Commit Graph

225 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Veillard
ded8e894dd Revert "qemu: add ibmvscsi controller model"
This reverts commit 7b345b69f2.

Conflicts:

	tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-vscsi.xml
2012-02-13 21:37:03 +08:00
Daniel Veillard
3d224ae669 Revert "qemu: add virtio-scsi controller model"
This reverts commit c9abfadf37.

Conflicts:

	tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-virtio-scsi.xml
2012-02-13 21:36:02 +08:00
Jiri Denemark
4f20dedfd4 docs: Enhance documentation of the old-style boot configuration
Also encourages people to use per-device boot elements for better
control.
2012-02-06 09:41:52 +01:00
Philipp Hahn
99d24ab2e0 virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes
compat{a->i}bility
erron{->e}ous
nec{c->}essary.
Either "the" or "a".

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
b170eb99f5 Add two new security label types
Curently security labels can be of type 'dynamic' or 'static'.
If no security label is given, then 'dynamic' is assumed. The
current code takes advantage of this default, and avoids even
saving <seclabel> elements with type='dynamic' to disk. This
means if you temporarily change security driver, the guests
can all still start.

With the introduction of sVirt to LXC though, there needs to be
a new default of 'none' to allow unconfined LXC containers.

This patch introduces two new security label types

 - default:  the host configuration decides whether to run the
             guest with type 'none' or 'dynamic' at guest start
 - none:     the guest will run unconfined by security policy

The 'none' label type will obviously be undesirable for some
deployments, so a new qemu.conf option allows a host admin to
mandate confined guests. It is also possible to turn off default
confinement

  security_default_confined = 1|0  (default == 1)
  security_require_confined = 1|0  (default == 0)

* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Add new
  seclabel types
* src/security/security_manager.c, src/security/security_manager.h:
  Set default sec label types
* src/security/security_selinux.c: Handle 'none' seclabel type
* src/qemu/qemu.conf, src/qemu/qemu_conf.c, src/qemu/qemu_conf.h,
  src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug: New security config options
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Tell security driver about default
  config
2012-02-02 17:44:37 -07:00
Peter Krempa
b79ba8382e xml: Add element <title> to allow short description of domains
This patch adds a new element <title> to the domain XML. This attribute
can hold a short title defined by the user to ease the identification of
domains. The title may not contain newlines and should be reasonably short.

 *docs/formatdomain.html.in
 *docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
        - add schema grammar for the new element and documentation
  *src/conf/domain_conf.c
  *src/conf/domain_conf.h
        - add field to hold the new attribute
        - add code to parse and create XML with the new attribute
2012-02-01 14:41:13 -07:00
Laine Stump
b303465d2f docs: fill out rawio description
The original doc entry for rawio didn't mention the values it could
have, the default, or the fact that setting it to "yes" for one disk
effectively set it to "yes" for all disks in the domain.
2012-01-31 14:57:14 -05:00
Taku Izumi
397e6a705b conf: add rawio attribute to disk element of domain XML
This patch adds a new attribute "rawio" to the "disk" element
 of domain XML. Valid values of "rawio" attribute are "yes"
 and "no".
 rawio='yes' indicates the disk is desirous of CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

 If you specify the following XML:

 <disk type='block' device='lun' rawio='yes'>
  ...
 </disk>

 the domain will be granted CAP_SYS_RAWIO.
 (of course, the domain have to be executed with root privilege)

NOTE:
   - "rawio" attribute is only valid when device='lun'
   - At the moment, any other disks you won't use rawio can use rawio.

Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
2012-01-31 13:36:23 -05:00
Laine Stump
3801831cdf qemu: add "romfile" support to specify device boot ROM
This patch addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781562

Along with the "rombar" option that controls whether or not a boot rom
is made visible to the guest, qemu also has a "romfile" option that
allows specifying a binary file to present as the ROM BIOS of any
emulated or passthrough PCI device. This patch adds support for
specifying romfile to both passthrough PCI devices, and emulated
network devices that attach to the guest's PCI bus (just about
everything other than ne2k_isa).

One example of the usefulness of this option is described in the
bugzilla report: 82576 sriov network adapters don't provide a ROM BIOS
for the cards virtual functions (VF), but an image of such a ROM is
available, and with this ROM visible to the guest, it can PXE boot.

