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258 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Martin Kletzander
4c82f09ef0 Added capability checking for block <iotune> setting.
There was missing capability for blkiotune and thus specifying these
settings caused libvirt to run qemu with invalid parameters and then
reporting qemu error instead of the standard libvirt one. The support
for blkiotune setting was added in upstream qemu repo under commit
0563e191516289c9d2f282a8c50f2eecef2fa773.
2012-01-18 09:56:00 -07:00
Deepak C Shetty
d9e0d8204b Add new attribute wrpolicy to <driver> element
This introduces new attribute wrpolicy with only supported
value as immediate. This will be an optional
attribute with no defaults. This helps specify whether
to skip the host page cache.

When wrpolicy is specified, meaning when wrpolicy=immediate
a writeback is explicitly initiated for the dirty pages in
the host page cache as part of the guest file write operation.

Usage:
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
  <driver type='path' wrpolicy='immediate'/>
  <source dir='/export/to/guest'/>
  <target dir='mount_tag'/>
</filesystem>

Currently this only works with type='mount' for the QEMU/KVM driver.

Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-17 15:37:42 -07:00
Jiri Denemark
e7201afdf7 qemu: Add support for host CPU modes
This adds support for host-model and host-passthrough CPU modes to qemu
driver. The host-passthrough mode is mapped to -cpu host.
2012-01-17 12:22:19 +01:00
Osier Yang
5edfcaae6f qemu: Support copy on read for disk
The new introduced optional attribute "copy_on_read</code> controls
whether to copy read backing file into the image file. The value can
be either "on" or "off". Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing
file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing file is over a
slow network. By default copy-on-read is off.
2012-01-13 10:08:15 +08:00
Laine Stump
e8daeeb136 qemu: add capabilities flags related to SG_IO
This patch adds two capabilities flags to deal with various aspects
of supporting SG_IO commands on virtio-blk-pci devices:

  QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI
    set if -device virtio-blk-pci accepts the scsi="on|off" option
    When present, this is on by default, but can be set to off to disable
    SG_IO functions.

  QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_SG_IO
    set if SG_IO commands are supported in the virtio-blk-pci driver
    (present since qemu 0.11 according to a qemu developer, if I
     understood correctly)
2012-01-09 10:55:44 -05:00
Osier Yang
a1a83c5874 qemu: Support readonly filesystem passthrough
Upstream QEMU starts to support it from commit 2c74c2cb.
2011-12-22 12:29:58 +08:00
Michael Ellerman
5abbe04d68 qemu: Add a capability flag for -no-acpi
Currently non-x86 guests must have <acpi/> defined in <features> to
prevent libvirt from running qemu with -no-acpi. Although it works, it
is a hack.

Instead add a capability flag which indicates whether qemu understands
the -no-acpi option. Use it to control whether libvirt emits -no-acpi.

Current versions of qemu always display -no-acpi in their help output,
so this patch has no effect. However the development version of qemu
has been modified such that -no-acpi is only displayed when it is
actually supported.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
2011-12-20 12:33:55 -07:00
Stefan Berger
84f5633312 fix error when parsing ppc64 models on x86 host
When parsing ppc64 models on an x86 host an out-of-memory error message is displayed due
to it checking for retcpus being NULL. Fix this by removing the check whether retcpus is NULL
since we will realloc into this variable.
Also in the X86 model parser display the OOM error at the location where it happens.
2011-12-09 12:18:58 -05:00
Prerna Saxena
9bb8064dff Add support for ppc64 qemu
This enables libvirt to select the correct qemu binary (qemu-system-ppc64)
for a guest vm based on arch 'ppc64'.
Also, libvirt is enabled to correctly parse the list of supported PowerPC
CPUs, generated by running 'qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu ?'

Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-08 08:39:26 -05:00
Jiri Denemark
dd8e895606 Add support for QEMU 1.0 2011-12-05 13:02:54 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
f1f28611f1 Remove powerMgmt_valid field from capabilities struct
If we ensure that virNodeSuspendGetTargetMask always resets
*bitmask to zero upon failure, there is no need for the
powerMgmt_valid field.

