Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow it
query the ethtool interface for the availability
of certain NIC HW offload features
Here is an example of the feature XML definition:
<device>
<name>net_eth4_90_e2_ba_5e_a5_45</name>
<path>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:08:00.1/net/eth4</path>
<parent>pci_0000_08_00_1</parent>
<capability type='net'>
<interface>eth4</interface>
<address>90:e2:ba:5e:a5:45</address>
<link speed='10000' state='up'/>
<feature name='rx'/>
<feature name='tx'/>
<feature name='sg'/>
<feature name='tso'/>
<feature name='gso'/>
<feature name='gro'/>
<feature name='rxvlan'/>
<feature name='txvlan'/>
<feature name='rxhash'/>
<capability type='80203'/>
</capability>
</device>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
In commit edd1295e1d I've introduced an
XML element that allows to configure state of the network interface
link. Somehow the RNG schema hunk ended up in a weird place in the
network schema definition. Move it to the right place and add a test
case.
Note that the link state is set up via the monitor at VM startup so I
originally didn't think of adding a test case.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173468
The element wasn't declared under the interleave thus it was required
always to be first. This made it inconvenient when pasting new stuff to
the XML manually in the "wrong" place.
The "virtio-mmio" is perfectly valid address type which we parse and
format correctly, but it's missing in our RNG schemas, hence editing a
domain with device having such address fails the validation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
At least Xen supports backend drivers in another domain (aka "driver
domain"). This patch introduces an XML config option for specifying the
backend domain name for <disk> and <interface> devices. E.g.
<disk>
<backenddomain name='diskvm'/>
...
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<backenddomain name='netvm'/>
...
</interface>
In the future, same option will be needed for USB devices (hostdev
objects), but for now libxl doesn't have support for PVUSB.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Add an XML attribute to allow disabling merge of rx buffers
on the host:
<interface ...>
...
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver ...>
<host mrg_rxbuf='off'/>
</driver>
</interface>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186886
In order for QEMU vCPU (and other) threads to run with RT scheduler,
libvirt needs to take care of that so QEMU doesn't have to run privileged.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178986
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
In our RNG schema we do allow multiple (different) seclabels per-domain,
but don't allow this for devices, yet we neither have a check in our XML parser,
nor in a post-parse callback. In that case we should allow multiple
(different) seclabels for devices as well.
There are some interface types (notably 'server' and 'client')
which instead of allowing the default set of elements and
attributes (like the rest do), try to enumerate only the elements
they know of. This way it's, however, easy to miss something. For
instance, the <address/> element was not mentioned at all. This
resulted in a strange behavior: when such interface was added
into XML, the address was automatically generated by parsing
code. Later, the formatted XML hasn't passed the RNG schema. This
became more visible once we've turned on the XML validation on
domain XML changes: appending an empty line at the end of
formatted XML (to trick virsh think the XML had changed) made
libvirt to refuse the very same XML it formatted.
Instead of trying to find each element and attribute we are
missing in the schema, lets just allow all the elements and
attributes like we're doing that for the rest of types. It's no
harm if the schema is wider than our parser allows.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130390
The listen address is not mandatory for <interface type='server'>
but when it's not specified, we've been formatting it as:
-netdev socket,listen=(null):5558,id=hostnet0
which failed with:
Device 'socket' could not be initialized
Omit the address completely and only format the port in the listen
attribute.
Also fix the schema to allow specifying a model.
This adds a new "localOnly" attribute on the domain element of the
network xml. With this set to "yes", DNS requests under that domain
will only be resolved by libvirt's dnsmasq, never forwarded upstream.
This was how it worked before commit f69a6b987d, and I found that
functionality useful. For example, I have my host's NetworkManager
dnsmasq configured to forward that domain to libvirt's dnsmasq, so I can
easily resolve guest names from outside. But if libvirt's dnsmasq
doesn't know a name and forwards it to the host, I'd get an endless
forwarding loop. Now I can set localOnly="yes" to prevent the loop.
Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Ploop is a pseudo device which makeit possible to access
to an image in a file as a block device. Like loop devices,
but with additional features, like snapshots, write tracker
and without double-caching.
It used in PCS for containers and in OpenVZ. You can manage
ploop devices and images with ploop utility
(http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop).
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
QEMU supports feature specification with -cpu host and we just skip
using that. Since QEMU developers themselves would like to use this
feature, this patch modifies the code to work.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178850
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Make use of the ebtables functionality to be able to filter certain
parameters of icmpv6 packets. Extend the XML parser for icmpv6 types,
type ranges, codes, and code ranges. Extend the nwfilter documentation,
schema, and test cases.
