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Jim Fehlig
5768726093 docs: Xen improvements
In formatdomain, using 'libxl' and 'xen' is redundant since they now
both refer to the same driver. 'xen' predates 'libxl' and unambiguously
identifies the Xen hypervisor, so drop the use of 'libxl'.

In aclpolkit, the connection URI was erroneously identified as 'libxl'
and the name 'xenlight'. Change the URI to 'xen' and driver name to 'Xen'.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-05-05 14:53:37 -06:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
2d5f7a49ae qemu: Implement the IBS pSeries feature
This patch adds the implementation of the IBS pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_IBS capability added
in the previous patch.

IBS can have the following values: "broken", "workaround",
"fixed-ibs", "fixed-ccd" and "fixed-na".

This is the XML format for the cap:

<features>
  <ibs value='fixed-ibs'/>
</features>

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-04-27 14:43:13 +02:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
104dadcff6 qemu: Implement the SBBC pSeries feature
This patch adds the implementation of the SBBC pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_SBBC capability added
in the previous patch.

Like the previously added CFPC feature, SBBC can have the values
"broken", "workaround" or "fixed". Extra code is required to handle
it since it's not a regular tristate capability.

This is the XML format for the cap:

<features>
  <sbbc value='workaround'/>
</features>

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-04-27 14:43:07 +02:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
0280fc7270 qemu: Implement the CFPC pSeries feature
This patch adds the implementation of the CFPC pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_CFPC capability added
in the previous patch.

CPFC can have the values "broken", "workaround" or "fixed". Extra
code is required to handle it since it's not a regular tristate
capability.

This is the XML format for the cap:

<features>
  <cfpc value='workaround'/>
</features>

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-04-27 14:43:00 +02:00
Han Han
9bb39a2a88 docs: Docs and rng schemas for io_uring
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
2020-04-24 09:17:06 +02:00
Jim Fehlig
9ced95a49c docs: Remove stray parenthesis
Commit fadbaa2375 introduced a stray parenthesis in formatdomain.html.in.
Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
2020-04-21 16:09:24 -06:00
Jim Fehlig
fadbaa2375 conf: add xen hypervisor feature 'passthrough'
'passthrough' is Xen-Specific guest configuration option new to Xen 4.13
that enables IOMMU mappings for a guest and hence whether it supports PCI
passthrough. The default is disabled. See the xl.cfg(5) man page and
xen.git commit babde47a3fe for more details.

The default state of disabled prevents hotlugging PCI devices. However,
if the guest configuration contains a PCI passthrough device at time of
creation, libxl will automatically enable 'passthrough' and subsequent
hotplugging of PCI devices will also be possible. It is not possible to
unconditionally enable 'passthrough' since it would introduce a migration
incompatibility due to guest ABI change. Instead, introduce another Xen
hypervisor feature that can be used to enable guest PCI passthrough

  <features>
    <xen>
      <passthrough state='on'/>
    </xen>
  </features>

To allow finer control over how IOMMU maps to guest P2M table, the
passthrough element also supports a 'mode' attribute with values
restricted to snyc_pt and share_pt, similar to xl.cfg(5) 'passthrough'
setting .

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-04-21 09:18:58 -06:00
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
b7d6648d43 conf: add xen specific feature: e820_host
e820_host is a Xen-specific option, only available for PV domains, that
provides the domain a virtual e820 memory map based on the host one. It
is enabled with a new Xen hypervisor feature, e.g.