* src/util/virnodesuspend.c: Ensure *bitmask is zero upon
  failure
* src/conf/capabilities.c, src/conf/capabilities.h: Remove
  powerMgmt_valid field
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c: Remove powerMgmt_valid
2011-11-30 10:12:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
c92653f4dd Move suspend capabilities APIs out of util.h into virnodesuspend.c
The node suspend capabilities APIs should not have been put into
util.[ch]. Instead move them into virnodesuspend.[ch]

* src/util/util.c, src/util/util.h: Remove suspend capabilities APIs
* src/util/virnodesuspend.c, src/util/virnodesuspend.h: Add
  suspend capabilities APIs
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c: Include virnodesuspend.h
2011-11-30 10:12:29 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
53c2aad88b Rename suspend capabilities APIs
Rename virGetPMCapabilities to virNodeSuspendGetTargetMask and
virDiscoverHostPMFeature to virNodeSuspendSupportsTarget.

* src/util/util.c, src/util/util.h: Rename APIs
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c, src/util/virnodesuspend.c: Adjust
  for new names
2011-11-30 10:12:29 +00:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
e352b16400 Export KVM Host Power Management capabilities
This patch exports KVM Host Power Management capabilities as XML so that
higher-level systems management software can make use of these features
available in the host.

The script "pm-is-supported" (from pm-utils package) is run to discover if
Suspend-to-RAM (S3) or Suspend-to-Disk (S4) is supported by the host.
If either of them are supported, then a new tag "<power_management>" is
introduced in the XML under the <host> tag.

However in case the query to check for power management features succeeded,
but the host does not support any such feature, then the XML will contain
an empty <power_management/> tag. In the event that the PM query itself
failed, the XML will not contain any "power_management" tag.

To use this, new APIs could be implemented in libvirt to exploit power
management features such as S3/S4.
2011-11-22 11:31:22 +08:00
Daniel P. Berrange
209c2880b9 Fix default console type setting
The default console type may vary based on the OS type. ie a Xen
paravirt guests wants a 'xen' console, while a fullvirt guests
wants a 'serial' console.

A plain integer default console type in the capabilities does
not suffice. Instead introduce a callback that is passed the
OS type.

* src/conf/capabilities.h: Use a callback for default console
  type
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Use callback
  for default console type. Add missing LXC/OpenVZ console types.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c, src/libxl/libxl_conf.c,
  src/lxc/lxc_conf.c, src/openvz/openvz_conf.c,
  src/phyp/phyp_driver.c, src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c,
  src/uml/uml_conf.c, src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c,
  src/vmware/vmware_conf.c, src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c,
  src/xenapi/xenapi_driver.c: Set default console type callback
2011-11-03 12:01:48 +00:00
Eric Blake
6889f33e8b qemu: simplify use of HAVE_YAJL
Rather than making all clients of monitor commands that are JSON-only
check whether yajl support was compiled in, it is simpler to just
avoid setting the capability bit up front if we can't use the capability.

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsComputeCmdFlags): Only set
capability bit if we also have yajl library to use it.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainReboot): Drop #ifdefs.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessStart): Likewise.
* tests/qemuhelptest.c (testHelpStrParsing): Pass test even
without yajl.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): Simplify use of json flag.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-error-*.args:
Update expected results to match.
2011-10-26 11:55:39 -06:00
Jim Fehlig
c1bc3d892c Add AHCI support to qemu driver
Tested with multiple AHCI controllers and multiple disks attached
to a controller. E.g.,

    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk0.raw'/>
      <target dev='sda' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk1.raw'/>
      <target dev='sdb' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='1'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk2.raw'/>
      <target dev='sdc' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='1' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='sata' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='sata' index='1'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
2011-10-17 15:44:21 -06:00
Jiri Denemark
b767de4bdf qemu: Relax -no-shutdown check to [0.14.0, 0.15.0]
The patch that fixes SIGTERM handling with -no-shutdown was taken into
0.15.1 stable release of qemu.
2011-10-17 17:54:26 +02:00
Eric Blake
8644a379d7 qemu: enable multifunction for older qemu
Now that RHEL 6.2 Beta is out, it would be nice to test multifunction
devices on that platform.  This changes things so that the multifunction
cap bit can be set in two different ways: by version comparison (needed
for qemu 0.13 which lacked a -device query), and by -device query
(provided by qemu.git and backported to the RHEL beta build of
qemu-kvm which still claims to be a modified 0.12, and therefore needed
for RHEL).

