This is a relatively lengthy part with lots of details, which many
people who are familiar with a mail-based development workflow will
already know and which will become obsolete once we move to GitLab.
Move the contents to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part contains a lot of useful tips, but presenting all of them
at the same time obfuscated the central message which is, 'make check'
and 'make syntax-check' must pass after each patch in a series. Let's
move them to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
While it's good to have these rules written down for reference, they
apply exclusively to committers, who by definition are familiar with
the project and probably work on it daily, so there's no need to have
them front and center when a separate page will do.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part describes entirely optional tooling, so it makes sense not
to have it advertised too prominently. Move it to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Most new contributors are probably going to modify existing code rather
than introducing all-new programs and scripts, and even when the latter
happen they'll hopefully get a feel for which programming languages are
considered acceptable for the project by looking at what's already in
the repo. Make this part less prominent by moving it to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part represents the biggest chunk of the existing hacking.rst, and
despite that its utility is very limited because 'make syntax-check'
already guarantees most of the rules are followed over time.
Until the glorious day we finally codify our coding style completely
into a configuration for a tool such as clang-format and thus no longer
need a plain English description of it, move this part to a separate
page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part is very specific and doesn't quite fit into the "coding
style" section, so let's move it to its own page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The conversion has been performed by using pandoc as a first pass,
and then tweaking the result manually until it looked satisfactory.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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>
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>
Both <encryption> and <diskSourceCommon> were absent from the <source>
element defined in domainsnapshot.rng
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
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>
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>
The documentation could confuse people to expect that CPU models with
usable='no' attribute are not usable at all on the current host. But
they cannot be only used without explicitly disabling some features.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The quotes are forbidden only inside the value, but the value itself may
be enclosed in quotes. Fix the RNG schema and validator and add a test
case.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804750
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Our virCommand module allows us to set a pidfile for commands we
want to spawn. The caller constructs the string of pidfile path
and then uses virCommandSetPidFile() to tell the module to write
the pidfile once the command is ran. This usually works, but has
two flaws:
1) the child process does not hold the pidfile open & locked.
Therefore, the caller (or anybody else) can't use our fancy
virPidFileForceCleanupPath() function to kill the command
afterwards. Also, for everybody else on the system it's
needlessly harder to check if the pid from the pidfile is still
alive or not.
2) if the caller ever makes a mistake and passes the same pidfile
path for two different commands, the start of the second command
will overwrite the pidfile even though the first command might
still be running.
NOTE that this temporarily renders some command spawning
unusable, specifically those code patterns where both
virCommandSetPidFile() is used together with instructing spawned
command to acquire pidfile itself. Fortunately, there is only one
occurrence of such pattern and it is in
qemuProcessStartManagedPRDaemon(). This is fixed in next commit.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
ppc64 NVDIMM support was implemented in QEMU by commit [1].
The support is similar to what x86 already does, aside from
an extra 'uuid' element.
This patch introduces a new optional 'uuid' element for the
NVDIMM memory model. This element behaves like the 'uuid'
element of the domain definition - if absent, we'll create
a new one, otherwise use the one provided by the XML.
The 'uuid' element is exclusive to pseries guests and are
unavailable for other architectures.
Next patch will use this new element to add NVDIMM support
for ppc64.
[1] ee3a71e366
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In previous patches virKeyFile was replaced with its GLib
counterpart which created an incompatible change: comments can
now begin only with a number sign (#). While this won't probably
affect anyone, mention it in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Update the manpage for the 'server-update-tls' command
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Bo <oscar.zhangbo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Qingliang <wuqingliang4@huawei.com>
Now that we have more than just the libvirtd daemon, we should be
explaining to users what they are all for & important aspects of their
configuration.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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>
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>
Add a document describing the usage of virtiofs.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Allow adding new groups without changing indentation.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
A few new companies have contributed to libvirt since the last
time the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We already have one instance of it being used in our git history,
and more are probably bound to show up eventually.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
