This is a rewrite of:
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit
Once this commit merges, the above wiki should point to this kbase
document.
NB: I've intentionally left out the example for pull-based full backups.
I'll tackle it once QMP `x-blockdev-reopen` comes out of experimental
mode in upstream QEMU. Then pull-based can be described for both full
and and differntial backups.
Overall, future documents should cover:
- full backups using both push- and pull-mode
- differential backups using both push- and pull-mode
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Since commit 68c5b6fb2b libxl also handles
a domain/cputune/vcpupin element in domU.xml.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
As of May 7 2021, rhel-8 will be out for two years, which means we no
longer have to support rhel-7 ancient qemu.
QEMU versions in our supported distros:
RHEL-8: 2.12
Debian Stable: 3.1
OpenSuse LEAP 15.0 (SLES15 GA): 2.11
OpenSuse LEAP 15.2: 4.2
Ubuntu (Bionic): 2.11
Ubuntu (Focal): 4.2
This means we can bring up the minimum supported version to 2.11.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Provide an exmple in a place more visible than formatdomain.html.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
It's now empty, so no point in keeping it around.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It's useful to have virt-admin around when debugging issues
with libvirtd, and since it's a tiny binary we can simply
include it in the -daemon package to ensure it's always going
to be available when needed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It doesn't only contain the libvirtd binary.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This adds a new XML element
<filesystem>
<binary>
<sandbox mode='chroot|namespace'/>
</binary>
</filesystem>
This will be used by qemu virtiofs
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Allow passing a socket of an externally launched virtiofsd
to the vhost-user-fs device.
<filesystem type='mount'>
<driver type='virtiofs' queue='1024'/>
<source socket='/tmp/sock/'/>
</filesystem>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1855789
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The end quote of the argument of :since: must not have a space in front
of it as it's then not considered as end of the argument.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
This allows users to restrict memory nodes without setting any specific
memory policy, then 'restrictive' mode is useful.
Signed-off-by: Luyao Zhong <luyao.zhong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Commit 95f8e3237e which introduced XML schema validation
for snapshot XMLs always asserted the validation for the XML generated
by 'virsh snapshot-create-as' on the basis that it's libvirt-generated,
thus valid.
This unfortunately isn't true as users can influence certain bits of the
XML such as the disk image path which must be a full path. Thus if a
user tries to invoke virsh as:
$ virsh snapshot-create-as upstream --diskspec vda,file=relative.qcow2
error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to validate doc against /path/to/domainsnapshot.rng
Extra element disks in interleave
Element domainsnapshot failed to validate content
They get a rather useless error from the libxml2 RNG validator.
With this fix applied, we get to the XML parser in libvirtd which has a
more reasonable error:
$ virsh snapshot-create-as upstream --diskspec vda,file=relative.qcow2
error: XML error: disk snapshot image path 'relative.qcow2' must be absolute
Instead users can force validation of the XML generated by 'virsh
snapshot-create-as' by passing the '--validate' flag.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When querying guest info via virDomainGetGuestInfo() the
'guest-get-disks' agent command is called. It may report disk
serial number which we parse, but never report nor use for
anything else.
As it turns out, it may help management application find matching
disk in their internals.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Historically, we declared pointer type to our types:
typedef struct _virXXX virXXX;
typedef virXXX *virXXXPtr;
But usefulness of such declaration is questionable, at best.
Unfortunately, we can't drop every such declaration - we have to
carry some over, because they are part of public API (e.g.
virDomainPtr). But for internal types - we can do drop them and
use what every other C project uses 'virXXX *'.
This change was generated by a very ugly shell script that
generated sed script which was then called over each file in the
repository. For the shell script refer to the cover letter:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-March/msg00537.html
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
While the key is available on public GPG key servers, having it locally
at https://libvirt.org/sources/gpg_key.asc is even better.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Mention that mdev attribute order is significant.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
It will be useful to be able to specify a particular UUID for a mediated
device when defining the node device. To accomodate that, allow this to
be specified in the xml schema. This patch also parses and formats that
value to the xml, but does not yet use it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
PCI devices can be associated with a unique integer index that is
exposed via ACPI. In Linux OS with systemd, this value is used for
provide a NIC device naming scheme that is stable across changes
in PCI slot configuration.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Similar to the qemu.conf knob 'deprecation_behavior' add a per-VM knob
in the QEMU namespace:
<qemu:deprecation behavior='...'/>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
There are two links to this document using anchors so they need to be
updated as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This lets the app expose the virtual SCSI or IDE disks as solid state
devices by setting a rate of '1', or rotational media by setting a
rate between 1025 and 65534.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498955
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The
<os firmware='efi'>
<firmware type='efi'>
<feature enabled='no' name='enrolled-keys'/>
</firmware>
</os>
repeats the firmware attribute twice. This has no functional benefit, as
evidenced by fact that we use a single struct field to store both
attributes, while needlessly introducing an error scenario. The XML can
just be simplified to:
<os firmware='efi'>
<firmware>
<feature enabled='no' name='enrolled-keys'/>
</firmware>
</os>
which also means that we don't need to emit the empty element
<firmware type='efi'/> for all existing configs too.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
These were the result of the conversion to RST by commit
97f21a82b2.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The page isn't linked from anywhere and the contents is dated.
