The virt-mem program is no longer shipped, but was still being
referenced at the bottom of the virsh and libvirtd man pages.
This patch removes it from those man pages, addressing
BZ# 639603:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639603
This re-writes the 'virsh console' command so that it uses
the new streams API. This lets it run remotely and/or as a
non-root user. This requires that virsh be linked against
the simple event loop from libvirtd in daemon/event.c
As an added bonus, it can now connect to any console device,
not just the first one.
* tools/Makefile.am: Link to event.c
* tools/console.c, tools/console.h: Rewrite to use the
virDomainOpenConsole() APIs with streams
* tools/virsh.c: Support choosing the console name
via --devname $NAME
* tools/virsh.c (vshParseArgv): Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer,
and symbolic names for has_arg. Give --version an optional arg.
(vshUsage): Document this.
* tools/virsh.pod: Likewise.
To ease debugging this trivial patch allows to find what was compiled
in in the local version of libvirt, this doesn't work for remote access
but that's probably sufficient. With the patch I get on my machine:
paphio:~/libvirt/tools -> ./virsh -V
Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.8.4
See web site at http://libvirt.org/
Compiled with support for:
Hypervisors: Xen QEmu/KVM UML OpenVZ LXC ESX PHYP Test
Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Netcf Nwfilter
Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM
Miscellaneous: SELinux Secrets Debug Readline
paphio:~/libvirt/tools ->
* tools/virsh.c: add -V option
* tools/virsh.pod: document the extension
Now that the virsh parsing has been revamped, we can
implement qemu-monitor-command. This is basically the same
as it was in previous iterations, but has now been tested to
work both with the plain text monitor and the QMP monitor.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
* tools/virsh.c: add missing option from the CLI to allows setting
up the NIC model type when attaching an interface
* tools/virsh.pod: extend documentation
* AUTHORS: add Osier Yang to the list
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSetvcpus): Add new flags. Let invalid
commands through to driver, to ease testing of hypervisor argument
validation.
(cmdMaxvcpus, cmdVcpucount): New commands.
(commands): Add new commands.
* tools/virsh.pod (setvcpus, vcpucount, maxvcpus): Document new
behavior.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Add memtune element details, added min_guarantee
* src/libvirt.c: Update virDomainGetMemoryParameters api description, make
it more clear that the user first needs to call the api to get the number
of parameters supported and then call again to get the values.
* tools/virsh.pod: Add usage of new command memtune in virsh manpage
Old virsh command parsing mashes all the args back into a string and
miss the quotes, this patches fix it. It is also needed for introducing
qemu-monitor-command which is very useful.
This patches uses the new vshCommandParser abstraction and adds
vshCommandArgvParse() for arguments vector, so we don't need
to mash arguments vector into a command sting.
And the usage was changed:
old:
virsh [options] [commands]
new:
virsh [options]... [<command_string>]
virsh [options]... <command> [args...]
So we still support commands like:
"define D.xml; dumpxml D" was parsed as a commands-string.
and support commands like:
we will not mash them into a string, we use new argv parser for it.
But we don't support the command like:
"define D.xml; dumpxml" was parsed as a command-name, but we have no such command-name.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
This patch removes the individual author names from the libvirtd and virsh
man pages, instead referring to the main AUTHORS file distributed with
libvirt. This approach is needed, as we can't guarantee unicode support
across all versions of pod2man used with libvirt.
Additionally, this patch includes the libvirtd man page in the spec file
used with "make rpm". Without this patch "make rpm" is broken.
This patch adds a new --details option to the virsh vol-list
command, making its output more useful when many luns are
present.
Addresses BZ # 605543
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605543
This patch adds a new --details option to the virsh pool-list
command, making its output more useful to people who use virsh
for significant lengths of time.
Addresses BZ # 605543
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605543
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/601143, part 1 - document existing
behavior. Ever since Mar 2010 (commit ced154cb), the use of
'attach-disk' or 'attach-device' to change cdrom/floppy media has been
documented but deprecated, but the replacement to use 'update-device'
was not documented.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdAttachInterface, cmdAttachDisk): Fix bad error
message.
* tools/virsh.pod (attach-device, attach-disk): Refer to
update-device for cdrom and floppy behavior.
(update-device): Add documentation.
Presently the vol-key command only supports being provided with
a volume path.
This patch adds support for providing it with a pool and volume
identifier pair as well.
virsh # vol-key --pool <pool-name-or-uuid> <vol-name-or-path>
Make 'start --paused' mirror 'create --paused'.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdStart): Use new virDomainCreateWithFlags API
when needed.
* tools/virsh.pod (start): Document --paused.
This patch adds two new parameters to the vol-create-as command:
--backing-vol <volume-name-or-key-or-path>
--backing-vol-format <format-of-backing-vol>
virsh # vol-create-as guest_images_lvm snapvol1 5G --backing-vol \
rhel6vm1lun1
Vol snapvol1 created
virsh # vol-create-as image_dir qcow2snap2 5G --format qcow2 \
--backing-vol imagevol1.qcow2 \
--backing-vol-format qcow2
Vol qcow2snap2 created
Additionally, the virsh man page update fixes incorrect snapshot
parameters that were included in my prior bulk volume command patch.
This is just a trivial patch to virsh.pod (from git master). It adds the
following pieces to the virsh man page:
+ Shows the --inactive and --all optional parameters for the list
command.
Closes Bugzilla #575512, reported by Renich Bon Ciric
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575512
+ Corrects the existing description of the list command, to now say
that only running domains are listed if no domains are specified.
The man page up until this point has said all domains are listed if
no domains are specified, which is incorrect.
+ Adds the "shut off" state to the list of states for the list
command.
+ Adds a missing =back around line 755, that pod2man was complaining
was missing.
With Eric Blake's spelling corrections applied.
Unfortunately after the 0.8.0 release, but here's a beginning of the
documentation of the nwfilter functionality.
Document several missing commands. There's more work that could be
done, but incremental improvements is better than no patch at all.
* tools/virsh.pod (autostart, connect): Improve grammar.
(create): Improve example.
(domjobabort, domjobinfo, domxml-from-native, domxml-to-native):
Document.
(storage pool commands): New section.
Call me lazy: some shells use exit (e.g. sh), others use quit (e.g. ftp),
but I never remember which. So it's faster to write a patch to make
virsh take both than it is to take a 50-50 guess, and get it wrong
in half of my attempts.
* tools/virsh.c (commands): Add 'exit'.
* tools/virsh.pod: Document it.
Common Unix practice is to prefer VISUAL over EDITOR, particularly if
the editor of choice spawns a new window. Thus, it is also common to
see settings like EDITOR='emacs -nw', with the expectation that the
shell will parse this as an argument to 'emacs' and not try to invoke
a file containing a space.
If a user puts junk in EDITOR, they deserve what they get (much more
than virsh will misbehave); furthermore, sudo scrubs EDITOR by
default. So the blind use of metacharacters in EDITOR should not be
considered too much of a security issue.
* tools/virsh.c (editFile): Prefer VISUAL over EDITOR. Don't
reject shell metacharacters in EDITOR.
* tools/virsh.pod (edit, net-edit, ENVIRONMENT): Document VISUAL.
Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487738.