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Martin Kletzander
545b0574fd docs: Add emulatorsched support to news.xml
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-16 13:46:17 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
842bc56ad2 conf: Add support for emulatorsched
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-16 13:46:17 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
c79a39e60c docs: Mention iothreadsched element in the docs and reword
Just one missing occurrence of iothreadsched fixed plus some rewording for this
to make more sense for the readers.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-16 13:46:17 +02:00
Adrian Brzezinski
70d60b811f news: cleanup in virNetTLSContextNew
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Brzezinski <redhat@adrb.pl>
2019-04-16 11:23:10 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
c2568c1c5e news: Document firmware autoselection exposure in domcaps
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-16 10:52:51 +02:00
Pino Toscano
3958e3d6a5 docs: document firmware attribute for VMware guests
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
2019-04-15 20:03:55 -04:00
Andrea Bolognani
7cd70adbd2 news: Drop empty sections
We have occasionally failed to document certain categories
of changes in the release notes, yet still left the
corresponding sections in the file even though they were
completely empty.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2019-04-15 11:08:32 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ec59a95a2c docs: add advanced search capabilities
Allow targetting the search scope to the website, wiki or mailing lists
only. When javascript is disabled this should gracefully fallback to
only searching the website.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 15:20:17 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
97e743ac14 docs: move javascript logic into a standalone file
Instead of duplicating javascript in every single page, put it in a
standalone file which can be cached by the browser.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 15:20:17 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
db3d4f96c9 docs: ensure javascript files are included in dist & install rules
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 15:20:17 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
5b9819eedc domain capabilities: Expose firmware auto selection feature
If a management application wants to use firmware auto selection
feature it can't currently know if the libvirtd it's talking to
support is or not. Moreover, it doesn't know which values that
are accepted for the @firmware attribute of <os/> when parsing
will allow successful start of the domain later, i.e. if the mgmt
application wants to use 'bios' whether there exists a FW
descriptor in the system that describes bios.

This commit then adds 'firmware' enum to <os/> element in
<domainCapabilities/> XML like this:

  <enum name='firmware'>
    <value>bios</value>
    <value>efi</value>
  </enum>

We can see both 'bios' and 'efi' listed which means that there
are descriptors for both found in the system (matched with the
machine type and architecture reported in the domain capabilities
earlier and not shown here).

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
2019-04-10 13:58:51 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
9009858d5b docs: Add virt-lightning app
There was this introduction made on the users list:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2019-March/msg00046.html

Add the application onto the list of apps known to use libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-09 16:59:49 +02:00
Cole Robinson
fb0d6049cc docs: Remove search.php and all references
libvirt.org/search.php drops into some kind of screen which I guess
is supposed to show a search bar with options, but presently for me
renders as nothing but the following text:

Search the documentation on Libvirt.org

The search service indexes the libvirt APIs and documentation as well as the libvir-list@redhat.com mailing-list archives. To use it simply provide a set of keywords:

The main page search bar now redirects to google, this page is broken,
I say we just remove it and move on.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 18:45:06 -04:00
Cole Robinson
ca1943de52 docs: Remove index.py
This was used for generating the website search, which now just calls
out to google. Remove it

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 18:45:06 -04:00
Cole Robinson
7c3927d288 docs: Use google sitesearch for website search
The website search is perpetually broken, has had XSS issues in the
past, and I suspect when it's working it's not as fast or capable as
a simple google site:libvirt.org search

Replace the <form> implementation with one that sends the user to
google.com with 'site:libvirt.org' appended to the search string

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 18:45:06 -04:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
fc22d3b6d1 docs: update Perl download to point to modern CPAN site
The search.cpan.org site is a transparent redirect to metacpan.org these
days, so we should just point directly to the new site.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 12:33:55 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
968f888acc docs: stop advertizing FTP or HTTP for downloads of libvirt
On the modern internet it is not credible to continue to advertize
software downloads over unencrypted connections. Even if users could
theoretically use GPG to verify the signatures, not all our downloads
are signed and few people know how to correctly verify signatures.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 12:33:55 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
7c48fb08e0 news: Document PCI by default on RISC-V
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 09:52:25 +02:00
Peter Krempa
4e797f1af9 conf: Parse and format 'backingStore' for disk <mirror>
When the block copy operation is started with a reused external file in
incremental mode libvirt will need to open and insert the backing chain
for that file into qemu (in -blockdev mode). This means that we'll need
to track the backing chain and metadata such as node names for the full
chain of <mirror>.

