This is a relatively lengthy part with lots of details, which many
people who are familiar with a mail-based development workflow will
already know and which will become obsolete once we move to GitLab.
Move the contents to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part contains a lot of useful tips, but presenting all of them
at the same time obfuscated the central message which is, 'make check'
and 'make syntax-check' must pass after each patch in a series. Let's
move them to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
While it's good to have these rules written down for reference, they
apply exclusively to committers, who by definition are familiar with
the project and probably work on it daily, so there's no need to have
them front and center when a separate page will do.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part describes entirely optional tooling, so it makes sense not
to have it advertised too prominently. Move it to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Most new contributors are probably going to modify existing code rather
than introducing all-new programs and scripts, and even when the latter
happen they'll hopefully get a feel for which programming languages are
considered acceptable for the project by looking at what's already in
the repo. Make this part less prominent by moving it to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part represents the biggest chunk of the existing hacking.rst, and
despite that its utility is very limited because 'make syntax-check'
already guarantees most of the rules are followed over time.
Until the glorious day we finally codify our coding style completely
into a configuration for a tool such as clang-format and thus no longer
need a plain English description of it, move this part to a separate
page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part is very specific and doesn't quite fit into the "coding
style" section, so let's move it to its own page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The conversion has been performed by using pandoc as a first pass,
and then tweaking the result manually until it looked satisfactory.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
In the 'topology' element it is mentioned, regarding the sockets
value, "They refer to the total number of CPU sockets".
This is not accurate. What we're doing is calculating the number
of sockets per NUMA node, which can be checked in the current
implementation of virHostCPUGetInfoPopulateLinux(). Calculating
the total number of sockets would break the topology sanity
check nodes*sockets*cores*threads=online_cpus.
This documentation fix is important to avoid user confusion when
seeing the output of 'virsh capabilities' and expecting it to be
equal to the output of 'lscpu'. E.g in a Power 9 host this 'lscpu'
output:
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 160
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
Thread(s) per core: 4
Core(s) per socket: 20
Socket(s): 2
NUMA node(s): 2
Model: 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202)
Model name: POWER9, altivec supported
And this XML output from virsh capabilities:
<cpu>
<arch>ppc64le</arch>
<model>POWER9</model>
<vendor>IBM</vendor>
<topology sockets='1' dies='1' cores='20' threads='4'/>
(...)
</cpu>
Both are correct, as long as we mention in the Libvirt documentation
that 'sockets' in the topology element represents the number of sockets
per NUMA node.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Introduce new 'multidevs' option for filesystem.
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='mapped' multidevs='remap'>
<source dir='/path'/>
<target dir='mount_tag'>
</filesystem>
This option prevents misbehaviours on guest if a qemu 9pfs export
contains multiple devices, due to the potential file ID collisions
this otherwise may cause.
Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Both <encryption> and <diskSourceCommon> were absent from the <source>
element defined in domainsnapshot.rng
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add a new attribute for holding the query part for http(s) disks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
http, https, ftp, ftps, and tftp were not mentioned in the
documentation. Note that 'ssh' is still omitted as it's used only
internally.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The documentation could confuse people to expect that CPU models with
usable='no' attribute are not usable at all on the current host. But
they cannot be only used without explicitly disabling some features.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The quotes are forbidden only inside the value, but the value itself may
be enclosed in quotes. Fix the RNG schema and validator and add a test
case.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804750
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Our virCommand module allows us to set a pidfile for commands we
want to spawn. The caller constructs the string of pidfile path
and then uses virCommandSetPidFile() to tell the module to write
the pidfile once the command is ran. This usually works, but has
two flaws:
1) the child process does not hold the pidfile open & locked.
Therefore, the caller (or anybody else) can't use our fancy
virPidFileForceCleanupPath() function to kill the command
afterwards. Also, for everybody else on the system it's
needlessly harder to check if the pid from the pidfile is still
alive or not.
2) if the caller ever makes a mistake and passes the same pidfile
path for two different commands, the start of the second command
will overwrite the pidfile even though the first command might
still be running.
NOTE that this temporarily renders some command spawning
unusable, specifically those code patterns where both
virCommandSetPidFile() is used together with instructing spawned
command to acquire pidfile itself. Fortunately, there is only one
occurrence of such pattern and it is in
qemuProcessStartManagedPRDaemon(). This is fixed in next commit.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
ppc64 NVDIMM support was implemented in QEMU by commit [1].
The support is similar to what x86 already does, aside from
an extra 'uuid' element.
