This attribute says what to do with cdrom (or floppy) if
the source is missing. It accepts:
- mandatory - fail if missing for any reason (the default)
- requisite - fail if missing on boot up, drop if missing on
migrate/restore/revert
- optional - drop if missing at any start attempt.
However, this patch introduces only XML part of this new
functionality.
In a recent expansion of the documentation on network forward modes, I
incorrectly stated that incoming sessions to guests on routed networks
were blocked. This is true for guests on NATed networks, but not
routed. This patch corrects that error, and adds a pointer to the
nwfilter page for those who do want to restrict incoming sessions to
hosts on routed networks.
Clarify some of the effects of managed passthrough <hostdev> devices;
with recent changes (commit d093547), a nodedev-reattach is only needed
to pair up to an explicit nodedev-dettach (but beware that older
virt-manager has a bug where it uses explicit nodedev-dettach under the
hood when using the gui to hotplug a hostdev device).
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Mention reattach.
* tools/virsh.pod (nodedev): Mention managed mode.
This adds support for a libvirt client configuration file
either /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf for privileged clients,
or $HOME/.libvirt/libvirt.conf for unprivileged clients.
It allows one parameter
uri_aliases = [
"hail=qemu+ssh://root@hail.cloud.example.com/system",
"sleet=qemu+ssh://root@sleet.cloud.example.com/system",
]
Any call to virConnectOpen with a non-NULL URI will first
attempt to match against the uri_aliases list. An application
can disable this by using VIR_CONNECT_NO_ALIASES
* docs/uri.html.in: Document URI aliases
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Add VIR_CONNECT_NO_ALIASES
* libvirt.spec.in, mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Add /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf
* src/Makefile.am: Install default config file
* src/libvirt.c: Add support for URI aliases
* src/remote/remote_driver.c: Don't try to handle URIs
with no scheme and which clearly are not paths
* src/util/conf.c: Don't raise error on virConfFree(NULL)
* src/xen/xen_driver.c: Don't raise error on URIs
with no scheme
A few people have attempted to use the new forwarding modes with older
versions of libvirt. The docs where the modes are described have
always stated the minimum required libvirt version, but the examples
at the end didn't, which I believe is what has caused the confusion.
Similarly, the section on portgroups now has a version tag added at
the beginning.
I also noticed that there was no example of defining a <dns> hostname,
so I added one, as well as making the domain name example more
recognizable (by adding ".com" to the domain).
VirtFS allows the user to choose between path/handle based fs driver.
As of now, libvirt hardcoded path based driver only. This patch provides
a solution to allow user to choose between path/handle based fs driver.
Sample:
<filesystem type='mount'>
<driver type='handle'/>
<source dir='/folder/to/share1'/>
<target dir='mount_tag1'/>
</filesystem>
<filesystem type='mount'>
<driver type='path'/>
<source dir='/folder/to/share2'/>
<target dir='mount_tag2'/>
</filesystem>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Previously libvirt's disk device XML only had a single attribute,
error_policy, to control both read and write error policy, but qemu
has separate options for controlling read and write. In one case
(enospc) a policy is allowed for write errors but not read errors.
This patch adds a separate attribute that sets only the read error
policy. If just error_policy is set, it will apply to both read and
write error policy (previous behavior), but if the new rerror_policy
attribute is set, it will override error_policy for read errors only.
Possible values for rerror_policy are "stop", "report", and "ignore"
("report" is the qemu-controlled default for rerror_policy when
error_policy isn't specified).
For consistency, the value "report" has been added to the possible
values for error_policy as well.
When booting a virtual machine with a kernel/initrd it is possible
to pass command line arguments using the <cmdline>...args...</cmdline>
element in the guest XML. These appear to the kernel / init process
in /proc/cmdline.
