The domain schema enforced restrictions on the domain name string that
the code doesn't. This patch relaxes the check, leaving the restrictions
on the driver or hypervisor. The only invalid character is a newline.
It's better to group all the metadata together. This is a
cosmetic output change; since the RNG allows interleave, it
doesn't matter where the user stuck it on input, and an XPath
query will find the same information when parsing the output.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDefFormatInternal): Output
metadata earlier.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Update documentation.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/metadata.xml: Update test.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-metadata.xml: Likewise.
Applications can now insert custom nodes and hierarchies into domain
configuration XML. Although currently not enforced, applications are
required to use their own namespaces on every custom node they insert,
with only one top-level element per namespace.
There is now a standard QEMU guest agent that can be installed
and given a virtio serial channel
<channel type='unix'>
<source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent'/>
<target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
</channel>
The protocol that runs over the guest agent is JSON based and
very similar to the JSON monitor. We can't use exactly the same
code because there are some odd differences in the way messages
and errors are structured. The qemu_agent.c file is based on
a combination and simplification of qemu_monitor.c and
qemu_monitor_json.c
* src/qemu/qemu_agent.c, src/qemu/qemu_agent.h: Support for
talking to the agent for shutdown
* src/qemu/qemu_domain.c, src/qemu/qemu_domain.h: Add thread
helpers for talking to the agent
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Connect to agent whenever starting
a guest
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c: Make variable static
This introduces new attribute wrpolicy with only supported
value as immediate. This will be an optional
attribute with no defaults. This helps specify whether
to skip the host page cache.
When wrpolicy is specified, meaning when wrpolicy=immediate
a writeback is explicitly initiated for the dirty pages in
the host page cache as part of the guest file write operation.
Usage:
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
<driver type='path' wrpolicy='immediate'/>
<source dir='/export/to/guest'/>
<target dir='mount_tag'/>
</filesystem>
Currently this only works with type='mount' for the QEMU/KVM driver.
Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The mode can be either of "custom" (default), "host-model",
"host-passthrough". The semantics of each mode is described in the
following examples:
- guest CPU is a default model with specified topology:
<cpu>
<topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
</cpu>
- guest CPU matches selected model:
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
<model>core2duo</model>
</cpu>
- guest CPU should be a copy of host CPU as advertised by capabilities
XML (this is a short cut for manually copying host CPU specification
from capabilities to domain XML):
<cpu mode='host-model'/>
In case a hypervisor does not support the exact host model, libvirt
automatically falls back to a closest supported CPU model and
removes/adds features to match host. This behavior can be disabled by
<cpu mode='host-model'>
<model fallback='forbid'/>
</cpu>
- the same as previous returned by virDomainGetXMLDesc with
VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU flag:
<cpu mode='host-model' match='exact'>
<model fallback='allow'>Penryn</model> --+
<vendor>Intel</vendor> |
<topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='1'/> + copied from
<feature policy='require' name='dca'/> | capabilities XML
<feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/> |
... --+
</cpu>
- guest CPU should be exactly the same as host CPU even in the aspects
libvirt doesn't model (such domain cannot be migrated unless both
hosts contain exactly the same CPUs):
<cpu mode='host-passthrough'/>
- the same as previous returned by virDomainGetXMLDesc with
VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU flag:
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' match='minimal'>
<model>Penryn</model> --+ copied from caps
<vendor>Intel</vendor> | XML but doesn't
<topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='1'/> | describe all
<feature policy='require' name='dca'/> | aspects of the
<feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/> | actual guest CPU
... --+
</cpu>
In case a hypervisor doesn't support the exact CPU model requested by a
domain XML, we automatically fallback to a closest CPU model the
hypervisor supports (and make sure we add/remove any additional features
if needed). This patch adds 'fallback' attribute to model element, which
can be used to disable this automatic fallback.
We support <interface> of type "mcast", "server", and "client",
but the RNG schema for them are missed. Attribute "address" is
optional for "server" type. And these 3 types support
<mac address='MAC'/>, too.
