The "libvirt supports:" section on the main page of libvirt.org
contains a list of hypervisors with links that point to the sites of
the underlying virt technologies. The entry for KVM points to
http://www.linux-kvm.org/, for example. People coming to libvirt.org
for the first time are likely to know about those sites, and they're
probably interested in how libvirt manages those technologies. This
patch points those links to the libvirt driver pages instead. It also
consolidates KVM and QEMU as there is only one libvirt driver page for
them. Finally, it adds a line about networking support.
v2: incorporate Eric's feedback adding project links to driver pages.
website: Add project links to KVM/QEMU driver page
website: Add project links to Xen driver page
website: Add project links to LXC driver page
website: Add project links to OpenVZ driver page
website: Add project links to UML driver page
website: Add project links to Virtualbox driver page
website: Add project links to ESX driver page
website: Add project links to VMware driver page
When using virCommandRunAsync and saving the pid for later, it
is useful to be able to reap that pid in the same way that it
would have been auto-reaped by virCommand if we had passed
NULL for the pid argument in the first place.
* src/util/command.c (virPidWait, virPidAbort): New functions,
created from...
(virCommandWait, virCommandAbort): ...bodies of these.
(includes): Drop duplicate <stdlib.h>. Ensure that our pid_t
assumptions hold.
(virCommandRunAsync): Improve documentation.
* src/util/command.h (virPidWait, virPidAbort): New prototypes.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export them.
* docs/internals/command.html.in: Document them.
Without this patch, the make rule in a VPATH build was trying to
invoke ../../docs/../../docs/todo.pl, which didn't exist.
* docs/Makefile.am (todo.html.in): Using $< already implies
$(srcdir) in GNU make VPATH situations.
Set StrictHostKeyChecking=no to auto-accept new ssh host keys if the
no_verify extra parameter was specified. This won't disable host key
checking for already known hosts. Includes a test and documentation.
Kernel cmdline args can be passed to xen pv domains even when a
bootloader is specified. The current config-to-sxpr mapping
ignores cmdline when bootloader is present.
Since the xend sub-driver is used with many xen toolstack versions,
this patch takes conservative approach of adding an else block to
existing !def->os.bootloader, and only appends sxpr if def->os.cmdline
is non-NULL.
V2: Fix existing testcase broken by this patch and add new testcases
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.
This option accepts 3 values:
-keep, to keep current client connected (Spice+VNC)
-disconnect, to disconnect client (Spice)
-fail, to fail setting password if there is a client connected (Spice)
Add libvirt support for MicroBlaze architecture as a QEMU target. Based on mips/mipsel pattern.
Signed-off-by: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
No change in wording. One spacing change in a <pre>, noticed because
of odd XML formatting online; the rest is in free-flowing text to
make it easier to see nesting levels in the document.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Adjust spacing. Break long lines.
domain.rng, network.rng, and interface.rng already use a few of the
same types (or in some cases *should* but don't), and an upcoming code
change will have them sharing even more. To prepare for that, this
patch takes those common data type definitions and moves them into
basictypes.rng.
This may break some rule about the need to RNG files to be autonomous
or something, but I saw that storageencryption.rng is used in this
way, so I figured it must not be completely against the law...
Add a new attribute to the <seclabel> XML to allow resource
relabelling to be enabled with static label usage.
<seclabel model='selinux' type='static' relabel='yes'>
<label>system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c392,c662</label>
</seclabel>
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Add relabel attribute
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Parse
the 'relabel' attribute
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Unconditionally clear out the
'imagelabel' attribute
* src/security/security_apparmor.c: Skip based on 'relabel'
attribute instead of label type
* src/security/security_selinux.c: Skip based on 'relabel'
attribute instead of label type and fill in <imagelabel>
attribute if relabel is enabled.
