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Peter Krempa
a421aa76b1 Document caveats of hypervisor-specific stats in 'VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_VCPU' group
In commit c43718ef67 I've added a disclaimer that the new stats which
are fetched from qemu and passed directly to the user are not guaranteed
by libvirt. I didn't notice that per-vcpu hypervisor specific stats are
also snuck into the VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_VCPU group along with other
pre-existing stats we do guarantee.

Extend the disclaimer for VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_VCPU too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2022-11-29 09:36:10 +01:00
Lu Ke
83adc56602 kbase: virtiofs: Add 'queue' setting to example
The setting is needed for the windows driver to work properly and doesn't have negative effects on other usage.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Ke nicelukas@hotmail.com
2022-11-23 09:35:46 +00:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
0be7d0f1cb
Add vms cli tool to the list of applications using libvirt
Just adds a tool to the applications list. This tool helps managing
multiple VMs at once using the python binding.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Bosdonnat <cbosdonnat@suse.com>
2022-11-17 08:00:03 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
059e096435 internal: Introduce STRCASESKIP()
There is so far one case where STRCASEPREFIX(a, b) && a +
strlen(b) combo is used (in virVMXConfigScanResultsCollector()),
but there will be more. Do what we do usually: introduce a macro.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
2022-11-16 12:15:05 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
af4b994bc4 docs: Fill missing docs on STRCASEPREFIX() and STRSKIP()
We document use of our STR*() macros, but somehow missed
STRCASEPREFIX() and STRSKIP().

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
2022-11-16 12:15:03 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
f396ac5af4 coding-style: Follow our own recommendation wrt spacing around commas
We require a space after a comma and even document this in our
coding style document. However, our own rule is broken in the
very same document when listing string comparison macros.
Separate macro arguments properly.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
2022-11-16 12:14:54 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
cd94d891fb docs/manpages: add checklist of problems for SEV attestation
Despite efforts to make the virt-qemu-sev-validate tool friendly, it is
a certainty that almost everyone who tries it will hit false negative
results, getting a failure despite the VM being trustworthy.

Diagnosing these problems is no easy matter, especially for those not
familiar with SEV/SEV-ES in general. This extra docs text attempts to
set out a checklist of items to look at to identify what went wrong.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
330036a897 docs/kbase: describe attestation for SEV guests
Expand the SEV guest kbase guide with information about how to configure
a SEV/SEV-ES guest when attestation is required, and mention the use of
virt-qemu-sev-validate as a way to confirm it.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
b348f37445 tools: support generating SEV secret injection tables
It is possible to build OVMF for SEV with an embedded Grub that can
fetch LUKS disk secrets. This adds support for injecting secrets in
the required format.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
273c408899 tools: load CPU count and CPU SKU from libvirt
When validating a SEV-ES guest, we need to know the CPU count and VMSA
state. We can get the CPU count directly from libvirt's guest info. The
VMSA state can be constructed automatically if we query the CPU SKU from
host capabilities XML. Neither of these is secure, however, so this
behaviour is restricted.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
676df5b358 tools: support automatically constructing SEV-ES vCPU state
The VMSA files contain the expected CPU register state for the VM. Their
content varies based on a few pieces of the stack

  - AMD CPU architectural initial state
  - KVM hypervisor VM CPU initialization
  - QEMU userspace VM CPU initialization
  - AMD CPU SKU (family/model/stepping)

The first three pieces of information we can obtain through code
inspection. The last piece of information we can take on the command
line. This allows a user to validate a SEV-ES guest merely by providing
the CPU SKU information, using --cpu-family, --cpu-model,
--cpu-stepping. This avoids the need to obtain or construct VMSA files
directly.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
3e7b7da9e0 tools: support validating SEV-ES initial vCPU state measurements
With the SEV-ES policy the VMSA state of each vCPU must be included in
the measured data. The VMSA state can be generated using the 'sevctl'
tool, by telling it a QEMU VMSA is required, and passing the hypevisor's
CPU SKU (family, model, stepping).

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
7d55c815c6 tools: load direct kernel config from libvirt
When connected to libvirt we can validate that the guest configuration
has the kernel hashes property enabled, otherwise including the kernel
GUID table in our expected measurements is not likely to match the
actual measurement.

