The semantics of the backup operation don't strictly require that all
disks being backed up are part of the same incremental part (when a disk
was checkpointed/backed up separately or in a different VM), or even
they may not have a previous checkpoint at all (e.g. when the disk
was freshly hotplugged to the vm).
In such cases we can still create a common checkpoint for all of them
and backup differences according to configuration.
This patch adds a per-disk configuration of the checkpoint to do the
incremental backup from via the 'incremental' attribute and allows
perform full backups via the 'backupmode' attribute.
Note that no changes to the qemu driver are necessary to take advantage
of this as we already obey the per-disk 'incremental' field.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829829
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The former is the new recommended frontend for browsing Go API
documentation online.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Allow enabling TLS for the NBD server used to do pull-mode backups. Note
that documentation already mentions 'tls', so this just implements the
schema and XML bits.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
TLS is required to transport backed-up data securely when using
pull-mode backups.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Data is valid only when queried as guest writes may increase the backup
size.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
We're no longer using either Travis CI or the Jenkins-based
CentOS CI, but we have started using Cirrus CI.
Mention the libvirt-ci subproject as well, as a pointer for those
who might want to learn more about our CI infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
'transfers inactive the definition of a domain' seems odd.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Jenkins replaced use of the term 'slave' with 'agent' when
describing its architecture.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The wiki page we currently link to is just a redirect for
back compat.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Network interfaces are simply attached to a bridge device.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The term "access control list" better describes the concept involved.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The term "access control list" better describes the concept involved.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
oVirt does merge images out of libvirt in some cases. Add docs outlining
how it's done from a high level.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Simplify the docs and reduce maintenance burden by just describing the
algorithm by a pseudo-language. Users are encouraged to use libvirt
anyways and projects such as oVirt which do some management of storage
themselves are unlikely to use bash anyways.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Define what users should look for when wanting to manipulate bitmaps
themselves.
Later on a patch will turn the bash algorithms into pseudocode for
simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add a section that outlines usage of tools to handle bitmaps and
introduce terms corresponding to the output of qemu-img to be used in
further sections.
With this we can simplify the section about checking bitmap health as we
don't have to explain the qemu-img output but can refer to the newly
defined terms.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Emphasize what needs to happen and also that creating a snapshot doesn't
create the appropriate bitmaps. Also mention that granularity is kept.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Make it obvious what's meant by 'overlay' and 'backing image' for sake
of extension of the document.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
QEMU 4.1.0 introduced a new device type called TPM Proxy, currently
implemented by PPC64 guests via a new virtual device called
'spapr-tpm-proxy' (see QEMU 0fb6bd073230 for more info).
The TPM Proxy device interacts with a TPM Resource Manager, a host
device capable of multiplexing the host TPM with multiple processes.
This allows multiple guests to access some TPM features at the
same time. Note that this mode of operation does not provide
full TPM features to be available for the guest - for that case
the guest still needs to assign a vTPM device (tpm-spapr for
PPC64 guests). Although redundant, there is currently no technical
limitation for a guest to assign both a vTPM and a TPM Proxy at the
same time.
This patch adds documentation and schema for a new TPM model
type called 'spapr-tpm-proxy' that creates this new TPM Proxy
device. This model is valid only for the 'passthrough' backend.
An example of a TPM Proxy device connected to a TPM Resource Manager
'/dev/tpmrm0' will look like this:
<tpm model='spapr-tpm-proxy'>
<backend type='passthrough'>
<device path='/dev/tpmrm0'/>
</backend>
</tpm>
Tested-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add a new aw_bits attribute to the iommu device to control
the address width of the intel-iommu
Signed-off-by Menno Lageman <menno.lageman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Outline the basics and how to integrate with externally created
overlays. Other topics will continue later.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
As noted by Erik Skultety, we use the same XML schema to report
existing devices and to define new devices. However, some schema
elements are "read-only". In other words, they are used to report
information from the node device driver and cannot be used to define a
new device. Note these in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Mediated devices support arbitrary vendor-specific attributes that can
be attached to a mediated device. These attributes are ordered, and are
written to sysfs in order after a device is created. This patch adds
support for these attributes to the mdev data types and XML schema.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
When parsing a nodedev xml file, the iommuGroup element should be
optional. This element should be read-only and is determined by the
device driver. While this is a change to existing behavior, it doesn't
break backwards-compatibility because it makes the parser less strict.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We're not mentioning that we're replicating QEMU behavior on purpose.
