- If videoram setting is less than 8 mb shows error and exit.
- Added videoram setting for qemu upstream with cirrus (added in qemu 1.3).
- Updated xl.cfg man.
- Default and minimal videoram changed to 16 mb if stdvga is set and upstream
qemu is being used. This is required by qemu 1.4 to avoid a xen memory error
(qemu 1.3 doesn't complain about it, probably buggy).
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@heliman.it>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Usage:
vga="stdvga"|"cirrus"
- Default option is cirrus.
- Prints error and exit if unknown value is passed.
- stdvga parameter is now deprecated.
- Updated xl.cfg man.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@heliman.it>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
This patch introduces support for two new parameters in libxl:
smbios_firmware=<path_to_smbios_structures_file>
acpi_firmware=<path_to_acpi_tables_file>
The changes are primarily in the domain building code where the firmware files
are read and passed to libxc for loading into the new guest. After the domain
building call to libxc, the addresses for the loaded blobs are returned and
written to xenstore.
LIBXL_HAVE_FIRMWARE_PASSTHROUGH is defined in libxl.h to allow users to
determine if the feature is present.
This patch also updates the xl.cfg man page with descriptions of the two new
parameters for firmware passthrough.
Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
libxl_domain_suspend is already prepared to handle LIBXL_SUSPEND_DEBUG,
and xl migrate handles the -d switch as well. Pass this flag down to
libxl_domain_suspend, so that finally xc_domain_save can dump huge
amount of debug data to stdout.
Update xl.1 and help text output.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Allow a domain to be built under one security label and run using a
different label. This can be used to prevent the domain builder or
control domain from having the ability to access a guest domain's memory
via map_foreign_range except during the build process where this is
required.
Example domain configuration snippet:
seclabel='customer_1:vm_r:nomigrate_t'
init_seclabel='customer_1:vm_r:nomigrate_t_building'
Note: this does not provide complete protection from a malicious dom0;
mappings created during the build process may persist after the relabel,
and could be used to indirectly access the guest's memory. However, if
dom0 correctly unmaps the domain upon building, a the domU is protected
against dom0 becoming malicious in the future.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
If the user has set a vnc display number both in vnclisten (with
"xxxx:yy"), and with vncdisplay, throw an error.
Update man pages to match.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
This patch adds vtpm support to libxl. It adds vtpm parsing to config
files and 3 new xl commands:
vtpm-attach
vtpm-detach
vtpm-list
Signed-off-by: Matthew Fioravante <matthew.fioravante@jhuapl.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Make xl/libxl accept the long option --wait for -w to be compatible with xm.
The long options are used in the default init and sysconfig scripts.
Signed-off-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Some highlights:
* Correct some markup errors:
Around line 663:
'=item' outside of any '=over'
Around line 671:
You forgot a '=back' before '=head3'
* Add documentation for msitranslate, power_mgnt, acpi_s3, aspi_s4,
gfx_passthru, nomigrate, etc.
* Reorganize items in "unclassified" sections like cpuid,
gfx_passthru to where they belong
* Correct link L<> references so they can be resolved within the
document
* Remove placeholders for deprecated options device_model and vif2
* Remove placeholder for "sched" and "node", as these are options for
cpupool configuration. Perhaps cpupool configuration deserves
a section in this document.
* Rename "global" options to "general"
* Add section headers to group general VM options.
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
This patch corrects the following errors produced by pod2man:
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
below:
Around line 301:
You can't have =items (as at line 305) unless the first thing after
the =over is an =item
Around line 311:
'=item' outside of any '=over'
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
gfx_passthru: Document gfx_passthru makes the GPU become primary in the guest
and other generic info about gfx_passthru.
Signed-off-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
- videoram: Document that only qemu-xen-traditional device-model currently
supports changing the amount of video memory for stdvga graphics device.
- videoram: Better document the default amount of videoram for both stdvga
and Cirrus.
- stdvga: Add a note that stdvga allows bigger amount of videoram and
bigger resolutions.
Signed-off-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Add and option to xl.conf file to decide if hotplug scripts are
executed from the toolstack (xl) or from udev as it used to be in the
past.
This option is only introduced in this patch, but it has no effect
since the code to call hotplug scripts from libxl is introduced in a
latter patch.
This choice will be saved in "libxl/disable_udev", as specified in the
DISABLE_UDEV_PATH constant.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
If a domain does not have a VCPU affinity, try to pin it automatically
to some PCPUs. This is done taking into account the NUMA characteristics
of the host. In fact, we look for a combination of host's NUMA nodes
with enough free memory and number of PCPUs for the new domain, and pin
it to the VCPUs of those nodes.
Deciding which placement is the best happens by means of some heuristics.
For instance, smaller candidates are better, both from a domain perspective
(less memory spreading among nodes) and from the entire system perspective
(smaller memory fragmentation). In case of candidates of equal sizes
(i.e., with the same number of nodes), the amount of free memory and
the number of domains' vCPUs already pinned to the candidates' nodes are
both considered. Very often, candidates with greater amount of memory
are the one we wants, as this is good for keeping memory fragmentation
under control. However, we do not want to overcommit some node too much,
just because it has a lot of memory, and that's why the number of vCPUs
must be accounted for.
This all happens internally to libxl, and no API for driving the
mechanism is provided for now. This matches what xend already does.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The important change here is to xlu_disk_parse to correctly set format == EMPTY
for CDROM devices which are empty. Test cases are added which check for
correctness here.
xend accepts ',hdc:cdrom,r'[0] as an empty CDROM drive however this is not
consistent with the xl syntax in docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt which
requires ',,hdc:cdrom,r' (the additional positional paramter is the format).
