Based on recent list questions about the proposed addition of
virDomainCheckpointCreateXML(REDEFINE), it is worth adding some
clarification to the existing snapshot redefine documentation that is
serving as the basis for checkpoints.
Normal snapshot creation requires very few elements from the user XML
(libvirt can pick sane defaults for items that are omitted, and many
fields, including <domain>, are documented as readonly output fields
ignored on input, produced by drivers that track it). But during
REDEFINE, the API wants the complete XML produced by an earlier
virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc; as the domain definition has likely
changed since the snapshot was first created, libvirt is unable to
recreate a <domain> sub-element that matches the original output
representing the domain state at the time the snapshot was first
created. In fact, reverting without a <domain> sub-element is risky
enough that we had to add a FORCE flag for virDomainSnapshotRevert().
In short, we only support omitting domain for qemu because of
backwards-compatibility to snapshots created before 0.9.5 started
capturing <domain>; even though there are other drivers like vbox that
do not output <domain> because they have other reliable ways to
revert.
And based on the confusion caused when omitting <domain> from snapshot
XML, the initial design for checkpoints in later patches will make
<domain> a mandatory element during its REDEFINE.
[Side note: the fact that <domain> can appear in <domainsnapshot> is a
reason we cannot add a new API for a bulk listing or redefine of all
snapshots of a single domain in one XML call (for example, a 1M
<domain> XML * 16 snapshots explodes into 16M in a bulk form, which
gets difficult to send over RPC). Perhaps we could add a flag to
request that the <domain> sub-element be omitted on output, but such
output is no longer suitable for sane REDEFINE input.]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
xenbus is virtual controller (akin to virtio controllers) for Xen
paravirtual devices. Although all Xen VMs have a xenbus, it has
never been modeled in libvirt, or in Xen native VM config format
for that matter.
Recently there have been requests to support Xen's max_grant_frames
setting in libvirt. max_grant_frames is best modeled as an attribute
of xenbus. It describes the maximum IO buffer space (or DMA space)
available in xenbus for use by connected paravirtual devices. This
patch introduces a new xenbus controller type that includes a
maxGrantFrames attribute.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The idea is that using this attribute users enable libvirt to
automagically select firmware image for their domain. For
instance:
<os firmware='efi'>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.0'>hvm</type>
<loader secure='no'/>
</os>
<os firmware='bios'>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.0'>hvm</type>
</os>
(The automagic of selecting firmware image will be described in
later commits.)
Accepted values are 'bios' and 'efi' to let libvirt select
corresponding type of firmware.
I know it is a good sign to introduce xml2xml test case when
changing XML config parser but that will have to come later.
Firmware auto selection is not enabled for any driver just yet so
any xml2xml test would fail right away.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Except not really. At least for now.
In the future, the firmware will be selected automagically.
Therefore, it makes no sense to require the pathname of a
specific firmware binary in the domain XML. But since it is not
implemented do not really allow the path to be NULL. Only move
code around to prepare it for further expansion.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Some devices (namely virtio-scsi, virtio-gpu, virtio-keyboard,
virtio-tablet and virtio-mouse, plus virtio-crypto which is
not supported by libvirt) don't follow the same rules as all
other virtio devices, which is something that ought to be
documented.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Google is shutting down Google+, with no replacement, in the very near
future so we are losing the Libvirt community group there.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Capabilities should not duplicate data that are obvious from our
documentation and will not change with different QEMU binaries
or the way how we compile libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Define a schema for the storage pool capabilities along with
a test to show the general format.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Fix the ZFS Valid Volume Format Types label and add the
Valid pool format types for Vstorage pools.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add <controller type='scsi' model handling for virtio transitional
devices. Ex:
<controller type='scsi' model='virtio-transitional'/>
* "virtio-transitional" maps to qemu "virtio-scsi-pci-transitional"
* "virtio-non-transitional" maps to qemu "virtio-scsi-non-transitional"
The naming here doesn't match the pre-existing model=virtio-scsi.
The prescence of '-scsi' there seems kind of redundant as we have
type='scsi' already, so I decided to follow the pattern of other
patches and use virtio-transitional etc.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
<input> devices lack the model= attribute which is used by
most other device types. To eventually support
virtio-input-host-pci-{non-}traditional in qemu, let's add
a standard model= attribute. This just adds the domain_conf
wiring
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
<filesystem> devices lack the model= attribute which is used by
most other device types. To eventually support
virtio-9p-pci-{non-}traditional in qemu, let's add a standard
model= attribute. The accepted values are:
- virtio
- virtio-transitional
- virtio-non-transitional
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
qemu vhost-scsi devices map to XML roughly like:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi_host'>
<source protocol='vhost' wwpn=X/>
</hostdev>
To support vhost-scsi-pci-{non-}traditional in qemu, we
need to to extend the SCSI Host hostdev XML to handle
model= value. This matches the XML model= format used
for mediated devices. This is just the domain_conf bits
and some XML test cases.
