-vnc :5900,share=allow-exclusive
allows clients to ask for exclusive access which is
implemented by dropping other connections Connecting
multiple clients in parallel requires all clients asking
for a shared session (vncviewer: -shared switch)
-vnc :5900,share=force-shared
disables exclusive client access. Useful for shared
desktop sessions, where you don't want someone forgetting
specify -shared disconnect everybody else.
-vnc :5900,share=ignore
completely ignores the shared flag and allows everybody
connect unconditionally
QEMU might support more values for "-drive discard", so using Bi-state
values (on/off) for it doesn't make sense.
"on" maps to "unmap", "off" maps to "ignore":
<...>
@var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. Some machine types
may not support discard requests.
</...>
The following XML configuration can be used to request all domain's
memory pages to be kept locked in host's memory (i.e., domain's memory
pages will not be swapped out):
<memoryBacking>
<locked/>
</memoryBacking>
Change the build process & driver initialization so that the
VirtualBox driver is built into libvirtd, instead of libvirt.so
This change avoids the VirtualBox GPLv2-only license causing
compatibility problems with libvirt.so which is under the
GPLv2-or-later license.
NB this change prevents use of the VirtualBox driver on the
Windows platform, until such time as libvirtd can be made
to work there.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Update the LXC driver documentation to describe the way
containers are setup by default. Also describe the common
virsh commands for managing containers and a little about
the security. Placeholders for docs about configuring
containers still to be filled in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
QEMU introduced "discard" option for drive since commit a9384aff53,
<...>
@var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. Some machine types
may not support discard requests.
</...>
This patch exposes the support in libvirt.
QEMU supported "discard" for "-drive" since v1.5.0-rc0:
% git tag --contains a9384aff53
contains
v1.5.0-rc0
v1.5.0-rc1
So this only detects the capability bit using virQEMUCapsProbeQMPCommandLine.
Adding support for new attribute 'websocket' in the '<graphics>'
element, the attribute value is the port to listen on with '-1'
meaning auto-allocation, '0' meaning no websockets.
QEMU introduced command line "-mem-merge=on|off" (defaults to on) to
enable/disable the memory merge (KSM) at guest startup. This exposes
it by new XML:
<memoryBacking>
<nosharepages/>
</memoryBacking>
The XML tag is same with what we used internally for old RHEL.
network: static route support for <network>
This patch adds the <route> subelement of <network> to define a static
route. the address and prefix (or netmask) attribute identify the
destination network, and the gateway attribute specifies the next hop
address (which must be directly reachable from the containing
<network>) which is to receive the packets destined for
"address/(prefix|netmask)".
These attributes are translated into an "ip route add" command that is
executed when the network is started. The command used is of the
following form:
ip route add <address>/<prefix> via <gateway> \
dev <virbr-bridge> proto static metric <metric>
Tests are done to validate that the input data are correct. For
example, for a static route ip definition, the address must be a
network address and not a host address. Additional checks are added
to ensure that the specified gateway is directly reachable via this
network (i.e. that the gateway IP address is in the same subnet as one
of the IP's defined for the network).
prefix='0' is supported for both family='ipv4' address='0.0.0.0'
netmask='0.0.0.0' or prefix='0', and for family='ipv6' address='::',
prefix=0', although care should be taken to not override a desired
system default route.
Anytime an attempt is made to define a static route which *exactly*
duplicates an existing static route (for example, address=::,
prefix=0, metric=1), the following error message will be sent to
syslog:
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
This can be overridden by decreasing the metric value for the route
that should be preferred, or increasing the metric for the route that
shouldn't be preferred (and is thus in place only in anticipation that
the preferred route may be removed in the future). Caution should be
used when manipulating route metrics, especially for a default route.
Note: The use of the command-line interface should be replaced by
direct use of libnl so that error conditions can be handled better. But,
that is being left as an exercise for another day.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
The <filesystem> element can now accept a <driver type='nbd'/>
as an alternative to 'loop'. The benefit of NBD is support
for non-raw disk image formats.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Extend the <driver> element in filesystem devices to
allow a storage format to be set. The new attribute
uses 'format' to reflect the storage format. This is
different from the <driver> element in disk devices
which use 'type' to reflect the storage format. This
is because the 'type' attribute on filesystem devices
is already used for the driver backend, for which the
disk devices use the 'name' attribute. Arggggh.
Anyway for disks we have
<driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
And for filesystems this change means we now have
<driver type="loop" format="raw"/>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Describe the new cgroups layout, how to customize placement
of guests and what virsh commands are used to access the
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
An example of the scsi hostdev XML:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi'>
<source>
<adapter name='scsi_host0'/>
<address bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
</source>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='4' unit='8'/>
</hostdev>
Controller is implicitly added for scsi hostdev, though the scsi
controller's model defaults to "lsilogic", which might be not what
the user wants (same problem exists for virtio-scsi disk). It's
the existing problem, will be addressed later.
The device address must be specified manually. Later patch will let
libvirt generate it automatically.
This only introduces the generic XMLs for scsi hostdev, later patches
will add other elements, e.g. <readonly>, <shareable>.
Signed-off-by: Han Cheng <hanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>
While reviewing proposed VIR_STRDUP conversions, I've already noticed
several places that do:
if (str && VIR_STRDUP(dest, str) < 0)
which can be simplified by allowing str to be NULL (something that
strdup() doesn't allow). Meanwhile, code that wants to ensure a
non-NULL dest regardless of the source can check for <= 0.
Also, make it part of the VIR_STRDUP contract that macro arguments
are evaluated exactly once.
* src/util/virstring.h (VIR_STRDUP, VIR_STRDUP_QUIET, VIR_STRNDUP)
(VIR_STRNDUP_QUIET): Improve contract.
