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>
'boot' tag shouldn't be exclusive with 'kernel', 'initrd', and 'cmdline',
though the boot sequence doesn't make sense when the guest boots from
kernel directly. But it's useful if booting from kernel is to install
a newguest, even if it's not to install a guest, there is no hurt. And
on the other hand, we allow 'boot' and the kernel tags when parsing.
A core use case of the hook scripts is to be able to do things
to a guest's network configuration. It is possible to hook into
the 'start' operation for a QEMU guest which runs just before
the guest is started. The TAP devices will exist at this point,
but the QEMU process will not. It can be desirable to have a
'started' hook too, which runs once QEMU has started.
If libvirtd is restarted it will re-populate firewall rules,
but there is no QEMU hook to trigger for existing domains.
This is solved with a 'reconnect' hook.
Finally, if attaching to an external QEMU process there needs
to be an 'attach' hook script.
This all also applies to the LXC driver
* docs/hooks.html.in: Document new operations
* src/util/hooks.c, src/util/hooks.c: Add 'started', 'reconnect'
and 'attach' operations for QEMU. Add 'prepare', 'started',
'release' and 'reconnect' operations for LXC
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Add hooks for 'prepare', 'started',
'release' and 'reconnect' operations
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Add hooks for 'started', 'reconnect'
and 'reconnect' operations
A few examples for <interface> had a type='direct' interface with no
sub-elements. This is not allowed - a type='direct' interface must
have at least a source element. (Most likely the example was copied
from the type='user' or type='ethernet' examples - they *do* allow an
instance with no sub-elements).
There was also one place that mistakenly used %lt; ... %gt; instead of
< ... > (for some reason, I make that typo all the time).
Eric Blake and Guido Günther were guests during this week's
FLOSS Weekly podcast, giving insights into libvirt as a Free
Software project. Also, there are several useful blogs on
virt-related topics.
* docs/relatedlinks.html.in (Blogs and Podcasts): New section.
We had a distributed file (remote_protocol.h, which in turn was
a prereq to remote_driver.c) depending on a generated file
(libvirt_probes.h), which is a no-no for a VPATH build from a
read-only source tree (no wonder 'make distcheck' tests precisely
that situation):
File `libvirt_driver_remote.la' does not exist.
File `libvirt_driver_remote_la-remote_driver.lo' does not exist.
Prerequisite `libvirt_probes.h' is newer than target `../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h'.
Must remake target `../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:7464 to update target `../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h'.
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/remote/eblake/libvirt-tmp2/build/libvirt-0.9.12/_build/src'
GEN ../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h
cannot create ../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h: Permission denied at ../../src/rpc/genprotocol.pl line 31.
make[3]: *** [../../src/remote/remote_protocol.h] Error 13
Rather than making distributed .c files depend on generated files, we
really want to ensure that compilation into .lo files is not attempted
until the generated files are present, done by this patch. Since there
were two different sets of conditionally generated files that both
feed the .lo file, I had to introduce a new variable REMOTE_DRIVER_PREREQS
to keep automake happy.
After that fix, the next issue was that make treats './foo' and 'foo'
differently in determining whether an implicit %foo rule is applicable,
with the result that locking/qemu-sanlock.conf wasn't properly being
built at the right times. Also, the output for using the .aug test
files was a bit verbose.
After fixing the src directory, the next error is related to the docs
directory, where the tarball is missing a stamp file and thus tries to
regenerate files that are already present:
GEN ../../docs/apibuild.py.stamp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../../docs/apibuild.py", line 2511, in <module>
rebuild("libvirt")
File "../../docs/apibuild.py", line 2495, in rebuild
builder.serialize()
File "../../docs/apibuild.py", line 2424, in serialize
output = open(filename, "w")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '../../docs/libvirt-api.xml'
make[5]: *** [../../docs/apibuild.py.stamp] Error 1
and fixing that exposed another case of a distributed file (generated
html) depending on a built file (libvirt.h), but only when doing an
in-tree build, because of a file glob.
* src/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/remote/remote_driver.c): Change...
(libvirt_driver_remote_la-remote_driver.lo): ...to the real
dependency.
($(builddir)/locking/%-sanlock.conf): Drop $(builddir), so that
rule gets run in time for test_libvirt_sanlock.aug.
(test_libvir*.aug): Cater to silent build.
(conf_DATA): Don't ship qemu-sanlock.conf in the tarball, since it
is trivial to regenerate.