This patch introduces a new optional 'uuid' element for the
NVDIMM memory model. This element behaves like the 'uuid'
element of the domain definition - if absent, we'll create
a new one, otherwise use the one provided by the XML.
The 'uuid' element is exclusive to pseries guests and are
unavailable for other architectures.
Next patch will use this new element to add NVDIMM support
for ppc64.
[1] ee3a71e366
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In previous patches virKeyFile was replaced with its GLib
counterpart which created an incompatible change: comments can
now begin only with a number sign (#). While this won't probably
affect anyone, mention it in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This commit is related to RTC timer device too. HPET is being shared
from host device through `localtime` clock. This timer is available
creating a new timer using `hpet` name.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This commit share host Real Time Clock device (rtc) into LXC containers
to support hardware clock. This should be available setting up a `rtc`
timer under clock section. Since this option is not emulated, it should
be available only for `localtime` clock. This option should be readonly
due to security reasons.
Before:
root# hwclock --verbose
hwclock from util-linux 2.32.1
System Time: 1581877557.598365
Trying to open: /dev/rtc0
Trying to open: /dev/rtc
Trying to open: /dev/misc/rtc
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
Now:
root# hwclock
2020-02-16 18:23:55.374134+00:00
root# hwclock -w
hwclock: ioctl(RTC_SET_TIME) to /dev/rtc to set the time failed:
Permission denied
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Some disk backends support configuring the readahead buffer or timeout
for requests. Add the knobs to the XML.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add possibility to specify one or more cookies for http based disks.
This patch adds the config parser, storage and validation of the
cookies.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
To allow turning off verification of SSL cerificates add a new element
<ssl> to the disk source XML which will allow configuring the validation
process using the 'verify' attribute.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Update the manpage for the 'server-update-tls' command
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Bo <oscar.zhangbo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Qingliang <wuqingliang4@huawei.com>
Now that we have more than just the libvirtd daemon, we should be
explaining to users what they are all for & important aspects of their
configuration.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add more elements for tuning the virtiofsd daemon
and the vhost-user-fs device:
<driver type='virtiofs' queue='1024' xattr='on'>
<binary path='/usr/libexec/virtiofsd'>
<cache mode='always'/>
<lock posix='off' flock='off'/>
</binary>
</driver>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Introduce a new 'virtiofs' driver type for filesystem.
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
<driver type='virtiofs'/>
<source dir='/path'/>
<target dir='mount_tag'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
</filesystem>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Add a document describing the usage of virtiofs.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Allow adding new groups without changing indentation.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
A few new companies have contributed to libvirt since the last
time the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We already have one instance of it being used in our git history,
and more are probably bound to show up eventually.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We document steps how to fix images if they are rejected for missing
the 'backing file format' field. Document also how to securely probe
the image format if it's unknown.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When using command line passthrough users will often trip up over the
security protections like SELinux, DAC, namespaces, etc which will
deny access to files they are passing. This document explains the
various protections and how to deal with their policy, and/or how
to disable them.
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
While we have CI testing coverage for many platforms, we don't test any
non-glibc based Linux and there are other non-Linux platforms we don't
officially target, both of which might hit regressions.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The table of contents in the RST based files uses <p> tags inside the
<li>, which results in 1em's worth of spacing above & below each
entry. This results in way too much whitespace in the ToC.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The current documentation is fairly terse and not easy to decode
for someone who's not intimately familiar with the inner workings
of timer devices. Expand on it by providing a somewhat verbose
description of what behavior each policy will result in, as seen
from both the guest OS and host point of view.
This is lifted directly from QEMU commit
commit 2a7d957596786404c4ed16b089273de95a9580ad
Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Feb 11 19:37:44 2020 +0100
qapi: Expand documentation for LostTickPolicy
v4.2.0-1442-g2a7d957596
The original text also matched word for word the documentation
found in QEMU.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This is a very simple thing to parse and format, but needs to be done
in 4 places, so two trivial utility functions have been made that can
be called from all the higher level parser/formatters:
<domain><interface>
<domain><interface><actual> (only in domain status)
<network>
<networkport>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This is in the data structure and the parse/format functions, and is
getting passed all around correctly, it just was omitted from the RNG,
which hasn't been noticed because no human is creating <networkport>
XML, and so it's never getting validated against the schema.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Relevant code seems to treat forward modes 'route', 'nat', 'open' and 'none'
the same but documentation hasn't reflected that so far.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Mores <pmores@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We are going to add support for specifying offset and size attributes
which will allow controling where the image and where the guest data
itself starts in the source of the disk. This will be represented by
a <slices> element filled with either a <slice type='storage'> for the
offset of the image format data.