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsParseDeviceStr): Allow
second method of setting multifunction cap bit.
* tests/qemuhelptest.c (mymain): Test it.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-rhel62-beta: New file.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-rhel62-beta-device: Likewise.
2011-10-06 10:41:21 -06:00
Laine Stump
dc79852af8 qemu: add ability to set PCI device "rombar" on or off
This patch was made in response to:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738095

In short, qemu's default for the rombar setting (which makes the
firmware ROM of a PCI device visible/not on the guest) was previously
0 (not visible), but they recently changed the default to 1
(visible). Unfortunately, there are some PCI devices that fail in the
guest when rombar is 1, so the setting must be exposed in libvirt to
prevent a regression in behavior (it will still require explicitly
setting <rom bar='off'/> in the guest XML).

rombar is forced on/off by adding:

  <rom bar='on|off'/>

inside a <hostdev> element that defines a PCI device. It is currently
ignored for all other types of devices.

At the moment there is no clean method to determine whether or not the
rombar option is supported by QEMU - this patch uses the advice of a
QEMU developer to assume support for qemu-0.12+. There is currently a
patch in the works to put this information in the output of "qemu-kvm
-device pci-assign,?", but of course if we switch to keying off that,
we would lose support for setting rombar on all the versions of qemu
between 0.12 and whatever version gets that patch.
2011-09-27 11:23:28 -04:00
Jiri Denemark
75e3149264 qemu: Relax -no-shutdown check to [0.14.0, 0.15.50)
SIGTERM handling for -no-shutdown is already fixed in qemu git and
libvirt can safely use it. The downside is that 0.15.50 version of qemu
can be any qemu compiled from git, even that without the fix for
SIGTERM. However, I think this patch is worth it since excluding 0.15.50
from the check makes testing current qemu with libvirt much easier and
someone running qemu from git should be able to rebuild fixed qemu from
git if they hit the problem with a hang on shutdown.
2011-09-27 15:46:23 +02:00
Oskari Saarenmaa
f887334dcf Add unsafe cache mode support for disk driver
QEMU 0.13 introduced cache=unsafe for -drive, this patch exposes
it in the libvirt layer.

  * Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_UNSAFE),
    as even if $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't know if unsafe
    is supported.

  * Improved the reliability of qemu cache type detection.
2011-09-23 08:29:57 -06:00
Jiri Denemark
f84aedad09 qemu: Fix shutdown regression with buggy qemu
The commit that prevents disk corruption on domain shutdown
(96fc478417) causes regression with QEMU
0.14.* and 0.15.* because of a regression bug in QEMU that was fixed
only recently in QEMU git. The affected versions of QEMU do not quit on
SIGTERM if started with -no-shutdown, which we use to implement fake
reboot. Since -no-shutdown tells QEMU not to quit automatically on guest
shutdown, domains started using the affected QEMU cannot be shutdown
properly and stay in a paused state.

This patch disables fake reboot feature on such QEMU by not using
-no-shutdown, which makes shutdown work as expected. However,
virDomainReboot will not work in this case and it will report "Requested
operation is not valid: Reboot is not supported with this QEMU binary".
2011-09-21 16:53:06 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau
fdabeb3c5f Add USB hub device
domain parsing and serialization code, qemu driver backend and
a couple of test
2011-09-02 23:38:52 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau
329f907b99 Add various USB devices QEMU_CAPS 2011-09-02 23:22:56 +08:00
Osier Yang
6ee52c1b76 Add directsync cache mode support for disk driver
Newer QEMU introduced cache=directsync for -drive, this patchset
is to expose it in libvirt layer.

  * Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_DIRECTSYNC),
    As even $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't known if directsync
    is supported.
2011-09-02 21:36:58 +08:00
Laine Stump
73c0a148af qemu: support event_idx parameter for virtio disk and net devices
In some versions of qemu, both virtio-blk-pci and virtio-net-pci
devices can have an event_idx setting that determines some details of
event processing. When it is enabled, it "reduces the number of
interrupts and exits for the guest". qemu will automatically enable
this feature when it is available, but there may be cases where this
new feature could actually make performance worse (NB: no such case
has been found so far).