Normally the dynamic labelling mode will always use a base
label of 'svirt_t' for VMs. Introduce a <baselabel> field
in the <seclabel> XML to allow this base label to be changed
eg
<seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux'>
<baselabel>system_u:object_r:virt_t:s0</baselabel>
</seclabel>
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Add <baselabel>
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Parsing
of base label
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Don't reset 'model' attribute if
a base label is specified
* src/security/security_apparmor.c: Refuse to support base label
* src/security/security_selinux.c: Use 'baselabel' when generating
label, if available
Add a page which documents how to configure lock managers,
focusing on use of sanlock with the QEMU/KVM driver
* docs/locking.html.in: Docs about lock managers
* docs/sitemap.html.in: Add lock manager config to
the deployment section
The sub-elements of <ip> had been placed at the same level of
indentation as ip itself, implying that they were really elements of
<network>. Within that, sub-elements of ip/dhcp were also at that same
level. These have been double-indented.
At the same time, I realized that the documentation for the new <dns>
element had been placed right in the middle of the description of the
sub-elements of <ip>. I moved it up out of the way.
This commit introduces names definition for the DNS hosts file using
the following syntax:
<dns>
<host ip="192.168.1.1">
<name>alias1</name>
<name>alias2</name>
</host>
</dns>
Some of the improvements and fixes were done by Laine Stump so
I'm putting him into the SOB clause again ;-)
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
This commit introduces the <dns> element and <txt> record for the
virtual DNS network. The DNS TXT record can be defined using following
syntax in the network XML file:
<dns>
<txt name="example" value="example value" />
</dns>
Also, the Relax-NG scheme has been altered to allow the texts without
spaces only for the name element and some nitpicks about memory
free'ing have been fixed by Laine so therefore I'm adding Laine to the
SOB clause ;-)
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
This patch adds documentation about the 802.1Qbh related parameters
of the virtualport element for 'direct' interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Wang <dwang2@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@cisco.com>
This fixes a number of issues most of them raised by Eric Blake on the
generated documentation output:
- parsing of "long long int" and similar
- add parsing of unions within a struct
- remove spurious " * " fron comments on structure fields and enums
- fix concatenation of base type and name in arrays
- extend XSLT to cope with union in structs
* docs/apibuild.py: fix and extend API extraction tool
* docs/newapi.xsl: extend the stylesheets to cope with union in
public structures
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.
From a security pov copy and paste between the guest and the client is not
always desirable. So we need to be able to enable/disable this. The best place
to do this from an administration pov is on the hypervisor, so the qemu cmdline
is getting a spice disable-copy-paste option, see bug 693645. Example qemu
invocation:
qemu -spice port=5932,disable-ticketing,disable-copy-paste
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693661
For backwards compatibility, if no <video> is set but there is a
<graphics> tag, then we add a default <video> according to the
guest type. Add docs to tell the user about this to not make
them confused. Especially if they remove the video (such as via
"virsh edit"), it will be surprised for them to see the video
element is still in domain XML.
Partial revert of commit c3c30d4de9.
* docs/Makefile.am (internals/%.html.tmp): Restore MKDIR_P; it is
needed for intermediate file after all.
Reported by Daniel P. Berrange.
A lock manager may operate in various modes. The direct mode of
operation is to obtain locks based on the resources associated
with devices in the XML. The indirect mode is where the app
creating the domain provides explicit leases for each resource
that needs to be locked. This XML extension allows for listing
resources in the XML
<devices>
...
<lease>
<lockspace>somearea</lockspace>
<key>thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog</key>
<target path='/some/lease/path' offset='23432'/>
</lease>
...
</devices>
The 'lockspace' is a unique identifier for the lockspace which
the lease is associated
The 'key' is a unique identifier for the resource associated
with the lease.
The 'target' is the file on disk where the leases are held.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Add lease schema
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: parsing and
formatting for leases
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-lease.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-lease.xml,
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: Test XML handling for leases
I noticed this while building from libvirt.git on RHEL 5.6:
Generating internals/command.html.tmp
mkdir: cannot create directory `/internals': Permission denied
If I had been building as root instead, this pollutes /.
Older autoconf lacks $(builddir), but it is rigorously equal to '.'
in newer autoconf, so we could use '$(MKDIR_P) internals' instead.
However, since internals/command.html is part of the tarball, we
_already_ build it in $(srcdir), not $(builddir) during VPATH
builds, so the mkdir is wasted effort!
* docs/Makefile.am (internals/%.html.tmp): Drop unused mkdir.
This fixes this three warnings from the parser by allowing the parser
to ignore some macros in the same way as it can ignore functions.
