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>
As discussed here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00361.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00552.html
Adds snapshot attribute and transient sub-element:
<devices>
<disk type=... snapshot='no|internal|external'>
...
<transient/>
</disk>
</devices>
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (snapshot): New define.
(disk): Add snapshot and persistent attributes.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document them.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (virDomainDiskSnapshot): New enum.
(_virDomainDiskDef): New fields.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-transient.xml: New
test of rng, no args counterpart until qemu support is complete.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-snapshot.args: New
file, snapshot attribute does not affect args.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-snapshot.xml: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): Run new test.
Newer QEMU introduced cache=directsync for -drive, this patchset
is to expose it in libvirt layer.
* Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_DIRECTSYNC),
As even $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't known if directsync
is supported.
In some versions of qemu, both virtio-blk-pci and virtio-net-pci
devices can have an event_idx setting that determines some details of
event processing. When it is enabled, it "reduces the number of
interrupts and exits for the guest". qemu will automatically enable
this feature when it is available, but there may be cases where this
new feature could actually make performance worse (NB: no such case
has been found so far).
As a safety switch in case such a situation is encountered in the
field, this patch adds a new attribute "event_idx" to the <driver>
element of both disk and interface devices. event_idx can be set to
"on" (to force event_idx on in case qemu has it disabled by default)
or "off" (for force event_idx off). In the case that event_idx support
isn't present in qemu, the attribute is ignored (this on the advice of
the qemu developer).
docs/formatdomain.html.in: document the new flag (marking it as
"don't mess with this!"
docs/schemas/domain.rng: add event_idx in appropriate places
src/conf/domain_conf.[ch]: add event_idx to parser and formatter
src/libvirt_private.syms: export
virDomainVirtioEventIdx(From|To)String
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.[ch]: detect and report event_idx in
disk/net
src/qemu/qemu_command.c: add event_idx parameter to qemu commandline
when appropriate.
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-event_idx.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-event_idx.xml,
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c,
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: test cases for event_idx.
Once it's plugged in, the <listen> element will be an optional
replacement for the "listen" attribute that graphics elements already
have. If the <listen> element is type='address', it will have an
attribute called 'address' which will contain an IP address or dns
name that the guest's display server should listen on. If, however,
type='network', the <listen> element should have an attribute called
'network' that will be set to the name of a network configuration to
get the IP address from.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: updated to allow the <listen> element
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: document the <listen> element and its
attributes.
* src/conf/domain_conf.[hc]:
1) The domain parser, formatter, and data structure are modified to
support 0 or more <listen> subelements to each <graphics>
element. The old style "legacy" listen attribute is also still
accepted, and will be stored internally just as if it were a
separate <listen> element. On output (i.e. format), the address
attribute of the first <listen> element of type 'address' will be
duplicated in the legacy "listen" attribute of the <graphic>
element.
2) The "listenAddr" attribute has been removed from the unions in
virDomainGRaphicsDef for graphics types vnc, rdp, and spice.
This attribute is now in the <listen> subelement (aka
virDomainGraphicsListenDef)
3) Helper functions were written to provide simple access
(both Get and Set) to the listen elements and their attributes.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: export the listen helper functions
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c, src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c,
src/qemu/qemu_migration.c, src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c,
src/vmx/vmx.c, src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c, src/xenxs/xen_xm.c
Modify all these files to use the listen helper functions rather
than directly referencing the (now missing) listenAddr
attribute. There can be multiple <listen> elements to a single
<graphics>, but the drivers all currently only support one, so all
replacements of direct access with a helper function indicate index
"0".
* tests/* - only 3 of these are new files added explicitly to test the
new <listen> element. All the others have been modified to reflect
the fact that any legacy "listen" attributes passed in to the domain
parse will be saved in a <listen> element (i.e. one of the
virDomainGraphicsListenDefs), and during the domain format function,
both the <listen> element as well as the legacy attributes will be
output.
