oVirt does merge images out of libvirt in some cases. Add docs outlining
how it's done from a high level.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Simplify the docs and reduce maintenance burden by just describing the
algorithm by a pseudo-language. Users are encouraged to use libvirt
anyways and projects such as oVirt which do some management of storage
themselves are unlikely to use bash anyways.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Define what users should look for when wanting to manipulate bitmaps
themselves.
Later on a patch will turn the bash algorithms into pseudocode for
simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add a section that outlines usage of tools to handle bitmaps and
introduce terms corresponding to the output of qemu-img to be used in
further sections.
With this we can simplify the section about checking bitmap health as we
don't have to explain the qemu-img output but can refer to the newly
defined terms.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Emphasize what needs to happen and also that creating a snapshot doesn't
create the appropriate bitmaps. Also mention that granularity is kept.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Make it obvious what's meant by 'overlay' and 'backing image' for sake
of extension of the document.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Outline the basics and how to integrate with externally created
overlays. Other topics will continue later.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Protected virtualization/IBM Secure Execution for Linux protects
guest memory and state from the host.
Add some basic information about technology and a brief guide
on setting up secure guests with libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo de Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Update document with changes in qemu capability caching and the added
secure guest support checking for AMD SEV in virt-host-validate.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
There are many different settings that required to config a KVM guest
for real time, low latency workoads. The documentation included here is
based on guidance developed & tested by the Red Hat KVM real time team.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The heading overline should only be used for the overall document title,
any subsequent headings should be underline only.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
1. Use 'setup' consistently as noun, 'set up' as verb
2. Use path variables like '$IMAGE_PATH' consistently
like in Troubleshooting to improve readability
3. Remove ':' from field names
4. Change phrasing in sentences I stumbled upon several
times to improve readability.
5. Minor grammar/vocab fixes.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Add a document describing the usage of virtiofs.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
We document steps how to fix images if they are rejected for missing
the 'backing file format' field. Document also how to securely probe
the image format if it's unknown.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When using command line passthrough users will often trip up over the
security protections like SELinux, DAC, namespaces, etc which will
deny access to files they are passing. This document explains the
various protections and how to deal with their policy, and/or how
to disable them.
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The libvirt RPM packaging is quite fine grained but it is not obvious to
users which package is best to install. Add a kbase doc that describes
the different RPMs, and illustrates some example deployment use cases.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a semi-automated conversion. The first conversion is done using
"pandoc -f html -t rst". The result is then editted manually to apply
the desired heading markup, and fix a few things that pandoc gets wrong.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a semi-automated conversion. The first conversion is done using
"pandoc -f html -t rst". The result is then editted manually to apply
the desired heading markup, and fix a few things that pandoc gets wrong.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a semi-automated conversion. The first conversion is done using
"pandoc -f html -t rst". The result is then editted manually to apply
the desired heading markup, and fix a few things that pandoc gets wrong.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a semi-automated conversion. The first conversion is done using
"pandoc -f html -t rst". The result is then editted manually to apply
the desired heading markup, and fix a few things that pandoc gets wrong.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a semi-automated conversion. The first conversion is done using
"pandoc -f html -t rst". The result is then editted manually to apply
the desired heading markup, and fix a few things that pandoc gets wrong.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is a semi-automated conversion. The first conversion is done using
"pandoc -f html -t rst". The result is then editted manually to apply
the desired heading markup, and fix a few things that pandoc gets wrong.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Commit 50dfabbb59 forgot to add this important bit on how to check that
all the changes to the XML actually worked.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Now that various new API have been added or are coming soon, it is
worth a landing page that gives an overview of capturing various
pieces of guest state, and which APIs are best suited to which tasks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The previously added AMD SEV doc was not linked from anywhere on the
website. Address this by introducing a new "Knowledge base" section
that can hold task oriented guide to various features. Moving the SEV,
disk locking and secure usage guides under this section.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
