The front page contains a bunch of content that is either
outdated (eg links to libvirt qpid) or not particularly
useful (links to vendor hypervisor sites).
This rewrites it to be more directly useful to visitors,
providing a updated intro to libvirt project, direct
links to key pieces of website content (new contributors
guide, security process, bug reporting, XML formats), and
feed showing recent 5 blog posts on the virt tools planet.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 1f29f3da065ef12d3ec39c3c673186f8ea6d764e.
Assuming <dt> is always used to document symbols is way too
broad, requiring far too many exemptions to be marked to
avoid syntax check rules.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The related links page is either horribly outdated, or duplicating
stuff already linked elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add links to download, communicate and learn in the
header bar, as the main jumping off points for
navigation.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Remove the 1px border underneath all headers and make them
use black text to simplify visual appearance
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add a footer to all pages containing a blurb about the
code of conduct, and links to various communication
channels / social media / user self-help sites.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Replace the old "Made with libvirt" logo with links to the
new "Libvirt powered" logos, providing various sizes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Use a dark banner whose color matches the dark green used in
the logo. Introduce a newly rendered version of the header
logo derived from new SVG file, instead of old one from
(now lost) Adobe Illustrator file.
The top banner logo now links to the front page as is common
practice for most websites.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add the SVG files for the libvirt logo, along with corresponding
pre-rendered PNG bitmaps at key sizes. Also add a README file
describing how to modify the logos and their intended usages.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The original libvirt logo was built using what appears to be
either Overpass font, or one stylistically very similar (the
slanted top of letters like 'l', 't', etc). The newly recreated
libvirt logo will use Overpass. Use this font for the website
text too, to provide a consistent style.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Release tarballs ship the include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h.
when srcdir != builddir we end up including libvirt-common.h twice: from
$top_srcdir/include/libvirt-common.h and from
$builddir/include/libvirt-common.h leading to
function virTypedParamsGetUInt from /tmp/buildd/libvirt-2.4.0/debian/build/docs/../include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h redeclared in /tmp/buildd/libvirt-2.4.0/docs/../include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h
function virTypedParamsAddBoolean from /tmp/buildd/libvirt-2.4.0/debian/build/docs/../include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h redeclared in /tmp/buildd/libvirt-2.4.0/docs/../include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h
…
Only add the builddir to the search list if there is no pregenerated
libvirt-common.h.
Reuse the existing check that predates the libvirt.h → libvirt-common.h
split and that probably was meant for exactly that.
References: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842452
The old ivshmem is deprecated in QEMU, so let's use the better
ivshmem-{plain,doorbell} variants instead.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
The library.xen file contains a braindump of thoughts dating
from the very first days of libvirt, when it was briefly
called libxen. This is not useful and potentially misleading
or confusing for people.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add an optional "tls='yes|no'" attribute for a TCP chardev.
For QEMU, this will allow for disabling the host config setting of the
'chardev_tls' for a domain chardev channel by setting the value to "no" or
to attempt to use a host TLS environment when setting the value to "yes"
when the host config 'chardev_tls' setting is disabled, but a TLS environment
is configured via either the host config 'chardev_tls_x509_cert_dir' or
'default_tls_x509_cert_dir'
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Certain operations may make the vcpu order information invalid. Since
the order is primarily used to ensure migration compatibility and has
basically no other user benefits, clear the order prior to certain
operations and document that it may be cleared.
All the operations that would clear the order can still be properly
executed by defining a new domain configuration rather than using the
helper APIs.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370357
When support was added for the kvm hidden='on' attribute in commit
d07116, the version requirement was listed as "2.1.0 (QEMU
only)". However, this was added when libvirt was at version 1.2.8 - it
is *QEMU* that must be at version 2.1.0 or later.
