We have switched the docs to using the HTML5 doctype declaration in
commit b1c81567c7
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 18:01:25 2017 +0100
docs: switch to using HTML5 doctype declaration
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When you add a bunch of pcie-root-port controllers to a q35 guest
in order to have hotplug capabilities, you also need to make sure
you're adding the pcie-root controller at the same time or you
will get an error. Document this fact.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This type of information defines attributes of a system
chassis, such as SMBIOS Chassis Asset Tag.
access inside VM (for example)
Linux: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_asset_tag.
Windows: (Get-WmiObject Win32_SystemEnclosure).SMBIOSAssetTag
wirhin Windows PowerShell.
As an example, add the following to the guest XML
<chassis>
<entry name='manufacturer'>Dell Inc.</entry>
<entry name='version'>2.12</entry>
<entry name='serial'>65X0XF2</entry>
<entry name='asset'>40000101</entry>
<entry name='sku'>Type3Sku1</entry>
</chassis>
Signed-off-by: Zhuang Yanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 038eb472a0.
On reflection adding defaults for arbitrary guest XML device config
settings to the qemu.conf is not a sustainable path. Removing the
support for rx/tx queue size so that it doesn't set a bad precedent.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Document that contributors are required to assert compliance with the
Developers Certification of Origin 1.1, by providing Signed-off-by tags
for all commit messages. The DCO is formally stating what we have long
implicitly expected of contributors in terms of their legal rights to
make the contribution. This puts the project in a stronger position
should any questions around contributions be raised going forward in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
In 2074ef6cd4 and c56cdf259 (and friends) we've added two
attributes to virtio NICs: rx_queue_size and tx_queue_size.
However, sysadmins might want to set these on per-host basis but
don't necessarily have an access to domain XML (e.g. because they
are generated by some other app). So let's expose them under
qemu.conf (the settings from domain XML still take precedence as
they are more specific ones).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
For vhost-user ports, Open vSwitch acts as the server and QEMU the client.
When OVS crashes or restarts, the QEMU process should be reconnected to
OVS.
Signed-off-by: ZhiPeng Lu <lu.zhipeng@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Missed adding the "encryption" description term entry to the list
of possible sub-elements for disk source. The description details
were there, just not the tag.
More info in the documentation, this is basically the XML parsing/formatting
support, schemas, tests and documentation for the new cputune/cachetune element
that will get used by following patches.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
The OEM strings table in SMBIOS allows the vendor to pass arbitrary
strings into the guest OS. This can be used as a way to pass data to an
application like cloud-init, or potentially as an alternative to the
kernel command line for OS installers where you can't modify the install
ISO image to change the kernel args.
As an example, consider if cloud-init and anaconda supported OEM strings
you could use something like
<oemStrings>
<entry>cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/</entry>
<entry>anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os</entry>
</oemStrings>
use of a application specific prefix as illustrated above is
recommended, but not mandated, so that an app can reliably identify
which of the many OEM strings are targetted at it.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
As usual, a bunch of changes slipped through the cracks during the
development cycle. Update the release notes to include at least the
most notable ones.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Migration never removes any configuration files on the destination host.
Thus when the domain is already defined on the destination, it will stay
persistent even after migration without --persist.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514930
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
The Fedora mingw support is all merged in Fedora repos, so remove the
outdated link.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Change all links to https:// where the remote site supports it. Fix URLs for
a few packages that moved, and delete entries which appear to be dead.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently we only describe setting the CN field for server certs. This leads
to inevitable pain for users who set it to the fully qualified hostname and
then use a unqualified hostname or IP address to connect in the URI. Describe
the usage of Subject Alt Name extensions, to provide multiple hostnames and
IP addresses. This will help users avoid the classic mistake and is important
future proofing, since at least in browsers, TLS libraries no longer use the
CN field for validation, mandating use of SAN info instead.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The contents of a <rule> are a choice of exactly one union member. The
RNG schema, however, was allowing an arbitrary number of instances of every
union member at once.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The 'wiremode' attribute exists in a couple of Xen XML files, but no code has
ever parsed that value. It was later added to the RNG schema too, again despite
there not being any code which parses it.