Parsing ./../include/libvirt/libvirt.h
Misformatted macro comment for _virSchedParameter
Expecting '* _virSchedParameter:' got '* virSchedParameter:'
Misformatted macro comment for _virBlkioParameter
Expecting '* _virBlkioParameter:' got '* virBlkioParameter:'
Misformatted macro comment for _virMemoryParameter
Expecting '* _virMemoryParameter:' got '* virMemoryParameter:'
Since -vnc uses ':' to separate the address from the port, raw
IPv6 addresses need to be escaped like [addr]:port
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c: Escape raw IPv6 addresses with []
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-graphics-vnc.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-graphics-vnc.xml: Tweak
to test Ipv6 escaping
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Allow Ipv6 addresses, or hostnames
in <graphics> listen attributes
This adds a streaming-video=filter|all|off attribute. It is used to change
the behavior of video stream detection in spice, the default is filter (the
default for libvirt is not to specify it - the actual default is defined in
libspice-server.so).
Usage:
<graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'>
<streaming mode='off'/>
</graphics>
Tested with the above and with tests/qemuxml2argvtest.
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
This patch enables filtering of gratuitous ARP packets using the following XML:
<rule action='accept' direction='in' priority='425'>
<arp gratuitous='true'/>
</rule>
starting with kernel 2.6.38 macvtap supports a 'passthru' mode for
attaching virtual functions of a SRIOV capable network card directly to a VM.
This patch adds the capability to configure such a device.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer@herrendoerfer.name>
Migration just seems to go from bad to worse. We already had to
introduce a second migration protocol when adding the QEMU driver,
since the one from Xen was insufficiently flexible to cope with
passing the data the QEMU driver required.
It turns out that this protocol still has some flaws that we
need to address. The current sequence is
* Src: DumpXML
- Generate XML to pass to dst
* Dst: Prepare
- Get ready to accept incoming VM
- Generate optional cookie to pass to src
* Src: Perform
- Start migration and wait for send completion
- Kill off VM if successful, resume if failed
* Dst: Finish
- Wait for recv completion and check status
- Kill off VM if unsuccessful
The problems with this are:
- Since the first step is a generic 'DumpXML' call, we can't
add in other migration specific data. eg, we can't include
any VM lease data from lock manager plugins
- Since the first step is a generic 'DumpXML' call, we can't
emit any 'migration begin' event on the source, or have
any hook that runs right at the start of the process
- Since there is no final step on the source, if the Finish
method fails to receive all migration data & has to kill
the VM, then there's no way to resume the original VM
on the source
This patch attempts to introduce a version 3 that uses the
improved 5 step sequence
* Src: Begin
- Generate XML to pass to dst
- Generate optional cookie to pass to dst
* Dst: Prepare
- Get ready to accept incoming VM
- Generate optional cookie to pass to src
* Src: Perform
- Start migration and wait for send completion
- Generate optional cookie to pass to dst
* Dst: Finish
- Wait for recv completion and check status
- Kill off VM if failed, resume if success
- Generate optional cookie to pass to src
* Src: Confirm
- Kill off VM if success, resume if failed
The API is designed to allow both input and output cookies
in all methods where applicable. This lets us pass around
arbitrary extra driver specific data between src & dst during
migration. Combined with the extra 'Begin' method this lets
us pass lease information from source to dst at the start of
migration
Moving the killing of the source VM out of Perform and
into Confirm, means we can now recover if the dst host
can't successfully Finish receiving migration data.
The hvsupport.html.in file is forever out of date. By annotating
the driver struct tables in each driver with version information,
we can auto-generate the hvsupport.html.in file. Annotating the
drivers will be mandatory for new patches, ensuring hvsupport.html.in
is never out of date again.
* docs/hvsupport.html.in: Delete
* hvsupport.pl: Script to generate hvsupport.html.in
* Makefile.am: Autogenerate hvsupport.html.in
This re-adds the example section originally written by Osier Yang,
and indicates the version in which the cputune parameters became
available in libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Igor Serebryany <igor47@moomers.org>
Update the documentation to mention that the CA certificate and the
client cert/key pair can come from the user's location or the global
location independent of each other.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
We already have virAsprintf, so picking a similar name helps for
seeing a similar purpose. Furthermore, the prefix V before printf
generally implies 'va_list', even though this variant was '...', and
the old name got in the way of adding a new va_list version.
global rename performed with:
$ git grep -l virBufferVSprintf \
| xargs -L1 sed -i 's/virBufferVSprintf/virBufferAsprintf/g'
then revert the changes in ChangeLog-old.