Though <alias> is ignored when defining a domain, it can cause
failure if one validates (e.g. virt-xml-validate) the XML dumped
from a running domain. This patch expose it in domain RNG schema
for all the devices which support it.
The "unit" attribute of a drive address is optional in the code, so should
also be in the XML schema.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
KVM will be able to use a PCI SCSI controller even on POWER. Let
the user specify the vSCSI controller by other means than a default.
After this patch, the QEMU driver will actually look at the model
and reject anything but auto, lsilogic and ibmvscsi.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The new introduced optional attribute "copy_on_read</code> controls
whether to copy read backing file into the image file. The value can
be either "on" or "off". Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing
file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing file is over a
slow network. By default copy-on-read is off.
This patch adds documentation about the new 'ways' that users can
access the contents of variables in filters:
- access via index: $TEST[2]
- access via iterators $TEST[@1]
This patch introduces the capability to use a different iterator per
variable.
The currently supported notation of variables in a filtering rule like
<rule action='accept' direction='out'>
<tcp srcipaddr='$A' srcportstart='$B'/>
</rule>
processes the two lists 'A' and 'B' in parallel. This means that A and B
must have the same number of 'N' elements and that 'N' rules will be
instantiated (assuming all tuples from A and B are unique).
In this patch we now introduce the assignment of variables to different
iterators. Therefore a rule like
<rule action='accept' direction='out'>
<tcp srcipaddr='$A[@1]' srcportstart='$B[@2]'/>
</rule>
will now create every combination of elements in A with elements in B since
A has been assigned to an iterator with Id '1' and B has been assigned to an
iterator with Id '2', thus processing their value independently.
The first rule has an equivalent notation of
<rule action='accept' direction='out'>
<tcp srcipaddr='$A[@0]' srcportstart='$B[@0]'/>
</rule>
In the past, generic SCSI commands issued from a guest to a virtio
disk were always passed through to the underlying disk by qemu, and
the kernel would also pass them on.
As a result of CVE-2011-4127 (see:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/536), qemu now honors its
scsi=on|off device option for virtio-blk-pci (which enables/disables
passthrough of generic SCSI commands), and the kernel will only allow
the commands for physical devices (not for partitions or logical
volumes). The default behavior of qemu is still to allow sending
generic SCSI commands to physical disks that are presented to a guest
as virtio-blk-pci devices, but libvirt prefers to disable those
commands in the standard virtio block devices, enabling it only when
specifically requested (hopefully indicating that the requester
understands what they're asking for). For this purpose, a new libvirt
disk device type (device='lun') has been created.
device='lun' is identical to the default device='disk', except that:
1) It is only allowed if bus='virtio', type='block', and the qemu
version is "new enough" to support it ("new enough" == qemu 0.11 or
better), otherwise the domain will fail to start and a
CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED error will be logged).
2) The option "scsi=on" will be added to the -device arg to allow
SG_IO commands (if device !='lun', "scsi=off" will be added to the
-device arg so that SG_IO commands are specifically forbidden).
Guests which continue to use disk device='disk' (the default) will no
longer be able to use SG_IO commands on the disk; those that have
their disk device changed to device='lun' will still be able to use SG_IO
commands.
*docs/formatdomain.html.in - document the new device attribute value.
*docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng - allow it in the RNG
*tests/* - update the args of several existing tests to add scsi=off, and
add one new test that will test scsi=on.
*src/conf/domain_conf.c - update domain XML parser and formatter
*src/qemu/qemu_(command|driver|hotplug).c - treat
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_LUN *almost* identically to
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_DISK, except as indicated above.
Note that no support for this new device value was added to any
hypervisor drivers other than qemu, because it's unclear what it might
mean (if anything) to those drivers.
Hi,
this is the fifth version of my SRV record for DNSMasq patch rebased
for the current codebase to the bridge driver and libvirt XML file to
include support for the SRV records in the DNS. The syntax is based on
DNSMasq man page and tests for both xml2xml and xml2argv were added as
well. There are some things written a better way in comparison with
version 4, mainly there's no hack in tests/networkxml2argvtest.c and
also the xPath context is changed to use a simpler query using the
virXPathInt() function relative to the current node.
