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[PATCH v2 0/1] x86: install modules-load.d file to load msr module
by Hector Cao 12 Jan '26

12 Jan '26

This submission is a follow-up (v2) of the discussion (RFC) that was happening at: https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/ADJ4A... On x86, libvirt makes use of the API exposed by the msr kernel module to read the MSR (Model Specific Registers) values. On some Linux distros, this module is not loaded by default so libvirt might fail to read the MSR values and falls back to /dev/kvm to obtain these values. KVM might be behind in term of exposing all the values of the MSRs so using /dev/kvm is not ideal. This submission tries to make libvirt deploy the modules-load.d configuration so that linux loads the msr module at next boot. One caveat, libvirt installs only the file and does not trigger the load that is only done at next reboot, it is up to each distro to trigger immediately the load of the module without a reboot. v2: - only install the file when qemu driver is enabled Hector Cao (1): x86: install modules-load.d file to load msr module meson_options.txt | 1 + src/util/meson.build | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ src/util/modules-load.d/msr.conf | 1 + tools/virt-host-validate-qemu.c | 7 +++++++ 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/util/modules-load.d/msr.conf -- 2.45.2

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[PATCH v4 00/23] LIBVIRT: X86: TDX support
by Zhenzhong Duan 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Hi, This series brings libvirt the x86 TDX support. * What's TDX? TDX stands for Trust Domain Extensions which isolates VMs from the virtual-machine manager (VMM)/hypervisor and any other software on the platform. This patchset extends libvirt to support TDX, with which one can start a TDX guest from high level rather than running qemu directly. * Misc As QEMU use a software emulated way to reset guest which isn't supported by TDX guest for security reason. We simulate reboot for TDX guest by kill and create a new one in FakeReboot framework. Complete code can be found at [1]. * Test Tested with upstream qemu v10.0.0-1724-gf9a3def17b shutdown/reboot/reset with virsh shutdown/reboot trigger in guest shutdown with on_poweroff=destroy/restart reboot with on_reboot=destroy/restart GUEST_PANICKED event processing auto firmware matching * Patch organization - patch 1-4: Some preparing work - patch 5-6: Support query of TDX capabilities - patch 7-15: Add TDX type to launchsecurity framework - patch 16-21: Add reboot/reset support to TDX guest - patch 22: Add conf test dump/cases for '+inteltdx' variant - patch 23: Add docs TODO: - add reconnect logic in virsh command [1] https://github.com/intel/libvirt-tdx/commits/tdx_for_upstream_v4 Thanks Zhenzhong Changelog: v4: - add QGS config to qemuxmlconftest (Daniel) - use 0x10000000 policy value in test as debug isn't supported yet (Daniel) - s/mrowner/mrOwner/ s/mrownerconfig/mrOwnerConfig/ (Daniel) - s/quoteGenerationSocket/quoteGenerationService/ (Daniel) - handle "GUEST_PANICKED" event of type tdx (Daniel) - add automatic firmware matching (Daniel) v3: - fix a hiden failure in qemuBuildTDXQGSCommandLine() (Peter Krempa) - avoid the use of the ternary operator (Peter Krempa) - add capability test dump before capability introduced (Peter Krempa) - change tests version number from 11.0.0 to 10.1.0 (Peter Krempa) v2: - add capability and xmlconf test (Peter Krempa) v1: - s/virQEMUCapsKVMSupportsSecureGuestINTEL/virQEMUCapsKVMSupportsSecureGuestTDX (Daniel) - make policy element optional and expose to QEMU directly (Daniel) - s/qemuProcessSecFakeReboot/qemuProcessFakeRebootViaRecreate (Daniel) - simplify QGS element schema by supporting only UNIX socket (Daniel) - add new events VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_[STOPPED|STARTED] for control plane (Daniel) - s/quoteGenerationService/quoteGenerationSocket as QEMU - add virsh reset support rfcv4: - add a check to tools/virt-host-validate-qemu.c (Daniel) - remove check of q35 (Daniel) - model 'SocktetAddress' QAPI in xml schema (Daniel) - s/Quote-Generation-Service/quoteGenerationService/ (Daniel) - define bits in tdx->policy and add validating logic (Daniel) - presume QEMU choose split kernel irqchip for TDX guest by default (Daniel) - utilize existing FakeReboot framework to do reboot for TDX guest (Daniel) - drop patch11 'conf: Add support to keep same domid for hard reboot' (Daniel) - add test in tests/ to validate parsing and formatting logic (Daniel) - add doc in docs/formatdomain.rst (Daniel) - add R-B rfcv3: - Change to generate qemu cmdline with -bios - drop firmware auto match as -bios is used - add a hard reboot method to reboot TDX guest rfcv3: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.libvirt.org/msg00385.html rfcv2: - give up using qmp cmd and check TDX directly on host for TDX capabilities. - use launchsecurity framework to support TDX - use <os>.