There is some controversy[1] on the qemu list on whether qemu should
have ever allowed arbitrary file name passthrough, or whether it
should be restricted to JUST /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. It is
always easier to add support for additional filenames than it is
to remove support for something once released, so this patch
restricts libvirt 1.0.3 (where the virtio-random backend was first
supported) to just the two uncontroversial names, letting us defer
to a later date any decision on whether supporting arbitrary files
makes sense. Additionally, since qemu 1.4 does NOT support
/dev/fdset/nnn fd passthrough for the backend, limiting to just
two known names means that we don't get tempted to try fd
passthrough where it won't work.
[1]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/threads.html#00023
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainRNGDefParseXML): Only allow
/dev/random and /dev/hwrng.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Flag invalid files.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsRng): Document this.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args:
Update test to match.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml:
Likewise.
This reverts commit 383ebc4694.
We decided the xml for this feature needed more thought to make sure
we are doing it the best way, in particular wrt option values that
have multiple items.
Add qed for dirfs pool.
Add ocfs2 for disk pool.
Add lvm2 for disk and logical pool.
Add cifs and glusterfs for netfs pool.
Note: POOL_DISK_LVM2 can not be created by "parted mklabel", but is only
returned from auto-detection on disk pools.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This reverts commit 24aa7f8d11.
The implementation to match the documentation is not complete yet,
and the final design might change the name of the 'schid' attribute.
virStrToLong(..., 8, ...) already requires the mode to be octal.
Change the relax-ng schema to check for octal as well.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This patch documents XML elements used for (basic) support of virtual
RNG devices.
In the devices section in the domain XML users may specify:
For the default 'random' backend:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='random'>/dev/urandom</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
For the slightly more advanced EGD backend:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='egd' type='udp'>
<!-- this is a definition of a character device -->
<source mode='bind' service='1234'/>
<source mode='connect' host='1.2.3.4' service='1234'/>
<!-- or other valid character device configuration -->
</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
For the planned random daemon/pool:
<devices>
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='pool' pool='poolname'>class</backend>
</rng>
</devices>
to enable the RNG device for guests.
Originally, only a host name was used to associate a
DHCPv6 request with a specific IPv6 address. Further testing
demonstrates that this is an unreliable method and, instead,
a client-id or DUID needs to be used. According to DHCPv6
standards, this id can be a duid-LLT, duid-LL, or duid-UUID
even though dnsmasq will accept almost any text string.
Although validity checking of a specified string makes sure it is
hexadecimal notation with bytes separated by colons, there is no
rigorous check to make sure it meets the standard.
Documentation and schemas have been updated.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Although in IPv4 one must pick either mac or name, either
can be omitted. Similarly, for IPv6, the name
can be optionally omitted.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
This patch adds support for a new <option>-Tag in the <dhcp> block of
network configs, based on a subset of the fifth proposal by Laine
Stump in the mailing list discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-November/msg01054.html.
Any such defined option will result in a dhcp-option=<number>,"<value>"
statement in the generated dnsmasq configuration file.
Currently, DHCP options can be specified by number only and there is
no whitelisting or blacklisting of option numbers, which should
probably be added.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Hollants <pieter@hollants.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Let users set the port range to be used for forward mode NAT:
...
<forward mode='nat'>
<nat>
<port start='1024' end='65535'/>
</nat>
</forward>
...
Signed-off-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Support setting which public ip to use for NAT via attribute
address in subelement <nat> in <forward>:
...
<forward mode='nat'>
<address start='1.2.3.4' end='1.2.3.10'/>
</forward>
...
This will construct an iptables line using:
'-j SNAT --to-source <start>-<end>'
instead of:
'-j MASQUERADE'
Signed-off-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
The native bus for s390 I/O is called CCW (channel command word).
As QEMU has added basic support for the CCW bus, i.e. the
ability to assign CCW devnos (bus addresses) to devices.
Domains with the new machine type s390-ccw-virtio can use the
CCW bus. Currently QEMU will only allow to define virtio
devices on the CCW bus.
Here we add the new machine type and the new device address to the
schema definition and add a new paragraph to the domain XML
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
hacking: Add some text around the running of Valgrind along with example
output for "real" vs. "false positives".
cfg.mk: Add hacking.in.html to sc_prohibit_raw_allocation
Commit 6094ad7b (0.9.3 release) promoted several functions from
internal to public, but forgot to fix the documentation generator
to provide details about those functions.
For an example of what this fixes, look at:
file:///path/to/libvirt/docs/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virEventAddHandle
before and after the patch.
