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
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>
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
At least Xen supports backend drivers in another domain (aka "driver
domain"). This patch introduces an XML config option for specifying the
backend domain name for <disk> and <interface> devices. E.g.
<disk>
<backenddomain name='diskvm'/>
...
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<backenddomain name='netvm'/>
...
</interface>
In the future, same option will be needed for USB devices (hostdev
objects), but for now libxl doesn't have support for PVUSB.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Add an XML attribute to allow disabling merge of rx buffers
on the host:
<interface ...>
...
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver ...>
<host mrg_rxbuf='off'/>
</driver>
</interface>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186886
In order for QEMU vCPU (and other) threads to run with RT scheduler,
libvirt needs to take care of that so QEMU doesn't have to run privileged.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178986
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
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>
Ploop is a pseudo device which makeit possible to access
to an image in a file as a block device. Like loop devices,
but with additional features, like snapshots, write tracker
and without double-caching.
It used in PCS for containers and in OpenVZ. You can manage
ploop devices and images with ploop utility
(http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop).
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
QEMU supports feature specification with -cpu host and we just skip
using that. Since QEMU developers themselves would like to use this
feature, this patch modifies the code to work.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178850
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
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>
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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'/>
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.
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>
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>
...
<kvm>
<hidden state='on'/>
</kvm>
</features>
...
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
The 'min_guarantee' is used by VMware ESX and OpenVZ drivers,
with qemu however, libvirt should report error when starting a domain,
because this element is not used.
Resolves https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122455
Commit 4cf53158 tried to set up unique labels per disk in the
example, but ended up choosing strings that don't correspond
to the usual choice of bus types. Tweak the strings once again.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use preferred names.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Introduce a new structure to handle an iSCSI host device based on the
existing virDomainHostdevSubsysSCSI by adding a "protocol='iscsi'" to
the <source/> element. The existing scsi_host subsystem RNG was modified
to read an optional "protocol='adapter'", although it won't be written
out nor is it documented as an option (by choice).
The new hostdev structure mimics the existing <disk/> element for an
iSCSI device (network) device. New XML is:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi' managed='yes'>
<source protocol='iscsi' name='iqn.1992-01.com.example'>
<host name='example.org' port='3260'/>
<auth username='myname'>
<secret type='iscsi' usage='mycluster_myname'/>
</auth>
</source>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='2' unit='5'/>
</hostdev>
The controller element will mimic the existing scsi_host code insomuch
as when 'lsi' and 'virtio-scsi' are used.
Jiri Moskovcak reported on IRC that the documentation on valid
<disk> was confusing because it didn't have unique dev='...'
entries.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use unique names.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
A future patch is going to wire up qemu active block commit jobs;
but as they have similar events and are canceled/pivoted in the
same way as block copy jobs, it is easiest to track all bookkeeping
for the commit job by reusing the <mirror> element. This patch
adds domain XML to track which job was responsible for creating a
mirroring situation, and adds a job='copy' attribute to all
existing uses of <mirror>. Along the way, it also massages the
qemu monitor backend to read the new field in order to generate
the correct type of libvirt job (even though it requires a
future patch to actually cause a qemu event that can be reported
as an active commit). It also prepares to update persistent XML
to match changes made to live XML when a copy completes.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Enhance schema.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainDiskDef): Add a field.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainBlockJobType): String conversion.
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML): Parse job type.
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Output job type.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessHandleBlockJob): Distinguish
active from regular commit.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockCopy): Set job type.
(qemuDomainBlockPivot, qemuDomainBlockJobImpl): Clean up job type
on completion.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-mirror-old.xml:
Update tests.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-active-commit.xml: New
file.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Drive new test.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Doing a blockcopy operation across a libvirtd restart is not very
robust at the moment. In particular, we are clearing the <mirror>
element prior to telling qemu to finish the job. Also, thanks to the
ability to request async completion, the user can easily regain
control prior to qemu actually finishing the effort, and they should
be able to poll the domain XML to see if the job is still going.
A future patch will fix things to actually wait until qemu is done
before modifying the XML to reflect the job completion. But since
qemu issues identical BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETE events regardless of whether
the job was cancelled (kept the original disk) or completed (pivoted
to the new disk), we have to track which of the two operations were
used to end the job. Furthermore, we'd like to avoid attempts to
end a job where we are already waiting on an earlier request to qemu
to end the job. Likewise, if we miss the qemu event (perhaps because
it arrived during a libvirtd restart), we still need enough state
recorded to be able to determine how to modify the domain XML once
we reconnect to qemu and manually learn whether the job still exists.
Although this patch doesn't actually fix the problem, it is a
preliminary step that makes it possible to track whether a job
has already begun steps towards completion.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainDiskMirrorState): New enum.
(_virDomainDiskDef): Convert bool mirroring to new enum.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefParseXML)
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Handle new values.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessHandleBlockJob): Adjust
client.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockPivot)
(qemuDomainBlockJobImpl): Likewise.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskMirror): Expose new values.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Document it.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: Test it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
libvirt supports pci domain already, so update the documentation.
Otherwise users who lookup the documentation for how to use hostdev may
miss the domain and encounter error when pass-through a pci device in a
domain other than 0.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Disk type 'lun' enables SCSI command passthrough for a disk. We stated
that it works only with "block" disks. Qemu supports it also when using
the iSCSI protocol.
LXC network devices can now be assigned a custom NIC device name on the
container side. For example, this is configured with:
<interface type='network'>
<source network='default'/>
<guest dev="eth1"/>
</interface>
In this example the network card will appear as eth1 in the guest.
In XML format, by definition, order of fields should not matter, so
order of parsing the elements doesn't affect the end result. When
specifying guest NUMA cells, we depend only on the order of the 'cell'
elements. With this patch all older domain XMLs are parsed as before,
but with the 'id' attribute they are parsed and formatted according to
that field. This will be useful when we have tuning settings for
particular guest NUMA node.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for the QEMU vhost-user feature to libvirt.
vhost-user enables the communication between a QEMU virtual machine
and other userspace process using the Virtio transport protocol.
It uses a char dev (e.g. Unix socket) for the control plane,
while the data plane based on shared memory.
The XML looks like:
<interface type='vhostuser'>
<mac address='52:54:00:3b:83:1a'/>
<source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost.sock' mode='server'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
</interface>
Signed-off-by: Michele Paolino <m.paolino@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Fix a couple of typos ('chap' should have been 'iscsi' and there was
a stray 'iqn.2013-07.com.example:iscsi-pool' entry. Clean up the
description of the <auth> element for the disk
This introduces two new attributes "cmd_per_lun" and "max_sectors" same
with the names QEMU uses for virtio-scsi. An example of the XML:
<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi' cmd_per_lun='50'
max_sectors='512'/>
The corresponding QEMU command line:
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,cmd_per_lun=50,max_sectors=512,
bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
Signed-off-by: Mike Perez <thingee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
In section "Block / character devices" of "Host device assignment",
the description of hostdev element has some error:
For a block device, the type should be "storage", not "block";
For a character device, the type should be "misc", not "char".
