Now that various new API have been added or are coming soon, it is
worth a landing page that gives an overview of capturing various
pieces of guest state, and which APIs are best suited to which tasks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Introduce a bunch of new public APIs related to backup checkpoints.
Checkpoints are modeled heavily after virDomainSnapshotPtr (both
represent a point in time of the guest), although a snapshot exists
with the intent of rolling back to that state, while a checkpoint
exists to make it possible to create an incremental backup at a later
time. We may have a future hypervisor that can completely manage
checkpoints without libvirt metadata, but the first two planned
hypervisors (qemu and test) both always use libvirt for tracking
metadata relations between checkpoints, so for now, I've deferred
the counterpart of virDomainSnapshotHasMetadata for a separate
API addition at a later date if there is ever a need for it.
Note that until we allow snapshots and checkpoints to exist
simultaneously on the same domain (although the actual prevention of
this will be in a separate patch for the sake of an easier revert down
the road), that it is not possible to branch out to create more than
one checkpoint child to a given parent, although it may become
possible later when we revert to a snapshot that coincides with a
checkpoint. This also means that for now, the decision of which
checkpoint becomes the parent of a newly created one is the only
checkpoint with no child (so while there are APIs for dealing with a
current snapshot, we do not need those for checkpoints). We may end
up exposing a notion of a current checkpoint later, but it's easier to
add stuff when proven needed than to blindly support it now and wish
we hadn't exposed it.
The following map shows the API relations to snapshots, with new APIs
on the right:
Operate on a domain object to create/redefine a child:
virDomainSnapshotCreateXML virDomainCheckpointCreateXML
Operate on a child object for lifetime management:
virDomainSnapshotDelete virDomainCheckpointDelete
virDomainSnapshotFree virDomainCheckpointFree
virDomainSnapshotRef virDomainCheckpointRef
Operate on a child object to learn more about it:
virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc virDomainCheckpointGetXMLDesc
virDomainSnapshotGetConnect virDomainCheckpointGetConnect
virDomainSnapshotGetDomain virDomainCheckpointGetDomain
virDomainSnapshotGetName virDomainCheckpiontGetName
virDomainSnapshotGetParent virDomainCheckpiontGetParent
virDomainSnapshotHasMetadata (deferred for later)
virDomainSnapshotIsCurrent (no counterpart, see note above)
Operate on a domain object to list all children:
virDomainSnapshotNum (no counterparts, these are the old
virDomainSnapshotListNames racy interfaces)
virDomainSnapshotListAllSnapshots virDomainListAllCheckpoints
Operate on a child object to list descendents:
virDomainSnapshotNumChildren (no counterparts, these are the old
virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames racy interfaces)
virDomainSnapshotListAllChildren virDomainCheckpointListAllChildren
Operate on a domain to locate a particular child:
virDomainSnapshotLookupByName virDomainCheckpointLookupByName
virDomainSnapshotCurrent (no counterpart, see note above)
virDomainHasCurrentSnapshot (no counterpart, old racy interface)
Operate on a snapshot to roll back to earlier state:
virDomainSnapshotRevert (no counterpart, instead checkpoints
are used in incremental backups via
XML to virDomainBackupBegin)
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Prepare for new checkpoint APIs by describing the XML that will
represent a checkpoint. The checkpoint XML is modeled heavily after
virDomainSnapshotPtr. See the docs for more details.
Add testsuite coverage for some minimal uses of the XML (bare minimum,
the sample from html, and a full dumpxml, and some counter-examples
that should fail schema validation). Although use of the REDEFINE flag
will require the <domain> subelement to be present, it is easier for
most of the tests to provide counterpart output produced with the
NO_DOMAIN flag (particularly since synthesizing a valid <domain>
during testing is not trivial).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Describe the encryption element in the TPM's domain XML.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Extend the Secret XML documentation with vtpm usage type.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Extend the TPM device XML parser and XML generator with emulator
state encryption support.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add support for usage type vTPM to secret.
Extend the schema for the Secret to support the vTPM usage type
and add a test case for parsing the Secret with usage type vTPM.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Changes noticed while copying to similar aspects of checkpoints.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Wrap each release headline in an <a> element with the id set
to the release value and page.xsl will take care of the rest.
Reported-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Set a default namespace in the stylesheet instead.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Update schema and configuration to allow specifying new video type of
'bochs'. Add implementation and tests for qemu.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The previously added AMD SEV doc was not linked from anywhere on the
website. Address this by introducing a new "Knowledge base" section
that can hold task oriented guide to various features. Moving the SEV,
disk locking and secure usage guides under this section.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We've dropped old xend support over a year ago. At this point we can
also drop support for parsing very old configs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fix a filename and add a couple missing words.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190705192829.1223-1-jjongsma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This reverts commit fc3990c7e6.
Now that all the reported bugs are fixed let's turn the feature
back on.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We have been grouping network-port and nwfilter-binding permissions
under virNetworkPtr and virNWFilterPtr respectively.
Add the two missing classes that were matched because they contain
a substring of others.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
It has been dropped in 215d9393bb, but not all of
the documentation was updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
The public API entry points will report VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT to the
caller when a driver does not provide an implementation of a particular
method.
When deleting methods, leaving the driver API entry point explicitly
set to NULL with an version range comment, allows the hvsupport.html
page to document when the AP was removed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Similarly how we allow adding arbitrary command line arguments and
environment variables this patch introduces the ability to control
libvirt's perception of the qemu process by tweaking the capability bits
for testing purposes.
The idea is to allow developers and users either test a new feature by
enabling it early or disabling it to see whether it introduced
regressions.
This feature is not meant for production use though, so users should
handle it with care.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The header for the news entry blends together with the text and other
entries. This patch tries to space them out somewhat for better visual
separation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Libvirtd has long had integration with avahi for advertising libvirtd
using mDNS when TCP/TLS listening is enabled. For a long time the
virt-manager application had support for auto-detecting libvirtds
on the local network using mDNS, but this was removed last year
commit fc8f8d5d7e3ba80a0771df19cf20e84a05ed2422
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Date: Sat Oct 6 20:55:31 2018 -0400
connect: Drop avahi support
Libvirtd can advertise itself over avahi. The feature is disabled by
default though and in practice I hear of no one actually using it
and frankly I don't think it's all that useful
The 'Open Connection' wizard has a disproportionate amount of code
devoted to this feature, but I don't think it's useful or worth
maintaining, so let's drop it
I've never heard of any other applications having support for using
mDNS to detect libvirtd instances. Though it is theoretically possible
something exists out there, it is clearly going to be a niche use case
in the virt ecosystem as a whole.
By removing avahi integration we can cut down the dependency chain for
the basic libvirtd install and reduce our code maint burden.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Jano probably based his branch on top of mine and didn't notice
when I moved the section up slightly and thus git applied it again.
Keep only the instance followin the new features section.
This reverts commit 9c68bb4a5c.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Allow using seclabels the same way as disk images allow it. Currently
the snapshot code copies the seclabels from the original image if no
seclabel is provided. Also there's no code change required as the
snapshot XML parser actually uses parts of the disk parser thus
seclabels are already parsed and formatted and even applied thus this is
just a formalization of our support for this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Change the example and add a recommendation to use disk target rather
than path.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
It will not be executed when the page is loaded locally. It needs
planet.virt-tools.org to supply the right headers (which it does now).
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Don't use the global namespace, unify quotes and semicolons at the end of lines
and "use strict".
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
According to sPAPR, addresses are 32-bit (8 hex digits) rather
than 64-bit (16 hex digits). Update the schema accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