* src/util/virstring.c (virStrdup, virStrndup): Change return
conventions.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Document this.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT(array, size, elem) was not safe if the expression
for 'size' had side effects. While no one in the current code base
was trying to pass side effects, we might as well be robust and
explicitly document our intentions.
* src/util/viralloc.c (virInsertElementsN): Add special case.
* src/util/viralloc.h (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT): Use it.
(VIR_ALLOC, VIR_ALLOC_N, VIR_REALLOC_N, VIR_EXPAND_N)
(VIR_RESIZE_N, VIR_SHRINK_N, VIR_INSERT_ELEMENT)
(VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT, VIR_ALLOC_VAR, VIR_FREE): Document
which macros are safe in the presence of side effects.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Document this.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
If no todo.cfg is present, make sure the stub is in HTML5
format and clearly states that the config was not available
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The Windows port page currently links to pre-built libvirt
DLLs for release 0.8.8 which are 2 years old now. Until we
can reliably produce official Windows installers, point
people to the virt-viewer MSI installers instead which
include the libvirt DLLs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The XSL for generating the API docs was missing the HTML5
namespace declarations. The todo and hvsupport scripts were
also missing the HTML5 doctype / namespace declaration.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The code adaptation is not done right now, but in subsequent patches.
Hence I am not implementing syntax-check rule as it would break
compilation. Developers are strongly advised to use these new macros.
They are similar to VIR_ALLOC() logic: VIR_STRDUP(dst, src) returns zero
on success, -1 otherwise. In case you don't want to report OOM error,
use the _QUIET variant of a macro.
Add missing 'html:' namespace prefix to a few more XSL
rules for generating the table of contents links
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The previous commit failed to update the XSL to take account
of fact that in XHTML mode the elements need namespace
prefixes. This caused every web page to be blank!
The rule generating the HTML docs passing the --html flag
to xsltproc. This makes it use the legacy HTML parser, which
either ignores or tries to fix all sorts of broken XML tags.
There's no reason why we should be writing broken XML in
the first place, so removing --html and adding the XHTML
doctype to all files forces us to create good XML.
This adds the XHTML doc type and fixes many, many XML tag
problems it exposes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
It's not desired to force users imagine path for a socket they
are not even supposed to connect to. On the other hand, we
already have a release where the qemu agent socket path is
exposed to XML, so we cannot silently drop it from there.
The new path is generated in form:
$LOCALSTATEDIR/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/$domain.$name
for qemu system mode, and
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/qemu/lib/channel/target/$domain.$name
for qemu session mode.
Commit cc6d19f3 added text containing "<code>snapshot<code>" to
formatsnapshot.html.in. The closing tag is missing '/' which causes
the documentation to misrender.
A domain's <interface> or <hostdev>, as well as a <network>'s
<forward>, can now have an optional <driver name='kvm|vfio'/>
element. As of this patch, there is no functionality behind this new
knob - this patch adds support to the domain and network
formatter/parser, and to the RNG and documentation.
When the backend is added, legacy KVM PCI device assignment will
continue to be used when no driver name is specified (or if <driver
name='kvm'/> is specified), but if driver name is 'vfio', the new UEFI
Secure Boot compatible VFIO device assignment will be used.
Note that the parser doesn't automatically insert the current default
value of this setting. This is done on purpose because the two
possibilities are functionally equivalent from the guest's point of
view, and we want to be able to automatically start using vfio as the
default (even for existing domains) at some time in the future. This
is similar to what was done with the "vhost" driver option in
<interface>.
For pSeries guest in QEMU, NVRAM is one kind of spapr-vio device.
Users are allowed to specify spapr-vio devices'address.
But NVRAM is not supported in libvirt. So this patch is to
add NVRAM device to allow users to specify its address.
In QEMU, NVRAM device's address is specified by
"-global spapr-nvram.reg=xxxxx".
In libvirt, XML file is defined as the following:
<nvram>
<address type='spapr-vio' reg='0x3000'/>
</nvram>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Instead of making a choice between the underscore and camelCase, this
simply changes "num_queues" into "queues", which is also consistent
with Michal's multiple queue support for interface.
It will simplify later work if the sub-drivers have dedicated
APIs / field names. ie virNetworkDriver should have
virDrvNetworkOpen and virDrvNetworkClose methods
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The driver.h struct for node devices used an inconsistent
naming scheme 'DeviceMonitor' instead of the more usual
'NodeDeviceDriver'. Fix this everywhere it has leaked
out to.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Ensure that the driver struct field names match the public
API names. For an API virXXXX we must have a driver struct
field xXXXX. ie strip the leading 'vir' and lowercase any
leading uppercase letters.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Ensure that the virDrvXXX method names exactly match
the public APIs virYYY method names. ie XXX == YYY.
Add a test case to prevent any regressions.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/newsletters/writing/grammartip2009.07.01.htm
(and several other sites) give hints that 'onto' is best used if
you can also add 'up' just before it and still make sense. In many
cases in the code base, we really want the two-word form, or even
a simplification to just 'on' or 'to'.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Use correct 'on to'.
* python/libvirt-override.c: Likewise.
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Likewise.
* src/util/virpci.c: Likewise.
* daemon/THREADS.txt: Use simpler 'on'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Better usage.
* docs/internals/rpc.html.in: Likewise.
* src/conf/domain_event.c: Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c: Likewise.
* tests/qemumonitortestutils.c: Likewise.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The rng schema for <controller> had been non-specific about which
types of controllers allowed which models, and also allowed the
num_queues attribute (since that hasn't been released yet, should we
rename it to "numQueues"?) and <master> subelement to be included for
any controller type. In reality, half of the models are allowed only
for type='scsi', and the other half only for type='usb', num_queues is
allowed only for type='scsi', and <master> only for type='usb'.
This patch makes a separate <group> for type='scsi' and type='usb',
with each group allowing only the appropriate model values, and
allowing num_queue and <master> only when appropriate.
