In the basic configuration with monolithic libvirtd users are required
to also start virtlogd. Add a general note with a specific example
hinting that this is needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
To prevent surprises when a build doesn't in fact contain the required
functionality suggest that users force-enable required modules.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Only the preparation of sources differs between a build from a git
checkout vs a build from tarball. Restructure the docs to outline the
difference and combine information on how to configure libvirt.
Most notably the suggestion to use '-Dsystem=true' was present only for
the steps to build a git checkout.
Suggest also running the testsuite as part of the build step.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Create a section for instructions on how to install the built binaries
rather than mentioning it multiple times.
Add a note that installing over your distro-provided packages will most
likely break your instalation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Running from build directory isn't strictly tied to the git-checkout
build so make a new section for it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Users should be encouraged to install libvirt from the distro's repos in
the first place.
Also encourage distro-specific ways to get newer versions, rather than
building from source manually.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
There are two points I've taken for granted:
1) the mount points are set before starting a guest,
2) the / and its submounts are marked as shared, so that mount
events propagate into child namespaces when assumption 1) is
not held.
But what's obvious to me might not be obvious to our users.
Document these known limitations.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123196
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Although these and functions in the following two patches are for
now just being used by the qemu driver, it makes sense to have all
begin job functions in the same file.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This patch moves qemuDomainObjEndJob() into
src/conf/virdomainjob as universal virDomainObjEndJob().
Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This patch moves qemuDomainObjBeginJob() into
src/conf/virdomainjob as universal virDomainObjBeginJob().
Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The code (since 448be8f706) useds 'vport_ops' in XML.
Later commit cc17f09246 added schema for 'vports_ops' (extra 's').
Fix the schema and the corresponding docs.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121262
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We converted exclusively to https links so the generator should wrap
those in appropriate link tags too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
The sheepdog project is unmaintained, with last commit in 2018 and
numerous unanswered issues reported.
Remove the libvirt storage driver support for it to follow the removal
of the client support in qemu.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Upstream will be dropping the sheepdog storage backend, so we need to
stop building the package and obsolete it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fix some small typos and syntax errors in file formatdomain.rs.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When commit bac6b266fb added this "functionality" this was the only
naming I could think of, but after discussion with Dan we found the name
'null' fits a bit better, so change it before we make a release with the
old name.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This represents an interface connected to a VMWare Distributed Switch,
previously obscured as a dummy interface.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Per [1] the Debian 10 reaches EOL in August of 2022. This allows us to
bump the minimum supported qemu version to qemu-4.2 which will also
allow us to do significant cleanups.
This commit bumps the minimum qemu verison and updates the corresponding
docs.
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
In most cases, disabling the secure-boot or the enrolled-keys
firmware feature will achieve the same result: allowing an
unsigned operating system to run.
Right now we're only documenting the latter configuration. Add
the former as well, and explain the difference between the two.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It should be enough to enable or disable the enrolled-keys feature
to control whether Secure Boot is enforced, but there's a slight
complication: many distro packages for edk2 include, in addition
to general purpose firmware images, builds that are targeting the
Confidential Computing use case.
For those, the firmware descriptor will not advertise the
enrolled-keys feature, which will technically make them suitable
for satisfying a configuration such as
<os firmware='efi'>
<firmware>
<feature state='off' name='enrolled-keys'/>
</firmware>
</os>
In practice, users will expect the general purpose build to be
used in this case. Explicitly asking for the secure-boot feature
to be enabled achieves that result at the cost of some slight
additional verbosity.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch introduces the
<maxphysaddr mode='passthrough'/>
<maxphysaddr mode='emulate' bits='42'/>
sub element of /domain/cpu, which allows specifying the guest virtual CPU
address size. This can be useful if the guest needs to have a large amount
of memory.
If mode='passthrough', the virtual CPU will have the same number of address
bits as the host. If mode='emulate', the mandatory bits attribute specifies
the number of address bits.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Normally when an UEFI firmware is marked as read-only, an associated
NVRAM file will be created. Some builds of UEFI firmware, however, wish
to remain stateless and so will be read-only, but never have any NVRAM
file. To represent this concept a 'stateless' tristate bool attribute
is introduced on the <loader/> element.
There are rather a large number of permutations to consider.
With default firmware selection
* <os/>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='yes'/>
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='no'/>
</os>
=> Invalid, bios is always stateless
With manual legacy BIOS selection
* <os>
<loader>/path/to/seabios</loader>
...
</os>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='yes'>/path/to/seabios</loader>
...
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader stateless='no'>/path/to/seabios</loader>
...
