If vol-create-from is failed due to 'input volume not found',
virsh outputs like this:
$ sudo virsh vol-create-from testpool test-vol.xml test.img
error: failed to get vol 'test.img', specifying --pool might help
error: Storage volume not found: no storage vol with matching path
However, '--pool' is incorrect because it is already specified as
second argument ('testpool' in this case). It should be "--inputpool".
The patch fixes this by using pooloptname, which will be "inputpool"
in this case and "pool" in other cases, as error message.
We have a new vol type "dir" in addition to "file" and "block", but
virsh doesn't know it. Fix it.
Additionally, the patch lets virsh output "unknown" if not matched
any of them.
Clarify some of the effects of managed passthrough <hostdev> devices;
with recent changes (commit d093547), a nodedev-reattach is only needed
to pair up to an explicit nodedev-dettach (but beware that older
virt-manager has a bug where it uses explicit nodedev-dettach under the
hood when using the gui to hotplug a hostdev device).
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Mention reattach.
* tools/virsh.pod (nodedev): Mention managed mode.
Rather than having to do:
$ virsh snapshot-revert dom $(virsh snapshot-current dom --name)
I thought it would be nice to do:
$ virsh snapshot-revert dom --current
I didn't add 'virsh snapshot-dumpxml --current' since we already have
'virsh snapshot-current' for the same task. snapshot-list accepted
a name but did not require it, and that remains the case, with
--current serving in place of that name. For all other commands,
name used to be required, and can now be replaced by --current;
I intentionally made it so that omitting both --current and a name
is an error (having the absence of a name imply --current seems
just a bit too magic, so --current must be explicit). I also had
to keep snapshot-edit backwards-compatible, as the only command
that already had a --current argument alongside a name, which still
works to both edit a named snapshot and make it current.
* tools/virsh.c (vshLookupSnapshot): New helper function.
(cmdSnapshotEdit, cmdSnapshotList, cmdSnapshotParent)
(cmdSnapshotDelete, cmdDomainSnapshotRevert): Use it, adding an
option where needed.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-delete, snapshot-edit)
(snapshot-list, snapshot-parent, snapshot-revert): Document
use of --current.
(snapshot-dumpxml): Mention alternative.
I got these distcheck failures with sanlock enabled:
ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
./tools/virt-sanlock-cleanup
./src/locking/qemu-sanlock.conf
* src/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES) [HAVE_SANLOCK]: Clean built
file.
* tools/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Likewise.
Given a list of snapshots and their parents, finding all descendants
requires a hairy traversal. This code is O(n^3); it could maybe be
made to scale O(n^2) with the use of a hash table, but that costs more
memory. Hopefully there aren't too many people with a hierarchy
so large as to approach REMOTE_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LIST_NAMES_MAX (1024).
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotList): Add final fallback.
Iterating over one level of children requires parsing all snapshots
and their parents; a bit of code shuffling makes it pretty easy
to do this as well.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotList): Add another fallback.
Emulating --from requires grabbing the entire list of snapshots
and their parents, and recursively iterating over the list from
the point of interest - but we already do that for --tree. This
turns on emulation for that situation.
* tools/virsh.c (__vshControl): Rename member.
(vshReconnect, cmdConnect, vshGetSnapshotParent): Update clients.
(cmdSnapshotList): Add fallback.
Sometimes, we only care about one branch of the snapshot hierarchy.
Make it easier to list a single branch, by using the new APIs.
Technically, I could emulate these new virsh options on old servers
by doing a complete dump, then scraping xml to filter out just the
snapshots that I care about, but I didn't want to do that in this patch.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotList): Add --from, --descendants.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-list): Document them.
I was a bit surprised that 'virsh snapshot-edit dom name' silently
allowed me to clone things, while still telling me the old name,
especially since other commands like 'virsh edit dom' reject rename
attempts (*). This fixes things to be more explicit (**).
(*) Technically, 'virsh edit dom' relies on virDomainDefineXML
behavior, which rejects attempts to mix a new name with existing
uuid or new uuid with existing name, but you can create a new
domain by changing both uuid and name. On the other hand, while
snapshot-edit --clone is a true clone, creating a new domain
would also have to decide whether to clone snapshot metadata,
managed save, and any other secondary data related to the domain.
Domain renames are not trivial either.
(**) Renaming or creating a clone is still a risky proposition -
for offline snapshots and system checkpoints, if the new name
does not match an actual name recorded in the qcow2 internal
snapshots, then you cannot revert to the new checkpoint. But it
is assumed that anyone using the new virsh flags knows what they
are doing, and can deal with the fallout caused by a rename/clone;
that is, we can't completely prevent a user from shooting
themselves in the foot, so much as we are making the default
action less risky.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotEdit): Add --rename, --clone.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-edit): Document them.
virsh undefine command can now undefine an active guest, but the help information is still the old.
This patch modifies it and make it coincident to the manpage of virsh.