<interleave> also hadn't been specified, forcing a specific order of
subelements, which should never be done. (Note that the <interleave>
had to surround the main element attributes that are in the <group>
subelements, due to one of the <group>s containing a subelement).
The recent qemu requires "0x" prefix for the disk wwn, this patch
changes virValidateWWN to allow the prefix, and prepend "0x" if
it's not specified. E.g.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,\
drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,wwn=6000c60016ea71ad:
Property 'scsi-hd.wwn' doesn't take value '6000c60016ea71ad'
Though it's a qemu regression, but it's nice to allow the prefix,
and doesn't hurt for us to always output "0x".
Allow VMs to be placed into resource groups using the
following syntax
<resource>
<partition>/virtualmachines/production</partition>
</resource>
A resource cgroup will be backed by some hypervisor specific
functionality, such as cgroups with KVM/LXC.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Kerberos uses 'primary' or 'key' files (principals), not 'abstract
ideal' or 'rule' files (principles). Reported by Jason Meinzer.
Reflow a paragraph to fit in 80 columns in the process.
* docs/auth.html.in: Fix spelling.
The definiton of scsi adapter in storagespool.rng (sourceinfoadapter)
can be used by scsi hostdev in later patch. Move it to basictypes.rng.
PortNumber is defined in both domaincommon.rng and storagespool.rng,
simplify it by moving it to basictypes.rng.
Signed-off-by: Han Cheng <hanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
This updates the definitions and supporting structures in the XML
schema and domain configuration files.
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
With this patch, one can specify the disk source using libvirt
storage like:
<disk type='volume' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
<source pool='default' volume='fc18.img'/>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
"seclabels" and "startupPolicy" are not supported for this new
disk type ("volume"). They will be supported in later patches.
docs/formatdomain.html.in:
* Add documents for new XMLs
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng:
* Add rng for new XMLs;
src/conf/domain_conf.h:
* New struct for 'volume' type disk source (virDomainDiskSourcePoolDef)
* Add VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_TYPE_VOLUME for enum virDomainDiskType
src/conf/domain_conf.c:
* New helper virDomainDiskSourcePoolDefParse to parse the 'volume'
type disk source.
* New helper virDomainDiskSourcePoolDefFree to free the source def
if 'volume' type disk.
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-source-pool.xml:
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c:
* New test
node device driver names the HBA like "scsi_host5", but storage
driver uses "host5", which could make the user confused. This
changes them to be consistent. However, for back-compat reason,
adapter name like "host5" is still supported.
This introduces 4 new attributes for storage pool source adapter.
E.g.
<adapter type='fc_host' parent='scsi_host5' wwnn='20000000c9831b4b' wwpn='10000000c9831b4b'/>
Attribute 'type' can be either 'scsi_host' or 'fc_host', and defaults
to 'scsi_host' if attribute 'name' is specified. I.e. It's optional
for 'scsi_host' adapter, for back-compat reason. However, mandatory
for 'fc_host' adapter and any new future adapter types. Attribute
'parent' is to specify the parent for the fc_host adapter.
* docs/formatstorage.html.in:
- Add documents for the 4 new attrs
* docs/schemas/storagepool.rng:
- Add RNG schema
* src/conf/storage_conf.c:
- Parse and format the new XMLs
* src/conf/storage_conf.h:
- New struct virStoragePoolSourceAdapter, replace "char *adapter" with it;
- New enum virStoragePoolSourceAdapterType
* src/libvirt_private.syms:
- Export TypeToString and TypeFromString
* src/phyp/phyp_driver.c:
- Replace "adapter" with "adapter.data.name", which is member of the union
of the new struct virStoragePoolSourceAdapter now. Later patch will
add the checking, as "adapter.data.name" is only valid for "scsi_host"
adapter.
* src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c:
- Like above
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-scsi-type-scsi-host.xml:
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-scsi-type-fc-host.xml:
- New test for 'fc_host' and "scsi_host" adapter
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-scsi.xml:
- Change the expected output, as the 'type' defaults to 'scsi_host' if 'name"
specified now
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-scsi-type-scsi-host.xml:
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-scsi-type-fc-host.xml:
- New test
* tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c:
- Include the test
This introduce a new attribute "num_queues" (same with the good name
QEMU uses) for virtio-scsi controller. An example of the XML:
<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi' num_queues='8'/>
The corresponding QEMU command line:
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,num_queues=8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
Split the "resource" define out into multiple smaller
defines, one for each type of resource tuning parameter.
This makes the schema a bit clearer to read
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The virsh(1) man page wasn't saying anything about the 'migrateuri'
parameter other than it can be usually omitted. A patched version of
docs/migrate.html.in is taken in this patch to fix that up in the man
page.
This enrichs HBA's xml by dumping the number of max vports and
vports in use. Format is like:
<capability type='vport_ops'>
<max_vports>164</max_vports>
<vports>5</vports>
</capability>
* docs/formatnode.html.in: (Document the new XML)
* docs/schemas/nodedev.rng: (Add the schema)
* src/conf/node_device_conf.h: (New member for data.scsi_host)
* src/node_device/node_device_linux_sysfs.c: (Collect the value of
max_vports and vports)
This does nothing more than adding the new device and capability.
The device is present since QEMU 1.2.0.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Only sheepdog actually required it in the code, and we can use 7000 as the
default---the same value that QEMU uses for the simple "sheepdog:VOLUME"
syntax. With this change, the schema can be fixed to allow no port.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
libiscsi provides a userspace iSCSI initiator.
The main advantage over the kernel initiator is that it is very
easy to provide different initiator names for VMs on the same host.
