When using recent Fedora and RHEL versions, the manual setup that
is otherwise necessary to enable the module can be replaced with
executing a single command.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The page contains some confusing information, especially around
limitations that supposedly only affect one of the two variants,
and goes into what is arguably an unnecessary amount of detail
when it comes to its inner workings.
We can make the page a lot shorter and snappier without
affecting its usefulness, so let's do just that.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
As requested on the libvirt users list I am adding this mention to the
apps page.
Reported-by: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Learn to parse a directory for the TPM state.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Learn to parse a file path for the TPM state.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Domain capabilities include information about support for various
devices and models.
Panic devices are not included in the output which means that management
applications need to include the logic for choosing the right device
model or request a default model and try defining such a domain.
Add reporting of panic device models into the domain capabilities based
on the logic in qemuValidateDomainDefPanic() and also report whether
panic devices are supported based on whether at least one model is
supported. That way consumers of the domain capability XML can
differentiate between libvirt not reporting the panic device models or
no model being supported.
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-65187
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The support for the 'sgio' attribute for SCSI-backed devices was dropped
as there wasn't really ever any upstream support for it.
The docs do state that support for this depends on the hypervisor
itself, but we can be more clear that there is no hypervisor which does
support it.
There is also a suggestion to use 'sgio' instead of 'rawio' as being
more "secure" but since it no longer works drop this suggestion.
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-65268
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The docs for submitting a patch describe using your "Legal Name" with
the Signed-off-by line.
In recent times, there's been a general push back[1] against the notion
that use of Signed-off-by in a project automatically requires / implies
the use of legal ("real") names and greater awareness of the downsides.
Full discussion of the problems of such policies is beyond the scope of
this commit message, but at a high level they are liable to marginalize,
disadvantage, and potentially result in harm, to contributors.
TL;DR: there are compelling reasons for a person to choose distinct
identities in different contexts & a decision to override that choice
should not be taken lightly.
A number of key projects have responded to the issues raised by making
it clear that a contributor is free to determine the identity used in
SoB lines:
* Linux has clarified[2] that they merely expect use of the
contributor's "known identity", removing the previous explicit
rejection of pseudonyms.
* CNCF has clarified[3] that the real name is simply the identity
the contributor chooses to use in the context of the community
and does not have to be a legal name, nor birth name, nor appear
on any government ID.
Since we have no intention of ever routinely checking any form of ID
documents for contributors[4], realistically we have no way of knowing
anything about the name they are using, except through chance, or
through the contributor volunteering the information. IOW, we almost
certainly already have people using pseudonyms for contributions.
This proposes to accept that reality and eliminate unnecessary friction,
by following Linux & the CNCF in merely asking that a contributors'
commonly known identity, of their choosing, be used with the SoB line.
[1] Raised in many contexts at many times, but a decent overall summary
can be read at https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/31/On-real-names.html
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
[3] https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/659fd32c86dc/dco-guidelines.md
[4] Excluding the rare GPG key signing parties for regular maintainers
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When a CPU model is reported as usable='no' an additional
<blockers model='...'> element is added for that CPU model to show which
features are missing for the CPU model to become usable.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Mention that hypervisors may need a temporary file and document the qemu
template for creating them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The migration parameter causes zero detection to be enabled and zero
blocks are *not* transferred to the destination. This means that users
must provide pre-cleared images that read all zero, otherwise the
non-zero blocks on destination which reside in places where the source
has zero blocks would be kept intact corrupting the image.
As not transferring and overwriting the zero blocks is what the feature
is supposed to do the users need to provide the proper environment.
Document the requirement, both in API and in the virsh man page for the
'--migrate-disks-detect-zeroes' option.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
With watchdog action=dump the actual watchdog action is set to pause and
the daemon then proceeds to dump the process. After that the domain is
resumed. That was the case since the feature was added. However the
resuming of the domain might be unexpected, especially when compared to
HW watchdog, which will never run the guest from the point where it got
interrupted.
Document the pre-existing behaviour, since any change might be
unexpected as well. Change of behaviour would require new options like
dump+reset, dump+pause, etc. That option is still possible, but
orthogonal to this change.