In libvirt's xml, the new option is configured like this:

   <hostdev>
     ...
     <rom file='/etc/fake/boot.bin'/>
     ...
   </hostdev

(similarly for <interface>).
2012-01-30 12:30:35 -05:00
Laine Stump
3284ac046f qemu: (and conf) support rombar for network devices
When support for the rombar option was added, it was only added for
PCI passthrough devices, configured with <hostdev>. The same option is
available for any network device that is attached to the guest's PCI
bus. This patch allows setting rombar for any PCI network device type.

After adding cases to test this to qemuxml2argv-hostdev-pci-rombar.*,
I decided to rename those files (to qemuxml2argv-pci-rom.*) to more
accurately reflect the additional tests, and also noticed that up to
now we've only been performing a domainschematest for that case, so I
added the "pci-rom" test to both qemuxml2argv and qemuxml2xml (and in
the process found some bugs whose fixes I squashed into previous
commits of this series).
2012-01-30 12:25:32 -05:00
Paolo Bonzini
5a137f3620 conf: add kvmclock timer
Add kvmclock timer to documentation, schema and parsers.  Keep the
platform timer first since it is kind of special, and alphabetize
the others when possible (i.e. when it does not change the ABI).

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-01-27 16:51:50 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
51a3286f3e Add missing docs for <viridian/> feature flag 2012-01-26 14:23:22 +00:00
Laine Stump
0ad35376d3 docs: fix a few small typos in formatdomain.html.in 2012-01-24 21:17:53 -05:00
Eric Blake
4d71ff450f metadata: group metadata next to description
It's better to group all the metadata together.  This is a
cosmetic output change; since the RNG allows interleave, it
doesn't matter where the user stuck it on input, and an XPath
query will find the same information when parsing the output.

* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDefFormatInternal): Output
metadata earlier.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Update documentation.
* tests/domainsnapshotxml2xmlout/metadata.xml: Update test.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-metadata.xml: Likewise.
2012-01-24 17:40:23 -07:00
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
fa981fc945 Allow custom metadata in domain configuration XML
Applications can now insert custom nodes and hierarchies into domain
configuration XML. Although currently not enforced, applications are
required to use their own namespaces on every custom node they insert,
with only one top-level element per namespace.
2012-01-24 17:06:34 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
c160ce3316 QEMU guest agent support
There is now a standard QEMU guest agent that can be installed
and given a virtio serial channel

    <channel type='unix'>
      <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent'/>
      <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
    </channel>

The protocol that runs over the guest agent is JSON based and
very similar to the JSON monitor. We can't use exactly the same
code because there are some odd differences in the way messages
and errors are structured. The qemu_agent.c file is based on
a combination and simplification of qemu_monitor.c and
qemu_monitor_json.c

* src/qemu/qemu_agent.c, src/qemu/qemu_agent.h: Support for
  talking to the agent for shutdown
* src/qemu/qemu_domain.c, src/qemu/qemu_domain.h: Add thread
  helpers for talking to the agent
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c: Connect to agent whenever starting
  a guest
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c: Make variable static
2012-01-24 12:19:51 +01:00
Deepak C Shetty
d9e0d8204b Add new attribute wrpolicy to <driver> element
This introduces new attribute wrpolicy with only supported
value as immediate. This will be an optional
attribute with no defaults. This helps specify whether
to skip the host page cache.

When wrpolicy is specified, meaning when wrpolicy=immediate
a writeback is explicitly initiated for the dirty pages in
the host page cache as part of the guest file write operation.

Usage:
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
  <driver type='path' wrpolicy='immediate'/>
  <source dir='/export/to/guest'/>
  <target dir='mount_tag'/>
</filesystem>

Currently this only works with type='mount' for the QEMU/KVM driver.

Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-17 15:37:42 -07:00
Jiri Denemark
f7dd3a4e62 Add support for cpu mode attribute
The mode can be either of "custom" (default), "host-model",
"host-passthrough". The semantics of each mode is described in the
following examples:

- guest CPU is a default model with specified topology:
    <cpu>
      <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
    </cpu>

- guest CPU matches selected model:
    <cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
      <model>core2duo</model>
    </cpu>

- guest CPU should be a copy of host CPU as advertised by capabilities
  XML (this is a short cut for manually copying host CPU specification
  from capabilities to domain XML):
    <cpu mode='host-model'/>

  In case a hypervisor does not support the exact host model, libvirt
  automatically falls back to a closest supported CPU model and
  removes/adds features to match host. This behavior can be disabled by
    <cpu mode='host-model'>
      <model fallback='forbid'/>
    </cpu>