Thus libiscsi supports usage of persistent reservations in the VM,
which otherwise would only be possible with NPIV.
libiscsi uses "iscsi" as the scheme, not "iscsi+tcp". We can change
this in the tests (while remaining backwards-compatible manner, because
QEMU uses TCP as the default transport for both Gluster and NBD).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The 'trang' utility, which is able to transform '.rng' files into
'.rnc' files, reported some errors in our schemas that weren't caught
by the tools we use in the build. I haven't added a test for this,
but the validity can be checked by the following command:
trang -I rng -O rnc domain.rng domain.rnc
There were unescaped minuses in regular expressions and we were
constraining int (which is by default in the range of [-2^31;2^31-1]
to maximum of 2^32. But what we wanted was exactly an unsignedInt.
This plumbs in the XML description of iSCSI shares. The next patches
will add support for the libiscsi userspace initiator.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The storage volume formats supported by the disk storage pool are
missing from the allowed values.
Add partition types.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
iSCSI qualified names (iqn) from RFC3721 may contain colons (':'), which
neither matches the absFilePath nor genericName:
$ virsh pool-dumpxml myiscsipool
<pool type='iscsi'>
...
<source>
...
<device path='iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.phahn-sid93.x8664:sn.8a3daa0d4efd'/>
</source>
...
</pool>
Add IscsiQualifiedName type and allow its use in sourceiscsi.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This reuses the XML format that was introduced for Gluster.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
These are supported by nbd-server and by the NBD server that QEMU
embeds for live image access.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Qemu's implementation of virtio RNG supports rate limiting of the
entropy used. This patch exposes the option to tune this functionality.
This patch is based on qemu commit 904d6f588063fb5ad2b61998acdf1e73fb4
The rate limiting is exported in the XML as:
<devices>
...
<rng model='virtio'>
<rate bytes='123' period='1234'/>
<backend model='random'/>
</rng>
...
The native bus for s390 I/O is called CCW (channel command word).
As QEMU has added basic support for the CCW bus, i.e. the
ability to assign CCW devnos (bus addresses) to devices.
Domains with the new machine type s390-ccw-virtio can use the
CCW bus. Currently QEMU will only allow to define virtio
devices on the CCW bus.
Here we add the new machine type and the new device address to the
schema definition and add a new paragraph to the domain XML
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sparse LVM volumes do not behave in the way one would naively expect.
The allocation does not automatically increase (which is different from
how sparse files work).
'virsh capabilities' will now include a new <memory> element
per <cell> of the topology, as in:
<topology>
<cells num='2'>
<cell id='0'>
<memory unit='KiB'>12572412</memory>
<cpus num='12'>
...
</cell>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
There is some controversy[1] on the qemu list on whether qemu should
have ever allowed arbitrary file name passthrough, or whether it
should be restricted to JUST /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. It is
always easier to add support for additional filenames than it is
to remove support for something once released, so this patch
restricts libvirt 1.0.3 (where the virtio-random backend was first
supported) to just the two uncontroversial names, letting us defer
to a later date any decision on whether supporting arbitrary files
makes sense. Additionally, since qemu 1.4 does NOT support
/dev/fdset/nnn fd passthrough for the backend, limiting to just
two known names means that we don't get tempted to try fd
passthrough where it won't work.
[1]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/threads.html#00023
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainRNGDefParseXML): Only allow
/dev/random and /dev/hwrng.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Flag invalid files.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsRng): Document this.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args:
Update test to match.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml:
Likewise.
This reverts commit 383ebc4694.
We decided the xml for this feature needed more thought to make sure
we are doing it the best way, in particular wrt option values that
have multiple items.
Add qed for dirfs pool.
Add ocfs2 for disk pool.
Add lvm2 for disk and logical pool.
Add cifs and glusterfs for netfs pool.
Note: POOL_DISK_LVM2 can not be created by "parted mklabel", but is only
returned from auto-detection on disk pools.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This reverts commit 24aa7f8d11.
The implementation to match the documentation is not complete yet,
and the final design might change the name of the 'schid' attribute.
virStrToLong(..., 8, ...) already requires the mode to be octal.
Change the relax-ng schema to check for octal as well.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This patch documents XML elements used for (basic) support of virtual
RNG devices.
In the devices section in the domain XML users may specify:
For the default 'random' backend:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='random'>/dev/urandom</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
For the slightly more advanced EGD backend:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='egd' type='udp'>
<!-- this is a definition of a character device -->
<source mode='bind' service='1234'/>
<source mode='connect' host='1.2.3.4' service='1234'/>
<!-- or other valid character device configuration -->
</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
For the planned random daemon/pool:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='pool' pool='poolname'>class</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
to enable the RNG device for guests.
Originally, only a host name was used to associate a
DHCPv6 request with a specific IPv6 address. Further testing
demonstrates that this is an unreliable method and, instead,
a client-id or DUID needs to be used. According to DHCPv6
standards, this id can be a duid-LLT, duid-LL, or duid-UUID
even though dnsmasq will accept almost any text string.
Although validity checking of a specified string makes sure it is
hexadecimal notation with bytes separated by colons, there is no
rigorous check to make sure it meets the standard.
Documentation and schemas have been updated.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Although in IPv4 one must pick either mac or name, either
can be omitted. Similarly, for IPv6, the name
can be optionally omitted.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
This patch adds support for a new <option>-Tag in the <dhcp> block of
network configs, based on a subset of the fifth proposal by Laine
Stump in the mailing list discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-November/msg01054.html.
Any such defined option will result in a dhcp-option=<number>,"<value>"
statement in the generated dnsmasq configuration file.
Currently, DHCP options can be specified by number only and there is
no whitelisting or blacklisting of option numbers, which should
probably be added.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Hollants <pieter@hollants.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Let users set the port range to be used for forward mode NAT:
...
<forward mode='nat'>
<nat>
<port start='1024' end='65535'/>
</nat>
</forward>
...