As a safety switch in case such a situation is encountered in the
field, this patch adds a new attribute "event_idx" to the <driver>
element of both disk and interface devices. event_idx can be set to
"on" (to force event_idx on in case qemu has it disabled by default)
or "off" (for force event_idx off). In the case that event_idx support
isn't present in qemu, the attribute is ignored (this on the advice of
the qemu developer).

docs/formatdomain.html.in: document the new flag (marking it as
   "don't mess with this!"
docs/schemas/domain.rng: add event_idx in appropriate places
src/conf/domain_conf.[ch]: add event_idx to parser and formatter
src/libvirt_private.syms: export
   virDomainVirtioEventIdx(From|To)String
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.[ch]: detect and report event_idx in
   disk/net
src/qemu/qemu_command.c: add event_idx parameter to qemu commandline
    when appropriate.
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-event_idx.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-event_idx.xml,
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c,
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: test cases for event_idx.
2011-08-15 09:35:42 -04:00
Eric Blake
8e22e08935 build: rename files.h to virfile.h
In preparation for a future patch adding new virFile APIs.

* src/util/files.h, src/util/files.c: Move...
* src/util/virfile.h, src/util/virfile.c: ...here, and rename
functions to virFile prefix.  Macro names are intentionally
left alone.
* *.c: All '#include "files.h"' uses changed.
* src/Makefile.am (UTIL_SOURCES): Reflect rename.
* cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_close): Likewise.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Likewise.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Likewise.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
Michal Privoznik
874e65aa15 bios: Add support for SGA
This patch creates new <bios> element which, at this time has only the
attribute useserial='yes|no'. This attribute allow users to use
Serial Graphics Adapter and see BIOS messages from the very first moment
domain boots up. Therefore, users can choose boot medium, set PXE, etc.
2011-07-11 11:47:14 +02:00
John Williams
a1092070d4 microblaze: Add architecture support
Add libvirt support for MicroBlaze architecture as a QEMU target.  Based on mips/mipsel pattern.

Signed-off-by: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
2011-07-07 17:49:21 -06:00
Michal Privoznik
017abcbb1a qemu: domain I/O asynchronous handling
For virtio disks and interfaces, qemu allows users to enable or disable
ioeventfd feature. This means, qemu can execute domain code, while
another thread waits for I/O event. Basically, in some cases it is win,
in some loss. This feature is available via 'ioeventfd' attribute in disk
and interface <driver> element. It accepts 'on' and 'off'. Leaving this
attribute out defaults to hypervisor decision.
2011-06-22 09:26:24 +02:00
Wen Congyang
d58c382e93 check whether qemu supports multi function PCI device
qemu supports multi function PCI device at least version 0.13.0.
2011-06-13 09:27:21 +08:00
Laine Stump
51781b82f7 qemu: fix typo in name - should be VHOST_NET, not VNET_HOST
NB: the enum that uses the string vnet-host (now changed to vhost-net)
is used in XML, but fortunately that hasn't been in an official
release yet, so it can still be fixed.
2011-05-24 10:45:55 -04:00
Laine Stump
17266c5c68 qemu: don't require is_kvm for vhost-net support
This was discussed in:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01370.html

The capabilities code only sets the flag to allow use of vhost-net if
kvm is detected (set if the help string contains "(qemu-kvm-" or
"(kvm-"), but actually vhost-net is available in some qemu builds that
don't have kvm in their name, so just checking for ",vhost=" is enough.
2011-05-23 15:59:31 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan
b65f37a4a1 libvirt,logging: cleanup VIR_XXX0()
These VIR_XXXX0 APIs make us confused, use the non-0-suffix APIs instead.

How do these coversions works? The magic is using the gcc extension of ##.
When __VA_ARGS__ is empty, "##" will swallow the "," in "fmt," to
avoid compile error.

example: origin				after CPP
	high_level_api("%d", a_int)	low_level_api("%d", a_int)
	high_level_api("a  string")	low_level_api("a  string")

About 400 conversions.

8 special conversions:
VIR_XXXX0("") -> VIR_XXXX("msg") (avoid empty format) 2 conversions
VIR_XXXX0(string_literal_with_%) -> VIR_XXXX(%->%%) 0 conversions
VIR_XXXX0(non_string_literal) -> VIR_XXXX("%s", non_string_literal)
  (for security) 6 conversions

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-05-11 12:41:14 -06:00
Daniel P. Berrange
43c01d3838 Persist qemu capabilities in the domain status file
To cope with the QEMU binary being changed while a VM is running,
it is neccessary to persist the original qemu capabilities at the
time the VM is booted.