When booting a container we do not have a custom /proc/cmdline,
but we can easily set an environment variable for it. Ideally
we could pass individual arguments to the init process as a
regular set of 'char *argv[]' parameters, but that would involve
libvirt parsing the <cmdline> XML text. This can easily be added
later, even if we add the env variable now
* docs/drvlxc.html.in: Document env variables passed to LXC
* src/conf/domain_conf.c: Add <cmdline> to be parsed for
guests of type='exe'
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Set LIBVIRT_LXC_CMDLINE env var
When support for was added for PCI multifunction cards (in commit
9f8baf, first included in libvirt 0.9.3), it was done by always
turning on the multifunction bit for all PCI devices. Since that time
it has been realized that this is not an ideal solution, and that the
multifunction bit must be selectively turned on. For example, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728174
and the discussion before and after
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-September/msg01036.html
This patch modifies multifunction support so that the multifunction=on
option is only added to the qemu commandline for a device if its PCI
<address> definition has the attribute "multifunction='on'", e.g.:
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x04' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
In practice, the multifunction bit should only be turned on if
function='0' AND other functions will be used in the same slot - it
usually isn't needed for functions 1-7 (although there are apparently
some exceptions, e.g. the Intel X53 according to the QEMU source
code), and should never be set if only function 0 will be used in the
slot. The test cases have been changed accordingly to illustrate.
With this patch in place, if a user attempts to assign multiple
functions in a slot without setting the multifunction bit for function
0, libvirt will issue an error when the domain is defined, and the
define operation will fail. In the future, we may decide to detect
this situation and automatically add multifunction=on to avoid the
error; even then it will still be useful to have a manual method of
turning on multifunction since, as stated above, there are some
devices that excpect it to be turned on for all functions in a slot.
A side effect of this patch is that attempts to use the same PCI
address for two different devices will now log an error (previously
this would cause the domain define operation to fail, but there would
be no log message generated). Because the function doing this log was
almost completely rewritten, I didn't think it worthwhile to make a
separate patch for that fix (the entire patch would immediately be
obsoleted).
there is no option "none":
>From libvirt/src/conf/domain_conf.c
<snip>
VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainTimerTickpolicy,
VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_TICKPOLICY_LAST,
"delay",
"catchup",
"merge",
"discard");
</snip>
Replacing with delay.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
Coupled with the recent virsh nodedev-* doc patch, this should now
give a better picture of libvirt node device handling.
* docs/formatnode.html.in: Fill in page.
This patch was made in response to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738095
In short, qemu's default for the rombar setting (which makes the
firmware ROM of a PCI device visible/not on the guest) was previously
0 (not visible), but they recently changed the default to 1
(visible). Unfortunately, there are some PCI devices that fail in the
guest when rombar is 1, so the setting must be exposed in libvirt to
prevent a regression in behavior (it will still require explicitly
setting <rom bar='off'/> in the guest XML).
rombar is forced on/off by adding:
<rom bar='on|off'/>
inside a <hostdev> element that defines a PCI device. It is currently
ignored for all other types of devices.
At the moment there is no clean method to determine whether or not the
rombar option is supported by QEMU - this patch uses the advice of a
QEMU developer to assume support for qemu-0.12+. There is currently a
patch in the works to put this information in the output of "qemu-kvm
-device pci-assign,?", but of course if we switch to keying off that,
we would lose support for setting rombar on all the versions of qemu
between 0.12 and whatever version gets that patch.
QEMU 0.13 introduced cache=unsafe for -drive, this patch exposes
it in the libvirt layer.
* Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_UNSAFE),
as even if $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't know if unsafe
is supported.
* Improved the reliability of qemu cache type detection.
A new element is introduced to XML that allows to control
state of virtual network interfaces in hypervisors.
Live modification of the link state allows networking tools
propagate topology changes to guest OS or testing of
scenarios in complex (virtual) networks.
This patch adds elements to XML grammars and parsing and generating
code.
It is important to be able to attach USB redirected devices to a
particular controller (one that supports USB2 for instance).
Without this patch, only the default bus was used.
<redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='4'/>
</redirdev>
I got confused when 'virsh domblkinfo dom disk' required the
path to a disk (which can be ambiguous, since a single file
can back multiple disks), rather than the unambiguous target
device name that I was using in disk snapshots. So, in true
developer fashion, I went for the best of both worlds - all
interfaces that operate on a disk (aka block) now accept
either the target name or the unambiguous path to the backing
file used by the disk.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainDiskIndexByName): Add
parameter.
(virDomainDiskPathByName): New prototype.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (domain_conf.h): Export it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskIndexByName): Also allow
searching by path, and decide whether ambiguity is okay.
(virDomainDiskPathByName): New function.
(virDomainDiskRemoveByName, virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): Update
callers.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemudDomainBlockPeek)
(qemuDomainAttachDeviceConfig, qemuDomainUpdateDeviceConfig)
(qemuDomainGetBlockInfo, qemuDiskPathToAlias): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessFindDomainDiskByPath):
Likewise.
