We always tried to install backing store for the image even if it didn't
make sense, e.g. for a full backup into a raw image. Additionally we
didn't record the backing file into the qcow2 metadata so the image
itself contained the diff of data but reading from it would be
incomplete as it depends on the backing image.
This patch fixes both issues by carefully installing the correct backing
file when appropriate and also recording it into the metadata when
creating the image.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1813310
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We've adopted reStructuredText as the primary markup language for
our documentation and, given that both GitLab and GitHub can render
documents in this format just fine, it makes sense to get rid of
the few last remaining bits of Markdown and standardize on
reStructuredText across the board.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This is the last missing g_autofree conversion change in the module after
commit 1e2ae2e311 took care of the VIR_AUTOFREE conversion.
Signed-off-by: Seeteena Thoufeek <s1seetee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Travis CI reports
root: deprecated key sudo (The key `sudo` has no effect anymore.)
so let's drop it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
All information, except for osx_image image, is identical between
the two jobs so we can avoid repeating it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The newly-introduced CONTRIBUTING.rst serves the same purposes and
lives in the path where most people would look for it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
It's generally expected that a git repository will contain this file,
which serves as an entry point for people interested in contributing
to the project.
In our case, we have extensive documentation available on the
website which we don't want to duplicate, so let's just point people
there.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Before this patch we would simply rely on QEMU failing to attach the
device. Since we have a flag in the address set telling us which
controllers support hotplug, we can fail the operation sooner.
This also assures that when hotplugging with no provided PCI address,
that we skip any controllers with hotplug='off', and attempt to assign
the device to a controller that not only supports hotplug, but also
has it enabled.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The HOTPLUGGABLE flag is set for appropriates buses in a PCI address
set, and thnis patch updates virDomainPCIAddressFlagsCompatible() to
check the HOTPLUGGABLE flag when searching for a suitable bus/slot for
a device. No devices request HOTPLUGGABLE though (yet), so there is no
observable effect.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
virDomainPCIAddressBusSetModel() is called for each PCI controller
when building an address set prior to assiging PCI addresses to
devices.
This patch adds a new argument, allowHotplug, to that function that
can be set to false if we know for certain that a particular
controller won't support hotplug
The most interesting case is in qemuDomainPCIAddressSetCreate(), where
the config of each existing controller is available while building the
address set, so we can appropriately set allowHotplug = false when the
user has "hotplug='off'" in the config of a controller that normally
would support hotplug. In all other cases, it is set to true or false
in accordance with the capability of the controller model.
So far we aren't doing anything with this bus flag in the address set.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Old behavior: If the address was manually provided by config, copy
device AUTOASSIGN flag into the bus flag, and then later on in the
function *always* check for a match of the flags (which will always
match if the address came from config, since we just copied it).
New behavior: Don't mess with the bus flags - just directly check if
the AUTOASSIGN flag matches in bus and dev, but only make the check if
the address didn't come from config (i.e. it was auto-assigned by
libvirt).
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
When the HOTPLUGGABLE flag was originally added, it was set for all
the PCI controllers that accepted hotplugged devices, and requested
for all devices that were auto-assigned to a controller. While we're
still autoassigning to the same list of controllers, those controllers
may or may not support hotplug, so let's use the flag that fits what
we're actually doing.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This new flag will be set for any controller that we decide can have
devices assigned to it automatically during PCI device assignment. In
the past PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_HOTPLUGGABLE was used for this purpose, but
that is overloading that flag, and no longer technically correct; what
we *really* want is to auto-assign devices to any pcie-root-port or
pcie-switch-downstream-port regardless of whether or not that
controller happens to have hotplug enabled.
This patch just adds the flag, but doesn't use it at all. Note that
the numbering of all the other flags was changed in order to insert
the new flag near the beginning of the list; that doesn't cause any
problem because the connect flags aren't stored anywhere between runs
of libvirtd.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
If a pcie-root-port or pcie-downstream-port has hotplug='off' in its
<target> subelement, and if the qemu binary supports the hotplug=false
option, then it will be added to the commandline for the pcie
controller. This controller will then not allow any hotplug/unplug of
devices while the guest is running (and the hotplug capability won't
be advertised to the guest OS, so the guest OS also won't present
unplugging of PCI devices as an option).
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'>
<target hotplug='off'/>
</controller>
For any PCI controllers other than pcie-downstream-port and
pcie-root-port, of for qemu binaries that don't support the hotplug
commandline option, an error will be logged during validation.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
a <controller type='pci'...> element can now have a "hotplug"
attribute in the <target> subelement. This is intended to control
whether or not the slot(s) of the controller support
hotplugging/unplugging a device:
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'>
<target hotplug='off'/>
</controller>
The default value of hotplug is "on".
