To make it simpler to answer questions of "Why doesn't this thing work
for me?"
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
In formatdomain, using 'libxl' and 'xen' is redundant since they now
both refer to the same driver. 'xen' predates 'libxl' and unambiguously
identifies the Xen hypervisor, so drop the use of 'libxl'.
In aclpolkit, the connection URI was erroneously identified as 'libxl'
and the name 'xenlight'. Change the URI to 'xen' and driver name to 'Xen'.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Update news.xml to inform about the availability of CFPC, SBBC and
IBS features.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the IBS pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_IBS capability added
in the previous patch.
IBS can have the following values: "broken", "workaround",
"fixed-ibs", "fixed-ccd" and "fixed-na".
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<ibs value='fixed-ibs'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the SBBC pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_SBBC capability added
in the previous patch.
Like the previously added CFPC feature, SBBC can have the values
"broken", "workaround" or "fixed". Extra code is required to handle
it since it's not a regular tristate capability.
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<sbbc value='workaround'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the CFPC pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_CFPC capability added
in the previous patch.
CPFC can have the values "broken", "workaround" or "fixed". Extra
code is required to handle it since it's not a regular tristate
capability.
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<cfpc value='workaround'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Both are optional but don't have to be specified together. Fix the
schema.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1826746
Suggested-by: Yi Sun <yisun@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
From time to time we are asked which PCI addresses are reserved
in QEMU. Let's document them in one place, it's easier than
reconstructing the list from the code each time.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Add 'since 5.10' as commonly used in formatdomain to avoid
misunderstandings if element is not present (Is it not supported
because of my version or because of my environment?)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
1. Use 'setup' consistently as noun, 'set up' as verb
2. Use path variables like '$IMAGE_PATH' consistently
like in Troubleshooting to improve readability
3. Remove ':' from field names
4. Change phrasing in sentences I stumbled upon several
times to improve readability.
5. Minor grammar/vocab fixes.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
This commit includes an entry for new network DHCP lease time
information inside news.xml.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
If an user is trying to configure a dhcp neetwork settings, it is not
possible to change the leasetime of a range or a host entry. This is
available using dnsmasq extra options, but they are associated with
dhcp-range or dhcp-hosts fields. This patch implements a leasetime for
range and hosts tags. They can be defined under that settings:
<dhcp>
<range ...>
<lease/>
</range>
<host ...>
<lease/>
</host>
</dhcp>
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913446
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
element <qemu:commandline> should be the child of <domain>
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chen_han_xiao@126.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
'passthrough' is Xen-Specific guest configuration option new to Xen 4.13
that enables IOMMU mappings for a guest and hence whether it supports PCI
passthrough. The default is disabled. See the xl.cfg(5) man page and
xen.git commit babde47a3fe for more details.
The default state of disabled prevents hotlugging PCI devices. However,
if the guest configuration contains a PCI passthrough device at time of
creation, libxl will automatically enable 'passthrough' and subsequent
hotplugging of PCI devices will also be possible. It is not possible to
unconditionally enable 'passthrough' since it would introduce a migration
incompatibility due to guest ABI change. Instead, introduce another Xen
hypervisor feature that can be used to enable guest PCI passthrough
<features>
<xen>
<passthrough state='on'/>
</xen>
</features>
To allow finer control over how IOMMU maps to guest P2M table, the
passthrough element also supports a 'mode' attribute with values
restricted to snyc_pt and share_pt, similar to xl.cfg(5) 'passthrough'
setting .
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
e820_host is a Xen-specific option, only available for PV domains, that
provides the domain a virtual e820 memory map based on the host one. It
is enabled with a new Xen hypervisor feature, e.g.
