As the parent address is part of the mdev nodedev name lets expose the
internally available parent address in the XML.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Most people will want to use isa-debugcon to obtain debug output
for SeaBIOS / EDK II, so let's include a ready-made example for
that scenario in our documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Introduce support for
<serial type='pty'>
<target type='isa-debug'>
<model type='isa-debugcon'/>
</target>
<address type='isa' iobase='0x402'/>
</console>
which is used as a way to receive debug messages from the
firmware on x86 platforms.
Note that the default port is hypervisor specific, with QEMU
currently using 0xe9 since that's the original Bochs debug port.
For use with SeaBIOS/OVMF, the iobase port needs to be explicitly
set to 0x402.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Outline information commonly logged which users could consider
sensitive.
Add a note that VNC/SPICE passwords are logged in plaintext.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Many domain elements have "QEMU and KVM only" or "QEMU/KVM since x.y.z"
remarks. Most of the elements work for HVF domain, so it makes sense to
add respective notices for HVF domain.
All the elements have been manually tested.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's worth to make the domain type a little bit more visible than a row
in news. An example of hvf domain is available on QEMU driver page.
While at it, mention Hypervisor.framework on index page.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
QEMU supports Hypervisor.framework since 2.12 as hvf accel.
Hypervisor.framework provides a lightweight interface to run a virtual
cpu on macOS without the need to install third-party kernel
extensions (KEXTs).
It's supported since macOS 10.10 on machines with Intel VT-x feature
set that includes Extended Page Tables (EPT) and Unrestricted Mode.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
An update to meson 0.61.1 meant that it started showing warnings due to the fact
that the default for run_command's 'check' parameter is going to change. It
unveiled the fact that we were even missing that parameter in some calls where
we expected different outcome. To make sure the behaviour does not change
specify the parameter explicitly. In places where we check for the return code
the parameter should be 'false' so that meson does not fail. In all other cases
the parameter should be set to 'true' to make sure possible failure also stops
meson.
The warning in meson was added in https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/9304
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Hint users that they can use 'virt-admin' also for the new monolithic
daemons.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038045
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Modular daemons are now the default in many new installations, thus we
need to include steps how to determine that modular daemons are used and
modular-daemon specific locations for the config files and admin URIs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Since we are at a transition period where some users may be running
monolithic libvirtd and others already the modular topology we need a
section that allows users to figure out which is in use.
This will be particularly important in the document about enabling
logging, as the active log file depends on which daemon is in use.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The socket permissions are controlled by 'unix_sock_admin_perms', but
regardless the code requires that 'geteuid() != clientuid' to allow
clients thus it doesn't make sense to make users aware of it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's the only GIF file we have in our repository.
We could convert it to PNG, but that would result in a
significantly bigger file (~5.5 KiB vs ~1.5 KiB).
Since the image doesn't really add much to the documentation,
drop it instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
When invoking 'virsh guestinfo $VM' without explicitly specifying a
group of information to return, virsh always reports success even when
the guest agent doesn't report any information in the current state.
This is desired in situations when you are okay with stats being missing
and avoids spurious errors being reported.
Clarify that this is really desired in the man page.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041665
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
It's a tool name so use backticks to format it in monospace.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Move out the settings required to pre libvirt-4.4.0 deployments into a
separate section so that the main point is not cluttered by now mostly
irrelevant settings.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Enabling the logs is the focus of this article. Decouple it from the
first section.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Use the heading hierarchy as generated by pandoc which we use in most
of the converted XML format docs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
This was not mentioned before.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This partially reverts commit 9ccbed6afb.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
sysconfig files are owned by the admin of the host. They have the
liberty to put anything they want into these files. This makes it
difficult to provide different built-in defaults.
Remove the sysconfig file and place the current desired default into
the service file.
Local customizations can now go either into /etc/sysconfig/name
or /etc/systemd/system/name.service.d/my-knobs.conf
Attempt to handle upgrades in libvirt.spec.
Dirty files which are marked as %config will be renamed to file.rpmsave.
To restore them automatically, move stale .rpmsave files away, and
catch any new rpmsave files in %posttrans.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The code style showed `bool hasFoos; if (hasFoos == true)` as a
good example in one place, only to warn against comparisons with
`true` a couple of paragraphs further down.
Merge this advice on comparing with `true` into the "Conditional
expressions" section and split the example up for readability.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
A few places are still using an expend yes/no choice instead of the
common virYesNo definition.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The docs illustration for the <os> schema contains a mixture of
incompatible configuration options. This is rather confusing and
misleading to users. Splitting the illustration into four separate
examples clarifies the situation.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Detect these commands in docs/meson.build, i.e. only when
users enable documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
While sections are somewhat loosely defined and thus the choice
is not quite a clear-cut one, section 8 might be a slightly
better fit in this case.
