Noticed this by reading the page. It would be so much nicer if our
tools could automatically flag things like this as part of 'make'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Remove extra '>'.
Sometimes when guest machine crashes, coredump can get huge due to the
guest memory. This can be limited using madvise(2) system call and is
being used in QEMU hypervisor. This patch adds an option for configuring
that in the domain XML and related documentation.
Whenever the guest machine fails to boot, new parameter (reboot-timeout)
controls whether it should reboot and after how many ms it should do so.
Docs included.
The introduction of APIC EOI patches had a few little details that
could look better, so this patch fixes that and one more place in the
file as well (same problem).
New options is added to support EOI (End of Interrupt) exposure for
guests. As it makes sense only when APIC is enabled, I added this into
the <apic> element in <features> because this should be tri-state
option (cannot be handled as standalone feature).
After discussion with DB we decided to rename the new iolimit
element as it creates the impression it would be there to
limit (i.e. throttle) I/O instead of specifying immutable
characteristics of a block device.
This is also backed by the fact that the term I/O Limits has
vanished from newer storage admin documentation.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is a new <pm/> element implemented that can control what ACPI
sleeping states will be advertised by BIOS and allowed to be switched
to by libvirt. The default keeps defaults on hypervisor, otherwise
forces chosen setting.
The documentation of the pm element is added as well.
Introducing a new iolimits element allowing to override certain
properties of a guest block device like the physical and logical
block size.
This can be useful for platforms with 'non-standard' disk formats
like S390 DASD with its 4K block size.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch introduces support of setting emulator's period and
quota to limit cpu bandwidth when the vm starts. Also updates
XML Schema for new entries and docs.
This patch adds a new xml element <emulatorpin>, which is a sibling
to the existing <vcpupin> element under the <cputune>, to pin emulator
threads to specified physical CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
A hypervisor may allow to override the disk geometry of drives.
Qemu, as an example with cyls=,heads=,secs=[,trans=].
This patch extends the domain config to allow the specification of
disk geometry with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: J.B. Joret <jb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch updates the domain and capability XML parser and formatter to
support more than one "seclabel" element for each domain and device. The
RNG schema and the tests related to this are also updated by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The following config elements now support a <vlan> subelements:
within a domain: <interface>, and the <actual> subelement of <interface>
within a network: the toplevel, as well as any <portgroup>
Each vlan element must have one or more <tag id='n'/> subelements. If
there is more than one tag, it is assumed that vlan trunking is being
requested. If trunking is required with only a single tag, the
attribute "trunk='yes'" should be added to the toplevel <vlan>
element.
Some examples:
<interface type='hostdev'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
<mac address='52:54:00:12:34:56'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>vlan-net</name>
<vlan trunk='yes'>
<tag id='30'/>
</vlan>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='vlan-net'/>
...
</interface>
<network>
<name>trunk-vlan</name>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
<tag id='43'/>
</vlan>
...
</network>
<network>
<name>multi</name>
...
<portgroup name='production'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='42'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='test'/>
<vlan>
<tag id='666'/>
</vlan>
</portgroup>
</network>
<interface type='network'/>
<source network='multi' portgroup='test'/>
...
</interface>
IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this patch there is no backend support for the
vlan element for *any* network device type. When support is added in
later patches, it will only be for those select network types that
support setting up a vlan on the host side, without the guest's
involvement. (For example, it will be possible to configure a vlan for
a guest connected to an openvswitch bridge, but it won't be possible
to do that for one that is connected to a standard Linux host bridge.)
Following commit added suport the CPU quota/period to the LXC driver.
Update the documentation to reflect that.
commit d9724a81b3
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 10 12:16:26 2011 +0000
Add support for CPU quota/period to LXC driver
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One of the original ideas behind allowing a <virtualport> in an
interface definition as well as in the <network> definition *and*one
or more <portgroup>s within the network, was that guest-specific
parameteres (like instanceid and interfaceid) could be given in the
interface's virtualport, and more general things (portid, managerid,
etc) could be given in the network and/or portgroup, with all the bits
brought together at guest startup time and combined into a single
virtualport to be used by the guest. This was somehow overlooked in
the implementation, though - it simply picks the "most specific"
virtualport, and uses the entire thing, with no attempt to merge in
details from the others.
This patch uses virNetDevVPortProfileMerge3() to combine the three
possible virtualports into one, then uses
virNetDevVPortProfileCheck*() to verify that the resulting virtualport
type is appropriate for the type of network, and that all the required
attributes for that type are present.
An example of usage is this: assuming a <network> definitions on host
ABC of:
<network>
<name>testA</name>
...
<virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
...
<portgroup name='engineering'>
<virtualport>
<parameters profileid='eng'/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='sales'>
<virtualport>
<parameters profileid='sales'/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
</network>
and the same <network> on host DEF of:
<network>
<name>testA</name>
...