  <features>
    <xen>
      <e820_host state='on'/>
    </xen>
  </features>

e820_host is required when using PCI passthrough and is generally
considered safe for any PV kernel. e820_host is silently ignored if set
in HVM domain configuration. See xl.cfg(5) man page in the Xen
documentation for more details.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
2020-04-21 09:01:55 -06:00
Andrea Bolognani
2923e7a3dd docs: Add pci-addresses.rst
This document describes the relationship between PCI addresses as
seen in the domain XML and by the guest OS, which is a topic that
people get confused by time and time again.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
2020-04-15 09:47:49 +02:00
Laine Stump
78f4d5e6f1 conf: new attribute "hotplug" for pci controllers
a <controller type='pci'...> element can now have a "hotplug"
attribute in the <target> subelement. This is intended to control
whether or not the slot(s) of the controller support
hotplugging/unplugging a device:

   <controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'>
     <target hotplug='off'/>
   </controller>

The default value of hotplug is "on".

Since support for configuring such an option is hypervisor-dependent
(and will vary among different types of PCI controllers even on a
single hypervisor), no validation is done in this patch - that
validation will be done in the patch that wires support for the
setting into the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-04-12 22:32:30 -04:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
f68601dd72 formatdomain.html.in: document emulator/vcpu pin delay
In a guest with only one vcpu, when pinning the emulator in say CPU184
and the vcpu0 in CPU0 of the host, the user might expect that only
CPU0 and CPU184 of the host will be used by the guest.

The reality is that Libvirt takes some time to honor the emulator
and vcpu pinning, taking care of NUMA constraints first. This will
result in other CPUs of the host being potentially used by the
QEMU thread until the emulator/vcpu pinning is done. The user
then might be confused by the output of 'virsh cpu-stats' in this
scenario, showing around 200 microseconds of cycles being spent
in other CPUs.

Let's document this behavior, which is explained in detail in
Libvirt commit v5.0.0-199-gf136b83139, in the cputune section
of formatdomain.html.in.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2020-04-10 11:36:02 +02:00
Jim Fehlig
8e669b382c conf: Add a new xenbus controller option for event channels
Event channels are like PV interrupts and in conjuction with grant frames
form a data transfer mechanism for PV drivers. They are also used for
inter-processor interrupts. Guests with a large number of vcpus and/or
many PV devices many need to increase the maximum default value of 1023.
For this reason the native Xen config format supports the
'max_event_channels' setting. See xl.cfg(5) man page for more details.

Similar to the existing maxGrantFrames option, add a new xenbus controller
option 'maxEventChannels', allowing to adjust the maximum value via libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-04-09 15:45:05 -06:00
Bjoern Walk
d9a48d766a docs: documentation for virtio packed option
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-04-08 16:26:04 +02:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
0895a0e75d formatdomain.html.in: fix 'sockets' info in topology element
In the 'topology' element it is mentioned, regarding the sockets
value, "They refer to the total number of CPU sockets".

This is not accurate. What we're doing is calculating the number
of sockets per NUMA node, which can be checked in the current
implementation of virHostCPUGetInfoPopulateLinux(). Calculating
the total number of sockets would break the topology sanity
check nodes*sockets*cores*threads=online_cpus.

This documentation fix is important to avoid user confusion when
seeing the output of 'virsh capabilities' and expecting it to be
equal to the output of 'lscpu'. E.g in a Power 9 host this 'lscpu'
output:

Architecture:        ppc64le
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              160
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
Thread(s) per core:  4
Core(s) per socket:  20
Socket(s):           2
NUMA node(s):        2
Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 1202)
Model name:          POWER9, altivec supported

And this XML output from virsh capabilities:

    <cpu>
      <arch>ppc64le</arch>
      <model>POWER9</model>
      <vendor>IBM</vendor>
      <topology sockets='1' dies='1' cores='20' threads='4'/>
      (...)
    </cpu>

Both are correct, as long as we mention in the Libvirt documentation
that 'sockets' in the topology element represents the number of sockets
per NUMA node.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-04-06 15:56:14 +02:00
Christian Schoenebeck
c3a1856890 conf: add 'multidevs' option
Introduce new 'multidevs' option for filesystem.