Images related to the page are also dropped.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
When the firmware auto-selection was introduced it always picked first
usable firmware based on the JSON descriptions on the host. It is
possible to add/remove/change the JSON files but it will always be for
the whole host.
This patch introduces support for configuring the auto-selection per VM
by adding users an option to limit what features they would like to have
available in the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The original text was not explaining what this attribute actually
controls and could have been interpreted as a control switch for the
Secure boot feature in firmwares.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Introduce command 'virsh domstats --dirtyrate' for reporting memory
dirty rate information. The info is listed as:
Domain: 'vm0'
dirtyrate.calc_status=2
dirtyrate.calc_start_time=1534523
dirtyrate.calc_period=1
dirtyrate.megabytes_per_second=5
Signed-off-by: Hao Wang <wanghao232@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We don't need to go to the trouble of telling users about existance of
insecure SASL mechanisms only to then say that they shouldn't be used.
We should only tell people about the GSSAPI mechanism for TCP sockets.
For the SCRAM mechanism we should be telling people about the SHA256
variant only, and also warning that the password database stores the
passwords in clear text.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Give guidance on how to check minimum meson version for a given package.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/140
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We don't like virXXXPtr typedefs really and they are going away
shortly, possibly. Do not encourage new code to put in the
typedefs.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
There were a number of occurrences where we used nested inline markup
(verbatim + refs) which is currently not possible with RST syntax [1].
There is a possible workaround involving substitution definitions like
.. |virConnectPtr| replace:: ``virConnectPtr``
.. _virConnectPtr: /html/libvirt-libvirt-host.html#virConnectPtr
Substitutions cannot be made generic, hence we cannot create a template
for substitution and use a single template everywhere, so we'd end up
with a lot of clutter and convolution. Therefore, we can make an
exception and just link the data type without further style markup.
[1] https://docutils.sourceforge.io/FAQ.html#is-nested-inline-markup-possible
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
In theory, users might want to use a relative path as a root
directory for embed drivers. But in practice, nothing in driver
initialization (specifically QEMU driver since it's the only one
that supports embedding now), is prepared for that. Document and
enforce absolute paths.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883725
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Since v6.2.0-rc1~238 (and friends) QMP processing was moved to a
per-domain thread. Therefore, it is now safe to call APIs from
the event loop thread (e.g. just like qemu shim is doing in
qemuShimEventLoop(). However, it is still important to let the
event loop run after each API call (obviously).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The function is now unused and motivated users to write crazy parsers
which were hard to understand, had pointless error paths just to avoid
few memory allocations.
Remove the function as we're fine with g_strndup and virStrcpy.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This is similar to my earlier commit which documented lxc.conf
location. Just like LXC, the libxl driver has only the system
connection and thus only few places need changing.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The libxl driver has no session daemon therefore its split daemon
(virtxend) has to be ran as root. Any attempt to start it with
euid != 0 fails. This is why the daemon does not look under any
of XDG_* paths either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
This is similar to my earlier commit which documented qemu.conf
locations. Luckily, the LXC driver has only the system connection
and not session or embed one.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The LXC driver has no session daemon therefore its split daemon
(virtlxcd) has to be ran as root. Any attempt to start it with
euid != 0 fails. This is why the daemon does not look under any
of XDG_* paths either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
In official docs we refer to it as "QEMU driver", not "qemu
driver".
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Previously, validation of XML failed if sub-elements of video
device were in different order.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825769
Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This introduces support for the QEMU audio settings that are common to
all audio backends. These are expressed in the QAPI schema as settings
common to all backends, but in reality some backends ignore some of
them. For example, some backends are output only. The parser isn't
attempting to apply restrictions that QEMU itself doesn't apply.