<virtualport type='802.1Qbg'>
<parameters typeid="1193047" typeidversion="2"/>
</virtualport>
...
<portgroup name='engineering'>
<virtualport>
<parameters managerid="11"/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
<portgroup name='sales'>
<virtualport>
<parameters managerid="55"/>
</virtualport>
</portgroup>
</network>
and a guest <interface> definition of:
<interface type='network'>
<source network='testA' portgroup='sales'/>
<virtualport>
<parameters instanceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"
interfaceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"\>
</virtualport>
...
</interface>
If the guest was started on host ABC, the <virtualport> used would be:
<virtualport type='openvswitch'>
<parameters interfaceid='09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f'
profileid='sales'/>
</virtualport>
but if that guest was started on host DEF, the <virtualport> would be:
<virtualport type='802.1Qbg'>
<parameters instanceid="09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f"
typeid="1193047" typeidversion="2"
managerid="55"/>
</virtualport>
Additionally, if none of the involved <virtualport>s had a specified type
(this includes cases where no virtualport is given at all),
With 0.10.0-rc0 out the door, we are committed to the next version
number.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.14): Rename...
(LIBVIRT_0.10.0): ...to this.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix fallout.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDriver): Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (remote_driver): Likewise.
Libvirt adds a USB controller to the guest even if the user does not
specify any in the XML. This is due to back-compat reasons.
To allow disabling USB for a guest this patch adds a new USB controller
type "none" that disables USB support for the guest.
The time keeping example was missing quotes which resulted in an error
if you copied and pasted the example into a domain's XML. Additionally
the rest of the examples use single quotes (') instead of double quotes
(") so standardized that.
Currently you can configure LXC to bind a host directory to
a guest directory, but not to bind a guest directory to a
guest directory. While the guest container init could do
this itself, allowing it in the libvirt XML means a stricter
SELinux policy can be written
Introduce a new syntax for filesystems to allow use of a RAM
filesystem
<filesystem type='ram'>
<source usage='10' units='MiB'/>
<target dir='/mnt'/>
</filesystem>
The usage units default to KiB to limit consumption of host memory.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document new syntax
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Add new attributes
* src/conf/domain_conf.c: Parsing/formatting of RAM filesystems
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Mounting of RAM filesystems
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
A few examples for <interface> had a type='direct' interface with no
sub-elements. This is not allowed - a type='direct' interface must
have at least a source element. (Most likely the example was copied
from the type='user' or type='ethernet' examples - they *do* allow an
instance with no sub-elements).
There was also one place that mistakenly used %lt; ... %gt; instead of
< ... > (for some reason, I make that typo all the time).
Though numad will manage the memory allocation of task dynamically,
it wants management application (libvirt) to pre-set the memory
policy according to the advisory nodeset returned from querying numad,
(just like pre-bind CPU nodeset for domain process), and thus the
performance could benefit much more from it.
This patch introduces new XML tag 'placement', value 'auto' indicates
whether to set the memory policy with the advisory nodeset from numad,
and its value defaults to the value of <vcpu> placement, or 'static'
if 'nodeset' is specified. Example of the new XML tag's usage:
<numatune>
<memory placement='auto' mode='interleave'/>
</numatune>
Just like what current "numatune" does, the 'auto' numa memory policy
setting uses libnuma's API too.
If <vcpu> "placement" is "auto", and <numatune> is not specified
explicitly, a default <numatume> will be added with "placement"
set as "auto", and "mode" set as "strict".
The following XML can now fully drive numad:
1) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', no <numatune> is specified.
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
2) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', no 'placement' is specified for
<numatune>.
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='interleave'/>
</numatune>
And it's also able to control the CPU placement and memory policy
independently. e.g.
1) <vcpu> placement is 'auto', and <numatune> placement is 'static'
<vcpu placement='auto'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' nodeset='0-10,^7'/>
</numatune>
2) <vcpu> placement is 'static', and <numatune> placement is 'auto'
<vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-24,^12'>10</vcpu>
<numatune>
<memory mode='interleave' placement='auto'/>
</numatume>
A follow up patch will change the XML formatting codes to always output
'placement' for <vcpu>, even it's 'static'.
qemu's behavior in this case is to change the spice server behavior to
require secure connection to any channel not otherwise specified as
being in plaintext mode. libvirt doesn't currently allow requesting this
(via plaintext-channel=<channel name>).
RHBZ: 819499
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
In order to track a block copy job across libvirtd restarts, we
need to save internal XML that tracks the name of the file
holding the mirror. Displaying this name in dumpxml might also
be useful to the user, even if we don't yet have a way to (re-)
start a domain with mirroring enabled up front. This is done
with a new <mirror> sub-element to <disk>, as in:
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/original.img'/>
<mirror file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/copy.img' format='qcow2' ready='yes'/>
...