Since support for configuring such an option is hypervisor-dependent
(and will vary among different types of PCI controllers even on a
single hypervisor), no validation is done in this patch - that
validation will be done in the patch that wires support for the
setting into the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This caps flag is set when the qemu binary supports the option
"hotplug" for pcie-root-port, ioh3420 (Intel pcie-root-port) and
xio3130-downstream (Intel pcie-downstream-port). If it's available,
it's possible to disable hotplugging/unplugging devices on a
particular port by adding ",hotplug=off" to the qemu device
commandline. This option first appears in qemu-5.0.0.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In a guest with only one vcpu, when pinning the emulator in say CPU184
and the vcpu0 in CPU0 of the host, the user might expect that only
CPU0 and CPU184 of the host will be used by the guest.
The reality is that Libvirt takes some time to honor the emulator
and vcpu pinning, taking care of NUMA constraints first. This will
result in other CPUs of the host being potentially used by the
QEMU thread until the emulator/vcpu pinning is done. The user
then might be confused by the output of 'virsh cpu-stats' in this
scenario, showing around 200 microseconds of cycles being spent
in other CPUs.
Let's document this behavior, which is explained in detail in
Libvirt commit v5.0.0-199-gf136b83139, in the cputune section
of formatdomain.html.in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Add support in the domXML<->native config converter for max_event_channels.
The parser and formater functions for max_grant_frames were reworked to
also parse max_event_channels. In doing so the xenbus controller is added
earlier in the config parsing, requiring a small adjustment to one of the
existing tests. Include a new test for the event channel conversion.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add support for setting event_channels in libxl domain config object and
include a test to check that it is properly converted from XML to libxl
domain config.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Event channels are like PV interrupts and in conjuction with grant frames
form a data transfer mechanism for PV drivers. They are also used for
inter-processor interrupts. Guests with a large number of vcpus and/or
many PV devices many need to increase the maximum default value of 1023.
For this reason the native Xen config format supports the
'max_event_channels' setting. See xl.cfg(5) man page for more details.
Similar to the existing maxGrantFrames option, add a new xenbus controller
option 'maxEventChannels', allowing to adjust the maximum value via libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
One new company has contributed to libvirt since the last time
the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Help people to see where to report bugs when they download a libvirt
release.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To discourage people from using the git mirror links, style them in a
smaller italic font, with plain colour.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Change the download page so that gitlab is referred to as the primary
git host and libvirt.org is related to mirror status.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently we use the "Virtualization Tools" product in Red Hat Bugzilla
for issue tracking upstream. This changes to point people to GitLab for
issue tracking.
Note that Bugzilla still has plenty of bugs present against libvirt.
Triaging these to determine what is still valid will be a separate
exercise. Bugzilla will be locked to prevent creation of new issues
meanwhile.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The libvirt project has alot of git repositories, and they must all be
configured in the same way, more or less. This page documents the
settings changes that I have made in GitLab and GitHub when configuring
projects, both as a reminder for myself, and to help anyone else doing
the same in future. Also included is info about the repo mirroring on
the libvirt.org server.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To encourage contributors to make changes to the main website, add a
footer link to every page which links to the corresponding source file
in git. With gitlab, they are able to edit content directly in the web
browser and then submit a merge request. This gives a way to contribute
content that is arguably easier than our wiki which requires manual
account creation, while this will also benefit from maintainer review.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The signatures of these two CPU model differ only in stepping as both
report family 6 and model 85. Skylake-Server uses stepping 4 or less and
Cascadelake-Server uses stepping 5..7.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1761678
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Skylake-Server with family 6, model 85, stepping 4, which is currently
mis-detected as Cascadelake-Server CPU model.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
CPU models defined in the cpu_map can use signature/@stepping attribute
to match a limited set of stepping numbers. The value is a bitmap for
bits 0..15 each corresponding to a single stepping value. For example,
stepping='4-6,9' will match 4, 5, 6, and 9. Omitting the attribute is
equivalent to stepping='0-15'.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Thanks to glib allocation functions which abort on OOM the function
cannot ever return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The CPU models in our cpu_map define their signatures using separate
family and model numbers. Let's store the signatures in the same way in
our runtime representation of the cpu_map.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
It can be used for separating family, model, and stepping numbers from a
single 32b integer as reported by CPUID.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The function will be used for freeing virCPUx86Signatures structure
introduced later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Later in this series the function will work on a newly introduced
virCPUx86Signatures structure. Let's move it to the place where all
related functions will be added and rename the function as
virCPUx86SignaturesFormat for easier review of the virCPUx86Signatures
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Later in this series the function will work on a newly introduced
virCPUx86Signatures structure. Let's move it to the place were all
related functions will be added and rename the function as
virCPUx86SignaturesMatch for easier review of the virCPUx86Signatures
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Later in this series the function will work on a newly introduced
virCPUx86Signatures structure. Let's move it to the place were all
related functions will be added and rename the function as
virCPUx86SignaturesCopy for easier review of the virCPUx86Signatures
patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