Signed-off-by: tangchen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
It was impossible for 'virsh snapshot-current dom name' to set name
as the current snapshot, if name is a disk-only snapshot.
Using strstr rather than full-blown xml parsing is safe, since the
xml is assumed to be well-formed coming from libvirtd rather than
arbitrary text coming from the user.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotCurrent, cmdSnapshotEdit): Pass
disk_only flag when redefining a disk snapshot.
Although reverting to a snapshot is a form of data loss, this is
normally expected. However, there are two cases where additional
surprises (failure to run the reverted state, or a break in
connectivity to the domain) can come into play. Requiring extra
acknowledgment in these cases will make it less likely that
someone can get into an unrecoverable state due to a default revert.
Also create a new error code, so users can distinguish when forcing
would make a difference, rather than having to blindly request force.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_REVERT_FORCE):
New flag.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainRevertToSnapshot): Document it.
* include/libvirt/virterror.h (VIR_ERR_SNAPSHOT_REVERT_RISKY): New
error value.
* src/util/virterror.c (virErrorMsg): Implement it.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdDomainSnapshotRevert): Add --force to virsh.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-revert): Document it.
Previously, virsh 'snapshot-parent' and 'snapshot-current' were
completely silent in the case where the code conclusively proved
there was no parent or current snapshot, but differed in exit
status; this silence caused some confusion on whether the commands
worked. Furthermore, commit d1be48f introduced a regression where
snapshot-parent would leak output about an unknown function, but
only on the first attempt, when talking to an older server that
lacks virDomainSnapshotGetParent. This changes things to consistenly
report an error message and exit with status 1 when no snapshot
exists, and to avoid leaking unknown function warnings when using
fallbacks.
* tools/virsh.c (vshGetSnapshotParent): Alter signature, to
distinguish between real error and missing parent. Don't pollute
last_error on success.
(cmdSnapshotParent): Adjust caller. Always output message on
failure.
(cmdSnapshotList): Adjust caller.
(cmdSnapshotCurrent): Always output message on failure.
error:could not take a screenshot of xp
==6216== Syscall param unlink(pathname) points to unaddressable byte(s)
==6216== at 0x373A0D4937: unlink (syscall-template.S:82)
==6216== by 0x40FD73: cmdScreenshot (virsh.c:3070)
==6216== by 0x42BA0D: vshCommandRun (virsh.c:14920)
==6216== by 0x42EC97: main (virsh.c:16379)
==6216== Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==6216==
error:Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running
This patch is based on a improvement suggested by Kazuhiro Kikuchi
of Fujitsu, it gives a description of the target parameter for that
command
* tools/virsh.pod: add description for target parameter of
attach-interface
The man page suggest that the cpu_shares parameter of schedinfo
allows values 0-262144, but the kernel remaps values 0 and 1 to
the minimum 2, just document that behaviour:
[root@test ~]# cat /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
1024
[root@test ~]# echo 0 > /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
[root@test ~]# cat /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
2
[root@test ~]# echo 1 > /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
[root@test ~]# cat /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
2
[root@test ~]#
* tools/virsh.pod: update description of the cpu_shares parameter
to indicate the values 0 and 1 are automatically changed by the
kernel to minimal value 2
Reuse the tree listing of nodedev-list, coupled with the new helper
function to efficiently grab snapshot parent names, to produce
tree output for a snapshot hierarchy. For example:
$ virsh snapshot-list dom --tree
root1
|
+- sibling1
+- sibling2
| |
| +- grandchild
|
+- sibling3
root2
|
+- child
* tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotList): Add --tree.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-list): Document it.
Make parent computation reusable, using virDomainSnapshotGetParent
when possible.
* tools/virsh.c (vshGetSnapshotParent): New helper.
(cmdSnapshotParent): Use it.
This section of the man page was completely missing; I stumbled on
it when I had no clue that I had to use nodedev-reattach after
I was done playing with <hostdev> device passthrough to one of my
guests.
* tools/virsh.pod (NODEDEV COMMANDS): New section.
(attach-device, detach-device): Add cross-references.
This patch cleans the cpu baseline function using new libvirt helper
functions and fixes XPath expression that selects <cpu> elements from
the source file, that can contain concatenated <capabilities> XMLs,
domain XMLs and bare <cpu> elements. The fixed XPath expression ensures
not to select NUMA <cpu id=... elements.
This patch also removes vshRealloc function, that remained unused after
cleaning up cpu-baseline.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731645
pod2man from perl-5.8.8 (RHEL 5) errors out on ill-formed POD:
*** ERROR: unterminated I<...> at line 1114 in file virsh.pod
*** ERROR: unterminated I<...> at line 1851 in file virsh.pod
Newer pod2man appears to be more tolerant (which is a shame,
because it meant that this error is harder to detect).
* tools/virsh.pod (undefine, snapshot-current): Add missing >.
Some virsh commands start a (long-running) job that can be monitored
using domjobinfo and aborted with domjobabort. Let's be explicit about
this in virsh man page.
QEMU 0.13 introduced cache=unsafe for -drive, this patch exposes
it in the libvirt layer.
* Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_UNSAFE),
as even if $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't know if unsafe
is supported.
* Improved the reliability of qemu cache type detection.
Commit 0a22f54 added --min-guarantee option for the memtune command.
This option is supported only by the ESX hypervisor. This patch adds a
statement about this fact, to prevent user confusion.
This patch also adds explanation how to clear/set to unlimited the
memory tunables. (documments the -1 value).
Prior to commit 85d2810, we had an issue where:
snapshot-create-as dom name --diskspec spec --diskspec spec
failed to parse the second spec, because the first spec had marked
that option as no longer requiring an argument.
In commit 85d2810, I fixed it by making argv options no longer mark
the option as seen. But this in turn breaks mandatory argv options,
which now complain that the argv option is missing.
This patch reverts that part of 85d2810, and instead replaces it with
fixes to no longer clear opts_need_arg of an argv argument.
* tools/virsh.c (vshCmddefGetOption, vshCmddefGetData)
(vshCommandParse): Fix option parsing for required argv option.
(vshCmddefOptParse): Check that argv option is last.
* tests/virsh-optparse: Enhance test.
There are 3 ways to lookup a volume, only virStorageVolLookupByName
needs pool object. So if no --pool is specified, it will tries to
get the volume via virStorageVolLookupByPath/virStorageVolLookupByKey.
But if all 3 ways fails, and no --pool is specified, a friendly
error might help the user get right way quickly.
Translators are likely to botch trailing spacing; by doing the
formatting outside of the translation, we can generally get
better alignment. Also, for consistency, use 'bytes read' to
match 'bytes written'.
* tools/virsh.c (domblkstat_output): Drop trailing space. Tweak
rd_bytes output.
(cmdDomblkstat, DOMBLKSTAT_LEGACY_PRINT): Update formatting.
Virsh man page lists driver types to be used with attach-device
command, but does not specify that those are usable only with the XEN
Hypervisor.
This patch adds statement, that those options specified are applicable
only on the Xen hypervisor and adds option usable with qemu emulator.
This patch also changes type of error returned by QEMU driver if the
user specifies incompatible driver type from VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR to
VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED.
Users of virsh complain that output of the domblkstat command
is not intuitive enough. This patch adds explanation of fields
returned by this command to the help section for domblkstat and
the man page of virsh. Also a switch --human is added for
domblkstat that prints the fields with more descriptive
texts.
This patch also changes sequence of the output fields and their
names back to the order and spelling established by previous
versions of virsh to maintain compatibility with scripts.
Example of ordered and "translated" output:
PRE-patch:
virsh # domblkstat 1 vda
vda wr_bytes 5170176
vda wr_operations 511
vda rd_bytes 82815488
vda rd_operations 3726
POST-patch:
virsh # domblkstat 1 vda
vda rd_req 3726
vda rd_bytes 82815488
vda wr_req 478
vda wr_bytes 4965376
Example of human readable output:
virsh # domblkstat 1 vda --human
Device: vda
number of read operations: 3726
number of read bytes: 82815488
number of write operations: 478
number of bytes written: 4965376
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731656
Qemu sends STOP event as part of the shutdown process. Detect such STOP
event and consider shutdown to be reason of emitting such event. That's
the best we can do until qemu provides us the reason directly in STOP
event. This allows us to report shutdown reason for paused state so that
apps can detect domains that failed to finish the shutdown process
(e.g., because qemu is buggy and doesn't exit on SIGTERM or it is
blocked in flushing disk buffers).
Documentation did not specify, that some permissions are required on
target path for coredump for the user running the hypervisor.
Diff to v1:
- reword statements
With this patch, it is hopefully a bit more obvious that for
snapshot-create-as, a literal '--diskspec' is mandatory if name
or description was omitted, but optional if all earlier options
were provided.
These all denote two diskspecs and a description:
virsh snapshot-create-as dom name desc vda vdb
virsh snapshot-create-as dom name desc --diskspec vda --diskspec vdb
virsh snapshot-create-as dom name desc --diskspec vda vdb
virsh snapshot-create-as dom name desc vda --diskspec vdb
virsh snapshot-create-as dom --diskspec vda --diskspec vdb name desc
This gives two diskspecs but no description:
virsh snapshot-create-as dom name --diskspec vda --diskspec vdb
And this treats 'vda' as the description, with only one diskspec:
virsh snapshot-create-as dom name vda vdb
The help output now shows:
snapshot-create-as <domain> [<name>] [<description>] [--print-xml] [--no-metadata] [--halt] [--disk-only] [[--diskspec] <string>]...
I also checked the help output for echo and send-key, which are two
other variants of argv commands.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-create-as): Document when a literal
--diskspec must preceed a diskspec argument.
* tools/virsh.c (vshCmddefHelp): Update help output for argv when
naming the option is useful.
(vshCmddefGetData): Fix logic on when argv was seen.
* tests/virsh-optparse: Add tests to avoid regressions.