Also, the patch is also fixing the networkxml2argv test to pass both
checks, i.e. both unit tests and also syntax check.
Please review,
Michal
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
When doing security relabeling, there are cases where a per-file
override might be appropriate. For example, with a static label
and relabeling, it might be appropriate to skip relabeling on a
particular disk, where the backing file lives on NFS that lacks
the ability to track labeling. Or with dynamic labeling, it might
be appropriate to use a custom (non-dynamic) label for a disk
specifically intended to be shared across domains.
The new XML resembles the top-level <seclabel>, but with fewer
options (basically relabel='no', or <label>text</label>):
<domain ...>
...
<devices>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/path/to/image1'>
<seclabel relabel='no'/> <!-- override for just this disk -->
</source>
...
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/path/to/image1'>
<seclabel relabel='yes'> <!-- override for just this disk -->
<label>system_u:object_r:shared_content_t:s0</label>
</seclabel>
</source>
...
</disk>
...
</devices>
<seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux'>
<baselabel>text</baselabel> <!-- used for all devices without override -->
</seclabel>
</domain>
This patch only introduces the XML and documentation; future patches
will actually parse and make use of it. The intent is that we can
further extend things as needed, adding a per-device <seclabel> in
more places (such as the source of a console device), and possibly
allowing a <baselabel> instead of <label> for labeling where we want
to reuse the cNNN,cNNN pair of a dynamically labeled domain but a
different base label.
First suggested by Daniel P. Berrange here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00258.html
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (devSeclabel): New define.
(disk): Use it.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks, seclabel): Document
the new XML.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-dynamic-override.xml:
New test, to validate RNG.
The RNG for <seclabel> was too strict - if it was present, then it
had to have sub-elements, even if those didn't make sense for the
given attributes. Also, we didn't have any tests of <seclabel>
parsing or XML output.
In this patch, I added more parsing tests than output tests (since
the output populates and/or reorders fields not present in certain
inputs). Making the RNG reliable is a precursor to using <seclabel>
variants in more places in the XML in later patches.
See also:
http://berrange.com/posts/2011/09/29/two-small-improvements-to-svirt-guest-configuration-flexibility-with-kvmlibvirt/
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (seclabel): Tighten rules.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): New tests.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-*.*: New files.
Commit e5a84d74 added a new attribute in the wrong location;
commit c8b9fa74 fixed the missing / at the end but not the extra
/ in the middle.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Fix another typo.
Original patch by Bharata. Updated to use {1,16} in spaprvioReg based
on example from Eric Blake.
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Improve the documentation of what forms a valid <address> element,
since these elements appear in numerous devices.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsAddress): New section.
(elementsControllers, elementsUSB, elementsNICS, elementsInput)
(elementsHub, elementsCharChannel, elementsSound): Refer to it.
In QEMU PPC64 we have a network device called "spapr-vlan". We can specify
this using the existing syntax for network devices, however libvirt
currently rejects "spapr-vlan" in virDomainNetDefParseXML() because of
the "-". Fix the code to accept "-".
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainNetDefParseXML): Allow '-' in
model name, and be more efficient.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Limit valid model names to match code.
Based on a patch by Michael Ellerman.
ppc64 as new arch type and pseries as new machine type are
added under <os> ... </os>.
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch is to expose the fabric_name of fc_host class, which
might be useful for users who wants to known which fabric the
(v)HBA connects to.
The patch also adds the missed capabilities' XML schema of scsi_host,
(of course, with fabric_wwn added), and update the documents
(docs/formatnode.html.in)
Enable block I/O throttle for per-disk in XML, as the first
per-disk IO tuning parameter.
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
If we ensure that virNodeSuspendGetTargetMask always resets
*bitmask to zero upon failure, there is no need for the
powerMgmt_valid field.
