So after da176bf6b7 and friend we have switched to $(wildcard
some/path/*.xml) instead of enumerating the files explicitly.
This is nice, however it makes distcheck build from VPATH fail.
The reason is that it's is not obvious to what does the wildcard
refer to: srcdir or builddir?
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Excessive memory balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer,
when Linux is under severe memory pressure. QEMU memballoon device
has a feature to release some memory at the last moment before some
process will be get killed by OOM-killer.
Introduce a new optional balloon device attribute 'autodeflate' to
enable or disable this feature.
If no port number was provided for a storage pool libvirt defaults to
port 6789; however, librbd/librados already default to 6789 when no port
number is provided.
In the future Ceph will switch to a new port for the Ceph monitors since
port 6789 is already assigned to a different application by IANA.
Port 6789 is assigned to SMC-HTTPS and Ceph now has port 3300 assigned as
the 'Ceph monitor' port.
In this case it is the best solution to not hardcode any port number into
libvirt and let librados handle the connection.
Only if a user specifies a different port number we pass it down to librados,
otherwise we leave it blank.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
merge
Allow <name> and <uuid> anywhere under <domain>, not just at the top:
error:XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to validate
doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng
Expecting an element name, got nothing
Invalid sequence in interleave
Element domain failed to validate content
Introduced with the first RelaxNG schema in commit c642103.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292131
The documentation (and comment in libvirtd.conf) says that the text in
a log filter is compared to the "source file name", and gives the
example of "util/json", but this is not correct (at least not since
commit 2835c1e, possibly earlier). It is instead compared to the
string given in the VIR_LOG_INIT() macro invocation at the top of each
source file, which is always "similar to but not the same as" the
source file name (in the example above, the proper name is
"util.json", while the file name is "util/virjson.c"). This patch
corrects the misstatement in both the documentation and in
libvirtd.conf.
Currently, there is no possibility for user to specify desired behaviour of
output to file - truncate or append. This patch adds an ability to explicitly
specify that user wants to preserve file's content on reopen.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@virtuozzo.com>
Using more than 4TiB of memory per NUMA node would not be possible to
express in the XML without violating the schema. Not that such boxes
would be common, but we should use a longer type at this point.
The pattern is not necessary since libvirt redefines the type already in
basictypes.rng with the same pattern.
To be used by the family of virtio input devices:
<input type='mouse' bus='virtio'/>
<input type='tablet' bus='virtio'/>
<input type='keyboard' bus='virtio'/>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231114
As it turned out, we need to share some enums and declarations between
libvirt.h and libvirt-admin.h, but since our policy forbids direct includes of
libvirt*.h, there has to be some header exempt from this rule. This patch moves
the relevant part of code from libvirt.h.in to libvirt-common.h.in. Moreover,
since there is no need to have libvirt.h generated anymore, introduce a new
header libvirt.h which was previosly ignored from git and make the common
header ignored and generated instead.
qemu 2.5 provides virtio video device. It can be used with -device
virtio-vga for primary devices, or -device virtio-gpu for non-vga
devices. However, only the primary device (VGA) is supported with this
patch.
Reference:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195176
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
'model' attribute was added to a panic device but only one panic
device is allowed. This patch changes panic device presence
from 'optional' to 'zeroOrMore'.
Libvirt already has two types of panic devices - pvpanic and pSeries firmware.
This patch introduces the 'model' attribute and a new type of panic device.
'isa' model is for ISA pvpanic device.
'pseries' model is a default value for pSeries guests.
'hyperv' model is the new type. It's used for Hyper-V crash.
Schema and docs are updated for the new attribute.
Report the maximum possible number of VFs for an SRIOV PF, like this:
<capability type='virtual_functions' maxCount='7'>
...
</capability>
I've just discovered that the virtual_functions and physical_functions
capabilities are not supported in the virNodeDeviceParse functions,
only in virNodeDeviceFormat (I suppose because they are only reported,
not set from XML). This should probably be remedied, but is less
immediately useful than the current patch.
Adjust the config code so that it does not enforce that target memory
node is specified. To avoid breakage, adjust the qemu memory hotplug
config checker to disallow such config for now.
We have twice previously attempted to remove Xenner
support
commit de9be0ab4d
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Aug 22 17:29:01 2012 +0100
Remove xenner support
commit 92572c3d71
Author: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Feb 18 16:33:50 2015 +0100
Remove code handling the QEMU_CAPS_DOMID capability
This change really does remove the last traces of it
in the capabilities handling code
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Check the QEMU version and refuse to work with QEMU versions
older than 0.12.0. This is approximately the vintage of QEMU
that is available in RHEL-6 era distros.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This has been broken for a looong time - in fact, we've been
shipping a mostly-empty NEWS file for at least the past two years.
Including the html namespace and using it for matching elements,
like hacking1.xsl and hacking2.xsl were already doing, makes the
NEWS file useful again.
Add a note explaining that the release list has been split up
by year as well.
There were some inconsistencies, eg. the number of digits used for
the day. The month name was also spelled out instead of abbreviated
in some instances.
There were some inconsistencies; now the section title is always
one of Bug Fixes, Cleanups, Documentation, Features, Improvements,
Portability, Security.
Some of the paragraphs were not properly indented: while this was
not a problem in the HTML version, you could tell the difference
in the plain text version.
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.
As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.
Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.
As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.
Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.
As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.
Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
The description for this release, unlike all other descriptions,
was inside a <p> element; however, the XSLT stylesheet contains a
template that drops all <p> elements from the output file, so it
never made it to the generated NEWS file.
Use a <li> element, same as all other releases, instead.
