The OEM strings table in SMBIOS allows the vendor to pass arbitrary
strings into the guest OS. This can be used as a way to pass data to an
application like cloud-init, or potentially as an alternative to the
kernel command line for OS installers where you can't modify the install
ISO image to change the kernel args.
As an example, consider if cloud-init and anaconda supported OEM strings
you could use something like
<oemStrings>
<entry>cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/</entry>
<entry>anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os</entry>
</oemStrings>
use of a application specific prefix as illustrated above is
recommended, but not mandated, so that an app can reliably identify
which of the many OEM strings are targetted at it.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
As usual, a bunch of changes slipped through the cracks during the
development cycle. Update the release notes to include at least the
most notable ones.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Migration never removes any configuration files on the destination host.
Thus when the domain is already defined on the destination, it will stay
persistent even after migration without --persist.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514930
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
The Fedora mingw support is all merged in Fedora repos, so remove the
outdated link.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Change all links to https:// where the remote site supports it. Fix URLs for
a few packages that moved, and delete entries which appear to be dead.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently we only describe setting the CN field for server certs. This leads
to inevitable pain for users who set it to the fully qualified hostname and
then use a unqualified hostname or IP address to connect in the URI. Describe
the usage of Subject Alt Name extensions, to provide multiple hostnames and
IP addresses. This will help users avoid the classic mistake and is important
future proofing, since at least in browsers, TLS libraries no longer use the
CN field for validation, mandating use of SAN info instead.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The contents of a <rule> are a choice of exactly one union member. The
RNG schema, however, was allowing an arbitrary number of instances of every
union member at once.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The 'wiremode' attribute exists in a couple of Xen XML files, but no code has
ever parsed that value. It was later added to the RNG schema too, again despite
there not being any code which parses it.
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The libxlxml2domconfigdata directory was not covered in the RNG schema
tests. This hid a few bugs in both the libxl XML files and the RNG
schema itself.
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Introduce specific a target types with two models for the console
devices (sclp and sclplm) used in s390 and s390x guests, so isa-serial
is no more used for them.
This makes <serial> usable on s390 and s390x guests, with at most only
a single sclpconsole and one sclplmconsole devices usable in a single
guest (due to limitations in QEMU, which will enforce already at
runtime).
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449265
Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
We can finally introduce a specific target model for the pl011 device
used by mach-virt guests, which means isa-serial will no longer show
up to confuse users.
We make sure migration works in both directions by interpreting the
isa-serial target type, or the lack of target type, appropriately
when parsing the guest XML, and skipping the newly-introduced type
when formatting if for migration. We also verify that pl011 is not
used for non-mach-virt guests and add a bunch of test cases.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151292
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
We can finally introduce a specific target model for the spapr-vty
device used by pSeries guests, which means isa-serial will no longer
show up to confuse users.
We make sure migration works in both directions by interpreting the
isa-serial target type, or the lack of target type, appropriately
when parsing the guest XML, and skipping the newly-introduced type
when formatting if for migration. We also verify that spapr-vty is
not used for non-pSeries guests and add a bunch of test cases.
This commit is best viewed with 'git show -w'.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511421
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This information will be used to select, and store in the guest
configuration in order to guarantee ABI stability, the concrete
(hypervisor-specific) model for serial devices.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Our current documentation is missing some information and doesn't
do a great job at explaining how the <serial> and <console> elements
are connected. Let's try to fix that.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Since we already have such support for libxl all we need is qemu
driver adjustment. And a test case.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Starting from qemu 2.11, the `-device vmcoreinfo` will create a fw_cfg
entry for a guest to store dump details, necessary to process kernel
dump with KASLR enabled and providing additional kernel details.
In essence, it is similar to -fw_cfg name=etc/vmcoreinfo,file=X but in
this case it is not backed by a file, but collected by QEMU itself.
Since the device is a singleton and shouldn't use additional hardware
resources, it is presented as a <feature> element in the libvirt
domain XML.
The device is arm/x86 only for now (targets that support fw_cfg+dma).
Related to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395248
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
While we have collective knowledge about the support status of various
parts of libvirt, this has never been formally documented, leaving our
users to guess.
Note, this document makes one change to our previous policy. It explicitly
declares the RPC protocol of libvirtd as being a supported interface. THis
accepts the reality that we can a) never change it without breaking compat
with old libvirt.so, b) there are both rust + go impls that are written
against the RPC protocol already.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The XML namespace URI for the QEMU/LXC drivers must use http as the protocol
otherwise it won't match the parser's expectations.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
In the definition of virHookQemuOpType and virHookNetworkOpType,
we should use 'stopped' rather than 'shutdown'.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>
Most of the time it's okay to leave this up to negotiation between
the guest and the host, but in some situations it can be useful to
manually decide the behavior, especially to enforce its availability.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308743
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Add two new entries under new features for 3.10.0. One
advertising support for specifying distance between vNUMA cells
and another advertising Xen's support for vNUMA configuration.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add support for describing NUMA distances in a domain's <numa> <cell>
XML description.
Below is an example of a 4 node setup:
<cpu>
<numa>
<cell id='0' cpus='0-3' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='10'/>
<sibling id='1' value='21'/>
<sibling id='2' value='31'/>
<sibling id='3' value='21'/>
</distances>
</cell>
<cell id='1' cpus='4-7' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='21'/>
<sibling id='1' value='10'/>
<sibling id='2' value='21'/>
<sibling id='3' value='31'/>
</distances>
</cell>
<cell id='2' cpus='8-11' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='31'/>
<sibling id='1' value='21'/>
<sibling id='2' value='10'/>
<sibling id='3' value='21'/>
</distances>
<cell id='3' cpus='12-15' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='21'/>
<sibling id='1' value='31'/>
<sibling id='2' value='21'/>
<sibling id='3' value='10'/>
</distances>
</cell>
</numa>
</cpu>
A <cell> defines a NUMA node. <distances> describes the NUMA distance
from the <cell> to the other NUMA nodes (the <sibling>s). For example,
in above XML description, the distance between NUMA node0 <cell id='0'
...> and NUMA node2 <sibling id='2' ...> is 31.
Valid distance values are '10 <= value <= 255'. A distance value of 10
represents the distance to the node itself. A distance value of 20
represents the default value for remote nodes but other values are
possible depending on the physical topology of the system.
When distances are not fully described, any missing sibling distance
values will default to 10 for local nodes and 20 for remote nodes.
If distance is given for A -> B, then we default B -> A to the same
value instead of 20.
Signed-off-by: Wim ten Have <wim.ten.have@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
* libvirt no longer supports vbox <= 3.x
* update XML definition sample to show how to attach disks to VBOX's SAS
controller and how to change IDE controller model.
* update XML to show how to create RDP display with autoport.
Right-aligning backslashes when defining macros or using complex
commands in Makefiles looks cute, but as soon as any changes is
required to the code you end up with either distractingly broken
alignment or unnecessarily big diffs where most of the changes
are just pushing all backslashes a few characters to one side.
Generated using
$ git grep -El '[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]\\$' | \
grep -E '*\.([chx]|am|mk)$$' | \
while read f; do \
sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]*[[:blank:]]\\$/ \\/g' "$f"; \
done
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