<loader> for general loader - add auto firmware match feature for TDX A example TDVF fimware description file 70-edk2-x86_64-tdx.json: { "description": "UEFI firmware for x86_64, supporting Intel TDX", "interface-types": [ "uefi" ], "mapping": { "device": "generic", "filename": "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE-tdx.fd" }, "targets": [ { "architecture": "x86_64", "machines": [ "pc-q35-*" ] } ], "features": [ "intel-tdx", "verbose-dynamic" ], "tags": [ ] } rfcv2: https://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg219378.html Zhenzhong Duan (23): tools: Secure guest check for Intel in virt-host-validate qemu: Check if INTEL Trust Domain Extention support is enabled qemucapabilitiesdata: Document '+inteltdx' variant qemucapabilitiestest: Add data for the qemu-10.1.0 dev cycle on x86_64 for the '+inteltdx' variant qemu: Add QEMU_CAPS_TDX_GUEST capability conf: Expose TDX feature in domain capabilities conf: Add tdx as launch security type conf: Validate TDX launchSecurity element mrConfigId/mrOwner/mrOwnerConfig qemu: Add command line and validation for TDX type conf: Expose TDX type in domain launch security capability qemu: Force special parameters enabled for TDX guest qemu: log the crash information for TDX qemu_firmware: Pick the right firmware for TDX guests conf: Add Intel TDX Quote Generation Service(QGS) support qemu: Add command line for TDX Quote Generation Service(QGS) qemu: Add FakeReboot support for TDX guest qemu: Support reboot command in guest qemu: Avoid duplicate FakeReboot for secure guest qemu: Send event VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_[STOPPED|STARTED] during recreation qemu: Bypass sending VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_RESUMED event when TD VM reboot qemu: Support domain reset command for TDX guest qemuxmlconftest: Add latest version of 'launch-security-tdx*' test data docs: domain: Add documentation for Intel TDX guest docs/formatdomain.rst | 63 + docs/formatdomaincaps.rst | 1 + examples/c/misc/event-test.c | 6 + include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 2 + src/conf/domain_capabilities.c | 1 + src/conf/domain_capabilities.h | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.c | 82 + src/conf/domain_conf.h | 21 + src/conf/domain_validate.c | 11 + src/conf/schemas/domaincaps.rng | 9 + src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 41 + src/conf/virconftypes.h | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 38 +- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 43 + src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 11 +- src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c | 20 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 50 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 13 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 38 +- src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 104 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.h | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 45 + src/security/security_dac.c | 2 + .../qemu_10.1.0-q35.x86_64+inteltdx.xml | 783 + .../domaincapsdata/qemu_10.1.0-q35.x86_64.xml | 7 +- .../qemu_10.1.0-tcg.x86_64+inteltdx.xml | 1830 + .../domaincapsdata/qemu_10.1.0-tcg.x86_64.xml | 6 +- .../qemu_10.1.0.x86_64+inteltdx.xml | 783 + tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.1.0.x86_64.xml | 7 +- tests/domaincapsmock.c | 3 +- tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/README.rst | 5 + .../caps_10.1.0_x86_64+inteltdx.replies | 44552 ++++++++++++++++ .../caps_10.1.0_x86_64+inteltdx.xml | 3585 ++ .../caps_10.1.0_x86_64.xml | 1 + .../caps.x86_64+inteltdx.xml | 29 + .../firmware/60-edk2-ovmf-x64-inteltdx.json | 1 + ...h-security-tdx.x86_64-latest+inteltdx.args | 44 + ...ch-security-tdx.x86_64-latest+inteltdx.xml | 75 + tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx.xml | 28 + tests/qemuxmlconftest.c | 3 + tools/virsh-domain-event.c | 6 +- tools/virt-host-validate-common.c | 31 +- tools/virt-host-validate-common.h | 1 + 47 files changed, 52372 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.1.0-q35.x86_64+inteltdx.xml create mode 100644 tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.1.0-tcg.x86_64+inteltdx.xml create mode 100644 tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.1.0.x86_64+inteltdx.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_10.1.0_x86_64+inteltdx.replies create mode 100644 tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_10.1.0_x86_64+inteltdx.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemucaps2xmloutdata/caps.x86_64+inteltdx.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx.x86_64-latest+inteltdx.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx.x86_64-latest+inteltdx.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx.xml -- 2.47.1