Add the XML documentation and RNG schema.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This new timer model will be used to control the behavior of the
virtual timer for KVM ARM/virt guests.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Users expect to be able to configure the <console> element and see
that configuration reflected into the <serial> element or at least
sticking, however due to our crazy back-compat code that doesn't
always happen.
There's really not much we can do to make this kind of corner cases
work as the user would expect, especially not without introducing
additional complexity in a part of libvirt that already has more
than a fair share of it; we can, however, improve the documentation
so that it will nudge said users in the right direction.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1770725
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Simplify gathering the actual return value from a passed-through QMP
command when using 'qemu-monitor-command' by adding '--return-value'
switch which just extracts the 'return' section and alternatively
reports an error if the section is not present.
This simplifies gathering of some test data where the full reply would
need to be trimmed just for the actual return value.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Mention that we actually by default use QMP and clarify the rest
of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This deletes all trace of gnulib from libvirt. We still
have the keycodemapdb submodule to deal with. The simple
solution taken was to update it when running autogen.sh.
Previously gnulib could auto-trigger refresh when running
'make' too. We could figure out a solution for this, but
with the pending meson rewrite it isn't worth worrying
about, given how infrequently keycodemapdb changes.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When using ``....`` in RST, this results in <span class="literal">...</span>
instead of <code>...</code>. We thus need an extra rule to render it
with a monospace font. Colouring a light gray also helps the text
stand out a little more and matches background of <pre> blocks.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for the tpm-spapr device model for ppc64. The XML for
this type of TPM looks as follows:
<tpm model='tpm-spapr'>
<backend type='emulator'/>
</tpm>
Extend the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The flag for the virDomainUndefine API is supported even if we report
that <backup supported='no'/>. Mention it in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The location of virt-aa-helper shown in the docs is incorrect.
The helper binary is installed under libexec dir.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is updating the releases and resources links so they point now to
crates.io for the releases and docs.rs for the api ref.
Signed-off-by: Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui <sahid.ferdjaoui@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Since
commit 201156ec6e
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Dec 16 10:06:50 2019 +0000
docs: add pages to support Go module package resolution
it's possible to use
import "libvirt.org/libvirt-go"
import "libvirt.org/libvirt-go-xml"
in Go programs, which will result in the Go packages being
fetched directly from libvirt.org instead of GitHub.
The godoc website offers the API documentation for the updated
imports, and that's where we should send users.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We haven't ever made releases of the Go components, which makes
sense because that's just not how that specific ecosystem works.
For people who are looking to use libvirt from Go, the brief
introductory pages located at the same URLs used to import the
packages are a better entry point than an empty directory
listing, so let's send them there instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The subelement <teaming> of <interface> devices is used to configure a
simple teaming association between two interfaces in a domain. Example:
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<mac address='00:11:22:33:44:55'/>
<alias name='ua-backup0'/>
<teaming type='persistent'/>
</interface>
<interface type='hostdev'>
<source>
<address type='pci' bus='0x02' slot='0x10' function='0x4'/>
</source>
<mac address='00:11:22:33:44:55'/>
<teaming type='transient' persistent='ua-backup0'/>
</interface>
The interface with <teaming type='persistent'/> is assumed to always
be present, while the interface with type='transient' may be be
unplugged and later re-plugged; the persistent='blah' attribute (and
in the one currently available implementation, also the matching MAC
addresses) is what associates the two devices with each other. It is
up to the hypervisor and the guest network drivers to determine what
to do with this information.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We currently note that the QEMU embedded driver is experimental
in the drvqemu.html file, but we should do the same in the
virt-qemu-run man page.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The --strict arg forces the rst tools to abort with an error instead
of printing warnings to stderr, or the output document.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
You can't have two links with the same text when using named
link references (a single "_"). If you need multiple links
with the same text you must use anonymous link references
(a double "_").
There are also some duplicate section headers causing the
same problem with duplicate link targets.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Discourage passing secrets as commandline arguments.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Simplify human usage of secret-set-value by adding --interactive which
will read the value of the secret from the terminal.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Allow using the contents of --file without base64 decoding.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Print a warning if users pass in secrets as command line arguments and
mention it in the man page.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The necessity to specify the secret value as command argument is
insecure. Allow reading the secret from a file.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Users might want to get the raw value instead of dealing with base64
encoding. This might be useful for redirection to file and also for
simple human-readable secrets.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
A few new companies and individuals contributed to libvirt since
the last time the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Also one stray angle bracket.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fixes: 068efae5b1
Fixes: 3e9076e777
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Fix a documentation generation error:
System Message: WARNING/2 (<stdin>, line 15); backlink
Inline literal start-string without end-string.
