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[libvirt] [PATCH 00/23] Fix host-model if the chosen CPU model has more features in QEMU compared to our cpu_map.xml
by Jiri Denemark 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

When decoding CPUID data to virCPUDef we need to be careful about using a CPU model which cannot be directly used on the current host. Normally, libvirt would notice the features which prevent the model from being usable and it would disable them in the computed virCPUDef, but this won't work in case the definition of the CPU model in QEMU contains more features than what we have in cpu_map.xml. We need to count with the usability blockers we got from QEMU and explicitly disable all of them to make the computed virCPUDef usable. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464832 Jiri Denemark (23): util: Introduce virStringListCopy conf: Add usability blockers to virDomainCapsCPUModel qemu: Store CPU usability blockers in caps cache qemu: Parse unavailable features for CPU models cpu: Use virDomainCapsCPUModelsPtr in cpu driver APIs cpu: Drop unused parameter from cpuDecode cpu: Return model from virCPUModelIsAllowed cpu_x86: Move x86FeatureFind* to avoid forward prototypes cpu_x86: Disable blockers from unusable CPU models cputest: Replace json bool with enum cputest: Avoid calling json_reformat in cpu-parse.sh cputest: Print correct feature in virCPUUpdateLive test cputest: Test CPU usability blockers cputest: Separate QEMUCaps creation from cpuTestCPUIDJson build: Export virCPUModelIsAllowed private API cputest: Use CPU models from QEMU when available cputest: Add query-cpu-definitions reply for Core-i5-2540M cputest: Add CPUID data for Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-4830 cputest: Add query-cpu-definitions reply for Xeon-E7-4830 cputest: Update Xeon-E3-1245 data cputest: Add query-cpu-definitions reply for Xeon-E3-1245 cputest: Update Core-i7-2600 data cputest: Make a crippled version of Core-i7-2600 src/conf/domain_capabilities.c | 30 +- src/conf/domain_capabilities.h | 7 +- src/cpu/cpu.c | 95 +- src/cpu/cpu.h | 31 +- src/cpu/cpu_arm.c | 3 +- src/cpu/cpu_ppc64.c | 14 +- src/cpu/cpu_x86.c | 108 +- src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/libxl/libxl_capabilities.c | 2 +- src/libxl/libxl_driver.c | 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 123 +-- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 6 +- src/qemu/qemu_capspriv.h | 5 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 26 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 9 +- src/test/test_driver.c | 2 +- src/util/virstring.c | 37 + src/util/virstring.h | 3 + tests/cputest.c | 324 ++++-- tests/cputestdata/cpu-cpuid.py | 26 +- tests/cputestdata/cpu-gather.sh | 1 + tests/cputestdata/cpu-parse.sh | 2 +- tests/cputestdata/cpu-reformat.py | 9 + tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i5-2540M.json | 362 +++++++ .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-disabled.xml | 1 - .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-enabled.xml | 1 + .../cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-json.xml | 1 + ...x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-disabled.xml | 6 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-enabled.xml | 8 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-guest.xml | 25 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-host.xml | 25 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-json.xml | 11 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt.json | 615 +++++++++++ .../x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt.xml | 33 + tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600.json | 496 ++++++++- tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600.xml | 6 +- .../x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E3-1245-disabled.xml | 1 - .../x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E3-1245-enabled.xml | 2 +- .../cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E3-1245-json.xml | 1 + tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E3-1245.json | 712 +++++++++---- tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E3-1245.xml | 7 +- .../x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-disabled.xml | 5 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-enabled.xml | 8 + .../x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-guest.xml | 28 + .../cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-host.xml | 29 + .../cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-json.xml | 14 + tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830.json | 657 ++++++++++++ tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830.xml | 30 + tests/domaincapstest.c | 6 +- tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.10.0.s390x.xml | 1102 ++++++++++++++++++-- tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.10.0.x86_64.xml | 236 ++++- tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.x86_64.xml | 154 ++- tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.9.0.x86_64.xml | 154 ++- 56 files changed, 4927 insertions(+), 680 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/cputestdata/cpu-reformat.py create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-disabled.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-enabled.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-guest.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-host.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt-json.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt.json create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Core-i7-2600-xsaveopt.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-disabled.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-enabled.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-guest.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-host.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830-json.xml create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830.json create mode 100644 tests/cputestdata/x86_64-cpuid-Xeon-E7-4830.xml -- 2.14.2