* configure.ac libvirt.spec.in docs/news.html.in: update and document
the release
* po/*.po*: update localizations for german, polish, spanish, ukrainian
and vietnamese coming from transifex, regenerate
For IEEE 802.1Qbg, it is necessary to use a VLAN interface.
vepa itself does not require a VLAN interface.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <stenzel at de.ibm.com>
Tried to dredge through old changelogs and commits to come up with it, so
may not be completely accurate.
v2:
Drop ambiguous 'containers'
Use same mail archive for all links
This extends the SPICE XML to allow variable compression settings for audio,
images and streaming:
<graphics type='spice' port='5901' tlsPort='-1' autoport='yes'>
<image compression='auto_glz'/>
<jpeg compression='auto'/>
<zlib compression='auto'/>
<playback compression='on'/>
</graphics>
All new elements are optional.
This patch adds support for the evaluation of TCP flags in nwfilters.
It adds documentation to the web page and extends the tests as well.
Also, the nwfilter schema is extended.
The following are some example for rules using the tcp flags:
<rule action='accept' direction='in'>
<tcp state='NONE' flags='SYN/ALL' dsptportstart='80'/>
</rule>
<rule action='drop' direction='in'>
<tcp state='NONE' flags='SYN/ALL'/>
</rule>
It was just pointed out that, although I added documentation for the
IPv6 additions to the network XML, I neglected to use those additions
in the examples. This patch adds an IPv6 address to each of the
examples except for the "default" network, since that is a faithful
reproduction of the default network config that's automatically
installed, which doesn't include any IPv6 address (for good reason -
because there is no such thing as IPv6 NAT, there is no one IPv6
address that would work for all installations).
Commit 78ba748ef1 claims to fix
documentation for swap_hard_limit virsh memtune option but it only fixes
documentation in formatdomain.html and libvirt.h. This patch completes
the task by fixing "virsh help memtune" output and memtune section of
virsh man page.
The Open Nebula driver has been unmaintained since it was first
introduced. The only commits have been for tree-wide cleanups.
It also has a major design flaw, in that it only knows about guests
that it has created itself, which makes it of very limited use.
Discussions wrt evolution of the VMWare ESX driver, concluded that
it should limit itself to single-node ESX operation and not try to
manage the multi-node architecture of VirtualCenter. Open Nebula
is a cluster like Virtual Center, not a single node system, so
the same reasoning applies.
The DeltaCloud project includes an Open Nebula driver and is a much
better fit architecturally, since it is explicitly targetting the
distributed multihost cluster scenario.
Thus this patch deletes the libvirt Open Nebula driver with the
recommendation that people use DeltaCloud for managing it instead.
* configure.ac: Remove probe for xmlrpc & --with-one arg
* daemon/Makefile.am, daemon/libvirtd.c, src/Makefile.am: Remove
ONE driver build
* src/opennebula/one_client.c, src/opennebula/one_client.h,
src/opennebula/one_conf.c, src/opennebula/one_conf.h,
src/opennebula/one_driver.c, src/opennebula/one_driver.c: Delete
files
* autobuild.sh, libvirt.spec.in, mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Remove
build rules for Open Nebula
* docs/drivers.html.in, docs/sitemap.html.in: Remove reference
to OpenNebula
* docs/drvone.html.in: Delete file
Some things to note in this patch:
- we do extend libvirt scope beyond purely managing domains, there is
already a number of blocks which are here as helpr functions to
manage the resources on the host.
- we are expanding in the direction of libvirt being sufficient to do
most of the management on the Host (but within the limits of the need
for virtualization, e.g. managing users on the host is out of scope)
- we don't require anymore APIs to be supported by multiple
hypervisors to get in, it's already the case in practice, but we
should still make sure the semantic of those APIs are clear. We
added quite a bit for QEmu, but for example I saw on IRC that VBox
could emulate a network unplug/replug on a domain interface, and
that would be a good addition even if a priori no other hypervisor
supports it.