The example pvspinlock XML is:
<pvspinlock/>
While this is accepted by libvirt and works correctly, it's currently
always output as a tristate like
<pvspinlock state='on'/>
So document that format instead
We have a new libvirt-appdev-guide-python which we need to
promote to users. Rewrite the existing page to mention it
too. Also use the new URL location which is automatically
refreshed once a day.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This reverts commit e5470dd0e0.
This has been ACK'd by the original author in the original mail thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/msg00310.html
The reason to revert this is due to the patch breaking the generation of
internal subsites. The original issue still needs to be dealt with,
though.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Double semicolons have special meaning in makefiles, but they would have
to be combined with other rules witch such separators in order to be
used as intended. Since there are no other rules like that, let's
clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Creating ACL rules is not exactly easy and existing examples are pretty
simple. This patch adds a somewhat complex example which defines several
roles. Admins can do everything, operators can do basic operations
on any domain and several groups of users who act as operators but only
on a limited set of domains.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Adds a new interface type using UDP sockets, this seems only applicable
to QEMU but have edited tree-wide to support the new interface type.
The interface type required the addition of a "localaddr" (local
address), this then maps into the following xml and qemu call.
<interface type='udp'>
<mac address='52:54:00:5c:67:56'/>
<source address='127.0.0.1' port='11112'>
<local address='127.0.0.1' port='22222'/>
</source>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
QEMU call:
-net socket,udp=127.0.0.1:11112,localaddr=127.0.0.1:22222
Notice the xml "local" entry becomes the "localaddr" for the qemu call.
reference:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg00629.html
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This patch adds feature for lxc containers to inherit namespaces.
This is very similar to what lxc-tools or docker provides. Look
for "man lxc-start" and you will find that you can pass command
args as [ --share-[net|ipc|uts] name|pid ]. Or check out docker
networking option in which you can give --net=container:NAME_or_ID
as an option for sharing +namespace.
>From this patch you can add extra libvirt option to share
namespace in following way.
<lxc:namespace>
<lxc:sharenet type='netns' value='red'/>
<lxc:shareipc type='pid' value='12345'/>
<lxc:shareuts type='name' value='container1'/>
</lxc:namespace>
The netns option is specific to sharenet. It can be used to
inherit from existing network namespace.
Co-authored: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This controller can be connected only to a port on a
pcie-switch-upstream-port. It provides a single hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device, as well as any device requiring a
pcie-*-port (the only current example of such a device is the
pcie-switch-upstream-port).
This controller can be connected only to a pcie-root-port or a
pcie-switch-downstream-port (which will be added in a later patch),
which is the reason for the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_PORT. A pcie-switch-upstream-port provides
32 ports (slot=0 to slot=31) on the downstream side, which can only
have pci controllers of model "pcie-switch-downstream-port" plugged
into them, which is the reason for the other new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_SWITCH.
This controller can be connected (at domain startup time only - not
hotpluggable) only to a port on the pcie root complex ("pcie-root" in
libvirt config), hence the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_ROOT. It provides a hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device.
New attributes must be added to the controller <target> subelement for
this - chassis and port are guest-visible option values that will be
set by libvirt with values derived from the controller's index and pci
address information.
There are some configuration options to some types of pci controllers
that are currently automatically derived from other parts of the
controller's configuration. For example, in qemu a pci-bridge
controller has an option that is called "chassis_nr"; up until now
libvirt has always set chassis_nr to the index of the pci-bridge. So
this:
<controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'/>
will always result in:
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,...
on the qemu commandline. In the future we may decide there is a better
way to derive that option, but even in that case we will need for
existing domains to retain the same chassis_nr they were using in the
past - that is something that is visible to the guest so it is part of
the guest ABI and changing it would lead to problems for migrating
guests (or just guests with very picky OSes).
The <target> subelement has been added as a place to put the new
"chassisNr" attribute that will be filled in by libvirt when it
auto-generates the chassisNr; it will be saved in the config, then
reused any time the domain is started:
<controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'>
<model type='pci-bridge'/>
<target chassisNr='2'/>
</controller>
The one oddity of all this is that if the controller configuration
is changed (for example to change the index or the pci address
where the controller is plugged in), the items in <target> will
*not* be re-generated, which might lead to conflict. I can't
really see any way around this, but fortunately if there is a
material conflict qemu will let us know and we will pass that on
to the user.
This new subelement is used in PCI controllers: the toplevel
*attribute* "model" of a controller denotes what kind of PCI
controller is being described, e.g. a "dmi-to-pci-bridge",
"pci-bridge", or "pci-root". But in the future there will be different
implementations of some of those types of PCI controllers, which
behave similarly from libvirt's point of view (and so should have the
same model), but use a different device in qemu (and present
themselves as a different piece of hardware in the guest). In an ideal
world we (i.e. "I") would have thought of that back when the pci
controllers were added, and used some sort of type/class/model
notation (where class was used in the way we are now using model, and
model was used for the actual manufacturer's model number of a
particular family of PCI controller), but that opportunity is long
past, so as an alternative, this patch allows selecting a particular
implementation of a pci controller with the "name" attribute of the
<model> subelement, e.g.:
<controller type='pci' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge' index='1'>
<model name='i82801b11-bridge'/>
</controller>
In this case, "dmi-to-pci-bridge" is the kind of controller (one that
has a single PCIe port upstream, and 32 standard PCI ports downstream,
which are not hotpluggable), and the qemu device to be used to
implement this kind of controller is named "i82801b11-bridge".
Implementing the above now will allow us in the future to add a new
kind of dmi-to-pci-bridge that doesn't use qemu's i82801b11-bridge
device, but instead uses something else (which doesn't yet exist, but
qemu people have been discussing it), all without breaking existing
configs.