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[Libvir] Hang with virt-install graphic=no on FC 6 6.93/F7 RC2
by libvirtuser 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

I had this problem and another user confirmed the same behavior on his machine: http://pastie.caboo.se/65417 Haven't tried it with *2925.10* yet. Also, is there a way to get more verbose info about what calls are causing the "configuration file syntax error" errors? Thanks. virt-install How large would you like the disk () to be (in gigabytes)? 4 ERROR: Must provide a file, not a directory for the disk What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen/images/x6.img Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no What is the install location? http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/ Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name Retrieving Fedora... 276 kB 00:01 Retrieving vmlinuz... 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:16 Retrieving initrd.img... 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB 00:28 libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name Creating domain... 0 B 00:06 Linux version 2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen (brewbuilder(a)ls20-bc1-14.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070317 (Red Hat 4.1.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 13:51:38 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize bail 0 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000020800000 end: 0000000020800000 type: 1 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 133120 Normal 133120 -> 133120 HighMem 133120 -> 133120 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 133120 ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 132080 Kernel command line: method=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/ Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135f000 soft=c133f000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 1694.994 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8 ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 30 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 2048 ... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 1024 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 8192 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 16384 ... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 8192 memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled vmalloc area: e1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 Memory: 503936k/532480k available (2030k kernel code, 19948k reserved, 1079k data, 180k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB) pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB) vmalloc : 0xe1000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 319 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0800000 ( 520 MB) .init : 0xc130e000 - 0xc133b000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc11fb9d9 - 0xc1309714 (1079 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11fb9d9 (2030 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4262.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=8525343) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed Brought up 1 CPUs Grant table initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 Brought up 1 CPUs PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: System does not support PCI PCI: System does not support PCI NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 7256k freed IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran(a)veritas.com> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1180379657.981:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 BUG: at kernel/fork.c:994 copy_process() [<c1005d9a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c1006343>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c10063be>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<c101d044>] copy_process+0x195/0x1245 [<c101e144>] do_fork+0x50/0x117 [<c1003351>] kernel_thread+0x8e/0x96 [<c102c701>] __call_usermodehelper+0x2d/0x46 [<c102cd4f>] run_workqueue+0x89/0x145 [<c102d711>] worker_thread+0xd5/0x102 [<c102ff27>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc [<c10058db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. i8042.c: No controller found. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k ^[Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix python error reporting for some storage operations
by Cole Robinson 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

In the python bindings, all vir* classes expect to be passed a virConnect object when instantiated. Before the storage stuff, these classes were only instantiated in virConnect methods, so the generator is hardcoded to pass 'self' as the connection instance to these classes. Problem is there are some methods that return pool or vol instances which aren't called from virConnect: you can lookup a storage volume's associated pool, and can lookup volumes from a pool. In these cases passing 'self' doesn't give the vir* instance a connection, so when it comes time to raise an exception crap hits the fan. Rather than rework the generator to accomodate this edge case, I just fixed the init functions for virStorage* to pull the associated connection out of the passed value if it's not a virConnect instance. Thanks, Cole diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py index 01a17da..c706b19 100755 --- a/python/generator.py +++ b/python/generator.py @@ -962,8 +962,12 @@ def buildWrappers(): list = reference_keepers[classname] for ref in list: classes.write(" self.%s = None\n" % ref[1]) - if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork", "virStoragePool", "virStorageVol" ]: + if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork" ]: classes.write(" self._conn = conn\n") + elif classname in [ "virStorageVol", "virStoragePool" ]: + classes.write(" self._conn = conn\n" + \ + " if not isinstance(conn, virConnect):\n" + \ + " self._conn = conn._conn\n") classes.write(" if _obj != None:self._o = _obj;return\n") classes.write(" self._o = None\n\n"); destruct=None