* src/util/virnodesuspend.c: Ensure *bitmask is zero upon
failure
* src/conf/capabilities.c, src/conf/capabilities.h: Remove
powerMgmt_valid field
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c: Remove powerMgmt_valid
The capabilities XML uses the x86 specific terms 'S3', 'S4'
and 'Hybrid-Syspend'. Switch it to use the same terminology
as the API constants and virsh options, eg 'suspend_mem'
'suspend_disk' and 'suspend_hybrid'
* docs/formatcaps.html.in, docs/schemas/capability.rng,
src/conf/capabilities.c: Rename suspend constants
This adds per-device weights to <blkiotune>. Note that the
cgroups implementation only supports weights per block device,
and not per-file within the device; hence this option must be
global to the domain definition rather than tied to individual
<devices>/<disk> entries:
<domain ...>
<blkiotune>
<device>
<path>/path/to/block</path>
<weight>1000</weight>
</device>
</blkiotune>
..
This patch also adds a parameter --device-weights to virsh command
blkiotune for setting/getting blkiotune.weight_device for any
hypervisor that supports it. All <device> entries under
<blkiotune> are concatenated into a single string attribute under
virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters, named "device_weight".
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Some systems support a feature known as 'Hybrid-Suspend', apart from the
usual system-wide sleep states such as Suspend-to-RAM (S3) or Suspend-to-Disk
(S4). Add the functionality to discover this power management feature and
export it in the capabilities XML under the <power_management> tag.
virt-xml-validate fails when run on a domain XML file of type 'vbox'.
For failing test case, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757097
This patch updates the XML schema to accept all valid hypervisor
types, as well as dropping hypervisor types that are not in use
by the current code base.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add documentation for the STP filtering support. Describe the XML attributes
that are supported.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for filtering of STP (spanning tree protocol) traffic
to the parser and makes us of the ebtables support for STP filtering. This code
now enables the filtering of traffic in chains with prefix 'stp'.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
With hunks borrowed from one of David Steven's previous patches, we now
add the capability of having a 'mac' chain which is useful to filter
for multiple valid MAC addresses.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch exports KVM Host Power Management capabilities as XML so that
higher-level systems management software can make use of these features
available in the host.
The script "pm-is-supported" (from pm-utils package) is run to discover if
Suspend-to-RAM (S3) or Suspend-to-Disk (S4) is supported by the host.
If either of them are supported, then a new tag "<power_management>" is
introduced in the XML under the <host> tag.
However in case the query to check for power management features succeeded,
but the host does not support any such feature, then the XML will contain
an empty <power_management/> tag. In the event that the PM query itself
failed, the XML will not contain any "power_management" tag.
To use this, new APIs could be implemented in libvirt to exploit power
management features such as S3/S4.
Add documentation for the VLAN filtering support. Describe the XML attributes
that are supported.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for filtering of VLAN (802.1Q) traffic to the
parser and makes us of the ebtables support for VLAN filtering. This code
now enables the filtering of traffic in chains with prefix 'vlan'.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch modifies the NWFilter parameter parser to support multiple
elements with the same name and to internally build a list of items.
An example of the XML looks like this:
<parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.2.3'/>
<parameter name='TEST' value='10.2.3.4'/>
<parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.1.1'/>
The list of values is then stored in the newly introduced data type
virNWFilterVarValue.
The XML formatter is also adapted to print out all items in alphabetical
order sorted by 'name'.
This patch also fixes a bug in the XML schema on the way.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds several aspects of documentation about the network filtering
system:
- chains, chains' priorities and chains' default priorities
- talks about lists of elements, i.e., a variable assigned multiple values
(part of already ACK-ed series)
- already mentions the vlan, stp and mac chains added later on
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-October/msg01238.html)
- mentions limitations of vlan filtering (when sent by VM) on Linux systems
This patch enables chains that have a known prefix in their name.
Known prefixes are: 'ipv4', 'ipv6', 'arp', 'rarp'. All prefixes
are also protocols that can be evaluated on the ebtables level.