Suggested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add a sentence to the active_pcr_banks node documentation that clarifies
that when the active_pcr_banks node is removed from the XML or when it
is omitted that the set of active PCR banks is not changed anymore.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039246
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
We don't usually provide manual pages for internal tools,
but in the case of virt-ssh-helper the command is installed
inside the default $PATH and so it's likely that the user
will stumble upon it by using the shell's completion feature
when invoking another virt-* command, which makes it a good
idea to provide at least a minimal manual page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
After attesting a domain with the help of domlaunchsecinfo,
domsetlaunchsecstate can be used to set a secret in the guest
domain's memory prior to running the vcpus.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The burst attribute for bandwidth specifies how much bytes can be
transmitted in a single burst. Therefore, the unit is in
multiples of 1024 (thus kibibytes) not SI-like 1000. It has
always been like that.
The 'tc' output is still confusing though, for instance:
# tc class add dev $DEV parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 1000kbps burst 2097152
# tc class show dev vnet2
class htb 1:1 root rate 8Mbit ceil 8Mbit burst 2Mb cburst 1600b
Please note that 2097152 = 2*1024*1024. Even the man page is
confusing. From tc(8):
kb or k Kilobytes
mb or m Megabytes
But I guess this is because 'tc' predates IEC standardisation of
binary multiples and thus can't change without breaking scripts
parsing its output.
And while at it, adjust _virNetDevBandwidthRate struct member
description, to make it obvious which members use SI/IEC units.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
We have a subdirectory specifically for CSS files now, so it makes
sense to have the stylesheet that defines fonts to be there too.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This unclutters the top-level docs directory.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This unclutters the top-level docs directory.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It was introduced in ff4ede0055 but it doesn't seem to have
ever actually been used anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
QCOW2 images now support 'extended_l2' which splits the default clusters
into 32 subcluster allocation units. This allows the allocation units to
be smaller without increasing the size of L2 table too much and thus also
the cache requirements for holding the full L2 table in memory.
Unfortunately it's incompatible with qemu versions older than 5.2 thus
can't be used as default.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Apart from the bulk conversion itself, the section names 'general
metadata' and 'target elements' were duplicated between the storage pool
and storage volume sections. To prevent heading name clashes they were
renamed appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The internals/eventloop document uses two images for
illustrative purposes, but unlike other graphics included
in the documentation these are not part of libvirt.git but
rather were added to libvirt-media.git with
commit fae5622074cf5e18d190496f8a43260c614599b2
Author: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Jun 6 17:27:50 2016 +0200
Add two event loop images
These images are going to be used in our documentation of the
event loop.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
fae5622074
and are requested directly from there. Specifically, the
URLs point to the libvirt.org mirror of libvirt-media.git
instead of the primary repository hosted on GitLab.
Import the images into libvirt.git so that the website
doesn't rely on external resources and can, if desired, be
browsed entirely offline from installed packages.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Let's imagine a guest that's configured with strict numatune:
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
</numatune>
For guests with NUMA:
Depending on machine type used (see commit v6.4.0-rc1~75) we
generate either:
1) -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"ram-node0",\
"size":20971520,"host-nodes":[0],"policy":"preferred"}' \
-numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0
or
2) -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,mem=20480
Later, when QEMU boots up and cpuset CGroup controller is
available we further restrict QEMU there too. But there's a
behaviour difference hidden: while in case 1) QEMU is restricted
from beginning, in case 2) it is not and thus it may happen that
it will allocate memory from different NUMA node and even though
CGroup will try to migrate it, it may fail to do so (e.g. because
memory is locked). Therefore, one can argue that case 2) is
broken. NB, case 2) is exactly what mode 'restrictive' is for.
However, in case 1) we are unable to update QEMU with new
host-nodes, simply because it's lacking a command to do so.
For guests without NUMA:
It's very close to case 2) from above. We have commit
v7.10.0-rc1~163 that prevents us from outputting host-nodes when
generating memory-backend-* for system memory, but that simply
allows QEMU to allocate memory anywhere and then relies on
CGroups to move it to desired location.
Due to all of this, there is no reliable way to change nodeset
for mode 'strict'. Let's forbid it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The whole idea of VIR_DOMAIN_NUMATUNE_MEM_RESTRICTIVE is that the
memory location is restricted only via CGroups and thus can be
changed on the fly (which is exactly what
qemuDomainSetNumaParamsLive() does. Allow this mode there then.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
While we document possibility of passing an integer from
virDomainNumatuneMemMode enum, we list string variants to only
the first three enum members. The fourth (and so far the last)
member is called 'restrictive' and thus should be documented.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