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Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Qemu migration with vhost-user-blk on top of local storage
by Stefan Hajnoczi 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 06:23:42PM +0800, wuzhouhui wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working qemu with vhost target (e.g. spdk), and I attempt to migrate VM with > 2 local storages. One local storage is a regular file, e.g. /tmp/c74.qcow2, and > the other is a malloc bdev that spdk created. This malloc bdev will exported to > VM via vhost-user-blk. When I execute following command: > > virsh migrate --live --persistent --unsafe --undefinesource --copy-storage-all \ > --p2p --auto-converge --verbose --desturi qemu+tcp://<uri>/system vm0 > > The libvirt reports: > > qemu-2.12.1: error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command \ > 'nbd-server-add': Cannot find device=drive-virtio-disk1 nor \ > node_name=drive-virtio-disk1 Please post your libvirt domain XML. > Does it means that qemu with spdk on top of local storage don't support migration? > > QEMU: 2.12.1 > SPDK: 18.10 vhost-user-blk bypasses the QEMU block layer, so NBD storage migration at the QEMU level will not work for the vhost-user-blk disk. Stefan

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[libvirt] [PATCH v3] openvswitch: Add new port VLAN mode "dot1q-tunnel"
by luzhipeng＠uniudc.com 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

From: ZhiPeng Lu <luzhipeng(a)uniudc.com> Signed-off-by: ZhiPeng Lu <luzhipeng(a)uniudc.com> --- v1->v2: 1. Fix "make syntax-check" failure v2->v3: 1. remove other_config when updating vlan docs/formatnetwork.html.in | 17 +++++++++-------- docs/schemas/networkcommon.rng | 1 + src/conf/netdev_vlan_conf.c | 2 +- src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c | 7 +++++++ src/util/virnetdevvlan.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/formatnetwork.html.in b/docs/formatnetwork.html.in index 363a72b..3c1ae62 100644 --- a/docs/formatnetwork.html.in +++ b/docs/formatnetwork.html.in @@ -688,16 +688,17 @@ For network connections using Open vSwitch it is also possible - to configure 'native-tagged' and 'native-untagged' VLAN modes + to configure 'native-tagged' and 'native-untagged' and 'dot1q-tunnel' + VLAN modes. Since 1.1.0. This is done with the - optional <code>nativeMode</code> attribute on - the <code><tag></code> subelement: <code>nativeMode</code> - may be set to 'tagged' or 'untagged'. The <code>id</code> - attribute of the <code><tag></code> subelement - containing <code>nativeMode</code> sets which VLAN is considered - to be the "native" VLAN for this interface, and + optional <code>nativeMode</code> attribute on the + <code><tag></code> subelement: <code>nativeMode</code> + may be set to 'tagged' or 'untagged' or 'dot1q-tunnel'. + The <code>id</code> attribute of the <code><tag></code> + subelement containing <code>nativeMode</code> sets which VLAN is + considered to be the "native" VLAN for this interface, and the <code>nativeMode</code> attribute determines whether or not - traffic for that VLAN will be tagged. + traffic for that VLAN will be tagged or QinQ. <code><vlan></code> elements can also be specified in diff --git a/docs/schemas/networkcommon.rng b/docs/schemas/networkcommon.rng index 2699555..11c48ff 100644 --- a/docs/schemas/networkcommon.rng +++ b/docs/schemas/networkcommon.rng @@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ <choice> <value>tagged</value> <value>untagged</value> + <value>dot1q-tunnel</value> </choice> </attribute> </optional> diff --git a/src/conf/netdev_vlan_conf.c b/src/conf/netdev_vlan_conf.c index dff49c6..79710d9 100644 --- a/src/conf/netdev_vlan_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/netdev_vlan_conf.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_NONE VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virNativeVlanMode, VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_LAST, - "default", "tagged", "untagged") + "default", "tagged", "untagged", "dot1q-tunnel") int virNetDevVlanParse(xmlNodePtr node, xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, virNetDevVlanPtr def) diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c b/src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c index 8fe06fd..9fec30b 100644 --- a/src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c +++ b/src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ virNetDevOpenvswitchConstructVlans(virCommandPtr cmd, virNetDevVlanPtr virtVlan) virCommandAddArg(cmd, "vlan_mode=native-untagged"); virCommandAddArgFormat(cmd, "tag=%d", virtVlan->nativeTag); break; + case VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_DOT1Q_TUNNEL: + virCommandAddArg(cmd, "vlan_mode=dot1q-tunnel"); + virCommandAddArg(cmd, "other_config:qinq-ethtype=802.1q"); + virCommandAddArgFormat(cmd, "tag=%d", virtVlan->nativeTag); + break; case VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_DEFAULT: default: break; @@ -504,6 +509,8 @@ int virNetDevOpenvswitchUpdateVlan(const char *ifname, "--", "--if-exists", "clear", "Port", ifname, "tag", "--", "--if-exists", "clear", "Port", ifname, "trunk", "--", "--if-exists", "clear", "Port", ifname, "vlan_mode", + "--", "--if-exists", "remove", "Port", ifname, "other_config", + "qinq-ethtype", NULL, "--", "--if-exists", "set", "Port", ifname, NULL); if (virNetDevOpenvswitchConstructVlans(cmd, virtVlan) < 0) diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevvlan.h b/src/util/virnetdevvlan.h index be85f59..0667f9d 100644 --- a/src/util/virnetdevvlan.h +++ b/src/util/virnetdevvlan.h @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ typedef enum { VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_DEFAULT = 0, VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_TAGGED, VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_UNTAGGED, + VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_DOT1Q_TUNNEL, VIR_NATIVE_VLAN_MODE_LAST } virNativeVlanMode; -- 1.8.3.1