We had a bit too many elements crammed in there. Separate it into different
headings:
- CPU Allocation (<vcpus>)
- CPU Tuning (<cputune>)
- Memory allocation (<memory> and <currentMemory>)
- Memory backing (<memoryBacking>)
- Memory tuning (<memtune>)
- Numa tuning (<numatune>)
- Block I/O tuning (<blkiotune>)
Define new 'bandwidth' element with possible child element 'inbound'
and 'outbound' addressing incoming and outgoing traffic respectively:
<bandwidth>
<inbound average='1000' peak='2000' burst='5120'/>
<outbound average='500'/>
</bandwidth>
Leaving any element out means not to shape traffic in that
direction.
The units for average and peak (rate) are in kilobytes per second,
for burst (size) are just in kilobytes.
This element can be inserted into domain's 'interface' and
'network'.
the domain XML <interface> element is updated in the following ways:
1) <virtualportprofile> can be specified when source type='network'
(previously it was only valid for source type='direct')
2) A new attribute "portgroup" has been added to the <source>
element. When source type='network' (the only time portgroup is
recognized), extra configuration information will be taken from the
<portgroup> element of the given name in the network definition.
3) Each virDomainNetDef now also potentially has a
virDomainActualNetDef which is a private object (never
exported/imported via the public API, and not defined in the RNG) that
is used to maintain information about the physical device that was
actually used for a NetDef of type VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_NETWORK.
The virDomainActualNetDef will only be parsed/formatted if the
parse/format function is called with the
VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_ACTUAL_NET flag set (which is only needed when
saving/loading a running domain's state info to the stateDir).
This patch creates new <bios> element which, at this time has only the
attribute useserial='yes|no'. This attribute allow users to use
Serial Graphics Adapter and see BIOS messages from the very first moment
domain boots up. Therefore, users can choose boot medium, set PXE, etc.
This option accepts 3 values:
-keep, to keep current client connected (Spice+VNC)
-disconnect, to disconnect client (Spice)
-fail, to fail setting password if there is a client connected (Spice)
No change in wording. One spacing change in a <pre>, noticed because
of odd XML formatting online; the rest is in free-flowing text to
make it easier to see nesting levels in the document.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Adjust spacing. Break long lines.
This patch adds documentation about the 802.1Qbh related parameters
of the virtualport element for 'direct' interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Wang <dwang2@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@cisco.com>
For virtio disks and interfaces, qemu allows users to enable or disable
ioeventfd feature. This means, qemu can execute domain code, while
another thread waits for I/O event. Basically, in some cases it is win,
in some loss. This feature is available via 'ioeventfd' attribute in disk
and interface <driver> element. It accepts 'on' and 'off'. Leaving this
attribute out defaults to hypervisor decision.
From a security pov copy and paste between the guest and the client is not
always desirable. So we need to be able to enable/disable this. The best place
to do this from an administration pov is on the hypervisor, so the qemu cmdline
is getting a spice disable-copy-paste option, see bug 693645. Example qemu
invocation:
qemu -spice port=5932,disable-ticketing,disable-copy-paste
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693661
For backwards compatibility, if no <video> is set but there is a
<graphics> tag, then we add a default <video> according to the
guest type. Add docs to tell the user about this to not make
them confused. Especially if they remove the video (such as via
"virsh edit"), it will be surprised for them to see the video
element is still in domain XML.
A lock manager may operate in various modes. The direct mode of
operation is to obtain locks based on the resources associated
with devices in the XML. The indirect mode is where the app
creating the domain provides explicit leases for each resource
that needs to be locked. This XML extension allows for listing
resources in the XML
<devices>
...
<lease>
<lockspace>somearea</lockspace>
<key>thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog</key>
<target path='/some/lease/path' offset='23432'/>
</lease>
...
</devices>
The 'lockspace' is a unique identifier for the lockspace which
the lease is associated
The 'key' is a unique identifier for the resource associated
with the lease.
The 'target' is the file on disk where the leases are held.
* docs/schemas/domain.rng: Add lease schema
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: parsing and
formatting for leases
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-lease.args,
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-lease.xml,
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: Test XML handling for leases
This adds a streaming-video=filter|all|off attribute. It is used to change
the behavior of video stream detection in spice, the default is filter (the
default for libvirt is not to specify it - the actual default is defined in
libspice-server.so).
Usage:
<graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'>
<streaming mode='off'/>
</graphics>
Tested with the above and with tests/qemuxml2argvtest.
