Note that this document was not referenced from any top level page. This
patch does a straight conversion and leaves it unreferenced.
Next patch will then modify it to serve as an overview (hence the new
name) of how an API call happens.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add an 'internals' subfolder to 'docs/kbase' to house all the documents
under internals. The output files are still under 'docs/kbase'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Historically we had two top level XSL files for top level and nested
documents which only differ in what they pass for 'href_base' to the
main 'page.xsl' file.
We can instead pass the variable as argument from the build system so
that we have just one XSL file and also allow for more nested document
trees in the future.
The '404' page is special even with the current XSL way so we add a
special case for it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a separate column of documents regarding internals of libvirt and
move the 'migrationinternals' and 'incrementalbackupinternals' pages
under the new heading.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Outline information commonly logged which users could consider
sensitive.
Add a note that VNC/SPICE passwords are logged in plaintext.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Modular daemons are now the default in many new installations, thus we
need to include steps how to determine that modular daemons are used and
modular-daemon specific locations for the config files and admin URIs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
It's a tool name so use backticks to format it in monospace.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Move out the settings required to pre libvirt-4.4.0 deployments into a
separate section so that the main point is not cluttered by now mostly
irrelevant settings.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Enabling the logs is the focus of this article. Decouple it from the
first section.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Use the heading hierarchy as generated by pandoc which we use in most
of the converted XML format docs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
This commit adds new memorydevices.rst page which should serve
all models of memory devices. Yet, I'm documenting virtio-mem
quirks only.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The virtiofs project started off using "virtio-fs" but later switched to
the "virtiofs" spelling because it matches the spelling of the mount -t
virtiofs command-line. Update the kbase article with the new spelling so
it matches the virtiofs website.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
A number of legacy issues make the virtiofs kbase article hard to
understand. Most users don't need to configure NUMA or a memory backend
other than memfd. Move that information to the bottom of the article so
the recommended syntax is most prominent.
Suggested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This is the preferred way to do it, but there were a few
instances in which some of the path components had embedded
slashes instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add documentation for launch security type s390-pv.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Enabling core dumps is a reasonably straightforward task, but is not
documented clearly. This page provides as easy link to point users
to when they need to debug QEMU.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When adding support for externally launched virtiofsd,
I was too liberal and did not require a target.
But the target is required, because it's passed to the
QEMU device, not to virtiofsd.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1969232
Fixes: 12967c3e13
Fixes: 56dcdec1ac
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Nowadays memfd is the most convenient memory backend for vhost-user
devices. Compared to file-backend memory and hugepages, there is no need
to worry about configuring the location of the shm directory or
allocating hugepages.
Cc: Michal Prívozník <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Cc: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This is a rewrite of:
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit
Once this commit merges, the above wiki should point to this kbase
document.
NB: I've intentionally left out the example for pull-based full backups.
I'll tackle it once QMP `x-blockdev-reopen` comes out of experimental
mode in upstream QEMU. Then pull-based can be described for both full
and and differntial backups.
Overall, future documents should cover:
- full backups using both push- and pull-mode
- differential backups using both push- and pull-mode
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Provide an exmple in a place more visible than formatdomain.html.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
It's now empty, so no point in keeping it around.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It's useful to have virt-admin around when debugging issues
with libvirtd, and since it's a tiny binary we can simply
include it in the -daemon package to ensure it's always going
to be available when needed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It doesn't only contain the libvirtd binary.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
While the PCI docs are linked from formatdomain.html, finding those
links is not straightforward. It is good for users to highlight them in
the kbase pages. The PCI docs are intentionally not moved to the kbase/
sub-directory in order to avoid breaking hyperlinks.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Using virtio-blk with SEV on host kernels prior to 5.1 didn't work
because of SWIOTLB limitations and the way virtio has to use it over
DMA-API for SEV (see [1] for detailed info). That is no longer true, so
reword the kbase article accordingly.
For reference, these are the upstream kernel commits lifting the
virtio-blk limitation:
abe420bfae528c92bd8cc5ecb62dc95672b1fd6f
492366f7b4237257ef50ca9c431a6a0d50225aca
133d624b1cee16906134e92d5befb843b58bcf31
e6d6dd6c875eb3c9b69bb640419405726e6e0bbe
fd1068e1860e44aaaa337b516df4518d1ce98da1
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190110134433.15672-1-joro@8bytes.org/
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Historically we've added them in chronological order, but certain
articles are more likely to be needed and thus are easier to find when
placed earlier.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Split the existing list of kbase articles into a 'Usage' category and
into 'Internals/Debugging'. This will later represent the two columns on
the web page.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