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix compile error for stable 1.2.9
by Yang hongyang 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Seems a backport miss. An extra member is passed to struct virLXCBasicMountInfo. Signed-off-by: Yang hongyang <hongyang.yang(a)easystack.cn> --- src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c index 28dabec..1c65fa9 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ typedef struct { static const virLXCBasicMountInfo lxcBasicMounts[] = { { "proc", "/proc", "proc", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV, false, false }, - { "/proc/sys", "/proc/sys", NULL, MS_BIND|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, false, false, false }, + { "/proc/sys", "/proc/sys", NULL, MS_BIND|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, false, false }, { "sysfs", "/sys", "sysfs", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, false, false }, { "securityfs", "/sys/kernel/security", "securityfs", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_RDONLY, true, true }, #if WITH_SELINUX -- 1.7.1

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[libvirt] [PATCH] web docs -- macvtap mode explanation
by Stefan Berger 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

This adds more information about the different macvtap device modes. Regards, Stefan

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[libvirt] Supporting vhost-net and macvtap in libvirt for QEMU
by Anthony Liguori 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Disclaimer: I am neither an SR-IOV nor a vhost-net expert, but I've CC'd people that are who can throw tomatoes at me for getting bits wrong :-) I wanted to start a discussion about supporting vhost-net in libvirt. vhost-net has not yet been merged into qemu but I expect it will be soon so it's a good time to start this discussion. There are two modes worth supporting for vhost-net in libvirt. The first mode is where vhost-net backs to a tun/tap device. This is behaves in very much the same way that -net tap behaves in qemu today. Basically, the difference is that the virtio backend is in the kernel instead of in qemu so there should be some performance improvement. Current, libvirt invokes qemu with -net tap,fd=X where X is an already open fd to a tun/tap device. I suspect that after we merge vhost-net, libvirt could support vhost-net in this mode by just doing -net vhost,fd=X. I think the only real question for libvirt is whether to provide a user visible switch to use vhost or to just always use vhost when it's available and it makes sense. Personally, I think the later makes sense. The more interesting invocation of vhost-net though is one where the vhost-net device backs directly to a physical network card. In this mode, vhost should get considerably better performance than the current implementation. I don't know the syntax yet, but I think it's reasonable to assume that it will look something like -net tap,dev=eth0. The effect will be that eth0 is dedicated to the guest. On most modern systems, there is a small number of network devices so this model is not all that useful except when dealing with SR-IOV adapters. In that case, each physical device can be exposed as many virtual devices (VFs). There are a few restrictions here though. The biggest is that currently, you can only change the number of VFs by reloading a kernel module so it's really a parameter that must be set at startup time. I think there are a few ways libvirt could support vhost-net in this second mode. The simplest would be to introduce a new tag similar to <source network='br0'>. In fact, if you probed the device type for the network parameter, you could probably do something like <source network='eth0'> and have it Just Work. Another model would be to have libvirt see an SR-IOV adapter as a network pool whereas it handled all of the VF management. Considering how inflexible SR-IOV is today, I'm not sure whether this is the best model. Has anyone put any more thought into this problem or how this should be modeled in libvirt? Michael, could you share your current thinking for -net syntax? -- Regards, Anthony Liguori