  <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='mapped' multidevs='remap'>
    <source dir='/path'/>
    <target dir='mount_tag'>
  </filesystem>

This option prevents misbehaviours on guest if a qemu 9pfs export
contains multiple devices, due to the potential file ID collisions
this otherwise may cause.

Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-04-06 13:55:27 +02:00
Peter Krempa
5636812472 conf: Add support for http(s) query strings
Add a new attribute for holding the query part for http(s) disks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-30 16:30:34 +02:00
Peter Krempa
b24281c934 docs: formatdomain: Mention missing protocols
http, https, ftp, ftps, and tftp were not mentioned in the
documentation. Note that 'ssh' is still omitted as it's used only
internally.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-30 16:30:34 +02:00
Christian Schoenebeck
8018858d23 docs: virtfs: add section separators
Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-27 17:54:36 +01:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
6568af20af formatdomain.html.in: document NVDIMM 'label' requirement for pSeries
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-03-24 10:03:04 +01:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
0011d8d2c8 formatdomain.html.in: document the new 'uuid' NVDIMM element
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-03-24 10:02:42 +01:00
Julio Faracco
7864380b19 lxc: Add HPET device into allowed devices
This commit is related to RTC timer device too. HPET is being shared
from host device through `localtime` clock. This timer is available
creating a new timer using `hpet` name.

Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 19:03:00 +01:00
Julio Faracco
9132badf27 lxc: Add Real Time Clock device into allowed devices
This commit share host Real Time Clock device (rtc) into LXC containers
to support hardware clock. This should be available setting up a `rtc`
timer under clock section. Since this option is not emulated, it should
be available only for `localtime` clock. This option should be readonly
due to security reasons.

Before:
    root# hwclock --verbose
    hwclock from util-linux 2.32.1
    System Time: 1581877557.598365
    Trying to open: /dev/rtc0
    Trying to open: /dev/rtc
    Trying to open: /dev/misc/rtc
    No usable clock interface found.
    hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

Now:
    root# hwclock
    2020-02-16 18:23:55.374134+00:00
    root# hwclock -w
    hwclock: ioctl(RTC_SET_TIME) to /dev/rtc to set the time failed:
    Permission denied

Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 19:03:00 +01:00
Ján Tomko
e8e44020c8 docs: virtiofs: add missing aposthrophe
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
2020-03-16 16:31:04 +01:00
Peter Krempa
63fd461773 conf: Add support for setting timeout and readahead size for network disks
Some disk backends support configuring the readahead buffer or timeout
for requests. Add the knobs to the XML.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-16 15:51:44 +01:00
Peter Krempa
3b076391be conf: Add support for cookies for HTTP based disks
Add possibility to specify one or more cookies for http based disks.
This patch adds the config parser, storage and validation of the
cookies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-16 15:51:44 +01:00
Peter Krempa
25481e25b1 conf: Add support for modifying ssl validation for https/ftps disks
To allow turning off verification of SSL cerificates add a new element
<ssl> to the disk source XML which will allow configuring the validation
process using the 'verify' attribute.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-03-16 15:51:44 +01:00
Ján Tomko
6607933984 conf: add virtiofs-related elements and attributes
Add more elements for tuning the virtiofsd daemon
and the vhost-user-fs device:

  <driver type='virtiofs' queue='1024' xattr='on'>
    <binary path='/usr/libexec/virtiofsd'>
      <cache mode='always'/>
      <lock posix='off' flock='off'/>
    </binary>
  </driver>

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2020-03-04 12:08:50 +01:00
Ján Tomko
ecc6ad6b90 conf: qemu: add virtiofs fsdriver type
Introduce a new 'virtiofs' driver type for filesystem.

<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
  <driver type='virtiofs'/>
  <source dir='/path'/>
  <target dir='mount_tag'>
  <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
</filesystem>

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2020-03-04 12:08:50 +01:00
Laine Stump
366ceeec4b docs: document port isolated property in domain/network/networkport
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-02-26 11:48:23 -05:00
Andrea Bolognani
2f06757048 docs: Expand documentation for the tickpolicy timer attribute
The current documentation is fairly terse and not easy to decode
for someone who's not intimately familiar with the inner workings
of timer devices. Expand on it by providing a somewhat verbose
description of what behavior each policy will result in, as seen
from both the guest OS and host point of view.