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[PATCH v4 0/9] Enable mshv support for Qemu domains
by Praveen K Paladugu 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

This patch set introduces changes within libvirt to lauch Qemu guests with Microsoft Hypervisor(mshv). Qemu exposes this capability as 'mshv' accelerator type. Below is an excerpt of domain XML with mshv accelerator.: ``` <domain type='hyperv'> <name>qemu_mshv_test</name> <os> <type machine='q35'>hvm</type> </os> ... ``` 'mshv' accelerator within Qemu translates to 'hyperv' domains in Libvirt. Changs in v4: - Adopted `query-accelerators` API to get mshv capabilities. - Fixed virtytpe parsing in schemas. Chages in v3: - Addressed review comments on v2. - fixed qemucapabilitiestest case - Added a case to qemuxmlconftest Changes in v2: - Addressed review comments on v1. - Added a test to verify mshv capabilities. Eugene Fedorenko (1): qemu: Append mshv to hwaccel list. Praveen K Paladugu (8): qemu: Introduce mshv capabilities qemu: Query and use mshv capabilities qemu: use mshv accel for hyperv domains qemu: conditionally add /dev/mshv to acl conf: Fix virttype handling in schemas tests: Add domaincaps case for mshv tests: qemucapabilities: Introduce MSHV capability tests:qemuxmlconftest: Add case for hyperv domains src/conf/schemas/basictypes.rng | 22 + src/conf/schemas/capability.rng | 14 +- src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 23 +- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 39 +- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c | 6 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 4 +- src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 2 +- .../qemu_10.2.0-q35.x86_64+mshv.xml | 222 + .../qemu_10.2.0-tcg.x86_64+mshv.xml | 2334 + .../qemu_10.2.0.x86_64+mshv.xml | 222 + .../caps_10.2.0_x86_64+mshv.replies | 45176 ++++++++++++++++ .../caps_10.2.0_x86_64+mshv.xml | 3212 ++ .../qemucaps2xmloutdata/caps.x86_64+mshv.xml | 29 + ...86_64-q35-headless.x86_64-latest+mshv.args | 48 + ...x86_64-q35-headless.x86_64-latest+mshv.xml | 87 + ...mshv-x86_64-q35-headless.x86_64-latest.err | 1 + .../mshv-x86_64-q35-headless.xml | 35 + tests/qemuxmlconftest.c | 5 + 20 files changed, 51446 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.2.0-q35.x86_64+mshv.xml create mode 100644 tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.2.0-tcg.x86_64+mshv.xml create mode 100644 tests/domaincapsdata/qemu_10.2.0.x86_64+mshv.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_10.2.0_x86_64+mshv.replies create mode 100644 tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_10.2.0_x86_64+mshv.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemucaps2xmloutdata/caps.x86_64+mshv.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/mshv-x86_64-q35-headless.x86_64-latest+mshv.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/mshv-x86_64-q35-headless.x86_64-latest+mshv.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/mshv-x86_64-q35-headless.x86_64-latest.err create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/mshv-x86_64-q35-headless.xml -- 2.51.0

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[PATCH v1 0/4] Remove AST2700 A0
by Jamin Lin 30 Dec '25

