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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 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] [PATCH 0/3] Fix ppc64 CPU configuration for QEMU 2.11+
by Jiri Denemark 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

The original fix was both incomplete and too general. It only fixed domain startup, but libvirt would still report empty list of supported CPU models with recent QEMU for ppc64. On the other hand, while ppc64 QEMU ignores case when looking up CPU model names, x86_64 QEMU does case sensitive lookup. Jiri Denemark (3): Revert "domcaps: Treat host models as case-insensitive strings" util: Introduce virStringListSearch qemu: Adapt to changed ppc64 CPU model names src/conf/domain_capabilities.c | 2 +- src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 3 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 2 +- src/util/virstring.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ src/util/virstring.h | 3 ++ .../qemu_2.12.0.ppc64.xml | 6 +++- .../caps_2.12.0.ppc64.xml | 12 ++++---- 9 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.17.0

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[libvirt] [PATCH v4 0/8] Virtio-crypto device support
by Longpeng(Mike) 19 Nov '18

19 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] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add new mdev type for aggregated resources
by Zhenyu Wang 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Current mdev device create interface depends on fixed mdev type, which get uuid from user to create instance of mdev device. If user wants to use customized number of resource for mdev device, then only can create new mdev type for that which may not be flexible. To allow to create user defined resources for mdev, this RFC trys to extend mdev create interface by adding new "instances=xxx" parameter following uuid, for target mdev type if aggregation is supported, it can create new mdev device which contains resources combined by number of instances, e.g echo "<uuid>,instances=10" > create VM manager e.g libvirt can check mdev type with "aggregation" attribute which can support this setting. And new sysfs attribute "instances" is created for each mdev device to show allocated number. Default number of 1 or no "instances" file can be used for compatibility check. This RFC trys to create new KVMGT type with minimal vGPU resources which can be combined with "instances=x" setting to allocate for user wanted resources. Zhenyu Wang (2): vfio/mdev: Add new instances parameters for mdev create drm/i915/gvt: Add new aggregation type drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.c | 26 ++++++++++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h | 14 +++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 9 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/vgpu.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c | 3 +- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 11 ++++--- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h | 6 +++- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++---- include/linux/mdev.h | 3 +- samples/vfio-mdev/mbochs.c | 3 +- samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c | 3 +- samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c | 3 +- 12 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) -- 2.18.0.rc2

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[libvirt] [PATCH 00/30] syntax: Remove spaces after casts
by Martin Kletzander 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

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[libvirt] [RFC] cgroup settings and systemd daemon-reload conflict
by Nikolay Shirokovskiy 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hi, all. It turns out that systemd daemon-reload reset settings that are managable thru 'systemctl set-property' interface. > virsh schedinfo tst3 | grep global_quota global_quota : -1 > virsh schedinfo tst3 --set global_quota=50000 | grep global_quota global_quota : 50000 > systemctl daemon-reload > virsh schedinfo tst3 | grep global_quota global_quota : -1 This behaviour does not limited to cpu controller, same for blkio for example. I checked different versions of systemd (219 - Feb 15, and quite recent 236 - Dec 17) to make sure it is not kind of bug of old version. So systemd does not play well with direct writes to cgroup parameters that managable thru systemd. Looks like libvirtd needs to use systemd's dbus interface to change all such parameters. I only wonder how this can be unnoticed for such long time (creating cgroup for domain thru systemd - Jul 2013) as daemon-reload is called upon libvirtd package update. May be I miss something? Nikolay