- Make clear that all libvirt APIs are available remotely, which is
key to use libvirt for building management tools.
- link the goal page from the project main page
As for libvirt project directions, I think it just reflects the natural
evolution in the last couple of years. We are less hypervisor agnostic
and extending in the Host management. Clearly there is interest in
making sure libvirt is complete in term of features for the hypervisors
supported, especially the ones like KVM or LXC which don't really have
integrated management library.
* docs/goals.html.in: update the goals page
* docs/index.html.in: link it from the top page
<imagelable> is not generated by running domain, actually we parse
it in src/conf/domain_conf.c, this patch is to fix it, otherwise any
validation (virt-xml-validate) on the domain xml dumped from shutoff
domain containing <imagelable> will fail.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng
* docs/logging.html.in: document the fact that starting from
0.9.0 the server logs goes to libvirtd.log instead of syslog
by default, describe the debug buffer, restructure the page
and add a couple more examples
* Correct the documentation for cgroup: the swap_hard_limit indicates
mem+swap_hard_limit.
* Change cgroup private apis to: virCgroupGet/SetMemSwapHardLimit
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current LXC I/O controller looks for HUP to detect
when a guest has quit. This isn't reliable as during
initial bootup it is possible that 'init' will close
the console and let mingetty re-open it. The shutdown
of containers was also flakey because it only killed
the libvirt I/O controller and expected container
processes to gracefully follow.
Change the I/O controller such that when it see HUP
or an I/O error, it uses kill($PID, 0) to see if the
process has really quit.
Change the container shutdown sequence to use the
virCgroupKillPainfully function to ensure every
really goes away
This change makes the use of the 'cpu', 'devices'
and 'memory' cgroups controllers compulsory with
LXC
* docs/drvlxc.html.in: Document that certain cgroups
controllers are now mandatory
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Check if PID is still
alive before quitting on I/O error/HUP
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Use virCgroupKillPainfully
The Relax-NG schema for domains regarding <hostdev> doesn't match what's
implemented in src/conf/domain_conf.c#virDomainHostdevDefFormat(): The
implementation only requires @type, but the schema currently either
required none or all three attributes (@mode, @type, and @managed) to be
defined together, because they are declared in the same
<optional)-section. (@managed is currently even undocumented on
<http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsUSB>).
Thus the following minimal <hostdev>-example fails to validate:
<domain type='test'>
<name>N</name>
<memory>4096</memory>
<bootloader>/bin/false</bootloader>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='xenpv'>linux</type>
</os>
<devices>
<hostdev type='pci'>
<source>
<address bus='0x06' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
</devices>
</domain>
The schema is changed to match the current implementation:
1. @mode is optional (which defaults to 'subsystem')
2. @type is required
3. @managed is optional (which defaults to 'no')
The documentation is updated to mention @managed.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This patchs adds documentation about the 802.1Qbg related parameters
of the virtualport element in a 'direct' interface definition.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@de.ibm.com>
A diff of 'make dist' from in-tree vs. a VPATH build showed
that we were missing docs/api_extension/*.patch files, but
shipping other files that we didn't need.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_extra_files): Don't distribute files we
don't care about.
* docs/Makefile.am (patches): Perform wildcard correctly.
Done mechanically with:
$ git grep -l '\bDEBUG0\? *(' | xargs -L1 sed -i 's/\bDEBUG0\? *(/VIR_&/'
followed by manual deletion of qemudDebug in daemon/libvirtd.c, along
with a single 'make syntax-check' fallout in the same file, and the
actual deletion in src/util/logging.h.
* src/util/logging.h (DEBUG, DEBUG0): Delete.
* daemon/libvirtd.h (qemudDebug): Likewise.
* global: Change remaining clients over to VIR_DEBUG counterpart.
XSLT allows for two ways of generating the output of transformation.
Either implicit, which xsltproc prints to stdout and can be redirected
to a file using -o file. Or explicit, which means the stylesheet
contains <xsl:document> element which specifies where the output should
be saved. This can be used for generating more files by a single run of
xsltproc and -o directory/ can change the directory where the output
files will be stored.
devhelp.xsl is special in that it combines both options in one
stylesheet, which doesn't work well with -o:
xsltproc --nonet -o ./devhelp/ ./devhelp/devhelp.xsl ./libvirt-api.xml
Outputs 4 *.html files into ./devhelp but then tries to write to
./devhelp/ as a file (hence the I/O error) rather than writing output to
the fifth file devhelp/libvirt.devhelp.
