The public API entry points will report VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT to the
caller when a driver does not provide an implementation of a particular
method.
When deleting methods, leaving the driver API entry point explicitly
set to NULL with an version range comment, allows the hvsupport.html
page to document when the AP was removed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Similarly how we allow adding arbitrary command line arguments and
environment variables this patch introduces the ability to control
libvirt's perception of the qemu process by tweaking the capability bits
for testing purposes.
The idea is to allow developers and users either test a new feature by
enabling it early or disabling it to see whether it introduced
regressions.
This feature is not meant for production use though, so users should
handle it with care.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The header for the news entry blends together with the text and other
entries. This patch tries to space them out somewhat for better visual
separation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Libvirtd has long had integration with avahi for advertising libvirtd
using mDNS when TCP/TLS listening is enabled. For a long time the
virt-manager application had support for auto-detecting libvirtds
on the local network using mDNS, but this was removed last year
commit fc8f8d5d7e3ba80a0771df19cf20e84a05ed2422
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Date: Sat Oct 6 20:55:31 2018 -0400
connect: Drop avahi support
Libvirtd can advertise itself over avahi. The feature is disabled by
default though and in practice I hear of no one actually using it
and frankly I don't think it's all that useful
The 'Open Connection' wizard has a disproportionate amount of code
devoted to this feature, but I don't think it's useful or worth
maintaining, so let's drop it
I've never heard of any other applications having support for using
mDNS to detect libvirtd instances. Though it is theoretically possible
something exists out there, it is clearly going to be a niche use case
in the virt ecosystem as a whole.
By removing avahi integration we can cut down the dependency chain for
the basic libvirtd install and reduce our code maint burden.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Jano probably based his branch on top of mine and didn't notice
when I moved the section up slightly and thus git applied it again.
Keep only the instance followin the new features section.
This reverts commit 9c68bb4a5c.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Allow using seclabels the same way as disk images allow it. Currently
the snapshot code copies the seclabels from the original image if no
seclabel is provided. Also there's no code change required as the
snapshot XML parser actually uses parts of the disk parser thus
seclabels are already parsed and formatted and even applied thus this is
just a formalization of our support for this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Change the example and add a recommendation to use disk target rather
than path.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
It will not be executed when the page is loaded locally. It needs
planet.virt-tools.org to supply the right headers (which it does now).
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Don't use the global namespace, unify quotes and semicolons at the end of lines
and "use strict".
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
According to sPAPR, addresses are 32-bit (8 hex digits) rather
than 64-bit (16 hex digits). Update the schema accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The example is very outdated and we dropped the support for it anyways.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Allow marking of the deprecation of features similarly how we mark
introduction of features.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The current version will definitely not provide such a neat commandline.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Explicitly state that the conversion nowadays produces results which
aren't really usable manually as it requires all the stuff which is
usually prepared by libvirtd.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Allow expressing that a hypervisor implementation was deleted by adding
a end-version when the implementation was removed to our hypervisor
support matrix.
This patch hacks the perl script that generates the support matrix to
support comments like:
.domainQemuAttach = qemuDomainQemuAttach, /* 0.8.3 (deprecated: 5.5.0) */
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
We support pcie-to-pci-bridge, and prefer it to
dmi-to-pci-bridge, since libvirt 4.3.0, but we didn't
update all the documentation accordingly at the time.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Hosts for rbd are ceph monitor daemons. These have fixed IP addresses,
so they are often referenced by IP rather than hostname for
convenience, or to avoid relying on DNS. Using IPv4 addresses as the
host name works already, but IPv6 addresses require rbd-specific
escaping because the colon is used as an option separator in the
string passed to librados.
Escape these colons, and enclose the IPv6 address in square brackets
so it is distinguished from the port, which is currently mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yili@winhong.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The portid will be the UUID of the virNetworkPort object associated
with the network interface when a guest is running.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When (un)plugging an interface into a network, the 'plugged'
and 'unplugged' operations are invoked in the hook script.
The data provided to the script contains the network XML, the
domain XML and the domain interface XML. When we strictly split the
drivers up this will no longer be possible and thus breakage is
unavoidable. The hook scripts are not considered to be covered by the
API guarantee so this is OK.
To avoid existing scripts taking the wrong action, the existing
operations are changed to 'port-created' and 'port-deleted'
instead. These will receive the network XML and the network port
XML.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Introduce a virNetworkPortDefPtr struct to represent the data associated
with a virtual network port. Add APIs for parsing/formatting XML docs
with the data.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
There was a space missing after 'qcow'.
Delete 'qcow' and 'cow' as examples to make the document
more relevant for the current decade.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This configuration can be used by gitdm to generate reports about
libvirt development.
The goal I was working with was being able to generate a report
for every single libvirt release and having zero "email address
as company" entries; picking different commit ranges might result
in some contributions not being accounted for.