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-753
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Enforce that relative links are used within the page, so that local
installations don't require internet conection and/or don't redirect to
the web needlessly.
This is done by looking for any local link (barring exceptions) when
checking links with 'check-html-references.py'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Now that most things were migrated out of the old server which hosted
the 'libvirt.org' web (now handles only 'https://download.libvirt.org')
which no longer even hosts the cgit web interface (any link redirects to
gitlab) the whole section now is obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Replace full/external links which point to content within
'https://libvirt.org/' with relative links so that the web page works
fully locally.
This does not change the links in 'docs/manpages' as we want the
installed man page to work from everywhere (even when the local docs are
not installed) and the generated API docs which take links from the C
source.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add a '--require-https' switch to 'check-html-references' helper script
which will error out if any non-https external link is used from our web
and use it while builidng docs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The documentation about remote access to libvirt was pointing to a blog
post about usage of the 'ssh-agent' to avoid being asked for passwords.
The blog/host is now unfortunately defunct thus the link is dead.
Replace the link by the official man page of the 'ssh-agent' program.
This convenietnly removes the last non-'https' link on our web.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Expose the new parameter as '--migrate-disks-detect-zeroes' option.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The meaning of the values as well as their maximums are hard to predict
and accounting for all the possibilities (which by the way might change
during daemon's execution) is borderline hallucinatory. There is
already a way we represent them, which is the same as the Linux kernel.
We do not interpret them at all, just blindly use them. In order to
make this more apparent for the users change the documentation for the
<memorytune/> (not <memtune/>) element more boldly.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Enhance the 'since' annotation of <filterref> documentation to note
it's only supported by the QEMU, LXC, and ch hypervisor drivers.
Suggested-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
qemu supports this enlightenment since version 7.10.
From the qemu commit:
Hyper-V specification allows to pass parameters for certain hypercalls
using XMM registers ("XMM Fast Hypercall Input"). When the feature is
in use, it allows for faster hypercalls processing as KVM can avoid
reading guest's memory.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
qemu supports this enlightenment since version 7.10.
From the qemu commit:
The newly introduced enlightenment allow L0 (KVM) and L1 (Hyper-V)
hypervisors to collaborate to avoid unnecessary updates to L2
MSR-Bitmap upon vmexits.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This introduces a new 'ps2' feature which, when disabled, results in
no implicit PS/2 bus input devices being automatically added to the
domain and addition of the 'i8042=off' machine option to the QEMU
command-line.
A notable side effect of disabling the i8042 controller in QEMU is that
the vmport device won't be created. For this reason we will not allow
setting the vmport feature if the ps2 feature is explicitly disabled.
Signed-off-by: Kamil Szczęk <kamil@szczek.dev>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This will allow to print full domains info:
Id Name State UUID
---------------------------
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Barybin <nikolai.barybin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Based on discussion after commit f432114d9c was pushed it was pointed
out that the documentation still mentions the older version.
Fix the documentation to state the new version and introduce ambiguity
for future updates.
Fixes: f432114d9c
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Add dma_translation attribute to iommu to enable/disable dma traslation
for intel-iommu
Signed-off-by: Sandesh Patel <sandesh.patel@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Introduced only a couple of commits ago (in
v10.5.0-84-g90e50e67c6) the pstore device acts as a nonvolatile
storage, where guest kernel can store information about crashes.
This device, however, expects a file in the host from which the
crash data is read. So far, we expected users to provide a path,
but we can autogenerate one if missing. Just put it next to
per-domain's NVRAM stores.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The aim of pstore device is to provide a bit of NVRAM storage for
guest kernel to record oops/panic logs just before the it
crashes. Typical usage includes usage in combination with a
watchdog so that the logs can be inspected after the watchdog
rebooted the machine. While Linux kernel (and possibly Windows
too) support many backends, in QEMU there's just 'acpi-erst'
device so stick with that for now. The device must be attached to
a PCI bus and needs two additional values (well, corresponding
memory-backend-file needs them): size and path. Despite using
memory-backend-file this does NOT add any additional RAM to the
guest and thus I've decided to expose it as another device type
instead of memory model.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
New element 'openfiles' had confusing name. Since the patch with
this new element wasn't propagate yet, old name ('rlimit_nofile')
was changed.
