From: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi(a)hds.com>
[Problem]
Currently, guest OS's messages can be logged to a local disk of host OS
by creating chadevs with options below.
-chardev file,id=charserial0,path=<log file's path> -device
isa-serial,chardev=chardevserial0,id=serial0
When a hardware failure happens in the disk, qemu-kvm can't create the
chardevs. In this case, guest OS doesn't boot up.
Actually, there are users who don't desire that guest OS goes down due
to a hardware failure of a log disk only. Therefore, qemu should offer
some way to boot guest OS up even if the log disk is broken.
[Solution]
This patch supports startupPolicy for chardev.
The starupPolicy is introduced just in cases where chardev is "file"
because this patch aims for making guest OS boot up when a hardware
failure happens.
In other cases (pty, dev, pipe and unix) it is not introduced
because they don't access to hardware.
The policy works as follows.
- If the value is "optional", guestOS boots up by dropping the chardev.
- If other values are specified, guestOS fails to boot up. (the default)
Description about original startupPolicy attribute:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=e5a84d74a278
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi(a)hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com>
---
Seiji's patch plus my initial review comments; I've ack'd this much,
but want to add a round-trip xml2xml test before pushing anything
(Seiji, if you want to use this as a starting point, rather than
waiting for my long weekend, feel free to post a v3).
docs/formatdomain.html.in | 15 ++++++++++++++-
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 3 +++
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 8 ++++++++
src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +
src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
tests/virt-aa-helper-test | 3 +++
6 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 755d084..299fa49 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -4212,13 +4212,26 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
<p>
A file is opened and all data sent to the character
device is written to the file.
+ <span class="since">Since 1.0.6</span>, it is possible to
define
+ policy on what happens if the file is not accessible when
+ booting or migrating. This is done by
+ a <code>startupPolicy</code> attribute:
</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>If the value is "mandatory" (the default), the guest fails
+ to boot or migrate if the file is not found.</li>
+ <li>If the value is "optional", a missing file is at boot or
+ migration is substituted with /dev/null, so the guest still sees
+ the device but the host no longer tracks guest data on the device.</li>
+ <li>If the value is "requisite", the file is required for
+ booting, but optional on migration.</li>
+ </ul>
<pre>
...
<devices>
<serial type="file">
- <source path="/var/log/vm/vm-serial.log"/>
+ <source path="/var/log/vm/vm-serial.log"
startupPolicy="optional"/>
<target port="1"/>
</serial>
</devices>
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index 3cace35..e8eec6c 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -2780,6 +2780,9 @@
</optional>
<optional>
<attribute name="path"/>
+ <optional>
+ <ref name='startupPolicy'/>
+ </optional>
</optional>
<optional>
<attribute name="host"/>
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index a9656af..c24a9f0 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -6626,6 +6626,7 @@ virDomainChrSourceDefParseXML(virDomainChrSourceDefPtr def,
char *path = NULL;
char *mode = NULL;
char *protocol = NULL;
+ char *startupPolicy = NULL;
int remaining = 0;
while (cur != NULL) {
@@ -6646,6 +6647,9 @@ virDomainChrSourceDefParseXML(virDomainChrSourceDefPtr def,
!(flags & VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE)))
path = virXMLPropString(cur, "path");
+ if (startupPolicy == NULL &&
+ def->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_FILE)
+ startupPolicy = virXMLPropString(cur,
"startupPolicy");
break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_UDP:
@@ -6718,6 +6722,10 @@ virDomainChrSourceDefParseXML(virDomainChrSourceDefPtr def,
def->data.file.path = path;
path = NULL;
+
+ def->data.file.startupPolicy =
+ virDomainStartupPolicyTypeFromString(startupPolicy);
+ startupPolicy = NULL;
break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_STDIO:
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 3a71d6c..4d49dd5 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -1074,6 +1074,7 @@ struct _virDomainChrSourceDef {
/* no <source> for null, vc, stdio */
struct {
char *path;
+ int startupPolicy; /* enum virDomainStartupPolicy */
} file; /* pty, file, pipe, or device */
struct {
char *host;
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index d4fd4fb..154445d 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -2439,15 +2439,24 @@ qemuProcessPrepareChardevDevice(virDomainDefPtr def
ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
return 0;
if ((fd = open(dev->source.data.file.path,
- O_CREAT | O_APPEND, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR)) < 0) {
- virReportSystemError(errno,
- _("Unable to pre-create chardev file
'%s'"),
- dev->source.data.file.path);
- return -1;
+ O_CREAT | O_APPEND | O_RDONLY, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR)) < 0) {
+ if (dev->source.data.file.startupPolicy !=
+ VIR_DOMAIN_STARTUP_POLICY_OPTIONAL) {
+ virReportSystemError(errno,
+ _("Unable to pre-create chardev file
'%s'"),
+ dev->source.data.file.path);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ /* Change destination to /dev/null to work around missing file. */
+ VIR_WARN("chardev file '%s' not found, switching to
/dev/null",
+ dev->source.data.file.path);
+ VIR_FREE(dev->source.data.file.path);
+ if (VIR_STRDUP(dev->source.data.file.path, "/dev/null") < 0)
+ return -1;
+ } else {
+ VIR_FORCE_CLOSE(fd);
}
- VIR_FORCE_CLOSE(fd);
-
return 0;
}
diff --git a/tests/virt-aa-helper-test b/tests/virt-aa-helper-test
index af91c61..7172fd6 100755
--- a/tests/virt-aa-helper-test
+++ b/tests/virt-aa-helper-test
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ testme "0" "disk (empty cdrom)" "-r -u
$valid_uuid" "$test_xml"
sed -e "s,###UUID###,$uuid,g" -e "s,###DISK###,$disk1,g" -e
"s,</devices>,<serial type='file'><source
path='$tmpdir/serial.log'/><target
port='0'/></serial></devices>,g" "$template_xml"
> "$test_xml"
testme "0" "serial" "-r -u $valid_uuid"
"$test_xml"
+sed -e "s,###UUID###,$uuid,g" -e "s,###DISK###,$disk1,g" -e
"s,</devices>,<serial type='file'><source
path='$tmpdir/serial.log' startupPolicy='optional'/><target
port='0'/></serial></devices>,g" "$template_xml"
> "$test_xml"
+testme "0" "serial" "-r -u $valid_uuid"
"$test_xml"
+
sed -e "s,###UUID###,$uuid,g" -e "s,###DISK###,$disk1,g" -e
"s,</devices>,<serial type='pty'><target
port='0'/></serial></devices>,g" "$template_xml"
> "$test_xml"
testme "0" "serial (pty)" "-r -u $valid_uuid"
"$test_xml"
--
1.8.1.4