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Dmitry Andreev
59fc0d0609 Allow multiple panic devices
'model' attribute was added to a panic device but only one panic
device is allowed. This patch changes panic device presence
from 'optional' to 'zeroOrMore'.
2015-11-25 14:46:21 +01:00
Dmitry Andreev
658ec27fe8 conf: add 'model' attribute for panic device with values isa, pseries, hyperv
Libvirt already has two types of panic devices - pvpanic and pSeries firmware.
This patch introduces the 'model' attribute and a new type of panic device.

'isa' model is for ISA pvpanic device.
'pseries' model is a default value for pSeries guests.
'hyperv' model is the new type. It's used for Hyper-V crash.

Schema and docs are updated for the new attribute.
2015-11-25 12:19:55 +01:00
Peter Krempa
83707dc87e conf: Prepare making memory device target node optional
Adjust the config code so that it does not enforce that target memory
node is specified. To avoid breakage, adjust the qemu memory hotplug
config checker to disallow such config for now.
2015-11-18 10:32:18 +01:00
Cole Robinson
bdcc2f80a6 docs: domain: Show canonical pvspinlock XML
The example pvspinlock XML is:

  <pvspinlock/>

While this is accepted by libvirt and works correctly, it's currently
always output as a tristate like

  <pvspinlock state='on'/>

So document that format instead
2015-10-06 10:26:59 -04:00
Jonathan Toppins
5c668a78d8 qemu: add udp interface support
Adds a new interface type using UDP sockets, this seems only applicable
to QEMU but have edited tree-wide to support the new interface type.

The interface type required the addition of a "localaddr" (local
address), this then maps into the following xml and qemu call.

<interface type='udp'>
  <mac address='52:54:00:5c:67:56'/>
  <source address='127.0.0.1' port='11112'>
    <local address='127.0.0.1' port='22222'/>
  </source>
  <model type='virtio'/>
  <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</interface>

QEMU call:
	-net socket,udp=127.0.0.1:11112,localaddr=127.0.0.1:22222

Notice the xml "local" entry becomes the "localaddr" for the qemu call.

reference:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg00629.html

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2015-09-02 10:17:50 +02:00
Sergey Bronnikov
4076d30f85 docs: Rename 'parallels' to 'vz'
Parallels driver was renamed to Virtuozzo. Replace old name by new
one for libvirt docs and schemas.
2015-08-25 07:21:33 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
35eecddee3 conf: Add ioeventfd option for controllers
This will be used with a virtio-scsi controller later on.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-08-10 15:05:34 +02:00
Laine Stump
76379a6ec1 conf: new pcie-controller model "pcie-switch-downstream-port"
This controller can be connected only to a port on a
pcie-switch-upstream-port. It provides a single hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device, as well as any device requiring a
pcie-*-port (the only current example of such a device is the
pcie-switch-upstream-port).
2015-08-09 22:30:47 -04:00
Laine Stump
38ea9515af conf: new pci controller model "pcie-switch-upstream-port"
This controller can be connected only to a pcie-root-port or a
pcie-switch-downstream-port (which will be added in a later patch),
which is the reason for the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_PORT. A pcie-switch-upstream-port provides
32 ports (slot=0 to slot=31) on the downstream side, which can only
have pci controllers of model "pcie-switch-downstream-port" plugged
into them, which is the reason for the other new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_SWITCH.
2015-08-09 22:12:29 -04:00
Laine Stump
dce3b8beb3 conf: new pci controller model "pcie-root-port"
This controller can be connected (at domain startup time only - not
hotpluggable) only to a port on the pcie root complex ("pcie-root" in
libvirt config), hence the new connect type
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_PCIE_ROOT. It provides a hotpluggable port that
will accept any PCI or PCIe device.