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[libvirt RFCv11 00/33] multifd save restore prototype
by Claudio Fontana 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

This is v11 of the multifd save prototype, which focuses on saving to a single file instead of requiring multiple separate files for multifd channels. This series demonstrates a way to save and restore from a single file by using interleaved channels of a size equal to the transfer buffer size (1MB), and relying on UNIX holes to avoid wasting physical disk space due to channels of different size. KNOWN ISSUES: a) still applies only to save/restore (no managed save etc) b) this is not not done in QEMU, where it could be possible to teach QEMU to migrate directly to a file or block device in a block-aligned way by altering the migration stream code and the state migration code of all devices. changes from v10: * virfile: add new API virFileDiskCopyChannel, which extends the existing virFileDiskCopy to work with parallel channels in the file. * drop use of virthread API, use GLIB for threads. * pass only a single FD to the multifd-helper, which will then open additional FDs as required for the multithreaded I/O. * simplify virQEMUSaveFd API, separating the initialization from the addition of extra channels. * adapt all documentation to mention a single file instead of multiple. * remove the "Lim" versions of virFileDirectRead and Write, they are not needed. --- changes from v9: * exposed virFileDirectAlign * separated the >= 2 QEMU_SAVE_VERSION change in own patch * reworked the write code to add the alignment padding to the data_len, making the on disk format compatible when loaded from an older libvirt. * reworked the read code to use direct I/O APIs only for actual direct I/O file descriptors, so as to make old images work with newer libvirt. --- changes from v8: * rebased on master * reordered patches to add more upstreamable content at the start * split introduction of virQEMUSaveFd, so the first part is multifd-free * new virQEMUSaveDataRead as a mirror of virQEMUSaveDataWrite * introduced virFileDirect API, using it in virFileDisk operations and for virQEMUSaveRead and virQEMUSaveWrite --- changes from v7: * [ base params API and iohelper refactoring upstreamed ] * extended the QEMU save image format more, to record the nr of multifd channels on save. Made the data header struct packed. * removed --parallel-connections from the restore command, as now it is useless due to QEMU save image format extension. * separate out patches to expose migration_params APIs to saveimage, including qemuMigrationParamsSetString, SetCap, SetInt. * fixed bugs in the ImageOpen patch (missing saveFd init), removed some whitespace, and fixed some convoluted code paths for return value -3. --- changes from v6: * improved error path handling, with error messages and especially cancellation of qemu process on error during restore. * split patches more and reordered them to keep general refactoring at the beginning before the --parallel stuff is introduced. * improved multifd compression support, including adding an enum and extending the QEMU save image format to record the compression used on save, and pick it up automatically on restore. --- changes from v4: * runIO renamed to virFileDiskCopy and rethought arguments * renamed new APIs from ...ParametersFlags to ...Params * introduce the new virDomainSaveParams and virDomainRestoreParams without any additional parameters, so they can be upstreamed first. * solved the issue in the gendispatch.pl script generating code that was missing the conn parameter. --- changes from v3: * reordered series to have all helper-related change at the start * solved all reported issues from ninja test, including documentation * fixed most broken migration capabilities code (still imperfect likely) * added G_GNUC_UNUSED as needed * after multifd restore, added what I think were the missing operations: qemuProcessRefreshState(), qemuProcessStartCPUs() - most importantly, virDomainObjSave() The domain now starts running after restore without further encouragement * removed the sleep(10) from the multifd-helper --- changes from v2: * added ability to restore the VM from disk using multifd * fixed the multifd-helper to work in both directions, assuming the need to listen for save, and connect for restore. * fixed a large number of bugs, and probably introduced some :-) --- Claudio Fontana (33): virfile: introduce virFileDirect APIs virfile: use virFileDirect API in runIOCopy qemu: saveimage: rework image read/write to be O_DIRECT friendly qemu: saveimage: assume future formats will also support compression virfile: virFileDiskCopy: prepare for O_DIRECT