This is lifted directly from QEMU commit

  commit 2a7d957596786404c4ed16b089273de95a9580ad
  Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
  Date:   Tue Feb 11 19:37:44 2020 +0100

    qapi: Expand documentation for LostTickPolicy

  v4.2.0-1442-g2a7d957596

The original text also matched word for word the documentation
found in QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-02-21 11:42:47 +01:00
Peter Krempa
44f0f76890 docs: Document the new <slices> sub-element of disk's <source>
We are going to add support for specifying offset and size attributes
which will allow controling where the image and where the guest data
itself starts in the source of the disk. This will be represented by
a <slices> element filled with either a <slice type='storage'> for the
offset of the image format data.

Add the XML documentation and RNG schema.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-02-14 16:32:21 +01:00
Peter Krempa
4e93c47576 docs: formatdomain: Close <source> on one of disk examples
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-02-14 16:32:21 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
1d742a8772 docs: List the armvtimer timer among all others
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-02-14 12:09:19 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
c4a78d00f8 docs: Improve documentation for <serial> and <console>
Users expect to be able to configure the <console> element and see
that configuration reflected into the <serial> element or at least
sticking, however due to our crazy back-compat code that doesn't
always happen.

There's really not much we can do to make this kind of corner cases
work as the user would expect, especially not without introducing
additional complexity in a part of libvirt that already has more
than a fair share of it; we can, however, improve the documentation
so that it will nudge said users in the right direction.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1770725

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-02-11 17:21:14 +01:00
Stefan Berger
914cb83218 conf: Add support for tpm-spapr to domain XML
This patch adds support for the tpm-spapr device model for ppc64. The XML for
this type of TPM looks as follows:

 <tpm model='tpm-spapr'>
   <backend type='emulator'/>
 </tpm>

Extend the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-02-05 19:57:10 +01:00
Ján Tomko
5b63cb5abf docs: fix a typo
s/axnd/and/

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fixes: f0f34056ab
2020-01-31 15:57:00 +01:00
Laine Stump
f0f34056ab docs: document <interface> subelement <teaming>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-01-29 15:33:29 -05:00
Han Han
6a6d00e168 conf: Add rng backend model builtin
The 'builtin' rng backend model can be used as following:
  <rng model='virtio'>
    <backend model='builtin'/>
  </rng>

Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2020-01-24 17:03:32 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
fbf27730a3 conf: add support for specifying CPU "dies" parameter
Recently CPU hardware vendors have started to support a new structure
inside the CPU package topology known as a "die". Thus the hierarchy
is now:

  sockets > dies > cores > threads

This adds support for "dies" in the XML parser, with the value
defaulting to 1 if not specified for backwards compatibility.

For example a system with 64 logical CPUs might report

   <topology sockets="4" dies="2" cores="4" threads="2"/>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-01-16 15:11:42 +00:00
Ján Tomko
54ba7da585 docs: formatdomain: use 'element' instead of 'block'
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-01-08 09:51:01 +01:00
Sebastian Mitterle
97c7f3ead4 security: improve security driver error message
Currently, when security driver is not available users are informed that
it wasn't found which can be confusing.
1. Update error message
2. Add comment to domain doc

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
2020-01-07 14:44:32 +00:00
Daniel Henrique Barboza
bc076ae995 formatdomain.html.in: document <address type='unassigned'/>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
2019-12-18 13:08:28 -05:00
Michal Privoznik
e1b022890e schemas: Introduce disk type NVMe
There is this class of PCI devices that act like disks: NVMe.
Therefore, they are both PCI devices and disks. While we already
have <hostdev/> (and can assign a NVMe device to a domain
successfully) we don't have disk representation. There are three
problems with PCI assignment in case of a NVMe device:

1) domains with <hostdev/> can't be migrated

2) NVMe device is assigned whole, there's no way to assign only a
   namespace

3) Because hypervisors see <hostdev/> they don't put block layer
   on top of it - users don't get all the fancy features like
   snapshots

NVMe namespaces are way of splitting one continuous NVDIMM memory
into smaller ones, effectively creating smaller NVMe-s (which can
then be partitioned, LVMed, etc.)

