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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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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix compile error for stable 1.2.9
by Yang hongyang 26 Oct '23

26 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 26 Oct '23

26 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 26 Oct '23

26 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] [PATCH v4 0/8] Virtio-crypto device support
by Longpeng(Mike) 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

As virtio-crypto has been supported in QEMU 2.8 and the frontend driver has been merged in linux 4.10, so it's necessary to support virtio-crypto in libvirt. --- Changes since v3: - spilt the capabilities part into a separate patch. [Boris] - include Boris's virtio-crypto ccw support(PATCH 6 & 8). [Boris] - add the missing capabilities in caps_2.9.0.x86_64.xml. [Boris] - fix Indentation and missing virDomainCryptoDefFree. [Marc] Changes since v2: - PATCH 1: modify docs as Martin & Boris's suggestion. [Martin & Boris] - PATCH 2: add the missing 'ToString'. [Martin] - PATCH 3: use virAsprintf instead of virBufferAsprintf. [Martin] remove pointless virBufferCheckError. [Martin] - rebase on master. [Longpeng] Changes since v1: - split patch [Martin] - rebase on master [Martin] - add docs/tests/schema [Martin] - fix typos [Gonglei] --- Boris Fiuczynski (2): qemu: virtio-crypto: add ccw support qemu: virtio-crypto: add test for ccw support Longpeng(Mike) (6): docs: schema: Add basic documentation for the virtual docs: news: Add virtio-crypto devices conf: Parse virtio-crypto in the domain XML caps: Add qemu capabilities about virtio-crypto qemu: Implement support for 'builtin' backend for virtio-crypto tests: Add testcase for virtio-crypto parsing docs/formatdomain.html.in | 61 ++++++ docs/news.xml | 10 + docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 30 +++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 213 ++++++++++++++++++++- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 32 ++++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 5 + src/qemu/qemu_alias.c | 20 ++ src/qemu/qemu_alias.h | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 6 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 4 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 130 +++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_command.h | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_domain_address.c | 25 +++ src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 6 + src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 1 + tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.s390x.xml | 2 + tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.9.0.x86_64.xml | 2 + .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml | 26 +++ .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.args | 22 +++ .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.xml | 16 ++ .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto.args | 22 +++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 6 + .../qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml | 31 +++ tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 2 + 25 files changed, 679 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto-ccw.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-crypto.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-crypto-builtin.xml -- 1.8.3.1

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Let virt-manager 1.4.0+ work to access console of VM
by Bryan Quigley 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Also see Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1668681 First reported https://askubuntu.com/questions/833964/virt-manager-cant-connect-to-graphic… --- examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu index a9020aa..19d99e5 100644 --- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu +++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu @@ -151,3 +151,6 @@ /etc/udev/udev.conf r, /sys/bus/ r, /sys/class/ r, + + # allow connect with openGraphicsFD to work + unix (send, receive) type=stream peer=(label=/usr/sbin/libvirtd), -- 2.10.2

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[libvirt] [PATCH v2] vz: allow to start vz driver without host cache info
by Mikhail Feoktistov 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Show warning message instead of fail operation. It happens if kernel or cpu doesn't support reporting cpu cache info. In case of Virtuozzo file "id" doesn't exist. --- src/vz/vz_driver.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/vz/vz_driver.c b/src/vz/vz_driver.c index 6f4aee3..eb97e54 100644 --- a/src/vz/vz_driver.c +++ b/src/vz/vz_driver.c @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ vzBuildCapabilities(void) goto error; if (virCapabilitiesInitCaches(caps) < 0) - goto error; + VIR_WARN("Failed to get host CPU cache info"); verify(ARRAY_CARDINALITY(archs) == ARRAY_CARDINALITY(emulators)); -- 1.8.3.1

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[libvirt] Exposing mem-path in domain XML
by Michal Privoznik 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Dear list, there is the following bug [1] which I'm not quite sure how to grasp. So there is this application/infrastructure called Kove [2] that allows you to have memory for your application stored on a distant host in network and basically fetch needed region on pagefault. Now imagine that somebody wants to use it for backing up domain memory. However, the way that the tool works is it has some kernel module and then some userland binary that is fed with the path of the mmaped file. I don't know all the details, but the point is, in order to let users use this we need to expose the paths for mem-path for the guest memory. I know we did not want to do this in the past, but now it looks like we don't have a way around it, do we? Michal 1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461214 2: http://kove.net

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[libvirt] [libvirt-sandbox PATCH 0/2] virt-sandbox-image: unbreak start from library
by Guido Günther 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

This is basically a V2 of "Drop library/ from template name and image path" with Dan's comment implemented. Guido Günther (2): Drop library/ from image path Sanitize domain name libvirt-sandbox/image/cli.py | 8 ++++++-- libvirt-sandbox/image/sources/docker.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0

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[libvirt] [PATCH] tpm: Use /dev/null for cancel path if none was found
by Stefan Berger 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

TPM 2 does not implement sysfs files for cancellation of commands. We therefore use /dev/null for the cancel path passed to QEMU. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- src/util/virtpm.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virtpm.c b/src/util/virtpm.c index 6d9b065..d5c10da 100644 --- a/src/util/virtpm.c +++ b/src/util/virtpm.c @@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ virTPMCreateCancelPath(const char *devpath) VIR_FREE(path); } if (!path) - virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", - _("No usable sysfs TPM cancel file could be " - "found")); + ignore_value(VIR_STRDUP(path, "/dev/null")); } else { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, _("TPM device path %s is invalid"), devpath); -- 2.5.5

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