This patch invokes the full backing chain formatter and parser for
<mirror> so that the chain can be kept with <mirror>.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-03 11:58:09 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
e398f5d47a maint: Update references to ChangeLog*
The files no longer exist, at least not in their previous form,
so references to them need to be reworked to still make sense.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-03 09:46:02 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
241a0e8c8b maint: Post-release version bump to 5.3.0
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2019-04-03 09:44:33 +02:00
Daniel Veillard
7966be03bd Release of libvirt-5.2.0
* docs/news.xml: updated for release date

Signed-off-by: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
2019-04-03 09:35:40 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ff6440136c apps: remove VM Manager android app
The VM Manager app is no longer present on the Play store and while
Google shows a couple of hits they look like the typical untrustworthy
3rd party download redistributors rather than an official site.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-01 11:14:55 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
8ad592f016 apps: drop link for zenoss software
The page we link to is a 404 and github repo hasn't been touched since
2012 so is clearly dead.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-01 11:14:50 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
0647c3d3ac apps: update link for buildbot
The libvirt specific page linked for buildbot is a 404. This replacement
link is the closest to what was originally linked.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-01 11:14:45 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
b6dde413d3 apps: remove dead archipel project
The project website http://archipelproject.org/ is dead, reporting a
cloudflare error message

The git repo at https://github.com/ArchipelProject/Archipel/ hasn't
had a commit since Nov 2016, and the last release was a beta6 release
in 2013.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-01 11:14:42 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
bc4d4cb8f8 news: Update for 5.2.0 release
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-04-01 08:34:02 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
0bc965342b news: Document parallel migration
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2019-03-27 12:38:44 +01:00
Eric Blake
1c6b6c0ba1 snapshot: Various doc tweaks
Since I was copying this text to form checkpoint XML and API
documentation, I might as well make improvements along the way. Most
of these changes are based on reviews of the checkpoint docs.

Among other things: grammar tweaks, point to a single source of
documentation rather than repeating verbosity, reword things for
easier legibility.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-26 15:33:07 -05:00
Michal Privoznik
96509caf0f news: Document kernel requirements for virtual networks
After 7431b3eb9a libvirt requires "filter", "nat" and
"mangle" tables to exist for both IPv4 and IPv6. This fact was
missed in the news.xml and since we don't have any better place
to advertise that let's update old news.

This was refined in 686803a1a2 and since that is not released
yet create a new entry documenting the refinement.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-25 17:10:02 +01:00
Nikolay Shirokovskiy
1193d9737b xml: nodedev: make pci capability class element optional
Commit 3bd4ed46 introduced this element as required which
breaks backcompat for test driver. Let's make the element optional.

Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.com>
2019-03-22 12:59:56 +03:00
Jason Dillaman
669018bc9c storage: optional 'refresh' elemement on pool
The new 'refresh' element can override the default refresh operations
for a storage pool. The only currently supported override is to set
the volume allocation size to the volume capacity. This can be specified
by adding the following snippet:

<pool>
...
  <refresh>
    <volume allocation='capacity'/>
  </refresh>
...
</pool>

This is useful for certain backends where computing the actual allocation
of a volume might be an expensive operation.

Signed-off-by: Jason Dillaman <dillaman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-03-19 16:46:21 +01:00
Cole Robinson
1e1cf8e66b docs: formatdomaincaps: Describe optional XML changes
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-03-18 10:51:02 -04:00
Cole Robinson
91e85d8939 schemas: domcaps: Make more elements optional
Upcoming changes will make outputting these subelements optional.

While we are here drop the useless interleave: since this is an output
only format the elements are always in the same order

Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-03-18 10:51:02 -04:00
Nikolay Shirokovskiy
bb1f41c075 news: update for new class element of PCI nodedev capability
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-18 11:15:02 +03:00
Nikolay Shirokovskiy
3bd4ed4630 xml: nodedev: add class info for pci capability
This info can be useful to filter devices visible
to mgmt clients so that they won't see devices that
unsafe/not meaningful to pass thru.

Provide class info the way it is provided by udev or
kernel that is as single 6-digit hexadecimal.

Class element is not optional. I guess this should not
break users that use virNodeDeviceCreateXML because
they probably specify only scsi_host capability on
input and then node device driver gets other capabilities
from udev after device appeared.

HAL driver does not get support for the new element in
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-18 11:14:58 +03:00
Jim Fehlig
25e2e4e04f news: Add entry describing support for Xen's max grant frames
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-15 15:53:51 -06:00
Andrea Bolognani
f703b487ad news: Document dropping support for certain init scripts
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-15 18:36:19 +01:00
Eric Blake
a6a25d5cb6 snapshot: More clarification about REDEFINE
Based on recent list questions about the proposed addition of
virDomainCheckpointCreateXML(REDEFINE), it is worth adding some
clarification to the existing snapshot redefine documentation that is
serving as the basis for checkpoints.