(note that for the existing "pci-bridge" type of PCI controller, both
the model attribute and <model> name are 'pci-bridge'. This is just a
coincidence, since it turns out that in this case the device name in
qemu really is a generic 'pci-bridge' rather than being the name of
some real-world chip)
"Further" clarification (and testing) shows that using a SCSI Fibre
Channel NPIV device/lun from a storage pool as a <disk type='volume'
device'lun'> will work. So just add that to the allowable options
Related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230179
Rather than calling virDomainHostdevAssignAddress during the parsing
of the XML, move the setting of a default hostdev address to domain/
device post processing.
Since the parse code no longer generates an address, we can remove
the virDomainDefMaybeAddHostdevSCSIcontroller since the call to
virDomainHostdevAssignAddress will attempt to add the controllers
that were not already defined in the XML.
This patch will also enforce that the address type is type 'drive'
when a SCSI subsystem <hostdev> element is provided with an <address>.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow
it query the interface for the availability of RDMA and
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation Offloading NIC capabilities
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'/>
<feature name='rdma'/>
<feature name='txudptnl'/>
<capability type='80203'/>
</capability>
</device>
The information on companion controllers we give in our documentation is
rather sparse. For example, it looks like any controller can be used as
a companion one. Also, when using ich9-uhci2, for example, we are able
to set some sensible defaults, but it might get confusing for the user
as we don't do that for all controller models.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069590
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Update the descriptions for disk and hostdev sgio in order to indicate
not all hypervisors and OS's support this feature
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232606
Since an mpath pool contains all the Multipath devices on a host, allowing
more than one defined on a host at a time should be disallowed under the
policy of disallowing duplicate source pools for the host.
Adjust to docs to clarify the Multipath target path value usage for both
the storage driver (only 1 pool per host) and formatstorage references
(ignore the target element in favor of the default target mapping of
/dev/mapper).
Don't listen on the admin socket in the daemon and comment out the
admin devel files out of specfile.
Library is still being compiled and installed in order to link easily
without any disturbing modifications to the daemon code.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
While re-reading what I wrote for commit id '785a8940e', I realized
I needed to clarify that being able to present as a 'lun', the mode
property for the pool source element needed to be "host" (or empty)
and not "direct".
It was described correctly later in the mode host description, but
this just ensures it's not missed here as well.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Also move the mention of version numbers for the various PCI
controller models up to the end of the sentence where they are first
given, to avoid confusion.
When support for the pcie-root and dmi-to-pci-bridge buses on a Q35
machinetype was added, I was concerned that even though qemu at the
time allowed plugging a PCI device into a PCIe port, that it might not
be supported in the future. To prevent painful backtracking in the
possible future where this happened, I disallowed such connections
except in a few specific cases requested by qemu developers (indicated
in the code with the flag VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_EITHER_IF_CONFIG).
Now that a couple years have passed, there is a clear message from
qemu that there is no danger in allowing PCI devices to be plugged
into PCIe ports. This patch eliminates
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_EITHER_IF_CONFIG and changes the code to always
allow PCI->PCIe or PCIe->PCI connection *when the PCI address is
specified in the config. (For newly added devices that haven't yet
been given a PCI address, the auto-placement still prefers using the
correct type of bus).
In my previous fix (1310b1358) I've tried to solve an ordering
issue. Well, while it worked it has a side effect of keeping a
temporary file around. My patch was buggy in that sense. Solve
this by properly marking the dependency without any side effect.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch provides support for the new watchdog model "diag288".
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch provides support for a new watchdog action "inject-nmi" which
allows to define an inject of a non-maskable interrupt into a guest.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The acl.html file includes aclperms.htmlinc which is generated.
However, acl.html is generated too from acl.html.tmp. And in fact,
this is the place where the aclperms file is needed. Fix the
dependency in Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Currently the grammar uses "none" for a "valid" Disk Storage Pool
format type; however, virStoragePoolFormatDisk uses "unknown" so
virt-xml-validate will fail to validate when "unknown" is found
The type='scsi' parameter of an address element is ignored
if placed within a hostdev section, and rejected by the XML
schema used by virt-xml-validate. Remove it from the doc,
and correct a typo in the remaining address arguments.
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Defining a domain with a SCSI disk attached via a hostdev
tag and a source address unit value longer than two digits
causes an error when editing the domain with virsh edit,
even if no changes are made to the domain definition.
The error suggests invalid XML, somewhere:
# virsh edit lmb_guest
error: XML document failed to validate against schema:
Unable to validate doc against /usr/local/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng
Extra element devices in interleave
Element domain failed to validate content
The virt-xml-validate tool fails with a similar error:
# virt-xml-validate lmb_guest.xml
Relax-NG validity error : Extra element devices in interleave
lmb_guest.xml:17: element devices: Relax-NG validity error :
Element domain failed to validate content
lmb_guest.xml fails to validate
The hostdev tag requires a source address to be specified,
which includes bus, target, and unit address attributes.
According to the SCSI Architecture Model spec (section
4.9 of SAM-2), a LUN address is 64 bits and thus could be
up to 20 decimal digits long. Unfortunately, the XML
schema limits this string to just two digits. Similarly,
the target field can be up to 32 bits in length, which
would be 10 decimal digits.
# lsscsi -xx
[0:0:19:0x4022401100000000] disk IBM 2107900 3.44 /dev/sda
# lsscsi
[0:0:19:1074872354]disk IBM 2107900 3.44 /dev/sda
# cat lmb_guest.xml
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>lmb_guest</name>
<memory unit='MiB'>1024</memory>
...trimmed...
