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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] Semantic change in v4.3 slows down image creation and snapshots (on ZFS)
by Christian Ehrhardt 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Hi, when discussing bug [1] triggered by [2] Daniel and I have found that the change [3] which is in since v4.3 was a semantic change to the behavior of libvirt. virt-manager used and still does issue a volume XML like: <volume> <name>disk.qcow2</name> <capacity>16106127360</capacity> <allocation>16106127360</allocation> <target> <format type="qcow2"/> <features> <lazy_refcounts/> </features> </target> </volume> Up until the commit above that was using preallocation=metadata, but now uses preallocation=falloc. In many cases (read: Fileystems) that won't be very user-visible, but if you are running on ZFS (or anything else that can't fallocate well) this is made worse by [4] slowing down these operations a lot. After the POV for virt-manager seems to have settled on the bug [1] referenced the remaining question is if libvirt should revert/modify the change [3] - and that we agreed required a wider discussion to be had here, hence this mail. [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1759454 [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/virt-manager/+bug/1847105 [3]: https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c9ec7088c7a3f4cd26bb471f1… [4]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/326 -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd

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[libvirt] [PATCH-for-4.2] hw/mips: Deprecate the r4k machine
by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

The r4k machine was introduced in 2005 (6af0bf9c7) and its last logical change was in 2005 (9542611a6). After we can count 164 maintenance commits (QEMU API changes) with the exception of 1 fix in 2015 (memory leak, commit 3ad9fd5a). This machine was introduced as a proof of concept to run a MIPS CPU. 2 years later, the Malta machine was add (commit 5856de80) modeling a real platform. Note also this machine has no specification except 5 lines in the header of this file: * emulates a simple machine with ISA-like bus. * ISA IO space mapped to the 0x14000000 (PHYS) and * ISA memory at the 0x10000000 (PHYS, 16Mb in size). * All peripherial devices are attached to this "bus" with * the standard PC ISA addresses. It is time to deprecate this obsolete machine. Users are recommended to use the Malta board, which hardware is well documented. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd(a)redhat.com> --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 +++++ hw/mips/mips_r4k.c | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 4b4b7425ac..05265b43c8 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -266,6 +266,11 @@ The 'scsi-disk' device is deprecated. Users should use 'scsi-hd' or @section System emulator machines +@subsection mips r4k platform (since 4.2) + +This machine type is very old and unmaintained. Users should use the 'malta' +machine type instead. + @subsection pc-0.12, pc-0.13, pc-0.14 and pc-0.15 (since 4.0) These machine types are very old and likely can not be used for live migration diff --git a/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c b/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c index 70024235ae..0b79ad26cb 100644 --- a/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c +++ b/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ void mips_r4k_init(MachineState *machine) static void mips_machine_init(MachineClass *mc) { + mc->deprecation_reason = "use malta machine type instead"; mc->desc = "mips r4k platform"; mc->init = mips_r4k_init; mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE; diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 5e5e3e52d6..3b3a88e264 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ F: hw/net/mipsnet.c R4000 M: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien(a)aurel32.net> R: Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo(a)rt-rk.com> -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete F: hw/mips/mips_r4k.c Fulong 2E -- 2.21.0

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[libvirt] [python] WIP-FYI: mypy annotations for libvirt-python
by Philipp Hahn 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hello, Maybe you already have heads about mypy <http://mypy-lang.org/>, which "is an experimental optional static type checker for Python that aims to combine the benefits of dynamic (or "duck") typing and static typing". I started to write a manual annotation file for the Python binding of libvirt. I've attached my current version, so others can benefit from it, too. It is far from complete, but it already helped my to find some errors in my code. (My latest version is also available at <https://github.com/univention/typeshed/blob/libvirt/third_party/2and3/libvi…>) Long-term it probably would be better to teach the Python binding "generator.py" to add the type information (PEP 484 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/>) directly into the generated "libvirt.py" file, but that's for another day. If someone else is interested in helping with that, please feel free to get in contact. Philipp -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer Univention GmbH be open. Mary-Somerville-Str. 1 D-28359 Bremen Tel.: +49 421 22232-0 Fax : +49 421 22232-99 hahn(a)univention.de http://www.univention.de/ Geschäftsführer: Peter H. Ganten HRB 20755 Amtsgericht Bremen Steuer-Nr.: 71-597-02876

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[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] qemu: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|off
by Menno Lageman 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

QEMU introduced a CPU power management feature with commit 6f131f13e68d ("kvm: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|off"). With this flag, kvm allows guest to control host CPU power state. This increases latency for other processes using same host CPU in an unpredictable way, but if decreases idle entry/exit times for the running VCPU, so to use it QEMU needs a hint about whether host CPU is overcommitted, hence the flag name. This patch series adds a new kvm feature 'cpu-pm' for controlling "-overcommit cpu-pm=[on|off]" <features> <kvm> <cpu-pm state='on'/> </kvm> </features> Menno Lageman (2): qemu: introduce qemuBuildOvercommitCommandLine() tests: add tests for cpu-pm feature Wim ten Have (1): qemu: add hypervisor feature cpu-pm support for kvm docs/formatdomain.html.in | 7 ++++ docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 5 +++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 4 ++ src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 + src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++-- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 25 ++++++++---- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/kvm-features-off.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/kvm-features-off.xml | 1 + tests/qemuxml2argvdata/kvm-features.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/kvm-features.xml | 1 + tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 4 +- tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/kvm-features-off.xml | 1 + tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/kvm-features.xml | 1 + 14 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0

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