<features>
<xen>
<e820_host state='on'/>
</xen>
</features>
e820_host is required when using PCI passthrough and is generally
considered safe for any PV kernel. e820_host is silently ignored if set
in HVM domain configuration. See xl.cfg(5) man page in the Xen
documentation for more details.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Convert the simple example to Python 3 syntax:
- print() is a function
- do not use bare except
- libvirt.open*() does not return None but raises an exception
The referenced source for the example was removed with
5bb2a245ab
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Improving the zPCI example by choosing more distinct values and
adding explanation for fid.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Changing the introduction to bring the idea of this document better across.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
The use of 32favicon.png was removed when the new favicons were
introduced in
commit 40cb5581c4
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 18:22:11 2017 +0100
docs: add full set of "favicon" files to support modern clients
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The various favicon files were missing from the favicon list, so never
installed, as was an example code diagram.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We previously added a hack to symlink CSS files from the source dir into
the build dir, to allow the website to be browsed locally. We should
have also done this for any images.
This change merges several variables into one "$(assets)" so that we
treat all static files in the root dir the same way.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The idea behind this document is to show, with actual examples,
that users should not expect PCI addresses in the domain XML and
in the guest OS to match.
The first zPCI example already serves this purpose perfectly, so
in the interest of keeping the page as brief and easy to digest
as possible the second one is removed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
The section about VFIO devices is kept separate from the rest
because it's less about domain XML and guest OS disagreeing on the
PCI address of a device, and more about which of the two PCI
addresses in the domain XML is even relevant to the guest OS.
The section on zPCI addresses, on the other hand, falls squarely
in the "more complex cases" category, so it should live in the
corresponding section.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Indent all code snippets by the same number of spaces, and don't
embed the :: marker in the line preceding a code block.
This commit is best viewed with 'git show -w'.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Add some information on how pci address work on s390x.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This document describes the relationship between PCI addresses as
seen in the domain XML and by the guest OS, which is a topic that
people get confused by time and time again.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Add the appropriate entries into the schema to allow encryption of the
backup or scratch image. Since we use blockdev internals for everything
no changes to the code are actually necessary.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811906
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
It was never implemented and for now I don't think there's demand to do
it. Remove the reference.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812100
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We've adopted reStructuredText as the primary markup language for
our documentation and, given that both GitLab and GitHub can render
documents in this format just fine, it makes sense to get rid of
the few last remaining bits of Markdown and standardize on
reStructuredText across the board.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
a <controller type='pci'...> element can now have a "hotplug"
attribute in the <target> subelement. This is intended to control
whether or not the slot(s) of the controller support
hotplugging/unplugging a device:
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'>
<target hotplug='off'/>
</controller>
The default value of hotplug is "on".
Since support for configuring such an option is hypervisor-dependent
(and will vary among different types of PCI controllers even on a
single hypervisor), no validation is done in this patch - that
validation will be done in the patch that wires support for the
setting into the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In a guest with only one vcpu, when pinning the emulator in say CPU184
and the vcpu0 in CPU0 of the host, the user might expect that only
CPU0 and CPU184 of the host will be used by the guest.
The reality is that Libvirt takes some time to honor the emulator
and vcpu pinning, taking care of NUMA constraints first. This will
result in other CPUs of the host being potentially used by the
QEMU thread until the emulator/vcpu pinning is done. The user
then might be confused by the output of 'virsh cpu-stats' in this
scenario, showing around 200 microseconds of cycles being spent
in other CPUs.
Let's document this behavior, which is explained in detail in
Libvirt commit v5.0.0-199-gf136b83139, in the cputune section
of formatdomain.html.in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Event channels are like PV interrupts and in conjuction with grant frames
form a data transfer mechanism for PV drivers. They are also used for
inter-processor interrupts. Guests with a large number of vcpus and/or
many PV devices many need to increase the maximum default value of 1023.
For this reason the native Xen config format supports the
'max_event_channels' setting. See xl.cfg(5) man page for more details.
Similar to the existing maxGrantFrames option, add a new xenbus controller
option 'maxEventChannels', allowing to adjust the maximum value via libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
One new company has contributed to libvirt since the last time
the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Help people to see where to report bugs when they download a libvirt
release.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To discourage people from using the git mirror links, style them in a
smaller italic font, with plain colour.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