* docs/apibuild.py (ignored_functions): Don't ignore functions
that were turned into official API.
* src/util/virevent.c: Fix comments to pass through parser.
When an exception happened inside the try clause in serialize_function,
a new exception was raised in the except clause subsequently:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./apibuild.py", line 2529, in <module>
rebuild("libvirt")
File "./apibuild.py", line 2513, in rebuild
builder.serialize()
File "./apibuild.py", line 2467, in serialize
self.serialize_function(output, function)
File "./apibuild.py", line 2208, in serialize_function
self.warning("Failed to save function %s info: " % name, `id.info`)
TypeError: warning() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
Use the correct number of arguments for self.warning and print the
original exception to stderr.
Hosts for rbd are ceph monitor daemons. These have fixed IP addresses,
so they are often referenced by IP rather than hostname for
convenience, or to avoid relying on DNS. Using IPv4 addresses as the
host name works already, but IPv6 addresses require rbd-specific
escaping because the colon is used as an option separator in the
string passed to qemu.
Escape these colons, and enclose the IPv6 address in square brackets
so it is distinguished from the port, which is currently mandatory.
Acked-by: Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>
This patch adds RNG schemas for adding more information in the topology
output of the NUMA section in the capabilities XML.
The added elements are designed to provide more information about the
placement and topology of the processors in the system to management
applications.
A demonstration of supported XML added by this patch:
<capabilities>
<host>
<topology>
<cells num='3'>
<cell id='0'>
<cpus num='4'> <!-- this is node with Hyperthreading -->
<cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0-1'/>
<cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0-1'/>
<cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2-3'/>
<cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2-3'/>
</cpus>
</cell>
<cell id='1'>
<cpus num='4'> <!-- this is node with modules (Bulldozer) -->
<cpu id='4' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='4-5'/>
<cpu id='5' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='4-5'/>
<cpu id='6' socket_id='0' core_id='4' siblings='6-7'/>
<cpu id='7' socket_id='0' core_id='5' siblings='6-7'/>
</cpus>
</cell>
<cell id='2'>
<cpus num='4'> <!-- this is a normal multi-core node -->
<cpu id='8' socket_id='1' core_id='0' siblings='8'/>
<cpu id='9' socket_id='1' core_id='1' siblings='9'/>
<cpu id='10' socket_id='1' core_id='2' siblings='10'/>
<cpu id='11' socket_id='1' core_id='3' siblings='11'/>
</cpus>
</cell>
</cells>
</topology>
</host>
</capabilities>
The socket_id field represents identification of the physical socket the
CPU is plugged in. This ID may not be identical to the physical socket
ID reported by the kernel.
The core_id identifies a core within a socket. Also this field may not
accurately represent physical ID's.
The core_id is guaranteed to be unique within a cell and a socket. There
may be duplicates between sockets. Only cores sharing core_id within one
cell and one socket can be considered as threads. Cores sharing core_id
within sparate cells are distinct cores.
The siblings field is a list of CPU id's the cpu id's the CPU is sibling
with - thus a thread. The list is in the cpuset format.
Adds a "ram" attribute globally to the video.model element, that changes
the resulting qemu command line only if video.type == "qxl".
<video>
<model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
</video>
That attribute gets a default value of 64*1024. The schema is unchanged
for other video element types.
The resulting qemu command line change is the addition of
-global qxl-vga.ram_size=<ram>*1024
or
-global qxl.ram_size=<ram>*1024
For the main and secondary qxl devices respectively.
The default for the qxl ram bar is 64*1024 kilobytes (the same as the
default qxl vram bar size).
Use of <tt> is discouraged in HTML 4.x and has finally been obsoleted
in HTML 5. Likewise for the <i> tag.
Using tables for layout is (widely) considered bad style, too.
Use defintion lists, definition term and defintion description
elements instead.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Bley <cbley@av-test.de>
In CSS the following class names are available:
* keyword (keywords like "typedef", "struct")
* type (types like "int", "void*")
* comment (comments after members of enums or structs)
* directive (preprocessor directives, #define)
* undisclosed (text saying that the API is not public)
Additionally, kill all of the left-over "programlisting" class
assignments. There are no CSS rules for them.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Bley <cbley@av-test.de>
This patch introduces support for LXC specific public APIs. In
common with what was done for QEMU, this creates a libvirt_lxc.so
library and libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h header file.
