I think these are better off deleted than remaining to confuse people.
docs/misc/blkif-drivers-explained.txt:
- Talks about Xen 2.0 beta, talks about the old pre-xenstored IPC mechanism.
docs/misc/cpuid-config-for-guest.txt:
- Doesn't really say anything, in particular doesn't actually describe how to
configure CPUID.
docs/misc/hg-cheatsheet.txt:
- Not out of date per-se wrt mercural but talk about Xen 2.0 and gives URLs
under www.cl.cam.ac.uk. Talks a lot about bitkeeper. Given that mercurial is
hardly unusual anymore I think there must be better guides out there so this
one is not worth resurecting.
docs/misc/network_setup.txt:
- This is more comprehensively documented on the wiki these days.
docs/misc/VMX_changes.txt:
- Is basically a changelog from the initial implementation of VMX in 2004.
I'm not sure about some of the other docs, but these ones seemed fairly
obvious.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Previously only some targets did this. An alternative would be to make a hard
dependency on these tools, this might make more sense especially for markdown?
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This is the initial version of an xl man page, based on the old xm man
page. Almost every command implemented in xl should be present, a
notable exception are the tmem commands that are currently missing.
Further improvements and clarifications to this man page are very
welcome.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Including markdown docs.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Convert to markdown as I go.
Currently this lives in qemu-xen.git i386-dm/README.hvm-pv-magic-ioport-disable
and I can never find it when I want it. As we transition to upstream qemu this
location becomes less useful.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
During kexec all old watches have to be removed, otherwise the new
kernel will receive unexpected events. Allow a guest to reset itself
and cleanup all of its watches and transactions.
Add a new XS_RESET_WATCHES command to do the reset on behalf of the
guest.
(Changes by iwj: specify the argument to be a single nul byte. Permit
read-only clients to use the new command.)
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
As mentioned in previous changesets, AMD IOMMU interrupt
remapping tables only look at the vector, not the destination
id of an interrupt. This means that all IRQs going through
the same interrupt remapping table need to *not* share vectors.
The irq "vector map" functionality was originally introduced
after a patch which disabled global AMD IOMMUs entirely. That
patch has since been reverted, meaning that AMD intremap tables
can either be per-device or global.
This patch therefore introduces a global irq vector map option,
and enables it if we're using an AMD IOMMU with a global
interrupt remapping table.
This patch removes the "irq-perdev-vector-map" boolean
command-line optino and replaces it with "irq_vector_map",
which can have one of three values: none, global, or per-device.
Setting the irq_vector_map to any value will override the
default that the AMD code sets.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
The "xen: Automatically find serial port on PCI/PCIe and AMT devices."
provides the functionality to probe for the I/O base using the
"pci" and "amt" option. Update the documentation with this fact.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Build has been broken since at least 18969:d6889b3b6423 (early
2009) and it has been unhooked from the top level build since forever
AFAICT. The last actual development (as opposed to tree wide
cleanups and build fixes) appears to have been 11594:6d7bba6443ef in
2006. The functionality of vnet has apparently been superceded by
VLANs, ebtables, Ethernet-over-IP etc all of which are well integrated
with upstream kernels and distros.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Otherwise make can search the path relative to certain standard paths
such as /usr/include (e.g., the line '-include $(XEN_ROOT)/.config' in
Config.mk suffers from this).
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Update a comment about NetworkManager not supporting bridging in
Fedora 11 to refer instead to Fedora 14. Clarify the wording.
Signed-off-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Write up some sparse documentation about xenpaging usage.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
In b59f87f56b1e, the defaults for some of the directory config
variables implicitly changed. In this commit we arrange for the
defaults to be auto-detected (with the same logic as the run-time
scripts use).
This will make the build more likely to produce answers which the
builder intends. (And, in particular, it should un-break the
automated tests, which didn't set these variables explicitly and
therefore got broken by b59f87f56b1e.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Introduce CONFIG_LEAF_DIR, SUBSYS_DIR, INITD_DIR variables to cope
better with variation between distributions.
See docs/misc/distro_mapping.txt for details.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Edge <bruce.edge@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This patch implements the new protocol for handling pv consoles and
emulated serials as described in the document docs/misc/console.txt.