* docs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Ship our stamp file.
($(APIBUILD_STAMP)): Don't depend on generated file.
This patch adds DHCP snooping support to libvirt. The learning method for
IP addresses is specified by setting the "CTRL_IP_LEARNING" variable to one of
"any" [default] (existing IP learning code), "none" (static only addresses)
or "dhcp" (DHCP snooping).
Active leases are saved in a lease file and reloaded on restart or HUP.
The following interface XML activates and uses the DHCP snooping:
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='virbr0'/>
<filterref filter='clean-traffic'>
<parameter name='CTRL_IP_LEARNING' value='dhcp'/>
</filterref>
</interface>
All filters containing the variable 'IP' are automatically adjusted when
the VM receives an IP address via DHCP. However, multiple IP addresses per
interface are silently ignored in this patch, thus only supporting one IP
address per interface. Multiple IP address support is added in a later
patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The apibuild.py parser needs to be able to parse & ignore
any VIR_ENUM_IMPL/VIR_ENUM_DECL macros in the source. Add
some special case code to deal with this rather than trying
to figure out a generic syntax for parsing macros.
* apibuild.py: Special case VIR_ENUM_IMPL & VIR_ENUM_DECL
This patch adds support for a new storage backend with RBD support.
RBD is the RADOS Block Device and is part of the Ceph distributed storage
system.
It comes in two flavours: Qemu-RBD and Kernel RBD, this storage backend only
supports Qemu-RBD, thus limiting the use of this storage driver to Qemu only.
To function this backend relies on librbd and librados being present on the
local system.
The backend also supports Cephx authentication for safe authentication with
the Ceph cluster.
For storing credentials it uses the built-in secret mechanism of libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
This patch adds support for the recent ipset iptables extension
to libvirt's nwfilter subsystem. Ipset allows to maintain 'sets'
of IP addresses, ports and other packet parameters and allows for
faster lookup (in the order of O(1) vs. O(n)) and rule evaluation
to achieve higher throughput than what can be achieved with
individual iptables rules.
On the command line iptables supports ipset using
iptables ... -m set --match-set <ipset name> <flags> -j ...
where 'ipset name' is the name of a previously created ipset and
flags is a comma-separated list of up to 6 flags. Flags use 'src' and 'dst'
for selecting IP addresses, ports etc. from the source or
destination part of a packet. So a concrete example may look like this:
iptables -A INPUT -m set --match-set test src,src -j ACCEPT
Since ipset management is quite complex, the idea was to leave ipset
management outside of libvirt but still allow users to reference an ipset.
The user would have to make sure the ipset is available once the VM is
started so that the iptables rule(s) referencing the ipset can be created.
Using XML to describe an ipset in an nwfilter rule would then look as
follows:
<rule action='accept' direction='in'>
<all ipset='test' ipsetflags='src,src'/>
</rule>
The two parameters on the command line are also the two distinct XML attributes
'ipset' and 'ipsetflags'.
FYI: Here is the man page for ipset:
https://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html
Regards,
Stefan
Sometimes it is useful to see the callpath for log messages.
This change enhances the log filter syntax so that stack traces
can be show by setting '1:+NAME' instead of '1:NAME'.
This results in output like:
2012-05-09 14:18:45.136+0000: 13314: debug : virInitialize:414 : register drivers
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virInitialize+0xd6)[0x7f89188ebe86]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x431921]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x3a21e21735]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x40a279]
2012-05-09 14:18:45.136+0000: 13314: debug : virRegisterDriver:775 : driver=0x7f8918d02760 name=Test
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virRegisterDriver+0x6b)[0x7f89188ec717]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(+0x11b3ad)[0x7f891891e3ad]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virInitialize+0xf3)[0x7f89188ebea3]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x431921]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x3a21e21735]
/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/tools/.libs/lt-virsh[0x40a279]
* docs/logging.html.in: Document new syntax
* configure.ac: Check for execinfo.h
* src/util/logging.c, src/util/logging.h: Add support for
stack traces
* tests/testutils.c: Adapt to API change
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
As defined in:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
This offers a number of advantages:
* Allows sharing a home directory between different machines, or
sessions (eg. using NFS)
* Cleanly separates cache, runtime (eg. sockets), or app data from
user settings
* Supports performing smart or selective migration of settings
between different OS versions
* Supports reseting settings without breaking things
* Makes it possible to clear cache data to make room when the disk
is filling up
* Allows us to write a robust and efficient backup solution
* Allows an admin flexibility to change where data and settings are stored
* Dramatically reduces the complexity and incoherence of the
system for administrators
Ever since commit c964b6a, make was trying to find the timestamp
of '""./apibuild.py".stamp"', but only touching 'apibuild.py.stamp',
and thus always rebuilding. Reported by Daniel P. Berrange.
