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Ján Tomko
1371ea92f0 Auto add virtio-serial controllers
In virDomainVirtioSerialAddrNext, add another controller
if we've exhausted all ports of the existing controllers.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076708
2015-04-02 15:00:13 +02:00
Ján Tomko
5903378834 Allocate virtio-serial addresses when starting a domain
Instead of always using controller 0 and incrementing port number,
respect the maximum port numbers of controllers and use all of them.

Ports for virtio consoles are quietly reserved, but not formatted
(neither in XML nor on QEMU command line).

Also rejects duplicate virtio-serial addresses.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890606
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076708

Test changes:
* virtio-auto.args
  Filling out the port when just the controller is specified.
  switched from using
    maxport + 1
  to:
    first free port on the controller
* virtio-autoassign.args
  Filling out the address when no <address> is specified.
  Started using all the controllers instead of 0, also discards
  the bus value.
* xml -> xml output of virtio-auto
  The port assignment is no longer done as a part of XML parsing,
  so the unspecified values stay 0.
2015-04-02 15:00:13 +02:00
Ján Tomko
8945d6a805 Add test for virtio serial port assignment
Add a test to demonstrate the effect of automatic virtio-serial
address assignment.
2015-04-02 15:00:13 +02:00
Eric Blake
dfc708750b relaxng: allow : in /dev/disk/by-path names
On IRC, Hydrar pointed a problem where 'virsh edit' failed on
his domain created through an ISCSI pool managed by virt-manager,
all because the XML included a block device with colons in the
name.

* docs/schemas/basictypes.rng (absFilePath): Add colon as safe.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-iscsi.xml: New file.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-iscsi.args: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): Test it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-03-26 16:57:26 -06:00
Luyao Huang
a0bbdcd788 qemu: command: Fix property name for start address of a pc-dimm module
Starting a qemu VM with a memory module that has the base address
specified results in the following error:

 error: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem:
 2015-03-26T03:45:52.338891Z qemu-kvm: -device pc-dimm,node=0,memdev=memdimm0,
 id=dimm0,slot=0,base=4294967296: Property '.base' not found

The correct property name for the base address is 'addr'.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2015-03-26 09:22:21 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
c563b50605 cpu: Add {Haswell,Broadwell}-noTSX CPU models
QEMU 2.3 adds these new models to cover Haswell and Broadwell CPUs with
updated microcode. Luckily, they also reverted former the machine type
specific changes to existing models. And since these changes were never
released, we don't need to hack around them in libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2015-03-26 09:19:59 +01:00
Peter Krempa
8b54bffbab qemu: add support for memory devices
Add support to start qemu instance with 'pc-dimm' device. Thanks to the
refactors we are able to reuse the existing function to determine the
parameters.
2015-03-23 14:25:15 +01:00
Peter Krempa
3e4230d270 conf: Add interface to parse and format memory device information
This patch adds code that parses and formats configuration for memory
devices.

A simple configuration would be:
<memory model='dimm'>
  <target>
    <size unit='KiB'>524287</size>
    <node>0</node>
  </target>
</memory>

A complete configuration of a memory device:
<memory model='dimm'>
  <source>
    <pagesize unit='KiB'>4096</pagesize>
    <nodemask>1-3</nodemask>
  </source>
  <target>
    <size unit='KiB'>524287</size>
    <node>1</node>
  </target>
</memory>

This patch preemptively forbids use of the <memory> device in individual
drivers so the users are warned right away that the device is not
supported.
2015-03-23 14:25:15 +01:00
Peter Krempa
a41185d8d1 qemu: Implement setup of memory hotplug parameters
To enable memory hotplug the maximum memory size and slot count need to
be specified. As qemu supports now other units than mebibytes when
specifying memory, use the new interface in this case.
2015-03-23 14:25:14 +01:00
Antoni Segura Puimedon
a9fbe3b157 docs: schema and docs for the midonet virtualport type
Midonet is an opensource virtual networking that over lays the IP
network between hypervisors. Currently, such networks can be made
with the openvswitch virtualport type.

This patch, defines the schema and documentation that will serve
as basis for the follow up patches that will add support to libvirt
for using Midonet virtual ports for its interfaces. The schema
definition requires that the port profile expresses its interfaceid
as part of the port profile. For that reason, this is part of the
patch too.