* src/libxl/libxl_driver.c (libxlDomainAttachDeviceDiskLive)
(libxlDomainDetachDeviceDiskLive, libxlDomainAttachDeviceConfig)
(libxlDomainUpdateDeviceConfig): Likewise.
* src/uml/uml_driver.c (umlDomainBlockPeek): Likewise.
* src/xen/xend_internal.c (xenDaemonDomainBlockPeek): Likewise.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Update documentation.
* tools/virsh.pod (domblkstat, domblkinfo): Likewise.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskTarget): Tighten pattern on
disk targets.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (disksnapshot): Update to match.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/disk_snapshot.xml: Update test.
Adds an optional element to <domainsnapshot>, which will be used
to give user control over external snapshot filenames on input,
and specify generated filenames on output.
For now, no driver accepts this element; that will come later.
<domainsnapshot>
...
<disks>
<disk name='vda' snapshot='no'/>
<disk name='vdb' snapshot='internal'/>
<disk name='vdc' snapshot='external'>
<driver type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/path/to/new'/>
</disk>
</disks>
<domain>
...
<devices>
<disk ...>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<target dev='vdc'/>
<source file='/path/to/old'/>
</disk>
</devices>
</domain>
</domainsnapshot>
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainSnapshotDiskDef): New type.
(_virDomainSnapshotDef): Add new elements.
(virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): New prototype.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDiskDefClear)
(virDomainSnapshotDiskDefParseXML, disksorter)
(virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): New functions.
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString): Parse new fields.
(virDomainSnapshotDefFree): Clean them up.
(virDomainSnapshotDefFormat): Output them.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (domain_conf.h): Export new function.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (domainsnapshot, disksnapshot):
Add more xml.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/disk_snapshot.xml: New test.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/disk_snapshot.xml: Update.
In order to distinguish disk snapshots from system checkpoints, a
new state value that is only valid for snapshots is helpful.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (VIR_DOMAIN_LAST): New placeholder.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainSnapshotState): New enum mapping.
(VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_SNAPSHOT): New internal enum value.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainState): Use placeholder.
(virDomainSnapshotState): Extend mapping by one for use in snapshot.
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString, virDomainSnapshotDefFormat):
Handle new state.
(virDomainObjSetState, virDomainStateReasonToString)
(virDomainStateReasonFromString): Avoid compiler warnings.
* tools/virsh.c (vshDomainState, vshDomainStateReasonToString):
Likewise.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (domain_conf.h): Export new functions.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng: Tighten state definition.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/disk_snapshot.xml: New test.
As discussed here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00361.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00552.html
Adds snapshot attribute and transient sub-element:
<devices>
<disk type=... snapshot='no|internal|external'>
...
<transient/>
</disk>
</devices>
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (snapshot): New define.
(disk): Add snapshot and persistent attributes.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document them.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainDiskSnapshot): New enum.
(_virDomainDiskDef): New fields.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-transient.xml: New
test of rng, no args counterpart until qemu support is complete.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-snapshot.args: New
file, snapshot attribute does not affect args.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-snapshot.xml: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): Run new test.
This patch will probably cause merge conflicts to those trying
to do backports. The end goal is simple - domaincommon.rng
should be the state of domain.rng pre-patch, with a few lines
tweaked in the header, while domain.rng post-patch is now just
a shell that includes domaincommon.rng and sets the <start>.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Move guts...
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: ...to new file.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng: Allow new xml.
* docs/schemas/Makefile.am (schema_DATA): Distribute new file.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/full_domain.xml: New test.
* libvirt.spec.in (%files client): Ship new file. Sort lines.
* mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Likewise.
Just like VM saved state images (virsh save), snapshots MUST
track the inactive domain xml to detect any ABI incompatibilities.
The indentation is not perfect, but functionality comes before form.
Later patches will actually supply a full domain; for now, this
wires up the storage to support one, but doesn't ever generate one
in dumpxml output.
Happily, libvirt.c was already rejecting use of VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE
from read-only connections, even though before this patch, there was
no information to be secured by the use of that flag.
And while we're at it, mark the libvirt snapshot metadata files
as internal-use only.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc): Document flag.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainSnapshotDef): Add member.
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString, virDomainSnapshotDefFormat):
Update signature.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefFree): Clean up.
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString): Optionally parse domain.