The actual APIs are
int virDomainLxcOpenNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
int **fdlist,
unsigned int flags);
int virDomainLxcEnterNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
unsigned int nfdlist,
int *fdlist,
unsigned int *noldfdlist,
int **oldfdlist,
unsigned int flags);
which provide a way to use the setns() system call to move the
calling process into the container's namespace. It is not
practical to write in a generically applicable manner. The
nearest that we could get to such an API would be an API which
allows to pass a command + argv to be executed inside a
container. Even if we had such a generic API, this LXC specific
API is still useful, because it allows the caller to maintain
the current process context, in particular any I/O streams they
have open.
NB the virDomainLxcEnterNamespace() API is special in that it
runs client side, so does not involve the internal driver API.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
When parsing the top level comment of a file, apibuild.py used
to split on any ':' character of a line regarding the first part
as a key for a setting, e.g. "Summary". The second part would then
be assigned as the value for that key.
This means you could not use a ':' character inside those comments
without ill effects.
Now, a key must consist solely of alphanumeric characters, '_' or '.'.
I've noticed a number of people sending patches with file
renames not compressed, so we might as well document how to
set this up. (Git won't do it by default, for back-compat
reasons)
* docs/hacking.html.in: Add git config tip.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Add an optional 'type' attribute to <target> element of serial port
device. There are two choices for its value, 'isa-serial' and
'usb-serial'. For backward compatibility, when attribute 'type' is
missing the 'isa-serial' will be chosen as before.
Libvirt XML sample
<serial type='pty'>
<target type='usb-serial' port='0'/>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
</serial>
qemu commandline:
qemu ${other_vm_args} \
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 \
-device usb-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0,bus=usb.0,port=1
Libvirt's HTML documentation is not as easy to the eyes as it could
be since long text has no visual breaks.
Take advantage of the formatting in documentation comments and wrap
each part separated by two consecutive \n into a HTML <p> element.
The SCLP console is the native console type for s390 and is preferred
over the virtio console as it doesn't require special drivers and
is more efficient. Recent versions of QEMU come with SCLP support
which is hereby enabled.
The new target types 'sclp' and 'sclplm' can be used to specify a
SCLP console. Adding documentation, domain schema and XML processing
support.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This introduces new XML tag "sgio" for disk, its valid values
are "filtered" and "unfiltered", setting it as "filtered" will
set the disk's unpriv_sgio to 0, and "unfiltered" to set it
as 1, which allows the unprivileged SG_IO commands.
The <hostdev> device type has long had a redundant "mode"
attribute, which has always been "subsys". This finally
introduces a new mode "capabilities", which will be used
by the LXC driver for device assignment. Since container
based virtualization uses a single kernel, the idea of
assigning physical PCI devices doesn't make sense. It is
still reasonable to assign USB devices, but for assigning
arbitrary nodes in /dev, the new 'capabilities' mode is
to be used.
The first capability support is 'storage', which is for
assignment of block devices. Functionally this is really
pretty similar to the <disk> support. The only difference
is the device node name is identical in both host and
container namespaces.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='storage'>
<source>
<block>/dev/sdf1</block>
</source>
</hostdev>
The second capability support is 'misc', which is for
assignment of character devices. There is no existing
parallel to this. Again the device node is the same
inside & outside the container.
<hostdev mode='capabilities' type='misc'>
<source>
<char>/dev/input/event3</char>
</source>
</hostdev>
The reason for keeping the char & storage devices
separate in the domain XML, is to mirror the split
in the node device XML. NB the node device XML does
not yet report character devices, but that's another
new patch to come
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
If there are multiple video devices
primary = 'yes' marks this video device as the primary one.
The rest are secondary video devices. No more than one could be
mark as primary. If none of them has primary attribute, the first
one will be the primary by default like what it was.
The reason of this changing is that for qemu, only one primary video
device is permitted which can be of any type. For secondary video
devices, only qxl is allowd. Primary attribute removes the restriction
that the first have to be the primary one.
We always put the primary video device into the first position of
video device structure array after parsing.
This is however supported only on domain interfaces with
type='network'. Moreover, target network needs to have at least
inbound QoS set. This is required by hierarchical traffic shaping.
From now on, the required attribute for <inbound/> is either 'average'
(old) or 'floor' (new). This new attribute can be used just for
interfaces type of network (<interface type='network'/>) currently.
The DHCPv6 support includes IPV6 dhcp-range and dhcp-host for one
IPv6 subnetwork on one interface. This support will only work
if dnsmasq version >= 2.64; otherwise an error occurs if
dhcp-range or dhcp-host is specified for an IPv6 address.