</os>
=> Invalid, bios is always stateless
With manual UEFI selection
* <os>
<loader type='pflash'>/path/to/edk2</loader>
...
</os>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os>
<loader type='pflash' stateless='yes'>/path/to/edk2</loader>
...
</os>
=> Skip auto-filling NVRAM / template
* <os>
<loader type='pflash' stateless='no'>/path/to/edk2</loader>
...
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
With automatic firmware selection
* <os firmware='bios'/>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os firmware='bios'>
<loader stateless='yes'/>
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
* <os firmware='bios'>
<loader stateless='no'/>
</os>
=> Invalid, bios is always stateless
* <os firmware='uefi'/>
=> Historic default, no change
* <os firmware='uefi'>
<loader stateless='yes'/>
</os>
=> Skip auto-filling NVRAM / template
* <os firmware='uefi'>
<loader stateless='no'/>
</os>
=> Explicit version of historic default, no change
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Outline how upstream issues are triaged and explain what the states of
the issue means.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add a note outling best practices around review and responding to it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
While we all understand that excessive use of ternary operator
may worsen code readability (e.g. nested, multi-line expression),
there are few cases where using it actually improves code
readability. For instance, when a function takes a long list of
arguments out of which one depends on a boolean expression, or
when formatting "yes"/"no" or "on"/"off" values based on a
boolean variable (although one can argue that the latter is a
subset of the former). Just consider alternatives to:
virBufferAsprintf(buf, "<elem>%s</elem>\n", boolVar ? "yes" : "no");
In fact, this pattern occurs plenty in our code. Exempt it from
our "no ternary operators" rule.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The G_GNUC_NO_INLINE macro will eventually be marked as
deprecated [1] and we are recommended to use G_NO_INLINE instead.
Do the switch now, rather than waiting for compile time warning
to occur.
1: 15cd0f0461
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This is just a glue to the testing article introduced in previous
commits.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's not just strategy the master CI article talks (or will talk in the
future) about.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The article was replaced with a new one in previous commit, so we don't
need this one anymore.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The new article provides more in-depth information on testing options
in libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently we don't have much information on how testing is done in
libvirt and the little we have is scattered among multiple files. This
patch creates a common landing page containing all important bits about
testing in libvirt, providing links to respective sections which
deserve their own articles.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since running our functional test suite in GitLab cannot make use of
the shared resources it makes sense to document the process of adding
own HW to run the custom libvirt executor that powers the integration
suite. This article will likely make even more sense in the future with
GitLab severely cutting down on shared CI resources.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Most importantly, how to get it, how install dependencies and how
to run it.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The dashboard itself simply takes away focus from everything else that
makes sense to have in the CI article, so move it to it's own article
and link it from the main CI article.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Some USB devices have a buggy firmware that either crashes on
device reset, or make the device unusable in some other way.
Fortunately, QEMU offers a way to skip device reset either
completely, or if device is not initialized yet. Expose this
ability to users under:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
<source guestReset='off'/>
</hostdev>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Fix docs illustrating call with an obsolete macro.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
While libvirt solves most of the problem of ensuring compatibility, when
there is incompatibility it can be hard for users to track down the
cause. Everything knows to check the physical CPU model, but there are a
surprisingly large number of other factors influencing compatibility.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We accept TPM version in the domain XML. However, supported
version depends on the host (swtpm_setup binary) and thus it may
be tricky for users (or mgmt applications) chose a version.
Introduce machinery for reporting supported version in domain
capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Surprisingly, we don't document TPM part of domain capabilities.
Fortunately, the information exposed is pretty much self
explanatory, but we should document it regardless.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
When using runtime setting of logging with 'virt-admin' it can be
confusing that the settings are discarded when the shutdown timeout of a
daemon is reached.
Add a note about this behaviour along with a suggestion to use
virt-admin to disable the behaviour if needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a simple command to drive the new 'virAdmConnectSetDaemonTimeout'
API.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The commit v8.3.0-rc1~199 introduced <address/> to <iommu/>
device. And while it updated the RNG it forgot to update the
docs. Fix that.
Fixes: b0eb1e193f
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Treat the 'protocolVer' field as a string so that e.g. '4.1' can be
used. Forbid only ',' in the string as it's a separator of arguments for
mount options.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Provide simple recipes for the most common high-level tasks.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Document the format of the 'readahead' and 'timeout' XML elements more
accurately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The mailman for mailing lists hosted by Red Hat seems to have moved
to listman.redhat.com. While the old links still seem to work,
point our docs to the new location to avoid the redirect.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
While you can chain the virsh output up to a later 'xmllint' or 'xpath'
command, integrating it into virsh avoids needs for installing extra
binaries which we've often found to be missing on production installs
of libvirt. It also gives better response if the initial virsh command
hits an error, as you don't get an aborted pipeline.