New attributes must be added to the controller <target> subelement for
this - chassis and port are guest-visible option values that will be
set by libvirt with values derived from the controller's index and pci
address information.
2015-08-09 21:52:52 -04:00
Laine Stump
8dc88aeed6 conf: add new <target> subelement with chassisNr attribute to <controller>
There are some configuration options to some types of pci controllers
that are currently automatically derived from other parts of the
controller's configuration. For example, in qemu a pci-bridge
controller has an option that is called "chassis_nr"; up until now
libvirt has always set chassis_nr to the index of the pci-bridge. So
this:

  <controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'/>

will always result in:

  -device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,...

on the qemu commandline. In the future we may decide there is a better
way to derive that option, but even in that case we will need for
existing domains to retain the same chassis_nr they were using in the
past - that is something that is visible to the guest so it is part of
the guest ABI and changing it would lead to problems for migrating
guests (or just guests with very picky OSes).

The <target> subelement has been added as a place to put the new
"chassisNr" attribute that will be filled in by libvirt when it
auto-generates the chassisNr; it will be saved in the config, then
reused any time the domain is started:

  <controller type='pci' model='pci-bridge' index='2'>
    <model type='pci-bridge'/>
    <target chassisNr='2'/>
  </controller>

The one oddity of all this is that if the controller configuration
is changed (for example to change the index or the pci address
where the controller is plugged in), the items in <target> will
*not* be re-generated, which might lead to conflict. I can't
really see any way around this, but fortunately if there is a
material conflict qemu will let us know and we will pass that on
to the user.
2015-08-09 21:35:00 -04:00
Laine Stump
bf20251048 conf: add new <model> subelement with name attribute to <controller>
This new subelement is used in PCI controllers: the toplevel
*attribute* "model" of a controller denotes what kind of PCI
controller is being described, e.g. a "dmi-to-pci-bridge",
"pci-bridge", or "pci-root". But in the future there will be different
implementations of some of those types of PCI controllers, which
behave similarly from libvirt's point of view (and so should have the
same model), but use a different device in qemu (and present
themselves as a different piece of hardware in the guest). In an ideal
world we (i.e. "I") would have thought of that back when the pci
controllers were added, and used some sort of type/class/model
notation (where class was used in the way we are now using model, and
model was used for the actual manufacturer's model number of a
particular family of PCI controller), but that opportunity is long
past, so as an alternative, this patch allows selecting a particular
implementation of a pci controller with the "name" attribute of the
<model> subelement, e.g.:

  <controller type='pci' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge' index='1'>
    <model name='i82801b11-bridge'/>
  </controller>

In this case, "dmi-to-pci-bridge" is the kind of controller (one that
has a single PCIe port upstream, and 32 standard PCI ports downstream,
which are not hotpluggable), and the qemu device to be used to
implement this kind of controller is named "i82801b11-bridge".

Implementing the above now will allow us in the future to add a new
kind of dmi-to-pci-bridge that doesn't use qemu's i82801b11-bridge
device, but instead uses something else (which doesn't yet exist, but
qemu people have been discussing it), all without breaking existing
configs.

(note that for the existing "pci-bridge" type of PCI controller, both
the model attribute and <model> name are 'pci-bridge'. This is just a
coincidence, since it turns out that in this case the device name in
qemu really is a generic 'pci-bridge' rather than being the name of
some real-world chip)
2015-08-09 21:29:27 -04:00
John Ferlan
4ae72f131b docs: Add Fibre Channel NPIV supported option for volume lun config
"Further" clarification (and testing) shows that using a SCSI Fibre
Channel NPIV device/lun from a storage pool as a <disk type='volume'
device'lun'> will work. So just add that to the allowable options

Related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230179
2015-08-04 07:16:54 -04:00
John Ferlan
0d8b24f6b6 conf: Change when virDomainHostdevAssignAddress is called
Rather than calling virDomainHostdevAssignAddress during the parsing
of the XML, move the setting of a default hostdev address to domain/
device post processing.

Since the parse code no longer generates an address, we can remove
the virDomainDefMaybeAddHostdevSCSIcontroller since the call to
virDomainHostdevAssignAddress will attempt to add the controllers
that were not already defined in the XML.