I had to make some judgement calls when the situation was not
entirely clear-cut: when in doubt, and not finding any obvious
signs of the opposite being true, I mostly ended up dumping
people in the "unaffiliated contributions" bin. If I got it
wrong, and companies want to get recognition for their sponsored
contributions to libvirt, they can send patches.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
SMMUv3 is an IOMMU implementation for ARM virt guests.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
One of the current SEV document links went dead as AMD moved the
resource to another place (document store), so there's probably very
little point in maintaining 3rd party links if the resources are being
moved.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
formatdomaincaps.html provides explanation of SEV fields, but doesn't
link to the domain XML docs to show how it can be actually used in
libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Although there's currently only support for SEV, it's likely other
solutions will appear, so we should not refer to the documentation
section simply with 'sev'.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Forbid breaking lines inside the two branches of the ternary operator
and nesting them. Using it in these instances does not help readability.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Document that checking if a integer is (non-)zero should (not must)
avoid the shortened form that C allows as it may confuse readers into
overlooking the other possible values which might be interresting to
handle.
While pointers have distinct values from the point of view of the code
we only care whether it's non-NULL and thus it's documented it's okay
to shorten those.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
State that error messages should not be broken into multiple lines for
programmer friendliness and should not be concatenated on the fly for
translator friendliness and few other details.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
At the moment we allow the user to specify exactly where
they want the HTML documentation to be installed with an
extreme level of precision through the --with-html-dir and
--with-html-subdir configure options.
Most of the time, of course, the user will stick with the
default, that is $(datadir)/doc/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/html.
So close to $(docdir)! Including the version number in
the path, specifically, seems entirely unnecessary since
different releases of libvirt are not going to be able to
coexist on the same system anyway.
Drop all these custom flexibilty for flexibilty's sake
shenaningans in favor of the standard, well understood
$(docdir).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Our XSLT magic generates one Devhelp-compatible HTML file
per documentation module, but so far we have only shipped
and installed documentation for virterror.
Now that we have $(modules), however, we can generate the
list of files the same way we do for regular documentation
and make sure we always ship and install everything.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This variable contains a lists of documentation modules,
in a neutral format.
Right now is only used to define $(apihtml_generated), but
later on we're gonna reuse it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Most releases don't need a "Removed features" section so don't include
it in the template by default, but leave a reminder in case it is
relevant.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Rather than duplicate a list of storage pool backends on the
drivers.html page, let's just link directly to the storage driver
page similar to how the node device driver is done.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Some basic features/bugfixes/removed features. Of course we've
done a lot more than recoded here.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
firmware attribute from <os/> takes either 'efi' or 'bios' as its
allowed values. However, the current documentation mistakenly mentions
'uefi' instead of 'efi'.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio@redhat.com>
None of the existing drivers actually use the 0-valued 'nostate'
snapshot state; rather, it was a fluke of implementation. In fact,
some drivers, like qemu, actively reject 'nostate' as invalid during a
snapshot redefine. Normally, a driver computes the state post-parse
from the current domain, and thus virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc() will
never expose the state. However, since the testsuite lacks any
associated domain to copy state from, and lacks post-parse processing
that normal drivers have, the testsuite output had several spots with
the state, coupled with a regex filter to ignore the oddity.
It is better to follow the lead of other XML defaults, by not
outputting anything during format if post-parse defaults have not been
applied, and rejecting the default value during parsing. The testsuite
needs a bit of an update, by adding another flag for when to simulate
a post-parse action of setting a snapshot state, but none of the
drivers are impacted other than rejecting XML that was previously
already suspicious in nature.
Similarly, don't expose creation time 0 (for now, only possible if a
user redefined a snapshot to claim creation at the Epoch, but also
happens once setting the creation time is deferred to a post-parse
handler).
This is also a step towards cleaning up snapshot_conf.c to separate
its existing post-parse work (namely, setting the creationTime and
default snapshot name) from the pure parsing work, so that we can get
rid of the testsuite hack of regex filtering of the XML and instead
have more accurate testing of our parser/formatter code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Just one missing occurrence of iothreadsched fixed plus some rewording for this
to make more sense for the readers.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We have occasionally failed to document certain categories
of changes in the release notes, yet still left the
corresponding sections in the file even though they were
completely empty.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Allow targetting the search scope to the website, wiki or mailing lists
only. When javascript is disabled this should gracefully fallback to
only searching the website.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Instead of duplicating javascript in every single page, put it in a
standalone file which can be cached by the browser.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
If a management application wants to use firmware auto selection
feature it can't currently know if the libvirtd it's talking to
support is or not. Moreover, it doesn't know which values that
are accepted for the @firmware attribute of <os/> when parsing
will allow successful start of the domain later, i.e. if the mgmt
application wants to use 'bios' whether there exists a FW
descriptor in the system that describes bios.