...
<binary>
<openfiles max='122333'/>
</binary>
...
Signed-off-by: Adam Julis <ajulis@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
User feedback has shown that the examples are not clear enough
to illustrate the cli passthrough concept in action.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add an element to configure the rlimit nofile size:
...
<binary>
<rlimit_nofile size='122333'/>
</binary>
...
Non-positive values are forbidden in 'domaincommon.rng'. Added separate
test file, created by modifying the 'vhost-user-fs-fd-memory.xml'.
Signed-off-by: Adam Julis <ajulis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
If mgmt apps on top of libvirt want to make a decision on the
backend type for <interface type='user'/> (e.g. whether past is
supported) we currently offer them no way to learn this fact.
Domain capabilities were invented exactly for this reason. Report
supported net backend types there.
Now, because of backwards compatibility, specifying no backend
type (which translates to VIR_DOMAIN_NET_BACKEND_DEFAULT) means
"use hyperviosr's builtin SLIRP". That behaviour can not be
changed. But it may happen that the hypervisor has no support for
SLIRP. So we have to report it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
In order to learn what types of <launchSecurity/> are supported
users can turn to domain capabilities and find <sev/> and
<s390-pv/> elements. While these may expose some additional info
on individual launchSecurity types, we are lacking clean
enumeration (like we do for say device models). And given that
SEV and SEV SNP share the same basis (info found under <sev/> is
applicable to SEV SNP too) we have no other way to report SEV SNP
support.
Therefore, report supported launchSecurity types in domain
capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
SEV-SNP is an enhancement of SEV/SEV-ES and thus it shares some
fields with it. Nevertheless, on XML level, it's yet another type
of <launchSecurity/>.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Sometimes in release hook it is useful to know if the VM shutdown was graceful
or not. This is especially useful to do cleanup based on the VM shutdown failure
reason in release hook. This patch proposes to use the last argument 'extra'
to pass VM shutoff reason in the call to release hook.
Making this change for Qemu and LXC.
Signed-off-by: Swapnil Ingle <swapnil.ingle@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
These projects are not strictly part of libvirt, but are closely related
with many of the same developers and we manage them with 'lcitool
manifest' so it is useful to have them on the dashboard.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This project uses 'main' as the branch name, not 'master'
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Quite a few of the projects we have on the CI dashboard have been
archived at this point, thus don't show any pipeline status info.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The virt-pki-validate command can validate the system certificate
directories. The remote driver, however, also supports a standard
per-user certs location, as well as a runtime custom path. This
extends the validation tool to be able to cope with these alternate
locations too.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The virt-pki-validate tool is currently a shell script. We have a
general goal of eliminating use of shell in the project. By doing a
new implementation in C, we can also make use of our more thorough
sanity checking code to validate the certificate setup.
This new implementation the same output format as the host validation
tool for a more consistent user experiance.
It also eliminates the requirement to have certtool installed on
libvirt hosts, which has been an issue for Fedora flatpak packages
since certtool isn't in the default platform runtime.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When first writing the manpage in
commit 3decd4f9f1
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Sep 16 14:42:57 2009 +0100
Make pki_check.sh into an installed & supported tool
I incorrectly credited Richard, instead of Daniel, who was the
author per
commit 62442d578d
Author: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jul 12 15:47:19 2007 +0000
* docs/libvir.html docs/remote.html: update the remote page,
add an index
* docs/pki_check.sh: shell script to check the PKI and client/server
environment.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We currently require full argument specification:
virt-admin daemon-timeout --timeout X
Well, the '--timeout' feels a bit redundant. Turn the argument
into a positional so that the following works too:
virt-admin daemon-timeout X
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
In a few examples we recommend disabling daemon timeout when
fetching debug logs. While it makes sense the actual syntax used
results in an error:
# virt-admin daemon-timeout 0
error: unexpected data '0'
This is because --timeout is required. Update examples to include
it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
For the links of drvinterface, drvnetwork, drvnwfilter, and Nagios-virt,
there are no alternative docs. Just remove them directly.
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