As well as the 'independant' typo.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fixes: d600667278
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Currently the libvirt Go modules are accessed by applications using
their github repository URLs. This is undesirable as we don't want
applications to have a direct dependancy on a specific source repo
location. We want to enable applications to use the Go packages via
the libvirt.org namespace.
When you do "go get libvirt.org/libvirt-go", the Go client will do an
HTTPS request to that URL, and parse the HTML content to look for a
<meta> tag which tells it where to the find the GIT repository.
https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths
This adds two pages to support this Go module resolution. They are
not linked from anywhere as we don't expect users to actually look
at them. If someone does happen upon them, there's some boilerplate
text to send them off to godoc.org for API documentation.
Since the pages we're adding have a .html extension, we will also
use a small apache config tweak on the server
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/libvirt-go$ /libvirt-go.html [L]
RewriteRule ^/libvirt-go-xml$ /libvirt-go-xml.html [L]
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The previous "QEMU shim" proof of concept was taking an approach of only
caring about initial spawning of the QEMU process. It was then
registered with the libvirtd daemon who took over management of it. The
intent was that later libvirtd would be refactored so that the shim
retained control over the QEMU monitor and libvirt just forwarded APIs
to each shim as needed. This forwarding of APIs would require quite alot
of significant refactoring of libvirtd to achieve.
This impl thus takes a quite different approach, explicitly deciding to
keep the VMs completely separate from those seen & managed by libvirtd.
Instead it uses the new "qemu:///embed" URI scheme to embed the entire
QEMU driver in the shim, running with a custom root directory.
Once the driver is initialization, the shim starts a VM and then waits
to shutdown automatically when QEMU shuts down, or should kill QEMU if
it is terminated itself. This ought to use the AUTO_DESTROY feature but
that is not yet available in embedded mode, so we rely on installing a
few signal handlers to gracefully kill QEMU. This isn't reliable if
we crash of course, but you can restart with the same root dir.
Note this program does not expose any way to manage the QEMU process,
since there's no RPC interface enabled. It merely starts the VM and
cleans up when the guest shuts down at the end. This program is
installed to /usr/bin/virt-qemu-run enabling direct use by end users.
Most use cases will probably want to integrate the concept directly
into their respective application codebases. This standalone binary
serves as a nice demo though, and also provides a way to measure
performance of the startup process quite simply.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This enables support for running the secret driver embedded to the
calling application process using a URI:
secret:///embed?root=/some/path
When using the embedded mode with a root=/var/tmp/embed, the
driver will use the following paths:
configDir: /var/tmp/embed/etc/secrets
stateDir: /var/tmp/embed/run/secrets
These are identical whether the embedded driver is privileged
or unprivileged.
This compares with the system instance which uses
configDir: /etc/libvirt/secrets
stateDir: /var/lib/libvirt/secrets
When an embedded instance of the secret driver is open, any other
embedded drivers will automatically use the embedded secret driver.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This enables support for running QEMU embedded to the calling
application process using a URI:
qemu:///embed?root=/some/path
Note that it is important to keep the path reasonably short to
avoid risk of hitting the limit on UNIX socket path names
which is 108 characters.
When using the embedded mode with a root=/var/tmp/embed, the
driver will use the following paths:
logDir: /var/tmp/embed/log/qemu
swtpmLogDir: /var/tmp/embed/log/swtpm
configBaseDir: /var/tmp/embed/etc/qemu
stateDir: /var/tmp/embed/run/qemu
swtpmStateDir: /var/tmp/embed/run/swtpm
cacheDir: /var/tmp/embed/cache/qemu
libDir: /var/tmp/embed/lib/qemu
swtpmStorageDir: /var/tmp/embed/lib/swtpm
defaultTLSx509certdir: /var/tmp/embed/etc/pki/qemu
These are identical whether the embedded driver is privileged
or unprivileged.
