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Erik Skultety
3888dcaa67 doc: Add info (where necessary) that paths should be specified as absolute
We documented this almost everywhere, but missed it on several places.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208763
2015-04-09 13:58:47 +02:00
Chen Fan
f276f0557e docs: route element must specify network address
because network address is required by route, so
here we should add one avoid user misunderstand.

Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
2015-03-25 10:43:23 +01:00
Chen Fan
1c19c5eff6 docs: no 'via' attribute in route element
via -> gateway

Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
2015-03-25 10:43:23 +01:00
Ján Tomko
e600a37d27 Document that USB hostdevs do not need nodeDettach
The virNodeDeviceDettach API only works on PCI devices.

Originally added by commit 10d3272e, but the API never
supported USB devices.

Reported by: Martin Polednik <mpolednik@redhat.com>
2015-03-25 08:42:21 +01:00
Peter Krempa
3e4230d270 conf: Add interface to parse and format memory device information
This patch adds code that parses and formats configuration for memory
devices.

A simple configuration would be:
<memory model='dimm'>
  <target>
    <size unit='KiB'>524287</size>
    <node>0</node>
  </target>
</memory>

A complete configuration of a memory device:
<memory model='dimm'>
  <source>
    <pagesize unit='KiB'>4096</pagesize>
    <nodemask>1-3</nodemask>
  </source>
  <target>
    <size unit='KiB'>524287</size>
    <node>1</node>
  </target>
</memory>

This patch preemptively forbids use of the <memory> device in individual
drivers so the users are warned right away that the device is not
supported.
2015-03-23 14:25:15 +01:00
Peter Krempa
a41185d8d1 qemu: Implement setup of memory hotplug parameters
To enable memory hotplug the maximum memory size and slot count need to
be specified. As qemu supports now other units than mebibytes when
specifying memory, use the new interface in this case.
2015-03-23 14:25:14 +01:00
Peter Krempa
bffb9163a1 conf: Add support for parsing and formatting max memory and slot count
Add a XML element that will allow to specify maximum supportable memory
and the count of memory slots to use with memory hotplug.

To avoid possible confusion and misuse of the new element this patch
also explicitly forbids the use of the maxMemory setting in individual
drivers's post parse callbacks. This limitation will be lifted when the
support is implemented.
2015-03-23 14:25:14 +01:00
Deepak Shetty
060f4c666e doc: Fix doc for backingStore
I spent quite some time figuring that backingStore info
isn't included in the dom xml, unless guest is up and
running. Hopefully putting that in the doc should help.

Also, several people have complained that libvirt reports
a backing file as raw, even though they expected it to be
qcow2; where the culprit is usually the user forgetting to
create the file with qemu-img create -o backing_fmt=qcow2.

This patch adds that info to the doc.

Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-03-18 15:21:46 -06:00
Antoni Segura Puimedon
a9fbe3b157 docs: schema and docs for the midonet virtualport type
Midonet is an opensource virtual networking that over lays the IP
network between hypervisors. Currently, such networks can be made
with the openvswitch virtualport type.

This patch, defines the schema and documentation that will serve
as basis for the follow up patches that will add support to libvirt
for using Midonet virtual ports for its interfaces. The schema
definition requires that the port profile expresses its interfaceid
as part of the port profile. For that reason, this is part of the
patch too.

Signed-off-by: Antoni Segura Puimedon <toni+libvirt@midokura.com>
2015-03-17 13:09:05 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
ad69e8be4a conf: Use correct type for balloon stats period
We're parsing memballoon status period as unsigned int, but when we're
trying to set it, both we and qemu use signed int.  That means large
values will get wrapped around to negative one resulting in error.
Basically the same problem as commit e3a7b874 was dealing with when
updating live domain.

QEMU changed the accepted value to int64 in commit 1f9296b5, but even
values as INT_MAX don't make sense since the value passed means seconds.
Hence adding capability flag for this change isn't worth it.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140958

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-03-17 12:06:14 +01:00
Ján Tomko
76a2a5ce8b Clarify the meaning of version in redirdev filters
The version attribute in redirdev filters refers to the revision
of the device, not the version of the USB protocol.

Explicitly state that this is not the USB protocol and remove references
to those round version numbers that resemble USB protocol versions.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177237
2015-03-13 14:05:02 +01:00
Pavel Hrdina
242e8c5472 docs: add a note that spice channel is usable only with spice graphics
To prevent a confusion about missing chardev argument in qemu
command line add a note about that behavior into documentation.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129198

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2015-03-10 11:16:21 +01:00
Pavel Hrdina
cf521fc8ba memtune: change the way how we store unlimited value
There was a mess in the way how we store unlimited value for memory
limits and how we handled values provided by user.  Internally there
were two possible ways how to store unlimited value: as 0 value or as
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED.  Because we chose to store memory
limits as unsigned long long, we cannot use -1 to represent unlimited.
It's much easier for us to say that everything greater than
VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED means unlimited and leave 0 as valid
value despite that it makes no sense to set limit to 0.