files without wrapper qemu: saveimage: introduce virQEMUSaveFd qemu: saveimage: convert qemuSaveImageCreate to use virQEMUSaveFd qemu: saveimage: convert qemuSaveImageOpen to use virQEMUSaveFd tools: prepare doSave to use parameters tools: prepare cmdRestore to use parameters libvirt: add new VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_PARALLEL flag and parameter qemu: add stub support for VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_PARALLEL in save qemu: add stub support for VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_PARALLEL in restore virfile: add new API virFileDiskCopyChannel multifd-helper: new helper for parallel save/restore qemu: saveimage: update virQEMUSaveFd struct for parallel save qemu: saveimage: wire up saveimage code with the multifd helper qemu: capabilities: add multifd to the probed migration capabilities qemu: saveimage: add multifd related fields to save format qemu: migration_params: add APIs to set Int and Cap qemu: migration: implement qemuMigrationSrcToFilesMultiFd for save qemu: add parameter to qemuMigrationDstRun to skip waiting qemu: implement qemuSaveImageLoadMultiFd for restore tools: add parallel parameter to virsh save command tools: add parallel parameter to virsh restore command qemu: add migration parameter multifd-compression libvirt: add new VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_PARAM_PARALLEL_COMPRESSION qemu: saveimage: add parallel compression argument to ImageCreate qemu: saveimage: add stub support for multifd compression parameter qemu: migration: expose qemuMigrationParamsSetString qemu: saveimage: implement multifd-compression in parallel save qemu: saveimage: restore compressed parallel images tools: add parallel-compression parameter to virsh save command docs/manpages/virsh.rst | 26 +- include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 24 + po/POTFILES | 1 + src/libvirt_private.syms | 6 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 4 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 146 ++-- src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 160 ++-- src/qemu/qemu_migration.h | 16 +- src/qemu/qemu_migration_params.c | 71 +- src/qemu/qemu_migration_params.h | 15 + src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 3 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.h | 5 +- src/qemu/qemu_saveimage.c | 703 +++++++++++++----- src/qemu/qemu_saveimage.h | 69 +- src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c | 6 +- src/util/iohelper.c | 3 + src/util/meson.build | 16 + src/util/multifd-helper.c | 359 +++++++++ src/util/virfile.c | 391 +++++++--- src/util/virfile.h | 11 + .../caps_4.0.0.aarch64.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_4.0.0.ppc64.xml | 1 + .../caps_4.0.0.riscv32.xml | 1 + .../caps_4.0.0.riscv64.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_4.0.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_4.0.0.x86_64.xml | 1 + .../caps_4.1.0.x86_64.xml | 1 + .../caps_4.2.0.aarch64.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_4.2.0.ppc64.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_4.2.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_4.2.0.x86_64.xml | 1 + .../caps_5.0.0.aarch64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_5.0.0.ppc64.xml | 2 + .../caps_5.0.0.riscv64.xml | 2 + .../caps_5.0.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_5.1.0.sparc.xml | 2 + .../caps_5.1.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../caps_5.2.0.aarch64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_5.2.0.ppc64.xml | 2 + .../caps_5.2.0.riscv64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_5.2.0.s390x.xml | 2 + .../caps_5.2.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../caps_6.0.0.aarch64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_6.0.0.s390x.xml | 2 + .../caps_6.0.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../caps_6.1.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../caps_6.2.0.aarch64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_6.2.0.ppc64.xml | 2 + .../caps_6.2.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../caps_7.0.0.aarch64.xml | 2 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_7.0.0.ppc64.xml | 2 + .../caps_7.0.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../caps_7.1.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + tools/virsh-domain.c | 101 ++- 55 files changed, 1748 insertions(+), 445 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/util/multifd-helper.c -- 2.26.2

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[PATCH 00/18] RFC: Remove deprecated audio features
by Martin Kletzander 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