Following the prefix they will be automatically connected to an interface's
'root' chain and jumped into following the protocol they evaluate, i.e.,
a table 'arp-xyz' will be accessed from the root table using
ebtables -t nat -A <iface root table> -p arp -j I-<ifname>-arp-xyz
thus generating a 'root' chain like this one here:
Bridge chain: libvirt-O-vnet0, entries: 5, policy: ACCEPT
-p IPv4 -j O-vnet0-ipv4
-p ARP -j O-vnet0-arp
-p 0x8035 -j O-vnet0-rarp
-p ARP -j O-vnet0-arp-xyz
-j DROP
where the chain 'arp-xyz' is accessed for filtering of ARP packets.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch extends the filter XML to support priorities of chains
in the XML. An example would be:
<filter name='allow-arpxyz' chain='arp-xyz' priority='200'>
[...]
</filter>
The permitted values for priorities are [-1000, 1000].
By setting the priority of a chain the order in which it is accessed
from the interface root chain can be influenced.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds XML definitions for guest NUMA specification and contains
routines to parse the same. The guest NUMA specification looks like this:
<cpu>
...
<topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='2'/>
<numa>
<cell cpus='0-7' memory='512000'/>
<cell cpus='8-15' memory='512000'/>
</numa>
...
</cpu>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
While Xen only has a single paravirt console, UML, and
QEMU both support multiple paravirt consoles. The LXC
driver can also be trivially made to support multiple
consoles. This patch extends the XML to allow multiple
<console> elements in the XML. It also makes the UML
and QEMU drivers support this config.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Allow
multiple <console> devices
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c, src/xen/xen_driver.c,
src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c, src/xenxs/xen_xm.c: Update for
internal API changes
* src/security/security_selinux.c, src/security/virt-aa-helper.c:
Only label consoles that aren't a copy of the serial device
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c, src/qemu/qemu_driver.c,
src/qemu/qemu_process.c, src/uml/uml_conf.c,
src/uml/uml_driver.c: Support multiple console devices
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c, tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c: Extra
tests for multiple virtio consoles. Set QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV
for all console /channel tests
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-virtio-auto.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-virtio.args
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-console-virtio.args: Update
for correct chardev syntax
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-console-virtio-many.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-console-virtio-many.xml: New
test file
Allow the datacenter and compute resource parts of the path
to be prefixed with folders. Therefore, the way the path is
parsed has changed. Before, it was split in 2 or 3 items and
the items' meanings were determined by their positions. Now
the path can have 2 or more items and the the vCenter server
is asked whether a folder, datacenter of compute resource
with the specified name exists at the current hierarchy level.
Before the datacenter and compute resource lookup automatically
traversed folders during lookup. This is logic got removed
and folders have to be specified explicitly.
The proper datacenter path including folders is now used when
accessing a datastore over HTTPS. This makes virsh dumpxml
and define work for datacenters in folders.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732676
The types used in domaincommon.rng and secret.rng should be the same.
Move genericName to basictypes.rng, then drop redundant types now
that secret.rng uses basictypes.rng.
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add additional fields to let you specify the how to authenticate with a disk.
The secret to use may be referenced by a usage string or a UUID, i.e.:
<auth username='myuser'>
<secret type='ceph' usage='secretname'/>
</auth>
or
<auth username='myuser'>
<secret type='ceph' uuid='0a81f5b2-8403-7b23-c8d6-21ccc2f80d6f'/>
</auth>
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.com>
Add a new secret type to store a Ceph authentication key. The name
is simply an identifier for easy human reference.
The xml looks like this:
<secret ephemeral='no' private='no'>
<uuid>0a81f5b2-8403-7b23-c8d6-21ccc2f80d6f</uuid>
<usage type='ceph'>
<name>mycluster_admin</name>
</usage>
</secret>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.net>
Define two new RPC message types VIR_NET_CALL_WITH_FDS and
VIR_NET_REPLY_WITH_FDS. These message types are equivalent
to VIR_NET_CALL and VIR_NET_REPLY, except that between the
message header, and payload there is a 32-bit integer field
specifying how many file descriptors have been passed.
The actual file descriptors are sent/recv'd out of band.