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c, src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h: Add
  an enum for a string rep of every capability
* src/qemu/qemu_domain.c, src/qemu/qemu_domain.h: Support for
  storing capabilities in the domain status XML
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Populate & free QEMU capabilities at
  domain startup
2011-05-05 11:33:03 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
ef264e82ee qemu: Ignore unusable binaries
When initializing qemu guest capabilities, we should ignore qemu
binaries that we are not able to extract version/help info from since
they will be unusable for creating domains anyway. Ignoring them is also
much better than letting initialization of qemu driver fail.
2011-04-05 14:02:55 +02:00
Eric Blake
391c397e48 maint: prohibit access(,X_OK)
This simplifies several callers that were repeating checks already
guaranteed by util.c, and makes other callers more robust to now
reject directories.  remote_driver.c was over-strict - access(,R_OK)
is only needed to execute a script file; a binary only needs
access(,X_OK) (besides, it's unusual to see a file with x but not
r permissions, whether script or binary).

* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_access_xok): New syntax-check rule.
(exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_access_xok): Exempt one use.
* src/network/bridge_driver.c (networkStartRadvd): Fix offenders.
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsProbeMachineTypes)
(qemuCapsInitGuest, qemuCapsInit, qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo):
Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (remoteFindDaemonPath): Likewise.
* src/uml/uml_driver.c (umlStartVMDaemon): Likewise.
* src/util/hooks.c (virHookCheck): Likewise.
2011-03-24 15:18:44 -06:00
Osier Yang
82dfc6f38e qemu: Support vram for video of qxl type
For qemu names the primary vga as "qxl-vga":

  1) if vram is specified for 2nd qxl device:

    -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=$SIZE \
    -device qxl,id=video1,vram_size=$SIZE,...

  2) if vram is not specified for 2nd qxl device, (use the default
     set by global):

    -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=$SIZE \
    -device qxl,id=video1,...

For qemu names all qxl devices as "qxl":

  1) if vram is specified for 2nd qxl device:

    -vga qxl -global qxl.vram_size=$SIZE \
    -device qxl,id=video1,vram_size=$SIZE ...

  2) if vram is not specified for 2nd qxl device:

    -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=$SIZE \
    -device qxl,id=video1,...

"-global" is the only way to define vram_size for the primary qxl
device, regardless of how qemu names it, (It's not good a good
way, as original idea of "-global" is to set a global default for
a driver property, but to specify vram for first qxl device, we
have to use it).

For other qxl devices, as they are represented by "-device", could
specify it directly and seperately for each, and it overrides the
default set by "-global" if specified.

v1 - v2:
  * modify "virDomainVideoDefaultRAM" so that it returns 16M as the
    default vram_size for qxl device.

  * vram_size * 1024 (qemu accepts bytes for vram_size).

  * apply default vram_size for qxl device for which vram_size is
    not specified.

  * modify "graphics-spice" tests (more sensiable vram_size)

  * Add an argument of virDomainDefPtr type for qemuBuildVideoDevStr,
    to use virDomainVideoDefaultRAM in qemuBuildVideoDevStr).

v2 - v3:
  * Modify default video memory size for qxl device from 16M to 24M

  * Update codes to be consistent with changes on qemu_capabilities.*
2011-03-06 22:00:27 +08:00
Jiri Denemark
9fc4b6a606 qemu: Switch over command line capabilities to virBitmap
This is done for two reasons:
- we are getting very close to 64 flags which is the maximum we can use
  with unsigned long long
- by using LL constants in enum we already violates C99 constraint that
  enum values have to fit into int
2011-02-24 12:10:00 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
23d935bd97 qemu: Rename qemud\?CmdFlags to qemuCaps
The new name complies more with the fact that it contains a set of
qemuCapsFlags.
2011-02-24 12:08:34 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
a96d08dc53 qemu: Use helper functions for handling cmd line capabilities
Three new functions (qemuCapsSet, qemuCapsClear, and qemuCapsGet) were
introduced replacing direct bit operations.
2011-02-24 12:07:06 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
21642e82b1 qemu: Rename QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_* to QEMU_CAPS_*
The new names comply more with the fact that they are all members of
enum qemuCapsFlags.
2011-02-24 12:05:39 +01:00
Laine Stump
e9bd5c0e24 Add txmode attribute to interface XML for virtio backend
This is in response to:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629662

Explanation

qemu's virtio-net-pci driver allows setting the algorithm used for tx
packets to either "bh" or "timer". This is done by adding ",tx=bh" or
",tx=timer" to the "-device virtio-net-pci" commandline option.

