When reading release notes, patch summary is not always the best
description of what users can expect in new version. I propose
changing it slightly so that it describes what exactly happens and
when.
However, we do not have to add every single code change to the news
file, that would be ridiculous and unreadable for users. If the patch
subject needs changes like this one, I'm rather tempted to say that
such changes should not be in the news file at all. So that would be
the other way how to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This brings the libvirt version of this RNG file in line with the same
file in netcf (as soon as the corresponding patch there is ACKed and
pushed).
There's no reason to require it when defining an interface (the config
option it corresponds to is optional), and it isn't even output in the
status of an interface.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1414404
A mediated device will be identified by a UUID (with 'model' now being
a mandatory <hostdev> attribute to represent the mediated device API) of
the user pre-created mediated device. We also need to make sure that if
user explicitly provides a guest address for a mdev device, the address
type will be matching the device API supported on that specific mediated
device and error out with an incorrect XML message.
The resulting device XML:
<devices>
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci'>
<source>
<address uuid='c2177883-f1bb-47f0-914d-32a22e3a8804'>
</source>
</hostdev>
</devices>
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
For some drivers the domain's machine type makes no sense. They
just don't use it. A great example is bhyve driver. Therefore it
makes very less sense to report machine in domain capabilities
XML.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The attribute can be used to request a specific way of checking whether
the virtual CPU matches created by the hypervisor matches the
specification in domain XML.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
QEMU 2.9 introduces the pcie-root-port device, which is
a generic version of the existing ioh3420 device.
Make the new device available to libvirt users.
RFC 6331 documents a number of serious security weaknesses in
the SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism. As such, libvirtd should not
by using it as a default mechanism. GSSAPI is the only other
viable SASL mechanism that can provide secure session encryption
so enable that by defalt as the replacement.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
For NVDIMM devices it is optionally possible to specify the size
of internal storage for namespaces. Namespaces are a feature that
allows users to partition the NVDIMM for different uses.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Now that NVDIMM has found its way into libvirt, users might want
to fine tune some settings for each module separately. One such
setting is 'share=on|off' for the memory-backend-file object.
This setting - just like its name suggest already - enables
sharing the nvdimm module with other applications. Under the hood
it controls whether qemu mmaps() the file as MAP_PRIVATE or
MAP_SHARED.
Yet again, we have such config knob in domain XML, but it's just
an attribute to numa <cell/>. This does not give fine enough
tuning on per-memdevice basis so we need to have the attribute
for each device too.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
NVDIMM is new type of memory introduced into QEMU 2.6. The idea
is that we have a Non-Volatile memory module that keeps the data
persistent across domain reboots.
At the domain XML level, we already have some representation of
'dimm' modules. Long story short, NVDIMM will utilize the
existing <memory/> element that lives under <devices/> by adding
a new attribute 'nvdimm' to the existing @model and introduce a
new <path/> element for <source/> while reusing other fields. The
resulting XML would appear as:
<memory model='nvdimm'>
<source>
<path>/tmp/nvdimm</path>
</source>
<target>
<size unit='KiB'>523264</size>
<node>0</node>
</target>
<address type='dimm' slot='0'/>
</memory>
So far, this is just a XML parser/formatter extension. QEMU
driver implementation is in the next commit.
For more info on NVDIMM visit the following web page:
http://pmem.io/
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
bhyve supports 'gop' video device that allows clients to connect
to VMs using VNC clients. This commit adds support for that to
the bhyve driver:
- Introducr 'gop' video device type
- Add capabilities probing for the 'fbuf' device that's
responsible for graphics
- Update command builder routines to let users configure
domain's VNC via gop graphics.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
This documents the preferred conventions for naming files,
structs, enums, typedefs and functions.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The generated HTML will contain <ul></ul> otherwise, which
triggers an error during 'make check'.
The proper fix would be not to generate the problematic
HTML in the first place but, while I'm working on it, this
workaround will do.
The guest CPU definition has always been updated automatically during
migration. And currently we just transform any host-model CPU into a
custom one when a domain starts.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
With that users could access files outside /dev/shm. That itself
isn't a security problem, but might cause some errors we want to
avoid. So let's forbid slashes as we do with domain and volume names
and also mention that in the schema.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395496
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Add a new attribute 'rendernode' to <gl> spice element.
Give it to QEMU if qemu supports it (queued for 2.9).
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a new 'drm' capability for Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) devices,
providing device type information.
Teach the udev backend to populate those devices.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add new <devnode> top-level <device> element, that list the associated
/dev files. Distinguish the main /dev name from symlinks with a 'type'
attribute of value 'dev' or 'symlink'.