* src/rpc/virnetmessage.c, src/rpc/virnetmessage.h,
src/libvirt_private.syms: Add support for handling
passed file descriptors
* src/rpc/virnetprotocol.x: Extend protocol for FD
passing
The 5th line of every xfig file has 'Letter ' which
annoys GITs trailing-whitespace commit hook. Hand edit
the files to remove that trailing whitespace
* docs/*.fig: Remove trailing whitespace
This adds a page documenting many aspects of migration:
- The types of migration (managed direct, p2p, unmanaged direct)
- Data transports (native, tunnelled)
- Migration URIs
- Config file handling
- Example scenarios
* libvirt.css: Rules for data tables and diagrams
* Makefile.am: Include extra png/fig files
* migration-managed-direct.fig, migration-managed-direct.png,
migration-managed-direct.png, migration-managed-p2p.png,
migration-native.fig, migration-native.png,
migration-tunnel.fig, migration-tunnel.png,
migration-unmanaged-direct.fig, migration-unmanaged-direct.png:
Diagrams of migration
* migration.html.in, sitemap.html.in: New migration doc
This attribute says what to do with cdrom (or floppy) if
the source is missing. It accepts:
- mandatory - fail if missing for any reason (the default)
- requisite - fail if missing on boot up, drop if missing on
migrate/restore/revert
- optional - drop if missing at any start attempt.
However, this patch introduces only XML part of this new
functionality.
In a recent expansion of the documentation on network forward modes, I
incorrectly stated that incoming sessions to guests on routed networks
were blocked. This is true for guests on NATed networks, but not
routed. This patch corrects that error, and adds a pointer to the
nwfilter page for those who do want to restrict incoming sessions to
hosts on routed networks.
Clarify some of the effects of managed passthrough <hostdev> devices;
with recent changes (commit d093547), a nodedev-reattach is only needed
to pair up to an explicit nodedev-dettach (but beware that older
virt-manager has a bug where it uses explicit nodedev-dettach under the
hood when using the gui to hotplug a hostdev device).
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Mention reattach.
* tools/virsh.pod (nodedev): Mention managed mode.
This adds support for a libvirt client configuration file
either /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf for privileged clients,
or $HOME/.libvirt/libvirt.conf for unprivileged clients.
It allows one parameter
uri_aliases = [
"hail=qemu+ssh://root@hail.cloud.example.com/system",
"sleet=qemu+ssh://root@sleet.cloud.example.com/system",
]
Any call to virConnectOpen with a non-NULL URI will first
attempt to match against the uri_aliases list. An application
can disable this by using VIR_CONNECT_NO_ALIASES
* docs/uri.html.in: Document URI aliases
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Add VIR_CONNECT_NO_ALIASES
* libvirt.spec.in, mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Add /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf
* src/Makefile.am: Install default config file
* src/libvirt.c: Add support for URI aliases
* src/remote/remote_driver.c: Don't try to handle URIs
with no scheme and which clearly are not paths
* src/util/conf.c: Don't raise error on virConfFree(NULL)
* src/xen/xen_driver.c: Don't raise error on URIs
with no scheme
A few people have attempted to use the new forwarding modes with older
versions of libvirt. The docs where the modes are described have
always stated the minimum required libvirt version, but the examples
at the end didn't, which I believe is what has caused the confusion.
Similarly, the section on portgroups now has a version tag added at
the beginning.
I also noticed that there was no example of defining a <dns> hostname,
so I added one, as well as making the domain name example more
recognizable (by adding ".com" to the domain).
VirtFS allows the user to choose between path/handle based fs driver.
As of now, libvirt hardcoded path based driver only. This patch provides
a solution to allow user to choose between path/handle based fs driver.
Sample:
<filesystem type='mount'>
<driver type='handle'/>
<source dir='/folder/to/share1'/>
<target dir='mount_tag1'/>
</filesystem>
<filesystem type='mount'>
<driver type='path'/>
<source dir='/folder/to/share2'/>
<target dir='mount_tag2'/>
</filesystem>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Previously libvirt's disk device XML only had a single attribute,
error_policy, to control both read and write error policy, but qemu
has separate options for controlling read and write. In one case
(enospc) a policy is allowed for write errors but not read errors.
This patch adds a separate attribute that sets only the read error
policy. If just error_policy is set, it will apply to both read and
write error policy (previous behavior), but if the new rerror_policy
attribute is set, it will override error_policy for read errors only.