First because QEMU will one day, maybe, change the behavior and
start to refuse incomplete NUMA setups, and then our documentation
is now deprecated. Second, auto filling the CPUs in the first
cell will work regardless of QEMU changes in the future.
The idea is to encourage the user to provide a complete NUMA CPU topology,
not relying on the CPU auto fill mechanic.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
On Linux, changing the nodeset on 'numatune' does not imply that
the guest memory will be migrated on the spot to the new nodeset.
The memory migration is tied on guest usage of the memory pages,
and an idle guest will take longer to have its memory migrated
to the new nodeset.
This is a behavior explained in detail in the Linux kernel
documentation in Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
The user doesn't need this level of detail though - just needs
his/her expectations under check. Running 'numastat' and hoping
for instant memory migration from the previous nodeset to the new
one is not viable.
There's also parts of the memory that are locked by QEMU in the
same place, e.g. when VFIO devices are present. Let's also
mention it as another factor that impacts the results the
user might expect from NUMA memory migration with numatune.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640869
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Protected virtualization/IBM Secure Execution for Linux protects
guest memory and state from the host.
Add some basic information about technology and a brief guide
on setting up secure guests with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo de Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Update document with changes in qemu capability caching and the added
secure guest support checking for AMD SEV in virt-host-validate.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Historically IPv6 did not support NAT, so when IPv6 was added to
libvirt's virtual networks, when requesting <forward mode="nat"/>
libvirt will NOT apply NAT to IPv6 traffic, only IPv4 traffic.
This is an annoying historical design decision as it means we
cannot enable IPv6 automatically. We thus need to introduce a
new attribute
<forward mode="nat">
<nat ipv6="yes"/>
</forward>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The repository is now obsolete, and it never had proper GitLab CI
support anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
There are many different settings that required to config a KVM guest
for real time, low latency workoads. The documentation included here is
based on guidance developed & tested by the Red Hat KVM real time team.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This needs to be set for every repository for Cirrus CI integration
to work.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
QEMU has -fw_cfg which allows users to tweak how firmware
configures itself and/or provide new configuration blobs.
Introduce new <sysinfo/> type "fwcfg" that will hold these
new blobs.
It's possible to either specify new value as a string or
provide a filename which contents then serve as the value.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The attribute is only allowed for host-passthrough CPUs and it can be
used to request only migratable or all supported features to be enabled
in the virtual CPU.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The old information about managing PO files was outdated, as we're
managing files in a different way with Weblate. This also introduces a
badge showing the translation progress across languages.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Until libvirt 2.5.0 we didn't have a real process for release
notes in place, and we just published the list of commits that
had made it into each release, dividing them into categories that
mostly matched the sections we use today. Those documents haven't
been relevant for years, but they're still in the git repository
and collectively take up almost 2 MiB of disk space.
Let's import the only valuable piece of information they contain,
the release date for each libvirt versions, into the current
document and then drop them for good.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Instead of storing release notes as XML and then converting them
to HTML and ASCII at build time using XSLT and a custom script,
we can use reStructuredText as both the source and ASCII
representation and generate HTML from it using the same tooling
we already use for the rest of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The ASCII output our scripts produce is already very close to
reStructuredText, and with just a few extra tweaks we can get
almost all of the way there.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
A few new individuals have contributed to libvirt since the last
time the gitdm configuration was updated.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The primary git repository is the one on GitLab these days.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
As the name clearly implies, it's supposed to list the .html.in
files that are generated from .rst files, but it mistakenly lists
the corresponding .html files instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We still point to git repositories hosted on libvirt.org in various
places. Replace the links to their gitlab.com equivalents.