$ virsh pool-dumpxml --xpath //permissions default
<permissions>
<mode>0711</mode>
<owner>1000</owner>
<group>1000</group>
<label>unconfined_u:object_r:svirt_home_t:s0</label>
</permissions>
If multiple nodes match, they are emitted individually:
$ virsh dumpxml --xpath '//devices/*/address[@type="pci"]' --wrap demo
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
...snip...
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
but if intending to post-process the output further, the results
can be wrapped in a parent node
$ virsh dumpxml --xpath '//devices/*/address[@type="pci"]' --wrap demo
<nodes>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
...snip...
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</nodes>
Fixes https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/244
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add an element to configure the thread pool size:
...
<binary>
<thread_pool size='16'/>
</binary>
...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072905
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Update the default "driver" value for hostdev interface since
the default is not "KVM" anymore (refer to "Host device
asssignment" part and by test results). And update the mac
address in one xml example.
Signed-off-by: Yalan Zhang <yalzhang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This patch introduces the logic to format and parse remote NVRAM.
Update NVRAM element schema, and docs for supporting network backed
NVRAM. NVRAM backed over network would give the flexibility to start
the VM on any host without having to worry about where to get the latest
nvram image.
<nvram type='network'>
<source protocol='iscsi' name='iqn.2013-07.com.example:iscsi-nopool/0'>
<host name='example.com' port='6000'/>
</source>
</nvram>
or
<nvram type='file'>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/nvram/guest_VARS.fd'/>
</nvram>
In the qemu driver we will support the new definition only with qemu's
supporting -blockdev.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna.saxena@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Schmidt <flosch@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Kumar <rohit.kumar3@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Rohit Kumar <rohit.kumar3@nutanix.com>
As of v7.0.0-877-g70ac26b9e5 QEMU exposes its default event loop
for devices with no IOThread assigned as an QMP object. In the
very next commit (v7.0.0-878-g71ad4713cc) it was extended for
thread-pool-min and thread-pool-max attributes. Expose them under
new <defaultiothread/> element.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Since virsh implements a wrapper over virDomainSetIOThreadParams()
(command iothreadset) let's wire up new typed parameters there too.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
At least in case of QEMU an IOThread is actually a pool of
threads (see iothread_set_aio_context_params() in QEMU's code
base). As such, it can have minimal and maximal number of worker
threads. Allow setting them in domain XML.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Certain documentation bits tried to put a reference of a value into
quotes, but that's not needed for both the pure view of the rST source
and the rendered output.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In many cases we move around or rename internal anchors which may break
links leading to the content.
docutils handle the case of links inside a document, but we are lacking
the same form of checking between documents.
Introduce a script which cross-checks all the anchors and links in HTML
output files and prints problems and use it as a test case for the
'docs' directory.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The link was most likely broken when 'formatsecret' was converted to
RST.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When uri.html was converted to RST the 'URI remote' anchor was not fixed
in remote.rst.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Most of the links were broken by moving the article into kbase, but in
this case we need to also fix the anchor names.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Certain links were missing the '../' prefix to reach files in the parent
directory from the time the page was introduced.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The links were broken when the documentation was moved into the
'internals' subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
While the links work they'd trip up the link validator script which will
be added later.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The link was not fixed when the page was moved into 'kbase/'
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The links were broken on the initial conversion of formatdomain.html to
RST which didn't faithfully forward port some of the manually added
anchors.
Fix it by pointing to the closest possible heading.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Remove what seems like links from some headings. This error predates the
conversion to RST where an '<a href' was used instead of '<a id' in the
source document.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Some links didn't exit the 'kbase/' directory and 'virDomainBackupEnd'
API never existed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Once we are already using the new anchor format we can create the link
via a local reference.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The role was used to pass through raw HTML to define custom anchor
names. Since all of the document was now converted to use the anchors
generated from headers we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
One local reference required rewording of a whole paragraph to make
sense.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Some rewording and rewraping was needed to accomodate the new local
references.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The surrounding paragraph around the only fixed use was rewrapped.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The one local link addition prompted rewrapping of the whole paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
All local links were reformulated to make sense with local references.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Two paragraphs containing local links were reformulated and rewrapped.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The MinGW-w64 project has effectively replaced the original
MinGW project, and distributions such as Fedora have been shipping
packages based on the former for years now.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The project is developed as part of GNOME these days, and the
old URL redirects to GNOME's GitLab instance.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
GNU netcat was last updated in 2004. These days, most operating
systems will include either the nmap or OpenBSD variant of the
tool.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The website is still up, but the software itself was last
updated in 2014.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The website is still up, although the latency is so high that it
could hardly considered usable; the software itself was last
updated in 2015.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It doesn't seem to be a current product: there is no proper
website for it, and the most recent installation instructions
I've been able to locate are targeted at RHEL 6.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Move the internal documentation about qemu threading to the knowledge
base.