<devices>
<controller type='scsi' model='virtio-scsi' index='0'/>
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi'>
<source>
<adapter name='scsi_host0'/>
<address bus='0' target='19' unit='1074872354'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
...trimmed...
Since the reference unit and target fields are used in
several places in the XML schema, create a separate one
specific for SCSI Logical Units that will permit the
greater length. This permits both the validation utility
and the virsh edit command to succeed when a hostdev
tag is included.
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220527
This type of information defines attributes of a system
baseboard. With one exception: board type is yet not implemented
in qemu so it's not introduced here either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Since the background for Admin API is merged upstream, we are bumping
the minor release version as discussed previously
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
No online docs are build from it since it doesn't really fit into our
document structure and new page will need to be created for it, but this
is at least a heads-up commit for easier parsing in order to build some
documentation (or python bindings) later on.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186969
When generating the path to the dir for a CIFS/Samba driver, the code
would generate a source path for the mount using "%s:%s" while the
mount.cifs expects to see "//%s/%s". So check for the cifsfs and
format the source path appropriately.
Additionally, since there is no means to authenticate, the mount
needs a "-o guest" on the command line in order to anonymously mount
the Samba directory.
Commit id '887dd362' added support for a netfs pool format type 'cifs'
and 'gluster' in order to add rng support for Samba and glusterfs netfs
pools. Originally, the CIFS type support was added as part of commit
id '61fb6979'. Eventually commit id 'b325be12' fixed the gluster rng
definition to match expectations.
As it turns out the CIFS rng needed a similar change since the directory
path is not an absDirPath, rather just a dirPath will be required.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021480
Seems the property has been deprecated for qemu, although seemingly ignored.
This patch enforces from a libvirt perspective that a scsi-block 'lun'
device should not provide the 'serial' property.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228007
When attaching a scsi volume lun via the attach-device --config or
--persistent options, there was no translation of the source pool
like there was for the live path, thus the attempt to modify the config
would fail since not enough was known about the disk.
I see no reason to duplicate this list of architectures. This also allows
more guest architectures to be used with libvirt (like the mips64el qemu
machine I am trying to run).
Signed-off-by: James Cowgill <james410@cowgill.org.uk>
This patch adds the support of queues attribute of the driver element
for vhost-user interface type. Example:
<interface type='vhostuser'>
<mac address='52:54:00:ee:96:6d'/>
<source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost2.sock' mode='client'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver queues='4'/>
</interface>
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207692
Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
If a macro has a string value, the @string attribute will contain the
value. Otherwise @string attribute will be missing.
For example, the following macro definition from libvirt-domain.h:
/**
* VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_URI:
* ...
*/
# define VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_URI "migrate_uri"
will result in
<macro name='VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_URI' file='libvirt-domain' string='migrate_uri'>
<info><![CDATA[...]]></info>
</macro>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229199
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
The network name is currently of type "deviceName" but it should be
"text" as name is defined in the network.rng.
Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The guest firmware provides the same functionality as the pvpanic
device, and the relevant element should always be present in the
domain XML to reflect this fact, so add it after parsing the
definition if it wasn't there already.
The guest firmware provides the same functionality as the pvpanic
device, which is not available in QEMU on pSeries, so the domain
XML should be allowed to contain the <panic> element.
On the other hand, unlike the pvpanic device, the guest firmware
can't be configured, so report an error if an address has been
provided in the XML.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182388
The XML parser sets a default <mode> if none is explicitly passed in.
This is then used at pool/vol creation time, and unconditionally reported
in the XML.
The problem with this approach is that it's impossible for other code
to determine if the user explicitly requested a storage mode. There
are some cases where we want to make this distinction, but we currently
can't.
Handle <mode> parsing like we handle <owner>/<group>: if no value is
passed in, set it to -1, and adjust the internal consumers to handle
it.
- Don't redocument the permissions fields for backingstore, just point to
the volume docs.
- Clarify that owner/group are inherited from the parent directory at
volume create/pool build time.
- Clarify that <permissions> fields report runtime values too
In the upstream discussion on creating a github mirror [1], it turned
out that there are some read-only mirrors of our repository. Lets
advertise them on our downloads page. But do it wisely and discourage
people in sending a pull requests on GitHub.
1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-May/msg00775.html
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
As of netcf-0.2.8, netcf supports configuring multipl IPv4 addresses,
as well as simultaneously configuring dhcp and static IPv4 addresses,
on a single interface. This patch updates libvirt's interface.rng to
allow such configurations.
This resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223688
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998813
Like usb-serial, the pci-serial device allows a serial device to be
attached to PCI bus. An example XML looks like this:
<serial type='dev'>
<source path='/dev/ttyS2'/>
<target type='pci-serial' port='0'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</serial>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Two new domain configuration XML elements are added to enable/disable
the protected key management operations for a guest:
<domain>
...
<keywrap>
<cipher name='aes|dea' state='on|off'/>
</keywrap>
...
</domain>
Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171984https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188463
Remove the check for the source host name for iSCSI source XML processing
declaring duplicate sources when the source device path and if present the
initiator of a proposed storage pool matches an existing storage pool.
The backend iSCSI storage driver uses 'iscsiadm --mode session' to query
available iscsid target sessions. The output displayed is the IP address
and the IQN (target path) of known targets. The displayed IP address
is a resolved address based on the session --login. Additionally, iscsid
keeps track of the various ways to define the host name (IPv4 Address,
IPv6 Address, /etc/hosts, etc.) for that IQN (see output of an 'iscsiadm
--mode node'). If an incoming IQN matches and the host name provided by
libvirt is resolved to the existing IQN, then iscsid will "reuse" the
session. Although libvirt could do the same name resolution, if there
is a difference, iscsid could still declare two seemingly different sources
to be the same and not create a new session which means libvirt now has
two storage pools looking at the same source. Thus to avoid any strange
host name resolution issues, just rely on iscsid for that and do not
allow multiple pools on the same host to use the same device path (IQN).