Remove unnecessary function virCompareLimitUlong.  The update of test
is to prevent the 0 to be miss-used as unlimited in future.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146539

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2015-03-06 11:52:24 +01:00
Erik Skultety
ccfe9e4809 docs: add a note that attr 'managed' is only used by PCI devices
Our documentation isn't 100% clear about hostdev 'managed' attribute usage,
because it only makes sense to use it with PCI devices, yet we format
this attribute to all hostdev devices. By adding a note into the docs,
we can possibly avoid confusion from customer's side and also avoid a solution
using ternary logic.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155887
2015-03-02 10:47:06 +01:00
Marek Marczykowski
c374353ca0 conf: support backend domain name in disk and network devices
At least Xen supports backend drivers in another domain (aka "driver
domain"). This patch introduces an XML config option for specifying the
backend domain name for <disk> and <interface> devices.  E.g.

  <disk>
    <backenddomain name='diskvm'/>
    ...
  </disk>
  <interface type='bridge'>
    <backenddomain name='netvm'/>
    ...
  </interface>

In the future, same option will be needed for USB devices (hostdev
objects), but for now libxl doesn't have support for PVUSB.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
2015-02-20 14:50:24 -07:00
Ján Tomko
6067182b0d Add mrg_rxbuf option to virtio interfaces
Add an XML attribute to allow disabling merge of rx buffers
on the host:
<interface ...>
  ...
  <model type='virtio'/>
  <driver ...>
    <host mrg_rxbuf='off'/>
  </driver>
</interface>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186886
2015-02-13 12:31:38 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
a0638ff219 docs: Fix version reference in vcpu/iothread scheduling
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-02-12 13:29:21 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
8680ea9749 docs, schema, conf: Add support for setting scheduler parameters of guest threads
In order for QEMU vCPU (and other) threads to run with RT scheduler,
libvirt needs to take care of that so QEMU doesn't have to run privileged.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178986

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-02-11 17:30:06 +01:00
Stefan Zimmermann
633053af67 S390: Documentation for ccw address type
Change the wording in the device-address-part of the docmunentation since
the ccw bus address support added to the optional address parameter of
virsh attach-disk for S390.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2015-02-09 14:22:23 +01:00
Ján Tomko
8e724e9f3e Error out when custom tap device path makes no sense
It is only usable for NETWORK and BRIDGE type interfaces.
Error out when trying to start a domain where the custom
tap device path is specified for interfaces of other types,
or when the daemon is not privileged.

Note that this cannot be checked at definition time, because
the comparison is against actual type.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
2015-02-06 12:52:50 +01:00
Ján Tomko
84f741812f Only parse custom vhost path for virtio interfaces
It is only supported for virtio adapters.
Silently drop it if it was specified for other models,
as is done for other virtio attributes.

Also mention this in the documentation.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147195
2015-02-06 12:52:50 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
bbd3eb5098 conf: Don't mangle vcpu placement randomly
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170492

In one of our previous commits (dc8b7ce7) we've done a functional
change even though it was intended as pure refactor. The problem is,
that the following XML:

 <vcpu placement='static' current='2'>6</vcpu>
 <cputune>
   <emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
 </cputune>
 <numatune>
   <memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
 </numatune>

gets translated into this one:

 <vcpu placement='auto' current='2'>6</vcpu>
 <cputune>
   <emulatorpin cpuset='1-3'/>
 </cputune>
 <numatune>
   <memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
 </numatune>

We should not change the vcpu placement mode. Moreover, we're doing
something similar in case of emulatorpin and iothreadpin. If they were
set, but vcpu placement was auto, we've mistakenly removed them from
the domain XML even though we are able to set them independently on
vcpus.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-30 13:51:22 +01:00
Dmitry Guryanov
c8a6f844c3 add ploop fs driver type
Ploop is a pseudo device which makeit possible to access
to an image in a file as a block device. Like loop devices,
but with additional features, like snapshots, write tracker
and without double-caching.