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Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] sample: vfio mdev display devices.
by Alex Williamson 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:35:10 +0200 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel(a)redhat.com> wrote: > This little series adds three drivers, for demo-ing and testing vfio > display interface code. There is one mdev device for each interface > type (mdpy.ko for region and mbochs.ko for dmabuf). Erik Skultety brought up a good question today regarding how libvirt is meant to handle these different flavors of display interfaces and knowing whether a given mdev device has display support at all. It seems that we cannot simply use the default display=auto because libvirt needs to specifically configure gl support for a dmabuf type interface versus not having such a requirement for a region interface, perhaps even removing the emulated graphics in some cases (though I don't think we have boot graphics through either solution yet). Additionally, GVT-g seems to need the x-igd-opregion support enabled(?), which is a non-starter for libvirt as it's an experimental option! Currently the only way to determine display support is through the VFIO_DEVICE_QUERY_GFX_PLANE ioctl, but for libvirt to probe that on their own they'd need to get to the point where they could open the vfio device and perform the ioctl. That means opening a vfio container, adding the group, setting the iommu type, and getting the device. I was initially a bit appalled at asking libvirt to do that, but the alternative is to put this information in sysfs, but doing that we risk that we need to describe every nuance of the mdev device through sysfs and it becomes a dumping ground for every possible feature an mdev device might have. So I was ready to return and suggest that maybe libvirt should probe the device to know about these ancillary configuration details, but then I remembered that both mdev vGPU vendors had external dependencies to even allow probing the device. KVMGT will fail to open the device if it's not associated with an instance of KVM and NVIDIA vGPU, I believe, will fail if the vGPU manager process cannot find the QEMU instance to extract the VM UUID. (Both of these were bad ideas) Therefore, how can libvirt know if a given mdev device supports a display and which type of display it supports, and potentially which vendor specific options might be required to further enable that display (if they weren't experimental)? A terrible solution would be that libvirt hard codes that NVIDIA works with regions and Intel works with dmabufs, but even then there's a backwards and forwards compatibility problem, that libvirt needs to support older kernels and drivers where display support is not present and newer drivers where perhaps Intel is now doing regions and NVIDIA is supporting dmabuf, so it cannot simply be assumed based on the vendor. The only solution I see down that path would be identifying specific {vendor,type} pairs that support a predefined display type, but that's just absurd to think that vendors would rev their mdev types to expose this and that libvirt would keep a database mapping types to features. We also have the name and description attributes, but these are currently free form, so libvirt rightfully ignores them entirely. I don't know if we could create a defined feature string within those free form strings. Otherwise, it seems we have no choice but to dive into the pool of exposing such features via sysfs and we'll need to be vigilant of feature creep or vendor specific features (ex. we're not adding a feature to indicate an opregion requirement). How should we do this? Perhaps a bar we can set is that if a feature cannot be discovered through a standard vfio API, then it is not suitable for this sysfs API. Such things can be described via our existing mdev vendor specific attribute interface. We currently have this sysfs interface: mdev_supported_types/ |-- $VENDOR_TYPE | |-- available_instances | |-- create | |-- description | |-- device_api | |-- devices | `-- name ioctls for vfio devices which only provide information include: VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO VFIO_DEVICE_GET_IRQ_INFO VFIO_DEVICE_GET_PCI_HOT_RESET_INFO VFIO_DEVICE_QUERY_GFX_PLANE We don't need to support all of these initially, but here's a starting idea for what this may look like in sysfs: $VENDOR_TYPE/ |-- available_instances |-- create |-- description |-- device_api |-- devices |-- name `-- vfio-pci `-- device |-- gfx_plane | |-- dmabuf | `-- region |-- irqs | |-- 0 | | |-- count | | `-- flags | `-- 1 | |-- count | `-- flags `-- regions |-- 0 | |-- flags | |-- offset | `-- size `-- 3 |-- flags |-- offset `-- size The existing device_api file reports "vfio-pci", so we base the device API info in a directory named vfio-pci. We're specifically exposing device information, so we have a device directory. We have a GFX_PLANE query ioctl, so we have a gfx_plane sub-directory. I imagine the dmabuf and region files here expose either Y/N or 1/0. I continue on the example with how we might expose irqs and regions, but even with regions we can bury down into how is sparse mmap exposed, how are device specific regions described, etc. Filling this in to completion without a specific userspace need to expose the information is just an exercise in bloating the kernel. That almost begins to look reasonable, but then we can only expose this for mdev devices, what if we were to hack a back door into a directly assigned GPU that tracks the location of active display in the framebuffer and implement the GFX_PLANE interface for that? We have no sysfs representation for either the template or the actual device for anything other than mdev. This inconsistency with physically assigned devices has been one of my arguments against enhancing mdev sysfs. Thanks to anyone still reading this. Ideas how we might help libvirt fill this information void so that they can actually configure a VM with a display device? Thanks, Alex

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