Based on a report by Chandrashekar Shastri, at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979360
On systems where git cannot access the outside world, a developer
can instead arrange to get a copy of gnulib at the right commit
via side channels (such as NFS share drives), set GNULIB_SRCDIR,
then use ./autogen.sh --no-git. In this setup, we will now
avoid direct use of git. Of course, this means no automatic
gnulib updates when libvirt.git updates its submodule, but it
is expected that any developer in such a situation is already
prepared to deal with the fallout.
* .gnulib: Update to latest, for bootstrap.
* bootstrap: Synchronize from gnulib.
* autogen.sh (no_git): Avoid git when requested.
* cfg.mk (_update_required): Skip automatic rerun of bootstrap if
we can't use git.
* docs/compiling.html.in: Document this setup.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Mention this.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The previous handling of <a> tags led to some less-than-ideal
layout in HACKING (most noticeable on a mid-sentence reference
to the valgrind home page).
* docs/hacking.html.in: Slight tweaks to <a> tags.
* docs/hacking1.xsl: Move <a> handling...
* docs/hacking2.xsl: ...here.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
<hyperv>
<spinlocks state='off'/>
</hyperv>
results in:
error: XML error: missing HyperV spinlock retry count
Don't require retries when state is off and use virXPathUInt
instead of virXPathString to simplify parsing.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784836#c19
This patch introduces new element <idmap> for
user namespace. for example
<idmap>
<uid start='0' target='1000' count='10'/>
<gid start='0' target='1000' count='10'/>
</idmap>
this new element is used for setting proc files
/proc/<pid>/{uid_map,gid_map}.
This patch also supports multiple uid/gid elements
setting in XML configuration.
We don't support the semi configuation, user has to
configure uid and gid both.
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Implement check whether (maximum) vCPUs doesn't exceed machine
type's cpu-max settings.
On older versions of QEMU the check is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Historically security issues in libvirt have been primarily
triaged & fixed by the Red Hat libvirt members & Red Hat
security team, who then usually notify other vendors via
appropriate channels. There have been a number of times
when vendors have not been properly notified ahead of
announcement. It has also disadvantaged community members
who have to backport fixes to releases for which there are
no current libvirt stable branches.
To address this, we want to make the libvirt security process
entirely community focused / driven. To this end I have setup
a new email address "libvirt-security@redhat.com" for end
users to report bugs which have (possible) security implications.
This email addr is backed by an invitation only, private
archive, mailing list. The intent is for the list membership
to comprise a subset of the libvirt core team, along with any
vendor security team engineers who wish to participate in a
responsible disclosure process for libvirt. Members of the
list will be responsible for analysing the problem to determine
if a security issue exists and then issue fixes for all current
official stable branches & git master.
I am proposing the following libvirt core team people as
members of the security team / list (all cc'd):
Daniel Berrange (Red Hat)
Eric Blake (Red Hat)
Jiri Denemar (Red Hat)
Daniel Veillard (Red Hat)
Jim Fehlig (SUSE)
Doug Goldstein (Gentoo)
Guido Günther (Debian)
We don't have anyone from Ubuntu on the libvirt core team.
Serge Hallyn is the most frequent submitter of patches from
Ubuntu in recent history, so I'd like to invite him to join.
Alternatively, Serge, feel free to suggest someone else to
represent Ubuntu's interests.
If any other vendors/distros have security people who are
responsible for dealing with libvirt security issues, and
want to join to get early disclosure of issues, they can
suggest people. Existing security team members will vet /
approve such requests to ensure they are genuine.
Anyone on the team / list will be **required** to honour any
embargo period agreed between members for non-public issues
that are reported. The aim will be to have a maximum 2 week
embargo period in the common case, extendable to 1 month if
there is sufficient justification made. If anyone feels they
are unable to follow such an embargo process for whatever
reason, please decline membership of the security list/team.
The patch which follows puts up some docs on the website
about all of this....
Document how to report security bugs and the process that
will be used for addressing them.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
aae0fc2a92 removed the #elementsUSB anchor
but did not update the links to point to the new section #elementsHostDev.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This includes adding it to the nodedev parser and formatter, docs, and
test.
An example of the new iommuGroup element that is a part of the output
from "virsh nodedev-dumpxml" (virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc()):
<device>
<name>pci_0000_02_00_1</name>
<capability type='pci'>
...
<iommuGroup number='12'>
<address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
<address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
</iommuGroup>
</capability>
</device>
Somehow I put an example of a domain interface with a <vlan> element
into the network documentation.
This patch replaces that with an example of a network definition that
has a vlan element with trunk='yes', multiple tags, and even the new
nativeMode attribute. It also includes a <portgroup> that has a vlan
defined.
This patch adds functionality to allow libvirt to configure the
'native-tagged' and 'native-untagged' modes on openvswitch networks.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
All APIs that take typed parameters are only using params address in
their entry point debug messages. With the new VIR_TYPED_PARAMS_DEBUG
macro, all functions can easily log all individual typed parameters
passed to them.
Add <features> and <compat> elements to volume target XML.
<compat> is a string which for qcow2 represents the QEMU version
it should be compatible with. Valid values are 0.10 and 1.1.