Some platforms, like aarch64, don't have APIC but GIC. So there's
no reason to have <apic/> feature turned on. However, we are
still missing <gic/> feature. This commit introduces the feature
to XML parser and formatter, adds documentation and updates RNG
schema.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
A new feature that can be turned on or off.
The QEMU machine vmport option allows to set the VMWare IO port
emulation. This emulation is useful for absolute pointer input when the
guest has vmware input drivers, and is enabled by default for kvm.
However it is unnecessary for Spice-enabled VM, since the agent already
handles absolute pointer and multi-monitors. Furthermore, it prevents
Spice from switching to relative input since the regular ps/2 pointer
driver is replaced by the vmware driver. It is thus advised to disable
vmport when using a Spice VM. This will permit the Spice client to
switch from absolute to relative pointer, as it may be required for
certain games or applications.
The phyp driver stuffed it into a DomainDefPtr during its attachdevice
routine, but the value is never advertised via capabilities so it should
be safe to drop.
Have the phyp driver use OSTYPE_LINUX, which is what it advertises via
capabilities.
With iothreadid's allowing any 'id' value for an iothread_id, the
iothreadsched code needs a slight adjustment to allow for "any"
unsigned int value in order to create the bitmap of ids that will
have scheduler adjustments. Adjusted the doc description as well.
Remove the iothreadspin array from cputune and replace with a cpumask
to be stored in the iothreadids list.
Adjust the test output because our printing goes in order of the iothreadids
list now.
Adding a new XML element 'iothreadids' in order to allow defining
specific IOThread ID's rather than relying on the algorithm to assign
IOThread ID's starting at 1 and incrementing to iothreads count.
This will allow future patches to be able to add new IOThreads by
a specific iothread_id and of course delete any exisiting IOThread.
Each iothreadids element will have 'n' <iothread> children elements
which will have attribute "id". The "id" will allow for definition
of any "valid" (eg > 0) iothread_id value.
On input, if any <iothreadids> <iothread>'s are provided, they will
be marked so that we only print out what we read in.
On input, if no <iothreadids> are provided, the PostParse code will
self generate a list of ID's starting at 1 and going to the number
of iothreads defined for the domain (just like the current algorithm
numbering scheme). A future patch will rework the existing algorithm
to make use of the iothreadids list.
On output, only print out the <iothreadids> if they were read in.
In a lot places we use path like this:
$(srcdir)/../src/....
when in fact it can be:
$(top_srcdir)/src/
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
If this enviroment variable is set, the virTestCompareToFile helper
will overwrite the file content we are comparing against, if the
file doesn't exist or it doesn't match the expected input.
This is useful when adding new test cases, or making changes that
generate a lot of output churn.
The PortNumber data type is declared to derive from 'short'.
Unfortunately this is an signed type, so validates the range
[-32,768, 32,767] which excludes valid port numbers between
32767 and 65535.
We can't use 'unsignedShort', since we need -1 to be a valid
port number too.
This change is to use 'int' and set an explicit max boundary
instead of relying on the data types' built-in max.
One of the existing tests is changed to use a high port number
to validate the schema.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214664
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
According to docs, using 'lun' as a value for device attribute is only valid
with disk types 'block' and 'network'. However current RNG schema also allows
a combination type='file' device='lun' which results in a successfull
xml validation, but fails at qemuBuildCommandLine.
Besides fixing the RNG schema, this patch also adds a qemuxml2argvtest
for this case.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210669
The <inbound/> element to <bandwidth/> has several attributes from
which two are mandatory. Well, from two at least one has to be
present: @average or @floor or both. Instead of inventing crazy RNG
schema, let's make all the attributes optional there and rely on our
parsing code to correctly handle the situation.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
On IRC, Hydrar pointed a problem where 'virsh edit' failed on
his domain created through an ISCSI pool managed by virt-manager,
all because the XML included a block device with colons in the
name.
* docs/schemas/basictypes.rng (absFilePath): Add colon as safe.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-iscsi.xml: New file.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-iscsi.args: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): Test it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
When using QEMU's 9pfs the target "dir" element is not necessarily an
absolute path but merely an arbitrary identifier. So validation in that
case currently fails with the misleading
$ virt-xml-validate /tmp/test.xml
Relax-NG validity error : Extra element devices in interleave
/tmp/test.xml:24: element devices: Relax-NG validity error : Element domain failed to validate content
/tmp/test.xml fails to validate
because network address is required by route, so
here we should add one avoid user misunderstand.
Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
The virNodeDeviceDettach API only works on PCI devices.
Originally added by commit 10d3272e, but the API never
supported USB devices.
Reported by: Martin Polednik <mpolednik@redhat.com>
Commit bab2eda changed the behavior for missing compat attribute,
but failed to update the documentation.
Before, the option was omitted from qemu-img command line and the
qemu-img default was used. Now we always specify the compat value
and the default is 0.10.
Reported by Christophe Fergeau
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746660#c4
This patch adds code that parses and formats configuration for memory
devices.
A simple configuration would be:
<memory model='dimm'>
<target>
<size unit='KiB'>524287</size>
<node>0</node>
</target>
</memory>
A complete configuration of a memory device:
<memory model='dimm'>
<source>
<pagesize unit='KiB'>4096</pagesize>
<nodemask>1-3</nodemask>
</source>
<target>
<size unit='KiB'>524287</size>
<node>1</node>
</target>
</memory>
This patch preemptively forbids use of the <memory> device in individual
drivers so the users are warned right away that the device is not
supported.