Essentially, this change provides the same DHCP support for IPv6
that has been available for IPv4.
With dnsmasq >= 2.64, support for the RA service is also now provided
by dnsmasq (radvd is no longer used/started). (Although at least one
version of dnsmasq prior to 2.64 "supported" IPv6 Router
Advertisement, there were bugs (fixed in 2.64) that rendered it
unusable.)
Documentation and the network schema has been updated
to reflect the new support.
QEMU supports setting vendor and product strings for disk since
1.2.0 (only scsi-disk, scsi-hd, scsi-cd support it), this patch
exposes it with new XML elements <vendor> and <product> of disk
device.
Based on a patch originally authored by Daniel De Graaf
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00565.html
This patch converts the Xen libxl driver to support only Xen >= 4.2.
Support for Xen 4.1 libxl is dropped since that version of libxl is
designated 'technology preview' only and is incompatible with Xen 4.2
libxl. Additionally, the default toolstack in Xen 4.1 is still xend,
for which libvirt has a stable, functional driver.
This patch adds the capability for virtual guests to do IPv6
communication via a virtual network interface with no IPv6 (gateway)
addresses specified. This capability has always been enabled by
default for IPv4, but disabled for IPv6 for security concerns, and
because it requires the ip6tables command to be operational (which
isn't the case on a system with the ipv6 module completely disabled).
This patch adds a new attribute "ipv6" at the toplevel of a <network>
object. If ipv6='yes', the extra ip6tables rules required to permite
inter-guest communications are added when the network is started. If
it is 'no', or not present, those rules will not be added; thus the
default behavior doesn't change, so there should be no compatibility
issues with any existing installations.
Note that virtual guests cannot communication with the virtualization
host via this interface, because the following kernel tunable has
been set:
net.ipv6.conf.<bridge_interface_name>.disable_ipv6 = 1
This assures that the bridge interface will not have an IPv6
link-local (fe80::) address.
To control this behavior so that it is not enabled by default, the parameter
ipv6='yes' on the <network> statement has been added.
Documentation related to this patch has been updated.
The network schema has also been updated.
This patch introduces the RNG schema and updates necessary data strucutures
to allow various hypervisors to make use of Gluster protocol as one of the
supported network disk backend. Next patch will add support to make use of
this feature in Qemu since it now supports Gluster protocol as one of the
network based storage backend.
Two new optional attributes for <host> element are introduced - 'transport'
and 'socket'. Valid transport values are tcp, unix or rdma. If none specified,
tcp is assumed. If transport is unix, socket specifies path to unix socket.
This patch allows users to specify disks on gluster backends like this:
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume1/image'>
<host name='example.org' port='6000' transport='tcp'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
<disk type='network' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol='gluster' name='Volume2/image'>
<host transport='unix' socket='/path/to/sock'/>
</source>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Each <domainsnapshot> can now contain an optional <memory>
element that describes how the VM state was handled, similar
to disk snapshots. The new element will always appear in
output; for back-compat, an input that lacks the element will
assume 'no' or 'internal' according to the domain state.
Along with this change, it is now possible to pass <disks> in
the XML for an offline snapshot; this also needs to be wired up
in a future patch, to make it possible to choose internal vs.
external on a per-disk basis for each disk in an offline domain.
At that point, using the --disk-only flag for an offline domain
will be able to work.
For some examples below, remember that qemu supports the
following snapshot actions:
qemu-img: offline external and internal disk
savevm: online internal VM and disk
migrate: online external VM
transaction: online external disk
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='no'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
implies that there is no VM state saved (mandatory for
offline and disk-only snapshots, not possible otherwise);
using qemu-img for offline domains and transaction for online.
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='internal'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
state is saved inside one of the disks (as in qemu's 'savevm'
system checkpoint implementation). If needed in the future,
we can also add an attribute pointing out _which_ disk saved
the internal state; maybe disk='vda'.
=====
<domainsnapshot>
<memory snapshot='external' file='/path/to/state'/>
...
</domainsnapshot>
This is not wired up yet, but future patches will allow this to
control a combination of 'virsh save /path/to/state' plus disk
snapshots from the same point in time.