Signed-off-by: Antoni Segura Puimedon <toni+libvirt@midokura.com>
2015-03-17 13:09:05 -04:00
Peter Krempa
4bca6192f2 conf: Make specifying <memory> optional
Now that the size of guest's memory can be inferred from the NUMA
configuration (if present) make it optional to specify <memory>
explicitly.

To make sure that memory is specified add a check that some form of
memory size was specified. One side effect of this change is that it is
no longer possible to specify 0KiB as memory size for the VM, but I
don't think it would be any useful to do so. (I can imagine embedded
systems without memory, just registers, but that's far from what libvirt
is usually doing).

Forbidding 0 memory for guests also fixes a few corner cases where 0 was
not interpreted correctly and caused failures. (Arguments for numad when
using automatic placement, size of the balloon). This fixes problems
described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161461

Test case changes are added to verify that the schema change and code
behave correctly.
2015-03-16 14:32:20 +01:00
Peter Krempa
caf88a3c88 conf: Automatically use NUMA memory size in case NUMA is enabled
Use the NUMA total instead of the configured size both in XML and for
uses in the code once NUMA is enabled for a domain.

One test case change is necessary as the rounding of the individual cell
sizes was not matching the rounding of the total size.
2015-03-16 14:32:20 +01:00
Pavel Hrdina
c2851781f1 tests: fix qemuxml2argvtest to be arch independent
Commit 5aee81a0 introduced a new test for disk-serial.  The test fails
on i686 arch because there is no need to add "-cpu qemu32" to command
line.  To fix the test update emulator in XML to "/usr/bin/qemu" so we
don't add the "-cpu qemu32" to command while running the test on i686 or
x86_64 host.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2015-03-09 13:34:37 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
5882064084 tests: Add test for os interleaving
We don't usually do tests purely for one change, but one change was
special because when users will migrate to OVMF/AAVMF, commit 18f9f69b
makes their lives easier by allowing them to interleave <type/> inside
<os/>.  It would be nice of us to keep the possibility of them pasting
the loader and nvram elements wherever it is valid, hence this test.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-03-09 07:52:34 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
6b22e0b562 tests: Add test for virtio-mmio address type
Commit 3e4b783e fixed an issue with RNG schema where this address type
was missing, this commit adds a test for it.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-03-09 07:52:34 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
b39b1397ea domain_conf: Format <pvpanic/> without address correctly
We have something like pvpanic device. However, in some cases it does
not have any address assigned, in which case we produce this ugly XML
(still valid though):

  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
    ...
    <panic>
    </panic>
  </devices>

Lets format "<panic/>" instead.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-03-06 14:22:45 +01:00
Pavel Hrdina
cf521fc8ba memtune: change the way how we store unlimited value
There was a mess in the way how we store unlimited value for memory
limits and how we handled values provided by user.  Internally there
were two possible ways how to store unlimited value: as 0 value or as
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED.  Because we chose to store memory
limits as unsigned long long, we cannot use -1 to represent unlimited.
It's much easier for us to say that everything greater than
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED means unlimited and leave 0 as valid
value despite that it makes no sense to set limit to 0.

Remove unnecessary function virCompareLimitUlong.  The update of test
is to prevent the 0 to be miss-used as unlimited in future.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146539

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2015-03-06 11:52:24 +01:00
Peter Krempa
7909300498 conf: Remove duplicate entries in <metadata> by namespace
Since the APIs support just one element per namespace and while
modifying an element all duplicates would be removed, let's do this
right away in the post parse callback.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190590
2015-03-05 16:24:34 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
5aee81a0cb qemu: Allow spaces in disk serial
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195660

There's been a bug report appearing on the qemu-devel list, that
libvirt is unable to pass spaces in disk serial number [1]. Not only
our RNG schema forbids that, the code is not prepared either. However,
with a bit of escaping (if needed) we can allow spaces there.

1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-02/msg04041.html

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-03-05 13:35:55 +01:00
Prerna Saxena
8672a1e496 tests : Add test for 'ppc64le' architecture.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 10:58:02 +01:00
Peter Krempa
8eb907b8d0 schema: Fix interface link state schema
In commit edd1295e1d I've introduced an
XML element that allows to configure state of the network interface
link. Somehow the RNG schema hunk ended up in a weird place in the
network schema definition. Move it to the right place and add a test
case.

Note that the link state is set up via the monitor at VM startup so I
originally didn't think of adding a test case.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173468
2015-03-03 09:43:13 +01:00
John Ferlan
e0e290552b disk: Disallow duplicated target 'dev' values
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142631

This patch resolves a situation where the same "<target dev='$name'...>"
can be used for multiple disks in the domain.