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The libxlxml2domconfigdata directory was not covered in the RNG schema
tests. This hid a few bugs in both the libxl XML files and the RNG
schema itself.
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Introduce specific a target types with two models for the console
devices (sclp and sclplm) used in s390 and s390x guests, so isa-serial
is no more used for them.
This makes <serial> usable on s390 and s390x guests, with at most only
a single sclpconsole and one sclplmconsole devices usable in a single
guest (due to limitations in QEMU, which will enforce already at
runtime).
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449265
Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
We can finally introduce a specific target model for the pl011 device
used by mach-virt guests, which means isa-serial will no longer show
up to confuse users.
We make sure migration works in both directions by interpreting the
isa-serial target type, or the lack of target type, appropriately
when parsing the guest XML, and skipping the newly-introduced type
when formatting if for migration. We also verify that pl011 is not
used for non-mach-virt guests and add a bunch of test cases.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151292
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
We can finally introduce a specific target model for the spapr-vty
device used by pSeries guests, which means isa-serial will no longer
show up to confuse users.
We make sure migration works in both directions by interpreting the
isa-serial target type, or the lack of target type, appropriately
when parsing the guest XML, and skipping the newly-introduced type
when formatting if for migration. We also verify that spapr-vty is
not used for non-pSeries guests and add a bunch of test cases.
This commit is best viewed with 'git show -w'.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511421
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This information will be used to select, and store in the guest
configuration in order to guarantee ABI stability, the concrete
(hypervisor-specific) model for serial devices.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Our current documentation is missing some information and doesn't
do a great job at explaining how the <serial> and <console> elements
are connected. Let's try to fix that.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Since we already have such support for libxl all we need is qemu
driver adjustment. And a test case.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Starting from qemu 2.11, the `-device vmcoreinfo` will create a fw_cfg
entry for a guest to store dump details, necessary to process kernel
dump with KASLR enabled and providing additional kernel details.
In essence, it is similar to -fw_cfg name=etc/vmcoreinfo,file=X but in
this case it is not backed by a file, but collected by QEMU itself.
Since the device is a singleton and shouldn't use additional hardware
resources, it is presented as a <feature> element in the libvirt
domain XML.
The device is arm/x86 only for now (targets that support fw_cfg+dma).
Related to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395248
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
While we have collective knowledge about the support status of various
parts of libvirt, this has never been formally documented, leaving our
users to guess.
Note, this document makes one change to our previous policy. It explicitly
declares the RPC protocol of libvirtd as being a supported interface. THis
accepts the reality that we can a) never change it without breaking compat
with old libvirt.so, b) there are both rust + go impls that are written
against the RPC protocol already.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The XML namespace URI for the QEMU/LXC drivers must use http as the protocol
otherwise it won't match the parser's expectations.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
In the definition of virHookQemuOpType and virHookNetworkOpType,
we should use 'stopped' rather than 'shutdown'.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>
Most of the time it's okay to leave this up to negotiation between
the guest and the host, but in some situations it can be useful to
manually decide the behavior, especially to enforce its availability.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308743
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Add two new entries under new features for 3.10.0. One
advertising support for specifying distance between vNUMA cells
and another advertising Xen's support for vNUMA configuration.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add support for describing NUMA distances in a domain's <numa> <cell>
XML description.
Below is an example of a 4 node setup:
<cpu>
<numa>
<cell id='0' cpus='0-3' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='10'/>
<sibling id='1' value='21'/>
<sibling id='2' value='31'/>
<sibling id='3' value='21'/>
</distances>
</cell>
<cell id='1' cpus='4-7' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='21'/>
<sibling id='1' value='10'/>
<sibling id='2' value='21'/>
<sibling id='3' value='31'/>
</distances>
</cell>
<cell id='2' cpus='8-11' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='31'/>
<sibling id='1' value='21'/>
<sibling id='2' value='10'/>
<sibling id='3' value='21'/>
</distances>
<cell id='3' cpus='12-15' memory='2097152' unit='KiB'>
<distances>
<sibling id='0' value='21'/>
<sibling id='1' value='31'/>
<sibling id='2' value='21'/>
<sibling id='3' value='10'/>
</distances>
</cell>
</numa>
</cpu>
A <cell> defines a NUMA node. <distances> describes the NUMA distance
from the <cell> to the other NUMA nodes (the <sibling>s). For example,
in above XML description, the distance between NUMA node0 <cell id='0'
...> and NUMA node2 <sibling id='2' ...> is 31.
