This commit adds new memorydevices.rst page which should serve
all models of memory devices. Yet, I'm documenting virtio-mem
quirks only.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The virtiofs project started off using "virtio-fs" but later switched to
the "virtiofs" spelling because it matches the spelling of the mount -t
virtiofs command-line. Update the kbase article with the new spelling so
it matches the virtiofs website.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
A number of legacy issues make the virtiofs kbase article hard to
understand. Most users don't need to configure NUMA or a memory backend
other than memfd. Move that information to the bottom of the article so
the recommended syntax is most prominent.
Suggested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This is the preferred way to do it, but there were a few
instances in which some of the path components had embedded
slashes instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add documentation for launch security type s390-pv.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Enabling core dumps is a reasonably straightforward task, but is not
documented clearly. This page provides as easy link to point users
to when they need to debug QEMU.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When adding support for externally launched virtiofsd,
I was too liberal and did not require a target.
But the target is required, because it's passed to the
QEMU device, not to virtiofsd.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1969232
Fixes: 12967c3e13
Fixes: 56dcdec1ac
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Nowadays memfd is the most convenient memory backend for vhost-user
devices. Compared to file-backend memory and hugepages, there is no need
to worry about configuring the location of the shm directory or
allocating hugepages.
Cc: Michal Prívozník <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Cc: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This is a rewrite of:
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit
Once this commit merges, the above wiki should point to this kbase
document.
NB: I've intentionally left out the example for pull-based full backups.
I'll tackle it once QMP `x-blockdev-reopen` comes out of experimental
mode in upstream QEMU. Then pull-based can be described for both full
and and differntial backups.
Overall, future documents should cover:
- full backups using both push- and pull-mode
- differential backups using both push- and pull-mode
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Provide an exmple in a place more visible than formatdomain.html.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
It's now empty, so no point in keeping it around.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It's useful to have virt-admin around when debugging issues
with libvirtd, and since it's a tiny binary we can simply
include it in the -daemon package to ensure it's always going
to be available when needed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It doesn't only contain the libvirtd binary.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
While the PCI docs are linked from formatdomain.html, finding those
links is not straightforward. It is good for users to highlight them in
the kbase pages. The PCI docs are intentionally not moved to the kbase/
sub-directory in order to avoid breaking hyperlinks.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Using virtio-blk with SEV on host kernels prior to 5.1 didn't work
because of SWIOTLB limitations and the way virtio has to use it over
DMA-API for SEV (see [1] for detailed info). That is no longer true, so
reword the kbase article accordingly.
For reference, these are the upstream kernel commits lifting the
virtio-blk limitation:
abe420bfae528c92bd8cc5ecb62dc95672b1fd6f
492366f7b4237257ef50ca9c431a6a0d50225aca
133d624b1cee16906134e92d5befb843b58bcf31
e6d6dd6c875eb3c9b69bb640419405726e6e0bbe
fd1068e1860e44aaaa337b516df4518d1ce98da1
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190110134433.15672-1-joro@8bytes.org/
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Historically we've added them in chronological order, but certain
articles are more likely to be needed and thus are easier to find when
placed earlier.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Split the existing list of kbase articles into a 'Usage' category and
into 'Internals/Debugging'. This will later represent the two columns on
the web page.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The container was used to apply CSS classes to the content, so the looks
are degraded. The idea is to have a similar layout to the 'docs.html'
page with multiple columns, which will be added later.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Move docs/kbase.rst to docs/kbase/index.rst so that the directory itself
shows our index page rather than the autogenerated list of files by the
webserver.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Rationale for the changes:
* access can be filtered out entirely, as nothing very
interesting is produced by the only other component in the
same package (access.accessdriverpolkit);
* util.udev doesn't exist.
Related filters are also more consistently grouped together.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Using virtiofs without NUMA was implemented in v6.9.0-rc1~161 but
our kbase document only mentions QEMU version which may confuse
users.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Replace the reimplementation of the XSLT processing custom target with
an identical copy form docs/meson.build and a comment to keep them in
sync.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reflect in the virtiofs documentation that virtiofs can now be used
even without NUMA. While at it, be more precise where and why shared
memory is required.
Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
#useless_use_of_cat + avoid accidental substring matches.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Commit 862cf2ace4 modified the generator
to base edit links in the root of the repository but forgot to add the
'docs/' prefix to the code generating kbase articles, manpages and the
internals documentation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
With virtio-net we also need to disable the iPXE option ROM otherwise
a SEV-enabled guest would not boot. While at it, fix the full machine
XML examples accordingly.
Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Show various usage of filters including some useful examples.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Promote the 'What to attach?' section to a first level heading and
request also the XML config of a VM, coredump backtrace if something
crashed and ask to not tear down the environment for the possibility to
ask for additional data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Provide debug log configuration insight in our kbase.
There are two modifications of the document compared to the wiki
version:
1) The link for reporting a bug agains libvirt was modified to use the
gitlab issue tracker.
2) The link to URI specification details is changed to 'https' protocol.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This document describes briefly how Libvirt migration internals
works, complementing the info available in migration.html.in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In f0d0cd6179 I introduced this typo.
Suggested-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The term "access control list" better describes the concept involved.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
