where no virtualport is given at all),
Until now, all attributes in a <virtualport> parameter list that were
acceptable for a particular type, were also required. There were no
optional attributes.
One of the aims of supporting <virtualport> in libvirt's virtual
networks and portgroups is to allow specifying the group-wide
parameters in the network's virtualport, and merge that with the
interface's virtualport, which will have the instance-specific info
(i.e. the interfaceid or instanceid).
Additionally, the guest's interface XML shouldn't need to know what
type of network connection will be used prior to runtime - it could be
openvswitch, 802.1Qbh, 802.1Qbg, or none of the above - but should
still be able to specify instance-specific info just in case it turns
out to be applicable.
Finally, up to now, the parser for virtualport has always generated a
random instanceid/interfaceid when appropriate, making it impossible
to leave it blank (which is what's required for virtualports within a
network/portprofile definition).
This patch modifies the parser and formatter of the <virtualport>
element in the following ways:
* because most of the attributes in a virNetDevVPortProfile are fixed
size binary data with no reserved values, there is no way to embed a
"this value wasn't specified" sentinel into the existing data. To
solve this problem, the new *_specified fields in the
virNetDevVPortProfile object that were added in a previous patch of
this series are now set when the corresponding attribute is present
during the parse.
* allow parsing/formatting a <virtualport> that has no type set. In
this case, all fields are settable, but all are also optional.
* add a GENERATE_MISSING_DEFAULTS flag to the parser - if this flag is
set and an instanceid/interfaceid is expected but not provided, a
random one will be generated. This was previously the default
behavior, but is now done only for virtualports inside an
<interface> definition, not for those in <network> or <portgroup>.
* add a REQUIRE_ALL_ATTRIBUTES flag to the parser - if this flag is
set the parser will call the new
virNetDevVPortProfileCheckComplete() functions at the end of the
parser to check for any missing attributes (based on type), and
return failure if anything is missing. This used to be default
behavior. Now it is only used for the virtualport defined inside an
interface's <actual> element (by the time you've figured out the
contents of <actual>, you should have all the necessary data to fill
in the entire virtualport)
* add a REQUIRE_TYPE flag to the parser - if this flag is set, the
parser will return an error if the virtualport has no type
attribute. This also was previously the default behavior, but isn't
needed in the case of the virtualport for a type='network' interface
(i.e. the exact type isn't yet known), or the virtualport of a
portgroup (i.e. the portgroup just has modifiers for the network's
virtualport, which *does* require a type) - in those cases, the
check will be done at domain startup, once the final virtualport is
assembled (this is handled in the next patch).
List:
- some old libvir/libvirt rename leftovers (the only problem can be
if somebody parses 'virsh version' output really badly)
- remove pointless tags specified in some pages that are not used
This patch makes search.php autogenerated from search.php.in, thus
removing hardcoded menus, footer etc. and the search.php is added to
.gitignore.
There is new rule added for *.php files (to make it bit less
hardcoded) that takes *.php.code.in and injects it inside the
generated *.php (xslt was not happy about php code in the source xml).
Error 404 page had relative paths specified for both the image and
stylesheets which caused a problem when requested URL included a
subfolder (e.g. http://libvirt.org/asdf/asdf ). This patch corrects
this behaviour by modifying href_base to '/' (for style-sheets) and
changing the src of the image (to be '/' always).
The access, birth, modification and change times are added to
storage volumes and corresponding xml representations. This
shows up in the XML in this format:
<timestamps>
<atime>1341933637.027319099</atime>
<mtime>1341933637.027319099</mtime>
</timestamps>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
capability.rng: Guest features can be in any order.
nodedev.rng: Added <driver> element, <capability> phys_function and
virt_functions for PCI devices.
storagepool.rng: Owner or group ID can be -1.
schema tests: New capabilities and nodedev files; changed owner and
group to -1 in pool-dir.xml.
storage_conf: Print uid_t and gid_t as signed to storage pool XML.
With 0.10.0-rc0 out the door, we are committed to the next version
number.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.14): Rename...
(LIBVIRT_0.10.0): ...to this.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix fallout.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDriver): Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (remote_driver): Likewise.
Libvirt adds a USB controller to the guest even if the user does not
specify any in the XML. This is due to back-compat reasons.
To allow disabling USB for a guest this patch adds a new USB controller
type "none" that disables USB support for the guest.