Valid distance values are '10 <= value <= 255'. A distance value of 10
represents the distance to the node itself. A distance value of 20
represents the default value for remote nodes but other values are
possible depending on the physical topology of the system.
When distances are not fully described, any missing sibling distance
values will default to 10 for local nodes and 20 for remote nodes.
If distance is given for A -> B, then we default B -> A to the same
value instead of 20.
Signed-off-by: Wim ten Have <wim.ten.have@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
* libvirt no longer supports vbox <= 3.x
* update XML definition sample to show how to attach disks to VBOX's SAS
controller and how to change IDE controller model.
* update XML to show how to create RDP display with autoport.
Right-aligning backslashes when defining macros or using complex
commands in Makefiles looks cute, but as soon as any changes is
required to the code you end up with either distractingly broken
alignment or unnecessarily big diffs where most of the changes
are just pushing all backslashes a few characters to one side.
Generated using
$ git grep -El '[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]\\$' | \
grep -E '*\.([chx]|am|mk)$$' | \
while read f; do \
sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]*[[:blank:]]\\$/ \\/g' "$f"; \
done
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
For multipath disks it might be useful to have the same WWN for multiple
disks. It's the users choice to do so. Since we dropped the check that
disallows using duplicate WWNs drop the docs as well.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464975
Since the virStorageEncryptionPtr encryption; is a member of
_virStorageSource it really should be allowed to be a subelement
of the disk <source> for various disk formats:
Source{File|Dir|Block|Volume}
SourceProtocol{RBD|ISCSI|NBD|Gluster|Simple|HTTP}
NB: Simple includes sheepdog, ftp, ftps, tftp
That way we can set up to allow the <encryption> element to be
formatted within the disk source, but we still need to be wary
from whence the element was read - see keep track and when it
comes to format the data, ensure it's written in the correct place.
Modify the qemuxml2argvtest to add a parse failure when there is an
<encryption> as a child of <disk> *and* an <encryption> as a child
of <source>.
The virschematest will read the new test files and validate from a
RNG viewpoint things are fine.
Since the virStorageAuthDefPtr auth; is a member of _virStorageSource
it really should be allowed to be a subelement of the disk <source>
for the RBD and iSCSI prototcols. That way we can set up to allow
the <auth> element to be formatted within the disk source.
Since we've allowed the <auth> to be a child of <disk>, we'll need
to keep track of how it was read so that when writing out we'll know
whether to format as child of <disk> or <source>. For the argv2xml
parsing, let's format under <source> as a preference. Do not allow
<auth> to be both a child of <disk> and <source>.
Modify the qemuxml2argvtest to add a parse failure when there is an
<auth> as a child of <disk> *and* an <auth> as a child of <source>.
Add tests to validate that if the <auth> was found in <source>, then
the resulting xml2xml and xml2arg works just fine. The two new .args
file are exact copies of the non "-source" version of the file.
The virschematest will read the new test files and validate from a
RNG viewpoint things are fine
Update the virstoragefile, virstoragetest, and args2xml file to show
the "preference" to place <auth> as a child of <source>.
So we have a syntax-check rule to catch all tab indents but it naturally
can't catch tab spacing, i.e. as a delimiter. This patch is a result of
running 'vim -en +retab +wq'
(using tabstop=8 softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab) on each file from
a list generated by the following:
find . -regextype gnu-awk \
-regex ".*\.(rng|syms|html|s?[ch]|py|pl|php(\.code)?)(\.in)?" \
| xargs git grep -lP "\t"
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Commit e371b3b changed all the links to libvirt.org to use https.
Remove the leftover 'http' links from downloads page, since they
point to https anyway.
Index will remain an internal property even if we allow backing store
parsing from the XML, so we need to allow backing store without it in
the schema.
In 361c8dc17 and 662140fa68 I've implemented hot-(un)plug of
watchdog devices. Document this change.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475250
It's possible to define and start a pool with a '.' in the
name; however, when trying to add a volume to a domain using
the storage pool source with a '.' in the storage pool name,
the domain RNG validation fails because RNG uses 'genericName'
which does not allow a '.' in the name.
