I spent quite some time figuring that backingStore info
isn't included in the dom xml, unless guest is up and
running. Hopefully putting that in the doc should help.
Also, several people have complained that libvirt reports
a backing file as raw, even though they expected it to be
qcow2; where the culprit is usually the user forgetting to
create the file with qemu-img create -o backing_fmt=qcow2.
This patch adds that info to the doc.
Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Midonet is an opensource virtual networking that over lays the IP
network between hypervisors. Currently, such networks can be made
with the openvswitch virtualport type.
This patch, defines the schema and documentation that will serve
as basis for the follow up patches that will add support to libvirt
for using Midonet virtual ports for its interfaces. The schema
definition requires that the port profile expresses its interfaceid
as part of the port profile. For that reason, this is part of the
patch too.
Signed-off-by: Antoni Segura Puimedon <toni+libvirt@midokura.com>
We're parsing memballoon status period as unsigned int, but when we're
trying to set it, both we and qemu use signed int. That means large
values will get wrapped around to negative one resulting in error.
Basically the same problem as commit e3a7b874 was dealing with when
updating live domain.
QEMU changed the accepted value to int64 in commit 1f9296b5, but even
values as INT_MAX don't make sense since the value passed means seconds.
Hence adding capability flag for this change isn't worth it.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140958
Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
The version attribute in redirdev filters refers to the revision
of the device, not the version of the USB protocol.
Explicitly state that this is not the USB protocol and remove references
to those round version numbers that resemble USB protocol versions.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177237
To prevent a confusion about missing chardev argument in qemu
command line add a note about that behavior into documentation.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129198
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
There was a mess in the way how we store unlimited value for memory
limits and how we handled values provided by user. Internally there
were two possible ways how to store unlimited value: as 0 value or as
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED. Because we chose to store memory
limits as unsigned long long, we cannot use -1 to represent unlimited.
It's much easier for us to say that everything greater than
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED means unlimited and leave 0 as valid
value despite that it makes no sense to set limit to 0.
Remove unnecessary function virCompareLimitUlong. The update of test
is to prevent the 0 to be miss-used as unlimited in future.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146539
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Our documentation isn't 100% clear about hostdev 'managed' attribute usage,
because it only makes sense to use it with PCI devices, yet we format
this attribute to all hostdev devices. By adding a note into the docs,
we can possibly avoid confusion from customer's side and also avoid a solution
using ternary logic.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155887
At least Xen supports backend drivers in another domain (aka "driver
domain"). This patch introduces an XML config option for specifying the
backend domain name for <disk> and <interface> devices. E.g.
<disk>
<backenddomain name='diskvm'/>
...
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<backenddomain name='netvm'/>
...
</interface>
In the future, same option will be needed for USB devices (hostdev
objects), but for now libxl doesn't have support for PVUSB.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Add an XML attribute to allow disabling merge of rx buffers
on the host:
<interface ...>
...
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver ...>
<host mrg_rxbuf='off'/>
</driver>
</interface>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186886
In order for QEMU vCPU (and other) threads to run with RT scheduler,
libvirt needs to take care of that so QEMU doesn't have to run privileged.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178986
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Change the wording in the device-address-part of the docmunentation since
the ccw bus address support added to the optional address parameter of
virsh attach-disk for S390.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
It is only usable for NETWORK and BRIDGE type interfaces.
Error out when trying to start a domain where the custom
tap device path is specified for interfaces of other types,
or when the daemon is not privileged.
Note that this cannot be checked at definition time, because
the comparison is against actual type.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
It is only supported for virtio adapters.
Silently drop it if it was specified for other models,
as is done for other virtio attributes.