=====
So for 1.0.1 (and later, as needed), I plan to implement this table
of combinations, with '*' designating new code and '+' designating
existing code reached through new combinations of xml and/or the
existing DISK_ONLY flag:
domain memory disk disk-only | result
-----------------------------------------
offline omit omit any | memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline no omit any |+memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline omit/no no any | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
offline omit/no int any |+memory=no disk=int, via qemu-img
offline omit/no ext any |*memory=no disk=ext, via qemu-img
offline int/ext any any | invalid combination (no memory to save)
online omit omit off | memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online omit omit on | memory=no disk=default, via transaction
online omit no/ext off | unsupported for now
online omit no on | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
online omit ext on | memory=no disk=ext, via transaction
online omit int off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online omit int on | unsupported for now
online no omit any |+memory=no disk=default, via transaction
online no no any | invalid combination (nothing to snapshot)
online no int any | unsupported for now
online no ext any |+memory=no disk=ext, via transaction
online int/ext any on | invalid combination (disk-only vs. memory)
online int omit off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online int no/ext off | unsupported for now
online int int off |+memory=int disk=int, via savevm
online ext omit off |*memory=ext disk=default, via migrate+trans
online ext no off |+memory=ext disk=no, via migrate
online ext int off | unsupported for now
online ext ext off |*memory=ext disk=ext, via migrate+transaction
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (memory): New RNG element.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* src/conf/snapshot_conf.h (virDomainSnapshotDef): New fields.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefFree)
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString, virDomainSnapshotDefFormat):
Manage new fields.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmltest.c: New test.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/*.xml: Update existing tests.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/*.xml: Likewise.
This documents the following whitespace rules
if(foo) // Bad
if (foo) // Good
int foo (int wizz) // Bad
int foo(int wizz) // Good
bar = foo (wizz); // Bad
bar = foo(wizz); // Good
typedef int (*foo) (int wizz); // Bad
typedef int (*foo)(int wizz); // Good
int foo( int wizz ); // Bad
int foo(int wizz); // Good
There is a syntax-check rule extension to validate all these rules.
Checking for 'function (...args...)' is quite difficult since it
needs to ignore valid usage with keywords like 'if (...test...)'
and while/for/switch. It must also ignore source comments and
quoted strings.
It is not possible todo this with a simple regex in the normal
syntax-check style. So a short Perl script is created instead
to analyse the source. In practice this works well enough. The
only thing it can't cope with is multi-line quoted strings of
the form
"start of string\
more lines\
more line\
the end"
but this can and should be written as
"start of string"
"more lines"
"more line"
"the end"
with this simple change, the bracket checking script does not
have any false positives across libvirt source, provided it
is only run against .c files. It is not practical to run it
against .h files, since those use whitespace extensively to
get alignment (though this is somewhat inconsistent and could
arguably be fixed).
The only limitation is that it cannot detect a violation where
the first arg starts with a '*', eg
foo(*wizz);
since this generates too many false positives on function
typedefs which can't be supressed efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for the new release
* po/*.po*: update from transifex, a lot of added support e.g. Indian
languages, and regenerate
Also remove warnings for upcoming versions. There hadn't been any
compatibility problems with new ESX version over the whole lifetime
of the ESX driver, so I don't expect any in the future.
Update documentation to mention vSphere 5.x support.
On F17 at least, every time libvirtd starts we get this in syslog:
libvirtd: Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: No such file or directory
This comes from cyrus-sasl, and happens regardless of whether the
gssapi plugin is requested, which is what actually uses
/etc/libvirt/krb5.tab.
While cyrus-sasl shouldn't complain, we can easily make it shut up by
commenting out the keytab value by default.
Also update the keytab comment to the more modern one from qemu's
sasl config file.
At one point, the code passed through arbitrary strings for file
formats, which supposedly lets qemu handle a new file type even
before libvirt has been taught to handle it. However, to properly
label files, libvirt has to learn the file type anyway, so we
might as well make our life easier by only accepting file types
that we are prepared to handle. This patch lets the RNG validation
ensure that only known strings are let through.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (driverFormat): Limit to list of
supported strings.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (driver): Likewise.
Hypervisors are starting to support HyperV Enlightenment features that
improve behavior of guests running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
This patch adds support for the "relaxed" feature that improves timer
behavior and also establishes a framework to add these features in
future.
Given Daniel's announcement[1], code targetting the next release will
be in 1.0.0, not 0.10.3. Changed mechanically with:
for f in $(git grep -l '0\(.\)10\13\b') ; do
sed -i -e 's/0\(.\)10\13/1\10\10/g' $f
done
[1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg00403.html
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use 1.0.0 for next release.
* src/interface/interface_backend_udev.c: Likewise.
These 3 elements conflicts with each other in either the doc
or the underlying codes.