It used in PCS for containers and in OpenVZ. You can manage
ploop devices and images with ploop utility
(http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
2015-01-16 14:07:46 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
199390117c docs, schema, conf: Add support for PMU feature
Just a new feature that can be turned on/off.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178853

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 13:43:46 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
a117652917 Use the network route definitions for domains 2015-01-16 10:14:03 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
adff345e1e qemu: Allow enabling/disabling features with host-passthrough
QEMU supports feature specification with -cpu host and we just skip
using that.  Since QEMU developers themselves would like to use this
feature, this patch modifies the code to work.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178850

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-13 08:51:01 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
241ab97d7e docs: Document some -boot option limitations on UEFI
It was brought to my attention that some -boot options may not
work with UEFI. For instance, rebootTimeout is very SeaBIOS
specific,splash logo is not implemented yet on OVMF, and so on.
We should document this limitation at least.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-12 14:32:17 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
c9a641f1e5 Domain network devices can now have a <route> element
Network interfaces devices and host devices with net capabilities can
now have IPv4 and/or an IPv6 routes configured.
2015-01-05 20:24:17 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
2811cc611e Allow network capabilities hostdev to configure IP addresses 2015-01-05 20:24:17 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
aa2cc72100 Domain conf: allow more than one IP address for net devices
Add the possibility to have more than one IP address configured for a
domain network interface. IP addresses can also have a prefix to define
the corresponding netmask.
2015-01-05 20:24:04 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
af1b89d1d4 docs: Correct invalid hyperlinks
Since libvirt.h was split into multiple files and similarly
docs/libvirt-libvirt.html, docs/hvsupport.html have bad hyperlinks.  The
same happens for all the html.in files that used <code class='docref'>
tag, because page.xsl has no idea where to point the link that's found.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-12-02 07:30:10 +01:00
Luyao Huang
191b84dc15 docs: Fix missing slashes in XML examples
When I pasted some XML from libvirt.org, I've found a small mistake.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2014-11-30 21:34:07 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
b09b92665d docs: fix simple typo in TPM paragraph
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-11-28 09:37:15 +01:00
Pavel Hrdina
742d49fa17 qemu-command: introduce new vgamem attribute for QXL video device
Add attribute to set vgamem_mb parameter of QXL device for QEMU. This
value sets the size of VGA framebuffer for QXL device. Default value in
QEMU is 8MB so reuse it also in libvirt to not break things.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076098

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2014-11-24 22:20:13 +01:00
Pavel Hrdina
81ba2298b2 video: cleanup usage of vram attribute and update documentation
The vram attribute was introduced to set the video memory but it is
usable only for few hypervisors excluding QEMU/KVM and the old XEN
driver. Only in case of QEMU the vram was used for QXL.

This patch updates the documentation to reflect current code in libvirt
and also changes the cases when we will set the default vram attribute.
It also fixes existing strange default value for VGA devices 9MB to 16MB
because the video ram should be rounded to power of two.

The change of default value could affect migrations but I found out that
QEMU always round the video ram to power of two internally so it's safe
to change the default value to the next closest power of two and also
silently correct every domain XML definition. And it's also safe because
we don't pass the value to QEMU.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1076098

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2014-11-24 22:05:55 +01:00
Peter Krempa
b7d1bee2b9 storage: rbd: Implement support for passing config file option
To be able to express some use cases of the RBD backing with libvirt, we
need to be able to specify a config file for the RBD client to qemu as
that is one of the commonly used options.
2014-11-21 14:37:03 +01:00
Peter Krempa
0255660658 storage: rbd: qemu: Add support for specifying internal RBD snapshots
Some storage systems have internal support for snapshots. Libvirt should
be able to select a correct snapshot when starting a VM.

This patch adds a XML element to select a storage source snapshot for
the RBD protocol which supports this feature.
2014-11-21 14:37:02 +01:00
Peter Krempa
33b282eadc docs: domain: Move docs for storage hosts under the <source> element
The docs describing the <host> element that are under the <source>
element in the XML document were incorrectly placed under the <disk>
element. Move them to the correct place.
2014-11-21 14:37:01 +01:00
Peter Krempa
24c25a68c2 conf: Add channel state for virtio channels to the XML
To track state of virtio channels this patch adds a new output-only
attribute called 'state' to the <target> element of virtio channels.

This will be later populated with the guest state of the channel.
2014-11-21 11:00:11 +01:00
Chen Fan
507ea951c7 docs: fix a typo in formatdomain.html
Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2014-11-21 10:02:18 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
401702d92e docs: Document NVRAM behavior on transient domains
Since 1.2.8 it's possible to use OVMF on domains. Moreover, it's
possible to have libvirt create NVRAM file per domain. Later,
when domain is undefined, the file is removed too. However,
things are a bit complicated when domain's transient. There's no
undefine to transient domains. There are two options: 1) leave
the file behind and let mgmt app remove it. 2) remove it
automatically as domain dies.
But, in some scenarios mgmt app may want to preserve the file,
copy it somewhere safe, and then copy it back when the domain is
starting again. And this wouldn't be possible with case 2). So,
even though case 1) leaves some files behind (possibly undeleted
for a long time), the files themselves are small (128K each). And
data loss is worse than full disk, isn't it?