* docs/Makefile.am (APIBUILD, APIBUILD_STAMP): Omit bogus quotes.
Based on a report by Seth Vidal. Just because _you_ can use virsh
to connect to both source and destinations does not mean that libvirtd
on the source (aka _root_) can likewise connect to the destination;
this matters when setting up a peer-to-peer migration instead of a
native one.
* docs/migration.html.in: Mention that in peer-to-peer, the owner
of the source libvirtd (usually root) must be able to connect to
the destination.
Though numad will manage the memory allocation of task dynamically,
it wants management application (libvirt) to pre-set the memory
policy according to the advisory nodeset returned from querying numad,
(just like pre-bind CPU nodeset for domain process), and thus the
performance could benefit much more from it.
This patch introduces new XML tag 'placement', value 'auto' indicates
whether to set the memory policy with the advisory nodeset from numad,
and its value defaults to the value of <vcpu> placement, or 'static'
if 'nodeset' is specified. Example of the new XML tag's usage:
<numatune>
<memory placement='auto' mode='interleave'/>
</numatune>
Just like what current "numatune" does, the 'auto' numa memory policy
setting uses libnuma's API too.
If <vcpu> "placement" is "auto", and <numatune> is not specified
explicitly, a default <numatume> will be added with "placement"
set as "auto", and "mode" set as "strict".
The following XML can now fully drive numad:
1) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', no <numatune> is specified.
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
2) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', no 'placement' is specified for
<numatune>.
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='interleave'/>
</numatune>
And it's also able to control the CPU placement and memory policy
independently. e.g.
1) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', and <numatune> placement is 'static'
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' nodeset='0-10,^7'/>
</numatune>
2) <vcpu> placement is 'static', and <numatune> placement is 'auto'
<vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-24,^12'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='interleave' placement='auto'/>
</numatume>
A follow up patch will change the XML formatting codes to always output
'placement' for <vcpu>, even it's 'static'.
qemu's behavior in this case is to change the spice server behavior to
require secure connection to any channel not otherwise specified as
being in plaintext mode. libvirt doesn't currently allow requesting this
(via plaintext-channel=<channel name>).
RHBZ: 819499
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
In order to track a block copy job across libvirtd restarts, we
need to save internal XML that tracks the name of the file
holding the mirror. Displaying this name in dumpxml might also
be useful to the user, even if we don't yet have a way to (re-)
start a domain with mirroring enabled up front. This is done
with a new <mirror> sub-element to <disk>, as in:
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/original.img'/>
<mirror file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img' format='qcow2' ready='yes'/>
...
</disk>
For now, the element is output-only, in live domains; it is ignored
when defining a domain or hot-plugging a disk (since those contexts
use VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE in parsing). The 'ready' attribute appears
when libvirt knows that the job has changed from the initial pulling
phase over to the mirroring phase, although absence of the attribute
is not a sure indicator of the current phase. If we come up with a way
to make qemu start with mirroring enabled, we can relax the xml
restriction, and allow <mirror> (but not attribute 'ready') on input.
Testing active-only XML meant tweaking the testsuite slightly, but it
was worth it.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskspec): Add diskMirror.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Document it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainDiskDef): New members.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefFree): Clean them.
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML): Parse them, but only internally.
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Output them.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: New test file.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-mirror.xml: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (testInfo): Alter members.
(testCompareXMLToXMLHelper): Allow more test control.
(mymain): Run new test.
<filesystemtgt> is redundant, as every group uses it; <address>
shouldn't be in <filesystemtgt> in case of the meaning could be
"filesystemtarget"; The elements <address>, <alias>, <target>,
... should be interleaved.
'omitted' was mispelt 'commited' twice. One of the sentences with
the typo was also missing an 'is' ('each VCPU *is* pinned to all...')
which I added in this commit while I was at it.
As explained in previous patch, numad will balance the affinity
dynamically, so reflecting the cpuset from numad at the first
time doesn't make much case, and may just could cause confusion.