This patch modifies devhelp.xsl so that all files are generated using
<xsl:document> element and -o directory/ can be used to override output
directory where those files are saved.
This patch adds the possibility to not just drop packets, but to also have them rejected where iptables at least sends an ICMP msg back to the originator. On ebtables this again maps into dropping packets since rejecting is not supported.
I am adding 'since 0.8.9' to the docs assuming this will be the next version of libvirt.
This still doesn't fix {html,devhelp}/libvirt-{libvirt-virterror}.html,
but it's progress in the right direction.
* docs/Makefile.am (%.html): Build into srcdir.
This fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609463
The problem was that, since a bridge always acquires the MAC address
of the connected interface with the numerically lowest MAC, as guests
are started and stopped, it was possible for the MAC address to change
over time, and this change in the network was being detected by
Windows 7 (it sees the MAC of the default route change), so on each
reboot it would bring up a dialog box asking about this "new network".
The solution is to create a dummy tap interface with a MAC guaranteed
to be lower than any guest interface's MAC, and attach that tap to the
bridge as soon as it's created. Since all guest MAC addresses start
with 0xFE, we can just generate a MAC with the standard "0x52, 0x54,
0" prefix, and it's guaranteed to always win (physical interfaces are
never connected to these bridges, so we don't need to worry about
competing numerically with them).
Note that the dummy tap is never set to IFF_UP state - that's not
necessary in order for the bridge to take its MAC, and not setting it
to UP eliminates the clutter of having an (eg) "virbr0-nic" displayed
in the output of the ifconfig command.
I chose to not auto-generate the MAC address in the network XML
parser, as there are likely to be consumers of that API that don't
need or want to have a MAC address associated with the
bridge.
Instead, in bridge_driver.c when the network is being defined, if
there is no MAC, one is generated. To account for virtual network
configs that already exist when upgrading from an older version of
libvirt, I've added a %post script to the specfile that searches for
all network definitions in both the config directory
(/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks) and the state directory
(/var/lib/libvirt/network) that are missing a mac address, generates a
random address, and adds it to the config (and a matching address to
the state file, if there is one).
docs/formatnetwork.html.in: document <mac address.../>
docs/schemas/network.rng: add nac address to schema
libvirt.spec.in: %post script to update existing networks
src/conf/network_conf.[ch]: parse and format <mac address.../>
src/libvirt_private.syms: export a couple private symbols we need
src/network/bridge_driver.c:
auto-generate mac address when needed,
create dummy interface if mac address is present.
tests/networkxml2xmlin/isolated-network.xml
tests/networkxml2xmlin/routed-network.xml
tests/networkxml2xmlout/isolated-network.xml
tests/networkxml2xmlout/routed-network.xml: add mac address to some tests
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.
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: bump version and add docs
* po/*.po*: updated Gujarati, Polish and Dutch localisations and regenerated
Libxml2-Logo-90x34.gif was removed from the repository in Sep 2009
(commit d6d528c) because our docs no longer reference it.
* docs/Makefile.am (install-data-local): Don't install missing file.
Adds <smartcard mode='passthrough' type='spicevmc'/>, which uses the
new <channel name='smartcard'/> of <graphics type='spice'>.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Support new XML.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainGraphicsSpiceChannelName): New
enum value.
(virDomainChrSpicevmcName): New enum.
(virDomainChrSourceDef): Distinguish spicevmc types.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainGraphicsSpiceChannelName): Add
smartcard.
(virDomainSmartcardDefParseXML): Parse it.
(virDomainChrDefParseXML, virDomainSmartcardDefParseXML): Set
spicevmc name.
(virDomainChrSpicevmc): New enum conversion functions.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export new functions.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildChrChardevStr): Conditionalize
name.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (domain): New test.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smartcard-passthrough-spicevmc.args:
New file.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smartcard-passthrough-spicevmc.xml:
Likewise.
