On Linux, changing the nodeset on 'numatune' does not imply that
the guest memory will be migrated on the spot to the new nodeset.
The memory migration is tied on guest usage of the memory pages,
and an idle guest will take longer to have its memory migrated
to the new nodeset.
This is a behavior explained in detail in the Linux kernel
documentation in Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
The user doesn't need this level of detail though - just needs
his/her expectations under check. Running 'numastat' and hoping
for instant memory migration from the previous nodeset to the new
one is not viable.
There's also parts of the memory that are locked by QEMU in the
same place, e.g. when VFIO devices are present. Let's also
mention it as another factor that impacts the results the
user might expect from NUMA memory migration with numatune.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640869
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Protected virtualization/IBM Secure Execution for Linux protects
guest memory and state from the host.
Add some basic information about technology and a brief guide
on setting up secure guests with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo de Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Update document with changes in qemu capability caching and the added
secure guest support checking for AMD SEV in virt-host-validate.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Historically IPv6 did not support NAT, so when IPv6 was added to
libvirt's virtual networks, when requesting <forward mode="nat"/>
libvirt will NOT apply NAT to IPv6 traffic, only IPv4 traffic.
This is an annoying historical design decision as it means we
cannot enable IPv6 automatically. We thus need to introduce a
new attribute
<forward mode="nat">
<nat ipv6="yes"/>
</forward>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The repository is now obsolete, and it never had proper GitLab CI
support anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
There are many different settings that required to config a KVM guest
for real time, low latency workoads. The documentation included here is
based on guidance developed & tested by the Red Hat KVM real time team.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This needs to be set for every repository for Cirrus CI integration
to work.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
QEMU has -fw_cfg which allows users to tweak how firmware
configures itself and/or provide new configuration blobs.
Introduce new <sysinfo/> type "fwcfg" that will hold these
new blobs.
It's possible to either specify new value as a string or
provide a filename which contents then serve as the value.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The attribute is only allowed for host-passthrough CPUs and it can be
used to request only migratable or all supported features to be enabled
in the virtual CPU.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The old information about managing PO files was outdated, as we're
managing files in a different way with Weblate. This also introduces a
badge showing the translation progress across languages.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Until libvirt 2.5.0 we didn't have a real process for release
notes in place, and we just published the list of commits that
had made it into each release, dividing them into categories that
mostly matched the sections we use today. Those documents haven't
been relevant for years, but they're still in the git repository
and collectively take up almost 2 MiB of disk space.
Let's import the only valuable piece of information they contain,
the release date for each libvirt versions, into the current
document and then drop them for good.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Instead of storing release notes as XML and then converting them
to HTML and ASCII at build time using XSLT and a custom script,
we can use reStructuredText as both the source and ASCII
representation and generate HTML from it using the same tooling
we already use for the rest of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The ASCII output our scripts produce is already very close to
reStructuredText, and with just a few extra tweaks we can get
almost all of the way there.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
A few new individuals have contributed to libvirt since the last
time the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The primary git repository is the one on GitLab these days.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
As the name clearly implies, it's supposed to list the .html.in
files that are generated from .rst files, but it mistakenly lists
the corresponding .html files instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We still point to git repositories hosted on libvirt.org in various
places. Replace the links to their gitlab.com equivalents.
Note that GitLab is trying to be smart here and
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt
redirects to
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git
when doing a 'git clone' and vice-versa when visiting from the
browser, so I only kept the .git suffix in places that explicitly
mentioned 'git clone'.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Also note that it's archived, because it's definitely
not maintained anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We've had no tarballs for almost 10 years.
Give up and delete the commented out links to them.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The heading overline should only be used for the overall document title,
any subsequent headings should be underline only.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Some of the node device xml schema was documented in drvnodedev.html.in
rather than in formatnode.html.in. Move all of the schema documentation
to formatnode.html.in and provide reference links from the
drvnodedev.html.in page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The proper name for physical function capability is 'phys_function', not
'physical_function'. Likewise, a virtual function capability is
'virt_functions' rather than 'virtual_function'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
There are 4 formats available (x:stderr, x:syslog:name,
x:file:file_path, x:journald), not 3. Use "the following"
instead of the actual number to avoid the need to update
the number every time a new form is added/removed.
Suggested-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The RTC and HPET modes for the QEMU emulation tick have been dropped
almost 9 years ago, in commit 25f3151ece1d5881826232bebccc21b588d4e03e.
Do not allow them in the devices cgroup policy.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This format is much easier to tweak and update.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's been more than six months since we adopted GLib and we've
been pretty aggressive at replacing our homegrown APIs with more
standard ones, so by now most of the symbols mentioned in this
document haven't been around for quite a long time already.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
With the move to GitLab CI one of the things we miss from Jenkins is a
single page dashboard showing CI status across all projects. This is a
very simple replacement that uses badges for CI pipeline status.
A CSS tweak is needed because RST->HTML adds redundant <p> tags inside
table cells which causes excessive vertical whitespace to appear.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We need to prevent accidental deletion of release tags and maint
branches.
We need to ensure that shared CI runners are enabled on all repos.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To make it simpler to answer questions of "Why doesn't this thing work
for me?"
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
In formatdomain, using 'libxl' and 'xen' is redundant since they now
both refer to the same driver. 'xen' predates 'libxl' and unambiguously
identifies the Xen hypervisor, so drop the use of 'libxl'.
In aclpolkit, the connection URI was erroneously identified as 'libxl'
and the name 'xenlight'. Change the URI to 'xen' and driver name to 'Xen'.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Update news.xml to inform about the availability of CFPC, SBBC and
IBS features.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the IBS pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_IBS capability added
in the previous patch.
IBS can have the following values: "broken", "workaround",
"fixed-ibs", "fixed-ccd" and "fixed-na".
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<ibs value='fixed-ibs'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