Signed-off-by: Jincheng Miao <jmiao@redhat.com>
Commit 7c6fc39 introduced a regression in the XML produced for older
clients. The argument at the time was that clients shouldn't be
depending on output-only data for something that is only going to
be triggered for a transient guest; but John Ferlan reported that
the automated testsuite was such a client. It's better to be safe
than sorry by guaranteeing back-compat cruft. Note that later
patches will be using <mirror> for active block commit, but there
we don't have to worry about back-compat.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefFormat): Restore old
style output when necessary.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Validate back-compat style.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Update the documentation.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-mirror-old.xml:
Update tests.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Now that we track a disk mirror as a virStorageSource, we might
as well update the XML to theoretically allow any type of
mirroring destination (not just a local file). A later patch
will also be reusing <mirror> to track the block commit of the
top layer of a chain, which is another case where libvirt needs
to update the backing chain after the job is finally pivoted,
and since backing chains can have network backing files as the
destination to commit into, it makes more sense to display that
in the XML.
This patch changes output-only XML; it was already documented
that <mirror> does not affect a domain definition at this point
(because qemu doesn't provide persistent bitmaps yet). Any
application that was starting a block copy job with older libvirt
and then relying on the domain XML to determine if it was
complete will no longer be able to access the file= and format=
attributes of mirror that were previously used. However, this is
not going to be a problem in practice: the only time a block copy
job works is on a transient domain, and any app that is managing
a transient domain probably already does enough of its own
bookkeeping to know which file it is mirroring into without
having to re-read it from the libvirt XML. The one thing that
was likely to be used in a mirroring job was the ready=
attribute, which is unchanged. Meanwhile, I made sure the schema
and parser still accept the old format, even if we no longer
output it, so that upgrading from an older version of libvirt is
seamless.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskMirror): Alter definition.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefParseXML): Parse two
styles of mirror elements.
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Output new style.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror-old.xml: New
file, copied from...
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: ...here
before modernizing.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-mirror-old*: New
files.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Test both styles.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
<interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'> is supported, but
nowhere mentions 'managed' in <interface type='hostdev'> syntax.
Update documentation to cover it.
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
The XML for quite a longish backing chain is shown below:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
<source protocol='nbd' name='bar'>
<host transport='unix' socket='/var/run/nbdsock'/>
</source>
<backingStore type='block' index='1'>
<format type='qcow2'/>
<source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1'/>
<backingStore type='file' index='2'>
<format type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/tmp/image2.qcow'/>
<backingStore type='file' index='3'>
<format type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/tmp/image3.qcow'/>
<backingStore type='file' index='4'>
<format type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/tmp/image4.qcow'/>
<backingStore type='file' index='5'>
<format type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/tmp/image5.qcow'/>
<backingStore type='file' index='6'>
<format type='raw'/>
<source file='/tmp/Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso'/>
<backingStore/>
</backingStore>
</backingStore>
</backingStore>
</backingStore>
</backingStore>
</backingStore>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Various disk types and formats can be mixed in one chain. The
<backingStore/> empty element marks the end of the backing chain and it
is there mostly for future support of parsing the chain provided by a
user. If it's missing, we are supposed to probe for the rest of the
chain ourselves, otherwise complete chain was provided by the user. The
index attributes of backingStore elements can be used to unambiguously
identify a specific part of the image chain.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
When the default was changed from kvm to vfio, the documentation for
hostdev and interface was changed, but the documentation in <network>
was forgotten.
Also document when the default was changed from "always kvm" to "vfio
if available, else kvm" (1.0.5).
Recent autotest/virt-test testing on f20 discovered an anomaly in how
the bandwidth options are documented and used. This was discovered due
to a bug fix in the /sbin/tc utility found in iproute-3.11.0.1 (on f20)
in which overflow was actually caught and returned as an error. The fix
was first introduced in iproute-3.10 (search on iproute2 commit 'a303853e').
The autotest/virt-test test for virsh domiftune was attempting to send
the largest unsigned integer value (4294967295) for maximum value
testing. The libvirt xml implementation was designed to manage values
in kilobytes thus when this value was passed to /sbin/tc, it (now)
properly rejected the 4294967295kbps value.
Investigation of the problem discovered that formatdomain.html.in and
formatnetwork.html.in described the elements and property types slightly
differently, although they use the same code - virNetDevBandwidthParseRate()
(shared by portgroups, domains, and networks xml parsers). Rather than
have the descriptions in two places, this patch will combine and reword
the description under formatnetwork.html.in and have formatdomain.html.in
link to that description.
This documentation faux pas was continued into the virsh man page where
the bandwidth description for both 'attach-interface' and 'domiftune'
did not indicate the format of each value, thus leading to the test using
largest unsigned integer value assuming "bps" rather than "kbps", which
ultimately was wrong.
Add a new character device backend called 'spiceport' that uses
spice's channel for communications and apart from spicevmc can be used
as a backend for any character device from libvirt's point of view.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Some grammar fixes.
s/namespace,set/namespace, set
s/container being allowed/container are allowed
s/the <code>uid/The <code>uid
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Add a new <timer> for the HyperV reference time counter enlightenment
and the iTSC reference page for Windows guests.
This feature provides a paravirtual approach to track timer events for
the guest (similar to kvmclock) with the option to use real hardware
clock on systems with a iTSC with compensation across various hosts.
It doesn't make sense to fail if the SCSI host device is specified
as "shareable" explicitly between domains (NB, it works if and only
if the device is specified as "shareable" for *all* domains,
otherwise it fails).
To fix the problem, this patch introduces an array for virSCSIDevice
struct, which records all the names of domain which are using the
device (note that the recorded domains must specify the device as
shareable). And the change on the data struct brings on many
subsequent changes in the code.
Prior to this patch, the "shareable" tag didn't work as expected,
it actually work like "non-shareable". So this patch also added notes
in formatdomain.html to declare the fact.