Inspired by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615757
Add a new character device backend for virtio serial channels that
activates the QEMU spice agent on the main channel using the vdagent
spicevmc connection. The <target> must be type='virtio', and supports
an optional name that specifies how the guest will see the channel
(for now, name must be com.redhat.spice.0).
<channel type='spicevmc'>
<target type='virtio'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='1' bus='0' port='3'/>
</channel>
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Support new XML.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainChrType): New enum value.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainChr): Add spicevmc.
(virDomainChrDefParseXML, virDomainChrSourceDefParseXML)
(virDomainChrDefParseTargetXML): Parse and enforce proper use.
(virDomainChrSourceDefFormat, virDomainChrDefFormat): Format.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildChrChardevStr)
(qemuBuildCommandLine): Add qemu support.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (domain): New test.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-spicevmc.xml: New
file.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-spicevmc.args:
Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Assuming a hypervisor that supports multiple smartcard devices in the
guest, this would be a valid XML description:
<devices>
<smartcard mode='host'/>
<smartcard mode='host-certificates'>
<certificate>/path/to/cert1</certificate>
<certificate>/path/to/cert2</certificate>
<certificate>/path/to/cert3</certificate>
</smartcard>
<smartcard mode='passthrough' type='tcp'>
<source mode='bind' host='127.0.0.1' service='2001'/>
<protocol type='raw'/>
</smartcard>
</devices>
(As of this commit, the qemu hypervisor will be the first
implementation, but it only supports one smartcard.)
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (Smartcard devices): New section.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng (smartcard): New define, used in
devices.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smartcard-host.xml: New file
to test schema.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smartcard-host-certificates.xml:
Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smartcard-passthrough-tcp.xml:
Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smartcard-controller.xml:
Likewise.
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
QEMU supports serving VNC over a unix domain socket rather than traditional
TCP host/port. This is specified with:
<graphics type='vnc' socket='/foo/bar/baz'/>
This provides better security access control than VNC listening on
127.0.0.1, but will cause issues with tools that rely on the lax security
(virt-manager in fedora runs as regular user by default, and wouldn't be
able to access a socket owned by 'qemu' or 'root').
Also not currently supported by any clients, though I have patches for
virt-manager, and virt-viewer should be simple to update.
v2:
schema: Make listen vs. socket a <choice>
Currently, boot order can be specified per device class but there is no
way to specify exact disk/NIC device to boot from.
This patch adds <boot order='N'/> element which can be used inside
<disk/> and <interface/>. This is incompatible with the older os/boot
element. Since not all hypervisors support per-device boot
specification, new deviceboot flag is included in capabilities XML for
hypervisors which understand the new boot element. Presence of the flag
allows (but doesn't require) users to use the new style boot order
specification.
This is in response to a request in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665293
In short, under heavy load, it's possible for qemu's networking to
lock up due to the tap device's default 1MB sndbuf being
inadequate. adding "sndbuf=0" to the qemu commandline -netdevice
option will alleviate this problem (sndbuf=0 actually sets it to
0xffffffff).
Because we must be able to explicitly specify "0" as a value, the
standard practice of "0 means not specified" won't work here. Instead,
virDomainNetDef also has a sndbuf_specified, which defaults to 0, but
is set to 1 if some value was given.
The sndbuf value is put inside a <tune> element of each <interface> in
the domain. The intent is that further tunable settings will also be
placed inside this element.
<interface type='network'>
...
<tune>
<sndbuf>0</sndbuf>
...
</tune>
</interface>
This patch is in response to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643050
The existing libvirt support for the vhost-net backend to the virtio
network driver happens automatically - if the vhost-net device is
available, it is always enabled, otherwise the standard userland
virtio backend is used.
This patch makes it possible to force whether or not vhost-net is used
with a bit of XML. Adding a <driver> element to the interface XML, eg:
<interface type="network">
<model type="virtio"/>
<driver name="vhost"/>
will force use of vhost-net (if it's not available, the domain will
fail to start). if driver name="qemu", vhost-net will not be used even
if it is available.
If there is no <driver name='xxx'/> in the config, libvirt will revert
to the pre-existing automatic behavior - use vhost-net if it's
available, and userland backend if vhost-net isn't available.
* docs/hacking.html.in (Curly braces): Tighten recommendations to
disallow if (cond) one-line; else { block; }.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.