This is based on recent developments on patch checker and the
goal is to keep a list of pending patches needing review on the
project web site. The page template in git just holds a pointer
to the web page.
Every now & then, with parallel builds, we get a failure to
validate hvsupport.html.in. I eventually noticed that this
is because we get 2 instances of the generator running at
once.
We already list hvsupport.html.in in BUILT_SOURCES but this
was not working. It turns out the flaw is that we were
adding deps to the 'all:' target instead of the 'all-am:'
target. BUILT_SOURCES is a dep of 'all', so any custom
targets written in Makefile.am must use 'all-am:' so that
they don't get run until BUILT_SOURCES are completely
generated
* docs/Makefile.am: s/all/all-am/
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for the release
* po/*.po*: updated a number of languages translation including new
indian languages and regenerated
Since Xen 3.1 the clock=variable semantic is supported. In addition to
qemu/kvm Xen also knows about a variant where the offset is relative to
'localtime' instead of 'utc'.
Extends the libvirt structure with a flag 'basis' to specify, if the
offset is relative to 'localtime' or 'utc'.
Extends the libvirt structure with a flag 'reset' to force the reset
behaviour of 'localtime' and 'utc'; this is needed for backward
compatibility with previous versions of libvirt, since they report
incorrect XML.
Adapt the only user 'qemu' to the new name.
Extend the RelaxNG schema accordingly.
Document the new 'basis' attribute in the HTML documentation.
Adapt test for the new attribute.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
There are a number of flaws with our packaging of the libvirtd
daemon:
- Installing 'libvirt' does not install 'qemu-kvm' or 'xen'
etc which are required to actually run the hypervisor in
question
- Installing 'libvirt' pulls in the default configuration
files which may not be wanted & cause problems if installed
inside a guest
- It is not possible to explicitly required all the peices
required to manage a specific hypervisor
This change takes the 'libvirt' RPM and and changes it thus
- libvirt: just a virtual package with dep on libvirt-daemon,
libvirt-daemon-config-network & libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
- libvirt-daemon: the libvirt daemon and related pieces
- libvirt-daemon-config-network: the default network config
- libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter: the network filter configs
- libvirt-docs: the website HTML
We then introduce some more virtual (empty) packages
- libvirt-daemon-qemu: Deps on libvirt-daemon & 'qemu'
- libvirt-daemon-kvm: Deps on libvirt-daemon & 'qemu-kvm'
- libvirt-daemon-lxc: Deps on libvirt-daemon
- libvirt-daemon-uml: Deps on libvirt-daemon
- libvirt-daemon-xen: Deps on libvirt-daemon & 'xen'
- libvirt-qemu: Deps on libvirt-daemon-qemu & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter}
- libvirt-kvm: Deps on libvirt-daemon-kvm & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter}
- libvirt-lxc: Deps on libvirt-daemon-lxc & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter}
- libvirt-uml: Deps on libvirt-daemon-uml & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter}
- libvirt-xen: Deps on libvirt-daemon-xen & libvirt-daemon-config-network
My intent in the future is to turn on the driver modules by
default, at which time 'libvirt-daemon' will cease to include
any specific drivers, instead we'll get libvirt-daemon-driver-XXXX
packages for each driver. The libvirt-daemon-XXX packages will
then pull in each driver that they require.
It is recommended that applications required a locally installed
libvirtd daemon, use either 'Requires: libvirt-daemon-XXXX' or
'Requires: libvirt-XXX' and *not* "Requires: libvirt-daemon"
or 'Requires: libvirt'
* libvirt.spec.in: Refactor RPMs
* docs/packaging.html.in, docs/sitemap.html.in: Document
new RPM split rationale
* Don't advertise information on the network without consent of
the user, either through manual configuration, or a user
interface that drives this option.
* Since libvirtd must be configured for network access anyway
(for all but ssh), this setting was not useful "out of the box",
so changing this default setting does not remove "out of the box"
functionality.
Pass argv to the init binary of LXC, using a new <initarg> element.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document <os> usage for containers
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Add <initarg> element
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: parsing and
formatting of <initarg>
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Setup LXC argv
* tests/Makefile.am, tests/lxcxml2xmldata/lxc-systemd.xml,
tests/lxcxml2xmltest.c, tests/testutilslxc.c,
tests/testutilslxc.h: Test parsing/formatting of LXC related
XML parts