* src/util/virscsi.h:
- Remove virSCSIDeviceGetUsedBy
- Change definition of virSCSIDeviceGetUsedBy and virSCSIDeviceListDel
- Add virSCSIDeviceIsAvailable
* src/util/virscsi.c:
- struct virSCSIDevice: Change "used_by" to be an array; Add
"n_used_by" as the array count
- virSCSIDeviceGetUsedBy: Removed
- virSCSIDeviceFree: frees the "used_by" array
- virSCSIDeviceSetUsedBy: Copy the domain name to avoid potential
memory corruption
- virSCSIDeviceIsAvailable: New
- virSCSIDeviceListDel: Change the logic, for device which is already
in the list, just remove the corresponding entry in "used_by". And
since it's only used in one place, we can safely removing the code
to find out the dev in the list first.
- Copyright updating
* src/libvirt_private.sys:
- virSCSIDeviceGetUsedBy: Remove
- virSCSIDeviceIsAvailable: New
* src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c:
- qemuUpdateActiveScsiHostdevs: Check if the device existing before
adding it to the list;
- qemuPrepareHostdevSCSIDevices: Error out if the not all domains
use the device as "shareable"; Also don't try to add the device
to the activeScsiHostdevs list if it already there; And make
more sensible error w.r.t the current "shareable" value in
driver->activeScsiHostdevs.
- qemuDomainReAttachHostScsiDevices: Change the logic according
to the changes on helpers.
Signed-off-by: Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>
spice-server offers an API to disable file transfer messages
on the agent channel between the client and the guest.
This is supported in qemu through the disable-agent-file-xfer option.
This patch exposes this option to libvirt.
Adds a new element 'filetransfer', with one property,
'enable', which accepts a boolean.
Default is enabled, for backward compatibility.
Depends on the capability exported in the first patch of the series.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com>
The linux kernel recently added support for paravirtual spinlock
handling to avoid performance regressions on overcomitted hosts. This
feature needs to be turned in the hypervisor so that the guest OS is
notified about the possible support.
This patch adds a new feature "paravirt-spinlock" to the XML and
supporting code to enable the "kvm_pv_unhalt" pseudo CPU feature in
qemu.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008989
Prefer using VFIO (if available) to the legacy KVM device passthrough.
With this patch a PCI passthrough device without the driver configured
will be started with VFIO if it's available on the host. If not legacy
KVM passthrough is checked and error is reported if it's not available.
Since 76b644c when the support for RAM filesystems was introduced,
libvirt accepted the following XML:
<source usage='1024' unit='KiB'/>
This was parsed correctly and internally stored in bytes, but it
was formatted as (with an extra 's'):
<source usage='1024' units='KiB'/>
When read again, this was treated as if the units were missing,
meaning libvirt was unable to parse its own XML correctly.
The usage attribute was documented as being in KiB, but it was not
scaled if the unit was missing. Transient domains still worked,
because this was balanced by an extra 'k' in the mount options.
This patch:
Changes the parser to use 'units' instead of 'unit', as the latter
was never documented (fixing persistent domains) and some programs
(libvirt-glib, libvirt-sandbox) already parse the 'units' attribute.
Removes the extra 'k' from the tmpfs mount options, which is needed
because now we parse our own XML correctly.
Changes the default input unit to KiB to match documentation, fixing:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015689
qemu/KVM also supports a tftp URL while specifying the cdrom ISO image.
The xml should be as following:
<disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
<source protocol='tftp' name='/url/path'>
<host name='host.name' port='69'/>
</source>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@br.ibm.com>
The ftps protocol is another protocol supported by qemu/KVM while specifying
the cdrom ISO image.
The xml should be as following:
<disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
<source protocol='ftps' name='/url/path'>
<host name='host.name' port='990'/>
</source>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@br.ibm.com>
The https protocol is also accepted by qemu/KVM when specifying the cdrom ISO
image.
The xml should be as following:
<disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
<source protocol='https' name='/url/path'>
<host name='host.name' port='443'/>
</source>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@br.ibm.com>
Mention that user namespace can be enabled using the UID/GID
mapping schema.
Fix typo in link anchor for container args in domain XML docs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
According to VMWare's documentation 'cdrom-raw' is an acceptable value
for deviceType for a CD-ROM drive. The documentation states that the VMX
configuration for a CD-ROM deviceType is as follows:
ide|scsi(n):(n).deviceType = "cdrom-raw|atapi-cdrom|cdrom-image"
From the documentation it appears the following is true:
- cdrom-image = Provides the ISO to the VM
- atapi-cdrom = Provides a NEC emulated ATAPI CD-ROM on top of the host
CD-ROM
- cdrom-raw = Passthru for a host CD-ROM drive. Allows CD-R burning from
within the guest.
A CD-ROM prior to this patch would always provide an 'atapi-cdrom' is
modeled as:
<disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
<source dev='/dev/scd0'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
</disk>
This patch allows the 'device' attribute to be set to 'lun' for a raw
acccess CD-ROM such as:
<disk type='block' device='lun'>
<source dev='/dev/scd0'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
</disk>
This corresponds to '-sd' and '-drive if=sd' on the qemu command line.
Needed for many ARM boards which don't provide any other way to
pass in storage.
Add an attribute named 'removable' to the 'target' element of disks,
which controls the removable flag. For instance, on a Linux guest it
controls the value of /sys/block/$dev/removable. This option is only
valid for USB disks (i.e. bus='usb'), and its default value is 'off',
which is the same behaviour as before.
To achieve this, 'removable=on' (or 'off') is appended to the '-device
usb-storage' parameter sent to qemu when adding a USB disk via
'-disk'. A capability flag QEMU_CAPS_USB_STORAGE_REMOVABLE was added
to keep track if this option is supported by the qemu version used.
Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922495
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
<controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
<pcihole64 unit='KiB'>1048576</pcihole64>
</controller>
It can be used to adjust (or disable) the size of the 64-bit
PCI hole. The size attribute is in kilobytes (different unit
can be specified on input), but it gets rounded up to
the nearest GB by QEMU.
Disabling it will be needed for guests that crash with the
64-bit PCI hole (like Windows XP), see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990418
The ftp protocol is already recognized by qemu/KVM so add this support to
libvirt as well.
The xml should be as following:
<disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
<source protocol='ftp' name='/url/path'>
<host name='host.name' port='21'/>
</source>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@br.ibm.com>
QEMU/KVM already allows a HTTP URL for the cdrom ISO image so add this support
to libvirt as well.