The conversion included rstizing of the text document, mainly just
fixing of the headline and enclosing function names and code examples
into code block sections.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
In the qemu driver certain configs such as disk throttling or CPU
hotplug is configured by interacting with the monitor at the startup
phase of the hypervisor and thus is not part of the "native config".
Add a paragraph into the documentation outlining that the native
configuration might not be completely usable.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The 'absolute' clock offset type has a 'start' attribute which is an
unix epoch timestamp to which the hardware clock is always set at start
of the VM.
This is useful if some VM needs to be kept set to an arbitrary time for
e.g. testing or working around broken software.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add these XML formats validation in manpage or script:
cpu, domainbackup, domaincaps, domaincheckpoint, networkport,
storagepoolcaps.
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The qemu-vdagent channel is introduced since:
"05b09f039e conf: add qemu-vdagent channel"
It will be in the version 8.4.0.
Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add the ability to configure a qemu-vdagent in guest domains. This
device is similar to the spice vdagent channel except that qemu handles
the spice-vdagent protocol messages itself rather than routing them over
a spice protocol channel.
The qemu-vdagent device has two notable configuration options which
determine whether qemu will handle particular vdagent features:
'clipboard' and 'mouse'.
The 'clipboard' option allows qemu to synchronize its internal clipboard
manager with the guest clipboard, which enables client<->guest clipboard
synchronization for non-spice guests such as vnc.
The 'mouse' option allows absolute mouse positioning to be sent over the
vdagent channel rather than using a usb or virtio tablet device.
Sample configuration:
<channel type='qemu-vdagent'>
<target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
<source>
<clipboard copypaste='yes'/>
<mouse mode='client'/>
</source>
</channel>
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Useful for knowing how to construct the XML and debugging.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Most of the anchors that were forward ported to formatdomain.rst when it
was converted are not actually referenced by our documentation. Since
it's now quite some time after the conversion was done we can remove
them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Modify the gitlab templates linking to it and remove the raw HTML.
Note that also the default template needs to be changed directly in
gitlab.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Modify the name of the 'IRC discussion' paragraph to just 'IRC' so that
the links keep working and remove the raw HTML anchors.
Adjustment is needed for documents which were using the '#email' anchor
which has now become '#mailing-lists'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The 'codeofconduct' anchor is unused as of 523f2de82e .
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Avoid the table and add a brief description of the transport protocol.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a new heading 'Local hypervisor URIs' and move the sections about
'qemu', 'xen' and 'test' under it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Mention the legacy 'xen' string usage under the Xen hypervisor uri
section.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We now have an paragraph about default URI choice if the passed pointer
is NULL. Add the two related bits from the 'NULL and empty string URIs'
from the legacy section to the current one and remove the old stuff.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Adjust links in the process.
Note that the conversion to the table is temporary and upcoming patch
will modify it for better readability.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The paragraph talks about lack of fine grained access control which was
already added a long time ago.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
When the setup of TLS certs was originally split out of
'docs/remote.html' ( df99aa311a ) links refering to it were not
fixed.
Adjust them to point to the correct document.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The anchor name was not fixed when the 'formatstorage' document was
converted to rst.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The conversion also included a change to the layout of the document.
Specifically the individual 'capabilty' types are now separated under
individual headings rather than part of the original definition list.
This reduces nesting but also esures that proper anchors are generated
automatically.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Additionally hyperlinks in other parts of the documentation are updated
to match.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Also adjust direct links from other pages.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Original conversion didn't properly convert local links. Fix them by
pointing to the section name. In certain cases this requires
reformulation of the text.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Docutils-0.17 switched to using <main> instead of a <div
class='document'> and <section> instead of <div class='section'>.
To ensure that our pages still work we need to slightly adapt our XSL
stylesheet to select the <main> tag properly and adapt the CSS to also
select the 'section' element instead of a class and to apply to a <main>
tag with the appropriate names.
Docutils-0.17 also changed to use 'h2' for section heading instead of
'h1'.