Parallels Cloud Server is a cloud-ready virtualization
solution that allows users to simultaneously run multiple virtual
machines and containers on the same physical server.
More information can be found here: http://www.parallels.com/products/pcs/
Also beta version of Parallels Cloud Server can be downloaded there.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
The cfg.mk file rule to check for tab characters was not
applied to perl files. Much of our Perl code is full of
tabs as a result. Kill them, kill them all !
We don't expect people to have tools installed to regenerate .png
from .fig by default. However, since commit 5eb3df8, several
.fig files were updated without regenerating the .png file, and
as a result, 'make dist' ends up regenerating those five files,
or worse, failing because of missing tools (convert from
ImageMagick).
Additionally, even if the tools are present, the generation of
.png files is nondeterministic (the resulting files contain a
timestamp), which means prior to this patch, running 'make dist'
from two checkouts will end up producing different tarball
contents (two 'make dist' runs will always produce different tar
files, since tarballs also contain timestamps; but unpacking the
tarballs and doing a recursive diff will show if the contents
are unchanged).
After this patch, the timestamps are now up-to-date, and 'make
dist' no longer has anything to do for the .png files. This gets
us closer to the goal of two checkouts being able to produce the
same tarball.
* docs/libvirt-*.png: Regenerate.
The time keeping example was missing quotes which resulted in an error
if you copied and pasted the example into a domain's XML. Additionally
the rest of the examples use single quotes (') instead of double quotes
(") so standardized that.
This patch brings support to manage sheepdog pools and volumes to libvirt.
It uses the "collie" command-line utility that comes with sheepdog for that.
A sheepdog pool in libvirt maps to a sheepdog cluster.
It needs a host and port to connect to, which in most cases
is just going to be the default of localhost on port 7000.
A sheepdog volume in libvirt maps to a sheepdog vdi.
To create one specify the pool, a name and the capacity.
Volumes can also be resized later.
In the volume XML the vdi name has to be put into the <target><path>.
To use the volume as a disk source for virtual machines specify
the vdi name as "name" attribute of the <source>.
The host and port information from the pool are specified inside the host tag.
<disk type='network'>
...
<source protocol="sheepdog" name="vdi_name">
<host name="localhost" port="7000"/>
</source>
</disk>
To work right this patch parses the output of collie,
so it relies on the raw output option. There recently was a bug which caused
size information to be reported wrong. This is fixed upstream already and
will be in the next release.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi@frubar.net>
Added s390-virtio machine type to the XML schema for domains in order
to not fail the domain schema tests.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently you can configure LXC to bind a host directory to
a guest directory, but not to bind a guest directory to a
guest directory. While the guest container init could do
this itself, allowing it in the libvirt XML means a stricter
SELinux policy can be written
Introduce a new syntax for filesystems to allow use of a RAM
filesystem
<filesystem type='ram'>
<source usage='10' units='MiB'/>
<target dir='/mnt'/>
</filesystem>
The usage units default to KiB to limit consumption of host memory.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document new syntax
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Add new attributes
* src/conf/domain_conf.c: Parsing/formatting of RAM filesystems
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Mounting of RAM filesystems
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
'boot' tag shouldn't be exclusive with 'kernel', 'initrd', and 'cmdline',
though the boot sequence doesn't make sense when the guest boots from
kernel directly. But it's useful if booting from kernel is to install
a newguest, even if it's not to install a guest, there is no hurt. And
on the other hand, we allow 'boot' and the kernel tags when parsing.
A core use case of the hook scripts is to be able to do things
to a guest's network configuration. It is possible to hook into
the 'start' operation for a QEMU guest which runs just before
the guest is started. The TAP devices will exist at this point,
but the QEMU process will not. It can be desirable to have a
'started' hook too, which runs once QEMU has started.
If libvirtd is restarted it will re-populate firewall rules,
but there is no QEMU hook to trigger for existing domains.
This is solved with a 'reconnect' hook.
Finally, if attaching to an external QEMU process there needs
to be an 'attach' hook script.
This all also applies to the LXC driver
* docs/hooks.html.in: Document new operations
* src/util/hooks.c, src/util/hooks.c: Add 'started', 'reconnect'
and 'attach' operations for QEMU. Add 'prepare', 'started',
'release' and 'reconnect' operations for LXC
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Add hooks for 'prepare', 'started',
'release' and 'reconnect' operations
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Add hooks for 'started', 'reconnect'
and 'reconnect' operations
A few examples for <interface> had a type='direct' interface with no
sub-elements. This is not allowed - a type='direct' interface must
have at least a source element. (Most likely the example was copied
from the type='user' or type='ethernet' examples - they *do* allow an
instance with no sub-elements).