This patch will also enforce that the address type is type 'drive'
when a SCSI subsystem <hostdev> element is provided with an <address>.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-08-03 16:48:45 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
b84a2cd87d docs: Document how libvirt handles companion controllers
The information on companion controllers we give in our documentation is
rather sparse.  For example, it looks like any controller can be used as
a companion one.  Also, when using ich9-uhci2, for example, we are able
to set some sensible defaults, but it might get confusing for the user
as we don't do that for all controller models.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069590

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-07-17 09:17:36 +02:00
John Ferlan
4f4ac3913a docs: Clarify unprivileged sgio feature
Update the descriptions for disk and hostdev sgio in order to indicate
not all hypervisors and OS's support this feature

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-07-08 15:07:22 -04:00
Martin Kletzander
f7d8aa44b0 Revert "Change livbirt version to 1.3.0 for the next release"
This reverts commit 9a8d916e89.

Also some changes that were introduced after that commit are fixed to
use 1.2.17 instead of 1.3.0
2015-06-28 11:34:30 +08:00
John Ferlan
91b9643845 docs: Clarification for when allowed to use 'lun' for "volume"
While re-reading what I wrote for commit id '785a8940e', I realized
I needed to clarify that being able to present as a 'lun', the mode
property for the pool source element needed to be "host" (or empty)
and not "direct".

It was described correctly later in the mode host description, but
this just ensures it's not missed here as well.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-06-26 16:54:38 -04:00
Laine Stump
10e207bb5b docs: document when pcie-root/dmi-to-pci-bridge support was added
Also move the mention of version numbers for the various PCI
controller models up to the end of the sentence where they are first
given, to avoid confusion.
2015-06-26 13:55:14 -04:00
Laine Stump
1e15be1bbc qemu: always permit PCI devices to be manually assigned to a PCIe bus
When support for the pcie-root and dmi-to-pci-bridge buses on a Q35
machinetype was added, I was concerned that even though qemu at the
time allowed plugging a PCI device into a PCIe port, that it might not
be supported in the future. To prevent painful backtracking in the
possible future where this happened, I disallowed such connections
except in a few specific cases requested by qemu developers (indicated
in the code with the flag VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_EITHER_IF_CONFIG).

Now that a couple years have passed, there is a clear message from
qemu that there is no danger in allowing PCI devices to be plugged
into PCIe ports. This patch eliminates
VIR_PCI_CONNECT_TYPE_EITHER_IF_CONFIG and changes the code to always
allow PCI->PCIe or PCIe->PCI connection *when the PCI address is
specified in the config. (For newly added devices that haven't yet
been given a PCI address, the auto-placement still prefers using the
correct type of bus).
2015-06-26 13:51:33 -04:00
Boris Fiuczynski
b831c5b801 Support for the new watchdog model diag288
This patch provides support for the new watchdog model "diag288".

Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-06-24 15:26:31 +02:00
Boris Fiuczynski
1238dc29af Support for a new watchdog action inject-nmi
This patch provides support for a new watchdog action "inject-nmi" which
allows to define an inject of a non-maskable interrupt into a guest.

Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-06-24 15:26:31 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
4902d17054 docs: Fix trivial copy-paste error
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-06-24 10:16:56 +02:00
Eric Farman
d10a5f58c7 docs: Correct typos in scsi hostdev and address elements
The type='scsi' parameter of an address element is ignored
if placed within a hostdev section, and rejected by the XML
schema used by virt-xml-validate. Remove it from the doc,
and correct a typo in the remaining address arguments.

Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-06-22 16:15:59 -04:00
Eric Farman
c733e97323 docs: Fix XML schema handling of LUN address in hostdev tag
Defining a domain with a SCSI disk attached via a hostdev
tag and a source address unit value longer than two digits
causes an error when editing the domain with virsh edit,
even if no changes are made to the domain definition.
The error suggests invalid XML, somewhere:

  # virsh edit lmb_guest
  error: XML document failed to validate against schema:
  Unable to validate doc against /usr/local/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng
  Extra element devices in interleave
  Element domain failed to validate content

The virt-xml-validate tool fails with a similar error:

  # virt-xml-validate lmb_guest.xml
  Relax-NG validity error : Extra element devices in interleave
  lmb_guest.xml:17: element devices: Relax-NG validity error :
  Element domain failed to validate content
  lmb_guest.xml fails to validate

The hostdev tag requires a source address to be specified,
which includes bus, target, and unit address attributes.
According to the SCSI Architecture Model spec (section
4.9 of SAM-2), a LUN address is 64 bits and thus could be
up to 20 decimal digits long.  Unfortunately, the XML
schema limits this string to just two digits.  Similarly,
the target field can be up to 32 bits in length, which
would be 10 decimal digits.

  # lsscsi -xx
  [0:0:19:0x4022401100000000]  disk    IBM      2107900          3.44 /dev/sda
  # lsscsi
  [0:0:19:1074872354]disk    IBM      2107900          3.44  /dev/sda
  # cat lmb_guest.xml
  <domain type='kvm'>
    <name>lmb_guest</name>
    <memory unit='MiB'>1024</memory>
  ...trimmed...
    <devices>
      <controller type='scsi' model='virtio-scsi' index='0'/>
      <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi'>
        <source>
          <adapter name='scsi_host0'/>
          <address bus='0' target='19' unit='1074872354'/>
        </source>
      </hostdev>
  ...trimmed...

Since the reference unit and target fields are used in
several places in the XML schema, create a separate one
specific for SCSI Logical Units that will permit the
greater length.  This permits both the validation utility
and the virsh edit command to succeed when a hostdev
tag is included.

Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Zimmermann <stzi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-06-22 16:15:49 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
a9a27e602c virSysinfo: Introduce SMBIOS type 2 support
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220527

This type of information defines attributes of a system
baseboard. With one exception: board type is yet not implemented
in qemu so it's not introduced here either.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-06-18 10:10:26 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
9a8d916e89 Change livbirt version to 1.3.0 for the next release
Since the background for Admin API is merged upstream, we are bumping
the minor release version as discussed previously

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-06-16 13:46:22 +02:00
John Ferlan
4fce9e8479 qemu: Do not support 'serial' scsi-block 'lun' devices
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021480

Seems the property has been deprecated for qemu, although seemingly ignored.

This patch enforces from a libvirt perspective that a scsi-block 'lun'
device should not provide the 'serial' property.
2015-06-15 07:30:29 -04:00
John Ferlan
785a8940ef scsi: Need to translate disk source pool in config attach path
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228007

When attaching a scsi volume lun via the attach-device --config or
--persistent options, there was no translation of the source pool
like there was for the live path, thus the attempt to modify the config
would fail since not enough was known about the disk.
2015-06-12 12:20:36 -04:00
Maxime Leroy
366c22f2bc qemu: add multiqueue vhost-user support
This patch adds the support of queues attribute of the driver element
for vhost-user interface type. Example:

<interface type='vhostuser'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:ee:96:6d'/>
      <source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost2.sock' mode='client'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <driver queues='4'/>
</interface>

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207692

Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 14:28:29 +02:00
Maxime Leroy
e7f5510ef2 docs: Clarify that attribute name is not used for vhostuser
Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 14:17:46 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
778c56f000 qemu: Automatically add <panic> element for pSeries guests.
The guest firmware provides the same functionality as the pvpanic
device, and the relevant element should always be present in the
domain XML to reflect this fact, so add it after parsing the
definition if it wasn't there already.
2015-06-01 06:44:37 -04:00
Andrea Bolognani
7bd769e0ab qemu: Allow panic device for pSeries guests
The guest firmware provides the same functionality as the pvpanic
device, which is not available in QEMU on pSeries, so the domain
XML should be allowed to contain the <panic> element.