Signed-off-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Support setting which public ip to use for NAT via attribute
address in subelement <nat> in <forward>:
...
<forward mode='nat'>
<address start='1.2.3.4' end='1.2.3.10'/>
</forward>
...
This will construct an iptables line using:
'-j SNAT --to-source <start>-<end>'
instead of:
'-j MASQUERADE'
Signed-off-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
The native bus for s390 I/O is called CCW (channel command word).
As QEMU has added basic support for the CCW bus, i.e. the
ability to assign CCW devnos (bus addresses) to devices.
Domains with the new machine type s390-ccw-virtio can use the
CCW bus. Currently QEMU will only allow to define virtio
devices on the CCW bus.
Here we add the new machine type and the new device address to the
schema definition and add a new paragraph to the domain XML
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
hacking: Add some text around the running of Valgrind along with example
output for "real" vs. "false positives".
cfg.mk: Add hacking.in.html to sc_prohibit_raw_allocation
Commit 6094ad7b (0.9.3 release) promoted several functions from
internal to public, but forgot to fix the documentation generator
to provide details about those functions.
For an example of what this fixes, look at:
file:///path/to/libvirt/docs/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virEventAddHandle
before and after the patch.
* docs/apibuild.py (ignored_functions): Don't ignore functions
that were turned into official API.
* src/util/virevent.c: Fix comments to pass through parser.
When an exception happened inside the try clause in serialize_function,
a new exception was raised in the except clause subsequently:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./apibuild.py", line 2529, in <module>
rebuild("libvirt")
File "./apibuild.py", line 2513, in rebuild
builder.serialize()
File "./apibuild.py", line 2467, in serialize
self.serialize_function(output, function)
File "./apibuild.py", line 2208, in serialize_function
self.warning("Failed to save function %s info: " % name, `id.info`)
TypeError: warning() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
Use the correct number of arguments for self.warning and print the
original exception to stderr.
Hosts for rbd are ceph monitor daemons. These have fixed IP addresses,
so they are often referenced by IP rather than hostname for
convenience, or to avoid relying on DNS. Using IPv4 addresses as the
host name works already, but IPv6 addresses require rbd-specific
escaping because the colon is used as an option separator in the
string passed to qemu.
Escape these colons, and enclose the IPv6 address in square brackets
so it is distinguished from the port, which is currently mandatory.
Acked-by: Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>
This patch adds RNG schemas for adding more information in the topology
output of the NUMA section in the capabilities XML.
The added elements are designed to provide more information about the
placement and topology of the processors in the system to management
applications.
A demonstration of supported XML added by this patch:
<capabilities>
<host>
<topology>
<cells num='3'>
<cell id='0'>
<cpus num='4'> <!-- this is node with Hyperthreading -->
<cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0-1'/>
<cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0-1'/>
<cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2-3'/>
<cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2-3'/>
</cpus>
</cell>
<cell id='1'>
<cpus num='4'> <!-- this is node with modules (Bulldozer) -->
<cpu id='4' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='4-5'/>
<cpu id='5' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='4-5'/>
<cpu id='6' socket_id='0' core_id='4' siblings='6-7'/>
<cpu id='7' socket_id='0' core_id='5' siblings='6-7'/>
</cpus>
</cell>
<cell id='2'>
<cpus num='4'> <!-- this is a normal multi-core node -->
<cpu id='8' socket_id='1' core_id='0' siblings='8'/>
<cpu id='9' socket_id='1' core_id='1' siblings='9'/>
<cpu id='10' socket_id='1' core_id='2' siblings='10'/>
<cpu id='11' socket_id='1' core_id='3' siblings='11'/>
</cpus>
</cell>
</cells>
</topology>
</host>
</capabilities>
The socket_id field represents identification of the physical socket the
CPU is plugged in. This ID may not be identical to the physical socket
ID reported by the kernel.
The core_id identifies a core within a socket. Also this field may not
accurately represent physical ID's.
The core_id is guaranteed to be unique within a cell and a socket. There
may be duplicates between sockets. Only cores sharing core_id within one
cell and one socket can be considered as threads. Cores sharing core_id
within sparate cells are distinct cores.
The siblings field is a list of CPU id's the cpu id's the CPU is sibling
with - thus a thread. The list is in the cpuset format.
Adds a "ram" attribute globally to the video.model element, that changes
the resulting qemu command line only if video.type == "qxl".
<video>
<model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
</video>
That attribute gets a default value of 64*1024. The schema is unchanged
for other video element types.
The resulting qemu command line change is the addition of
-global qxl-vga.ram_size=<ram>*1024
or
-global qxl.ram_size=<ram>*1024
For the main and secondary qxl devices respectively.
The default for the qxl ram bar is 64*1024 kilobytes (the same as the
default qxl vram bar size).
Use of <tt> is discouraged in HTML 4.x and has finally been obsoleted
in HTML 5. Likewise for the <i> tag.
Using tables for layout is (widely) considered bad style, too.
Use defintion lists, definition term and defintion description
elements instead.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Bley <cbley@av-test.de>
In CSS the following class names are available:
* keyword (keywords like "typedef", "struct")
* type (types like "int", "void*")
* comment (comments after members of enums or structs)
* directive (preprocessor directives, #define)
* undisclosed (text saying that the API is not public)
Additionally, kill all of the left-over "programlisting" class
assignments. There are no CSS rules for them.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Bley <cbley@av-test.de>
This patch introduces support for LXC specific public APIs. In
common with what was done for QEMU, this creates a libvirt_lxc.so
library and libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h header file.