This compares with the system instance which uses
logDir: /var/log/libvirt/qemu
swtpmLogDir: /var/log/swtpm/libvirt/qemu
configBaseDir: /etc/libvirt/qemu
stateDir: /run/libvirt/qemu
swtpmStateDir: /run/libvirt/qemu/swtpm
cacheDir: /var/cache/libvirt/qemu
libDir: /var/lib/libvirt/qemu
swtpmStorageDir: /var/lib/libvirt/swtpm
defaultTLSx509certdir: /etc/pki/qemu
At this time all features present in the QEMU driver are available when
running in embedded mode, availability matching whether the embedded
driver is privileged or unprivileged.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The 'builtin' rng backend model can be used as following:
<rng model='virtio'>
<backend model='builtin'/>
</rng>
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
If users wish to use different name for exported disks or bitmaps
the new fields allow to do so. Additionally they also document the
current settings.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This is only 2 simple typo fixes for wrong documentation wording.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reported at build time by lintian:
manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man8/virt-sanlock-cleanup.8.gz:3 8 != 1
And indeed the rst file says 1 while the makefile say 8:
if WITH_SANLOCK
manpages8_rst += manpages/virt-sanlock-cleanup.rst
else ! WITH_SANLOCK
8 "System administration commands and daemons" seems to match, so fix
the rst file to match.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Update the host CPU code to report the die_id in the NUMA topology
capabilities. On systems with multiple dies, this fixes the bug
where CPU cores can't be distinguished:
<cpus num='12'>
<cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0'/>
<cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1'/>
<cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='2'/>
<cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='3'/>
</cpus>
Notice how core_id is repeated within the scope of the same socket_id.
It now reports
<cpus num='12'>
<cpu id='0' socket_id='0' die_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0'/>
<cpu id='1' socket_id='0' die_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1'/>
<cpu id='2' socket_id='0' die_id='1' core_id='0' siblings='2'/>
<cpu id='3' socket_id='0' die_id='1' core_id='1' siblings='3'/>
</cpus>
So core_id is now unique within a (socket_id, die_id) pair.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Recently CPU hardware vendors have started to support a new structure
inside the CPU package topology known as a "die". Thus the hierarchy
is now:
sockets > dies > cores > threads
This adds support for "dies" in the XML parser, with the value
defaulting to 1 if not specified for backwards compatibility.
For example a system with 64 logical CPUs might report
<topology sockets="4" dies="2" cores="4" threads="2"/>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Our virsh already has 'domhostname' command. Add '--source'
argument to it so that users can chose between 'lease' and
'agent' sources. Also, implement completer for the argument.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Some were in the wrong section, some in the wrong version.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add documentation for additional reason why snapshot-revert might need
to be forced. This explains why restoring an inactive snapshot while
there is managed saved state is refused by default.
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reformat explanations of the snapshot-revert force reasons in
preparation for more to be added. This is a simple reformat without any
wording changes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Trivially replace usages of qemu and lxc in the virsh manpage with their
more heavily used and (according to Wikipedia) correct upper-case
spellings QEMU and LXC.
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@gmx.de>
Suggested-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
There is no need to require users to produce iSCSI disk source
following our ordering of children elements. In fact, we don't
even accept our own order in the schema :(.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Currently, when security driver is not available users are informed that
it wasn't found which can be confusing.
1. Update error message
2. Add comment to domain doc
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Document that --diskspec DISK,snapshot=no disables snapshot for the
given disk.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
One of the first versions thought of using disk path as the second
option but this was dropped as being a legacy interface. Remove the
leftover pointless <choice> wrapper for the disk name as there's just
one option now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We initially claimed to only support the most recent macOS
release, which is currently 10.15. Our Travis CI, however,
is validating 10.14.4 / XCode 10.3.
For almost all of our other platforms, we support multiple
releases to some degree. This change brings macOS in line
with other long life distros, covering the most recent &
most recent but one for a 2 year overlap. With this docs
change our CI is now actually testing our minimum version.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
While command line arguments are sort of positional (because you
have to have two entries, one for "-arg" the other for "value"),
it doesn't really matter whether env variables come before or
after command line arguments.
And it matters even less when playing with qemu capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The phyp driver was added in 2009 and does not appear to have had any
real feature change since 2011. There's virtually no evidence online
of users actually using it. IMO it's time to kill it.
This was discussed a bit in April 2016:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg01060.html
Final discussion is here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-December/msg01162.html
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the genaclperms.pl tool in Python.
This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.
Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the hvsupport.pl tool in Python.
This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.
The new impl generates byte-for-byte identical output to the
old impl.
Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It will be used to represent the type of a filesystem pool in ESXi.
Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a new PCI hostdev address type called
'unassigned'. This new type gives users the option to add
PCI hostdevs to the domain XML in an 'unassigned' state, meaning
that the device exists in the domain, is managed by Libvirt
like any regular PCI hostdev, but the guest does not have
access to it.