There was also one place that mistakenly used %lt; ... %gt; instead of
< ... > (for some reason, I make that typo all the time).
Eric Blake and Guido Günther were guests during this week's
FLOSS Weekly podcast, giving insights into libvirt as a Free
Software project. Also, there are several useful blogs on
virt-related topics.
* docs/relatedlinks.html.in (Blogs and Podcasts): New section.
We had a distributed file (remote_protocol.h, which in turn was
a prereq to remote_driver.c) depending on a generated file
(libvirt_probes.h), which is a no-no for a VPATH build from a
read-only source tree (no wonder 'make distcheck' tests precisely
that situation):
File `libvirt_driver_remote.la' does not exist.
File `libvirt_driver_remote_la-remote_driver.lo' does not exist.
Prerequisite `libvirt_probes.h' is newer than target `../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h'.
Must remake target `../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:7464 to update target `../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h'.
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/remote/eblake/libvirt-tmp2/build/libvirt-0.9.12/_build/src'
GEN ../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h
cannot create ../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h: Permission denied at ../../src/rpc/genprotocol.pl line 31.
make[3]: *** [../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h] Error 13
Rather than making distributed .c files depend on generated files, we
really want to ensure that compilation into .lo files is not attempted
until the generated files are present, done by this patch. Since there
were two different sets of conditionally generated files that both
feed the .lo file, I had to introduce a new variable REMOTE_DRIVER_PREREQS
to keep automake happy.
After that fix, the next issue was that make treats './foo' and 'foo'
differently in determining whether an implicit %foo rule is applicable,
with the result that locking/qemu-sanlock.conf wasn't properly being
built at the right times. Also, the output for using the .aug test
files was a bit verbose.
After fixing the src directory, the next error is related to the docs
directory, where the tarball is missing a stamp file and thus tries to
regenerate files that are already present:
GEN ../../docs/apibuild.py.stamp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../../docs/apibuild.py", line 2511, in <module>
rebuild("libvirt")
File "../../docs/apibuild.py", line 2495, in rebuild
builder.serialize()
File "../../docs/apibuild.py", line 2424, in serialize
output = open(filename, "w")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '../../docs/libvirt-api.xml'
make[5]: *** [../../docs/apibuild.py.stamp] Error 1
and fixing that exposed another case of a distributed file (generated
html) depending on a built file (libvirt.h), but only when doing an
in-tree build, because of a file glob.
* src/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/remote/remote_driver.c): Change...
(libvirt_driver_remote_la-remote_driver.lo): ...to the real
dependency.
($(builddir)/locking/%-sanlock.conf): Drop $(builddir), so that
rule gets run in time for test_libvirt_sanlock.aug.
(test_libvir*.aug): Cater to silent build.
(conf_DATA): Don't ship qemu-sanlock.conf in the tarball, since it
is trivial to regenerate.
* docs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Ship our stamp file.
($(APIBUILD_STAMP)): Don't depend on generated file.
This patch adds DHCP snooping support to libvirt. The learning method for
IP addresses is specified by setting the "CTRL_IP_LEARNING" variable to one of
"any" [default] (existing IP learning code), "none" (static only addresses)
or "dhcp" (DHCP snooping).
Active leases are saved in a lease file and reloaded on restart or HUP.
The following interface XML activates and uses the DHCP snooping:
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='virbr0'/>
<filterref filter='clean-traffic'>
<parameter name='CTRL_IP_LEARNING' value='dhcp'/>
</filterref>
</interface>
All filters containing the variable 'IP' are automatically adjusted when
the VM receives an IP address via DHCP. However, multiple IP addresses per
interface are silently ignored in this patch, thus only supporting one IP
address per interface. Multiple IP address support is added in a later
patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The apibuild.py parser needs to be able to parse & ignore
any VIR_ENUM_IMPL/VIR_ENUM_DECL macros in the source. Add
some special case code to deal with this rather than trying
to figure out a generic syntax for parsing macros.
* apibuild.py: Special case VIR_ENUM_IMPL & VIR_ENUM_DECL
This patch adds support for a new storage backend with RBD support.
RBD is the RADOS Block Device and is part of the Ceph distributed storage
system.