'bh' stands for 'bottom half'; when this is set, packet tx is all done
in an iothread in the bottom half of the driver. (In libvirt, this
option is called the more descriptive "iothread".)

'timer' means that tx work is done in qemu, and if there is more tx
data than can be sent at the present time, a timer is set before qemu
moves on to do other things; when the timer fires, another attempt is
made to send more data. (libvirt retains the name "timer" for this
option.)

The resulting difference, according to the qemu developer who added
the option is:

    bh makes tx more asynchronous and reduces latency, but potentially
    causes more processor bandwidth contention since the cpu doing the
    tx isn't necessarily the cpu where the guest generated the
    packets.

Solution

This patch provides a libvirt domain xml knob to change the option on
the qemu commandline, by adding a new attribute "txmode" to the
<driver> element that can be placed inside any <interface> element in
a domain definition. It's use would be something like this:

    <interface ...>
      ...
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <driver txmode='iothread'/>
      ...
    </interface>

I chose to put this setting as an attribute to <driver> rather than as
a sub-element to <tune> because it is specific to the virtio-net
driver, not something that is generally usable by all network drivers.
(note that this is the same placement as the "driver name=..."
attribute used to choose kernel vs. userland backend for the
virtio-net driver.)

Actually adding the tx=xxx option to the qemu commandline is only done
if the version of qemu being used advertises it in the output of

    qemu -device virtio-net-pci,?

If a particular txmode is requested in the XML, and the option isn't
listed in that help output, an UNSUPPORTED_CONFIG error is logged, and
the domain fails to start.
2011-02-17 11:07:58 -05:00
Eric Blake
e046d41f72 qemu: ignore failure of qemu -M ? on older qemu
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676563

Regression introduced in commit 2211518.

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsProbeMachineTypes): Allow
non-zero exit status.
2011-02-14 15:33:33 -07:00
Wen Congyang
6bf4788e86 qemu: fix attach-interface regression
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCI_MULTIBUS should be set in the function
qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo()

The flag QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCI_MULTIBUS is used in the function
qemuBuildDeviceAddressStr(). All callers get qemuCmdFlags
by the function qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo() except that
testCompareXMLToArgvFiles() in qemuxml2argvtest.c.

So we should set QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCI_MULTIBUS in the function
qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo() instead of qemuBuildCommandLine()
because the function qemuBuildCommandLine() does not be called
when we attach a pci device.

tests: set QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCI_MULTIBUS in testCompareXMLToArgvFiles()

set QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCI_MULTIBUS before calling qemuBuildCommandLine()
as the flags is not set by qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo().

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-02-10 15:07:21 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
bf6a3825b5 Add check for binary existing in machine type probe
When probing machine types if the QEMU binary does not exist
we get a hard to diagnose error, due to the execve() in the
child failing

error: internal error Child process exited with status 1.

Add an explicit check so that we get

error: Cannot find QEMU binary /usr/libexec/qem3u-kvm: No such file or directory

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c: Check for QEMU binary
2011-02-09 16:45:31 +00:00
Eric Blake
5a3ec56ba3 spicevmc: support older -device spicevmc of qemu 0.13.0
qemu 0.13.0 (at least as built for Fedora 14, and also backported to
RHEL 6.0 qemu) supported an older syntax for a spicevmc channel; it's
not as flexible (it has an implicit name and hides the chardev
aspect), but now that we support spicevmc, we might as well target
both variants.

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h (QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DEVICE_SPICEVMC):
New flag.
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsParseDeviceStr): Set it
correctly.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.h (qemuBuildVirtioSerialPortDevStr): Drop
declaration.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildVirtioSerialPortDevStr): Alter
signature, check flag.
(qemuBuildCommandLine): Adjust caller and check flag.
* tests/qemuhelptest.c (mymain): Update test.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): New test.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-spicevmc-old.xml:
New file.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-spicevmc-old.args:
Likewise.
2011-02-04 09:17:01 -07:00
Eric Blake
7a2f29e4f9 smartcard: check for qemu capability
Qemu smartcard/spicevmc support exists on branches (such as
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~alon/qemu/commit/?h=usb_ccid.v15&id=024a37b)
but is not yet upstream.  The added -help output matches a scratch build
that will be close to the RHEL 6.1 qemu-kvm.