This went unnoticed for a very long time (over 2 years). Then a week
or two ago a new Windows convert in the #virt channel on OFTC was told
he needed to use this feature (to prevent nvidia drivers in a guest
from refusing to work due to being run in a virtual machine). There
was some problem with it being recognized and "someone" (it may have
been me, or may have been someone else, I don't remember) pointed out
that the documentation at
http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html
says that it requires libvirt 2.1.0. The next several days were filled
with agony as a new convert to Linux first tried to upgrade a Linux
Mint host running their "LTS" version to something newer, then tried
to install a libvirt build built for Ubuntu onto this, and later back
to the old LTS Linux Mint. After this he tried building his own
libvirt from source (with all the expected problems), and finally
switched to Fedora. In the end it was hours and hours of everybody's
lives that they will never get back. To now learn that he didn't need
to do this (his original libvirt version was 1.3.3, so whatever his
problem was, it was elsewhere) makes the pain all that much worse.
To prevent this from happening again, this simple patch changes the
version requirement for the kvm hidden attribute from "2.1.0 (QEMU
only)" to "1.2.8 (QEMU 2.1.0)".
So far only guestfwd and virtio were supported. Add an additional
for Xen as libxl channels create a Xen console visible to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
The domain capabilities XML is capable of showing whether each guest CPU
mode is supported or not with a possibility to provide additional
details. This patch enhances host-model capability to advertise the
exact CPU model which will be used as a host-model:
<cpu>
...
<mode name='host-model' supported='yes'>
<model fallback='allow'>Broadwell</model>
<vendor>Intel</vendor>
<feature policy='disable' name='aes'/>
<feature policy='require' name='vmx'/>
</mode>
...
</cpu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
In case a hypervisor is able to tell us a list of supported CPU models
and whether each CPU models can be used on the current host, we can
propagate this to domain capabilities. This is a better alternative
to calling virConnectCompareCPU for each supported CPU model.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
The patch adds <cpu> element to domain capabilities XML:
<cpu>
<mode name='host-passthrough' supported='yes'/>
<mode name='host-model' supported='yes'/>
<mode name='custom' supported='yes'>
<model>Broadwell</model>
<model>Broadwell-noTSX</model>
...
</mode>
</cpu>
Applications can use it to inspect what CPU configuration modes are
supported for a specific combination of domain type, emulator binary,
guest architecture and machine type.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322717
During offline migration, no storage is copied. Nor disks, nor
NVRAM file, nor anything. We use qemu for that and because domain
is not running there's nobody to copy that for us.
We should document this to avoid confusing users.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a new secret usage type known as "tls" - it will handle adding the
secret objects for various TLS objects that need to provide some sort
of passphrase in order to access the credentials.
The format is:
<secret ephemeral='no' private='no'>
<description>Sample TLS secret</description>
<usage type='tls'>
<name>mumblyfratz</name>
</usage>
</secret>
Once defined and a passphrase set, future patches will allow the UUID
to be set in the qemu.conf file and thus used as a secret for various
TLS options such as a chardev serial TCP connection, a NBD client/server
connection, and migration.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
With current perf framework, this patch adds support and documentation
for more perf events, including cache misses, cache references, cpu cycles,
and instructions.
Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Add support for using the new approach to hotplug vcpus using device_add
during startup of qemu to allow sparse vcpu topologies.
There are a few limitations imposed by qemu on the supported
configuration:
- vcpu0 needs to be always present and not hotpluggable
- non-hotpluggable cpus need to be ordered at the beginning
- order of the vcpus needs to be unique for every single hotpluggable
entity
Qemu also doesn't really allow to query the information necessary to
start a VM with the vcpus directly on the commandline. Fortunately they
can be hotplugged during startup.
The new hotplug code uses the following approach:
- non-hotpluggable vcpus are counted and put to the -smp option
- qemu is started
- qemu is queried for the necessary information
- the configuration is checked
- the hotpluggable vcpus are hotplugged
- vcpus are started
This patch adds a lot of checking code and enables the support to
specify the individual vcpu element with qemu.
Individual vCPU hotplug requires us to track the state of any vCPU. To
allow this add the following XML:
<domain>
...
<vcpu current='2'>3</vcpu>
<vcpus>
<vcpu id='0' enabled='yes' hotpluggable='no' order='1'/>
<vcpu id='1' enabled='yes' hotpluggable='yes' order='2'/>
<vcpu id='1' enabled='no' hotpluggable='yes'/>
</vcpus>
...
The 'enabled' attribute allows to control the state of the vcpu.
'hotpluggable' controls whether given vcpu can be hotplugged and 'order'
allows to specify the order to add the vcpus.
