April 2020 - Devel - libvirt List Archives

Re: [PATCH 5/5] cpu: Introduce getHost supoort for ARM
by Daniel P. Berrangé 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Re-adding libvir-list to the CC line. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:20:44PM +0800, Zhenyu Zheng wrote: > Hi, yes, I think we can do that using inline assembly, I can check it out > if you think it is a better solution, > do you have any suggestions for the features(cpu flags) part? It seems that > ARM does not have a location/register > that holds all the flags, seems that we have to query alot of different > registers to check for features, which could > be quite messy. Perhaps there is a way to record the location/register info in the XML against each feature name, so that the code itself can stay simple and just be driven from the metadata ? I'm not familiar enough with Arm to know how feasiable this is though, so will have to leave that to others to give an opinion. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:01 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:32:36PM +0800, Zhenyu Zheng wrote: > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > > > Thanks for thre review and reply, my first implementation was going to > > > gather data from /proc/cpuinfo, but unlike X86, we can only get this kind > > > of info: > > > > > > processor : 0 > > > BogoMIPS : 200.00 > > > Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid > > > CPU implementer : 0x43 > > > CPU architecture: 8 > > > CPU variant : 0x1 > > > CPU part : 0x0a1 > > > CPU revision : 1 > > > > > > so we have to perform some translation to perform human readable > > > information, and I mentioned that 'lscpu' has done that too. So Andrea > > > Bolognani > > > suggested that maybe we can use it directly, to avoid re-implement the > > > translation. Here is the discussion: > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-March/msg00812.html > > > > On x86 we get majority of info straight from calling the CPUID instruction, > > not /proc/cpuinfo, and use our XML data files in src/cpu_map to translate > > things into human readable names. I see you're adding XML data files > > with names in the earlier patches. Is it possible to add the hex values > > for the CPU implementer/architecture/variant/part to these XML files so > > we can directly map them in libvirt, in the same way we do for x86 Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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[PATCH] news: Document recent dbus-vmstate changes
by Michal Privoznik 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com> --- docs/news.xml | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 7ef18cf7b8..37b7fd9bba 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -114,6 +114,17 @@ malfunctioning VM could affect all those running on the same host. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Support migration with SLIRP interface + </summary> + <description> + As <code>libslirp</code> evolves, so does QEMU. The recent change is + that instead of peer-to-peer connection between QEMU and + <code>slirp-helper</code> process a separate D-BUS bus is created. + This enables QEMU to migrate with a SLIRP interface. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> <change> -- 2.24.1

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[libvirt PATCH 0/4] AUTHORS: assorted improvements
by Ján Tomko 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Ján Tomko (4): AUTHORS: s/Authors/authors/ AUTHORS: use slashes for Andrea's e-mail address AUTHORS: add some emojis AUTHORS: remove myself AUTHORS.in | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1

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[libvirt PATCH] news: Update for libvirt 6.2.0
by Andrea Bolognani 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com> --- docs/news.xml | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index bcec1d81e9..7ef18cf7b8 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -55,6 +55,27 @@ automatically. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add virtiofs support + </summary> + <description> + This feature, introduced in QEMU 4.2, is a more modern alternative + to virtio-9p, which is exposed through the same + <code><filesystem/></code> element. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + admin: Support reloading TLS certificates + </summary> + <description> + After renewing TLS certificates, it was usually necessary to restart + libvirtd for the new ones to be loaded: now the same result can be + obtained without restarting the daemon by using <code>virt-admin + server-update-tls</code>. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Removed features"> <change> @@ -70,6 +91,29 @@ </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Don't compare local and remote hostnames on migration + </summary> + <description> + This check was introduced to prevent same-host migration, but did + not work as expected when multiple libvirtd instances were running + on the same host but in different containers. With this release, the + host UUID (which should be unique to the container) is checked + instead. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Use per-VM event loops + </summary> + <description> + Instead of using a single even loop to process communication with + the QEMU monitor and guest agent, create a separate one for each VM. + This helps with scalability and prevents scenarios where a single + malfunctioning VM could affect all those running on the same host. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> <change> @@ -90,6 +134,16 @@ QEMU-4.2. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + Don't generate machine names containing dots + </summary> + <description> + Even though the guest name containing dots is not a problem for + libvirt itself, we need to strip them out when registering with + machined because of the latter's requirements. + </description> + </change> </section> </release> <release version="v6.1.0" date="2020-03-03"> -- 2.25.1

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[PATCH 0/2] qemu: Fix two checkpoint redefine issues
by Peter Krempa 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Peter Krempa (2): qemu: checkpoint: Allow checkpoint redefine for offline VMs virDomainCheckpointRedefinePrep: Set 'current' checkpoint if there isn't any src/conf/checkpoint_conf.c | 4 ++++ src/qemu/qemu_checkpoint.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1

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[libvirt PATCH 0/3] qemu: s390: fix disk error policy with blockdev
by Ján Tomko 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1819250 Ján Tomko (3): tests: qemu: add disk-error-policy tests for s390x qemu: add QEMU_CAPS_STORAGE_WERROR qemu: use QEMU_CAPS_STORAGE_WERROR for disk-error attributes src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 8 ++++ src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 4 +- .../caps_2.10.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_2.11.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_2.12.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.7.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.8.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.9.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_3.0.0.riscv32.xml | 1 + .../caps_3.0.0.riscv64.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_3.0.0.s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_3.0.0.x86_64.xml | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_3.1.0.ppc64.xml | 1 + .../caps_3.1.0.x86_64.xml | 1 + .../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 | 1 + .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_5.0.0.ppc64.xml | 1 + .../caps_5.0.0.x86_64.xml | 1 + .../disk-error-policy-s390x.s390x-2.12.0.args | 42 ++++++++++++++++++ .../disk-error-policy-s390x.s390x-latest.args | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ .../disk-error-policy-s390x.xml | 37 ++++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 2 + 33 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/disk-error-policy-s390x.s390x-2.12.0.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/disk-error-policy-s390x.s390x-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/disk-error-policy-s390x.xml -- 2.25.1

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