Because of all of this the following XML was chosen to model a
NVMe device:

  <disk type='nvme' device='disk'>
    <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
    <source type='pci' managed='yes' namespace='1'>
      <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </source>
    <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
  </disk>

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-12-17 10:04:43 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
6430c00552 conf: pass in default architecture via domain XML options
When parsing the guest XML we must fill in the default guest arch if it
is not already present because later parts of the parsing process need
this information.

If no arch is specified we lookup the first guest in the capabilities
data matching the os type and virt type. In most cases this will result
in picking the host architecture but there are some exceptions...

 - The test driver is hardcoded to always use i686 arch
 - The VMWare/ESX drivers will always place i686 guests ahead
   of x86_64 guests in capabilities, so effectively they always
   use i686
 - The QEMU driver can potentially return any arch at all
   depending on what combination of QEMU binaries are installed.

The domain XML hardware configurations are inherently architecture
specific in many places. As a result whomever/whatever created the
domain XML will have had a particular architecture in mind when
specifying the config. In pretty much any sensible case this arch
will have been the native host architecture. i686 on x86_64 is
the only sensible divergance because both these archs are
compatible from a domaain XML config POV.

IOW, although the QEMU driver can pick an almost arbitrary arch as its
default, in the real world no application or user is likely to be
relying on this default arch being anything other than native.

With all this in mind, it is reasonable to change the XML parser to
allow the default architecture to be passed via the domain XML options
struct. If no info is explicitly given then it is safe & sane to pick
the host native architecture as the default for the guest.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-09 10:15:16 +00:00
Andrea Bolognani
4d0a4b39f8 docs: Update minimum QEMU version for kvm-hint-dedicated
Same fix that was applied to release notes in a595c66a13.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2019-12-06 09:29:05 +01:00
Peter Krempa
4321bd0dd2 docs: Document support for obeying <backingStore> of <disk> on input
Until now we've only supported <backingStore> in an output mode. The
documentation for the element states that hypervisor drivers may start
to obey it in the future.

Update the documentation so that it mentions the recently added
'backingStoreInput' domain capability and explain what happens if it is
supported and <backingStore> is present on input.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 12:51:27 +01:00
Jonathon Jongsma
4b95738c8f qemu: add 'ramfb' attribute for mediated devices
The 'ramfb' attribute provides a framebuffer to the guest that can be
used as a boot display for the vgpu

For example, the following configuration can be used to provide a vgpu
with a boot display:

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci' display='on' ramfb='on'>
        <source>
            <address uuid='$UUID'/>
        </source>
    </hostdev>

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
2019-11-14 11:37:50 -05:00
Jonathon Jongsma
cda4d4d212 qemu: fix documentation for video resolution
The video resolution support that was introduced in
7286279797 is specified as a <resolution>
sub-element of <model>, not optional attributes of model.

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
2019-11-13 13:08:33 -05:00
Jim Fehlig
962647cac6 docs: Fix attribute names in filesystem/driver example
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
2019-11-01 11:46:55 -06:00
Jim Fehlig
cbff7c37f2 docs: Fix version that introduced Xen support for ACPI firmware
Xen support for specifying ACPI firmware path was introduced in the
5.9.0 dev cycle, not 5.8.0 as currently indicated by the docs.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-11-01 08:23:08 -06:00