This commit then adds 'firmware' enum to <os/> element in
<domainCapabilities/> XML like this:
<enum name='firmware'>
<value>bios</value>
<value>efi</value>
</enum>
We can see both 'bios' and 'efi' listed which means that there
are descriptors for both found in the system (matched with the
machine type and architecture reported in the domain capabilities
earlier and not shown here).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
There was this introduction made on the users list:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2019-March/msg00046.html
Add the application onto the list of apps known to use libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
libvirt.org/search.php drops into some kind of screen which I guess
is supposed to show a search bar with options, but presently for me
renders as nothing but the following text:
Search the documentation on Libvirt.org
The search service indexes the libvirt APIs and documentation as well as the libvir-list@redhat.com mailing-list archives. To use it simply provide a set of keywords:
The main page search bar now redirects to google, this page is broken,
I say we just remove it and move on.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
This was used for generating the website search, which now just calls
out to google. Remove it
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The website search is perpetually broken, has had XSS issues in the
past, and I suspect when it's working it's not as fast or capable as
a simple google site:libvirt.org search
Replace the <form> implementation with one that sends the user to
google.com with 'site:libvirt.org' appended to the search string
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The search.cpan.org site is a transparent redirect to metacpan.org these
days, so we should just point directly to the new site.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
On the modern internet it is not credible to continue to advertize
software downloads over unencrypted connections. Even if users could
theoretically use GPG to verify the signatures, not all our downloads
are signed and few people know how to correctly verify signatures.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When the block copy operation is started with a reused external file in
incremental mode libvirt will need to open and insert the backing chain
for that file into qemu (in -blockdev mode). This means that we'll need
to track the backing chain and metadata such as node names for the full
chain of <mirror>.
This patch invokes the full backing chain formatter and parser for
<mirror> so that the chain can be kept with <mirror>.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The files no longer exist, at least not in their previous form,
so references to them need to be reworked to still make sense.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The VM Manager app is no longer present on the Play store and while
Google shows a couple of hits they look like the typical untrustworthy
3rd party download redistributors rather than an official site.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The page we link to is a 404 and github repo hasn't been touched since
2012 so is clearly dead.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The libvirt specific page linked for buildbot is a 404. This replacement
link is the closest to what was originally linked.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The project website http://archipelproject.org/ is dead, reporting a
cloudflare error message
The git repo at https://github.com/ArchipelProject/Archipel/ hasn't
had a commit since Nov 2016, and the last release was a beta6 release
in 2013.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since I was copying this text to form checkpoint XML and API
documentation, I might as well make improvements along the way. Most
of these changes are based on reviews of the checkpoint docs.
Among other things: grammar tweaks, point to a single source of
documentation rather than repeating verbosity, reword things for
easier legibility.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
After 7431b3eb9a libvirt requires "filter", "nat" and
"mangle" tables to exist for both IPv4 and IPv6. This fact was
missed in the news.xml and since we don't have any better place
to advertise that let's update old news.
This was refined in 686803a1a2 and since that is not released
yet create a new entry documenting the refinement.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Commit 3bd4ed46 introduced this element as required which
breaks backcompat for test driver. Let's make the element optional.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.com>
The new 'refresh' element can override the default refresh operations
for a storage pool. The only currently supported override is to set
the volume allocation size to the volume capacity. This can be specified
by adding the following snippet:
<pool>
...
<refresh>
<volume allocation='capacity'/>
</refresh>
...
</pool>
This is useful for certain backends where computing the actual allocation
of a volume might be an expensive operation.
Signed-off-by: Jason Dillaman <dillaman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Upcoming changes will make outputting these subelements optional.
While we are here drop the useless interleave: since this is an output
only format the elements are always in the same order
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
This info can be useful to filter devices visible
to mgmt clients so that they won't see devices that
unsafe/not meaningful to pass thru.
Provide class info the way it is provided by udev or
kernel that is as single 6-digit hexadecimal.
Class element is not optional. I guess this should not
break users that use virNodeDeviceCreateXML because
they probably specify only scsi_host capability on
input and then node device driver gets other capabilities
from udev after device appeared.
HAL driver does not get support for the new element in
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Based on recent list questions about the proposed addition of
virDomainCheckpointCreateXML(REDEFINE), it is worth adding some
clarification to the existing snapshot redefine documentation that is
serving as the basis for checkpoints.
Normal snapshot creation requires very few elements from the user XML
(libvirt can pick sane defaults for items that are omitted, and many
fields, including <domain>, are documented as readonly output fields
ignored on input, produced by drivers that track it). But during
REDEFINE, the API wants the complete XML produced by an earlier
virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc; as the domain definition has likely
changed since the snapshot was first created, libvirt is unable to
recreate a <domain> sub-element that matches the original output
representing the domain state at the time the snapshot was first
created. In fact, reverting without a <domain> sub-element is risky
enough that we had to add a FORCE flag for virDomainSnapshotRevert().
In short, we only support omitting domain for qemu because of
backwards-compatibility to snapshots created before 0.9.5 started
capturing <domain>; even though there are other drivers like vbox that
do not output <domain> because they have other reliable ways to
revert.
And based on the confusion caused when omitting <domain> from snapshot
XML, the initial design for checkpoints in later patches will make
<domain> a mandatory element during its REDEFINE.
[Side note: the fact that <domain> can appear in <domainsnapshot> is a
reason we cannot add a new API for a bulk listing or redefine of all
snapshots of a single domain in one XML call (for example, a 1M
<domain> XML * 16 snapshots explodes into 16M in a bulk form, which
gets difficult to send over RPC). Perhaps we could add a flag to
request that the <domain> sub-element be omitted on output, but such
output is no longer suitable for sane REDEFINE input.]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