The xml should be as following:
<disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
<source protocol='http' name='/url/path'>
<host name='host.name' port='80'/>
</source>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@br.ibm.com>
Add more iSCSI examples including having a secret attached. There are 4 new
examples; one for each way to have an iSCSI - a network disk using virtio,
a passthrough network lun using scsi, a volume disk using "mode='host'",
and a volume disk using "mode='direct'"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924153
Commit 904e05a2 (v0.9.9) added a per-<disk> seclabel element with
an attribute relabel='no' in order to try and minimize the
impact of shutdown delays when an NFS server disappears. The idea
was that if a disk is on NFS and can't be labeled in the first
place, there is no need to attempt the (no-op) relabel on domain
shutdown. Unfortunately, the way this was implemented was by
modifying the domain XML so that the optimization would survive
libvirtd restart, but in a way that is indistinguishable from an
explicit user setting. Furthermore, once the setting is turned
on, libvirt avoids attempts at labeling, even for operations like
snapshot or blockcopy where the chain is being extended or pivoted
onto non-NFS, where SELinux labeling is once again possible. As
a result, it was impossible to do a blockcopy to pivot from an
NFS image file onto a local file.
The solution is to separate the semantics of a chain that must
not be labeled (which the user can set even on persistent domains)
vs. the optimization of not attempting a relabel on cleanup (a
live-only annotation), and using only the user's explicit notation
rather than the optimization as the decision on whether to skip
a label attempt in the first place. When upgrading an older
libvirtd to a newer, an NFS volume will still attempt the relabel;
but as the avoidance of a relabel was only an optimization, this
shouldn't cause any problems.
In the ideal future, libvirt will eventually have XML describing
EVERY file in the backing chain, with each file having a separate
<seclabel> element. At that point, libvirt will be able to track
more closely which files need a relabel attempt at shutdown. But
until we reach that point, the single <seclabel> for the entire
<disk> chain is treated as a hint - when a chain has only one
file, then we know it is accurate; but if the chain has more than
one file, we have to attempt relabel in spite of the attribute,
in case part of the chain is local and SELinux mattered for that
portion of the chain.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virSecurityDeviceLabelDef): Add new
member.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virSecurityDeviceLabelDefParseXML):
Parse it, for live images only.
(virSecurityDeviceLabelDefFormat): Output it.
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML, virDomainChrSourceDefParseXML)
(virDomainDiskSourceDefFormat, virDomainChrDefFormat)
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Pass flags on through.
* src/security/security_selinux.c
(virSecuritySELinuxRestoreSecurityImageLabelInt): Honor labelskip
when possible.
(virSecuritySELinuxSetSecurityFileLabel): Set labelskip, not
norelabel, if labeling fails.
(virSecuritySELinuxSetFileconHelper): Fix indentation.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (seclabel): Document new xml.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (devSeclabel): Allow it in RNG.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-*-labelskip.xml:
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-*-labelskip.args:
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-seclabel-*-labelskip.xml:
New test files.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): Run the new tests.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
In one of my previous patches I am removing the hard_limit heuristic to
guess the correct value if none set. However, it turned out, this limit
is hard to guess even for users. We should advise them to not set the
limit as their domains may be OOM killed. Sigh.
This PCI controller, named "dmi-to-pci-bridge" in the libvirt config,
and implemented with qemu's "i82801b11-bridge" device, connects to a
PCI Express slot (e.g. one of the slots provided by the pcie-root
controller, aka "pcie.0" on the qemu commandline), and provides 31
*non-hot-pluggable* PCI (*not* PCIe) slots, numbered 1-31.
Any time a machine is defined which has a pcie-root controller
(i.e. any q35-based machinetype), libvirt will automatically add a
dmi-to-pci-bridge controller if one doesn't exist, and also add a
pci-bridge controller. The reasoning here is that any useful domain
will have either an immediate (startup time) or eventual (subsequent
hot-plug) need for a standard PCI slot; since the pcie-root controller
only provides PCIe slots, we need to connect a dmi-to-pci-bridge
controller to it in order to get a non-hot-plug PCI slot that we can
then use to connect a pci-bridge - the slots provided by the
pci-bridge will be both standard PCI and hot-pluggable.
Since pci-bridge devices themselves can not be hot-plugged into a
running system (although you can hot-plug other devices into a
pci-bridge's slots), any new pci-bridge controller that is added can
(and will) be plugged into the dmi-to-pci-bridge as long as it has
empty slots available.
This patch is also changing the qemuxml2xml-pcie test from a "DO_TEST"
to a "DO_DIFFERENT_TEST". This is so that the "before" xml can omit
the automatically added dmi-to-pci-bridge and pci-bridge devices, and
the "after" xml can include it - this way we are testing if libvirt is
properly adding these devices.
This controller is implicit on q35 machinetypes. It provides 31 PCIe
(*not* PCI) slots as controller 0.
Currently there are no devices that can connect to pcie-root, and no
implicit pci controller on a q35 machine, so q35 is still
unusable. For a usable q35 system, we need to add a
"dmi-to-pci-bridge" pci controller, which can connect to pcie-root,
and provides standard pci slots that can be used to connect other
devices.
The outbound/@peak is ignored (since QoS was introduced). This is due to
kernel limitation of know allowing ingress filters to have peak just
average rate. However, we should document this limitation to not confuse
users.
Interestingly, we had <code>floor<code> ... </code>outbound</code> which
results in much larger block of text to be written in code style that
intended.
There are two ways to use a iSCSI LUN as disk source for qemu.
* The LUN's path as it shows up on host, e.g.
/dev/disk/by-path/ip-$ip:3260-iscsi-$iqn-fc18:iscsi.iscsi0-lun-1
* The libiscsi URI from the storage pool source element host attribute, e.g.
iscsi://demo.org:6000/iqn.1992-01.com.example/1
For a "volume" type disk, if the specified "pool" is of iscsi
type, we should support to use the LUN in either of above 2 ways.
That's why to introduce a new XML tag "mode" for the disk source
(libvirt should support iscsi pool with libiscsi, but it's another
new feature, which should be done later).
The "mode" can be either of "host" or "direct". Use "host" to indicate
use of the LUN with the path as it shows up on host. Use "direct" to
indicate to use it with the source pool host URI (future patches may support
to use network type libvirt storage too, e.g. Ceph)
Use the virDomainSetMemoryStatsPeriodFlags() to pass a period defined by
usage of a new --period option in order to set the collection period for the
balloon driver. This may enable or disable the collection based on the value.
Add the --current, --live, & --config options to dommemstat.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799354
Until now, the "host-model" cpu mode couldn't be influenced. This patch
allows to use the <feature> elements to either enable or disable
specific CPU flags. This can be used to force flags that can be emulated
even if the host CPU doesn't support them.
This patch introduces new element <idmap> for
user namespace. for example
<idmap>
<uid start='0' target='1000' count='10'/>
<gid start='0' target='1000' count='10'/>
</idmap>
this new element is used for setting proc files
/proc/<pid>/{uid_map,gid_map}.
This patch also supports multiple uid/gid elements
setting in XML configuration.
We don't support the semi configuation, user has to
configure uid and gid both.