Being able to filter icmpv6 types and codes helps extending the DHCP
snooper for IPv6 and filtering at least some parameters of IPv6's NDP
(Neighbor Discovery Protocol) packets. However, the filtering will not
be as good as the filtering of ARP packets since we cannot
check on IP addresses in the payload of the NDP packets.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add the possibility to have more than one IP address configured for a
domain network interface. IP addresses can also have a prefix to define
the corresponding netmask.
Volume and pool formatting functions took different approaches to
unspecified uids/gids. When unknown, it is always parsed as -1, but one
of the functions formatted it as unsigned int (wrong) and one as
int (better). Due to that, our two of our XML files from tests cannot
be parsed on 32-bit machines.
RNG schema needs to be modified as well, but because both
storagepool.rng and storagevol.rng need same schema for permission
element, save some space by moving it to storagecommon.rng.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
The macTableManager attribute of a network's bridge subelement tells
libvirt how the bridge's MAC address table (used to determine the
egress port for packets) is managed. In the default mode, "kernel",
management is left to the kernel, which usually determines entries in
part by turning on promiscuous mode on all ports of the bridge,
flooding packets to all ports when the correct destination is unknown,
and adding/removing entries to the fdb as it sees incoming traffic
from particular MAC addresses. In "libvirt" mode, libvirt turns off
learning and flooding on all the bridge ports connected to guest
domain interfaces, and adds/removes entries according to the MAC
addresses in the domain interface configurations. A side effect of
turning off learning and unicast_flood on the ports of a bridge is
that (with Linux kernel 3.17 and newer), the kernel can automatically
turn off promiscuous mode on one or more of the bridge's ports
(usually only the one interface that is used to connect the bridge to
the physical network). The result is better performance (because
packets aren't being flooded to all ports, and can be dropped earlier
when they are of no interest) and slightly better security (a guest
can still send out packets with a spoofed source MAC address, but will
only receive traffic intended for the guest interface's configured MAC
address).
The attribute looks like this in the configuration:
<network>
<name>test</name>
<bridge name='br0' macTableManager='libvirt'/>
...
This patch only adds the config knob, documentation, and test
cases. The functionality behind this knob is added in later patches.
Add attribute to set vgamem_mb parameter of QXL device for QEMU. This
value sets the size of VGA framebuffer for QXL device. Default value in
QEMU is 8MB so reuse it also in libvirt to not break things.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076098
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
To be able to express some use cases of the RBD backing with libvirt, we
need to be able to specify a config file for the RBD client to qemu as
that is one of the commonly used options.
Some storage systems have internal support for snapshots. Libvirt should
be able to select a correct snapshot when starting a VM.
This patch adds a XML element to select a storage source snapshot for
the RBD protocol which supports this feature.
To track state of virtio channels this patch adds a new output-only
attribute called 'state' to the <target> element of virtio channels.
This will be later populated with the guest state of the channel.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160926
Introduce a 'managed' attribute to allow libvirt to decide whether to
delete a vHBA vport created via external means such as nodedev-create.
The code currently decides whether to delete the vHBA based solely on
whether the parent was provided at creation time. However, that may not
be the desired action, so rather than delete and force someone to create
another vHBA via an additional nodedev-create allow the configuration of
the storage pool to decide the desired action.
During createVport when libvirt does the VPORT_CREATE, set the managed
value to YES if not already set to indicate to the deleteVport code that
it should delete the vHBA when the pool is destroyed.
If libvirtd is restarted all the memory only state was lost, so for a
persistent storage pool, use the virStoragePoolSaveConfig in order to
write out the managed value.
Because we're now saving the current configuration, we need to be sure
to not save the parent in the output XML if it was undefined at start.
Saving the name would cause future starts to always use the same parent
which is not the expected result when not providing a parent. By not
providing a parent, libvirt is expected to find the best available
vHBA port for each subsequent (re)start.
At deleteVport, use the new managed value to decide whether to execute
the VPORT_DELETE. Since we no longer save the parent in memory or in
XML when provided, if it was not provided, then we have to look it up.
Modify the structure _virDomainBlockIoTuneInfo to support these the new
options.
Change the initialization of the variable expectedInfo in qemumonitorjsontest.c
to avoid compiling problem.
Add documentation about the new xml options
Signed-off-by: Matthias Gatto <matthias.gatto@outscale.com>
CPU numa topology implicitly allows memory specification in 'KiB'.
Enabling this to accept the 'unit' in which memory needs to be specified.
This now allows users to specify memory in units of choice, and
lists the same in 'KiB' -- just like other 'memory' elements in XML.
<numa>
<cell cpus='0-3' memory='1024' unit='MiB' />
<cell cpus='4-7' memory='1024' unit='MiB' />
</numa>
Also augment test cases to correctly model NUMA memory specification.
