When the firmware auto-selection was introduced it always picked first
usable firmware based on the JSON descriptions on the host. It is
possible to add/remove/change the JSON files but it will always be for
the whole host.
This patch introduces support for configuring the auto-selection per VM
by adding users an option to limit what features they would like to have
available in the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The original text was not explaining what this attribute actually
controls and could have been interpreted as a control switch for the
Secure boot feature in firmwares.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Introduce command 'virsh domstats --dirtyrate' for reporting memory
dirty rate information. The info is listed as:
Domain: 'vm0'
dirtyrate.calc_status=2
dirtyrate.calc_start_time=1534523
dirtyrate.calc_period=1
dirtyrate.megabytes_per_second=5
Signed-off-by: Hao Wang <wanghao232@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We don't need to go to the trouble of telling users about existance of
insecure SASL mechanisms only to then say that they shouldn't be used.
We should only tell people about the GSSAPI mechanism for TCP sockets.
For the SCRAM mechanism we should be telling people about the SHA256
variant only, and also warning that the password database stores the
passwords in clear text.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Give guidance on how to check minimum meson version for a given package.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/140
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We don't like virXXXPtr typedefs really and they are going away
shortly, possibly. Do not encourage new code to put in the
typedefs.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
There were a number of occurrences where we used nested inline markup
(verbatim + refs) which is currently not possible with RST syntax [1].
There is a possible workaround involving substitution definitions like
.. |virConnectPtr| replace:: ``virConnectPtr``
.. _virConnectPtr: /html/libvirt-libvirt-host.html#virConnectPtr
Substitutions cannot be made generic, hence we cannot create a template
for substitution and use a single template everywhere, so we'd end up
with a lot of clutter and convolution. Therefore, we can make an
exception and just link the data type without further style markup.
[1] https://docutils.sourceforge.io/FAQ.html#is-nested-inline-markup-possible
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
In theory, users might want to use a relative path as a root
directory for embed drivers. But in practice, nothing in driver
initialization (specifically QEMU driver since it's the only one
that supports embedding now), is prepared for that. Document and
enforce absolute paths.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883725
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Since v6.2.0-rc1~238 (and friends) QMP processing was moved to a
per-domain thread. Therefore, it is now safe to call APIs from
the event loop thread (e.g. just like qemu shim is doing in
qemuShimEventLoop(). However, it is still important to let the
event loop run after each API call (obviously).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The function is now unused and motivated users to write crazy parsers
which were hard to understand, had pointless error paths just to avoid
few memory allocations.
Remove the function as we're fine with g_strndup and virStrcpy.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This is similar to my earlier commit which documented lxc.conf
location. Just like LXC, the libxl driver has only the system
connection and thus only few places need changing.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The libxl driver has no session daemon therefore its split daemon
(virtxend) has to be ran as root. Any attempt to start it with
euid != 0 fails. This is why the daemon does not look under any
of XDG_* paths either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
This is similar to my earlier commit which documented qemu.conf
locations. Luckily, the LXC driver has only the system connection
and not session or embed one.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The LXC driver has no session daemon therefore its split daemon
(virtlxcd) has to be ran as root. Any attempt to start it with
euid != 0 fails. This is why the daemon does not look under any
of XDG_* paths either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
In official docs we refer to it as "QEMU driver", not "qemu
driver".
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Previously, validation of XML failed if sub-elements of video
device were in different order.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825769
Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This introduces support for the QEMU audio settings that are common to
all audio backends. These are expressed in the QAPI schema as settings
common to all backends, but in reality some backends ignore some of
them. For example, some backends are output only. The parser isn't
attempting to apply restrictions that QEMU itself doesn't apply.
<audio id='1' type='pulseaudio'>
<input mixingEngine='yes' fixedSettings='yes' voices='1' bufferLength='100'>
<settings frequency='44100' channels='2' format='s16'/>
</input>
<output mixingEngine='yes' fixedSettings='yes' voices='2' bufferLength='100'>
<settings frequency='22050' channels='4' format='f32'/>
</output>
</audio>
The <settings> child is only valid if fixedSettings='yes'
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When there are multiple <audio> backends specified, it is possible to
assign a specific one to the VNC server using
<graphics type='vnc'...>
<audio id='1'/>
</graphics>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The current <audio> element only allows an "OSS" audio backend, as this
is all that BHyve needed. This is now extended to cover most QEMU audio
backends. These backends all have a variety of attributes they support,
but this initial impl does the bare minimum, relying on built-in
defaults for everything. The only QEMU backend omitted is "dsound" since
the libvirt QEMU driver is not built on Windows platforms.
The SDL audio driver names are based on the SDL 2.0 drivers. It is not
intended to support SDL 1.2 drivers.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
To prepare for the introduction for more backend specific audio options,
move the OSS options into a dedicated struct and introduce separate
helper methods for parse/format/free.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch adds delay time (steal time inside guest) to libvirt
domain per-vcpu stats. Delay time is an important performance metric.
It is a consequence of the overloaded CPU. Knowledge of the delay
time of a virtual machine helps to understand if it is affected and
estimate the impact.
As a result, it is possible to react exactly when needed and
rebalance the load between hosts. This is used by cloud providers
to provide quality of service, especially when the CPU is
oversubscribed.
It's more convenient to work with this metric in a context of a
libvirt domain. Any monitoring software may use this information.
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Zakharov <zaharov@selectel.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The <graphics type="vnc" .... powerControl="yes"/> option instructs the
VNC server to enable an extension that lets the client perform a
graceful shutdown, reboot and hard reset.