30 Dec '25

v1: - Remove ast2700a0-evb machine - Remove ast2700-a0 SOC - Remove GIC 128 - 136 for AST2700 A0 *** BLURB HERE *** Jamin Lin (4): hw/arm: Remove ast2700a0-evb machine hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0: Remove ast2700-a0 SOC hw/intc/aspeed: Remove GIC 128 - 136 docs/specs/aspeed-intc: Remove GIC 128 - 136 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 -- docs/specs/aspeed-intc.rst | 93 ++++---------- hw/arm/aspeed.c | 28 +--- hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0.c | 121 ++---------------- hw/intc/aspeed_intc.c | 49 +------ .../functional/aarch64/test_aspeed_ast2700.py | 12 -- 6 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 272 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0

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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. 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[ PATCH vf-token 0/8] Introduce vf-token when using userspace PF
by Vivek Kashyap 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

The VFIO PCI ABI has been extended to require userspace PF driver to set a VF token to a known value. The VF drivers are then required to provide this token to access the VF device. The vf-token is set by the PF driver before VF drivers can access the device. The kernel provides no means to retrieve the token in use; but there is no specification describing the distribution or level of confidentiality of the token. Qemu has been extended to require the vf-token when vf device is used. An important point to note is that the vf-token is required only when both the PF and VF are used in userspace. This patch series adds support to provide the vf-token (uuid format) in the domain XML and to generate the qemu commandline including the vf-token. To support vf-token the new element will be used as follows: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0' slot='0x00' function='0x1'> <vf-token uuid='00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff'/> </address> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> The generated commandline will include the following: -device {"driver":"vfio-pci","host":"0000:00:0.1", "vf-token":"00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff", "id":"hostdev0","bus":"pci.0","addr":"0x1"} Changes since initial RFC based on review comments received: 1. Added documentation 2. Added test cases and ran successful test suite after each patch commit 3. fixed spaces, coding sytle, and uuid string format 4. Used S:vftoken in virJSONValueObjectAdd instead of a conditional Vivek Kashyap (8): Define the vf-token extension for PCI device Introduce the vf-token qemu capability This patch introduces the PCI address extension flag for vf-token This patch introduces new XML parser/formatter functions for parsing the vf-token Introduce a validation function for vf-token support in qemu and generate vf-token device attribute in qemu command line Provide information about the vf-token flag Add tests for the vf-token flag to the qemuxml2argv and qemuxml2xml test suites Update news about vf-token NEWS.rst | 8 +++ docs/formatdomain.rst | 3 ++ src/conf/device_conf.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++--- src/conf/domain_addr.h | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.c | 8 +++ src/conf/schemas/basictypes.rng | 7 +++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 3 ++ src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 8 +++ src/qemu/qemu_domain_address.c | 3 ++ src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 20 ++++++++ src/util/virpci.c | 7 +++ src/util/virpci.h | 10 ++++ .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_8.1.0_s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_8.1.0_x86_64.xml | 1 + .../caps_8.2.0_x86_64.xml | 1 + .../hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.args | 34 +++++++++++++ .../hostdev-vfio-vf-token.xml | 22 +++++++++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 1 + .../hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.xml | 40 +++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 + 22 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-vfio-vf-token.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.xml -- 2.33.8