To enable memory hotplug the maximum memory size and slot count need to
be specified. As qemu supports now other units than mebibytes when
specifying memory, use the new interface in this case.
Add a XML element that will allow to specify maximum supportable memory
and the count of memory slots to use with memory hotplug.
To avoid possible confusion and misuse of the new element this patch
also explicitly forbids the use of the maxMemory setting in individual
drivers's post parse callbacks. This limitation will be lifted when the
support is implemented.
Wikipedia's list of common misspellings [1] has a machine-readable
version. This patch fixes those misspellings mentioned in the list
which don't have multiple right variants (as e.g. "accension", which can
be both "accession" and "ascension"), such misspellings are left
untouched. The list of changes was manually re-checked for false
positives.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
I spent quite some time figuring that backingStore info
isn't included in the dom xml, unless guest is up and
running. Hopefully putting that in the doc should help.
Also, several people have complained that libvirt reports
a backing file as raw, even though they expected it to be
qcow2; where the culprit is usually the user forgetting to
create the file with qemu-img create -o backing_fmt=qcow2.
This patch adds that info to the doc.
Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Midonet is an opensource virtual networking that over lays the IP
network between hypervisors. Currently, such networks can be made
with the openvswitch virtualport type.
This patch, defines the schema and documentation that will serve
as basis for the follow up patches that will add support to libvirt
for using Midonet virtual ports for its interfaces. The schema
definition requires that the port profile expresses its interfaceid
as part of the port profile. For that reason, this is part of the
patch too.
Signed-off-by: Antoni Segura Puimedon <toni+libvirt@midokura.com>
We're parsing memballoon status period as unsigned int, but when we're
trying to set it, both we and qemu use signed int. That means large
values will get wrapped around to negative one resulting in error.
Basically the same problem as commit e3a7b874 was dealing with when
updating live domain.
QEMU changed the accepted value to int64 in commit 1f9296b5, but even
values as INT_MAX don't make sense since the value passed means seconds.
Hence adding capability flag for this change isn't worth it.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140958
Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
All the devices we have format their address as its last sub-element, so
let's change memballoon to follow suit. Also adjust RNG to allow any
order of them so 'virsh edit' doesn't shout at us.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Now that the size of guest's memory can be inferred from the NUMA
configuration (if present) make it optional to specify <memory>
explicitly.
To make sure that memory is specified add a check that some form of
memory size was specified. One side effect of this change is that it is
no longer possible to specify 0KiB as memory size for the VM, but I
don't think it would be any useful to do so. (I can imagine embedded
systems without memory, just registers, but that's far from what libvirt
is usually doing).
Forbidding 0 memory for guests also fixes a few corner cases where 0 was
not interpreted correctly and caused failures. (Arguments for numad when
using automatic placement, size of the balloon). This fixes problems
described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161461
Test case changes are added to verify that the schema change and code
behave correctly.
The version attribute in redirdev filters refers to the revision
of the device, not the version of the USB protocol.
Explicitly state that this is not the USB protocol and remove references
to those round version numbers that resemble USB protocol versions.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177237
Our code supports that for ages. When using a <filterref/> to an
<interface/> several parameters can be passed to the filter. Later,
when building firewall rules, parameters are substituted for their
values. However, our RNG schema allowed only one parameter to be
passed.
Reported-by: Brian Rak <brak@gameservers.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
To prevent a confusion about missing chardev argument in qemu
command line add a note about that behavior into documentation.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129198
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
There was a mess in the way how we store unlimited value for memory
limits and how we handled values provided by user. Internally there
were two possible ways how to store unlimited value: as 0 value or as
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED. Because we chose to store memory
limits as unsigned long long, we cannot use -1 to represent unlimited.
It's much easier for us to say that everything greater than
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED means unlimited and leave 0 as valid
value despite that it makes no sense to set limit to 0.
Remove unnecessary function virCompareLimitUlong. The update of test
is to prevent the 0 to be miss-used as unlimited in future.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146539
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181062
According to the formatstorage.html description for <source> element
and "format" attribute: "All drivers are required to have a default
value for this, so it is optional."
As it turns out the disk backend did not choose a default value, so I
added a default of "msdos" if the source type is "unknown" as well as
updating the storage.html backend disk volume driver documentation to
indicate the default format is dos.
Our documentation isn't 100% clear about hostdev 'managed' attribute usage,
because it only makes sense to use it with PCI devices, yet we format
this attribute to all hostdev devices. By adding a note into the docs,
we can possibly avoid confusion from customer's side and also avoid a solution
using ternary logic.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155887
As reported on the libvirt-users list [1], there's new web
application called mist.io which uses libvirt as one of its
backends. Lets add it into our list of libivrt based
applications.
1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2015-February/msg00096.html
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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>
In preparation for adding docs about virtlockd, split out
the sanlock setup docs into a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.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.
Change the wording in the device-address-part of the docmunentation since
the ccw bus address support added to the optional address parameter of
virsh attach-disk for S390.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
It is only usable for NETWORK and BRIDGE type interfaces.
Error out when trying to start a domain where the custom
tap device path is specified for interfaces of other types,
or when the daemon is not privileged.
Note that this cannot be checked at definition time, because
the comparison is against actual type.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
It is only supported for virtio adapters.
Silently drop it if it was specified for other models,
as is done for other virtio attributes.