It comes in two flavours: Qemu-RBD and Kernel RBD, this storage backend only
supports Qemu-RBD, thus limiting the use of this storage driver to Qemu only.
To function this backend relies on librbd and librados being present on the
local system.
The backend also supports Cephx authentication for safe authentication with
the Ceph cluster.
For storing credentials it uses the built-in secret mechanism of libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
This patch adds support for the recent ipset iptables extension
to libvirt's nwfilter subsystem. Ipset allows to maintain 'sets'
of IP addresses, ports and other packet parameters and allows for
faster lookup (in the order of O(1) vs. O(n)) and rule evaluation
to achieve higher throughput than what can be achieved with
individual iptables rules.
On the command line iptables supports ipset using
iptables ... -m set --match-set <ipset name> <flags> -j ...
where 'ipset name' is the name of a previously created ipset and
flags is a comma-separated list of up to 6 flags. Flags use 'src' and 'dst'
for selecting IP addresses, ports etc. from the source or
destination part of a packet. So a concrete example may look like this:
iptables -A INPUT -m set --match-set test src,src -j ACCEPT
Since ipset management is quite complex, the idea was to leave ipset
management outside of libvirt but still allow users to reference an ipset.
The user would have to make sure the ipset is available once the VM is
started so that the iptables rule(s) referencing the ipset can be created.
Using XML to describe an ipset in an nwfilter rule would then look as
follows:
<rule action='accept' direction='in'>
<all ipset='test' ipsetflags='src,src'/>
</rule>
The two parameters on the command line are also the two distinct XML attributes
'ipset' and 'ipsetflags'.
FYI: Here is the man page for ipset:
https://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html
Regards,
Stefan
Sometimes it is useful to see the callpath for log messages.
This change enhances the log filter syntax so that stack traces
can be show by setting '1:+NAME' instead of '1:NAME'.
This results in output like:
2012-05-09 14:18:45.136+0000: 13314: debug : virInitialize:414 : register drivers
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virInitialize+0xd6)[0x7f89188ebe86]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x431921]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x3a21e21735]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x40a279]
2012-05-09 14:18:45.136+0000: 13314: debug : virRegisterDriver:775 : driver=0x7f8918d02760 name=Test
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virRegisterDriver+0x6b)[0x7f89188ec717]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(+0x11b3ad)[0x7f891891e3ad]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virInitialize+0xf3)[0x7f89188ebea3]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x431921]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x3a21e21735]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x40a279]
* docs/logging.html.in: Document new syntax
* configure.ac: Check for execinfo.h
* src/util/logging.c, src/util/logging.h: Add support for
stack traces
* tests/testutils.c: Adapt to API change
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
As defined in:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
This offers a number of advantages:
* Allows sharing a home directory between different machines, or
sessions (eg. using NFS)
* Cleanly separates cache, runtime (eg. sockets), or app data from
user settings
* Supports performing smart or selective migration of settings
between different OS versions
* Supports reseting settings without breaking things
* Makes it possible to clear cache data to make room when the disk
is filling up
* Allows us to write a robust and efficient backup solution
* Allows an admin flexibility to change where data and settings are stored
* Dramatically reduces the complexity and incoherence of the
system for administrators
Ever since commit c964b6a, make was trying to find the timestamp
of '""./apibuild.py".stamp"', but only touching 'apibuild.py.stamp',
and thus always rebuilding. Reported by Daniel P. Berrange.
* docs/Makefile.am (APIBUILD, APIBUILD_STAMP): Omit bogus quotes.
Based on a report by Seth Vidal. Just because _you_ can use virsh
to connect to both source and destinations does not mean that libvirtd
on the source (aka _root_) can likewise connect to the destination;
this matters when setting up a peer-to-peer migration instead of a
native one.
* docs/migration.html.in: Mention that in peer-to-peer, the owner
of the source libvirtd (usually root) must be able to connect to
the destination.
Though numad will manage the memory allocation of task dynamically,
it wants management application (libvirt) to pre-set the memory
policy according to the advisory nodeset returned from querying numad,
(just like pre-bind CPU nodeset for domain process), and thus the
performance could benefit much more from it.
This patch introduces new XML tag 'placement', value 'auto' indicates
whether to set the memory policy with the advisory nodeset from numad,
and its value defaults to the value of <vcpu> placement, or 'static'
if 'nodeset' is specified. Example of the new XML tag's usage:
<numatune>
<memory placement='auto' mode='interleave'/>
</numatune>
Just like what current "numatune" does, the 'auto' numa memory policy
setting uses libnuma's API too.