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
starting with kernel 2.6.38 macvtap supports a 'passthru' mode for
attaching virtual functions of a SRIOV capable network card directly to a VM.
This patch adds the capability to configure such a device.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer@herrendoerfer.name>
This re-adds the example section originally written by Osier Yang,
and indicates the version in which the cputune parameters became
available in libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Igor Serebryany <igor47@moomers.org>
For IEEE 802.1Qbg, it is necessary to use a VLAN interface.
vepa itself does not require a VLAN interface.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <stenzel at de.ibm.com>
Tried to dredge through old changelogs and commits to come up with it, so
may not be completely accurate.
v2:
Drop ambiguous 'containers'
Use same mail archive for all links
This extends the SPICE XML to allow variable compression settings for audio,
images and streaming:
<graphics type='spice' port='5901' tlsPort='-1' autoport='yes'>
<image compression='auto_glz'/>
<jpeg compression='auto'/>
<zlib compression='auto'/>
<playback compression='on'/>
</graphics>
All new elements are optional.
Commit 78ba748ef1 claims to fix
documentation for swap_hard_limit virsh memtune option but it only fixes
documentation in formatdomain.html and libvirt.h. This patch completes
the task by fixing "virsh help memtune" output and memtune section of
virsh man page.
* Correct the documentation for cgroup: the swap_hard_limit indicates
mem+swap_hard_limit.
* Change cgroup private apis to: virCgroupGet/SetMemSwapHardLimit
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The Relax-NG schema for domains regarding <hostdev> doesn't match what's
implemented in src/conf/domain_conf.c#virDomainHostdevDefFormat(): The
implementation only requires @type, but the schema currently either
required none or all three attributes (@mode, @type, and @managed) to be
defined together, because they are declared in the same
<optional)-section. (@managed is currently even undocumented on
<http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsUSB>).
Thus the following minimal <hostdev>-example fails to validate:
<domain type='test'>
<name>N</name>
<memory>4096</memory>
<bootloader>/bin/false</bootloader>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='xenpv'>linux</type>
</os>
<devices>
<hostdev type='pci'>
<source>
<address bus='0x06' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
</devices>
</domain>
The schema is changed to match the current implementation:
1. @mode is optional (which defaults to 'subsystem')
2. @type is required
3. @managed is optional (which defaults to 'no')
The documentation is updated to mention @managed.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
This patchs adds documentation about the 802.1Qbg related parameters
of the virtualport element in a 'direct' interface definition.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@de.ibm.com>
This is in response to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629662
Explanation
qemu's virtio-net-pci driver allows setting the algorithm used for tx
packets to either "bh" or "timer". This is done by adding ",tx=bh" or
",tx=timer" to the "-device virtio-net-pci" commandline option.
'bh' stands for 'bottom half'; when this is set, packet tx is all done
in an iothread in the bottom half of the driver. (In libvirt, this
option is called the more descriptive "iothread".)
'timer' means that tx work is done in qemu, and if there is more tx
data than can be sent at the present time, a timer is set before qemu
moves on to do other things; when the timer fires, another attempt is
made to send more data. (libvirt retains the name "timer" for this
option.)
The resulting difference, according to the qemu developer who added
the option is:
bh makes tx more asynchronous and reduces latency, but potentially
causes more processor bandwidth contention since the cpu doing the
tx isn't necessarily the cpu where the guest generated the
packets.
Solution
This patch provides a libvirt domain xml knob to change the option on
the qemu commandline, by adding a new attribute "txmode" to the
<driver> element that can be placed inside any <interface> element in
a domain definition. It's use would be something like this:
<interface ...>
...
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver txmode='iothread'/>
...
</interface>
I chose to put this setting as an attribute to <driver> rather than as
a sub-element to <tune> because it is specific to the virtio-net
driver, not something that is generally usable by all network drivers.
(note that this is the same placement as the "driver name=..."
attribute used to choose kernel vs. userland backend for the
virtio-net driver.)
Actually adding the tx=xxx option to the qemu commandline is only done
if the version of qemu being used advertises it in the output of
qemu -device virtio-net-pci,?
If a particular txmode is requested in the XML, and the option isn't
listed in that help output, an UNSUPPORTED_CONFIG error is logged, and
the domain fails to start.