<audio id='1' type='pulseaudio'>
<input mixingEngine='yes' fixedSettings='yes' voices='1' bufferLength='100'>
<settings frequency='44100' channels='2' format='s16'/>
</input>
<output mixingEngine='yes' fixedSettings='yes' voices='2' bufferLength='100'>
<settings frequency='22050' channels='4' format='f32'/>
</output>
</audio>
The <settings> child is only valid if fixedSettings='yes'
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When there are multiple <audio> backends specified, it is possible to
assign a specific one to the VNC server using
<graphics type='vnc'...>
<audio id='1'/>
</graphics>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The current <audio> element only allows an "OSS" audio backend, as this
is all that BHyve needed. This is now extended to cover most QEMU audio
backends. These backends all have a variety of attributes they support,
but this initial impl does the bare minimum, relying on built-in
defaults for everything. The only QEMU backend omitted is "dsound" since
the libvirt QEMU driver is not built on Windows platforms.
The SDL audio driver names are based on the SDL 2.0 drivers. It is not
intended to support SDL 1.2 drivers.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To prepare for the introduction for more backend specific audio options,
move the OSS options into a dedicated struct and introduce separate
helper methods for parse/format/free.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch adds delay time (steal time inside guest) to libvirt
domain per-vcpu stats. Delay time is an important performance metric.
It is a consequence of the overloaded CPU. Knowledge of the delay
time of a virtual machine helps to understand if it is affected and
estimate the impact.
As a result, it is possible to react exactly when needed and
rebalance the load between hosts. This is used by cloud providers
to provide quality of service, especially when the CPU is
oversubscribed.
It's more convenient to work with this metric in a context of a
libvirt domain. Any monitoring software may use this information.
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Zakharov <zaharov@selectel.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The <graphics type="vnc" .... powerControl="yes"/> option instructs the
VNC server to enable an extension that lets the client perform a
graceful shutdown, reboot and hard reset.
This is enabled by default since it cannot be assumed that the VNC
client user has administrator rights over the guest OS. In the case
where the VNC user is a guest administrator though, it is reasonable
to allow direct power control host side too.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Surprisingly, we never documented the relationship between
connection URI and the location of qemu.conf. Users might wonder
what qemu.conf is loaded when they are connecting to the session
daemon or embed URI. And what to do if the file doesn't exist for
the URI they're using.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
We've already applied this policy on multiple occasions, but it's
good to have it written down so that there can be no confusion.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Before the conversion to using systemd DBus API to set the cpu.shares
there was some magic conversion done by kernel which was documented in
virsh manpage as well. Now systemd errors out if the value is out of
range.
Since we enforce the range for other cpu cgroup attributes 'quota' and
'period' it makes sense to do the same for 'shares' as well.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The function can't fail nowadays, remove the return value and adjust
callers.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
When the parser and docs were enhanced to support a <teaming> element
in a generic <hostdev>, the example XML for formatdomain.rst was
cut/pasted from the example for <interface type='hostdev'>. In my
haste I neglected to remove the <mac address='blah'/> element (which
is unused/ignored for generic <hostdev> and change the closing tag
from </interface> to </hostdev>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1927984
Fixes: db64acfbda
Reported-by: Yalan Zhang <yalzhang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Commit <d505b8af58912ae1e1a211fabc9995b19bd40828> changed the cpu quota
value that reflects what kernel allows but did not update our
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The <teaming> element in <interface> allows pairing two interfaces
together as a simple "failover bond" network device in a guest. One of
the devices is the "transient" interface - it will be preferred for
all network traffic when it is present, but may be removed when
necessary, in particular during migration, when traffic will instead
go through the other interface of the pair - the "persistent"
interface. As it happens, in the QEMU implementation of this teaming
pair (called "virtio failover" in QEMU) the transient interface is
always a host network device assigned to the guest using VFIO (aka
"hostdev"); the persistent interface is always an emulated virtio NIC.
When support was initially added for <teaming>, it was written to
require that the transient/hostdev device be defined using <interface
type='hostdev'>; this was done because the virtio failover
implementation in QEMU and the virtio guest driver demands that the
two interfaces in the pair have matching MAC addresses, and the only
way libvirt can guarantee the MAC address of a hostdev network device
is to use <interface type='hostdev'>, whose main purpose is to
configure the device's MAC address before handing the device to
QEMU. (note that <interface type='hostdev'> in turn requires that the
network device be an SRIOV VF (Virtual Function), as that is the only
type of network device whose MAC address we can set in a way that will
survive the device's driver init in the guest).
It has recently come up that some users are unable to use <teaming>
because they are running in a container environment where libvirt
doesn't have the necessary privileges or resources to set the VF's MAC
address (because setting the VF MAC is done via the same device's PF
(Physical Function), and the PF is not exposed to libvirt's container).
At the same time, these users *are* able to set the VF's MAC address
themselves in advance of staring up libvirt in the container. So they
could theoretically use the <teaming> feature if libvirt just skipped
the "setting the MAC address" part.