The changes are:
- xenconsoled: do not write the pty under serial in xenstore if
xenconsoled is handling a consolepath;
- xenconsole: implement support for an explicit console type parameter;
the parameter can be "pv", to specify that the user wants to
connect to a pv console, or "serial", to specify that the user wants to
connect to an emulated serial. If the type parameter hasn't been
specified be the user, xenconsole tries to guess which type of console
it has to connect to, defaulting to pv console for pv guests and
emulated serial for hvm guests.
- xenconsole: use the new xenstore paths;
- libxl: rename libxl_console_constype to libxl_console_consback:
constype is used to to specify whether qemu or xenconsoled provides the
backend, so I renamed it to libxl_console_consback to make it more
obvious that we are talking about backends;
- libxl: add a new libxl_console_constype to specify if the console is
an emulated serial or a pv console;
- libxl: support the new xenconsole "type" command line parameter;
- libxl: use the "output" node under console in xenstore to tell qemu
where do we want the output of this pv console to go;
- remove the legacy "serialpath" from xenconsoled altogether
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Also: update the QEMU_TAG to pull in the qemu part of these changes.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The man page for xm command states that many commands acts
asynchronously which is not true. According to my experience most
commands does act synchronously with several exceptions, like create,
shutdown, mem-set and vcpu-set commands so this fixes the paragraph
available in this xm man page.
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Add support for Xen ocontext records to enable device polices. The
default policy will not be changed and instructions have been added to
enable the new functionality. Examples on how to use the new policy
language have been added but commented out. The newest version of
checkpolicy (>= 2.0.20) and libsepol (>= 2.0.39) is needed in order to
compile it. Devices can be labeled and enforced using the following
new commands; pirqcon, iomemcon, ioportcon and pcidevicecon.
Signed-off-by : George Coker <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by : Paul Nuzzi <pjnuzzi@tycho.ncsc.mil>
and PV/ramdisk
Add support for 'file:' and 'data:' URI schemes for the parameters
'PV/kernel' and 'PV/ramdisk' in the VM.create() call. The 'data:'
scheme handling enables using a file which is stored inside the
management system (from where the XenAPI call is send) as kernel or
ramdisk.
Notes:
o all included: a detailed description can be found in the xenapi
documentation
o bumped up the version of the API document to 1.0.8 (because of
(minimal) interface extension)
o Future enhancements (like http:, ftp: schemes) fit seamlessly into
the current design / classes
o Unittest cases and xm-test case included
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <xen@flonatel.org>
Update the XSM Flask documentation to reflect the support for
policy.24, the updated policy and policy build infrastructure, and how
to enable the optional MLS policy.
Signed-off-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: George S. Coker, II <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>
Add support for 'file:' and 'data:' URI schemes for the parameters
'PV/kernel' and 'PV/ramdisk' in the VM.create() call. The 'data:'
scheme handling enables using a file which is stored inside the
management system (from where the XenAPI call is send) as kernel or
ramdisk.
Notes:
o all included: a detailed description can be found in the xenapi
documentation
o bumped up the version of the API document to 1.0.8 (because of
(minimal) interface extension)
o Future enhancements (like http:, ftp: schemes) fit seamlessly into
the current design / classes
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <xen@flonatel.org>
Since the shared info layout is fixed, guests are required to use
VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info prior to booting any vCPU beyond the
traditional limit of 32.
MAX_VIRT_CPUS, being an implemetation detail of the hypervisor, is no
longer being exposed in the public headers.
The tools changes are clearly incomplete (and done only so things
would
build again), and the current state of the tools (using scalar
variables all over the place to represent vCPU bitmaps) very likely
doesn't permit booting DomU-s with more than the traditional number of
vCPU-s. Testing of the extended functionality was done with Dom0 (96
vCPU-s, as well as 128 vCPU-s out of which the kernel elected - by way
of a simple kernel side patch - to use only some, resulting in a
sparse
bitmap).
ia64 changes only to make things build, and build-tested only (and the
tools part only as far as the build would go without encountering
unrelated problems in the blktap code).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
In some configurations, when dom0 is busy with I/O, it may take
several minutes to complete all hotplug scripts required when a new
domain is being created. As device create timeout is set to 100
seconds, users get "hotplug scripts not working" error instead of a
new domain.
This patch makes both DEVICE_CREATE_TIMEOUT and DEVICE_DESTROY_TIMEOUT
configurable in xend-config.sxp to allow users to easily adapt hotplug
timeouts to their environment.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
- A simple txt howto based on previous list discussions and observations
- A oneliner patch to address a compiler type cast error for x86_64
Signed-off-by: George S. Coker, II <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>
Ian Campbell