This has been broken for a looong time - in fact, we've been
shipping a mostly-empty NEWS file for at least the past two years.
Including the html namespace and using it for matching elements,
like hacking1.xsl and hacking2.xsl were already doing, makes the
NEWS file useful again.
Add a note explaining that the release list has been split up
by year as well.
There were some inconsistencies, eg. the number of digits used for
the day. The month name was also spelled out instead of abbreviated
in some instances.
There were some inconsistencies; now the section title is always
one of Bug Fixes, Cleanups, Documentation, Features, Improvements,
Portability, Security.
Some of the paragraphs were not properly indented: while this was
not a problem in the HTML version, you could tell the difference
in the plain text version.
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.
As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.
Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.
As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.
Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
line, like we have done from that point onwards.
As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
too well in the plain text version either.
Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
The description for this release, unlike all other descriptions,
was inside a <p> element; however, the XSLT stylesheet contains a
template that drops all <p> elements from the output file, so it
never made it to the generated NEWS file.
Use a <li> element, same as all other releases, instead.
The example pvspinlock XML is:
<pvspinlock/>
While this is accepted by libvirt and works correctly, it's currently
always output as a tristate like
<pvspinlock state='on'/>
So document that format instead
We have a new libvirt-appdev-guide-python which we need to
promote to users. Rewrite the existing page to mention it
too. Also use the new URL location which is automatically
refreshed once a day.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This reverts commit e5470dd0e0.
This has been ACK'd by the original author in the original mail thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/msg00310.html
The reason to revert this is due to the patch breaking the generation of
internal subsites. The original issue still needs to be dealt with,
though.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Double semicolons have special meaning in makefiles, but they would have
to be combined with other rules witch such separators in order to be
used as intended. Since there are no other rules like that, let's
clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Creating ACL rules is not exactly easy and existing examples are pretty
simple. This patch adds a somewhat complex example which defines several
roles. Admins can do everything, operators can do basic operations
on any domain and several groups of users who act as operators but only
on a limited set of domains.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Adds a new interface type using UDP sockets, this seems only applicable
to QEMU but have edited tree-wide to support the new interface type.
The interface type required the addition of a "localaddr" (local
address), this then maps into the following xml and qemu call.
<interface type='udp'>
<mac address='52:54:00:5c:67:56'/>
<source address='127.0.0.1' port='11112'>
<local address='127.0.0.1' port='22222'/>
</source>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
QEMU call:
-net socket,udp=127.0.0.1:11112,localaddr=127.0.0.1:22222
Notice the xml "local" entry becomes the "localaddr" for the qemu call.
reference:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg00629.html
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This patch adds feature for lxc containers to inherit namespaces.
This is very similar to what lxc-tools or docker provides. Look
for "man lxc-start" and you will find that you can pass command
args as [ --share-[net|ipc|uts] name|pid ]. Or check out docker
networking option in which you can give --net=container:NAME_or_ID
as an option for sharing +namespace.
>From this patch you can add extra libvirt option to share
namespace in following way.
<lxc:namespace>
<lxc:sharenet type='netns' value='red'/>
<lxc:shareipc type='pid' value='12345'/>
<lxc:shareuts type='name' value='container1'/>
</lxc:namespace>
The netns option is specific to sharenet. It can be used to
inherit from existing network namespace.
Co-authored: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This controller can be connected only to a port on a
pcie-switch-upstream-port. It provides a single hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device, as well as any device requiring a
pcie-*-port (the only current example of such a device is the
pcie-switch-upstream-port).
This controller can be connected only to a pcie-root-port or a
pcie-switch-downstream-port (which will be added in a later patch),
which is the reason for the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_PORT. A pcie-switch-upstream-port provides
32 ports (slot=0 to slot=31) on the downstream side, which can only
have pci controllers of model "pcie-switch-downstream-port" plugged
into them, which is the reason for the other new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_SWITCH.
This controller can be connected (at domain startup time only - not
hotpluggable) only to a port on the pcie root complex ("pcie-root" in
libvirt config), hence the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_ROOT. It provides a hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device.
New attributes must be added to the controller <target> subelement for
this - chassis and port are guest-visible option values that will be
set by libvirt with values derived from the controller's index and pci
address information.
There are some configuration options to some types of pci controllers
that are currently automatically derived from other parts of the
controller's configuration. For example, in qemu a pci-bridge
controller has an option that is called "chassis_nr"; up until now
libvirt has always set chassis_nr to the index of the pci-bridge. So
this:
<controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'/>
will always result in:
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,...
on the qemu commandline. In the future we may decide there is a better
way to derive that option, but even in that case we will need for
existing domains to retain the same chassis_nr they were using in the
past - that is something that is visible to the guest so it is part of
the guest ABI and changing it would lead to problems for migrating
guests (or just guests with very picky OSes).