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[PATCH v2 0/5] qemu: Implement support for iommufd
by Nathan Chen 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Hi, This is a follow up to the first patch series [0] for using iommufd to propagate DMA mappings to the kernel for VM-assigned host devices in a qemu VM. We add a new 'iommufd' attribute for hostdev devices to be associated with the iommufd object. For instance, specifying the iommufd object and associated hostdev in a VM definition: <devices> ... <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='no'> <driver iommufd='yes'/> <source> <address domain='0x0009' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x15' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='no'> <driver iommufd='yes'/> <source> <address domain='0x0019' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x16' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> ... </devices> This would get translated to a qemu command line with the arguments below. Note that libvirt will open the /dev/iommu and VFIO cdev, passing the associated fd number to qemu: -object '{"qom-type":"iommufd","id":"iommufd0","fd":"24"}' \ -device '{"driver":"vfio-pci","host":"0009:01:00.0","id":"hostdev0","iommufd":"iommufd0","fd":"22","bus":"pci.21","addr":"0x0"}' \ -device '{"driver":"vfio-pci","host":"0019:01:00.0","id":"hostdev1","iommufd":"iommufd0","fd":"25","bus":"pci.22","addr":"0x0"}' \ Note that when Libvirt launches the qemu process as an unprivileged user, i.e. libvirt-qemu, it is bound by the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit calculated based on how much RAM is assigned to the VM. IOMMUFD's unified memory accounting causes ENOMEM errors for large device BARs that exceed the process memlock limit. VFIO without IOMMUFD does not check device memory against the limit and therefore does not show this behavior. To work around the issue, we can specify CAP_IPC_LOCK=ep capability for the qemu binary to bypass the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit. I am working on a long-term fix in the kernel to mark device memory regions so they do not count against the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit for how much memory can be locked/pinned, as I/O device BARs do not consume host RAM. This series is on Github: https://github.com/NathanChenNVIDIA/libvirt/tree/iommufd-11-25 Thanks, Nathan [0] https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/MYPM… Signed-off-by: Nathan Chen <nathanc(a)nvidia.com> Nathan Chen (5): qemu: Implement support for associating iommufd to hostdev qemu: open VFIO FDs from libvirt backend qemu: open iommufd FD from libvirt backend qemu: Update Cgroup, namespace, and seclabel for iommufd tests: qemuxmlconfdata: provide iommufd sample XML and CLI args docs/formatdomain.rst | 8 + src/conf/device_conf.c | 12 ++ src/conf/device_conf.h | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.h | 2 + src/conf/schemas/basictypes.rng | 5 + src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c | 26 +-- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 53 ++++- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 40 ++++ src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 19 ++ src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 16 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 186 ++++++++++++++++++ src/security/security_apparmor.c | 18 +- src/security/security_dac.c | 28 ++- src/security/security_selinux.c | 28 ++- src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 11 +- src/util/virpci.c | 69 +++++++ src/util/virpci.h | 2 + .../iommufd-q35.x86_64-latest.args | 41 ++++ .../iommufd-q35.x86_64-latest.xml | 60 ++++++ tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-q35.xml | 38 ++++ .../iommufd-virt.aarch64-latest.args | 33 ++++ .../iommufd-virt.aarch64-latest.xml | 34 ++++ tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-virt.xml | 22 +++ .../iommufd.x86_64-latest.args | 35 ++++ .../qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd.x86_64-latest.xml | 38 ++++ tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd.xml | 30 +++ tests/qemuxmlconftest.c | 33 ++++ 28 files changed, 839 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-q35.x86_64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-q35.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-q35.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-virt.aarch64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-virt.aarch64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd-virt.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd.x86_64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/iommufd.xml -- 2.43.0

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[PATCH 1/3] bhyve: implement SLIRP networking
by Roman Bogorodskiy 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