I'm not sure if/how this can be fixed. Note that xend does not accept
',,hdc:cdrom,r'
There are several incidental cleanups included the the cdrom-{insert,eject}
commands:
- add a dry-run mode
- use the non-deprecated disk specification syntax
- check for and report errors from libxl_cdrom_insert
[0] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/CD_Rom_Support_in_Xen
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
All of the other "list" verbs are of the form "$noun-list". For
example: "pci-list", "vcpu-list", "network-list", "block-list", etc.
Additionally, many people have well trained muscle memory from years
of typing "xm li". "xl li" was ambiguous due to "xl list-vm", thus
resulting in "command not implemented".
Finally, this command was missing from the xl man page.
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Introduce a blkdev_start in xl.conf and a corresponding string in
libxl_domain_build_info.
Add a blkdev_start parameter to libxl__device_disk_local_attach: it is
going to be used in a following patch.
blkdev_start specifies the first block device to be used for temporary
block device allocations by the toolstack.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Explicitly mention that the current state of Remus support in xl
is experimental, with no disk/network buffering support.
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
xl remus acts as a frontend to enable remus for a given domain.
* At the moment, only memory checkpointing and blackhole replication is
supported. Support for disk checkpointing and network buffering will
be added in future.
* Replication is done over ssh connection currently (like live migration
with xl). Future versions will have an option to use simple tcp socket
based replication channel (for both Remus & live migration).
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
pci-assignable-add will always store the driver rebind path, but
pci-assignable-remove will only actually rebind if asked to do so.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
...to prepare for a consistent "pci_assignable_*" naming scheme.
Also move the man page entry into the PCI PASS-THROUGH section, rather
than the XEN HOST section.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
xm supports the following syntax (in the config file) for
specific VCPU to PCPU mapping:
cpus = "0-3,5,^1" # all vcpus run on cpus 0,2,3,5
cpus = ["2", "3"] # VCPU0 runs on CPU2, VCPU1 runs on CPU3
Allow for the same in xl.
This fixes what happened in changeset 54000bca7a6a, which
introduced suppot for the `cpus=` option within xl, but used
both the list (cpus=[2, 3]) and the string (cpus="2,3") syntax
for achieving the same behaviour (pin all guest's vcpus to the
pcpus in the list/string).
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Prevent xl from doing any operation if xend daemon is running. That
prevents bugs that happened when xl and xend raced to close a domain.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add missing i to qemu-xen-traditonal
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
the domain specific scheduling parameters like cpu_weight, cap, slice, ...
will be set during creating the domain, so this parameters can be defined
in the domain config file
[ Improved the documentation wording slightly. -iwj ]
Signed-off-by: Dieter Bloms <dieter@bloms.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Since the key information can be fairly simply put on the command-line,
there's no need to require an actual config file.
Also improve the help to cross-reference the xlcpupool.cfg manpage.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Dan Magenheimer explains in <4c2f7fca-dda2-4598-aaab-3a6a3fe532cd@default>:
I think the tmem_destroy functionality pre-dates the
existence of tmem "freeable" memory* and was a way for
a toolset to force the hypervisor to free up the hypervisor
memory used by some or all ephemeral tmem pools. Once the
tmem allocation/free process was directly linked into
alloc_heap_pages() in the hypervisor (see call to
tmem_relinquish_pages()), this forcing function was
no longer needed.
So, bottom line, I *think* it can be ripped out, or at least
for now removed from the definition of the stable xl API/UI.
The libxl.c routine libxl_tmem_destroy() could also be
removed if you like, but I guess I'd prefer to leave the
lower level droppings in xc.c and in the hypervisor in case
I am misremembering.
Accordingly remove this interface from libxl and xl but don't touch libxc or
the hypervisor.
This is the only libxl_tmem_* function which might potentially have required
conversion to be asynchronous and which therefore might have been a potential
API stability concern.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
By default pciback only allows PV guests to write "known safe" values into
PCI config space. But many devices require writes to other areas of config
space in order to operate properly. One way to do that is with the "quirks"
interface, which specifies areas known safe to a particular device; the
other way is to mark a device as "permissive", which tells pciback to allow
all config space writes for that domain and device.
This adds a "permissive" flag to the libxl_pci struct and teaches libxl how
to write the appropriate value into sysfs to enable the permissive feature for
devices being passed through. It also adds the permissive config options either
on a per-device basis, or as a global option in the xl command-line.
Because of the potential stability and security implications of enabling
permissive, the flag is left off by default.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Implement "rtc_timeoffset" and "localtime" options compatible as xm.
rtc_timeoffset is the offset between host time and guest time.
localtime means to specify whether the emulted RTC appears as UTC or is
offset by the host.
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <mlin@ss.pku.edu.cn>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
---
docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 | 8 ++++++++
tools/libxl/libxl_create.c | 11 +++++++++++
tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c | 3 +++
tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl | 2 ++
tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c | 5 +++++
5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Correct wording and default value of autoballoon= in xl.conf(5)
to match code and supplied xl.conf.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Roger Pau Monne
Stefano Stabellini
Fabio Fantoni
Ross Philipson
Olaf Hering
Daniel De Graaf
George Dunlap
Ian Campbell
Matthew Fioravante
Sander Eikelenboom
Matt Wilson
Pasi Kärkkäinen
Dario Faggioli
Tim Deegan
Shriram Rajagopalan
Goncalo Gomes
Dario Faggioli
Dieter Bloms
Lin Ming
Attilio Rao
Juergen Gross