Commit Graph

10 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Krempa
da5e5a1e15 kbase: Add document outlining internals of incremental backup in qemu
Outline the basics and how to integrate with externally created
overlays. Other topics will continue later.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2020-06-22 16:11:00 +02:00
Viktor Mihajlovski
f0d0cd6179 docs: Describe protected virtualization guest setup
Protected virtualization/IBM Secure Execution for Linux protects
guest memory and state from the host.

Add some basic information about technology and a brief guide
on setting up secure guests with libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo de Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
2020-06-16 09:43:45 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ead908014d docs: add kbase entry showing KVM real time guest config
There are many different settings that required to config a KVM guest
for real time, low latency workoads. The documentation included here is
based on guidance developed & tested by the Red Hat KVM real time team.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-06-15 13:10:28 +01:00
Sebastian Mitterle
7b09dc0a78 docs: Use <h1> to make sure kbase.html has page title
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-19 19:01:54 +01:00
Ján Tomko
aecf1f5d70 docs: add virtiofs kbase
Add a document describing the usage of virtiofs.

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2020-03-04 12:08:50 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
958d6ebe53 docs: add a kbase explaining security protections for QEMU passthrough
When using command line passthrough users will often trip up over the
security protections like SELinux, DAC, namespaces, etc which will
deny access to files they are passing. This document explains the
various protections and how to deal with their policy, and/or how
to disable them.

Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-02-24 12:52:24 +00:00
Peter Krempa
5949ac0f59 kbase: Add document outlining backing chain XML config and troubleshooting
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-12-18 09:36:49 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
01bf0bafce docs: add a kbase page about RPM packaging options
The libvirt RPM packaging is quite fine grained but it is not obvious to
users which package is best to install. Add a kbase doc that describes
the different RPMs, and illustrates some example deployment use cases.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 16:10:28 +00:00
Eric Blake
9943c42a22 backup: Document nuances between different state capture APIs
Now that various new API have been added or are coming soon, it is
worth a landing page that gives an overview of capturing various
pieces of guest state, and which APIs are best suited to which tasks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-07-26 16:48:58 -05:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
3918fb0dc1 docs: introduce a "knowledge base" for task oriented guides
The previously added AMD SEV doc was not linked from anywhere on the
website. Address this by introducing a new "Knowledge base" section
that can hold task oriented guide to various features. Moving the SEV,
disk locking and secure usage guides under this section.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-07-09 18:43:12 +01:00