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-11-19 09:06:02 +01:00
Conrad Meyer
17722c169c bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.
We still default to bhyveloader(1) if no explicit bootloader
configuration is supplied in the domain.

If the /domain/bootloader looks like grub-bhyve and the user doesn't
supply /domain/bootloader_args, we make an intelligent guess and try
chainloading the first partition on the disk (or a CD if one exists,
under the assumption that for a VM a CD is likely an install source).

Caveat: Assumes the HDD boots from the msdos1 partition. I think this is
a pretty reasonable assumption for a VM. (DrvBhyve with Bhyveload
already assumes that the first disk should be booted.)

I've tested both HDD and CD boot and they seem to work.
2014-11-12 09:55:22 +01:00
Matthias Gatto
e34ffa96fb qemu: Modify the structure _virDomainBlockIoTuneInfo.
Modify the structure _virDomainBlockIoTuneInfo to support these the new
options.
Change the initialization of the variable expectedInfo in qemumonitorjsontest.c
to avoid compiling problem.
Add documentation about the new xml options

Signed-off-by: Matthias Gatto <matthias.gatto@outscale.com>
2014-11-10 15:48:59 +01:00
Prerna Saxena
e3c44f0d36 cpu_conf: Allow specification of 'units' for @memory on numa nodes.
CPU numa topology implicitly allows memory specification in 'KiB'.

Enabling this to accept the 'unit' in which memory needs to be specified.
This now allows users to specify memory in units of choice, and
lists the same in 'KiB' -- just like other 'memory' elements in XML.

    <numa>
      <cell cpus='0-3' memory='1024' unit='MiB' />
      <cell cpus='4-7' memory='1024' unit='MiB' />
    </numa>

Also augment test cases to correctly model NUMA memory specification.
This adds the tag 'unit="KiB"' for memory attribute in NUMA cells.

Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-11-10 14:55:45 +01:00
Prerna Saxena
9265fd19b6 docs: Add documentation for compat mode.
Add documentation to explain how compat-mode can be invoked with libvirt
running on PowerPC architecture.
It also mentions that this change is available libvirt 1.2.11 onwards.

Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-11-07 09:20:16 +01:00
Boris Fiuczynski
b84be34f43 qemu: Allow use of iothreads for virtio ccw disk definitions
Extending the iothread disk support from pci to pci and ccw.

Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2014-11-06 15:13:55 +01:00
Laine Stump
07450cd429 conf: add trustGuestRxFilters attribute to network and domain interface
This new attribute will control whether or not libvirt will pay
attention to guest notifications about changes to network device mac
addresses and receive filters. The default for this is 'no' (for
security reasons). If it is set to 'yes' *and* the specified device
model and connection support it (currently only macvtap+virtio) then
libvirt will watch for NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED events, and when it
receives one, it will issue a query-rx-filter command, retrieve the
result, and modify the host-side macvtap interface's mac address and
unicast/multicast filters accordingly.

The functionality behind this attribute will be in a later patch. This
patch merely adds the attribute to the top-level of a domain's
<interface> as well as to <network> and <portgroup>, and adds
documentation and schema/xml2xml tests. Rather than adding even more
test files, I've just added the net attribute in various applicable
places of existing test files.
2014-10-06 11:49:10 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
34f514778b minor shmem clean-ups
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-10-04 10:46:22 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
540a84ec89 docs, conf, schema: add support for shmem device
This patch adds parsing/formatting code as well as documentation for
shared memory devices.  This will currently be only accessible in QEMU
using it's ivshmem device, but is designed as generic as possible to
allow future expansion for other hypervisors.

In the devices section in the domain XML users may specify:

- For shmem device using a server:

 <shmem name='shmem0'>
   <server path='/tmp/socket-ivshmem0'/>
   <size unit='M'>32</size>
   <msi vectors='32' ioeventfd='on'/>
 </shmem>

- For ivshmem device not using an ivshmem server:

 <shmem name='shmem1'>
   <size unit='M'>32</size>
 </shmem>

Most of the configuration is made optional so it also allows
specifications like:

 <shmem name='shmem1/>
 <shmem name='shmem2'>
   <server/>
 </shmem>

Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-10-03 22:43:08 +02:00
Ján Tomko
5b3536ae90 conf: add options for disabling segment offloading
Add options for tuning segment offloading:
<driver>
  <host csum='off' gso='off' tso4='off' tso6='off'
        ecn='off' ufo='off'/>
  <guest csum='off' tso4='off' tso6='off' ecn='off' ufo='off'/>
</driver>
which control the respective host_ and guest_ properties
of the virtio-net device.
2014-09-24 16:16:45 +02:00