When running locally we can also automatically detect the kernel/initrd
paths, along with the cmdline string from the XML.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
0b9e70b141 tools: support validating SEV direct kernel boot measurements
When doing direct kernel boot we need to include the kernel, initrd and
cmdline in the measurement.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
0e911045ae tools: load guest config from libvirt
Accept information about a connection to libvirt and a guest on the
command line. Talk to libvirt to obtain the running guest state and
automatically detect as much configuration as possible.

It will refuse to use a libvirt connection that is thought to be local
to the current machine, as running this tool on the hypervisor itself is
not considered secure. This can be overridden using the --insecure flag.

When querying the guest, it will also analyse the XML configuration in
an attempt to detect any options that are liable to be mistakes. For
example the NVRAM being measured should not have a persistent varstore.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ececdbdfc0 tools: support validating SEV firmware boot measurements
The virt-qemu-sev-validate program will compare a reported SEV/SEV-ES
domain launch measurement, to a computed launch measurement. This
determines whether the domain has been tampered with during launch.

This initial implementation requires all inputs to be provided
explicitly, and as such can run completely offline, without any
connection to libvirt.

The tool is placed in the libvirt-client-qemu sub-RPM since it is
specific to the QEMU driver.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-11-15 11:09:30 +00:00
Lin Yang
facadf2491 conf: Introduce SGX EPC element into device memory xml
<devices>
  ...
  <memory model='sgx-epc'>
    <source>
      <nodemask>0-1</nodemask>
    </source>
    <target>
      <size unit='KiB'>512</size>
      <node>0</node>
    </target>
  </memory>
  ...
</devices>

Signed-off-by: Lin Yang <lin.a.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Haibin Huang <haibin.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-11-11 14:06:34 +01:00
Haibin Huang
8db09767a9 conf: expose SGX feature in domain capabilities
Extend hypervisor capabilities to include sgx feature. When available,
the hypervisor supports launching an VM with SGX on Intel platfrom.
The SGX feature tag privides additional details like section size and
sgx1 or sgx2.

Signed-off-by: Haibin Huang <haibin.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-11-11 14:06:31 +01:00
Peter Krempa
9c26c1bfd4 conf: Introduce support for 'hv-avic' Hyper-V enlightenment
qemu-6.2 introduced support for the hv-avic enlightenment which allows
to use Hyper-V SynIC with hardware APICv/AVIC enabled.

Implement the libvirt support for it.

Closes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/402
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-11-09 14:08:31 +01:00
Jakub Kuczys
1dd30e2e22
docs: fix location of :since: 8.1.0 to apply to isa-debugcon
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kuczys <me@jacken.men>
2022-11-06 06:50:46 +01:00
Peter Krempa
cca6787b15 docs: xsl: Don't generate pointless index pages for qemu/admin/lxc API
The index page only really makes sense for the top level directory. The
specific index files are unreferenced since last commit. Drop them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-11-03 14:11:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
3f558e3bd9 docs: Link directly to admin|qemu|lxc API reference pages
Fix the main links in docs.rst main page to go to the full docs rather
than prompting one more click to the index page.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-11-03 14:11:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
ed2109d272 docs: xsl: Don't format empty sections in API manual
The LXC module has no exported 'Types' but the XSL template which
generates the 'libvirt-libvirt-lxc.html' page would try to format it
anyways. This would result in an empty non-pair version of the '<pre>'
tag to be used in the page, which didn't render well with modern
browsers for some reason. All following sections would become children
of the non-pair <pre>.

Fix the XSL template to not generate empty 'Types' or 'Functions'
sections similarly to how we do with 'Macros'.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-11-03 14:11:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
0097f2a36e docs: xsl: newapi: Remove unused 'navbar' template
The template is unused since commit 9092c3d491

Remove also the up|right|left|home.png files which were only used by
code generated by the unused template.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-11-03 14:11:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
db5f05dd22 storage: Add VIR_STORAGE_VOL_CREATE_VALIDATE flag
Allow users to request validation of the storage volume XML. Add new
flag and virsh support.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
2022-11-01 13:07:20 +01:00
Peter Krempa
d8791c3c7c nodedev: Add VIR_NODE_DEVICE_(CREATE|DEFINE)_XML_VALIDATE flags
The node device APIs which get XML from the user don't yet support XML
validation flags. Introduce virNodeDeviceCreateXMLFlags and
virNodeDeviceDefineXMLFlags with the appropriate flags and add virsh
support for the new flags.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
2022-11-01 13:07:20 +01:00
Peter Krempa
c43718ef67 Document caveats of 'VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_VM' group of statistics
The original patches adding the functionality neglected to add any form
of documentation for the stats fields returned for this group.