The <target> subelement has been added as a place to put the new
"chassisNr" attribute that will be filled in by libvirt when it
auto-generates the chassisNr; it will be saved in the config, then
reused any time the domain is started:
<controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'>
<model type='pci-bridge'/>
<target chassisNr='2'/>
</controller>
The one oddity of all this is that if the controller configuration
is changed (for example to change the index or the pci address
where the controller is plugged in), the items in <target> will
*not* be re-generated, which might lead to conflict. I can't
really see any way around this, but fortunately if there is a
material conflict qemu will let us know and we will pass that on
to the user.
This new subelement is used in PCI controllers: the toplevel
*attribute* "model" of a controller denotes what kind of PCI
controller is being described, e.g. a "dmi-to-pci-bridge",
"pci-bridge", or "pci-root". But in the future there will be different
implementations of some of those types of PCI controllers, which
behave similarly from libvirt's point of view (and so should have the
same model), but use a different device in qemu (and present
themselves as a different piece of hardware in the guest). In an ideal
world we (i.e. "I") would have thought of that back when the pci
controllers were added, and used some sort of type/class/model
notation (where class was used in the way we are now using model, and
model was used for the actual manufacturer's model number of a
particular family of PCI controller), but that opportunity is long
past, so as an alternative, this patch allows selecting a particular
implementation of a pci controller with the "name" attribute of the
<model> subelement, e.g.:
<controller type='pci' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge' index='1'>
<model name='i82801b11-bridge'/>
</controller>
In this case, "dmi-to-pci-bridge" is the kind of controller (one that
has a single PCIe port upstream, and 32 standard PCI ports downstream,
which are not hotpluggable), and the qemu device to be used to
implement this kind of controller is named "i82801b11-bridge".
Implementing the above now will allow us in the future to add a new
kind of dmi-to-pci-bridge that doesn't use qemu's i82801b11-bridge
device, but instead uses something else (which doesn't yet exist, but
qemu people have been discussing it), all without breaking existing
configs.
(note that for the existing "pci-bridge" type of PCI controller, both
the model attribute and <model> name are 'pci-bridge'. This is just a
coincidence, since it turns out that in this case the device name in
qemu really is a generic 'pci-bridge' rather than being the name of
some real-world chip)
"Further" clarification (and testing) shows that using a SCSI Fibre
Channel NPIV device/lun from a storage pool as a <disk type='volume'
device'lun'> will work. So just add that to the allowable options
Related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230179
Rather than calling virDomainHostdevAssignAddress during the parsing
of the XML, move the setting of a default hostdev address to domain/
device post processing.
Since the parse code no longer generates an address, we can remove
the virDomainDefMaybeAddHostdevSCSIcontroller since the call to
virDomainHostdevAssignAddress will attempt to add the controllers
that were not already defined in the XML.
This patch will also enforce that the address type is type 'drive'
when a SCSI subsystem <hostdev> element is provided with an <address>.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow
it query the interface for the availability of RDMA and
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation Offloading NIC capabilities
Here is an example of the feature XML definition:
<device>
<name>net_eth4_90_e2_ba_5e_a5_45</name>
<path>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:08:00.1/net/eth4</path>
<parent>pci_0000_08_00_1</parent>
<capability type='net'>
<interface>eth4</interface>
<address>90:e2:ba:5e:a5:45</address>
<link speed='10000' state='up'/>
<feature name='rx'/>
<feature name='tx'/>
<feature name='sg'/>
<feature name='tso'/>
<feature name='gso'/>
<feature name='gro'/>
<feature name='rxvlan'/>
<feature name='txvlan'/>
<feature name='rxhash'/>
<feature name='rdma'/>
<feature name='txudptnl'/>
<capability type='80203'/>
</capability>
</device>
The information on companion controllers we give in our documentation is
rather sparse. For example, it looks like any controller can be used as
a companion one. Also, when using ich9-uhci2, for example, we are able
to set some sensible defaults, but it might get confusing for the user
as we don't do that for all controller models.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069590
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Update the descriptions for disk and hostdev sgio in order to indicate
not all hypervisors and OS's support this feature
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232606
Since an mpath pool contains all the Multipath devices on a host, allowing
more than one defined on a host at a time should be disallowed under the
policy of disallowing duplicate source pools for the host.
Adjust to docs to clarify the Multipath target path value usage for both
the storage driver (only 1 pool per host) and formatstorage references
(ignore the target element in favor of the default target mapping of
/dev/mapper).