Bhyve supports SLIRP networking using the following syntax: -s 12:0,e1000,slirp,open Where "e1000" is a NIC model, "slirp" is the SLIRP backend and "open" specifies open mode where external network is available to the guest. The "open" mode is a recent addition in FreeBSD -CURRENT. Unfortunately, bhyve does not provide a way to probe whether the open mode is supported, so users will have to make sure it's supported on their own. For the reference, without the "open" mode, the guest will have no outside network connectivity. To make this mode useful, it is possible to configure forwarding from the host to the guest, but it is not covered by this patch. Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy(a)gmail.com> --- src/bhyve/bhyve_command.c | 6 +++- .../bhyvexml2argv-slirp.args | 10 ++++++ .../bhyvexml2argv-slirp.ldargs | 4 +++ .../bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.xml | 21 ++++++++++++ tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c | 1 + .../bhyvexml2xmlout-slirp.xml | 32 +++++++++++++++++++ tests/bhyvexml2xmltest.c | 1 + 7 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.args create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.ldargs create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.xml create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2xmloutdata/bhyvexml2xmlout-slirp.xml diff --git a/src/bhyve/bhyve_command.c b/src/bhyve/bhyve_command.c index e42e7b1ecc..b7e47084e6 100644 --- a/src/bhyve/bhyve_command.c +++ b/src/bhyve/bhyve_command.c @@ -93,9 +93,13 @@ bhyveBuildNetArgStr(const virDomainDef *def, goto cleanup; } break; + case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_USER: + virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-s"); + virCommandAddArgFormat(cmd, "%d:0,%s,slirp,open", + net->info.addr.pci.slot, nic_model); + return 0; case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_ETHERNET: case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_DIRECT: - case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_USER: case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_VHOSTUSER: case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_SERVER: case VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_CLIENT: diff --git a/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.args b/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.args new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ff9a90ebc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.args @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +bhyve \ +-c 1 \ +-m 214 \ +-u \ +-H \ +-P \ +-s 0:0,hostbridge \ +-s 2:0,ahci,hd:/tmp/freebsd.img \ +-s 3:0,e1000,slirp,open \ +bhyve diff --git a/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.ldargs b/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.ldargs new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5905f4b3e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.ldargs @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +bhyveload \ +-m 214 \ +-d /tmp/freebsd.img \ +bhyve diff --git a/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.xml b/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5cf13d2a20 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-slirp.xml @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<domain type='bhyve'> + <name>bhyve</name> + <uuid>df3be7e7-a104-11e3-aeb0-50e5492bd3dc</uuid> + <memory>219136</memory> + <vcpu>1</vcpu> + <os> + <type>hvm</type> + </os> + <devices> + <disk type='file'> + <driver name='file' type='raw'/> + <source file='/tmp/freebsd.img'/> + <target dev='hda' bus='sata'/> + <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='2' unit='0'/> + </disk> + <interface type='user'> + <model type='e1000'/> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> + </interface> + </devices> +</domain> diff --git a/tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c b/tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c index 650313c2da..ee3d677947 100644 --- a/tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c +++ b/tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ mymain(void) DO_TEST("sata-rotation-rate"); DO_TEST_FAILURE("disk-virtio-rotation-rate"); DO_TEST_FAILURE("disk-virtio-queue-opts"); + DO_TEST("slirp"); /* Address allocation tests */ DO_TEST("addr-single-sata-disk"); diff --git a/tests/bhyvexml2xmloutdata/bhyvexml2xmlout-slirp.xml b/tests/bhyvexml2xmloutdata/bhyvexml2xmlout-slirp.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..44d2616f6c --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/bhyvexml2xmloutdata/bhyvexml2xmlout-slirp.xml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +<domain type='bhyve'> + <name>bhyve</name> + <uuid>df3be7e7-a104-11e3-aeb0-50e5492bd3dc</uuid> + <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory> + <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory> + <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> + <os> + <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type> + <boot dev='hd'/> + </os> + <clock offset='utc'/> + <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> + <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> + <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> + <devices> + <disk type='file' device='disk'> + <driver name='file' type='raw'/> + <source file='/tmp/freebsd.img'/> + <target dev='hda' bus='sata'/> + <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='2' unit='0'/> + </disk> + <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> + <controller type='sata' index='0'> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> + </controller> + <interface type='user'> + <mac address='52:54:00:00:00:00'/> + <model type='e1000'/> + <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> + </interface> + </devices> +</domain> diff --git a/tests/bhyvexml2xmltest.c b/tests/bhyvexml2xmltest.c index c2458b9fc4..0abc50b0de 100644 --- a/tests/bhyvexml2xmltest.c +++ b/tests/bhyvexml2xmltest.c @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ mymain(void) DO_TEST_DIFFERENT("nvme"); DO_TEST_DIFFERENT("2-nvme-2-controllers"); DO_TEST_DIFFERENT("passthru-multiple-devs"); + DO_TEST_DIFFERENT("slirp"); /* Address allocation tests */ DO_TEST_DIFFERENT("addr-single-sata-disk"); -- 2.51.2

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Question about error conditions for ACPI usage on aarch64
by Kazuhiro Abe (Fujitsu) 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