Current problems:
Problem 1:
The doc shouldn't simply say "These settings are superseded
by CPU tuning. " for element <vcpu>. As except the tuning, <vcpu>
allows to specify the current, maxmum vcpu number. Apart from that,
<vcpu> also allows to specify the placement as "auto", which binds
the domain process to the advisory nodeset from numad.
Problem 2:
Doc for <vcpu> says its "cpuset" specify the physical CPUs
that the vcpus can be pinned. But it's not the truth, as
actually it only pin domain process to the specified physical
CPUs. So either it's a document bug, or code bug.
Problem 3:
Doc for <vcpupin> says it supersed "cpuset" of <vcpu>, it's
not quite correct, as each <vcpupin> specify the pinning policy
only for one vcpu. How about the ones which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified? it says the vcpu will be pinned to all
available physical CPUs, but what's the meaning of attribute
"cpuset" of <vcpu> then?
Problem 4:
Doc for <emulatorpin> says it pin the emulator threads (domain
process in other context, perhaps another follow up patch to
cleanup the inconsistency is needed) to the physical CPUs
specified its attribute "cpuset". Which conflicts with
<vcpu>'s "cpuset". And actually in the underlying codes,
it set the affinity for domain process twice if both
"cpuset" for <vcpu> and <emulatorpin> are specified,
and <emulatorpin>'s pinning will override <vcpu>'s.
Problem 5:
When "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto" (I.e. uses numad to
get the advisory nodeset to which the domain process is
pinned to), it will also be overridden by <emulatorpin>,
This patch is trying to sort out the conflicts or bugs by:
1) Don't say <vcpu> is superseded by <cputune>
2) Keep the semanteme for "cpuset" of <vcpu> (I.e. Still says it
specify the physical CPUs the virtual CPUs). But modifying it
to mention it also set the pinning policy for domain process,
and the CPU placement of domain process specified by "cpuset"
of <vcpu> will be ingored if <emulatorpin> specified, and
similary, the CPU placement of vcpu thread will be ignored
if it has <vcpupin> specified, for vcpu which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified, it inherits "cpuset" of <vcpu>.
3) Don't say <vcpu> is supersed by <vcpupin>. If neither <vcpupin>
nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified, the vcpu will be pinned
to all available pCPUs.
4) If neither <emulatorpin> nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified,
the domain process (emulator threads in the context) will be
pinned to all available pCPUs.
5) If "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto", <emulatorpin> is not allowed.
6) hotplugged vcpus will also inherit "cpuset" of <vcpu>
Codes changes according to above document changes:
1) Inherit def->cpumask for each vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin>
specified, during parsing.
2) ping the vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin> specified to def->cpumask
either by cgroup for sched_setaffinity(2), which is actually done
by 1).
3) Error out if "placement" == "auto", and <emulatorpin> is specified.
Otherwise, <emulatorpin> is honored, and "cpuset" of <cpuset> is
ignored.
4) Setup cgroup for each hotplugged vcpu, and setup the pinning policy
by either cgroup or sched_setaffinity(2).
5) Remove cgroup and <vcpupin> for each hot unplugged vcpu.
Patches are following (6 in total except this patch)
When startupPolicy set for a USB devices allows such device to be
missing, there was no way this could be detected from domain XML. With
this patch, libvirt emits a new missing='yes' attribute for such devices
when active domain XML is generated.
USB devices can disappear without OS being mad about it, which makes
them ideal for startupPolicy. With this attribute, USB devices can be
configured to be mandatory (the default), requisite (will disappear
during migration if they cannot be found), or completely optional.
While the changes to sanlock driver should be stable, the actual
implementation of sanlock_helper is supposed to be replaced in the
future. However, before we can implement a better sanlock_helper, we
need an administrative interface to libvirtd so that the helper can just
pass a "leases lost" event to the particular libvirt driver and
everything else will be taken care of internally. This approach will
also allow libvirt to pass such event to applications and use
appropriate reasons when changing domain states.
The temporary implementation handles all actions directly by calling
appropriate libvirt APIs (which among other things means that it needs
to know the credentials required to connect to libvirtd).
While current on_{poweroff,reboot,crash} action configuration is about
configuring life cycle actions, they can all be considered events and
actions that need to be done on a particular event. Let's generalize the
code by renaming life cycle actions to event actions so that it can be
reused later for non-lifecycle events.
Use of the wrong attribute name caused the table of contents to
be useless. Fix suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.
* docs/migration.html.in: Use correct anchoring attribute.