- the same as previous returned by virDomainGetXMLDesc with
  VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU flag:
    <cpu mode='host-model' match='exact'>
      <model fallback='allow'>Penryn</model>       --+
      <vendor>Intel</vendor>                         |
      <topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='1'/>  + copied from
      <feature policy='require' name='dca'/>         | capabilities XML
      <feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/>        |
      ...                                          --+
    </cpu>

- guest CPU should be exactly the same as host CPU even in the aspects
  libvirt doesn't model (such domain cannot be migrated unless both
  hosts contain exactly the same CPUs):
    <cpu mode='host-passthrough'/>

- the same as previous returned by virDomainGetXMLDesc with
  VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU flag:
    <cpu mode='host-passthrough' match='minimal'>
      <model>Penryn</model>                        --+ copied from caps
      <vendor>Intel</vendor>                         | XML but doesn't
      <topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='1'/>  | describe all
      <feature policy='require' name='dca'/>         | aspects of the
      <feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/>        | actual guest CPU
      ...                                          --+
    </cpu>
2012-01-17 11:39:23 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
a6f88cbd2d cpu: Optionally forbid fallback CPU models
In case a hypervisor doesn't support the exact CPU model requested by a
domain XML, we automatically fallback to a closest CPU model the
hypervisor supports (and make sure we add/remove any additional features
if needed). This patch adds 'fallback' attribute to model element, which
can be used to disable this automatic fallback.
2012-01-17 11:39:19 +01:00
Osier Yang
a5f8a01abb docs: Add missed RNG schema for interface
We support <interface> of type "mcast", "server", and "client",
but the RNG schema for them are missed. Attribute "address" is
optional for "server" type. And these 3 types support
<mac address='MAC'/>, too.
2012-01-17 17:09:47 +08:00
Paolo Bonzini
c9abfadf37 qemu: add virtio-scsi controller model
Adding a new model for virtio-scsi roughly follows the same scheme
as the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-01-13 14:54:48 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
7b345b69f2 qemu: add ibmvscsi controller model
KVM will be able to use a PCI SCSI controller even on POWER.  Let
the user specify the vSCSI controller by other means than a default.

After this patch, the QEMU driver will actually look at the model
and reject anything but auto, lsilogic and ibmvscsi.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-01-13 14:13:30 -07:00
Osier Yang
5edfcaae6f qemu: Support copy on read for disk
The new introduced optional attribute "copy_on_read</code> controls
whether to copy read backing file into the image file. The value can
be either "on" or "off". Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing
file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing file is over a
slow network. By default copy-on-read is off.
2012-01-13 10:08:15 +08:00
Laine Stump
177db08775 qemu: add new disk device='lun' for bus='virtio' & type='block'
In the past, generic SCSI commands issued from a guest to a virtio
disk were always passed through to the underlying disk by qemu, and
the kernel would also pass them on.

As a result of CVE-2011-4127 (see:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/536), qemu now honors its
scsi=on|off device option for virtio-blk-pci (which enables/disables
passthrough of generic SCSI commands), and the kernel will only allow
the commands for physical devices (not for partitions or logical
volumes). The default behavior of qemu is still to allow sending
generic SCSI commands to physical disks that are presented to a guest
as virtio-blk-pci devices, but libvirt prefers to disable those
commands in the standard virtio block devices, enabling it only when
specifically requested (hopefully indicating that the requester
understands what they're asking for). For this purpose, a new libvirt
disk device type (device='lun') has been created.

device='lun' is identical to the default device='disk', except that:

1) It is only allowed if bus='virtio', type='block', and the qemu
   version is "new enough" to support it ("new enough" == qemu 0.11 or
   better), otherwise the domain will fail to start and a
   CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED error will be logged).

2) The option "scsi=on" will be added to the -device arg to allow
   SG_IO commands (if device !='lun', "scsi=off" will be added to the
   -device arg so that SG_IO commands are specifically forbidden).

Guests which continue to use disk device='disk' (the default) will no
longer be able to use SG_IO commands on the disk; those that have
their disk device changed to device='lun' will still be able to use SG_IO
commands.

*docs/formatdomain.html.in - document the new device attribute value.
*docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng - allow it in the RNG
*tests/* - update the args of several existing tests to add scsi=off, and
 add one new test that will test scsi=on.
*src/conf/domain_conf.c - update domain XML parser and formatter

*src/qemu/qemu_(command|driver|hotplug).c - treat
 VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_LUN *almost* identically to
 VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_DISK, except as indicated above.

