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
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>
In our RNG schema we do allow multiple (different) seclabels per-domain,
but don't allow this for devices, yet we neither have a check in our XML parser,
nor in a post-parse callback. In that case we should allow multiple
(different) seclabels for devices as well.
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>
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
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
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>
There are some interface types (notably 'server' and 'client')
which instead of allowing the default set of elements and
attributes (like the rest do), try to enumerate only the elements
they know of. This way it's, however, easy to miss something. For
instance, the <address/> element was not mentioned at all. This
resulted in a strange behavior: when such interface was added
into XML, the address was automatically generated by parsing
code. Later, the formatted XML hasn't passed the RNG schema. This
became more visible once we've turned on the XML validation on
domain XML changes: appending an empty line at the end of
formatted XML (to trick virsh think the XML had changed) made
libvirt to refuse the very same XML it formatted.
Instead of trying to find each element and attribute we are
missing in the schema, lets just allow all the elements and
attributes like we're doing that for the rest of types. It's no
harm if the schema is wider than our parser allows.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138516
If the provided volume name doesn't match what parted generated as the
partition name, then return a failure.
Update virsh.pod and formatstorage.html.in to describe the 'name' restriction
for disk pools as well as the usage of the <target>'s <format type='value'>.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130390
The listen address is not mandatory for <interface type='server'>
but when it's not specified, we've been formatting it as:
-netdev socket,listen=(null):5558,id=hostnet0
which failed with:
Device 'socket' could not be initialized
Omit the address completely and only format the port in the listen
attribute.
Also fix the schema to allow specifying a model.
This adds a new "localOnly" attribute on the domain element of the
network xml. With this set to "yes", DNS requests under that domain
will only be resolved by libvirt's dnsmasq, never forwarded upstream.
This was how it worked before commit f69a6b987d, and I found that
functionality useful. For example, I have my host's NetworkManager
dnsmasq configured to forward that domain to libvirt's dnsmasq, so I can
easily resolve guest names from outside. But if libvirt's dnsmasq
doesn't know a name and forwards it to the host, I'd get an endless
forwarding loop. Now I can set localOnly="yes" to prevent the loop.
Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Since the day we removed python bindings from the core repository, the
documentation was missing that information.
Reported-by: Lingyu Zhu <lynuszhu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
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>
Well, since the link to the virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API is in
<pre/> section we must take special care about the spaces around the
link.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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>
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>
Make use of the ebtables functionality to be able to filter certain
parameters of icmpv6 packets. Extend the XML parser for icmpv6 types,
type ranges, codes, and code ranges. Extend the nwfilter documentation,
schema, and test cases.
Being able to filter icmpv6 types and codes helps extending the DHCP
snooper for IPv6 and filtering at least some parameters of IPv6's NDP
(Neighbor Discovery Protocol) packets. However, the filtering will not
be as good as the filtering of ARP packets since we cannot
check on IP addresses in the payload of the NDP packets.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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.
Volume and pool formatting functions took different approaches to
unspecified uids/gids. When unknown, it is always parsed as -1, but one
of the functions formatted it as unsigned int (wrong) and one as
int (better). Due to that, our two of our XML files from tests cannot
be parsed on 32-bit machines.
RNG schema needs to be modified as well, but because both
storagepool.rng and storagevol.rng need same schema for permission
element, save some space by moving it to storagecommon.rng.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
The macTableManager attribute of a network's bridge subelement tells
libvirt how the bridge's MAC address table (used to determine the
egress port for packets) is managed. In the default mode, "kernel",
management is left to the kernel, which usually determines entries in
part by turning on promiscuous mode on all ports of the bridge,
flooding packets to all ports when the correct destination is unknown,
and adding/removing entries to the fdb as it sees incoming traffic
from particular MAC addresses. In "libvirt" mode, libvirt turns off
learning and flooding on all the bridge ports connected to guest
domain interfaces, and adds/removes entries according to the MAC
addresses in the domain interface configurations. A side effect of
turning off learning and unicast_flood on the ports of a bridge is
that (with Linux kernel 3.17 and newer), the kernel can automatically
turn off promiscuous mode on one or more of the bridge's ports
(usually only the one interface that is used to connect the bridge to
the physical network). The result is better performance (because
packets aren't being flooded to all ports, and can be dropped earlier
when they are of no interest) and slightly better security (a guest
can still send out packets with a spoofed source MAC address, but will
only receive traffic intended for the guest interface's configured MAC
address).
The attribute looks like this in the configuration:
<network>
<name>test</name>
<bridge name='br0' macTableManager='libvirt'/>
...
This patch only adds the config knob, documentation, and test
cases. The functionality behind this knob is added in later patches.
Fix format of the secret XML in the example. The XML had an extraneous
"type='iscsi'" (which is used by the <disk> definitions)
The world wide node name had a typo in the acronym (wwwn).
The apibuild.py script did not handle whitespace in preprocessor
macros, so it failed to detect constants declared with '# define'
instead of '#define'. Since we now correctly indent our public
header files, we have silently lost all constants from
libvirt-api.xml. This also caused us to not detect formatting
errors in constant docs
This changes the display from:
libvirt-storage: APIs for management of storages
to
libvirt-storage: APIs for management of storage pools and volumes
In making that change I expected my build tree html output to be
regenerated; however, it wasn't because the dependency for the separated
libvirt-storage.h wasn't there. It was only present for libvirt.h.in
So I added each in the order displayed on the docs/html/index.html page
Make was not able to realize the dependencies for html/*.html files when
running 'make -j9 dist'. All the files are generated together with
html/index.html, so simply separating them into another variable and
adding one block into the dependency chain solves the issue.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
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>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159180
The virStoragePoolSourceFindDuplicate only checks the incoming definition
against the same type of pool as the def; however, for "scsi_host" and
"fc_host" adapter pools, it's possible that either some pool "scsi_host"
adapter definition is already using the scsi_hostN that the "fc_host"
adapter definition wants to use or some "fc_host" pool adapter definition
is using a vHBA scsi_hostN or parent scsi_hostN that an incoming "scsi_host"
definition is trying to use.
This patch adds the mismatched type checks and adds extraneous comments
to describe what each check is determining.
This patch also modifies the documentation to be describe what scsi_hostN
devices a "scsi_host" source adapter should use and which to avoid. It also
updates the parent definition to specifically call out that for mixed
environments it's better to define which parent to use so that the duplicate
pool checks can be done properly.
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>
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>
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.
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.
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.