Normal snapshot creation requires very few elements from the user XML
(libvirt can pick sane defaults for items that are omitted, and many
fields, including <domain>, are documented as readonly output fields
ignored on input, produced by drivers that track it). But during
REDEFINE, the API wants the complete XML produced by an earlier
virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc; as the domain definition has likely
changed since the snapshot was first created, libvirt is unable to
recreate a <domain> sub-element that matches the original output
representing the domain state at the time the snapshot was first
created. In fact, reverting without a <domain> sub-element is risky
enough that we had to add a FORCE flag for virDomainSnapshotRevert().
In short, we only support omitting domain for qemu because of
backwards-compatibility to snapshots created before 0.9.5 started
capturing <domain>; even though there are other drivers like vbox that
do not output <domain> because they have other reliable ways to
revert.

And based on the confusion caused when omitting <domain> from snapshot
XML, the initial design for checkpoints in later patches will make
<domain> a mandatory element during its REDEFINE.

[Side note: the fact that <domain> can appear in <domainsnapshot> is a
reason we cannot add a new API for a bulk listing or redefine of all
snapshots of a single domain in one XML call (for example, a 1M
<domain> XML * 16 snapshots explodes into 16M in a bulk form, which
gets difficult to send over RPC). Perhaps we could add a flag to
request that the <domain> sub-element be omitted on output, but such
output is no longer suitable for sane REDEFINE input.]

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-15 08:32:37 -05:00
Cole Robinson
47cbc92987 docs: hacking: Add 'Code coverage reports' section
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-03-14 20:47:15 -04:00
Eric Blake
3ad7c2e610 news: Document recent snapshot topological flag
A new API flag is news-worthy.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2019-03-14 07:46:43 -05:00
Jim Fehlig
09eb1ae0ec conf: Add a new 'xenbus' controller type
xenbus is virtual controller (akin to virtio controllers) for Xen
paravirtual devices. Although all Xen VMs have a xenbus, it has
never been modeled in libvirt, or in Xen native VM config format
for that matter.

Recently there have been requests to support Xen's max_grant_frames
setting in libvirt. max_grant_frames is best modeled as an attribute
of xenbus. It describes the maximum IO buffer space (or DMA space)
available in xenbus for use by connected paravirtual devices. This
patch introduces a new xenbus controller type that includes a
maxGrantFrames attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-13 12:06:52 -06:00
Michal Privoznik
1dd24167b8 news: Document firmware autoselection for QEMU driver
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
2019-03-13 13:11:25 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
d947fa8a08 conf: Introduce firmware attribute to <os/>
The idea is that using this attribute users enable libvirt to
automagically select firmware image for their domain. For
instance:

  <os firmware='efi'>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.0'>hvm</type>
    <loader secure='no'/>
  </os>

  <os firmware='bios'>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.0'>hvm</type>
  </os>

(The automagic of selecting firmware image will be described in
later commits.)

Accepted values are 'bios' and 'efi' to let libvirt select
corresponding type of firmware.

I know it is a good sign to introduce xml2xml test case when
changing XML config parser but that will have to come later.
Firmware auto selection is not enabled for any driver just yet so
any xml2xml test would fail right away.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-12 15:29:44 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
cdd592553a virDomainLoaderDefParseXML: Allow loader path to be NULL
Except not really. At least for now.

In the future, the firmware will be selected automagically.
Therefore, it makes no sense to require the pathname of a
specific firmware binary in the domain XML. But since it is not
implemented do not really allow the path to be NULL. Only move
code around to prepare it for further expansion.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-12 15:29:43 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
73bc4f185e docs: Document configuration quirks for virtio devices
Some devices (namely virtio-scsi, virtio-gpu, virtio-keyboard,
virtio-tablet and virtio-mouse, plus virtio-crypto which is
not supported by libvirt) don't follow the same rules as all
other virtio devices, which is something that ought to be
documented.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-03-11 09:53:55 +01:00
Cole Robinson
7a05c739c2 news: document virtio-{non-}transitional feature
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-03-08 10:53:51 -05:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
27b6ca7d9c docs: remove Google+ link from page footer
Google is shutting down Google+, with no replacement, in the very near
future so we are losing the Libvirt community group there.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-03-07 11:46:16 +00:00
Pavel Hrdina
9dadc73029 caps: drop requiredSourceElements from storage pool capabilities
Capabilities should not duplicate data that are obvious from our
documentation and will not change with different QEMU binaries
or the way how we compile libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2019-03-07 12:01:09 +01:00
John Ferlan
3fd1a15968 docs: Add news article
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 11:12:48 -05:00