The storage pool code now attempts to disable COW by default on btrfs,
but management applications may wish to override this behaviour. Thus we
introduce a concept of storage pool features:
<features>
<cow state='yes|no'/>
</features>
If the <cow> feature policy is set, it will be enforced. It will always
return an hard error if COW cannot be explicitly set or unset.
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is only used in the ESX driver where, when set to "no", it will
ignore all the checks libvirt does about the origin of the MAC address
(whether or not it's in a VMWare OUI) and forward the original one to
the ESX server telling it not to check it either.
This allows keeping a deterministic MAC address which can be useful for
licensed software which might dislike changes.
Signed-off-by: Bastien Orivel <bastien.orivel@diateam.net>
VMX conversion parts rewritten to apply on top of previously merged
support for type='generated|static'
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The reason why we align down the guest area (total-size - label-size) is
explained in the body of qemuDomainNVDimmAlignSizePseries(). This
behavior must also be documented in the user docs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We discuss Linux, FreeBSD and macOS separately, and we even go as
far as splitting Linux distros into short-lifetime and long-lifetime,
when ultimately the same two priciples apply everywhere: we don't
want to support a platform longer than its vendor does, and in cases
where the vendor support is extremely long we need to have a
time-based escape hatch.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This will make the document look nicer, especially after we have
converted it to reStructuredText.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Ignoring unknown MSRs using <features> element
<msrs unknown='ignore'/> was supported for quite some already,
so add documentation for it for completeness of flags coverage,
as some guests can be extra picky about flags passed to bhyve,
and it's useful to know how to control those.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is only used in the ESX driver where, when set to "static", it will
ignore all the checks libvirt does about the origin of the MAC address
(whether or not it's in a VMWare OUI) and forward the original one to
the ESX server telling it not to check it either.
This allows keeping a deterministic MAC address which can be useful for
licensed software which might dislike changes.
Signed-off-by: Bastien Orivel <bastien.orivel@diateam.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This document describes briefly how Libvirt migration internals
works, complementing the info available in migration.html.in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Although we have nothing in make syntax-check to enforce this, and
apparently there are places where it isn't the case (according to
Dan), we should discourage the practice of defining new variables in
the middle of a block of code.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-July/msg00433.html
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Commit <9ad637c9651ff29955dd6aa8fe31f639b42b7315> converted all fig
files into svg files but did not change the Makefile.am.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Converted by using:
fig2dev -L svg <infile> <outfile>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
convert bin is part of ImageMagick package and uses uniconvertor to
create png file from fig files.
Unfortunately uniconvertor is python2 only and not available in most
recent distributions which makes the convert command fail with:
sh: uniconvertor: command not found
/usr/bin/mv: cannot stat '/tmp/magick-1397138DRT8Pzx4Qmoc.svg': No such file or directory
convert: delegate failed `'uniconvertor' '%i' '%o.svg'; /usr/bin/mv '%o.svg' '%o'' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1958.
convert: unable to open file `/tmp/magick-1397138S8ARueJXLXkc': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/605.
convert: no images defined `docs/migration-managed-direct.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3226.
It looks like that there are plans to somehow port uniconvertor into
python3 but as part of different project color-picker but the job is
far from complete.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
In f0d0cd6179 I introduced this typo.
Suggested-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Commit <d672551816e106f2ce8a6a04658691db96435fb5> removed last usage of
this file so drop it as well.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
These files are generated by xsltproc as part of html/index.html and
html/index-%.html rules.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Apple changed the operating system's name from "OS X" to "macOS" a few years ago.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Schmidt <git@ryandesign.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
To cite ACPI specification:
Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table describes the memory
attributes, such as memory side cache attributes and bandwidth
and latency details, related to the System Physical Address
(SPA) Memory Ranges. The software is expected to use this
information as hint for optimization.
According to our upstream discussion [1] this is exposed under
<numa/> as <cache/> under NUMA <cell/> and <latency> or
<bandwidth/> under numa/latencies.
1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-January/msg00422.html
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
QEMU allows creating NUMA nodes that have memory only.
These are somehow important for HMAT.