This adds extra options for managing PCI device binding
inside Libvirt, for example, making all the managed PCI hostdevs
declared in the domain XML to be detached from the host and bind
to the chosen driver and, at the same time, allowing just a
subset of these devices to be usable by the guest.
Next patch will use this new address type in the QEMU driver to
avoid adding unassigned devices to the QEMU launch command line.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
There is this class of PCI devices that act like disks: NVMe.
Therefore, they are both PCI devices and disks. While we already
have <hostdev/> (and can assign a NVMe device to a domain
successfully) we don't have disk representation. There are three
problems with PCI assignment in case of a NVMe device:
1) domains with <hostdev/> can't be migrated
2) NVMe device is assigned whole, there's no way to assign only a
namespace
3) Because hypervisors see <hostdev/> they don't put block layer
on top of it - users don't get all the fancy features like
snapshots
NVMe namespaces are way of splitting one continuous NVDIMM memory
into smaller ones, effectively creating smaller NVMe-s (which can
then be partitioned, LVMed, etc.)
Because of all of this the following XML was chosen to model a
NVMe device:
<disk type='nvme' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source type='pci' managed='yes' namespace='1'>
<address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</source>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Following domain configuration changes create two memory bandwidth
monitors: one is monitoring the bandwidth consumed by vCPU 0,
another is for vCPU 5.
```
<cputune>
<memorytune vcpus='0-4'>
<node id='0' bandwidth='20'/>
<node id='1' bandwidth='30'/>
+ <monitor vcpus='0'/>
</memorytune>
+ <memorytune vcpus='5'>
+ <monitor vcpus='5'/>
+ </memorytune>
</cputune>
```
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huaqiang <huaqiang.wang@intel.com>
Originally, inside <cputune/cachetune>, it requires the <cache> element to
be in the position before <monitor>, and following configuration is not
permitted by schema, but it is better to let it be valid.
<cputune>
<cachetune vcpus='0-1'>
<monitor level='3' vcpus='0-1'/>
^
|__ Not permitted originally because it is in the place
before <cache> element.
<cache id='0' level='3' type='both' size='3' unit='MiB'/>
<cache id='1' level='3' type='both' size='3' unit='MiB'/>
</cachetune>
...
</cputune>
And, let schema do more strict check by identifying following configuration to
be invalid, due to <cachetune> should contain at least one <cache> or <monitor>
element.
<cputune>
<cachetune vcpus='0-1'>
^
|__ a <cachetune> SHOULD contain at least one <cache> or <monitor>
</cachetune>
...
</cputune>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huaqiang <huaqiang.wang@intel.com>
Both the application developer guide and virsh command
reference are unmaintained for best part of 8 years, and
so horrifically out of date. This does not give a good
impression to people reading the docs. Now that we are
publishing the man pages online, those are a better
doc to read for virsh. We can also highlight the API
reference instead of the app dev guide.
The virsh command reference & app dev guide will
still exist on the web root, but will not be linked
to.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Some versions of the rst2man convertor are buggy failing to
cope with syntax highlighting in code blocks.
This isn't something we really need for the man page code
blocks, so we can just delete the highlighting directive.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Support by usage name can be considered separately (with a 'usage'
attribute?).
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
When QEMU uid/gid is set to non-root this is pointless as if we just
used a regular setuid/setgid call, the process will have all its
capabilities cleared anyway by the kernel.
When QEMU uid/gid is set to root, this is almost (always?) never
what people actually want. People make QEMU run as root in order
to access some privileged resource that libvirt doesn't support
yet and this often requires capabilities. As a result they have
to go find the qemu.conf param to turn this off. This is not
viable for libguestfs - they want to control everything via the
XML security label to request running as root regardless of the
qemu.conf settings for user/group.
Clearing capabilities was implemented originally because there
was a proposal in Fedora to change permissions such that root,
with no capabilities would not be able to compromise the system.
ie a locked down root account. This never went anywhere though,
and as a result clearing capabilities when running as root does
not really get us any security benefit AFAICT. The root user
can easily do something like create a cronjob, which will then
faithfully be run with full capabilities, trivially bypassing
the restriction we place.
IOW, our clearing of capabilities is both useless from a security
POV, and breaks valid use cases when people need to run as root.
This removes the clear_emulator_capabilities configuration
option from qemu.conf, and always runs QEMU with capabilities
when root. The behaviour when non-root is unchanged.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