While the $name is "mostly" advisory regarding the expected order that
the disk is added to the domain and not guaranteed to map to the device
name in the guest OS, it still should be unique enough such that other
domblk* type operations can be performed.

Without the patch, the domblklist will list the same Target twice:

$ virsh domblklist $dom
Target     Source
------------------------------------------------
sda        /var/lib/libvirt/images/file.qcow2
sda        /var/lib/libvirt/images/file.img

Additionally, getting domblkstat, domblkerror, domblkinfo, and other block*
type calls will not be able to reference the second target.

Fortunately, hotplug disallows adding a "third" sda value:

$ qemu-img create -f raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/file2.img 10M
$ virsh attach-disk $dom /var/lib/libvirt/images/file2.img sda
error: Failed to attach disk
error: operation failed: target sda already exists

$

BUT, it since 'sdb' doesn't exist one would get the following on the same
hotplug attempt, but changing to use 'sdb' instead of 'sda'

$ virsh attach-disk $dom /var/lib/libvirt/images/file2.img sdb
error: Failed to attach disk
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'device_add': Duplicate ID 'scsi0-0-1' for device

$

Since we cannot fix this issue at parsing time, the best that can be done so
as to not "lose" a domain is to make the check prior to starting the guest
with the results as follows:

$ virsh start $dom
error: Failed to start domain $dom
error: XML error: target 'sda' duplicated for disk sources '/var/lib/libvirt/images/file.qcow2' and '/var/lib/libvirt/images/file.img'

$

Running 'make check' found a few more instances in the tests where this
duplicated target dev value was being used. These also exhibited some
duplicated 'id=' values (negating the uniqueness argument of aliases) in
the corresponding .args file and of course the *xmlout version of a few
input XML files.
2015-03-02 22:38:36 -05:00
Ján Tomko
9aa316612a Remove bootloader option from QEMU
It was only supported by xenner (since commit 763a59d8),
for which we removed support in commit de9be0a.

Remove the code generating this command line option,
refuse to parse it and delete the outdated tests.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176050
2015-03-02 07:39:09 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
0e69d97648 cpu: Format <cpu/> properly
Well, not that we are not formatting invalid XML, rather than not as
beautiful as we can:

  <cpu mode='host-passthrough'>
  </cpu>

If there are no children, let's use the singleton element.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-02-25 09:26:04 +01:00
Stefan Zimmermann
09ab9dcc85 Prevent default creation of usb controller on s390 and s390x
Since s390 does not support usb the default creation of a usb controller
for a domain should not occur.

Also adjust s390 test cases by removing usb device instances since
usb devices are no longer created by default for s390 the s390
test cases need to be adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-23 14:50:15 -05:00
Peter Krempa
2562141f19 conf: numa: Don't duplicate NUMA cell cpumask
The mask was stored both as a bitmap and as a string. The string is used
for XML output only. Remove the string, as it can be reconstructed from
the bitmap.

The test change is necessary as the bitmap formatter doesn't "optimize"
using the '^' operator.
2015-02-20 17:43:03 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
7832fac847 qemuBuildMemoryBackendStr: Report backend requirement more appropriately
So, when building the '-numa' command line, the
qemuBuildMemoryBackendStr() function does quite a lot of checks to
chose the best backend, or to check if one is in fact needed. However,
it returned that backend is needed even for this little fella:

  <numatune>
    <memory mode="strict" nodeset="0,2"/>
  </numatune>

This can be guaranteed via CGroups entirely, there's no need to use
memory-backend-ram to let qemu know where to get memory from. Well, as
long as there's no <memnode/> element, which explicitly requires the
backend. Long story short, we wouldn't have to care, as qemu works
either way. However, the problem is migration (as always). Previously,
libvirt would have started qemu with:

  -numa node,memory=X

in this case and restricted memory placement in CGroups. Today, libvirt
creates more complicated command line:

  -object memory-backend-ram,id=ram-node0,size=X
  -numa node,memdev=ram-node0

Again, one wouldn't find anything wrong with these two approaches.
Both work just fine. Unless you try to migrated from the older libvirt
into the newer one. These two approaches are, unfortunately, not
compatible. My suggestion is, in order to allow users to migrate, lets
use the older approach for as long as the newer one is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-02-17 09:07:09 +01:00
Ján Tomko
6ba5d1afec Wire up mrg_rxbuf option for qemu
<interface ...>
  ...
  <model type='virtio'/>
  <driver ...>
    <host mrg_rxbuf='off'/>
  </driver>
</interface>

will result in:
-device virtio-net-pci,mrg_rxbuf=off,...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186886
2015-02-13 12:31:38 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
8680ea9749 docs, schema, conf: Add support for setting scheduler parameters of guest threads
In order for QEMU vCPU (and other) threads to run with RT scheduler,
libvirt needs to take care of that so QEMU doesn't have to run privileged.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178986

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-02-11 17:30:06 +01:00
Erik Skultety
357f0072ca conf: forbid seclabel duplicates for domain devices
Parser checks for per-domain seclabel duplicates, so it would be nice if
it checked for per-device seclabel duplicates the same way

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165485
2015-02-11 09:45:22 +01:00
Erik Skultety
862bbf8a5a schema: allow multiple seclabel for devices in domaincommon.rng
In our RNG schema we do allow multiple (different) seclabels per-domain,
but don't allow this for devices, yet we neither have a check in our XML parser,
nor in a post-parse callback. In that case we should allow multiple
(different) seclabels for devices as well.
2015-02-11 09:41:36 +01:00
Peter Krempa
d7ec244f6e qemu: command: Shuffle around formatting of alias for RNG device backend
Move the alias name right after the object type for rng-egd backend so
that we can later use the JSON to commandline generator to create the
command line.
2015-02-10 13:05:22 +01:00
Luyao Huang
98e982b455 qemu: command: Make RNG backend device IDs unique
Libvirt didn't prefix the random number generator backend object alias
with any string thus the device alias and object alias were identical.

To avoid possible problems, rename the alias for the backend object and
tweak tests to comply with the change.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
2015-02-10 13:05:22 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
3f9f4aa84f conf: disallow invalid values for video attributes
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190956

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-02-10 09:05:36 +01:00
Ján Tomko
84f741812f Only parse custom vhost path for virtio interfaces
It is only supported for virtio adapters.
Silently drop it if it was specified for other models,
as is done for other virtio attributes.

Also mention this in the documentation.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
2015-02-06 12:52:50 +01:00
Peter Krempa
b92a003710 qemu: command: Don't combine old and modern NUMA node creation
Change done by commit f309db1f4d wrongly
assumes that qemu can start with a combination of NUMA nodes specified
with the "memdev" option and the appropriate backends, and the legacy
way by specifying only "mem" as a size argument. QEMU rejects such
commandline though:

$ /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc -m 1024 -smp 2 \
-numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,mem=256 \
-object memory-backend-ram,id=ram-node1,size=12345 \
-numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1,memdev=ram-node1
qemu-system-x86_64: -numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1,memdev=ram-node1: qemu: memdev option must be specified for either all or no nodes

To fix this issue we need to check if any of the nodes requires the new
definition with the backend and if so, then all other nodes have to use
it too.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182467
2015-01-31 08:53:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
b50b4ef30c qemu: command: Switch to bytes when formatting size for memory backends
QEMU's command line visitor as well as the JSON interface take bytes by
default for memory object sizes. Convert mebibytes to bytes so that we
can later refactor the existing code for hotplug purposes.
2015-01-31 08:53:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
a47174c508 qemu: command: Unify values for boolean values when formating memory backends
QEMU's qapi visitor code allows yes/on/y for true and no/off/n for false
value of boolean properities. Unify the used style so that we can
generate it later and fix test cases.
2015-01-31 08:53:22 +01:00
Peter Krempa
172100ac85 qemu: command: Shuffle around formating of alias for memory backend objs
Move the alias as the second formated argument and tweak the tests so
that a future refactor that will change the order doesn't break tests.
2015-01-31 08:53:22 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
bbd3eb5098 conf: Don't mangle vcpu placement randomly
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170492

In one of our previous commits (dc8b7ce7) we've done a functional
change even though it was intended as pure refactor. The problem is,
that the following XML:

 <vcpu placement='static' current='2'>6</vcpu>
 <cputune>
   <emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
 </cputune>
 <numatune>
   <memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
 </numatune>

gets translated into this one:

 <vcpu placement='auto' current='2'>6</vcpu>
 <cputune>
   <emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
 </cputune>
 <numatune>
   <memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
 </numatune>