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
aae0fc2a92 removed the #elementsUSB anchor
but did not update the links to point to the new section #elementsHostDev.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This patch adds functionality to allow libvirt to configure the
'native-tagged' and 'native-untagged' modes on openvswitch networks.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Add new CPU features for HyperV:
vapic for virtual APIC support
spinlocks for setting spinlock support
<features>
<hyperv>
<vapic state='on'/>
<spinlocks state='on' retries='4096'/>
</hyperv>
</features>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784836
This attribute is going to represent number of queues for
multique vhost network interface. This commit implements XML
extension part of the feature and add one test as well. For now,
we can only do xml2xml test as qemu command line generation code
is not adapted yet.
-vnc :5900,share=allow-exclusive
allows clients to ask for exclusive access which is
implemented by dropping other connections Connecting
multiple clients in parallel requires all clients asking
for a shared session (vncviewer: -shared switch)
-vnc :5900,share=force-shared
disables exclusive client access. Useful for shared
desktop sessions, where you don't want someone forgetting
specify -shared disconnect everybody else.
-vnc :5900,share=ignore
completely ignores the shared flag and allows everybody
connect unconditionally
QEMU might support more values for "-drive discard", so using Bi-state
values (on/off) for it doesn't make sense.
"on" maps to "unmap", "off" maps to "ignore":
<...>
@var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. Some machine types
may not support discard requests.
</...>
The following XML configuration can be used to request all domain's
memory pages to be kept locked in host's memory (i.e., domain's memory
pages will not be swapped out):
<memoryBacking>
<locked/>
</memoryBacking>
QEMU introduced "discard" option for drive since commit a9384aff53,
<...>
@var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. Some machine types
may not support discard requests.
</...>
This patch exposes the support in libvirt.
QEMU supported "discard" for "-drive" since v1.5.0-rc0:
% git tag --contains a9384aff53
contains
v1.5.0-rc0
v1.5.0-rc1
So this only detects the capability bit using virQEMUCapsProbeQMPCommandLine.
Adding support for new attribute 'websocket' in the '<graphics>'
element, the attribute value is the port to listen on with '-1'
meaning auto-allocation, '0' meaning no websockets.
QEMU introduced command line "-mem-merge=on|off" (defaults to on) to
enable/disable the memory merge (KSM) at guest startup. This exposes
it by new XML:
<memoryBacking>
<nosharepages/>
</memoryBacking>
The XML tag is same with what we used internally for old RHEL.
The <filesystem> element can now accept a <driver type='nbd'/>
as an alternative to 'loop'. The benefit of NBD is support
for non-raw disk image formats.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Extend the <driver> element in filesystem devices to
allow a storage format to be set. The new attribute
uses 'format' to reflect the storage format. This is
different from the <driver> element in disk devices
which use 'type' to reflect the storage format. This
is because the 'type' attribute on filesystem devices
is already used for the driver backend, for which the
disk devices use the 'name' attribute. Arggggh.
Anyway for disks we have
<driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
And for filesystems this change means we now have
<driver type="loop" format="raw"/>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
An example of the scsi hostdev XML:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi'>
<source>
<adapter name='scsi_host0'/>
<address bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
</source>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='4' unit='8'/>
</hostdev>
Controller is implicitly added for scsi hostdev, though the scsi
controller's model defaults to "lsilogic", which might be not what
the user wants (same problem exists for virtio-scsi disk). It's
the existing problem, will be addressed later.
The device address must be specified manually. Later patch will let
libvirt generate it automatically.
This only introduces the generic XMLs for scsi hostdev, later patches
will add other elements, e.g. <readonly>, <shareable>.
Signed-off-by: Han Cheng <hanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>
The rule generating the HTML docs passing the --html flag
to xsltproc. This makes it use the legacy HTML parser, which
either ignores or tries to fix all sorts of broken XML tags.
There's no reason why we should be writing broken XML in
the first place, so removing --html and adding the XHTML
doctype to all files forces us to create good XML.
This adds the XHTML doc type and fixes many, many XML tag
problems it exposes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
It's not desired to force users imagine path for a socket they
are not even supposed to connect to. On the other hand, we
already have a release where the qemu agent socket path is
exposed to XML, so we cannot silently drop it from there.
The new path is generated in form:
$LOCALSTATEDIR/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/$domain.$name
for qemu system mode, and
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/qemu/lib/channel/target/$domain.$name
for qemu session mode.
A domain's <interface> or <hostdev>, as well as a <network>'s
<forward>, can now have an optional <driver name='kvm|vfio'/>
element. As of this patch, there is no functionality behind this new
knob - this patch adds support to the domain and network
formatter/parser, and to the RNG and documentation.
When the backend is added, legacy KVM PCI device assignment will
continue to be used when no driver name is specified (or if <driver
name='kvm'/> is specified), but if driver name is 'vfio', the new UEFI
Secure Boot compatible VFIO device assignment will be used.
Note that the parser doesn't automatically insert the current default
value of this setting. This is done on purpose because the two
possibilities are functionally equivalent from the guest's point of
view, and we want to be able to automatically start using vfio as the
default (even for existing domains) at some time in the future. This
is similar to what was done with the "vhost" driver option in
<interface>.
For pSeries guest in QEMU, NVRAM is one kind of spapr-vio device.
Users are allowed to specify spapr-vio devices'address.
But NVRAM is not supported in libvirt. So this patch is to
add NVRAM device to allow users to specify its address.
In QEMU, NVRAM device's address is specified by
"-global spapr-nvram.reg=xxxxx".
In libvirt, XML file is defined as the following:
<nvram>
<address type='spapr-vio' reg='0x3000'/>
</nvram>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Instead of making a choice between the underscore and camelCase, this
simply changes "num_queues" into "queues", which is also consistent
with Michal's multiple queue support for interface.
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/newsletters/writing/grammartip2009.07.01.htm
(and several other sites) give hints that 'onto' is best used if
you can also add 'up' just before it and still make sense. In many
cases in the code base, we really want the two-word form, or even
a simplification to just 'on' or 'to'.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Use correct 'on to'.
* python/libvirt-override.c: Likewise.
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Likewise.
* src/util/virpci.c: Likewise.
* daemon/THREADS.txt: Use simpler 'on'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Better usage.
* docs/internals/rpc.html.in: Likewise.
* src/conf/domain_event.c: Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c: Likewise.
* tests/qemumonitortestutils.c: Likewise.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Allow VMs to be placed into resource groups using the
following syntax
<resource>
<partition>/virtualmachines/production</partition>
</resource>
A resource cgroup will be backed by some hypervisor specific
functionality, such as cgroups with KVM/LXC.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This updates the definitions and supporting structures in the XML
schema and domain configuration files.