On the other hand, unlike the pvpanic device, the guest firmware
can't be configured, so report an error if an address has been
provided in the XML.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182388
2015-06-01 06:16:29 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
335b834d95 Introduce pci-serial
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998813

Like usb-serial, the pci-serial device allows a serial device to be
attached to PCI bus. An example XML looks like this:

  <serial type='dev'>
    <source path='/dev/ttyS2'/>
    <target type='pci-serial' port='0'/>
    <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
  </serial>

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-05-21 17:49:02 +02:00
Tony Krowiak
73eda71028 libvirt: Introduce protected key mgmt ops
Two new domain configuration XML elements are added to enable/disable
the protected key management operations for a guest:

    <domain>
      ...
      <keywrap>
        <cipher name='aes|dea' state='on|off'/>
      </keywrap>
      ...
    </domain>

Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-05-18 09:53:13 +02:00
Luyao Huang
d12790ebe8 docs: fix a small xml error in docs
Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 09:30:44 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
921c52b0db Introduce GIC feature
Some platforms, like aarch64, don't have APIC but GIC. So there's
no reason to have <apic/> feature turned on. However, we are
still missing <gic/> feature. This commit introduces the feature
to XML parser and formatter, adds documentation and updates RNG
schema.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 09:45:43 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau
208abbcbd7 docs: add domain vmport feature
A new feature that can be turned on or off.

The QEMU machine vmport option allows to set the VMWare IO port
emulation. This emulation is useful for absolute pointer input when the
guest has vmware input drivers, and is enabled by default for kvm.

However it is unnecessary for Spice-enabled VM, since the agent already
handles absolute pointer and multi-monitors. Furthermore, it prevents
Spice from switching to relative input since the regular ps/2 pointer
driver is replaced by the vmware driver. It is thus advised to disable
vmport when using a Spice VM. This will permit the Spice client to
switch from absolute to relative pointer, as it may be required for
certain games or applications.
2015-05-04 13:19:38 +02:00
John Ferlan
4dec8a0160 conf: Adjust the iothreadsched expectations
With iothreadid's allowing any 'id' value for an iothread_id, the
iothreadsched code needs a slight adjustment to allow for "any"
unsigned int value in order to create the bitmap of ids that will
have scheduler adjustments. Adjusted the doc description as well.
2015-04-27 12:36:35 -04:00
John Ferlan
b266486fb9 Move iothreadspin information into iothreadids
Remove the iothreadspin array from cputune and replace with a cpumask
to be stored in the iothreadids list.

Adjust the test output because our printing goes in order of the iothreadids
list now.
2015-04-27 12:36:35 -04:00
John Ferlan
93383c1ffa conf: Add new domain XML element 'iothreadids'
Adding a new XML element 'iothreadids' in order to allow defining
specific IOThread ID's rather than relying on the algorithm to assign
IOThread ID's starting at 1 and incrementing to iothreads count.

This will allow future patches to be able to add new IOThreads by
a specific iothread_id and of course delete any exisiting IOThread.

Each iothreadids element will have 'n' <iothread> children elements
which will have attribute "id".  The "id" will allow for definition
of any "valid" (eg > 0) iothread_id value.

On input, if any <iothreadids> <iothread>'s are provided, they will
be marked so that we only print out what we read in.

On input, if no <iothreadids> are provided, the PostParse code will
self generate a list of ID's starting at 1 and going to the number
of iothreads defined for the domain (just like the current algorithm
numbering scheme).  A future patch will rework the existing algorithm
to make use of the iothreadids list.

On output, only print out the <iothreadids> if they were read in.
2015-04-27 12:36:35 -04:00
Peter Krempa
714b38cb23 qemu: Enforce WWN to be unique among VM's disks
Operating systems use the identifier to name the disks. As the name
suggests the ID should be unique.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208009
2015-04-14 08:44:36 +02:00
Erik Skultety
3888dcaa67 doc: Add info (where necessary) that paths should be specified as absolute
We documented this almost everywhere, but missed it on several places.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch adds that info to the doc.

Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-03-18 15:21:46 -06:00