Note that no support for this new device value was added to any
hypervisor drivers other than qemu, because it's unclear what it might
mean (if anything) to those drivers.
2012-01-09 10:55:53 -05:00
Eric Blake
bc1b27e07e docs: re-fix stray /
Commit 6cb4acc reintroduced the bug fixed in commit d145fe3.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Fix again.
2011-12-31 06:42:01 -07:00
Eric Blake
6cb4acce8b seclabel: extend XML to allow per-disk label overrides
When doing security relabeling, there are cases where a per-file
override might be appropriate.  For example, with a static label
and relabeling, it might be appropriate to skip relabeling on a
particular disk, where the backing file lives on NFS that lacks
the ability to track labeling.  Or with dynamic labeling, it might
be appropriate to use a custom (non-dynamic) label for a disk
specifically intended to be shared across domains.

The new XML resembles the top-level <seclabel>, but with fewer
options (basically relabel='no', or <label>text</label>):

<domain ...>
  ...
  <devices>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='/path/to/image1'>
        <seclabel relabel='no'/> <!-- override for just this disk -->
      </source>
      ...
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='/path/to/image1'>
        <seclabel relabel='yes'> <!-- override for just this disk -->
          <label>system_u:object_r:shared_content_t:s0</label>
        </seclabel>
      </source>
      ...
    </disk>
    ...
  </devices>
  <seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux'>
    <baselabel>text</baselabel> <!-- used for all devices without override -->
  </seclabel>
</domain>

This patch only introduces the XML and documentation; future patches
will actually parse and make use of it.  The intent is that we can
further extend things as needed, adding a per-device <seclabel> in
more places (such as the source of a console device), and possibly
allowing a <baselabel> instead of <label> for labeling where we want
to reuse the cNNN,cNNN pair of a dynamically labeled domain but a
different base label.

First suggested by Daniel P. Berrange here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00258.html

* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (devSeclabel): New define.
(disk): Use it.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks, seclabel): Document
the new XML.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-dynamic-override.xml:
New test, to validate RNG.
2011-12-30 10:57:58 +08:00
Eric Blake
d145fe3bb3 docs: remove stray /
Commit e5a84d74 added a new attribute in the wrong location;
commit c8b9fa74 fixed the missing / at the end but not the extra
/ in the middle.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Fix another typo.
2011-12-23 12:04:19 -07:00
Eric Blake
c8b9fa7434 docs: fix missing / in xml examples
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix typos in examples.
2011-12-22 13:03:50 -07:00
Osier Yang
a1a83c5874 qemu: Support readonly filesystem passthrough
Upstream QEMU starts to support it from commit 2c74c2cb.
2011-12-22 12:29:58 +08:00
Eric Blake
fe7fc1617c docs: document <address> elements in one place
Improve the documentation of what forms a valid <address> element,
since these elements appear in numerous devices.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsAddress): New section.
(elementsControllers, elementsUSB, elementsNICS, elementsInput)
(elementsHub, elementsCharChannel, elementsSound): Refer to it.
2011-12-12 12:03:32 -07:00
Christophe Fergeau
8d16201fe0 Add documentation for <disk><source type="dir"> 2011-12-07 10:18:58 -07:00
Lei Li
6df7ccb10e Support block I/O throttle in XML
Enable block I/O throttle for per-disk in XML, as the first
per-disk IO tuning parameter.

Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-11-30 11:36:09 -07:00
Hu Tao
6ac81c8ec8 blkiotune: add interface for blkiotune.device_weight
This adds per-device weights to <blkiotune>.  Note that the
cgroups implementation only supports weights per block device,
and not per-file within the device; hence this option must be
global to the domain definition rather than tied to individual
<devices>/<disk> entries:

<domain ...>
  <blkiotune>
    <device>
      <path>/path/to/block</path>
      <weight>1000</weight>
    </device>
  </blkiotune>
..

This patch also adds a parameter --device-weights to virsh command
blkiotune for setting/getting blkiotune.weight_device for any
hypervisor that supports it.  All <device> entries under
<blkiotune> are concatenated into a single string attribute under
virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters, named "device_weight".

Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-11-29 12:26:21 -07:00
Bharata B Rao
5f7b71b413 XML definitions for guest NUMA and parsing routines
This patch adds XML definitions for guest NUMA specification and contains
routines to parse the same. The guest NUMA specification looks like this:

<cpu>
        ...
        <topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='2'/>
        <numa>
                <cell cpus='0-7' memory='512000'/>
                <cell cpus='8-15' memory='512000'/>
        </numa>
        ...
</cpu>

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-17 13:34:42 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
0873b688c6 Allow multiple consoles per virtual guest
While Xen only has a single paravirt console, UML, and
QEMU both support multiple paravirt consoles. The LXC
driver can also be trivially made to support multiple
consoles. This patch extends the XML to allow multiple
<console> elements in the XML. It also makes the UML
and QEMU drivers support this config.

* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Allow
  multiple <console> devices
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c, src/xen/xen_driver.c,
  src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c, src/xenxs/xen_xm.c: Update for
  internal API changes
* src/security/security_selinux.c, src/security/virt-aa-helper.c:
  Only label consoles that aren't a copy of the serial device
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c, src/qemu/qemu_driver.c,
  src/qemu/qemu_process.c, src/uml/uml_conf.c,
  src/uml/uml_driver.c: Support multiple console devices
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c, tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c: Extra
  tests for multiple virtio consoles. Set QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV
  for all console /channel tests
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-virtio-auto.args,
  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-channel-virtio.args
  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-console-virtio.args: Update
  for correct chardev syntax
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-console-virtio-many.args,
  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-console-virtio-many.xml: New
  test file
2011-11-03 12:01:05 +00:00
Eric Blake
20e4e9872d docs: fix typo in <disk>/<target> example
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use dev, not def.
Reported by Alexander Biryukov.
2011-11-01 10:39:48 -06:00
Josh Durgin
5bd6271f59 storage: add auth to virDomainDiskDef
Add additional fields to let you specify the how to authenticate with a disk.
The secret to use may be referenced by a usage string or a UUID, i.e.:

<auth username='myuser'>
 <secret type='ceph' usage='secretname'/>
</auth>

or

<auth username='myuser'>
 <secret type='ceph' uuid='0a81f5b2-8403-7b23-c8d6-21ccc2f80d6f'/>
</auth>

Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.com>
2011-10-28 12:51:22 -06:00
Michal Privoznik
e5a84d74a2 conf: Introduce optional startupPolicy attribute for cdrom and floppy
This attribute says what to do with cdrom (or floppy) if
the source is missing. It accepts:
- mandatory - fail if missing for any reason (the default)
- requisite - fail if missing on boot up, drop if missing on
              migrate/restore/revert
- optional  - drop if missing at any start attempt.

However, this patch introduces only XML part of this new
functionality.
2011-10-25 09:22:42 +02:00
Ryota Ozaki
390645b346 docs: Document filesystem type='block' for LXC
Commit 77791dc0e allows LXC to use a host block device as a guest
filesystem, but it isn't documented yet.
2011-10-21 09:26:33 -06:00
Eric Blake
10d3272ec3 docs: document managed=yes of hostdev passthrough
Clarify some of the effects of managed passthrough <hostdev> devices;
with recent changes (commit d093547), a nodedev-reattach is only needed
to pair up to an explicit nodedev-dettach (but beware that older
virt-manager has a bug where it uses explicit nodedev-dettach under the
hood when using the gui to hotplug a hostdev device).

* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Mention reattach.
* tools/virsh.pod (nodedev): Mention managed mode.
2011-10-20 14:19:04 -06:00
Philipp Hahn
58d26a8ee9 documentation: trivial spelling fix
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
2011-10-19 10:36:44 +02:00
Jim Fehlig
c1bc3d892c Add AHCI support to qemu driver
Tested with multiple AHCI controllers and multiple disks attached
to a controller. E.g.,

    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk0.raw'/>
      <target dev='sda' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk1.raw'/>
      <target dev='sdb' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='1'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk2.raw'/>
      <target dev='sdc' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='1' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='sata' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='sata' index='1'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
2011-10-17 15:44:21 -06:00
Harsh Prateek Bora
da8127e6b3 Introduce <driver> under <filesystem> to support open-by-handle
VirtFS allows the user to choose between path/handle based fs driver.
As of now, libvirt hardcoded path based driver only. This patch provides
a solution to allow user to choose between path/handle based fs driver.