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
With this patch, one can specify the disk source using libvirt
storage like:
<disk type='volume' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
<source pool='default' volume='fc18.img'/>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
"seclabels" and "startupPolicy" are not supported for this new
disk type ("volume"). They will be supported in later patches.
docs/formatdomain.html.in:
* Add documents for new XMLs
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng:
* Add rng for new XMLs;
src/conf/domain_conf.h:
* New struct for 'volume' type disk source (virDomainDiskSourcePoolDef)
* Add VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_TYPE_VOLUME for enum virDomainDiskType
src/conf/domain_conf.c:
* New helper virDomainDiskSourcePoolDefParse to parse the 'volume'
type disk source.
* New helper virDomainDiskSourcePoolDefFree to free the source def
if 'volume' type disk.
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-source-pool.xml:
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c:
* New test
This introduce a new attribute "num_queues" (same with the good name
QEMU uses) for virtio-scsi controller. An example of the XML:
<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi' num_queues='8'/>
The corresponding QEMU command line:
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,num_queues=8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
This does nothing more than adding the new device and capability.
The device is present since QEMU 1.2.0.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Only sheepdog actually required it in the code, and we can use 7000 as the
default---the same value that QEMU uses for the simple "sheepdog:VOLUME"
syntax. With this change, the schema can be fixed to allow no port.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
libiscsi provides a userspace iSCSI initiator.
The main advantage over the kernel initiator is that it is very
easy to provide different initiator names for VMs on the same host.
Thus libiscsi supports usage of persistent reservations in the VM,
which otherwise would only be possible with NPIV.
libiscsi uses "iscsi" as the scheme, not "iscsi+tcp". We can change
this in the tests (while remaining backwards-compatible manner, because
QEMU uses TCP as the default transport for both Gluster and NBD).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This plumbs in the XML description of iSCSI shares. The next patches
will add support for the libiscsi userspace initiator.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This reuses the XML format that was introduced for Gluster.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
These are supported by nbd-server and by the NBD server that QEMU
embeds for live image access.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Qemu's implementation of virtio RNG supports rate limiting of the
entropy used. This patch exposes the option to tune this functionality.
This patch is based on qemu commit 904d6f588063fb5ad2b61998acdf1e73fb4
The rate limiting is exported in the XML as:
<devices>
...
<rng model='virtio'>
<rate bytes='123' period='1234'/>
<backend model='random'/>
</rng>
...
The native bus for s390 I/O is called CCW (channel command word).
As QEMU has added basic support for the CCW bus, i.e. the
ability to assign CCW devnos (bus addresses) to devices.
Domains with the new machine type s390-ccw-virtio can use the
CCW bus. Currently QEMU will only allow to define virtio
devices on the CCW bus.
Here we add the new machine type and the new device address to the
schema definition and add a new paragraph to the domain XML
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is some controversy[1] on the qemu list on whether qemu should
have ever allowed arbitrary file name passthrough, or whether it
should be restricted to JUST /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. It is
always easier to add support for additional filenames than it is
to remove support for something once released, so this patch
restricts libvirt 1.0.3 (where the virtio-random backend was first
supported) to just the two uncontroversial names, letting us defer
to a later date any decision on whether supporting arbitrary files
makes sense. Additionally, since qemu 1.4 does NOT support
/dev/fdset/nnn fd passthrough for the backend, limiting to just
two known names means that we don't get tempted to try fd
passthrough where it won't work.
[1]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/threads.html#00023
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainRNGDefParseXML): Only allow
/dev/random and /dev/hwrng.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Flag invalid files.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsRng): Document this.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args:
Update test to match.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml:
Likewise.
This reverts commit 24aa7f8d11.
The implementation to match the documentation is not complete yet,
and the final design might change the name of the 'schid' attribute.
This patch documents XML elements used for (basic) support of virtual
RNG devices.
In the devices section in the domain XML users may specify:
For the default 'random' backend:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='random'>/dev/urandom</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
For the slightly more advanced EGD backend:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='egd' type='udp'>
<!-- this is a definition of a character device -->
<source mode='bind' service='1234'/>
<source mode='connect' host='1.2.3.4' service='1234'/>
<!-- or other valid character device configuration -->
</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
For the planned random daemon/pool:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='pool' pool='poolname'>class</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
to enable the RNG device for guests.
The native bus for s390 I/O is called CCW (channel command word).
As QEMU has added basic support for the CCW bus, i.e. the
ability to assign CCW devnos (bus addresses) to devices.
Domains with the new machine type s390-ccw-virtio can use the
CCW bus. Currently QEMU will only allow to define virtio
devices on the CCW bus.
Here we add the new machine type and the new device address to the
schema definition and add a new paragraph to the domain XML
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Adds a "ram" attribute globally to the video.model element, that changes
the resulting qemu command line only if video.type == "qxl".
<video>
<model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
</video>
That attribute gets a default value of 64*1024. The schema is unchanged
for other video element types.
The resulting qemu command line change is the addition of
-global qxl-vga.ram_size=<ram>*1024
or
-global qxl.ram_size=<ram>*1024
For the main and secondary qxl devices respectively.
The default for the qxl ram bar is 64*1024 kilobytes (the same as the
default qxl vram bar size).
Add an optional 'type' attribute to <target> element of serial port
device. There are two choices for its value, 'isa-serial' and
'usb-serial'. For backward compatibility, when attribute 'type' is
missing the 'isa-serial' will be chosen as before.
Libvirt XML sample
<serial type='pty'>
<target type='usb-serial' port='0'/>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
</serial>
qemu commandline:
qemu ${other_vm_args} \
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 \
-device usb-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0,bus=usb.0,port=1
The SCLP console is the native console type for s390 and is preferred
over the virtio console as it doesn't require special drivers and
is more efficient. Recent versions of QEMU come with SCLP support
which is hereby enabled.
The new target types 'sclp' and 'sclplm' can be used to specify a
SCLP console. Adding documentation, domain schema and XML processing
support.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This introduces new XML tag "sgio" for disk, its valid values
are "filtered" and "unfiltered", setting it as "filtered" will
set the disk's unpriv_sgio to 0, and "unfiltered" to set it
as 1, which allows the unprivileged SG_IO commands.
The <hostdev> device type has long had a redundant "mode"
attribute, which has always been "subsys". This finally
introduces a new mode "capabilities", which will be used
by the LXC driver for device assignment. Since container
based virtualization uses a single kernel, the idea of
assigning physical PCI devices doesn't make sense. It is
still reasonable to assign USB devices, but for assigning
arbitrary nodes in /dev, the new 'capabilities' mode is
to be used.