Also mention this in the documentation.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170492
In one of our previous commits (dc8b7ce7) we've done a functional
change even though it was intended as pure refactor. The problem is,
that the following XML:
<vcpu placement='static' current='2'>6</vcpu>
<cputune>
<emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
</cputune>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
</numatune>
gets translated into this one:
<vcpu placement='auto' current='2'>6</vcpu>
<cputune>
<emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
</cputune>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
</numatune>
We should not change the vcpu placement mode. Moreover, we're doing
something similar in case of emulatorpin and iothreadpin. If they were
set, but vcpu placement was auto, we've mistakenly removed them from
the domain XML even though we are able to set them independently on
vcpus.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Ploop is a pseudo device which makeit possible to access
to an image in a file as a block device. Like loop devices,
but with additional features, like snapshots, write tracker
and without double-caching.
It used in PCS for containers and in OpenVZ. You can manage
ploop devices and images with ploop utility
(http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop).
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
QEMU supports feature specification with -cpu host and we just skip
using that. Since QEMU developers themselves would like to use this
feature, this patch modifies the code to work.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178850
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
It was brought to my attention that some -boot options may not
work with UEFI. For instance, rebootTimeout is very SeaBIOS
specific,splash logo is not implemented yet on OVMF, and so on.
We should document this limitation at least.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add the possibility to have more than one IP address configured for a
domain network interface. IP addresses can also have a prefix to define
the corresponding netmask.
Since libvirt.h was split into multiple files and similarly
docs/libvirt-libvirt.html, docs/hvsupport.html have bad hyperlinks. The
same happens for all the html.in files that used <code class='docref'>
tag, because page.xsl has no idea where to point the link that's found.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Add attribute to set vgamem_mb parameter of QXL device for QEMU. This
value sets the size of VGA framebuffer for QXL device. Default value in
QEMU is 8MB so reuse it also in libvirt to not break things.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076098
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The vram attribute was introduced to set the video memory but it is
usable only for few hypervisors excluding QEMU/KVM and the old XEN
driver. Only in case of QEMU the vram was used for QXL.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect current code in libvirt
and also changes the cases when we will set the default vram attribute.
It also fixes existing strange default value for VGA devices 9MB to 16MB
because the video ram should be rounded to power of two.
The change of default value could affect migrations but I found out that
QEMU always round the video ram to power of two internally so it's safe
to change the default value to the next closest power of two and also
silently correct every domain XML definition. And it's also safe because
we don't pass the value to QEMU.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076098
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
To be able to express some use cases of the RBD backing with libvirt, we
need to be able to specify a config file for the RBD client to qemu as
that is one of the commonly used options.
Some storage systems have internal support for snapshots. Libvirt should
be able to select a correct snapshot when starting a VM.
This patch adds a XML element to select a storage source snapshot for
the RBD protocol which supports this feature.
The docs describing the <host> element that are under the <source>
element in the XML document were incorrectly placed under the <disk>
element. Move them to the correct place.
To track state of virtio channels this patch adds a new output-only
attribute called 'state' to the <target> element of virtio channels.
This will be later populated with the guest state of the channel.
Since 1.2.8 it's possible to use OVMF on domains. Moreover, it's
possible to have libvirt create NVRAM file per domain. Later,
when domain is undefined, the file is removed too. However,
things are a bit complicated when domain's transient. There's no
undefine to transient domains. There are two options: 1) leave
the file behind and let mgmt app remove it. 2) remove it
automatically as domain dies.
But, in some scenarios mgmt app may want to preserve the file,
copy it somewhere safe, and then copy it back when the domain is
starting again. And this wouldn't be possible with case 2). So,
even though case 1) leaves some files behind (possibly undeleted
for a long time), the files themselves are small (128K each). And
data loss is worse than full disk, isn't it?
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We still default to bhyveloader(1) if no explicit bootloader
configuration is supplied in the domain.
If the /domain/bootloader looks like grub-bhyve and the user doesn't
supply /domain/bootloader_args, we make an intelligent guess and try
chainloading the first partition on the disk (or a CD if one exists,
under the assumption that for a VM a CD is likely an install source).