This adds the tag 'unit="KiB"' for memory attribute in NUMA cells.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This new attribute will control whether or not libvirt will pay
attention to guest notifications about changes to network device mac
addresses and receive filters. The default for this is 'no' (for
security reasons). If it is set to 'yes' *and* the specified device
model and connection support it (currently only macvtap+virtio) then
libvirt will watch for NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED events, and when it
receives one, it will issue a query-rx-filter command, retrieve the
result, and modify the host-side macvtap interface's mac address and
unicast/multicast filters accordingly.
The functionality behind this attribute will be in a later patch. This
patch merely adds the attribute to the top-level of a domain's
<interface> as well as to <network> and <portgroup>, and adds
documentation and schema/xml2xml tests. Rather than adding even more
test files, I've just added the net attribute in various applicable
places of existing test files.
This patch adds parsing/formatting code as well as documentation for
shared memory devices. This will currently be only accessible in QEMU
using it's ivshmem device, but is designed as generic as possible to
allow future expansion for other hypervisors.
In the devices section in the domain XML users may specify:
- For shmem device using a server:
<shmem name='shmem0'>
<server path='/tmp/socket-ivshmem0'/>
<size unit='M'>32</size>
<msi vectors='32' ioeventfd='on'/>
</shmem>
- For ivshmem device not using an ivshmem server:
<shmem name='shmem1'>
<size unit='M'>32</size>
</shmem>
Most of the configuration is made optional so it also allows
specifications like:
<shmem name='shmem1/>
<shmem name='shmem2'>
<server/>
</shmem>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
According to our documentation logical pool supports formats 'auto' and
'lvm2'. However, in storage_conf.c we previously defined storage pool
formats: unknown, lvm2. Due to backward compatibility reasons
we must continue refer to pool format type 'unknown' instead of 'auto'.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123767
Add options for tuning segment offloading:
<driver>
<host csum='off' gso='off' tso4='off' tso6='off'
ecn='off' ufo='off'/>
<guest csum='off' tso4='off' tso6='off' ecn='off' ufo='off'/>
</driver>
which control the respective host_ and guest_ properties
of the virtio-net device.
- Provide an implementation for buildPool and deletePool operations
for the ZFS storage backend.
- Add VIR_STORAGE_POOL_SOURCE_DEVICE flag to ZFS pool poolOptions
as now we can specify devices to build pool from
- storagepool.rng: add an optional 'sourceinfodev' to 'sourcezfs' and
add an optional 'target' to 'poolzfs' entity
- Add a couple of tests to storagepoolxml2xmltest
Check to see if the UEFI binary mentioned in qemu.conf actually
exists, and if so expose it in domcapabilities like
<loader ...>
<value>/path/to/ovmf</value>
</loader>
We introduce some generic domcaps infrastructure for handling
a dynamic list of string values, it may be of use for future bits.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
As of 542899168c we learned libvirt to use UEFI for domains.
However, management applications may firstly query if libvirt
supports it. And this is where virConnectGetDomainCapabilities()
API comes handy.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
For tuning the network, alternative devices
for creating tap and vhost devices can be specified via:
<backend tap='/dev/net/tun' vhost='/dev/net-vhost'/>
I noticed this with the recent iothread pinning code, but the
problem existed longer than that. The XML validation required
users to supply <cputune> children in a strict order, even though
there was no conceptual reason why they can't occur in any order.
docs/ changes best viewed with -w
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (cputune): Add interleave.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-cputune-iothreads.xml: Swap
up order, copying canonical form...
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-cputune-iothreads.xml:
...here.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Mark the difference.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101574
Add an option 'iothreadpin' to the <cpuset> to allow for setting the
CPU affinity for each IOThread.
The iothreadspin will mimic the vcpupin with respect to being able to
assign each iothread to a specific CPU, although iothreads ids start
at 1 while vcpu ids start at 0. This matches the iothread naming scheme.
When spanning tree protocol is allowed in bridge settings, forward delay
value is set as well (default is 0 if omitted). Until now, there was no
check for delay value validity. Delay makes sense only as a positive
numerical value.
Note: However, even if you provide positive numerical value, brctl
utility only uses values from range <2,30>, so the number provided can
be modified (kernel most likely) to fall within this range.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125764
When using split UEFI image, it may come handy if libvirt manages per
domain _VARS file automatically. While the _CODE file is RO and can be
shared among multiple domains, you certainly don't want to do that on
the _VARS file. This latter one needs to be per domain. So at the
domain startup process, if it's determined that domain needs _VARS
file it's copied from this master _VARS file. The location of the
master file is configurable in qemu.conf.
Temporary, on per domain basis the location of master NVRAM file can
be overridden by this @template attribute I'm inventing to the
<nvram/> element. All it does is holding path to the master NVRAM file
from which local copy is created. If that's the case, the map in
qemu.conf is not consulted.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