Note that GitLab is trying to be smart here and
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt
redirects to
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git
when doing a 'git clone' and vice-versa when visiting from the
browser, so I only kept the .git suffix in places that explicitly
mentioned 'git clone'.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Also note that it's archived, because it's definitely
not maintained anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We've had no tarballs for almost 10 years.
Give up and delete the commented out links to them.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The heading overline should only be used for the overall document title,
any subsequent headings should be underline only.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Some of the node device xml schema was documented in drvnodedev.html.in
rather than in formatnode.html.in. Move all of the schema documentation
to formatnode.html.in and provide reference links from the
drvnodedev.html.in page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The proper name for physical function capability is 'phys_function', not
'physical_function'. Likewise, a virtual function capability is
'virt_functions' rather than 'virtual_function'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
There are 4 formats available (x:stderr, x:syslog:name,
x:file:file_path, x:journald), not 3. Use "the following"
instead of the actual number to avoid the need to update
the number every time a new form is added/removed.
Suggested-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The RTC and HPET modes for the QEMU emulation tick have been dropped
almost 9 years ago, in commit 25f3151ece1d5881826232bebccc21b588d4e03e.
Do not allow them in the devices cgroup policy.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This format is much easier to tweak and update.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's been more than six months since we adopted GLib and we've
been pretty aggressive at replacing our homegrown APIs with more
standard ones, so by now most of the symbols mentioned in this
document haven't been around for quite a long time already.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
With the move to GitLab CI one of the things we miss from Jenkins is a
single page dashboard showing CI status across all projects. This is a
very simple replacement that uses badges for CI pipeline status.
A CSS tweak is needed because RST->HTML adds redundant <p> tags inside
table cells which causes excessive vertical whitespace to appear.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We need to prevent accidental deletion of release tags and maint
branches.
We need to ensure that shared CI runners are enabled on all repos.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To make it simpler to answer questions of "Why doesn't this thing work
for me?"
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
In formatdomain, using 'libxl' and 'xen' is redundant since they now
both refer to the same driver. 'xen' predates 'libxl' and unambiguously
identifies the Xen hypervisor, so drop the use of 'libxl'.
In aclpolkit, the connection URI was erroneously identified as 'libxl'
and the name 'xenlight'. Change the URI to 'xen' and driver name to 'Xen'.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Update news.xml to inform about the availability of CFPC, SBBC and
IBS features.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the IBS pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_IBS capability added
in the previous patch.
IBS can have the following values: "broken", "workaround",
"fixed-ibs", "fixed-ccd" and "fixed-na".
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<ibs value='fixed-ibs'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the SBBC pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_SBBC capability added
in the previous patch.
Like the previously added CFPC feature, SBBC can have the values
"broken", "workaround" or "fixed". Extra code is required to handle
it since it's not a regular tristate capability.
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<sbbc value='workaround'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This patch adds the implementation of the CFPC pSeries feature,
using the QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_PSERIES_CAP_CFPC capability added
in the previous patch.
CPFC can have the values "broken", "workaround" or "fixed". Extra
code is required to handle it since it's not a regular tristate
capability.
This is the XML format for the cap:
<features>
<cfpc value='workaround'/>
</features>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Both are optional but don't have to be specified together. Fix the
schema.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1826746
Suggested-by: Yi Sun <yisun@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
From time to time we are asked which PCI addresses are reserved
in QEMU. Let's document them in one place, it's easier than
reconstructing the list from the code each time.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Add 'since 5.10' as commonly used in formatdomain to avoid
misunderstandings if element is not present (Is it not supported
because of my version or because of my environment?)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
1. Use 'setup' consistently as noun, 'set up' as verb
2. Use path variables like '$IMAGE_PATH' consistently
like in Troubleshooting to improve readability
3. Remove ':' from field names
4. Change phrasing in sentences I stumbled upon several
times to improve readability.