(virDomainSnapshotDefFormat): Output full domain.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainSnapshotCreateXML)
(esxDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc): Update callers.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxDomainSnapshotCreateXML)
(vboxDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainSnapshotCreateXML)
(qemuDomainSnapshotLoad, qemuDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc)
(qemuDomainSnapshotWriteMetadata): Likewise.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Rework doc example.
Based on a patch by Philipp Hahn.
The first two flags are essential for being able to replicate
snapshot hierarchies across multiple hosts, which will come in
handy for supervised migrations. It also allows a management app
to take a snapshot of a transient domain, save the metadata, stop
the domain, recreate a new transient domain by the same name,
redefine the snapshot, then revert to it.
This is not quite as convenient as leaving the metadata behind
after a domain is no longer around, but doing that has a few
problems: 1. the libvirt API can only delete snapshot metadata
if there is a valid domain handle to use to get to that snapshot
object - if stale data is left behind without a domain, there is
no way to request that the data be cleaned up. 2. creating a new
domain with the same name but different uuid than the older
domain where a snapshot existed cannot use the older snapshot
data; this risks confusing libvirt, and forbidding the stale
data is similar to the recent patch to forbid stale managed save.
The first two flags might be useful on hypervisors with no metadata,
but only for modifying the notion of the current snapshot;
however, I don't know how to do that for ESX or VBox.
The third flag is a convenience option, to combine a creation with
a delete metadata into one step. It is trivial for hypervisors
with no metadata.
The qemu changes will be involved enough to warrant a separate patch.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
(VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REDEFINE)
(VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_CURRENT)
(VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_NO_METADATA): New flags.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Document them, and
enforce mutual exclusion.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Trivial
implementation.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Likewise.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document re-creation.
So that devices can be attached to hubs. Example, to attach to first
port of a usb-hub on port 1.
<hub type='usb'>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
</hub>
<input type='mouse' type='usb'>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='1.1'/>
</hub>
also add a test entry
Newer QEMU introduced cache=directsync for -drive, this patchset
is to expose it in libvirt layer.
* Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_DIRECTSYNC),
As even $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't known if directsync
is supported.
Audit all changes to the qemu vm->current_snapshot, and make them
update the saved xml file for both the previous and the new
snapshot, so that there is always at most one snapshot with
<active>1</active> in the xml, and that snapshot is used as the
current snapshot even across libvirtd restarts.
This patch does not fix the case of virDomainSnapshotDelete(,CHILDREN)
where one of the children is the current snapshot; that will be later.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainSnapshotDef): Alter member
type and name.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefParseString)
(virDomainSnapshotDefFormat): Update clients.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng: Tighten rng.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainSnapshotLoad): Reload current
snapshot.
(qemuDomainSnapshotCreateXML, qemuDomainRevertToSnapshot)
(qemuDomainSnapshotDiscard): Track current snapshot.
In some versions of qemu, both virtio-blk-pci and virtio-net-pci
devices can have an event_idx setting that determines some details of
event processing. When it is enabled, it "reduces the number of
interrupts and exits for the guest". qemu will automatically enable
this feature when it is available, but there may be cases where this
new feature could actually make performance worse (NB: no such case
has been found so far).
As a safety switch in case such a situation is encountered in the
field, this patch adds a new attribute "event_idx" to the <driver>
element of both disk and interface devices. event_idx can be set to
"on" (to force event_idx on in case qemu has it disabled by default)
or "off" (for force event_idx off). In the case that event_idx support
isn't present in qemu, the attribute is ignored (this on the advice of
the qemu developer).
docs/formatdomain.html.in: document the new flag (marking it as
"don't mess with this!"
docs/schemas/domain.rng: add event_idx in appropriate places
src/conf/domain_conf.[ch]: add event_idx to parser and formatter
src/libvirt_private.syms: export
virDomainVirtioEventIdx(From|To)String
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.[ch]: detect and report event_idx in
disk/net
src/qemu/qemu_command.c: add event_idx parameter to qemu commandline
when appropriate.
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-event_idx.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-event_idx.xml,
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c,
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: test cases for event_idx.
Currently only tabs and blanks are used for tokenizing the description,
which breaks when a term is at the end of a line or has () appended to
it.
1. Use also other white space characters such as new-lines and carriage
return for splitting.
2. Remove some common non-word characters from the token before lookup.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
* remote.html.in: Remove obsolete notes about internals of the
RPC protocol
* internals/rpc.html.in: Extensive docs on RPC protocol/API
* sitemap.html.in: Add new page