With check done in qemuValidateDomainDef() for QEMU 2.7 or newer
(checked via QEMU_CAPS_NUMA), we can be sure that the vCPUs are
fully assigned to NUMA nodes in domain XML.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Add link and description of libvirt knowledge base to make it easier for
users and testers to understand libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Jianan Gao <jgao@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The semantics of the backup operation don't strictly require that all
disks being backed up are part of the same incremental part (when a disk
was checkpointed/backed up separately or in a different VM), or even
they may not have a previous checkpoint at all (e.g. when the disk
was freshly hotplugged to the vm).
In such cases we can still create a common checkpoint for all of them
and backup differences according to configuration.
This patch adds a per-disk configuration of the checkpoint to do the
incremental backup from via the 'incremental' attribute and allows
perform full backups via the 'backupmode' attribute.
Note that no changes to the qemu driver are necessary to take advantage
of this as we already obey the per-disk 'incremental' field.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829829
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The former is the new recommended frontend for browsing Go API
documentation online.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Allow enabling TLS for the NBD server used to do pull-mode backups. Note
that documentation already mentions 'tls', so this just implements the
schema and XML bits.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
TLS is required to transport backed-up data securely when using
pull-mode backups.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Data is valid only when queried as guest writes may increase the backup
size.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
We're no longer using either Travis CI or the Jenkins-based
CentOS CI, but we have started using Cirrus CI.
Mention the libvirt-ci subproject as well, as a pointer for those
who might want to learn more about our CI infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
'transfers inactive the definition of a domain' seems odd.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Jenkins replaced use of the term 'slave' with 'agent' when
describing its architecture.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The wiki page we currently link to is just a redirect for
back compat.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Network interfaces are simply attached to a bridge device.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The term "access control list" better describes the concept involved.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The term "access control list" better describes the concept involved.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
oVirt does merge images out of libvirt in some cases. Add docs outlining
how it's done from a high level.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Simplify the docs and reduce maintenance burden by just describing the
algorithm by a pseudo-language. Users are encouraged to use libvirt
anyways and projects such as oVirt which do some management of storage
themselves are unlikely to use bash anyways.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Define what users should look for when wanting to manipulate bitmaps
themselves.
Later on a patch will turn the bash algorithms into pseudocode for
simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add a section that outlines usage of tools to handle bitmaps and
introduce terms corresponding to the output of qemu-img to be used in
further sections.
With this we can simplify the section about checking bitmap health as we
don't have to explain the qemu-img output but can refer to the newly
defined terms.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Emphasize what needs to happen and also that creating a snapshot doesn't
create the appropriate bitmaps. Also mention that granularity is kept.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Make it obvious what's meant by 'overlay' and 'backing image' for sake
of extension of the document.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
QEMU 4.1.0 introduced a new device type called TPM Proxy, currently
implemented by PPC64 guests via a new virtual device called
'spapr-tpm-proxy' (see QEMU 0fb6bd073230 for more info).
The TPM Proxy device interacts with a TPM Resource Manager, a host
device capable of multiplexing the host TPM with multiple processes.
This allows multiple guests to access some TPM features at the
same time. Note that this mode of operation does not provide
full TPM features to be available for the guest - for that case
the guest still needs to assign a vTPM device (tpm-spapr for
PPC64 guests). Although redundant, there is currently no technical
limitation for a guest to assign both a vTPM and a TPM Proxy at the
same time.
This patch adds documentation and schema for a new TPM model
type called 'spapr-tpm-proxy' that creates this new TPM Proxy
device. This model is valid only for the 'passthrough' backend.
An example of a TPM Proxy device connected to a TPM Resource Manager
'/dev/tpmrm0' will look like this:
<tpm model='spapr-tpm-proxy'>
<backend type='passthrough'>
<device path='/dev/tpmrm0'/>
</backend>
</tpm>
Tested-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add a new aw_bits attribute to the iommu device to control
the address width of the intel-iommu
Signed-off-by Menno Lageman <menno.lageman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Outline the basics and how to integrate with externally created
overlays. Other topics will continue later.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