Getting a artifact into Maven central has a lot of restrictions as
where the artifact should be hosted.
This seemed like a big hassle which we don't want to go through now.
Document a way for users to use libvirt.org as a repository so they can
fetch the Java bindings with maven.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
This allows the user to control labelling of each character device
separately (the default is to inherit from the VM).
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Noticed this by reading the page. It would be so much nicer if our
tools could automatically flag things like this as part of 'make'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Remove extra '>'.
This patch adds to relatedlinks.html a link to an article about libvirt
describing how the Linux audit subsystem can be used to track qemu
guest's life-cycle.
Sometimes when guest machine crashes, coredump can get huge due to the
guest memory. This can be limited using madvise(2) system call and is
being used in QEMU hypervisor. This patch adds an option for configuring
that in the domain XML and related documentation.
Whenever the guest machine fails to boot, new parameter (reboot-timeout)
controls whether it should reboot and after how many ms it should do so.
Docs included.
The introduction of APIC EOI patches had a few little details that
could look better, so this patch fixes that and one more place in the
file as well (same problem).
With this script you can run libvirt programs without needing to
install them first. You just have to do for example:
./run ./tools/virsh [args ...]
If you are already in the tools/ subdirectory, then the following
command will also work:
../run ./virsh [...]
You can also run the C programs under valgrind like this:
./run valgrind [valgrind opts...] ./program
or under gdb:
./run gdb --args ./program
This also works with sudo (eg. if you need root access for libvirt):
sudo ./run ./tools/virsh list --all
Derived from libguestfs and simplified. The ./run script in
libguestfs is much more sophisticated:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/run.in
A block commit moves data in the opposite direction of block pull.
Block pull reduces the chain length by dropping backing files after
data has been pulled into the top overlay, and is always safe; block
commit reduces the chain length by dropping overlays after data has
been committed into the backing file, and any files that depended
on base but not on top are invalidated at any point where they have
unallocated data that is now pointing to changed contents in base.
Both directions are useful, however: a qcow2 layer that is more than
50% allocated will typically be faster with a pull operation, while
a qcow2 layer with less than 50% allocation will be faster as a
commit operation. Committing across multiple layers can be more
efficient than repeatedly committing one layer at a time, but
requires extra support from the hypervisor.
This API matches Jeff Cody's proposed qemu command 'block-commit':
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg02226.html
Jeff's command is still in the works for qemu 1.3, and may gain
further enhancements, such as the ability to control on-error
handling (it will be comparable to the error handling Paolo is
adding to 'drive-mirror', so a similar solution will be needed
when I finally propose virDomainBlockCopy with more functionality
than the basics supported by virDomainBlockRebase). However, even
without qemu support, this API will be useful for _offline_ block
commits, by wrapping qemu-img calls and turning them into a block
job, so this API is worth committing now.
For some examples of how this will be implemented, all starting
with the chain: base <- snap1 <- snap2 <- active
+ These are equivalent:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, "active", 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "base", NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "base", "active", 0, 0)
but cannot be implemented for online qemu with round 1 of
Jeff's patches; and for offline images, it would require
three back-to-back qemu-img invocations unless qemu-img
is patched to allow more efficient multi-layer commits;
the end result would be 'base' as the active disk with
contents from all three other files, where 'snap1' and
'snap2' are invalid right away, and 'active' is invalid
once any further changes to 'base' are made.
+ These are equivalent:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "snap2", NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, NULL, 0, _SHALLOW)
they cannot be implemented for online qemu, but for offline,
it is a matter of 'qemu-img commit active', so that 'snap2'
is now the active disk with contents formerly in 'active'.
+ Similarly:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "snap2", NULL, 0, _DELETE)
for an offline domain will merge 'active' into 'snap2', then
delete 'active' to avoid leaving a potentially invalid file
around.
+ This version:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, "snap2", 0, _SHALLOW)
can be implemented online with 'block-commit' passing a base of
snap1 and a top of snap2; and can be implemented offline by
'qemu-img commit snap2' followed by 'qemu-img rebase -u
-b snap1 active'
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainBlockCommit): New API.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockCommit): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.10.2): Export it.
* src/driver.h (virDrvDomainBlockCommit): New driver callback.
* docs/apibuild.py (CParser.parseSignature): Add exception.
New options is added to support EOI (End of Interrupt) exposure for
guests. As it makes sense only when APIC is enabled, I added this into
the <apic> element in <features> because this should be tri-state
option (cannot be handled as standalone feature).