Sample:

    <filesystem type='mount'>
      <driver type='handle'/>
      <source dir='/folder/to/share1'/>
      <target dir='mount_tag1'/>
    </filesystem>

    <filesystem type='mount'>
      <driver type='path'/>
      <source dir='/folder/to/share2'/>
      <target dir='mount_tag2'/>
    </filesystem>

Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-10-12 12:15:28 -06:00
Eric Blake
de6431a3d6 docs: fix html bug
</space> doesn't exist.  Introduced in commit 4bb4109f.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Use correct end tag.
2011-10-10 16:36:59 -06:00
Laine Stump
4bb4109f7b qemu: add separate rerror_policy for disk errors
Previously libvirt's disk device XML only had a single attribute,
error_policy, to control both read and write error policy, but qemu
has separate options for controlling read and write. In one case
(enospc) a policy is allowed for write errors but not read errors.

This patch adds a separate attribute that sets only the read error
policy. If just error_policy is set, it will apply to both read and
write error policy (previous behavior), but if the new rerror_policy
attribute is set, it will override error_policy for read errors only.
Possible values for rerror_policy are "stop", "report", and "ignore"
("report" is the qemu-controlled default for rerror_policy when
error_policy isn't specified).

For consistency, the value "report" has been added to the possible
values for error_policy as well.
2011-10-06 14:49:23 -04:00
Laine Stump
c329db7180 qemu: make PCI multifunction support more manual
When support for was added for PCI multifunction cards (in commit
9f8baf, first included in libvirt 0.9.3), it was done by always
turning on the multifunction bit for all PCI devices. Since that time
it has been realized that this is not an ideal solution, and that the
multifunction bit must be selectively turned on. For example, see

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728174

and the discussion before and after

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-September/msg01036.html

This patch modifies multifunction support so that the multifunction=on
option is only added to the qemu commandline for a device if its PCI
<address> definition has the attribute "multifunction='on'", e.g.:

  <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
           slot='0x04' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>

In practice, the multifunction bit should only be turned on if
function='0' AND other functions will be used in the same slot - it
usually isn't needed for functions 1-7 (although there are apparently
some exceptions, e.g. the Intel X53 according to the QEMU source
code), and should never be set if only function 0 will be used in the
slot. The test cases have been changed accordingly to illustrate.

With this patch in place, if a user attempts to assign multiple
functions in a slot without setting the multifunction bit for function
0, libvirt will issue an error when the domain is defined, and the
define operation will fail. In the future, we may decide to detect
this situation and automatically add multifunction=on to avoid the
error; even then it will still be useful to have a manual method of
turning on multifunction since, as stated above, there are some
devices that excpect it to be turned on for all functions in a slot.

A side effect of this patch is that attempts to use the same PCI
address for two different devices will now log an error (previously
this would cause the domain define operation to fail, but there would
be no log message generated). Because the function doing this log was
almost completely rewritten, I didn't think it worthwhile to make a
separate patch for that fix (the entire patch would immediately be
obsoleted).
2011-10-01 11:48:28 -04:00
Douglas Schilling Landgraf
c7d1f5980b formatdomain.html.in: fix tickpolicy
there is no option "none":

>From libvirt/src/conf/domain_conf.c

<snip>
VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainTimerTickpolicy,
VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_TICKPOLICY_LAST,
              "delay",
              "catchup",
              "merge",
              "discard");
</snip>

Replacing with delay.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 09:08:46 +08:00
Laine Stump
dc79852af8 qemu: add ability to set PCI device "rombar" on or off
This patch was made in response to:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738095

In short, qemu's default for the rombar setting (which makes the
firmware ROM of a PCI device visible/not on the guest) was previously
0 (not visible), but they recently changed the default to 1
(visible). Unfortunately, there are some PCI devices that fail in the
guest when rombar is 1, so the setting must be exposed in libvirt to
prevent a regression in behavior (it will still require explicitly
setting <rom bar='off'/> in the guest XML).

rombar is forced on/off by adding:

  <rom bar='on|off'/>

inside a <hostdev> element that defines a PCI device. It is currently
ignored for all other types of devices.

At the moment there is no clean method to determine whether or not the
rombar option is supported by QEMU - this patch uses the advice of a
QEMU developer to assume support for qemu-0.12+. There is currently a
patch in the works to put this information in the output of "qemu-kvm
-device pci-assign,?", but of course if we switch to keying off that,
we would lose support for setting rombar on all the versions of qemu
between 0.12 and whatever version gets that patch.
2011-09-27 11:23:28 -04:00
Oskari Saarenmaa
f887334dcf Add unsafe cache mode support for disk driver
QEMU 0.13 introduced cache=unsafe for -drive, this patch exposes
it in the libvirt layer.