The actual APIs are
int virDomainLxcOpenNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
int **fdlist,
unsigned int flags);
int virDomainLxcEnterNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
unsigned int nfdlist,
int *fdlist,
unsigned int *noldfdlist,
int **oldfdlist,
unsigned int flags);
which provide a way to use the setns() system call to move the
calling process into the container's namespace. It is not
practical to write in a generically applicable manner. The
nearest that we could get to such an API would be an API which
allows to pass a command + argv to be executed inside a
container. Even if we had such a generic API, this LXC specific
API is still useful, because it allows the caller to maintain
the current process context, in particular any I/O streams they
have open.
NB the virDomainLxcEnterNamespace() API is special in that it
runs client side, so does not involve the internal driver API.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
When parsing the top level comment of a file, apibuild.py used
to split on any ':' character of a line regarding the first part
as a key for a setting, e.g. "Summary". The second part would then
be assigned as the value for that key.
This means you could not use a ':' character inside those comments
without ill effects.
Now, a key must consist solely of alphanumeric characters, '_' or '.'.
I've noticed a number of people sending patches with file
renames not compressed, so we might as well document how to
set this up. (Git won't do it by default, for back-compat
reasons)
* docs/hacking.html.in: Add git config tip.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Add an optional 'type' attribute to <target> element of serial port
device. There are two choices for its value, 'isa-serial' and
'usb-serial'. For backward compatibility, when attribute 'type' is
missing the 'isa-serial' will be chosen as before.
Libvirt XML sample
<serial type='pty'>
<target type='usb-serial' port='0'/>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
</serial>
qemu commandline:
qemu ${other_vm_args} \
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 \
-device usb-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0,bus=usb.0,port=1
Libvirt's HTML documentation is not as easy to the eyes as it could
be since long text has no visual breaks.
Take advantage of the formatting in documentation comments and wrap
each part separated by two consecutive \n into a HTML <p> element.
The SCLP console is the native console type for s390 and is preferred
over the virtio console as it doesn't require special drivers and
is more efficient. Recent versions of QEMU come with SCLP support
which is hereby enabled.
The new target types 'sclp' and 'sclplm' can be used to specify a
SCLP console. Adding documentation, domain schema and XML processing
support.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This introduces new XML tag "sgio" for disk, its valid values
are "filtered" and "unfiltered", setting it as "filtered" will
set the disk's unpriv_sgio to 0, and "unfiltered" to set it
as 1, which allows the unprivileged SG_IO commands.
The <hostdev> device type has long had a redundant "mode"
attribute, which has always been "subsys". This finally
introduces a new mode "capabilities", which will be used
by the LXC driver for device assignment. Since container
based virtualization uses a single kernel, the idea of
assigning physical PCI devices doesn't make sense. It is
still reasonable to assign USB devices, but for assigning
arbitrary nodes in /dev, the new 'capabilities' mode is
to be used.
The first capability support is 'storage', which is for
assignment of block devices. Functionally this is really
pretty similar to the <disk> support. The only difference
is the device node name is identical in both host and
container namespaces.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='storage'>
<source>
<block>/dev/sdf1</block>
</source>
</hostdev>
The second capability support is 'misc', which is for
assignment of character devices. There is no existing
parallel to this. Again the device node is the same
inside & outside the container.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='misc'>
<source>
<char>/dev/input/event3</char>
</source>
</hostdev>
The reason for keeping the char & storage devices
separate in the domain XML, is to mirror the split
in the node device XML. NB the node device XML does
not yet report character devices, but that's another
new patch to come
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
If there are multiple video devices
primary = 'yes' marks this video device as the primary one.
The rest are secondary video devices. No more than one could be
mark as primary. If none of them has primary attribute, the first
one will be the primary by default like what it was.
The reason of this changing is that for qemu, only one primary video
device is permitted which can be of any type. For secondary video
devices, only qxl is allowd. Primary attribute removes the restriction
that the first have to be the primary one.
We always put the primary video device into the first position of
video device structure array after parsing.
This is however supported only on domain interfaces with
type='network'. Moreover, target network needs to have at least
inbound QoS set. This is required by hierarchical traffic shaping.
From now on, the required attribute for <inbound/> is either 'average'
(old) or 'floor' (new). This new attribute can be used just for
interfaces type of network (<interface type='network'/>) currently.
The DHCPv6 support includes IPV6 dhcp-range and dhcp-host for one
IPv6 subnetwork on one interface. This support will only work
if dnsmasq version >= 2.64; otherwise an error occurs if
dhcp-range or dhcp-host is specified for an IPv6 address.
Essentially, this change provides the same DHCP support for IPv6
that has been available for IPv4.
With dnsmasq >= 2.64, support for the RA service is also now provided
by dnsmasq (radvd is no longer used/started). (Although at least one
version of dnsmasq prior to 2.64 "supported" IPv6 Router
Advertisement, there were bugs (fixed in 2.64) that rendered it
unusable.)
Documentation and the network schema has been updated
to reflect the new support.
QEMU supports setting vendor and product strings for disk since
1.2.0 (only scsi-disk, scsi-hd, scsi-cd support it), this patch
exposes it with new XML elements <vendor> and <product> of disk
device.
Based on a patch originally authored by Daniel De Graaf
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00565.html
This patch converts the Xen libxl driver to support only Xen >= 4.2.
Support for Xen 4.1 libxl is dropped since that version of libxl is
designated 'technology preview' only and is incompatible with Xen 4.2
libxl. Additionally, the default toolstack in Xen 4.1 is still xend,
for which libvirt has a stable, functional driver.
This patch adds the capability for virtual guests to do IPv6
communication via a virtual network interface with no IPv6 (gateway)
addresses specified. This capability has always been enabled by
default for IPv4, but disabled for IPv6 for security concerns, and
because it requires the ip6tables command to be operational (which
isn't the case on a system with the ipv6 module completely disabled).
This patch adds a new attribute "ipv6" at the toplevel of a <network>
object. If ipv6='yes', the extra ip6tables rules required to permite
inter-guest communications are added when the network is started. If
it is 'no', or not present, those rules will not be added; thus the
default behavior doesn't change, so there should be no compatibility
issues with any existing installations.