I wanted to deal with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2043498 and I got a suggesstion that removing deprecated features could actually make it easier to propagate the error. In the end (last patch) it turns out the error is still just reported with error_fatal, so it probably is not really needed, but I really wanted to dig into QEMU more and learn some of the internals for quite some time now. So I used the opportunity. The one-liner ended up being an 18 patch series which was, for someone who has just one commit in QEMU codebase, a pretty challenging task. Although I tried my best to do things properly, I am not sure whether I handled everything correctly, hence the RFC. Any comments are very much appreciated. Thanks and have a nice day ;) Martin Kletzander (18): hw/audio: Remove -soundhw support hw/input/tsc210x: Extract common init code into new function hw/audio: Simplify hda audio init hw/audio/lm4549: Add errp error reporting to init function tests/qtest: Specify audiodev= and -audiodev ui/vnc: Require audiodev= Introduce machine's default-audiodev property audio: Add easy dummy audio initialiser hw/display/xlnx_dp.c: Add audiodev property hw/input/tsc210x.c: Support machine-default audiodev with fallback hw/arm: Support machine-default audiodev with fallback hw/ppc: Support machine-default audiodev with fallback audio: Make AUD_register_card fallible and require audiodev= audio: Require AudioState in AUD_add_capture audio: Be more strict during audio backend initialisation audio: Remove legacy audio environment variables and options audio: Remove unused can_be_default audio/spiceaudio: Fail initialisation when not using spice audio/alsaaudio.c | 1 - audio/audio.c | 204 +++---- audio/audio.h | 5 +- audio/audio_int.h | 1 - audio/audio_legacy.c | 555 ------------------ audio/coreaudio.m | 1 - audio/dbusaudio.c | 1 - audio/dsoundaudio.c | 1 - audio/jackaudio.c | 1 - audio/meson.build | 1 - audio/noaudio.c | 1 - audio/ossaudio.c | 1 - audio/paaudio.c | 1 - audio/sdlaudio.c | 1 - audio/spiceaudio.c | 3 +- audio/wavaudio.c | 1 - docs/about/deprecated.rst | 24 - docs/about/removed-features.rst | 27 + docs/qdev-device-use.txt | 21 +- docs/replay.txt | 2 +- hw/arm/integratorcp.c | 8 +- hw/arm/musicpal.c | 8 +- hw/arm/omap2.c | 11 +- hw/arm/realview.c | 3 + hw/arm/spitz.c | 10 +- hw/arm/versatilepb.c | 3 + hw/arm/vexpress.c | 3 + hw/arm/xlnx-zcu102.c | 4 + hw/arm/z2.c | 12 +- hw/audio/ac97.c | 9 +- hw/audio/adlib.c | 9 +- hw/audio/cs4231a.c | 8 +- hw/audio/es1370.c | 8 +- hw/audio/gus.c | 6 +- hw/audio/hda-codec.c | 37 +- hw/audio/intel-hda.c | 25 +- hw/audio/intel-hda.h | 2 +- hw/audio/lm4549.c | 7 +- hw/audio/lm4549.h | 3 +- hw/audio/meson.build | 1 - hw/audio/pcspk.c | 15 +- hw/audio/pl041.c | 2 +- hw/audio/sb16.c | 9 +- hw/audio/soundhw.c | 177 ------ hw/audio/wm8750.c | 5 +- hw/core/machine.c | 23 + hw/display/xlnx_dp.c | 12 +- hw/input/tsc210x.c | 79 ++- hw/ppc/prep.c | 4 + hw/usb/dev-audio.c | 5 +- include/hw/audio/soundhw.h | 15 - include/hw/boards.h | 1 + qemu-options.hx | 37 -- .../codeconverter/test_regexps.py | 1 - softmmu/qdev-monitor.c | 2 - softmmu/vl.c | 10 - tests/qtest/ac97-test.c | 3 +- tests/qtest/es1370-test.c | 3 +- tests/qtest/fuzz/generic_fuzz_configs.h | 6 +- tests/qtest/intel-hda-test.c | 15 +- ui/vnc.c | 15 +- 61 files changed, 329 insertions(+), 1140 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 audio/audio_legacy.c delete mode 100644 hw/audio/soundhw.c delete mode 100644 include/hw/audio/soundhw.h -- 2.35.1

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