  * Introduced a new QEMU capability flag ($prefix_CACHE_UNSAFE),
    as even if $prefix_CACHE_V2 is set, we can't know if unsafe
    is supported.

  * Improved the reliability of qemu cache type detection.
2011-09-23 08:29:57 -06:00
Peter Krempa
edd1295e1d link-state: conf: Add element to XML for controling link state
A new element is introduced to XML that allows to control
state of virtual network interfaces in hypervisors.

Live modification of the link state allows networking tools
propagate topology changes to guest OS or testing of
scenarios in complex (virtual) networks.

This patch adds elements to XML grammars and parsing and generating
code.
2011-09-06 16:08:15 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau
2e0dbaad9b redirdev: allows to specify device address
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>
2011-09-06 15:12:52 +08:00
Eric Blake
471235307f snapshot: additions to domain xml for disks
As discussed here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00361.html
https://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.
2011-09-05 07:03:04 -06:00
Marc-André Lureau
162efa1a7c Add "redirdev" redirection device
- create a new "redirdev" element for this purpose
2011-09-02 23:39:03 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau
fdabeb3c5f Add USB hub device
domain parsing and serialization code, qemu driver backend and
a couple of test
2011-09-02 23:38:52 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau
f3ce59621f Add USB companion controllers support
Companion controllers take an extra 'master' attribute to associate
them.

Also add tests for this
2011-09-02 23:22:56 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau
d6d54cd19e Add a new controller type 'usb' with optionnal 'model'
The model by default is piix3-uchi.

Example:
<controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci'/>
2011-09-02 23:22:56 +08:00
Osier Yang
6ee52c1b76 Add directsync cache mode support for disk driver
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.
2011-09-02 21:36:58 +08:00
Laine Stump
73c0a148af qemu: support event_idx parameter for virtio disk and net devices
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.
2011-08-15 09:35:42 -04:00
Laine Stump
ef79fb5b5f conf: add <listen> subelement to domain <graphics> element
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.
2011-07-28 13:46:39 -04:00
Cole Robinson
d0e83bd84f docs: Break up 'Basic Resources' XML section
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>)
2011-07-25 06:40:06 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
a8923162c9 bandwidth: Define schema and create documentation
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'.
2011-07-25 13:49:06 +08:00
Laine Stump
07f4136993 conf: support abstracted interface info in domain interface XML
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).
2011-07-21 14:46:44 -04:00
Wen Congyang
fbdea7cb92 doc: Add documentation for new cputune elements period and quota
We have added element period and quota. Document them in formatdomain.html.in.
2011-07-21 17:11:12 +08:00
Michal Privoznik
2c32898c39 docs: Fix spice documentation typo
We missed ending tag for paragraph element
2011-07-18 12:06:55 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
874e65aa15 bios: Add support for SGA
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.
2011-07-11 11:47:14 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
30c43afd73 graphics: add support for action_if_connected in qemu
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)
2011-07-08 17:00:43 +02:00
Eric Blake
864e9457ca docs: minor whitespace cleanups
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.
2011-07-06 14:48:51 -06:00
Daniel P. Berrange
6bcd732ead Add documentation for the seclabel XML element
The domain XML documentation is missing information about the
<seclabel> element used by security drivers