Use of virtio-X naming here does not match the hostdev
protocol=vhost nor does it match the qemu vhost-X device
naming, however it's more consistent with all other
model= names in this area, and also matches the
inconsistency of <vsock> devices which use model=virtio
but map to vhost-vsock on the qemu commandline
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
<disk> devices lack the model= attribute which is used by
most other device types. bus= mostly acts as one, but it
serves other purposes too like determing what target=
prefix to use, and for matching against controller type=
values.
Extending bus= to handle additional virtio transitional
devices will complicate apps lives, and it isn't a clean
mapping anyways. So let's bite the bullet and add a new
<disk model=X/> attribute, and wire up common handling
for virtio and virtio-{non-}transitional
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Mention my snapshot bug fixes, and the corresponding virsh command-line
parse tweak I added while working on the snapshot bug fixes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Some of the recent entries deviated from the established
style used throughout the file, so let's fix them.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Not exhaustive list of new features, improvements and bugfixes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Upcoming patches plan to introduce virDomainCheckpointPtr as a new
object for use in incremental backups, along with documentation on
how incremental backups differ from snapshots. But first, we need
to rename any existing mention of a 'system checkpoint' to instead
be a 'full system snapshot', so that we aren't overloading
the term checkpoint.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Implement the MSRs ignore unknown reads and writes feature
that's specified using:
<features>
...
<msrs unknown='ignore'>
...
</features>
in the domain XML.
In bhyve, it's just passing '-w' command line argument to the bhyve(8)
executable.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Introduce the 'msrs' feature element that controls Model Specific
Registers related behaviour. At this moment it allows only
single tunable attribute "unknown":
<msrs unknown='ignore|fault'/>
Which tells hypervisor to ignore accesses to unimplemented
Model Specific Registers. The only user of that for now is going
to be the bhyve driver.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
We dropped support in commit 8e91a40 (November 2015), but some
occurrences still remained, even in live code.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Commit fafcc818f changed the docs to say that when creating a
pool directory or file volume with no owner/group specified, they
will be inherited from the parent directory. This isn't correct
now and doesn't seem to have ever been correct
In reality default owner/group is whatever UID/GID libvirtd is
running as
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Luckily, the new URL still points to the same location, the only change
is in the document name where an escaped space (%20) was replaced by an
underscore.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Device attribute does not have dotted "portAddr" format. Instead it
has single number format described but "usbAddr" which corresponds
to device parsing code in virDomainHostdevSubsysUSBDefParseXML.
Looks like [1] mistakenly changed device format for hostdev devices.
And [2] copy-n-paste this for hostdev network interfaces.
[1] 31710a53 Modify USB port to be defined as a port path
[2] 3b1c191f conf: parse/format type='hostdev' network interfaces
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Document that using bhyve:commandline is not fully
supported and may cause issues.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since we're setting the zone anyway, it will be useful to allow
setting a different (custom) zone for each network. This will be done
by adding a "zone" attribute to the "bridge" element, e.g.:
...
<bridge name='virbr0' zone='myzone'/>
...
If a zone is specified in the config and it can't be honored, this
will be an error.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch restores broken guest network connectivity after a host
firewalld is switched to using an nftables backend. It does this by
adding libvirt networks' bridge interfaces to the new "libvirt" zone
in firewalld.
After this patch, the bridge interface of any network created by
libvirt (when firewalld is active) will be added to the firewalld
zone called "libvirt" if it exists (regardless of the firewalld
backend setting). This behavior does *not* depend on whether or not
libvirt has installed the libvirt zone file (set with
"--with[out]-firewalld-zone" during the configure phase of the package
build).
If the libvirt zone doesn't exist (either because the package was
configured to not install it, or possibly it was installed, but
firewalld doesn't support rule priorities, resulting in a parse
error), the bridge will remain in firewalld's default zone, which
could be innocuous (in the case that the firewalld backend is
iptables, guest networking will still function properly with the
bridge in the default zone), or it could be disastrous (if the
firewalld backend is nftables, we can be assured that guest networking
will fail). In order to be unobtrusive in the former case, and
informative in the latter, when the libvirt zone doesn't exist we
then check the firewalld version to see if it's new enough to support
the nftables backend, and then if the backend is actually set to
nftables, before logging an error (and failing the net-start
operation, since the network couldn't possibly work anyway).
When the libvirt zone is used, network behavior is *slightly*
different from behavior of previous libvirt. In the past, libvirt
network behavior would be affected by the configuration of firewalld's
default zone (usually "public"), but now it is affected only by the
"libvirt" zone), and thus almost surely warrants a release note for
any distro upgrading to libvirt 5.1 or above. Although it's
unfortunate that we have to deal with a mandatory behavior change, the
architecture of multiple hooks makes it impossible to *not* change
behavior in some way, and the new behavior is arguably better (since
it will now be possible to manage access to the host from virtual
machines vs from public interfaces separately).
Creates-and-Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1650320
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1638342
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We should not give domains access to something they don't necessarily
need by default. Remove it from the qemu driver docs too.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