We should not change the vcpu placement mode. Moreover, we're doing
something similar in case of emulatorpin and iothreadpin. If they were
set, but vcpu placement was auto, we've mistakenly removed them from
the domain XML even though we are able to set them independently on
vcpus.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-30 13:51:22 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
5222256849 schemas: Allow all generic elements and attributes for all interfaces
There are some interface types (notably 'server' and 'client')
which instead of allowing the default set of elements and
attributes (like the rest do), try to enumerate only the elements
they know of. This way it's, however, easy to miss something. For
instance, the <address/> element was not mentioned at all. This
resulted in a strange behavior: when such interface was added
into XML, the address was automatically generated by parsing
code. Later, the formatted XML hasn't passed the RNG schema. This
became more visible once we've turned on the XML validation on
domain XML changes: appending an empty line at the end of
formatted XML (to trick virsh think the XML had changed) made
libvirt to refuse the very same XML it formatted.

Instead of trying to find each element and attribute we are
missing in the schema, lets just allow all the elements and
attributes like we're doing that for the rest of types. It's no
harm if the schema is wider than our parser allows.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-29 16:23:15 +01:00
Ján Tomko
280ece4af9 qemu: format server interface without a listen address
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130390

The listen address is not mandatory for <interface type='server'>
but when it's not specified, we've been formatting it as:
-netdev socket,listen=(null):5558,id=hostnet0
which failed with:
Device 'socket' could not be initialized

Omit the address completely and only format the port in the listen
attribute.

Also fix the schema to allow specifying a model.
2015-01-21 13:22:36 +01:00
Ján Tomko
bc378060f7 Add an XML test for host-model CPU with features
This was broken in a dowstream build due to a missing backport:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182448
2015-01-19 10:11:15 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
6514c04c18 qemu: Add support for enabling/disabling PMU
This is used as a boolean parameter for the '-cpu' option.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178853

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 13:43:46 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
199390117c docs, schema, conf: Add support for PMU feature
Just a new feature that can be turned on/off.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178853

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 13:43:46 +01:00
Erik Skultety
78f911d7d0 Add XML test for too many PCI devices on default PCI bus 2015-01-16 10:59:26 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
adff345e1e qemu: Allow enabling/disabling features with host-passthrough
QEMU supports feature specification with -cpu host and we just skip
using that.  Since QEMU developers themselves would like to use this
feature, this patch modifies the code to work.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178850

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-13 08:51:01 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
d776e995e3 qemuxml2argvtest: Fix test after change of qxl vgamem_mb default
Well, apparently it's possible for a patch to sneak in through
review process and break 'make check'. It happened just lately
with 0e502466ac which changed the default of vgamem_mb for
qxl device. However, there were left some domain XMLs within our
test suite relying on the old default. These should be updated to
match the change.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-12 15:47:52 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
f309db1f4d qemu: Create memory-backend-{ram,file} iff needed
Libvirt BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175397
QEMU BZ:    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170093

In qemu there are two interesting arguments:

1) -numa to create a guest NUMA node
2) -object memory-backend-{ram,file} to tell qemu which memory
region on which host's NUMA node it should allocate the guest
memory from.

Combining these two together we can instruct qemu to create a
guest NUMA node that is tied to a host NUMA node. And it works
just fine. However, depending on machine type used, there might
be some issued during migration when OVMF is enabled (see QEMU
BZ). While this truly is a QEMU bug, we can help avoiding it. The
problem lies within the memory backend objects somewhere. Having
said that, fix on our side consists on putting those objects on
the command line if and only if needed. For instance, while
previously we would construct this (in all ways correct) command
line:

    -object memory-backend-ram,size=256M,id=ram-node0 \
    -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0

now we create just:

    -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,mem=256

because the backend object is obviously not tied to any specific
host NUMA node.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-12-19 07:44:44 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
311b4a677f qemu: Allow system pages to <memoryBacking/>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173507

It occurred to me that OpenStack uses the following XML when not using
regular huge pages:

  <memoryBacking>
    <hugepages>
      <page size='4' unit='KiB'/>
    </hugepages>
  </memoryBacking>

However, since we are expecting to see huge pages only, we fail to
startup the domain with following error:

  libvirtError: internal error: Unable to find any usable hugetlbfs
  mount for 4 KiB

While regular system pages are not huge pages technically, our code is
prepared for that and if it helps OpenStack (or other management
applications) we should cope with that.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-12-15 13:36:47 +01:00