Links to the FAQ didn't work on pages in subdirectories, like
devhelp/libvirt-virterror.html or internals/command.html, because
they have had href_base prepended to them.
An email came to libvir-list wondering why the git send-email command
was missing in spite of having git installed; this is due to the
send-email command being in a sub-package of the main git package.
While touching the hacking file, I thought it would be useful to 1)
indicate the location of the source (docs/hacking.html.in) in the
message at the top of HACKING, and also to make the note about running
"make check" and "make syntax-check" a bit more stern.
On a machine without xsltproc, the build failed with:
Scripting search.php
/usr/local/bin/bash: line 1: search.php.tmp: No such file or directory
rm: ./search.php: No such file or directory
Regression introduced in commit 28183590.
* docs/Makefile.am (%.php): Skip in the same conditions when the
.tmp file is skipped.
After discussion with DB we decided to rename the new iolimit
element as it creates the impression it would be there to
limit (i.e. throttle) I/O instead of specifying immutable
characteristics of a block device.
This is also backed by the fact that the term I/O Limits has
vanished from newer storage admin documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is a new <pm/> element implemented that can control what ACPI
sleeping states will be advertised by BIOS and allowed to be switched
to by libvirt. The default keeps defaults on hypervisor, otherwise
forces chosen setting.
The documentation of the pm element is added as well.
Introducing a new iolimits element allowing to override certain
properties of a guest block device like the physical and logical
block size.
This can be useful for platforms with 'non-standard' disk formats
like S390 DASD with its 4K block size.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch introduces support of setting emulator's period and
quota to limit cpu bandwidth when the vm starts. Also updates
XML Schema for new entries and docs.
This patch adds a new xml element <emulatorpin>, which is a sibling
to the existing <vcpupin> element under the <cputune>, to pin emulator
threads to specified physical CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
A hypervisor may allow to override the disk geometry of drives.
Qemu, as an example with cyls=,heads=,secs=[,trans=].
This patch extends the domain config to allow the specification of
disk geometry with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch updates the domain and capability XML parser and formatter to
support more than one "seclabel" element for each domain and device. The
RNG schema and the tests related to this are also updated by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch updates the network driver to properly utilize the new
attributes/elements that are now in virNetworkDef
Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
This patch introduces the new forward mode='hostdev' along with
attribute managed. Includes updates to the network RNG and new xml
parser/formatter code.
Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
The following config elements now support a <vlan> subelements:
within a domain: <interface>, and the <actual> subelement of <interface>
within a network: the toplevel, as well as any <portgroup>
Each vlan element must have one or more <tag id='n'/> subelements. If
there is more than one tag, it is assumed that vlan trunking is being
requested. If trunking is required with only a single tag, the
attribute "trunk='yes'" should be added to the toplevel <vlan>
element.
Some examples:
<interface type='hostdev'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
<mac address='52:54:00:12:34:56'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>vlan-net</name>
<vlan trunk='yes'>
<tag id='30'/>
</vlan>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='vlan-net'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>trunk-vlan</name>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
<tag id='43'/>
</vlan>
...
</network>
<network>
<name>multi</name>
...
<portgroup name='production'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='test'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='666'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='multi' portgroup='test'/>
...
</interface>
IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this patch there is no backend support for the
vlan element for *any* network device type. When support is added in
later patches, it will only be for those select network types that
support setting up a vlan on the host side, without the guest's
involvement. (For example, it will be possible to configure a vlan for
a guest connected to an openvswitch bridge, but it won't be possible
to do that for one that is connected to a standard Linux host bridge.)
<portgroup> allows a <bandwidth> element, but the schema didn't have
this. Since this makes for multiple elements in portgroup, they must
be interleaved.
<interface type='bridge'> needs to allow <virtualport> elements
for openvswitch, but the schema didn't allow this.
Let's change URI to parallels:///system. Parallels Server supports
creating VMs from non-privileged accounts, but it's not main usage
scenario and it may be forbidden in the future.
Also containers, which will be supported by the driver, can be managed
only by root, so /system path is more suitable for this driver.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
Following commit added suport the CPU quota/period to the LXC driver.
Update the documentation to reflect that.
commit d9724a81b3
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 10 12:16:26 2011 +0000
Add support for CPU quota/period to LXC driver
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just as each physical device used by a network has a connections
counter, now each network has a connections counter which is
incremented once for each guest interface that connects using this
network.
The count is output in the live network XML, like this:
<network connections='20'>
...
</network>
It is read-only, and for informational purposes only - it isn't used
internally anywhere by libvirt.