The first capability support is 'storage', which is for
assignment of block devices. Functionally this is really
pretty similar to the <disk> support. The only difference
is the device node name is identical in both host and
container namespaces.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='storage'>
<source>
<block>/dev/sdf1</block>
</source>
</hostdev>
The second capability support is 'misc', which is for
assignment of character devices. There is no existing
parallel to this. Again the device node is the same
inside & outside the container.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='misc'>
<source>
<char>/dev/input/event3</char>
</source>
</hostdev>
The reason for keeping the char & storage devices
separate in the domain XML, is to mirror the split
in the node device XML. NB the node device XML does
not yet report character devices, but that's another
new patch to come
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
If there are multiple video devices
primary = 'yes' marks this video device as the primary one.
The rest are secondary video devices. No more than one could be
mark as primary. If none of them has primary attribute, the first
one will be the primary by default like what it was.
The reason of this changing is that for qemu, only one primary video
device is permitted which can be of any type. For secondary video
devices, only qxl is allowd. Primary attribute removes the restriction
that the first have to be the primary one.
We always put the primary video device into the first position of
video device structure array after parsing.
This is however supported only on domain interfaces with
type='network'. Moreover, target network needs to have at least
inbound QoS set. This is required by hierarchical traffic shaping.
From now on, the required attribute for <inbound/> is either 'average'
(old) or 'floor' (new). This new attribute can be used just for
interfaces type of network (<interface type='network'/>) currently.
QEMU supports setting vendor and product strings for disk since
1.2.0 (only scsi-disk, scsi-hd, scsi-cd support it), this patch
exposes it with new XML elements <vendor> and <product> of disk
device.
This patch introduces the RNG schema and updates necessary data strucutures
to allow various hypervisors to make use of Gluster protocol as one of the
supported network disk backend. Next patch will add support to make use of
this feature in Qemu since it now supports Gluster protocol as one of the
network based storage backend.
Two new optional attributes for <host> element are introduced - 'transport'
and 'socket'. Valid transport values are tcp, unix or rdma. If none specified,
tcp is assumed. If transport is unix, socket specifies path to unix socket.
This patch allows users to specify disks on gluster backends like this:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume1/image'>
<host name='example.org' port='6000' transport='tcp'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume2/image'>
<host transport='unix' socket='/path/to/sock'/>
</source>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Hypervisors are starting to support HyperV Enlightenment features that
improve behavior of guests running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
This patch adds support for the "relaxed" feature that improves timer
behavior and also establishes a framework to add these features in
future.
Given Daniel's announcement[1], code targetting the next release will
be in 1.0.0, not 0.10.3. Changed mechanically with:
for f in $(git grep -l '0\(.\)10\13\b') ; do
sed -i -e 's/0\(.\)10\13/1\10\10/g' $f
done
[1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg00403.html
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use 1.0.0 for next release.
* src/interface/interface_backend_udev.c: Likewise.
These 3 elements conflicts with each other in either the doc
or the underlying codes.
Current problems:
Problem 1:
The doc shouldn't simply say "These settings are superseded
by CPU tuning. " for element <vcpu>. As except the tuning, <vcpu>
allows to specify the current, maxmum vcpu number. Apart from that,
<vcpu> also allows to specify the placement as "auto", which binds
the domain process to the advisory nodeset from numad.
Problem 2:
Doc for <vcpu> says its "cpuset" specify the physical CPUs
that the vcpus can be pinned. But it's not the truth, as
actually it only pin domain process to the specified physical
CPUs. So either it's a document bug, or code bug.
Problem 3:
Doc for <vcpupin> says it supersed "cpuset" of <vcpu>, it's
not quite correct, as each <vcpupin> specify the pinning policy
only for one vcpu. How about the ones which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified? it says the vcpu will be pinned to all
available physical CPUs, but what's the meaning of attribute
"cpuset" of <vcpu> then?
Problem 4:
Doc for <emulatorpin> says it pin the emulator threads (domain
process in other context, perhaps another follow up patch to
cleanup the inconsistency is needed) to the physical CPUs
specified its attribute "cpuset". Which conflicts with
<vcpu>'s "cpuset". And actually in the underlying codes,
it set the affinity for domain process twice if both
"cpuset" for <vcpu> and <emulatorpin> are specified,
and <emulatorpin>'s pinning will override <vcpu>'s.
Problem 5:
When "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto" (I.e. uses numad to
get the advisory nodeset to which the domain process is
pinned to), it will also be overridden by <emulatorpin>,
This patch is trying to sort out the conflicts or bugs by:
1) Don't say <vcpu> is superseded by <cputune>
2) Keep the semanteme for "cpuset" of <vcpu> (I.e. Still says it
specify the physical CPUs the virtual CPUs). But modifying it
to mention it also set the pinning policy for domain process,
and the CPU placement of domain process specified by "cpuset"
of <vcpu> will be ingored if <emulatorpin> specified, and
similary, the CPU placement of vcpu thread will be ignored
if it has <vcpupin> specified, for vcpu which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified, it inherits "cpuset" of <vcpu>.
3) Don't say <vcpu> is supersed by <vcpupin>. If neither <vcpupin>
nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified, the vcpu will be pinned
to all available pCPUs.
4) If neither <emulatorpin> nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified,
the domain process (emulator threads in the context) will be
pinned to all available pCPUs.
5) If "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto", <emulatorpin> is not allowed.
6) hotplugged vcpus will also inherit "cpuset" of <vcpu>
Codes changes according to above document changes:
1) Inherit def->cpumask for each vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin>
specified, during parsing.
2) ping the vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin> specified to def->cpumask
either by cgroup for sched_setaffinity(2), which is actually done
by 1).
3) Error out if "placement" == "auto", and <emulatorpin> is specified.
Otherwise, <emulatorpin> is honored, and "cpuset" of <cpuset> is
ignored.
4) Setup cgroup for each hotplugged vcpu, and setup the pinning policy
by either cgroup or sched_setaffinity(2).
5) Remove cgroup and <vcpupin> for each hot unplugged vcpu.
Patches are following (6 in total except this patch)
USB devices can disappear without OS being mad about it, which makes
them ideal for startupPolicy. With this attribute, USB devices can be
configured to be mandatory (the default), requisite (will disappear
during migration if they cannot be found), or completely optional.
While current on_{poweroff,reboot,crash} action configuration is about
configuring life cycle actions, they can all be considered events and
actions that need to be done on a particular event. Let's generalize the
code by renaming life cycle actions to event actions so that it can be
reused later for non-lifecycle events.
This allows the user to control labelling of each character device
separately (the default is to inherit from the VM).
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Noticed this by reading the page. It would be so much nicer if our
tools could automatically flag things like this as part of 'make'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Remove extra '>'.