The stats are directly converted from qemu's 'query-stats(-schema)' QMP
command without any further interpretation. The 'query-stats-schema' has
the following disclaimer:

 Note: runtime-collected statistics and their names fall outside QEMU's usual
       deprecation policies.  QEMU will try to keep the set of available data
       stable, together with their names, but will not guarantee stability
       at all costs; the same is true of providers that source statistics
       externally, e.g. from Linux.  For example, if the same value is being
       tracked with different names on different architectures or by different
       providers, one of them might be renamed.  A statistic might go away if
       an algorithm is changed or some code is removed; changing a default
       might cause previously useful statistics to always report 0.  Such
       changes, however, are expected to be rare.

Since libvirt is not doing any form of conversion of the stats we can't
meaningfully document any of the returned fields. At the same time we
can't even meaningfully provide any form of API stability for the field
names.

Modify the documentation for the 'VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_VM' group both in the
API docs and in the virsh man page to reflect that and disclaim any form
of stability guarantees we provide normally.

Fixes: 8c9e3dae14
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2022-11-01 11:56:00 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
de842f37a1 docs: Remind users to remove --timeout option without socket activation
There is part of our man page that describes how to switch to the
traditional (non-socket) activation but it might still happens sometimes that
there is an extra --timeout option specified for the daemon.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-10-27 17:39:19 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
42b2f1f8b8 docs: Update best practices wrt "Fixes:" and GitLab
We document that a commit fixing an issue tracked in GitLab
should put just "Fixes: #NNN" into its commit message. But when
viewing git log, having full URL which is directly clickable is
more developer friendly and GitLab is capable of handling both.
Therefore, document that users should put full URL, just like
when fixing a bug tracked in other sites.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
2022-10-25 08:37:28 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
f53988d657 docs: Do not support non-socket activated modular daemons with systemd
Due to the setup of the modular daemon service files the reverting to non-socket
activated daemons could have never worked.  The reason is that masking the
socket files prevents starting the daemons since they require (as in Requires=
rather than Wants= in the service file) the sockets.  On top of that it creates
issues with some libvirt-guests setups and needlessly increases our support
matrix.

Nothing prevents users to modify their setup in a way that will still work
without socket activation, but supporting such setup only creates burden on our
part.

This technically reverts most of commit 59d30adacd except the change made to
the libvirtd manpage since the monolithic daemon still supports traditional mode
of starting even on systemd.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2022-10-19 15:58:29 +02:00
Jim Fehlig
71d9836ca1 conf: Add channel devices to domain capabilities
As qemu becomes more modularized, it is important for libvirt to advertise
availability of the modularized functionality through capabilities. This
change adds channel devices to domain capabilities, allowing clients such
as virt-install to avoid using spicevmc channel devices when not supported
by the target qemu.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-10-17 11:39:00 -06:00
Ján Tomko
2cf14c311b docs: formatdomain: fix since tag for TPM PCR banks
Fixes: a5bbe1a8b6
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-17 14:27:21 +02:00
Jim Fehlig
4e13cc4adb conf: Add USB redirect devices to domain capabilities
As qemu becomes more modularized, it is important for libvirt to advertise
availability of the modularized functionality through capabilities. This
change adds USB redirect devices to domain capabilities, allowing clients
such as virt-install to avoid using redirdev devices when not supported
by the target qemu.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-10-14 16:10:01 -06:00
Michal Privoznik
27df3522e6 meson: Replace external_program.path() with external_program.full_path()
The path() method is deprecated in 0.55.0 and we're recommended
to use full_path() instead. Interestingly, we were already doing
do in couple of places, but not all of them.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-10 15:06:09 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
3395c35f2f meson: Replace meson.source_root() with meson.project_source_root()
The source_root() method is deprecated in 0.56.0 and we're
recommended to use project_source_root() instead.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-10 15:06:09 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
5ecdcf8541 meson: Replace meson.build_root() with meson.project_build_root()
The build_root() method is deprecated in 0.56.0 and we're
recommended to use project_build_root() instead.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-10 15:06:09 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
268a2708c4 virsh: Add --model option for hypervisor-cpu-baseline
This option can be used as a shortcut for creating a single XML with
just a CPU model name and no features:

    $ virsh hypervisor-cpu-baseline --model Skylake-Server
    <cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
      <model fallback='forbid'>Skylake-Server</model>
      <feature policy='disable' name='avx512f'/>
      <feature policy='disable' name='avx512dq'/>
      <feature policy='disable' name='clwb'/>
      <feature policy='disable' name='avx512cd'/>
      <feature policy='disable' name='avx512bw'/>
      <feature policy='disable' name='avx512vl'/>
      <feature policy='disable' name='pku'/>
    </cpu>

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-10 14:31:43 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
d4975a98b6 docs: Enhance documentation of CPU models in domain caps
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-10 14:31:43 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
2784a83907 domain_capabilities: Add vendor attribute for CPU models
Even though several CPU models from various vendors are reported as
usable on a given host, user may still want to use only those that match
the host vendor. Currently the only place where users can check the
vendor of each CPU model is our CPU map, which is considered internal
and users should not really be using it directly. So to allow for such
filtering we now advertise the vendor of each CPU model in domain
capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-10-10 14:31:42 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
83c6d80abc tools: add virt-qemu-qmp-proxy for proxying QMP via libvirt QEMU guests
Libvirt provides QMP passthrough APIs for the QEMU driver and these are
exposed in virsh. It is not especially pleasant, however, using the raw
QMP JSON syntax. QEMU has a tool 'qmp-shell' which can speak QMP and
exposes a human friendly interactive shell. It is not possible to use
this with libvirt managed guest, however, since only one client can
attach to the QMP socket at any point in time. While it would be
possible to configure a second QMP socket for a VM, it may not be
an known requirement at the time the guest is provisioned.

The virt-qmp-proxy tool aims to solve this problem. It opens a UNIX
socket and listens for incoming client connections, speaking QMP on
the connected socket. It will forward any QMP commands received onto
the running libvirt QEMU guest, and forward any replies back to the
QMP client. It will also forward back events.

  $ virsh start demo
  $ virt-qmp-proxy demo demo.qmp &
  $ qmp-shell demo.qmp
  Welcome to the QMP low-level shell!
  Connected to QEMU 6.2.0

  (QEMU) query-kvm
  {
      "return": {
          "enabled": true,
          "present": true
      }
  }

Note this tool of course has the same risks as the raw libvirt
QMP passthrough. It is safe to run query commands to fetch information
but commands which change the QEMU state risk disrupting libvirt's
management of QEMU, potentially resulting in data loss/corruption in
the worst case. Any use of this tool will cause the guest to be marked
as tainted as an warning that it could be in an unexpected state.

Since this tool introduces a python dependency it is not desirable
to include it in any of the existing RPMs in libvirt. This tool is
also QEMU specific, so isn't appropriate to bundle with the generic
tools. Thus a new RPM is introduced 'libvirt-clients-qemu', to
contain additional QEMU specific tools, with extra external deps.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-10-07 14:32:36 +01:00
Stefan Berger
60a06693cc qemu: Add UNDEFINE_TPM and UNDEFINE_KEEP_TPM flags
Add UNDEFINE_TPM and UNDEFINE_KEEP_TPM flags to qemuDomainUndefineFlags()
API and --tpm and --keep-tpm to 'virsh undefine'. Pass the
virDomainUndefineFlagsValues via qemuDomainRemoveInactive()
from qemuDomainUndefineFlags() all the way down to
qemuTPMEmulatorCleanupHost() and delete TPM storage there considering that
the UNDEFINE_TPM flag has priority over the persistent_state attribute
from the domain XML. Pass 0 in all other API call sites to
qemuDomainRemoveInactive() for now.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-10-04 16:34:28 +02:00
Jim Fehlig
30899c65a2 docs: compiling: Add link to latest openSUSE libvirt package
This is a follow-up to fbd6b2480a, adding a link to the latest libvirt
package for openSUSE.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-30 09:05:59 -06:00
Martin Kletzander
59d30adacd libvirt-guests: Fix dependency ordering in service file
After some debugging and discussion with systemd team it turns out we
are misusing the ordering in libvirt-guests.service.  That happened
because we want to support both monolithic and modular daemon setups and
on top of that we also want to support socket activation and services
without socket activation.  Unfortunately this is impossible to express
in the unit file because of how transactions are handled in systemd when
dependencies are resolved and multiple actions (jobs) are queued.  For
explanation from Michal Sekletar see comment #7 in the BZ this patch is
fixing:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964855#c7