Update a test to check XML schema, and actually add it to the test list
since it was missing.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Before 9c17d665fd (v1.3.2 - I know, right?) it was possible to
have the following interface configuration:
<interface type='ethernet'/>
<script path=''/>
</interface>
This resulted in -netdev tap,script=,.. Fortunately, qemu helped
us to get away with this as it just ignored the empty script
path. However, after the commit mentioned above it's libvirtd
who is executing the script. Unfortunately without special
case-ing empty script path.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This part introduces new xml elements for file based
memorybacking support and their parsing.
(It allows vhost-user to be used without hugepages.)
New xml elements:
<memoryBacking>
<source type="file|anonymous"/>
<access mode="shared|private"/>
<allocation mode="immediate|ondemand"/>
</memoryBacking>
Example:
<network>
...
<mtu size='9000'/>
...
If mtu is unset, it's assumed that we want the default for whatever is
the underlying transport (usually this is 1500).
This setting isn't yet wired in, so it will have no effect.
This partially resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1224348
Updating docs/news.xml in the same commit that performs the
documented change makes backports needlessly complicated,
both for mainteinance branches and downstream distributions,
because it introduces additional potential for merge
conflicts.
Document in the contributor guidelines that the release notes
should be updated in a separate commit instead, so that it's
easy to backport just the code change.
So far we allow to set MTU for libvirt networks. However, not all
domain interfaces have to be plugged into a libvirt network and
even if they are, they might want to have a different MTU (e.g.
for testing purposes).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
fabric_name is one of many fc_host attributes in Linux that is optional
and left to the low-level driver to decide if it is implemented.
The zfcp device driver does not provide a fabric name for an fcp host.
This patch removes the requirement for a fabric name by making it optional.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346566
If libvirt_parthelper is erroneously told to append the partition
separator 'p' onto the generated output for a disk pool using device
mapper that has 'user_friendly_names' set to true, then the error
recovery path will fail to find volume resulting in the pool being
in an unusable state.
So, augment the documentation to provide the better hint that the
part_separator='yes' should be set when user_friendly_names are not
being used. Additionally, once we're in the error path where the
returned name doesn't match the expected partition name try to see
if the reason is because the 'p' was erroneosly added. If so alter
the about to be removed vol->target.path so that the DiskDeleteVol
code can find the partition that was created and remove it.
In the documentation we are mixing libvirt-guest and
libvirt_guest module name. The correct name is the latter.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
For HVM domains, pae is only set in libxl_domain_build_info when
explicitly specified in the hypervisor <features> config. This is
fine for i686 machines, but is incorrect behavior for x86_64 machines
where pae must always be enabled. See the following discussion for
additional details
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-January/msg00254.html
This element has been introduced in fe053dbea7, but isn't
documented yet. After exactly 6 years I guess we can finally
document it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In f55afd8 I've made libvirt to construct hugepage path on
per-domain basis. However, this change was not reflected in
the NEWS file.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add "Improvements" for commit id 'bb74a7ffe' and '78be2e8b7' which add
support for using the parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric_name rather than just
using the parent by scsi_hostX name.
By default, pool-info will convert sizes to human friendly units.
This patch will introduce option [--bytes].
If specified, the raw sizes will be in the output.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>
Now that we have built a fairly solid process for dealing with
release notes, we should start pushing for contributors to
provide the relevant information along with their code:
documenting the process is clearly a requirement for this to
happen.
Instead of encoding formatting information inside the
corresponding XSLT stylesheet, use a Python script to reformat
the text appropriately based on a few simple markers.
Splitting the task between the XSLT stylesheet and the Python
script allows us to keep both parts very simple.
Currently, building the NEWS file involves using a XSLT stylesheet
to extract information from the same HTML file that's used on the
libvirt website.
The process works, but it's quite fiddly in that it requires the
source HTML to be formatted in a very precise way, and a single
missing newline can mess up the resulting plain text considerably.
Moreover, the XSLT stylesheet itself encodes a lot of the details
of converting to plain text in a way that's not necessarily easy
to understand, tweak or fix.
To improve the process, move all existing entries to a new XML
file that contains exactly the information we care about in a
simple structured format, and start generating both the HTML and
plain text versions of the release notes using XSLT stylesheets
that can now afford to be almost trivial.
This patch adds support and documentation for
a generalized hardware cache event called cache_l1d
perf event.
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Konkar <nitkon12@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add new fields to the fchost structure to allow creation of a vHBA via
the storage pool when a parent_wwnn/parent_wwpn or parent_fabric_wwn is
supplied in the storage pool XML.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349696
When creating a vHBA, the process is to feed XML to nodeDeviceCreateXML
that lists the <parent> scsi_hostX to use to create the vHBA. However,
between reboots, it's possible that the <parent> changes its scsi_hostX
to scsi_hostY and saved XML to perform the creation will either fail or
create a vHBA using the wrong parent.