Also mention this in the documentation.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170492
In one of our previous commits (dc8b7ce7) we've done a functional
change even though it was intended as pure refactor. The problem is,
that the following XML:
<vcpu placement='static' current='2'>6</vcpu>
<cputune>
<emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
</cputune>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
</numatune>
gets translated into this one:
<vcpu placement='auto' current='2'>6</vcpu>
<cputune>
<emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
</cputune>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
</numatune>
We should not change the vcpu placement mode. Moreover, we're doing
something similar in case of emulatorpin and iothreadpin. If they were
set, but vcpu placement was auto, we've mistakenly removed them from
the domain XML even though we are able to set them independently on
vcpus.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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=1138516
If the provided volume name doesn't match what parted generated as the
partition name, then return a failure.
Update virsh.pod and formatstorage.html.in to describe the 'name' restriction
for disk pools as well as the usage of the <target>'s <format type='value'>.
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>
Since the day we removed python bindings from the core repository, the
documentation was missing that information.
Reported-by: Lingyu Zhu <lynuszhu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@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>
Well, since the link to the virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API is in
<pre/> section we must take special care about the spaces around the
link.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.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>
It was brought to my attention that some -boot options may not
work with UEFI. For instance, rebootTimeout is very SeaBIOS
specific,splash logo is not implemented yet on OVMF, and so on.
We should document this limitation at least.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@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.
Fix format of the secret XML in the example. The XML had an extraneous
"type='iscsi'" (which is used by the <disk> definitions)
The world wide node name had a typo in the acronym (wwwn).
The apibuild.py script did not handle whitespace in preprocessor
macros, so it failed to detect constants declared with '# define'
instead of '#define'. Since we now correctly indent our public
header files, we have silently lost all constants from
libvirt-api.xml. This also caused us to not detect formatting
errors in constant docs
This changes the display from:
libvirt-storage: APIs for management of storages
to
libvirt-storage: APIs for management of storage pools and volumes
In making that change I expected my build tree html output to be
regenerated; however, it wasn't because the dependency for the separated
libvirt-storage.h wasn't there. It was only present for libvirt.h.in
So I added each in the order displayed on the docs/html/index.html page
Make was not able to realize the dependencies for html/*.html files when
running 'make -j9 dist'. All the files are generated together with
html/index.html, so simply separating them into another variable and
adding one block into the dependency chain solves the issue.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Since libvirt.h was split into multiple files and similarly
docs/libvirt-libvirt.html, docs/hvsupport.html have bad hyperlinks. The
same happens for all the html.in files that used <code class='docref'>
tag, because page.xsl has no idea where to point the link that's found.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159180
The virStoragePoolSourceFindDuplicate only checks the incoming definition
against the same type of pool as the def; however, for "scsi_host" and
"fc_host" adapter pools, it's possible that either some pool "scsi_host"
adapter definition is already using the scsi_hostN that the "fc_host"
adapter definition wants to use or some "fc_host" pool adapter definition
is using a vHBA scsi_hostN or parent scsi_hostN that an incoming "scsi_host"
definition is trying to use.
This patch adds the mismatched type checks and adds extraneous comments
to describe what each check is determining.
This patch also modifies the documentation to be describe what scsi_hostN
devices a "scsi_host" source adapter should use and which to avoid. It also
updates the parent definition to specifically call out that for mixed
environments it's better to define which parent to use so that the duplicate
pool checks can be done properly.
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>
The vram attribute was introduced to set the video memory but it is
usable only for few hypervisors excluding QEMU/KVM and the old XEN
driver. Only in case of QEMU the vram was used for QXL.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect current code in libvirt
and also changes the cases when we will set the default vram attribute.
It also fixes existing strange default value for VGA devices 9MB to 16MB
because the video ram should be rounded to power of two.
The change of default value could affect migrations but I found out that
QEMU always round the video ram to power of two internally so it's safe
to change the default value to the next closest power of two and also
silently correct every domain XML definition. And it's also safe because
we don't pass the value to QEMU.
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.
The docs describing the <host> element that are under the <source>
element in the XML document were incorrectly placed under the <disk>
element. Move them to the correct place.
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.
Since 1.2.8 it's possible to use OVMF on domains. Moreover, it's
possible to have libvirt create NVRAM file per domain. Later,
when domain is undefined, the file is removed too. However,
things are a bit complicated when domain's transient. There's no
undefine to transient domains. There are two options: 1) leave
the file behind and let mgmt app remove it. 2) remove it
automatically as domain dies.
But, in some scenarios mgmt app may want to preserve the file,
copy it somewhere safe, and then copy it back when the domain is
starting again. And this wouldn't be possible with case 2). So,
even though case 1) leaves some files behind (possibly undeleted
for a long time), the files themselves are small (128K each). And
data loss is worse than full disk, isn't it?
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
After recent discussion it looks like curly brackets around one-line
bodies are preferred if the preceding condition is, itself, multiline.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Rather than just picking the first CD (or failing that, HDD) we come
across, if the user has picked a boot device ordering with <boot
order=''>, respect that (and just try to boot the lowest-index device).
Adds two sets of tests to bhyve2xmlargv; 'grub-bootorder' shows that we
pick a user-specified device over the first device in the domain;
'grub-bootorder2' shows that we pick the first (lowest index) device.
The API docs generators were broken by the header file
re-organization. Specifically
* html/libvirt-libvirt.html was empty (and should be deleted)
* Makefile.am didn't install html/libvirt-libvirt-*.html
* hvsupport.html was mostly empty
* sitemap.html.in didn't list the new html/*.html files
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.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160565
The existing code assumed that the configuration of a 'parent' attribute
was correct for the createVport path. As it turns out, that may not be
the case which leads errors during the deleteVport path because the
wwnn/wwpn isn't associated with the parent.