Fortunately, that is *exactly* the difference between <interface
type='hostdev'> (which must be a "hostdev VF") and <hostdev> (a "plain
hostdev" - it could be *any* PCI device; libvirt doesn't know what type
of PCI device it is, and doesn't care).
But what is still needed is for libvirt to provide a small bit of
information on the QEMU commandline argument for the hostdev, telling
QEMU that this device will be part of a team ("failover pair"), and
the id of the other device in the pair.
To make both of those goals simultaneously possible, this patch adds
support for the <teaming> element to plain <hostdev> - libvirt doesn't
try to set any MAC addresses, and QEMU gets the extra commandline
argument it needs)
(actually, this patch adds only the parsing/formatting of the
<teaming> element in <hostdev>. The next patch will actually wire that
into the qemu driver.)
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When running on host with systemd we register VMs with machined.
In this case systemd creates the root VM cgroup for us. This has some
implications where one of them is that systemd owns all files inside
the root VM cgroup and we should not touch them.
We already use DBus calls for some of the APIs but for the remaining
ones we will continue accessing the files directly. Systemd doesn't
support threaded cgroups so we need to do this.
The reason why we don't use DBus for most of the APIs is that we already
have a code that works with files and we would have to check if systemd
supports each API.
This change introduces new topology on systemd hosts:
$ROOT
|
+- machine.slice
|
+- machine-qemu\x2d1\x2dvm1.scope
|
+- libvirt
|
+- emulator
+- vcpu0
+- vcpu0
compared to the previous topology:
$ROOT
|
+- machine.slice
|
+- machine-qemu\x2d1\x2dvm1.scope
|
+- emulator
+- vcpu0
+- vcpu0
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The data reported is the same as for "host-passthrough"
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
For hardware virtualization this is functionally identical to the
existing host-passthrough mode so the same caveats apply.
For emulated guest this exposes the maximum featureset supported by
the emulator. Note that despite being emulated this is not guaranteed
to be migration safe, especially if different emulator software versions
are used on each host.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Many of Xen's text documents have been converted to man pages over
the years, the channel doc being one of them. Replace the broken
channel.txt link with the name of the man page providing the same
information.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Parameter 'known_hosts_verify' is supported for some time now,
but it is not yet documented.
Signed-off-by: Jakob Meng <jakobmeng@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
QEMU has the ability to mark machine types as deprecated. This should be
exposed to management applications in the capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
QEMU has the ability to mark CPUs as deprecated. This should be exposed
to management applications in the domain capabilities.
This attribute is only set when the model is actually deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Pass the parameter clock rt to qemu to ensure that the
virtual machine is not synchronized with the host time
Signed-off-by: gongwei <gongwei@smartx.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The channel subsystem elements describe a channel in the I/O subsystem
of a s390x machine, and not a normal device (like a disk or network card).
Reword the documentation here to make it this a little bit clearer.
Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898074
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Our docs have not been fully updated to reflect the separate
build directory.
Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add virtio related options iommu, ats and packed as driver element attributes
to vsock devices. Ex:
<vsock model='virtio'>
<cid auto='no' address='3'/>
<driver iommu='on'/>
</vsock>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
While the PCI docs are linked from formatdomain.html, finding those
links is not straightforward. It is good for users to highlight them in
the kbase pages. The PCI docs are intentionally not moved to the kbase/
sub-directory in order to avoid breaking hyperlinks.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The code block on the srv name in the formatnetwork page is confusing
since the actual parameter is service. Moving the code block to the
service work makes it better.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Bosdonnat <cbosdonnat@suse.com>
The current formulation can lead people to believe SCSI
controllers only allow the virtio-scsi model, but really the
only difference is that you have to use model='virtio-scsi'
where you would use model='virtio' for another device.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
The virtio-pmem is a virtio variant of NVDIMM and just like
NVDIMM virtio-pmem also allows accessing host pages bypassing
guest page cache. The difference is that if a regular file is
used to back guest's NVDIMM (model='nvdimm') the persistence of
guest writes might not be guaranteed while with virtio-pmem it
is.
To express this new model at domain XML level, I've chosen the
following:
<memory model='virtio-pmem' access='shared'>
<source>
<path>/tmp/virtio_pmem</path>
</source>
<target>
<size unit='KiB'>524288</size>
</target>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
</memory>
Another difference between NVDIMM and virtio-pmem is that while
the former supports NUMA node locality the latter doesn't. And
also, the latter goes onto PCI bus and not into a DIMM module.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
This is an adaptation of the libvirtd manpage.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is an adaptation of the libvirtd manpage.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is an adaptation of the libvirtd manpage.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is an adaptation of the libvirtd manpage.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is an adaptation of the libvirtd manpage.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