In order to support all the scenarios this patch also amends the
manpages so that users that are changing the default can also read how
to correct the dependency ordering in libvirt-guests unit file.

Ideally we would also keep the existing configuration during upgrade,
but due to our huge support matrix this seems hardly feasible as it
could introduce even more problems.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-09-26 13:04:48 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
0377177c78 qemu_process.c: Propagate hugetlbfs mounts on reconnect
When reconnecting to a running QEMU process, we construct the
per-domain path in all hugetlbfs mounts. This is a relict from
the past (v3.4.0-100-g5b24d25062) where we switched to a
per-domain path and we want to create those paths when libvirtd
restarts on upgrade.

And with namespaces enabled there is one corner case where the
path is not created. In fact an error is reported and the
reconnect fails. Ideally, all mount events are propagated into
the QEMU's namespace. And they probably are, except when the
target path does not exist inside the namespace. Now, it's pretty
common for users to mount hugetlbfs under /dev (e.g.
/dev/hugepages), but if domain is started without hugepages (or
more specifically - private hugetlbfs path wasn't created on
domain startup), then the reconnect code tries to create it.
But it fails to do so, well, it fails to set seclabels on the
path because, because the path does not exist in the private
namespace. And it doesn't exist because we specifically create
only a subset of all possible /dev nodes. Therefore, the mount
event, whilst propagated, is not successful and hence the
filesystem is not mounted. We have to do it ourselves.

If hugetlbfs is mount anywhere else there's no problem and this
is effectively a dead code.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123196
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2022-09-23 16:33:48 +02:00
Peter Krempa
ac3abe0a3f docs: compiling: Add notes on starting compiled libvirt daemons
In the basic configuration with monolithic libvirtd users are required
to also start virtlogd. Add a general note with a specific example
hinting that this is needed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-13 13:36:49 +02:00
Peter Krempa
4cb0cdd7ff docs: compiling: Encourage force-enabling required functionality
To prevent surprises when a build doesn't in fact contain the required
functionality suggest that users force-enable required modules.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-13 13:36:49 +02:00
Peter Krempa
b64a9e97d1 docs: compiling: Separate 'prepare', 'configure', and 'build' steps
Only the preparation of sources differs between a build from a git
checkout vs a build from tarball. Restructure the docs to outline the
difference and combine information on how to configure libvirt.

Most notably the suggestion to use '-Dsystem=true' was present only for
the steps to build a git checkout.

Suggest also running the testsuite as part of the build step.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-13 13:36:49 +02:00
Peter Krempa
dae224fdb1 docs: compiling: Separate information on how to install libvirt and add disclaimer
Create a section for instructions on how to install the built binaries
rather than mentioning it multiple times.

Add a note that installing over your distro-provided packages will most
likely break your instalation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-13 13:36:49 +02:00
Peter Krempa
91284a2893 docs: compiling: Section off block on how to run from build directory
Running from build directory isn't strictly tied to the git-checkout
build so make a new section for it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-13 13:36:49 +02:00
Peter Krempa
fbd6b2480a docs: compiling: Add a paragraph suggesting installation from repository
Users should be encouraged to install libvirt from the distro's repos in
the first place.

Also encourage distro-specific ways to get newer versions, rather than
building from source manually.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2022-09-13 13:36:49 +02:00