* formatdomain.html.in: Document <seclabel>
2011-07-04 11:19:20 +01:00
David S. Wang
93d6fd1d09 documenting the 802.1Qbh parameters of a 'direct' interface
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>
2011-06-23 11:05:24 -06:00
Michal Privoznik
017abcbb1a qemu: domain I/O asynchronous handling
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.
2011-06-22 09:26:24 +02:00
Osier Yang
e6ea48c325 numatune: Add doc for new numatune XML 2011-06-20 15:15:05 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau
98bfdff12c spice: add <clipboard copypaste='yes|no'> option
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
2011-06-14 17:03:26 -06:00
Osier Yang
99c8a5c8af docs: Add doc for video element
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.
2011-06-07 16:56:06 +08:00
Neil Wilson
5b8d2e6d92 Correct 'cputune' documentation example.
Signed-off-by: Neil Wilson <neil@aldur.co.uk>
2011-06-03 08:40:51 -06:00
Daniel P. Berrange
1ea83207c8 Support leases in guest XML and lock manager
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
2011-06-02 10:54:00 +01:00
Alon Levy
bb1c5423b9 spice: support streaming-video parameter
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>
2011-05-23 20:53:59 -06:00
Osier Yang
2d3fac19e1 docs: Fix error syntax of vcpupin example XML
Lacks of "/", push this directly in trivial rule.
2011-05-21 17:12:23 +08:00
Dirk Herrendorefer
5252a06d65 Add support for 'passthru' mode for direct network interfaces
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>
2011-05-18 08:15:08 -06:00
Osier Yang
81cfe71998 docs: Fix documentation for cputune parameters
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>
2011-05-12 18:48:23 +08:00
Cole Robinson
79b914e8f6 docs: <filesystem> attr is 'accessmode', not 'mode' 2011-05-05 15:28:23 -04:00
Gerhard Stenzel
170f2a8747 fix missing VLAN id for Qbg example
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>
2011-05-02 09:13:54 -06:00
Cole Robinson
41a7835fa0 docs: Document <filesystem> device
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
2011-04-29 14:35:23 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
abb1570eac Spice: support audio, images and stream compression
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.
2011-04-14 10:23:59 -06:00
Matthias Bolte
1ef5a3d37e docs: Serial and parallel device target ports actually start from 0
Reported by Igor Galić
2011-04-14 16:36:25 +02:00
Eric Blake
99fa30804b maint: fix grammar errors
Jim Meyering recently improved gnulib to catch various grammar
errors during 'make syntax-check'.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for syntax-check improvements.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virConnectAuthCallbackPtr): Use
cannot rather than two words.
* src/driver.c: Likewise.
* src/driver.h (VIR_SECRET_GET_VALUE_INTERNAL_CALL): Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (initialize_gnutls): Likewise.
* src/util/pci.c (pciBindDeviceToStub): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend.c (virStorageBackendCreateQemuImg):
Likewise.
(virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfoFD): Avoid doubled word.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessStart): Likewise.
* cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_can_not)
(exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_doubled_word): Exclude
existing translation problems.
2011-04-12 09:06:14 -06:00
Eric Blake
d958874780 docs: fix typo
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix KVM name.
2011-04-01 16:18:18 -06:00
Eric Blake
b5ec89d955 docs: correct invalid xml
* docs/internals.html.in: Fix xml errors.
* docs/formatstorageencryption.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/drvesx.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/archnetwork.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/logging.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/drvvmware.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/api.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/formatnwfilter.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/windows.html.in: Likewise.
2011-04-01 16:03:11 -06:00
Jiri Denemark
1e8f20799c virsh: Fix documentation for memtune command
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.
2011-04-01 11:31:10 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
51434d3bef Fix several formatting mistakes in doc 2011-03-31 14:36:19 -06:00
Osier Yang
6b3644202a cputune: Add document for cputune XML
v1 - v3:
  * More clear document for "cpu shares", adopted suggestions from
    Matthias Bottle and Daniel Veillard.
2011-03-29 22:13:45 +08:00
Cole Robinson
4179f8e988 docs: Document first release with spice and qxl 2011-03-21 11:05:53 -04:00
Nikunj A. Dadhania
78ba748ef1 virsh: fix memtune's help message for swap_hard_limit
* 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>
2011-03-17 16:45:06 -06:00
Philipp Hahn
c0c074c3aa docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix spelling PIC->PCI
Not "Programmable Interrupt Controller" but "Peripheral Component
Interconnect".

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
2011-03-14 14:54:19 -06:00
Philipp Hahn
a757e60a07 domain.rng vs. formatdomain.html#elementsUSB
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>
2011-03-11 10:42:20 -07:00
Eric Blake
bfe87ece0e docs: fix missing </p>
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix typo in last patch.
Reported by Matthias Bolte.
2011-03-11 10:08:24 -07:00
Gerhard Stenzel
a067b06e43 documenting the 802.1Qbg parameters of a 'direct' interface
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>
2011-03-11 09:38:44 -07:00
Eric Blake
94a4b6300c docs: document <driver name='vhost'/> for interfaces
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document virtio backend selection.
2011-03-09 08:00:11 -07:00
Eric Blake
7eca4ea3ac docs: correct range of default NAT subnet
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix typo.
2011-03-08 16:26:26 -07:00
Cole Robinson
3cd551053d docs/formatdomain: Add release info for disk <driver> attributes 2011-03-08 13:02:43 -05:00
Laine Stump
e9bd5c0e24 Add txmode attribute to interface XML for virtio backend
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.
2011-02-17 11:07:58 -05:00