Note that virtual guests cannot communication with the virtualization
host via this interface, because the following kernel tunable has
been set:
net.ipv6.conf.<bridge_interface_name>.disable_ipv6 = 1
This assures that the bridge interface will not have an IPv6
link-local (fe80::) address.
To control this behavior so that it is not enabled by default, the parameter
ipv6='yes' on the <network> statement has been added.
Documentation related to this patch has been updated.
The network schema has also been updated.
This patch introduces the RNG schema and updates necessary data strucutures
to allow various hypervisors to make use of Gluster protocol as one of the
supported network disk backend. Next patch will add support to make use of
this feature in Qemu since it now supports Gluster protocol as one of the
network based storage backend.
Two new optional attributes for <host> element are introduced - 'transport'
and 'socket'. Valid transport values are tcp, unix or rdma. If none specified,
tcp is assumed. If transport is unix, socket specifies path to unix socket.
This patch allows users to specify disks on gluster backends like this:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume1/image'>
<host name='example.org' port='6000' transport='tcp'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume2/image'>
<host transport='unix' socket='/path/to/sock'/>
</source>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Each <domainsnapshot> can now contain an optional <memory>
element that describes how the VM state was handled, similar
to disk snapshots. The new element will always appear in
output; for back-compat, an input that lacks the element will
assume 'no' or 'internal' according to the domain state.
Along with this change, it is now possible to pass <disks> in
the XML for an offline snapshot; this also needs to be wired up
in a future patch, to make it possible to choose internal vs.
external on a per-disk basis for each disk in an offline domain.
At that point, using the --disk-only flag for an offline domain
will be able to work.
For some examples below, remember that qemu supports the
following snapshot actions:
qemu-img: offline external and internal disk
savevm: online internal VM and disk
migrate: online external VM
transaction: online external disk
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='no'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
implies that there is no VM state saved (mandatory for
offline and disk-only snapshots, not possible otherwise);
using qemu-img for offline domains and transaction for online.
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='internal'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
state is saved inside one of the disks (as in qemu's 'savevm'
system checkpoint implementation). If needed in the future,
we can also add an attribute pointing out _which_ disk saved
the internal state; maybe disk='vda'.
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='external' file='/path/to/state'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
This is not wired up yet, but future patches will allow this to
control a combination of 'virsh save /path/to/state' plus disk
snapshots from the same point in time.
=====
So for 1.0.1 (and later, as needed), I plan to implement this table
of combinations, with '*' designating new code and '+' designating
existing code reached through new combinations of xml and/or the
existing DISK_ONLY flag:
domain memory disk disk-only | result
-----------------------------------------
offline omit omit any | memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline no omit any |+memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline omit/no no any | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
offline omit/no int any |+memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline omit/no ext any |*memory=no disk=ext, via qemu-img
offline int/ext any any | invalid combination (no memory to save)
online omit omit off | memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online omit omit on | memory=no disk=default, via transaction
online omit no/ext off | unsupported for now
online omit no on | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
online omit ext on | memory=no disk=ext, via transaction
online omit int off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online omit int on | unsupported for now
online no omit any |+memory=no disk=default, via transaction
online no no any | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
online no int any | unsupported for now
online no ext any |+memory=no disk=ext, via transaction
online int/ext any on | invalid combination (disk-only vs. memory)
online int omit off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online int no/ext off | unsupported for now
online int int off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online ext omit off |*memory=ext disk=default, via migrate+trans
online ext no off |+memory=ext disk=no, via migrate
online ext int off | unsupported for now
online ext ext off |*memory=ext disk=ext, via migrate+transaction
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (memory): New RNG element.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* src/conf/snapshot_conf.h (virDomainSnapshotDef): New fields.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefFree)
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString, virDomainSnapshotDefFormat):
Manage new fields.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmltest.c: New test.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/*.xml: Update existing tests.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/*.xml: Likewise.
This documents the following whitespace rules
if(foo) // Bad
if (foo) // Good
int foo (int wizz) // Bad
int foo(int wizz) // Good
bar = foo (wizz); // Bad
bar = foo(wizz); // Good
typedef int (*foo) (int wizz); // Bad
typedef int (*foo)(int wizz); // Good
int foo( int wizz ); // Bad
int foo(int wizz); // Good
There is a syntax-check rule extension to validate all these rules.
Checking for 'function (...args...)' is quite difficult since it
needs to ignore valid usage with keywords like 'if (...test...)'
and while/for/switch. It must also ignore source comments and
quoted strings.
It is not possible todo this with a simple regex in the normal
syntax-check style. So a short Perl script is created instead
to analyse the source. In practice this works well enough. The
only thing it can't cope with is multi-line quoted strings of
the form
"start of string\
more lines\
more line\
the end"
but this can and should be written as
"start of string"
"more lines"
"more line"
"the end"
with this simple change, the bracket checking script does not
have any false positives across libvirt source, provided it
is only run against .c files. It is not practical to run it
against .h files, since those use whitespace extensively to
get alignment (though this is somewhat inconsistent and could
arguably be fixed).
The only limitation is that it cannot detect a violation where
the first arg starts with a '*', eg
foo(*wizz);
since this generates too many false positives on function
typedefs which can't be supressed efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for the new release
* po/*.po*: update from transifex, a lot of added support e.g. Indian
languages, and regenerate
Also remove warnings for upcoming versions. There hadn't been any
compatibility problems with new ESX version over the whole lifetime
of the ESX driver, so I don't expect any in the future.
Update documentation to mention vSphere 5.x support.
On F17 at least, every time libvirtd starts we get this in syslog:
libvirtd: Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: No such file or directory
This comes from cyrus-sasl, and happens regardless of whether the
gssapi plugin is requested, which is what actually uses
/etc/libvirt/krb5.tab.