Domain XML def parsing has a virXMLValidateAgainstSchema which
generates the error. The Storage Pool XML def parsing has no
call to virXMLValidateAgainstSchema. The only Storage Pool name
validation occurs in virStoragePoolDefParseXML to ensure the
name doesn't have a '/' in it and in storagePoolDefineXML to
call virXMLCheckIllegalChars using the same parameter "\n" as
qemuDomainDefineXMLFlags would check after the RNG check
could be succesful.
In order to resolve this, create a poolName definition in
storagecommon.rng that will mimic the domain name regex that
disallows a newline character, but add the "/" in the exclude
list. Then modify the pool and volume source name definitions
to key off that poolName.
In cea3715b2e and d86fd2402e I've fixed domifstat and QoS
that was reversed for some types of interfaces. Document this
in the news file.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
qemu 2.7.0 introduces multiqueue virtio-blk(commit 2f27059).
This patch introduces a new attribute "queues". An example of
the XML:
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' queues='4'/>
The corresponding QEMU command line:
-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,num-queues=4,id=virtio-disk0
Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <lma@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We get a question every now and then about why hibernation works when
suspend-to-disk is disabled and similar. Let's hope that, by documenting the
obvious more blatantly, people will get more informed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add an optional virTristateBool haveTLS to virStorageSource to
manage whether a storage source will be using TLS.
Sample XML for a VxHS disk:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
<source protocol='vxhs' name='eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251' tls='yes'>
<host name='192.168.0.1' port='9999'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Additionally add a tlsFromConfig boolean to control whether the TLS
setting was due to domain configuration or qemu.conf global setting
in order to decide whether to Format the haveTLS setting for either
a live or saved domain configuration file.
Update the qemuxml2xmltest in order to add a test to show the proper
parsing.
Also update the docs to describe the tls attribute.
Signed-off-by: Ashish Mittal <Ashish.Mittal@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
This reverts commit edaf4ebe95.
This uses "reconnect" as attribute for <source> element, but we already
have a <reconnect> element for <source> element for chardev devices.
Since this is the same feature for different device it should be
presented in XML the same way.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The functionality was added in 4.8, but due to a rename of
the DEVLINK_CMD_ESWITCH_GET constant in the kernel headers,
the headers from kernel 4.11 are required by the libvirt code.
Remove the reference from the news entry, since it could be
misleading.
For vhost-user ports, Open vSwitch acts as the server and QEMU the client.
When OVS crashed or restart, QEMU shoule be reconnect to OVS.
Signed-off-by: ZhiPeng Lu <lu.zhipeng@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Alter the schema to allow a VxHS block device. Sample XML is:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
<source protocol='vxhs' name='eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251'>
<host name='192.168.0.1' port='9999'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<serial>eb90327c-8302-4725-9e1b-4e85ed4dc251</serial>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
Update the html docs to describe the capability for VxHS.
Alter the qemuxml2xmltest to validate the formatting.
Signed-off-by: Ashish Mittal <Ashish.Mittal@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
This is particularly useful on operating systems that don't ship
Python as part of the base system (eg. FreeBSD) while still working
just as well as it did before on Linux.
While at it, make it explicit that our scripts are only going to
work with Python 2, and remove the usage of unbuffered I/O, which
as far as I can tell has no effect on the output files.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
This is particularly useful on operating systems that don't ship
Perl as part of the base system (eg. FreeBSD) while still working
just as well as it did before on Linux.
In one case (src/rpc/genprotocol.pl) the interpreter path was
missing altogether.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow querying the interface
for the availability of switchdev Offloading NIC capabilities.
The switchdev mode was introduced in kernel 4.8, the iproute2-devlink
command to retrieve the switchdev NIC feature with command example:
devlink dev eswitch show pci/0000:03:00.0
This feature is needed for Openstack so we can do a scheduling decision
if the NIC is in Hardware Offload (switchdev) or regular SR-IOV (legacy) mode.
And select the appropriate hypervisors with the requested capability see [1].
[1] - https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/pike/approved/enable-sriov-nic-features.html
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