5. Minor grammar/vocab fixes.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
This commit includes an entry for new network DHCP lease time
information inside news.xml.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
If an user is trying to configure a dhcp neetwork settings, it is not
possible to change the leasetime of a range or a host entry. This is
available using dnsmasq extra options, but they are associated with
dhcp-range or dhcp-hosts fields. This patch implements a leasetime for
range and hosts tags. They can be defined under that settings:
<dhcp>
<range ...>
<lease/>
</range>
<host ...>
<lease/>
</host>
</dhcp>
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913446
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
element <qemu:commandline> should be the child of <domain>
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chen_han_xiao@126.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
'passthrough' is Xen-Specific guest configuration option new to Xen 4.13
that enables IOMMU mappings for a guest and hence whether it supports PCI
passthrough. The default is disabled. See the xl.cfg(5) man page and
xen.git commit babde47a3fe for more details.
The default state of disabled prevents hotlugging PCI devices. However,
if the guest configuration contains a PCI passthrough device at time of
creation, libxl will automatically enable 'passthrough' and subsequent
hotplugging of PCI devices will also be possible. It is not possible to
unconditionally enable 'passthrough' since it would introduce a migration
incompatibility due to guest ABI change. Instead, introduce another Xen
hypervisor feature that can be used to enable guest PCI passthrough
<features>
<xen>
<passthrough state='on'/>
</xen>
</features>
To allow finer control over how IOMMU maps to guest P2M table, the
passthrough element also supports a 'mode' attribute with values
restricted to snyc_pt and share_pt, similar to xl.cfg(5) 'passthrough'
setting .
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
e820_host is a Xen-specific option, only available for PV domains, that
provides the domain a virtual e820 memory map based on the host one. It
is enabled with a new Xen hypervisor feature, e.g.
<features>
<xen>
<e820_host state='on'/>
</xen>
</features>
e820_host is required when using PCI passthrough and is generally
considered safe for any PV kernel. e820_host is silently ignored if set
in HVM domain configuration. See xl.cfg(5) man page in the Xen
documentation for more details.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Convert the simple example to Python 3 syntax:
- print() is a function
- do not use bare except
- libvirt.open*() does not return None but raises an exception
The referenced source for the example was removed with
5bb2a245ab
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Improving the zPCI example by choosing more distinct values and
adding explanation for fid.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Changing the introduction to bring the idea of this document better across.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
The use of 32favicon.png was removed when the new favicons were
introduced in
commit 40cb5581c4
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 18:22:11 2017 +0100
docs: add full set of "favicon" files to support modern clients
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The various favicon files were missing from the favicon list, so never
installed, as was an example code diagram.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We previously added a hack to symlink CSS files from the source dir into
the build dir, to allow the website to be browsed locally. We should
have also done this for any images.
This change merges several variables into one "$(assets)" so that we
treat all static files in the root dir the same way.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The idea behind this document is to show, with actual examples,
that users should not expect PCI addresses in the domain XML and
in the guest OS to match.
The first zPCI example already serves this purpose perfectly, so
in the interest of keeping the page as brief and easy to digest
as possible the second one is removed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
The section about VFIO devices is kept separate from the rest
because it's less about domain XML and guest OS disagreeing on the
PCI address of a device, and more about which of the two PCI
addresses in the domain XML is even relevant to the guest OS.
The section on zPCI addresses, on the other hand, falls squarely
in the "more complex cases" category, so it should live in the
corresponding section.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Indent all code snippets by the same number of spaces, and don't
embed the :: marker in the line preceding a code block.