While cyrus-sasl shouldn't complain, we can easily make it shut up by
commenting out the keytab value by default.
Also update the keytab comment to the more modern one from qemu's
sasl config file.
At one point, the code passed through arbitrary strings for file
formats, which supposedly lets qemu handle a new file type even
before libvirt has been taught to handle it. However, to properly
label files, libvirt has to learn the file type anyway, so we
might as well make our life easier by only accepting file types
that we are prepared to handle. This patch lets the RNG validation
ensure that only known strings are let through.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (driverFormat): Limit to list of
supported strings.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (driver): Likewise.
Hypervisors are starting to support HyperV Enlightenment features that
improve behavior of guests running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
This patch adds support for the "relaxed" feature that improves timer
behavior and also establishes a framework to add these features in
future.
Given Daniel's announcement[1], code targetting the next release will
be in 1.0.0, not 0.10.3. Changed mechanically with:
for f in $(git grep -l '0\(.\)10\13\b') ; do
sed -i -e 's/0\(.\)10\13/1\10\10/g' $f
done
[1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg00403.html
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use 1.0.0 for next release.
* src/interface/interface_backend_udev.c: Likewise.
These 3 elements conflicts with each other in either the doc
or the underlying codes.
Current problems:
Problem 1:
The doc shouldn't simply say "These settings are superseded
by CPU tuning. " for element <vcpu>. As except the tuning, <vcpu>
allows to specify the current, maxmum vcpu number. Apart from that,
<vcpu> also allows to specify the placement as "auto", which binds
the domain process to the advisory nodeset from numad.
Problem 2:
Doc for <vcpu> says its "cpuset" specify the physical CPUs
that the vcpus can be pinned. But it's not the truth, as
actually it only pin domain process to the specified physical
CPUs. So either it's a document bug, or code bug.
Problem 3:
Doc for <vcpupin> says it supersed "cpuset" of <vcpu>, it's
not quite correct, as each <vcpupin> specify the pinning policy
only for one vcpu. How about the ones which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified? it says the vcpu will be pinned to all
available physical CPUs, but what's the meaning of attribute
"cpuset" of <vcpu> then?
Problem 4:
Doc for <emulatorpin> says it pin the emulator threads (domain
process in other context, perhaps another follow up patch to
cleanup the inconsistency is needed) to the physical CPUs
specified its attribute "cpuset". Which conflicts with
<vcpu>'s "cpuset". And actually in the underlying codes,
it set the affinity for domain process twice if both
"cpuset" for <vcpu> and <emulatorpin> are specified,
and <emulatorpin>'s pinning will override <vcpu>'s.
Problem 5:
When "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto" (I.e. uses numad to
get the advisory nodeset to which the domain process is
pinned to), it will also be overridden by <emulatorpin>,
This patch is trying to sort out the conflicts or bugs by:
1) Don't say <vcpu> is superseded by <cputune>
2) Keep the semanteme for "cpuset" of <vcpu> (I.e. Still says it
specify the physical CPUs the virtual CPUs). But modifying it
to mention it also set the pinning policy for domain process,
and the CPU placement of domain process specified by "cpuset"
of <vcpu> will be ingored if <emulatorpin> specified, and
similary, the CPU placement of vcpu thread will be ignored
if it has <vcpupin> specified, for vcpu which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified, it inherits "cpuset" of <vcpu>.
3) Don't say <vcpu> is supersed by <vcpupin>. If neither <vcpupin>
nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified, the vcpu will be pinned
to all available pCPUs.
4) If neither <emulatorpin> nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified,
the domain process (emulator threads in the context) will be
pinned to all available pCPUs.
5) If "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto", <emulatorpin> is not allowed.
6) hotplugged vcpus will also inherit "cpuset" of <vcpu>
Codes changes according to above document changes:
1) Inherit def->cpumask for each vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin>
specified, during parsing.
2) ping the vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin> specified to def->cpumask
either by cgroup for sched_setaffinity(2), which is actually done
by 1).
3) Error out if "placement" == "auto", and <emulatorpin> is specified.
Otherwise, <emulatorpin> is honored, and "cpuset" of <cpuset> is
ignored.
4) Setup cgroup for each hotplugged vcpu, and setup the pinning policy
by either cgroup or sched_setaffinity(2).
5) Remove cgroup and <vcpupin> for each hot unplugged vcpu.
Patches are following (6 in total except this patch)
When startupPolicy set for a USB devices allows such device to be
missing, there was no way this could be detected from domain XML. With
this patch, libvirt emits a new missing='yes' attribute for such devices
when active domain XML is generated.
USB devices can disappear without OS being mad about it, which makes
them ideal for startupPolicy. With this attribute, USB devices can be
configured to be mandatory (the default), requisite (will disappear
during migration if they cannot be found), or completely optional.
While the changes to sanlock driver should be stable, the actual
implementation of sanlock_helper is supposed to be replaced in the
future. However, before we can implement a better sanlock_helper, we
need an administrative interface to libvirtd so that the helper can just
pass a "leases lost" event to the particular libvirt driver and
everything else will be taken care of internally. This approach will
also allow libvirt to pass such event to applications and use
appropriate reasons when changing domain states.
The temporary implementation handles all actions directly by calling
appropriate libvirt APIs (which among other things means that it needs
to know the credentials required to connect to libvirtd).
While current on_{poweroff,reboot,crash} action configuration is about
configuring life cycle actions, they can all be considered events and
actions that need to be done on a particular event. Let's generalize the
code by renaming life cycle actions to event actions so that it can be
reused later for non-lifecycle events.
Use of the wrong attribute name caused the table of contents to
be useless. Fix suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.
* docs/migration.html.in: Use correct anchoring attribute.