Possible values for rerror_policy are "stop", "report", and "ignore"
("report" is the qemu-controlled default for rerror_policy when
error_policy isn't specified).
For consistency, the value "report" has been added to the possible
values for error_policy as well.
When booting a virtual machine with a kernel/initrd it is possible
to pass command line arguments using the <cmdline>...args...</cmdline>
element in the guest XML. These appear to the kernel / init process
in /proc/cmdline.
When booting a container we do not have a custom /proc/cmdline,
but we can easily set an environment variable for it. Ideally
we could pass individual arguments to the init process as a
regular set of 'char *argv[]' parameters, but that would involve
libvirt parsing the <cmdline> XML text. This can easily be added
later, even if we add the env variable now
* docs/drvlxc.html.in: Document env variables passed to LXC
* src/conf/domain_conf.c: Add <cmdline> to be parsed for
guests of type='exe'
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Set LIBVIRT_LXC_CMDLINE env var
When support for was added for PCI multifunction cards (in commit
9f8baf, first included in libvirt 0.9.3), it was done by always
turning on the multifunction bit for all PCI devices. Since that time
it has been realized that this is not an ideal solution, and that the
multifunction bit must be selectively turned on. For example, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728174
and the discussion before and after
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-September/msg01036.html
This patch modifies multifunction support so that the multifunction=on
option is only added to the qemu commandline for a device if its PCI
<address> definition has the attribute "multifunction='on'", e.g.:
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x04' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
In practice, the multifunction bit should only be turned on if
function='0' AND other functions will be used in the same slot - it
usually isn't needed for functions 1-7 (although there are apparently
some exceptions, e.g. the Intel X53 according to the QEMU source
code), and should never be set if only function 0 will be used in the
slot. The test cases have been changed accordingly to illustrate.
With this patch in place, if a user attempts to assign multiple
functions in a slot without setting the multifunction bit for function
0, libvirt will issue an error when the domain is defined, and the
define operation will fail. In the future, we may decide to detect
this situation and automatically add multifunction=on to avoid the
error; even then it will still be useful to have a manual method of
turning on multifunction since, as stated above, there are some
devices that excpect it to be turned on for all functions in a slot.
A side effect of this patch is that attempts to use the same PCI
address for two different devices will now log an error (previously
this would cause the domain define operation to fail, but there would
be no log message generated). Because the function doing this log was
almost completely rewritten, I didn't think it worthwhile to make a
separate patch for that fix (the entire patch would immediately be
obsoleted).
there is no option "none":
>From libvirt/src/conf/domain_conf.c
<snip>
VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainTimerTickpolicy,
VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_TICKPOLICY_LAST,
"delay",
"catchup",
"merge",
"discard");
</snip>
Replacing with delay.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
Coupled with the recent virsh nodedev-* doc patch, this should now
give a better picture of libvirt node device handling.
* docs/formatnode.html.in: Fill in page.
This patch was made in response to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738095
In short, qemu's default for the rombar setting (which makes the
firmware ROM of a PCI device visible/not on the guest) was previously
0 (not visible), but they recently changed the default to 1
(visible). Unfortunately, there are some PCI devices that fail in the
guest when rombar is 1, so the setting must be exposed in libvirt to
prevent a regression in behavior (it will still require explicitly
setting <rom bar='off'/> in the guest XML).
rombar is forced on/off by adding:
<rom bar='on|off'/>
inside a <hostdev> element that defines a PCI device. It is currently
ignored for all other types of devices.
At the moment there is no clean method to determine whether or not the
rombar option is supported by QEMU - this patch uses the advice of a
QEMU developer to assume support for qemu-0.12+. There is currently a
patch in the works to put this information in the output of "qemu-kvm
-device pci-assign,?", but of course if we switch to keying off that,
we would lose support for setting rombar on all the versions of qemu
between 0.12 and whatever version gets that patch.
QEMU 0.13 introduced cache=unsafe for -drive, this patch exposes
it in the libvirt layer.
* Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_UNSAFE),
as even if $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't know if unsafe
is supported.