This commit is best viewed with 'git show -w'.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Add some information on how pci address work on s390x.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This document describes the relationship between PCI addresses as
seen in the domain XML and by the guest OS, which is a topic that
people get confused by time and time again.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Add the appropriate entries into the schema to allow encryption of the
backup or scratch image. Since we use blockdev internals for everything
no changes to the code are actually necessary.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811906
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
It was never implemented and for now I don't think there's demand to do
it. Remove the reference.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812100
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We've adopted reStructuredText as the primary markup language for
our documentation and, given that both GitLab and GitHub can render
documents in this format just fine, it makes sense to get rid of
the few last remaining bits of Markdown and standardize on
reStructuredText across the board.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
a <controller type='pci'...> element can now have a "hotplug"
attribute in the <target> subelement. This is intended to control
whether or not the slot(s) of the controller support
hotplugging/unplugging a device:
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'>
<target hotplug='off'/>
</controller>
The default value of hotplug is "on".
Since support for configuring such an option is hypervisor-dependent
(and will vary among different types of PCI controllers even on a
single hypervisor), no validation is done in this patch - that
validation will be done in the patch that wires support for the
setting into the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In a guest with only one vcpu, when pinning the emulator in say CPU184
and the vcpu0 in CPU0 of the host, the user might expect that only
CPU0 and CPU184 of the host will be used by the guest.
The reality is that Libvirt takes some time to honor the emulator
and vcpu pinning, taking care of NUMA constraints first. This will
result in other CPUs of the host being potentially used by the
QEMU thread until the emulator/vcpu pinning is done. The user
then might be confused by the output of 'virsh cpu-stats' in this
scenario, showing around 200 microseconds of cycles being spent
in other CPUs.
Let's document this behavior, which is explained in detail in
Libvirt commit v5.0.0-199-gf136b83139, in the cputune section
of formatdomain.html.in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Event channels are like PV interrupts and in conjuction with grant frames
form a data transfer mechanism for PV drivers. They are also used for
inter-processor interrupts. Guests with a large number of vcpus and/or
many PV devices many need to increase the maximum default value of 1023.
For this reason the native Xen config format supports the
'max_event_channels' setting. See xl.cfg(5) man page for more details.
Similar to the existing maxGrantFrames option, add a new xenbus controller
option 'maxEventChannels', allowing to adjust the maximum value via libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
One new company has 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>
Help people to see where to report bugs when they download a libvirt
release.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To discourage people from using the git mirror links, style them in a
smaller italic font, with plain colour.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Change the download page so that gitlab is referred to as the primary
git host and libvirt.org is related to mirror status.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently we use the "Virtualization Tools" product in Red Hat Bugzilla
for issue tracking upstream. This changes to point people to GitLab for
issue tracking.
Note that Bugzilla still has plenty of bugs present against libvirt.
Triaging these to determine what is still valid will be a separate
exercise. Bugzilla will be locked to prevent creation of new issues
meanwhile.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The libvirt project has alot of git repositories, and they must all be
configured in the same way, more or less. This page documents the
settings changes that I have made in GitLab and GitHub when configuring
projects, both as a reminder for myself, and to help anyone else doing
the same in future. Also included is info about the repo mirroring on
the libvirt.org server.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To encourage contributors to make changes to the main website, add a
footer link to every page which links to the corresponding source file
in git. With gitlab, they are able to edit content directly in the web
browser and then submit a merge request. This gives a way to contribute
content that is arguably easier than our wiki which requires manual
account creation, while this will also benefit from maintainer review.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Expose the virtio parameter for packed virtqueues as an optional libvirt
XML attribute to virtio-backed devices, e.g.:
<interface type='user'>
<mac address='00:11:22:33:44:55'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver packed='on'/>
</interface>
If the attribute is omitted, the default value for this attribute is 'off' and
regular split virtqueues are used.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This organizes the existing contents into sections, tweaks some parts
a bit and adds links to the pages where the contents that were ripped
out of hacking.rst now live, either inline or in the catch-all "further
reading" section depending on what makes more sense.
The result is that it's now possible to consume this page, which is
the entry point for new contributors, in just a few minutes, and then
drill down further based on factors such as the familiarity with the
open source development model or mail-based workflows.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
These guidelines should already be familiar to people who have
contributed to other open source projects, so it doesn't make much
sense for them to be so prominent. Move them to a separate page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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>