If <vcpu> "placement" is "auto", and <numatune> is not specified
explicitly, a default <numatume> will be added with "placement"
set as "auto", and "mode" set as "strict".
The following XML can now fully drive numad:
1) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', no <numatune> is specified.
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
2) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', no 'placement' is specified for
<numatune>.
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='interleave'/>
</numatune>
And it's also able to control the CPU placement and memory policy
independently. e.g.
1) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', and <numatune> placement is 'static'
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' nodeset='0-10,^7'/>
</numatune>
2) <vcpu> placement is 'static', and <numatune> placement is 'auto'
<vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-24,^12'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='interleave' placement='auto'/>
</numatume>
A follow up patch will change the XML formatting codes to always output
'placement' for <vcpu>, even it's 'static'.
qemu's behavior in this case is to change the spice server behavior to
require secure connection to any channel not otherwise specified as
being in plaintext mode. libvirt doesn't currently allow requesting this
(via plaintext-channel=<channel name>).
RHBZ: 819499
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
In order to track a block copy job across libvirtd restarts, we
need to save internal XML that tracks the name of the file
holding the mirror. Displaying this name in dumpxml might also
be useful to the user, even if we don't yet have a way to (re-)
start a domain with mirroring enabled up front. This is done
with a new <mirror> sub-element to <disk>, as in:
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/original.img'/>
<mirror file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img' format='qcow2' ready='yes'/>
...
</disk>
For now, the element is output-only, in live domains; it is ignored
when defining a domain or hot-plugging a disk (since those contexts
use VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE in parsing). The 'ready' attribute appears
when libvirt knows that the job has changed from the initial pulling
phase over to the mirroring phase, although absence of the attribute
is not a sure indicator of the current phase. If we come up with a way
to make qemu start with mirroring enabled, we can relax the xml
restriction, and allow <mirror> (but not attribute 'ready') on input.
Testing active-only XML meant tweaking the testsuite slightly, but it
was worth it.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskspec): Add diskMirror.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Document it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainDiskDef): New members.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefFree): Clean them.
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML): Parse them, but only internally.
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Output them.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: New test file.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-mirror.xml: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (testInfo): Alter members.
(testCompareXMLToXMLHelper): Allow more test control.
(mymain): Run new test.
<filesystemtgt> is redundant, as every group uses it; <address>
shouldn't be in <filesystemtgt> in case of the meaning could be
"filesystemtarget"; The elements <address>, <alias>, <target>,
... should be interleaved.
'omitted' was mispelt 'commited' twice. One of the sentences with
the typo was also missing an 'is' ('each VCPU *is* pinned to all...')
which I added in this commit while I was at it.
As explained in previous patch, numad will balance the affinity
dynamically, so reflecting the cpuset from numad at the first
time doesn't make much case, and may just could cause confusion.
This is based on recent developments on patch checker and the
goal is to keep a list of pending patches needing review on the
project web site. The page template in git just holds a pointer
to the web page.
Every now & then, with parallel builds, we get a failure to
validate hvsupport.html.in. I eventually noticed that this
is because we get 2 instances of the generator running at
once.
We already list hvsupport.html.in in BUILT_SOURCES but this
was not working. It turns out the flaw is that we were
adding deps to the 'all:' target instead of the 'all-am:'
target. BUILT_SOURCES is a dep of 'all', so any custom
targets written in Makefile.am must use 'all-am:' so that
they don't get run until BUILT_SOURCES are completely
generated
* docs/Makefile.am: s/all/all-am/
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for the release
* po/*.po*: updated a number of languages translation including new
indian languages and regenerated
Since Xen 3.1 the clock=variable semantic is supported. In addition to
qemu/kvm Xen also knows about a variant where the offset is relative to
'localtime' instead of 'utc'.
Extends the libvirt structure with a flag 'basis' to specify, if the
offset is relative to 'localtime' or 'utc'.
Extends the libvirt structure with a flag 'reset' to force the reset
behaviour of 'localtime' and 'utc'; this is needed for backward
compatibility with previous versions of libvirt, since they report
incorrect XML.
Adapt the only user 'qemu' to the new name.
Extend the RelaxNG schema accordingly.
Document the new 'basis' attribute in the HTML documentation.
Adapt test for the new attribute.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