* Improved the reliability of qemu cache type detection.
A new element is introduced to XML that allows to control
state of virtual network interfaces in hypervisors.
Live modification of the link state allows networking tools
propagate topology changes to guest OS or testing of
scenarios in complex (virtual) networks.
This patch adds elements to XML grammars and parsing and generating
code.
It is important to be able to attach USB redirected devices to a
particular controller (one that supports USB2 for instance).
Without this patch, only the default bus was used.
<redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='4'/>
</redirdev>
I got confused when 'virsh domblkinfo dom disk' required the
path to a disk (which can be ambiguous, since a single file
can back multiple disks), rather than the unambiguous target
device name that I was using in disk snapshots. So, in true
developer fashion, I went for the best of both worlds - all
interfaces that operate on a disk (aka block) now accept
either the target name or the unambiguous path to the backing
file used by the disk.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainDiskIndexByName): Add
parameter.
(virDomainDiskPathByName): New prototype.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (domain_conf.h): Export it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskIndexByName): Also allow
searching by path, and decide whether ambiguity is okay.
(virDomainDiskPathByName): New function.
(virDomainDiskRemoveByName, virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): Update
callers.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemudDomainBlockPeek)
(qemuDomainAttachDeviceConfig, qemuDomainUpdateDeviceConfig)
(qemuDomainGetBlockInfo, qemuDiskPathToAlias): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessFindDomainDiskByPath):
Likewise.
* src/libxl/libxl_driver.c (libxlDomainAttachDeviceDiskLive)
(libxlDomainDetachDeviceDiskLive, libxlDomainAttachDeviceConfig)
(libxlDomainUpdateDeviceConfig): Likewise.
* src/uml/uml_driver.c (umlDomainBlockPeek): Likewise.
* src/xen/xend_internal.c (xenDaemonDomainBlockPeek): Likewise.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Update documentation.
* tools/virsh.pod (domblkstat, domblkinfo): Likewise.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskTarget): Tighten pattern on
disk targets.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (disksnapshot): Update to match.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/disk_snapshot.xml: Update test.
Adds an optional element to <domainsnapshot>, which will be used
to give user control over external snapshot filenames on input,
and specify generated filenames on output.
For now, no driver accepts this element; that will come later.
<domainsnapshot>
...
<disks>
<disk name='vda' snapshot='no'/>
<disk name='vdb' snapshot='internal'/>
<disk name='vdc' snapshot='external'>
<driver type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/path/to/new'/>
</disk>
</disks>
<domain>
...
<devices>
<disk ...>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<target dev='vdc'/>
<source file='/path/to/old'/>
</disk>
</devices>
</domain>
</domainsnapshot>
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainSnapshotDiskDef): New type.
(_virDomainSnapshotDef): Add new elements.
(virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): New prototype.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDiskDefClear)
(virDomainSnapshotDiskDefParseXML, disksorter)
(virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): New functions.
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString): Parse new fields.
(virDomainSnapshotDefFree): Clean them up.
(virDomainSnapshotDefFormat): Output them.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (domain_conf.h): Export new function.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng (domainsnapshot, disksnapshot):
Add more xml.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlin/disk_snapshot.xml: New test.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/disk_snapshot.xml: Update.
In order to distinguish disk snapshots from system checkpoints, a
new state value that is only valid for snapshots is helpful.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (VIR_DOMAIN_LAST): New placeholder.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainSnapshotState): New enum mapping.
(VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_SNAPSHOT): New internal enum value.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainState): Use placeholder.
(virDomainSnapshotState): Extend mapping by one for use in snapshot.
(virDomainSnapshotDefParseString, virDomainSnapshotDefFormat):
Handle new state.
(virDomainObjSetState, virDomainStateReasonToString)
(virDomainStateReasonFromString): Avoid compiler warnings.
* tools/virsh.c (vshDomainState, vshDomainStateReasonToString):
Likewise.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (domain_conf.h): Export new functions.
* docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng: Tighten state definition.
* docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document it.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/disk_snapshot.xml: New test.