Sometimes when guest machine crashes, coredump can get huge due to the
guest memory. This can be limited using madvise(2) system call and is
being used in QEMU hypervisor. This patch adds an option for configuring
that in the domain XML and related documentation.
Whenever the guest machine fails to boot, new parameter (reboot-timeout)
controls whether it should reboot and after how many ms it should do so.
Docs included.
The introduction of APIC EOI patches had a few little details that
could look better, so this patch fixes that and one more place in the
file as well (same problem).
New options is added to support EOI (End of Interrupt) exposure for
guests. As it makes sense only when APIC is enabled, I added this into
the <apic> element in <features> because this should be tri-state
option (cannot be handled as standalone feature).
After discussion with DB we decided to rename the new iolimit
element as it creates the impression it would be there to
limit (i.e. throttle) I/O instead of specifying immutable
characteristics of a block device.
This is also backed by the fact that the term I/O Limits has
vanished from newer storage admin documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is a new <pm/> element implemented that can control what ACPI
sleeping states will be advertised by BIOS and allowed to be switched
to by libvirt. The default keeps defaults on hypervisor, otherwise
forces chosen setting.
The documentation of the pm element is added as well.
Introducing a new iolimits element allowing to override certain
properties of a guest block device like the physical and logical
block size.
This can be useful for platforms with 'non-standard' disk formats
like S390 DASD with its 4K block size.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch introduces support of setting emulator's period and
quota to limit cpu bandwidth when the vm starts. Also updates
XML Schema for new entries and docs.
This patch adds a new xml element <emulatorpin>, which is a sibling
to the existing <vcpupin> element under the <cputune>, to pin emulator
threads to specified physical CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
A hypervisor may allow to override the disk geometry of drives.
Qemu, as an example with cyls=,heads=,secs=[,trans=].
This patch extends the domain config to allow the specification of
disk geometry with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch updates the domain and capability XML parser and formatter to
support more than one "seclabel" element for each domain and device. The
RNG schema and the tests related to this are also updated by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The following config elements now support a <vlan> subelements:
within a domain: <interface>, and the <actual> subelement of <interface>
within a network: the toplevel, as well as any <portgroup>
Each vlan element must have one or more <tag id='n'/> subelements. If
there is more than one tag, it is assumed that vlan trunking is being
requested. If trunking is required with only a single tag, the
attribute "trunk='yes'" should be added to the toplevel <vlan>
element.
Some examples:
<interface type='hostdev'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
<mac address='52:54:00:12:34:56'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>vlan-net</name>
<vlan trunk='yes'>
<tag id='30'/>
</vlan>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='vlan-net'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>trunk-vlan</name>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
<tag id='43'/>
</vlan>
...
</network>
<network>
<name>multi</name>
...
<portgroup name='production'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='test'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='666'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='multi' portgroup='test'/>
...
</interface>
IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this patch there is no backend support for the
vlan element for *any* network device type. When support is added in
later patches, it will only be for those select network types that
support setting up a vlan on the host side, without the guest's
involvement. (For example, it will be possible to configure a vlan for
a guest connected to an openvswitch bridge, but it won't be possible
to do that for one that is connected to a standard Linux host bridge.)
Following commit added suport the CPU quota/period to the LXC driver.
Update the documentation to reflect that.
commit d9724a81b3
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 10 12:16:26 2011 +0000
Add support for CPU quota/period to LXC driver
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One of the original ideas behind allowing a <virtualport> in an
interface definition as well as in the <network> definition *and*one
or more <portgroup>s within the network, was that guest-specific
parameteres (like instanceid and interfaceid) could be given in the
interface's virtualport, and more general things (portid, managerid,
etc) could be given in the network and/or portgroup, with all the bits
brought together at guest startup time and combined into a single
virtualport to be used by the guest. This was somehow overlooked in
the implementation, though - it simply picks the "most specific"
virtualport, and uses the entire thing, with no attempt to merge in
details from the others.
This patch uses virNetDevVPortProfileMerge3() to combine the three
possible virtualports into one, then uses
virNetDevVPortProfileCheck*() to verify that the resulting virtualport
type is appropriate for the type of network, and that all the required
attributes for that type are present.
An example of usage is this: assuming a <network> definitions on host
ABC of:
<network>
<name>testA</name>
...
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
...
<portgroup name='engineering'>
<virtualport>
<parameters profileid='eng'/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='sales'>
<virtualport>
<parameters profileid='sales'/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
</network>
and the same <network> on host DEF of:
<network>
<name>testA</name>
...
<virtualport type='802.1Qbg'>
<parameters typeid="1193047" typeidversion="2"/>
</virtualport>
...
<portgroup name='engineering'>
<virtualport>
<parameters managerid="11"/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='sales'>
<virtualport>
<parameters managerid="55"/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
</network>
and a guest <interface> definition of:
<interface type='network'>
<source network='testA' portgroup='sales'/>
<virtualport>
<parameters instanceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"
interfaceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"\>
</virtualport>
...
</interface>
If the guest was started on host ABC, the <virtualport> used would be:
<virtualport type='openvswitch'>
<parameters interfaceid='09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f'
profileid='sales'/>
</virtualport>
but if that guest was started on host DEF, the <virtualport> would be:
<virtualport type='802.1Qbg'>
<parameters instanceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"
typeid="1193047" typeidversion="2"
managerid="55"/>
</virtualport>
Additionally, if none of the involved <virtualport>s had a specified type
(this includes cases where no virtualport is given at all),
With 0.10.0-rc0 out the door, we are committed to the next version
number.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.14): Rename...
(LIBVIRT_0.10.0): ...to this.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix fallout.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDriver): Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (remote_driver): Likewise.
Libvirt adds a USB controller to the guest even if the user does not
specify any in the XML. This is due to back-compat reasons.
To allow disabling USB for a guest this patch adds a new USB controller
type "none" that disables USB support for the guest.
The time keeping example was missing quotes which resulted in an error
if you copied and pasted the example into a domain's XML. Additionally
the rest of the examples use single quotes (') instead of double quotes
(") so standardized that.
Currently you can configure LXC to bind a host directory to
a guest directory, but not to bind a guest directory to a
guest directory. While the guest container init could do
this itself, allowing it in the libvirt XML means a stricter
SELinux policy can be written
Introduce a new syntax for filesystems to allow use of a RAM
filesystem
<filesystem type='ram'>
<source usage='10' units='MiB'/>
<target dir='/mnt'/>
</filesystem>
The usage units default to KiB to limit consumption of host memory.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document new syntax
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Add new attributes
* src/conf/domain_conf.c: Parsing/formatting of RAM filesystems
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Mounting of RAM filesystems
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