Hi all, We are currently working on CCA support. Due to CCA specifications, we are unable to use pflash with QEMU. Therefore, we intend to enable ACPI by specifying the UEFI firmware using the QEMU -bios option as follows: -machine virt,acpi=on -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd Using the above QEMU option, we can successfully boot VM. My understanding is that the above QEMU option could be translated by the following libvirt XML: <os> <type arch='aarch64' machine='virt-4.0'>hvm</type> <loader type="rom">/usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd</loader> </os> <features> <acpi/> </features> However, this XML configuration results in a validation error. Specifically, the error occurs because def->os.firmware is VIR_DOMAIN_OS_DEF_FIRMWARE_NONE during the following check: src/qemu/qemu_validate.c: qemuValidateDomainDef() /* On aarch64, ACPI requires UEFI */ if (def->features[VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_ACPI] == VIR_TRISTATE_SWITCH_ON && def->os.arch == VIR_ARCH_AARCH64 && (def->os.firmware != VIR_DOMAIN_OS_DEF_FIRMWARE_EFI && !virDomainDefHasOldStyleUEFI(def))) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("ACPI requires UEFI on this architecture")); return -1; } It appears that a configuration that successfully boots QEMU directly is being rejected by libvirt. Could you please explain if there's a specific reason for this strict validation? We are particularly interested in why VIR_DOMAIN_OS_DEF_FIRMWARE_NONE also becomes a condition for this error. Best Regards, Kazuhiro Abe

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[RFC v3 0/5] cover: RFE libvirt secret encryption on disk
by Arun Menon 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Libvirt secrets are stored unencrypted on the disk. With this series we want to start encrypting the secrets. 1. Introduce the GnuTLS decryption wrapper functions that work exact opposite to the encryption wrappers. 2. Add a new service called virt-secrets-init-encryption, that is linked to the virtsecretd service. virtsecretd service only starts after the new service generates a random encryption key. 3. Add a new secrets.conf configuration file that helps user to set a. secrets_encryption_key - allows the user to specify the encryption key file path, in case the default key is not to be used. b. encrypt_data - set to 0 or 1. If set to 1, then the newly added secrets will be encrypted. 4. Add encryption scheme or cipher attribute that will allow us to choose the last used cipher. 5. Once we have the encryption key, and a reliable way to tell the daemon what encryption scheme the secret object is using, we can encrypt the secrets on disk and store them in <uuid>.<encryption_scheme> format. It is important to note that if the encryption key is changed between restarts, then the respective secret will not be loaded by the driver. This is a sincere attempt to improve upon the already submitted patch https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/KE6G… Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-7125 --- Changes in v3: - Secrets xml configuration no longer stores the encryption scheme, therefore not allowing the user to toggle between ciphers. - Removed unnecessary socket files of the new service. It now has a general configuration with which it starts. - Addressed review comments from Peter on coding style and design. - Loading of secrets is dependent on the file extension. Most recent cipher is used while saving the secrets. Changes in v2: - Corrected the encryption key length check. It should be 32. - Added a new patch that introduces the encryption scheme attribute. This will help us identify which secrets are encrypted. - A new systemd unit service file added that starts before virtsecretd, helping us to construct a random encryption key and pass it to the virtsecretd service. - Parsing logic of secrets.conf moved to a separate file. - Spec file changes, augeas. Arun Menon (5): util: Add support for GnuTLS decryption secret: Set up default encryption secret key for the virtsecretd service secret: Add secrets.conf configuration file and parse it secret: Add encryptionSchemeType attribute to store ciphers secret: Add functionality to load and save secrets in encrypted format include/libvirt/libvirt-secret.h | 20 +++ libvirt.spec.in | 7 + po/POTFILES | 1 + src/conf/meson.build | 1 + src/conf/secret_conf.h | 1 + src/conf/secret_config.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/conf/secret_config.h | 38 +++++ src/conf/virsecretobj.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++------ src/conf/virsecretobj.h | 13 +- src/libvirt_private.syms | 3 + src/meson.build | 1 + src/secret/libvirt_secrets.aug | 40 ++++++ src/secret/meson.build | 42 ++++++ src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in | 10 ++ src/secret/secret_driver.c | 27 +++- src/secret/secrets.conf.in | 12 ++ src/secret/test_libvirt_secrets.aug.in | 6 + src/secret/virtsecretd.service.extra.in | 8 ++ src/util/vircrypto.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++- src/util/vircrypto.h | 8 ++ src/util/virsecret.c | 4 + src/util/virsecret.h | 1 + tests/vircryptotest.c | 65 +++++++++ 23 files changed, 735 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/conf/secret_config.c create mode 100644 src/conf/secret_config.h create mode 100644 src/secret/libvirt_secrets.aug create mode 100644 src/secret/secret-init-encryption.in create mode 100644 src/secret/secrets.conf.in create mode 100644 src/secret/test_libvirt_secrets.aug.in -- 2.51.1

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