So add the ability to provide "wwnn" and "wwpn" or "fabric_wwn" to
the <parent> instead of a name of the scsi_hostN that is the parent.
The allowed XML will thus be:
<parent>scsi_host3</parent> (current)
or
<parent wwnn='$WWNN' wwpn='$WWPN'/>
or
<parent fabric_wwn='$WWNN'/>
Using the wwnn/wwpn or fabric_wwn ensures the same 'scsi_hostN' is
selected between hardware reconfigs or host reboots. The fabric_wwn
Using the wwnn/wwpn pair will provide the most specific search option,
while fabric_wwn will at least ensure usage of the same SAN, but maybe
not the same scsi_hostN.
This patch will add the new fields to the nodedev.rng for input purposes
only since the input XML is essentially thrown away, no need to Format
the values since they'd already be printed as part of the scsi_host
data block.
New API virNodeDeviceGetParentHostByWWNs will take the parent "wwnn" and
"wwpn" in order to search the list of devices for matching capability
data fields wwnn and wwpn.
New API virNodeDeviceGetParentHostByFabricWWN will take the parent "fabric_wwn"
in order to search the list of devices for matching capability data field
fabric_wwn.
When generating the plain text version of the contributor
guidelines we add a ludicrous amount of vertical whitespace
in some spots. Tweak the XSLT stylesheet and regenerate the
now much better looking file.
When updating the source file in commit bd4f4d1686, I forgot
that we also store the generated plain text version in git and
didn't regenerate it.
I also missed one spot that required an additional <p> tag, so
fix both mistakes in one go.
Some of the <li> elements in the "General tips for contributing
patches" section were missing the corresponding inner <p> element,
so they ended up all lumped together.
Although the virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfo will update the
target.physical value, there is no way to provide that information
via the virStorageGetVolInfo API since it only returns the capacity
and allocation of a volume. So as described in commit id '0282ca45',
it should be possible to generate an output only <physical> value
for that purpose.
This patch generates the <physical> value in the volume XML output
for the sole purpose of being able to view/see the value to allow
someone to parse the XML in order to obtain the value.
Update the documentation to describe the output only nature.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
In the website reorg we accidentally lost all links to the nice
reformatted news.html file. Add a link on the front page, and
also extend the download page table so that it includes links
to API docs and news files for each module (where available)
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The github.com/rgbkrk/libvirt-go bindings were the most complete
bindings historically, but their API coverage stops at 1.2.4,
with exception of a couple of newer APIs.
The new bindings at http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-go.git;a=log
how have (almost[1]) 100% API coverage all the way to 2.5.0. They also
expose the APIs in a way that allows for much stronger go type
checking by the compiler, and expose typed parameters as explicit
structs. Finally the bindings are able to conditionally compile against
any libvirt version 1.2.0 -> 2.5.0 without use of go build tags.
Change the docs to point to these new bindings, since they'll be
a better bet for users long term.
[1] virEvent & virStream callbacks are still TODO to be fixed
real soon.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Similarly to localOnly DNS domain, localPtr attribute can be used to
tell the DNS server not to forward reverse lookups for unknown IPs which
belong to the virtual network.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Documents in formatdomain.html that when migrating a guest
defined with the host-passthrough CPU model from a machine that
is running on a newer CPU model than the destination machine's
CPU model, it is very likely that the guest will crash upon
arrival.
Signed-off-by: Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Seems commit id '0257d06b' forgot to include formatstorage when updating
the docs to describe allowing zfs as a pool type and to furthermore note
that the pool's target path element will be generated rather than read.
Similarly commit id 'efab27afb' neglected to indicate that the target path
for a logical pool will now be generated by libvirt.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Almost all XML examples use <tag .../> rather than <tag ...></tag> if
the element is empty. Let's remove the two instances of the latter.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
With current perf framework, this patch adds support and documentation
for the branch_instructions perf event.
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Konkar <nitkon12@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When changing one of the src/libvirt-*.c files to alter the docs, the
adjusted files weren't being built. Added them into APIBUILD_STAMP and
then added that to the html/index.html rule which is used for the
$(apihtml_generated) generated rule.
Also, for clean we can remove the html/*.html files
So far the NSS module looks up only hostnames as provided by
guests themselves. However, there are some cases where this is
not enough: e.g. when there's a fresh new guest being installed
(with some generic hostname) say from a live ISO image; or some
(older) systems don't advertise their hostname in DHCP
transactions at all.
In cases like that it would be helpful if we translate domain
name as seen by libvirt too so that users can:
# virsh start $dom && ssh $dom
In order to achieve that new libvirt-guest module is introduced,
while older libvirt module maintains its current behaviour (that
is translating guest provided names into IP addresses).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Modify _virDomainBlockIoTuneInfo and rng schema to support the group_name
option for iotune throttling. Document the new value.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Adding first build of year minor number reset to 0.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