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h (QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_CCID_EMULATED)
(QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_CCID_PASSTHRU, QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_CHARDEV_SPICEVMC):
New flags.
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsComputeCmdFlags)
(qemuCapsParseDeviceStr): Check for smartcard capabilities.
(qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo): Tweak comment.
* tests/qemuhelptest.c (mymain): New test.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-rhel61: New file.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-rhel61-device: Likewise.
2011-02-03 19:28:53 -07:00
Jiri Denemark
963a9460b6 qemu: Support booting from hostdev PCI devices 2011-02-03 22:20:30 +01:00
Matthias Dahl
f19357ce37 qemu aio: parse aio support from qemu -help
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-01-28 09:09:49 -07:00
Cole Robinson
6cabc0b0d0 qemu: sound: Support intel 'ich6' model
In QEMU, the card itself is a PCI device, but it requires a codec
(either -device hda-output or -device hda-duplex) to actually output
sound. Specifying <sound model='ich6'/> gives us -device intel-hda
-device hda-duplex I think it's important that a simple <sound model='ich6'/>
sets up a useful codec, to have consistent behavior with all other sound cards.

This is basically Dan's proposal of

    <sound model='ich6'>
        <codec type='output' slot='0'/>
        <codec type='duplex' slot='3'/>
    </sound>

without the codec bits implemented.

The important thing is to keep a consistent API here, we don't want some
<sound> devs require tweaking codecs but not others. Steps I see to
accomplishing this:

    - every <sound> device has a <codec type='default'/> (unless codecs are
        manually specified)
    - <codec type='none'/> is required to specify 'no codecs'
    - new audio settings like mic=on|off could then be exposed in
        <sound> or <codec> in a consistent manner for all sound models

v2:
    Use model='ich6'

v3:
    Use feature detection, from eblake
    Set codec id, bus, and cad values

v4:
    intel-hda isn't supported if -device isn't available

v5:
    Comment spelling fixes
2011-01-24 13:11:52 -05:00
Eric Blake
93681a3683 qemu: don't fail capabilities check on 0.12.x
Fixes regression introduced in commit 2211518, where all qemu 0.12.x
fails to start, as does qemu 0.13.x lacking the pci-assign device.
Prior to 2211518, the code was just ignoring a non-zero exit status
from the qemu child, but the virCommand code checked this to avoid
masking any other issues, which means the real bug of provoking
non-zero exit status has been latent for a longer time.

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo): Check
for -device driver,? support.
(qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr): Avoid failure if all probed devices
are unsupported.
Reported by Ken Congyang.
2011-01-18 14:45:53 -07:00
Jiri Denemark
3d44035824 qemu: Support per-device boot ordering
Support for this is included in qemu and seabios from upstream git.
2011-01-17 17:08:13 +01:00
Eric Blake
f892f5a562 qemu: improve device flag parsing
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h (qemuCapsParseDeviceStr): New
prototype.
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsParsePCIDeviceStrs)
Rename and split...
(qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr, qemuCapsParseDeviceStr): ...to make it
easier to add and test device-specific checks.
(qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo): Update caller.
* tests/qemuhelptest.c (testHelpStrParsing): Also test parsing of
device-related flags.
(mymain): Update expected flags.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-0.12.1-device: New file.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-rhel60-device: New file.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.12.3-device: New file.
* tests/qemuhelpdata/qemu-kvm-0.13.0-device: New file.
2011-01-13 16:03:11 -07:00
Eric Blake
221151813c qemu: convert capabilities to use virCommand
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsProbeMachineTypes)
(qemuCapsProbeCPUModels, qemuCapsParsePCIDeviceStrs)
(qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo): Use virCommand rather than virExec.
2011-01-13 11:05:36 -07:00
Eric Blake
abff0290b1 qemu: add -incoming fd:n capability checking
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h (QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_MIGRATE_QEMU_FD):
New enum value.
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (qemuCapsComputeCmdFlags): Populate
flags according to qemu version.
* tests/qemuhelptest.c (mymain): Adjust test.
2010-12-23 16:33:39 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
d8ae147d8e Move QEMU capabilities management into a separate file
The qemu_conf.c code is doing three jobs, driver config file
loading, QEMU capabilities management and QEMU command line
management. Move the capabilities code into its own file

* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c, src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h: New
  capabilities management code
* src/qemu/qemu_conf.c, src/qemu/qemu_conf.h: Delete capabilities
  code
* src/qemu/qemu_conf.h: Adapt for API renames
* src/Makefile.am: add src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
2010-12-17 13:39:18 +00:00