1.1 is implicit if the <features> element is present, otherwise
qemu-img default is used. 0.10 can be specified to explicitly
create older images after the qemu-img default changes.
<features> contains optional features, so far
<lazy_refcounts/> is available, which enables caching of reference
counters, improving performance for snapshots.
Add new CPU features for HyperV:
vapic for virtual APIC support
spinlocks for setting spinlock support
<features>
<hyperv>
<vapic state='on'/>
<spinlocks state='on' retries='4096'/>
</hyperv>
</features>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784836
This attribute is going to represent number of queues for
multique vhost network interface. This commit implements XML
extension part of the feature and add one test as well. For now,
we can only do xml2xml test as qemu command line generation code
is not adapted yet.
-vnc :5900,share=allow-exclusive
allows clients to ask for exclusive access which is
implemented by dropping other connections Connecting
multiple clients in parallel requires all clients asking
for a shared session (vncviewer: -shared switch)
-vnc :5900,share=force-shared
disables exclusive client access. Useful for shared
desktop sessions, where you don't want someone forgetting
specify -shared disconnect everybody else.
-vnc :5900,share=ignore
completely ignores the shared flag and allows everybody
connect unconditionally
QEMU might support more values for "-drive discard", so using Bi-state
values (on/off) for it doesn't make sense.
"on" maps to "unmap", "off" maps to "ignore":
<...>
@var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. Some machine types
may not support discard requests.
</...>
The following XML configuration can be used to request all domain's
memory pages to be kept locked in host's memory (i.e., domain's memory
pages will not be swapped out):
<memoryBacking>
<locked/>
</memoryBacking>
Change the build process & driver initialization so that the
VirtualBox driver is built into libvirtd, instead of libvirt.so
This change avoids the VirtualBox GPLv2-only license causing
compatibility problems with libvirt.so which is under the
GPLv2-or-later license.
NB this change prevents use of the VirtualBox driver on the
Windows platform, until such time as libvirtd can be made
to work there.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Update the LXC driver documentation to describe the way
containers are setup by default. Also describe the common
virsh commands for managing containers and a little about
the security. Placeholders for docs about configuring
containers still to be filled in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
QEMU introduced "discard" option for drive since commit a9384aff53,
<...>
@var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. Some machine types
may not support discard requests.
</...>
This patch exposes the support in libvirt.
QEMU supported "discard" for "-drive" since v1.5.0-rc0:
% git tag --contains a9384aff53
contains
v1.5.0-rc0
v1.5.0-rc1
So this only detects the capability bit using virQEMUCapsProbeQMPCommandLine.
Adding support for new attribute 'websocket' in the '<graphics>'
element, the attribute value is the port to listen on with '-1'
meaning auto-allocation, '0' meaning no websockets.
QEMU introduced command line "-mem-merge=on|off" (defaults to on) to
enable/disable the memory merge (KSM) at guest startup. This exposes
it by new XML:
<memoryBacking>
<nosharepages/>
</memoryBacking>
The XML tag is same with what we used internally for old RHEL.
network: static route support for <network>
This patch adds the <route> subelement of <network> to define a static
route. the address and prefix (or netmask) attribute identify the
destination network, and the gateway attribute specifies the next hop
address (which must be directly reachable from the containing
<network>) which is to receive the packets destined for
"address/(prefix|netmask)".
These attributes are translated into an "ip route add" command that is
executed when the network is started. The command used is of the
following form:
ip route add <address>/<prefix> via <gateway> \
dev <virbr-bridge> proto static metric <metric>
Tests are done to validate that the input data are correct. For
example, for a static route ip definition, the address must be a
network address and not a host address. Additional checks are added
to ensure that the specified gateway is directly reachable via this
network (i.e. that the gateway IP address is in the same subnet as one
of the IP's defined for the network).
prefix='0' is supported for both family='ipv4' address='0.0.0.0'
netmask='0.0.0.0' or prefix='0', and for family='ipv6' address='::',
prefix=0', although care should be taken to not override a desired
system default route.
Anytime an attempt is made to define a static route which *exactly*
duplicates an existing static route (for example, address=::,
prefix=0, metric=1), the following error message will be sent to
syslog:
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
This can be overridden by decreasing the metric value for the route
that should be preferred, or increasing the metric for the route that
shouldn't be preferred (and is thus in place only in anticipation that
the preferred route may be removed in the future). Caution should be
used when manipulating route metrics, especially for a default route.
Note: The use of the command-line interface should be replaced by
direct use of libnl so that error conditions can be handled better. But,
that is being left as an exercise for another day.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
The <filesystem> element can now accept a <driver type='nbd'/>
as an alternative to 'loop'. The benefit of NBD is support
for non-raw disk image formats.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Extend the <driver> element in filesystem devices to
allow a storage format to be set. The new attribute
uses 'format' to reflect the storage format. This is
different from the <driver> element in disk devices
which use 'type' to reflect the storage format. This
is because the 'type' attribute on filesystem devices
is already used for the driver backend, for which the
disk devices use the 'name' attribute. Arggggh.
Anyway for disks we have
<driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
And for filesystems this change means we now have
<driver type="loop" format="raw"/>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