</disk>
For now, the element is output-only, in live domains; it is ignored
when defining a domain or hot-plugging a disk (since those contexts
use VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE in parsing). The 'ready' attribute appears
when libvirt knows that the job has changed from the initial pulling
phase over to the mirroring phase, although absence of the attribute
is not a sure indicator of the current phase. If we come up with a way
to make qemu start with mirroring enabled, we can relax the xml
restriction, and allow <mirror> (but not attribute 'ready') on input.
Testing active-only XML meant tweaking the testsuite slightly, but it
was worth it.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (diskspec): Add diskMirror.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Document it.
* src/conf/domain_conf.h (_virDomainDiskDef): New members.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefFree): Clean them.
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML): Parse them, but only internally.
(virDomainDiskDefFormat): Output them.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-mirror.xml: New test file.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-disk-mirror.xml: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (testInfo): Alter members.
(testCompareXMLToXMLHelper): Allow more test control.
(mymain): Run new test.
'omitted' was mispelt 'commited' twice. One of the sentences with
the typo was also missing an 'is' ('each VCPU *is* pinned to all...')
which I added in this commit while I was at it.
As explained in previous patch, numad will balance the affinity
dynamically, so reflecting the cpuset from numad at the first
time doesn't make much case, and may just could cause confusion.
Since Xen 3.1 the clock=variable semantic is supported. In addition to
qemu/kvm Xen also knows about a variant where the offset is relative to
'localtime' instead of 'utc'.
Extends the libvirt structure with a flag 'basis' to specify, if the
offset is relative to 'localtime' or 'utc'.
Extends the libvirt structure with a flag 'reset' to force the reset
behaviour of 'localtime' and 'utc'; this is needed for backward
compatibility with previous versions of libvirt, since they report
incorrect XML.
Adapt the only user 'qemu' to the new name.
Extend the RelaxNG schema accordingly.
Document the new 'basis' attribute in the HTML documentation.
Adapt test for the new attribute.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Pass argv to the init binary of LXC, using a new <initarg> element.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document <os> usage for containers
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Add <initarg> element
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: parsing and
formatting of <initarg>
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Setup LXC argv
* tests/Makefile.am, tests/lxcxml2xmldata/lxc-systemd.xml,
tests/lxcxml2xmltest.c, tests/testutilslxc.c,
tests/testutilslxc.h: Test parsing/formatting of LXC related
XML parts
If no <interface> elements are included in an LXC guest XML
description, then the LXC guest will just see the host's
network interfaces. It is desirable to be able to hide the
host interfaces, without having to define any guest interfaces.
This patch introduces a new feature flag <privnet/> to allow
forcing of a private network namespace for LXC. In the future
I also anticipate that we will add <privuser/> to force a
private user ID namespace.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Add support
for <privnet/> feature. Auto-set <privnet> if any <interface>
devices are defined
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Honour request for private network
namespace
numad is an user-level daemon that monitors NUMA topology and
processes resource consumption to facilitate good NUMA resource
alignment of applications/virtual machines to improve performance
and minimize cost of remote memory latencies. It provides a
pre-placement advisory interface, so significant processes can
be pre-bound to nodes with sufficient available resources.
More details: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/numad
"numad -w ncpus:memory_amount" is the advisory interface numad
provides currently.
This patch add the support by introducing a new XML attribute
for <vcpu>. e.g.
<vcpu placement="auto">4</vcpu>
<vcpu placement="static" cpuset="1-10^6">4</vcpu>
The returned advisory nodeset from numad will be printed
in domain's dumped XML. e.g.
<vcpu placement="auto" cpuset="1-10^6">4</vcpu>
If placement is "auto", the number of vcpus and the current
memory amount specified in domain XML will be used for numad
command line (numad uses MB for memory amount):
numad -w $num_of_vcpus:$current_memory_amount / 1024
The advisory nodeset returned from numad will be used to set
domain process CPU affinity then. (e.g. qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity).
If the user specifies both CPU affinity policy (e.g.
(<vcpu cpuset="1-10,^7,^8">4</vcpu>) and placement == "auto"
the specified CPU affinity will be overridden.
Only QEMU/KVM drivers support it now.
See docs update in patch for more details.
Output is still in kibibytes, but input can now be in different
scales for ease of typing.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainParseMemory): New helper.
(virDomainDefParseXML): Use it when parsing.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Expand XML; rename memoryKBElement
to memoryElement and update callers.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsMemoryAllocation): Document
scaling.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-memtune.xml: Adjust test.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-memtune.xml: New file.
Yes, I like kilobytes better than kibibytes (when I say kilobytes,
I generally mean 1024). But since the term is ambiguous, it can't
hurt to say what we mean, by using both the correct name and
calling out the numeric equivalent.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainGetMaxMemory, virDomainSetMaxMemory)
(virDomainSetMemory, virDomainSetMemoryFlags)
(virNodeGetFreeMemory): Tweak wording.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Likewise.
* docs/formatstorage.html.in: Likewise.