With this change the following is reported:
error: Failed to start pool fc_pool_host3
error: XML error: Parent attribute 'scsi_host4' does not match parent 'scsi_host3' determined for the 'scsi_host16' wwnn/wwpn lookup.
for XML as follows:
<pool type='scsi'>
<name>fc_pool</name>
<source>
<adapter type='fc_host' parent='scsi_host4' wwnn='5001a4aaf3ca174b' wwpn='5001a4a77192b864'/>
</source>
Where 'nodedev-dumpxml scsi_host16' provides:
<device>
<name>scsi_host16</name>
<path>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:10:00.0/host3/vport-3:0-11/host16</path>
<parent>scsi_host3</parent>
<capability type='scsi_host'>
<host>16</host>
<unique_id>13</unique_id>
<capability type='fc_host'>
<wwnn>5001a4aaf3ca174b</wwnn>
<wwpn>5001a4a77192b864</wwpn>
...
The patch also adjusts the description of the storage pool to describe the
restrictions.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
We still default to bhyveloader(1) if no explicit bootloader
configuration is supplied in the domain.
If the /domain/bootloader looks like grub-bhyve and the user doesn't
supply /domain/bootloader_args, we make an intelligent guess and try
chainloading the first partition on the disk (or a CD if one exists,
under the assumption that for a VM a CD is likely an install source).
Caveat: Assumes the HDD boots from the msdos1 partition. I think this is
a pretty reasonable assumption for a VM. (DrvBhyve with Bhyveload
already assumes that the first disk should be booted.)
I've tested both HDD and CD boot and they seem to work.
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>
As documented in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161358,
the ACL attribute should be named: interface_macaddr
Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add documentation to explain how compat-mode can be invoked with libvirt
running on PowerPC architecture.
It also mentions that this change is available libvirt 1.2.11 onwards.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Extending the iothread disk support from pci to pci and ccw.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Create a new libvirt-host.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virConnect type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-domain.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virDomain type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-event.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virEvent type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-storage.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virStorage/Vol type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-stream.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virStream type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Note the definition of virStreamPtr is not moved, since that
must be declared early for all other libvirt APIs to be able
to reference it.
Create a new libvirt-secret.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virSecret type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-nodedev.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virNodeDevice type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-nwfilter.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virNWFilter type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-interface.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virInterface type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-network.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virNetwork type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
Create a new libvirt-domain-snapshot.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virDomainSnapshot type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
The virTypedParameterValidateSet method will need to be used
from several libvirt-*.c files so must be non-static
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
To prepare for introducing a single global driver, rename the
virDriver struct to virHypervisorDriver and the registration
API to virRegisterHypervisorDriver()
These tools have been rewritten upstream, so you don't need to link to
the old tools, link to the new ones and mention they are part of
libguestfs.
Also remove the link to "Poor man's P2V". There's no real reason to
use that technique any longer since the rewritten tools are simple,
fast and highly capable.
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.
For the tap backend the default is specified and the same should be
done for the vhost attribute.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
- docs/formatstorage.html.in: document 'zfs' pool type, add it
to a list of pool types that could use source physical devices
- docs/storage.html.in: update a ZFS pool example XML with
source physical devices, mention that starting from 1.2.9 a
pool could be created from this devices by libvirt and in earlier
versions user still has to create a pool manually
- docs/drvbhyve.html.in: add an example with ZFS pools
- 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
At the beginning when I was inventing <loader/> attributes and
<nvram/> I've introduced this @readonly attribute to the loader
element. It accepted values 'on' and 'off'. However, later, during the
review process, that has changed to 'yes' and 'no', but the example
XML snippet wasn't updated, so while the description is correct, the
example isn't.
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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>
Up to now, users can configure BIOS via the <loader/> element. With
the upcoming implementation of UEFI this is not enough as BIOS and
UEFI are conceptually different. For instance, while BIOS is ROM, UEFI
is programmable flash (although all writes to code section are
denied). Therefore we need new attribute @type which will
differentiate the two. Then, new attribute @readonly is introduced to
reflect the fact that some images are RO.
Moreover, the OVMF (which is going to be used mostly), works in two
modes:
1) Code and UEFI variable store is mixed in one file.
2) Code and UEFI variable store is separated in two files
The latter has advantage of updating the UEFI code without losing the
configuration. However, in order to represent the latter case we need
yet another XML element: <nvram/>. Currently, it has no additional
attributes, it's just a bare element containing path to the variable
store file.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Now that hanging brace offenders have been fixed, we can automate
the check, and document our style. Done as a separate commit from
code changes, to make it easier to just backport code changes, if
that is ever needed.
* cfg.mk (sc_curly_braces_style): Catch hanging braces.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Document it.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add a new disk "driver" attribute "iothread" to be parsed as the thread
number for the disk to use. In order to more easily facilitate the usage
and configuration of the iothread, a "zero" for the attribute indicates
iothreads are not supported for the device and a positive value indicates
the specific thread to try and use.
Introduce XML to allowing adding iothreads to the domain. These can be
used by virtio-blk-pci devices in order to assign a specific thread to
handle the workload for the device. The iothreads are the official
implementation of the virtio-blk Data Plane that's been in tech preview
for QEMU.
QEMU 2.1 added support for the kvm=off option to the -cpu command,
allowing the KVM hypervisor signature to be hidden from the guest.
This enables disabling of some paravirualization features in the
guest as well as allowing certain drivers which test for the
hypervisor to load. Domain XML syntax is as follows:
<domain type='kvm>
...
<features>
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<kvm>
<hidden state='on'/>
</kvm>
</features>
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Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