Note the styles applied to the 'main' element with certain id can't be
made more universal by just applying to the id itself, as in certain
cases (e.g. 'documentation') we also have sections with that name. This
was previously ensured by also matching the 'document' class which would
make it equal to the 'main' element.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Select direct 'h1' children of elements named 'knowledge-base' and
'documentation. It's simpler and will also work properly with
docutils-0.17 and later where we don't have a div with class 'document'
wrapping everything.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Commit 42d36b65a3 added new fields to the API docs but didn't add the
virsh man page equivalent.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073867
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
While the content is slightly outdated it's still a good primer on how
an API call traverses through the client library and to the remote
driver.
To make the page useful, this commit:
- removes the paragraphs which were intended to serve as a directory
page for the 'internals' subdirectory
- adds a note saying that some facts might not be up to date
- adds linking to this page from the kbase directory page
- adds more monospace formatting around function names
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Note that this document was not referenced from any top level page. This
patch does a straight conversion and leaves it unreferenced.
Next patch will then modify it to serve as an overview (hence the new
name) of how an API call happens.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
All documents were now moved away so we don't need this any more.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Along with the conversion we need to adapt the stylesheets to apply to
the new document similarly to how we do that in the knowledge base.
Note that one visible difference is that now a 'Documentation' heading
is visible on top of the page.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add an 'internals' subfolder to 'docs/kbase' to house all the documents
under internals. The output files are still under 'docs/kbase'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Historically we had two top level XSL files for top level and nested
documents which only differ in what they pass for 'href_base' to the
main 'page.xsl' file.
We can instead pass the variable as argument from the build system so
that we have just one XSL file and also allow for more nested document
trees in the future.
The '404' page is special even with the current XSL way so we add a
special case for it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add a separate column of documents regarding internals of libvirt and
move the 'migrationinternals' and 'incrementalbackupinternals' pages
under the new heading.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The enumeration of functions and types supported by the bindings was
moved to the 'README.rst' file in the 'libvirt-csharp' repo:
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-csharp/-/merge_requests/8
Remove the corresponding bits from the main repository.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Note that links from the first table leading to sections of this
document further below were removed for simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
The KVM device assignment was removed in v5.7.0-rc1~103 but virsh
and its manpage still mention it. Don't do that.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Added "rss" and "rss_hash_report" configuration that should be
used with qemu virtio RSS. Both options are triswitches. Used as
"driver" options and affects only NIC with model type "virtio".
In other patches - options should turn on virtio-net RSS and hash
properties.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
As of April 23 2022, Ubuntu 20.04 will be out for two years, which means
we no longer have to support Ubuntu 18.04 along with qemu-2.11 shipped
with it.
This then brings the minimum qemu version we have to support to
qemu-3.1:
Debian 10/Stable: 3.1
OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 5.2
Ubuntu 20.04: 4.2
RHEL/Centos 8.4: 4.2
Next event in this space will be 2023/07/06 when Debian 11 will be out
for two years.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The 'debuglogs' knowledge base page has way more info and examples on
how to set logging use it instead of the ad-hoc examples.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Use backticks to force monospace font instead of double quotes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The top level heading didn't contain the word 'port'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Fix the referenced anchor in 'formatdomain.rst' right away.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The first sentence was moved up a paragraph to stop treating the first
sub-heading as a page subtitle.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Instead of creating an empty object and then setting keys one
at a time, it is possible to pass a dict object to
configuration_data(). This is nicer because it doesn't require
repeating the name of the cfg_data object over and over.
There is one exception: the 'conf' object, where we store values
that are used directly by C code. In that case, using a dict
object is not feasible for two reasons: first of all, replacing
the set_quoted() calls would result in awkward code with a lot
of calls to format(); moreover, since code that modifies it is
sprinkled all over the place, refactoring it would probably
make things more complicated rather than simpler.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
In 0895a0e, it was noted that the "sockets" value in the topology
section of capabilities reflects not the number of sockets per NUMA
node, not the total number.
Unfortunately, the fix was applied to the wrong place: the domain XML
format documentation, not that for the capabilities output. And, in
fact, the domain XML interprets "sockets" as the total number, not a
per-node value.
Back out this change in favour of a note in the capabilities
documentation instead.
Fixes: 0895a0e75d
Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Upcoming patches will add possibility to override configuration of a
device with custom properties as a more versatile replacement to using
QEMU's '-set' parameter, which doesn't work when we use JSON to
instantiate devices.
Describe the XML used for the override as well as expectations of
upstream support in case something breaks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 150540394d.
Turns out, this feature is not needed and QEMU will fix TSC
without any intervention from outside.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>P
Some versions of Windows hang on reboot if their TSC value is greater
than 2^54. The workaround is to reset the TSC to a small value. Add
to the domain configuration an attribute for this. It can be used
by QEMU and in principle also by ESXi, which has a property called
monitor_control.enable_softResetClearTSC as well.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>