This is enabled by default since it cannot be assumed that the VNC
client user has administrator rights over the guest OS. In the case
where the VNC user is a guest administrator though, it is reasonable
to allow direct power control host side too.
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Surprisingly, we never documented the relationship between
connection URI and the location of qemu.conf. Users might wonder
what qemu.conf is loaded when they are connecting to the session
daemon or embed URI. And what to do if the file doesn't exist for
the URI they're using.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
We've already applied this policy on multiple occasions, but it's
good to have it written down so that there can be no confusion.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Before the conversion to using systemd DBus API to set the cpu.shares
there was some magic conversion done by kernel which was documented in
virsh manpage as well. Now systemd errors out if the value is out of
range.
Since we enforce the range for other cpu cgroup attributes 'quota' and
'period' it makes sense to do the same for 'shares' as well.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The function can't fail nowadays, remove the return value and adjust
callers.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
When the parser and docs were enhanced to support a <teaming> element
in a generic <hostdev>, the example XML for formatdomain.rst was
cut/pasted from the example for <interface type='hostdev'>. In my
haste I neglected to remove the <mac address='blah'/> element (which
is unused/ignored for generic <hostdev> and change the closing tag
from </interface> to </hostdev>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1927984
Fixes: db64acfbda
Reported-by: Yalan Zhang <yalzhang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Commit <d505b8af58912ae1e1a211fabc9995b19bd40828> changed the cpu quota
value that reflects what kernel allows but did not update our
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The <teaming> element in <interface> allows pairing two interfaces
together as a simple "failover bond" network device in a guest. One of
the devices is the "transient" interface - it will be preferred for
all network traffic when it is present, but may be removed when
necessary, in particular during migration, when traffic will instead
go through the other interface of the pair - the "persistent"
interface. As it happens, in the QEMU implementation of this teaming
pair (called "virtio failover" in QEMU) the transient interface is
always a host network device assigned to the guest using VFIO (aka
"hostdev"); the persistent interface is always an emulated virtio NIC.
When support was initially added for <teaming>, it was written to
require that the transient/hostdev device be defined using <interface
type='hostdev'>; this was done because the virtio failover
implementation in QEMU and the virtio guest driver demands that the
two interfaces in the pair have matching MAC addresses, and the only
way libvirt can guarantee the MAC address of a hostdev network device
is to use <interface type='hostdev'>, whose main purpose is to
configure the device's MAC address before handing the device to
QEMU. (note that <interface type='hostdev'> in turn requires that the
network device be an SRIOV VF (Virtual Function), as that is the only
type of network device whose MAC address we can set in a way that will
survive the device's driver init in the guest).
It has recently come up that some users are unable to use <teaming>
because they are running in a container environment where libvirt
doesn't have the necessary privileges or resources to set the VF's MAC
address (because setting the VF MAC is done via the same device's PF
(Physical Function), and the PF is not exposed to libvirt's container).
At the same time, these users *are* able to set the VF's MAC address
themselves in advance of staring up libvirt in the container. So they
could theoretically use the <teaming> feature if libvirt just skipped
the "setting the MAC address" part.
Fortunately, that is *exactly* the difference between <interface
type='hostdev'> (which must be a "hostdev VF") and <hostdev> (a "plain
hostdev" - it could be *any* PCI device; libvirt doesn't know what type
of PCI device it is, and doesn't care).
But what is still needed is for libvirt to provide a small bit of
information on the QEMU commandline argument for the hostdev, telling
QEMU that this device will be part of a team ("failover pair"), and
the id of the other device in the pair.
To make both of those goals simultaneously possible, this patch adds
support for the <teaming> element to plain <hostdev> - libvirt doesn't
try to set any MAC addresses, and QEMU gets the extra commandline
argument it needs)
(actually, this patch adds only the parsing/formatting of the
<teaming> element in <hostdev>. The next patch will actually wire that
into the qemu driver.)
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When running on host with systemd we register VMs with machined.
In this case systemd creates the root VM cgroup for us. This has some
implications where one of them is that systemd owns all files inside
the root VM cgroup and we should not touch them.
We already use DBus calls for some of the APIs but for the remaining
ones we will continue accessing the files directly. Systemd doesn't
support threaded cgroups so we need to do this.
The reason why we don't use DBus for most of the APIs is that we already
have a code that works with files and we would have to check if systemd
supports each API.
This change introduces new topology on systemd hosts:
$ROOT
|
+- machine.slice
|
+- machine-qemu\x2d1\x2dvm1.scope
|
+- libvirt
|
+- emulator
+- vcpu0
+- vcpu0
compared to the previous topology:
$ROOT
|
+- machine.slice
|
+- machine-qemu\x2d1\x2dvm1.scope
|
+- emulator
+- vcpu0
+- vcpu0
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The data reported is the same as for "host-passthrough"
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
For hardware virtualization this is functionally identical to the
existing host-passthrough mode so the same caveats apply.
For emulated guest this exposes the maximum featureset supported by
the emulator. Note that despite being emulated this is not guaranteed
to be migration safe, especially if different emulator software versions
are used on each host.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Many of Xen's text documents have been converted to man pages over
the years, the channel doc being one of them. Replace the broken
channel.txt link with the name of the man page providing the same
information.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Parameter 'known_hosts_verify' is supported for some time now,
but it is not yet documented.
Signed-off-by: Jakob Meng <jakobmeng@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
QEMU has the ability to mark machine types as deprecated. This should be
exposed to management applications in the capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