Caveat: Assumes the HDD boots from the msdos1 partition. I think this is
a pretty reasonable assumption for a VM. (DrvBhyve with Bhyveload
already assumes that the first disk should be booted.)
I've tested both HDD and CD boot and they seem to work.
Modify the structure _virDomainBlockIoTuneInfo to support these the new
options.
Change the initialization of the variable expectedInfo in qemumonitorjsontest.c
to avoid compiling problem.
Add documentation about the new xml options
Signed-off-by: Matthias Gatto <matthias.gatto@outscale.com>
CPU numa topology implicitly allows memory specification in 'KiB'.
Enabling this to accept the 'unit' in which memory needs to be specified.
This now allows users to specify memory in units of choice, and
lists the same in 'KiB' -- just like other 'memory' elements in XML.
<numa>
<cell cpus='0-3' memory='1024' unit='MiB' />
<cell cpus='4-7' memory='1024' unit='MiB' />
</numa>
Also augment test cases to correctly model NUMA memory specification.
This adds the tag 'unit="KiB"' for memory attribute in NUMA cells.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add documentation to explain how compat-mode can be invoked with libvirt
running on PowerPC architecture.
It also mentions that this change is available libvirt 1.2.11 onwards.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Extending the iothread disk support from pci to pci and ccw.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
This new attribute will control whether or not libvirt will pay
attention to guest notifications about changes to network device mac
addresses and receive filters. The default for this is 'no' (for
security reasons). If it is set to 'yes' *and* the specified device
model and connection support it (currently only macvtap+virtio) then
libvirt will watch for NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED events, and when it
receives one, it will issue a query-rx-filter command, retrieve the
result, and modify the host-side macvtap interface's mac address and
unicast/multicast filters accordingly.
The functionality behind this attribute will be in a later patch. This
patch merely adds the attribute to the top-level of a domain's
<interface> as well as to <network> and <portgroup>, and adds
documentation and schema/xml2xml tests. Rather than adding even more
test files, I've just added the net attribute in various applicable
places of existing test files.
This patch adds parsing/formatting code as well as documentation for
shared memory devices. This will currently be only accessible in QEMU
using it's ivshmem device, but is designed as generic as possible to
allow future expansion for other hypervisors.
In the devices section in the domain XML users may specify:
- For shmem device using a server:
<shmem name='shmem0'>
<server path='/tmp/socket-ivshmem0'/>
<size unit='M'>32</size>
<msi vectors='32' ioeventfd='on'/>
</shmem>
- For ivshmem device not using an ivshmem server:
<shmem name='shmem1'>
<size unit='M'>32</size>
</shmem>
Most of the configuration is made optional so it also allows
specifications like:
<shmem name='shmem1/>
<shmem name='shmem2'>
<server/>
</shmem>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Add options for tuning segment offloading:
<driver>
<host csum='off' gso='off' tso4='off' tso6='off'
ecn='off' ufo='off'/>
<guest csum='off' tso4='off' tso6='off' ecn='off' ufo='off'/>
</driver>
which control the respective host_ and guest_ properties
of the virtio-net device.
For the tap backend the default is specified and the same should be
done for the vhost attribute.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
For tuning the network, alternative devices
for creating tap and vhost devices can be specified via:
<backend tap='/dev/net/tun' vhost='/dev/net-vhost'/>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101574
Add an option 'iothreadpin' to the <cpuset> to allow for setting the
CPU affinity for each IOThread.
The iothreadspin will mimic the vcpupin with respect to being able to
assign each iothread to a specific CPU, although iothreads ids start
at 1 while vcpu ids start at 0. This matches the iothread naming scheme.
At the beginning when I was inventing <loader/> attributes and
<nvram/> I've introduced this @readonly attribute to the loader
element. It accepted values 'on' and 'off'. However, later, during the
review process, that has changed to 'yes' and 'no', but the example
XML snippet wasn't updated, so while the description is correct, the
example isn't.
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
