xm migrate would do non-live migration (effectively, save, transfer
and restore) by default, unless you specified --live.
xl migrate always does live migration. Honour (by ignoring) --live
for compatibility with old callers. Document this.
(This patch should be backported as far as possible.)
Reported-by: Matthew Vernon <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Matthew Vernon <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The partial device tree may contains phandle. The Device Tree Compiler
tends to allocate the phandle from 1.
Reserve the ID 65000 for the GIC phandle. I think we can safely assume
that the partial device tree will never contain a such ID.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Allow the user to pass additional nodes to the guest device tree. For
this purpose, everything in the node /passthrough from the partial
device tree will be copied into the guest device tree.
The node /aliases will be also copied to allow the user to define
aliases which can be used by the guest kernel.
A simple partial device tree will look like:
/dts-v1/;
/ {
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <2>;
passthrough {
compatible = "simple-bus";
ranges;
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <2>;
/* List of your nodes */
}
};
Note that:
* The interrupt-parent property will be added by the toolstack in
the root node
* The properties compatible, ranges, #address-cells and #size-cells
in /passthrough are mandatory.
The helpers provided by the libfdt don't perform all the necessary
security check on a given device tree. Therefore, only trusted device
tree should be used.
Note: The partial device tree code requires the presence of libfdt
functions which have been only correctly exported in libfdt 1.4.0 and
higher. All the major distributions but Debian Wheezy are using v1.4.0
or higher. It has been decided to disable partial device tree support on
OSes where libfdt doesn't meet the requirement.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- ran autogen.sh ]
Usage:
vga="qxl"
Qxl vga support many resolutions that not supported by stdvga,
mainly the 16:9 ones and other high up to 2560x1600.
With QXL you can get improved performance and smooth video also
with high resolutions and high quality.
Require their drivers installed in the domU and spice used
otherwise act as a simple stdvga.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Signed-off-by: Zhou Peng <zpengxen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Several users have reported that their available free memory in the
guest when they used maxmem >> memory was much smaller than when
maxmem == memory. This is the unavoidable consequence of how
ballooning works, but it's not something users expect.
Warn them of this effect in the place we tell them how to make it
happen, so they aren't surprised.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Since b642ed6775 making docs
fail with:
man/xl.cfg.pod.5 around line 273: Unterminated B<...> sequence
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2text line 84.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
instead of just list of single pCPUs or NUMA node IDs, as
it happens right now.
On the other hand, after this change, strings containing
pCPUs and NUMA node ranges is supported. The syntax is the
same one supported by the "cpus" and "cpus_soft" config
switch, i.e., "4-8" or "node:1,12-18,^14".
This make things more flexible, more consistent, and also
improves error handling, as the pCPU range parsing routine
already present in xl is more reliable than just a call
to atoi().
While there, remove a redundant error check in the legacy syntax
handling (libxl_bitmap_test() already checks the index being
within the size of the bitmap).
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
in fact, right now, xl sub-commands 'cpupool-cpu-add' and
'cpupool-cpu-remove' only accept the specification of one
pCPU to be added or removed to/from a cpupool.
With this change, they can deal with ranges, like "4-8",
or "node:1,12-18,^14". The syntax is exactly the same one
that is supported by the 'vcpu-pin' subcommand, and
specifying just one pCPU still works, of course.
This make things more flexible, more consistent, and also
improves error handling, as the pCPU range parsing routine
already present in xl is more reliable than just a call
to atoi().
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This unifies the flask_enforcing and flask_enabled boot parameters into
a single parameter with additional states. Defined options are:
enforcing - require policy to be loaded at boot time and enforce it
permissive - a missing or broken policy does not panic
disabled - revert to dummy (no XSM) policy. Was flask_enabled=0
late - bootloader policy is not used; later loadpolicy is enforcing
The default mode remains "permissive" and the flask_enforcing boot
parameter is retained for compatibility. If flask_enforcing=1 is
specified and flask= is not, the bootloader policy will be loaded in
enforcing mode if present, but errors will disable access controls until
a successful loadpolicy instead of causing a panic at boot.
Suggested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Add Memory Bandwidth Monitoring(MBM) for VMs. Two types of monitoring
are supported: total and local memory bandwidth monitoring. To use it,
CMT should be enabled in hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Usage:
spice_streaming_video=[filter|all|off]
Specifies what streaming video setting is to be used by spice (if
given),
otherwise the qemu default will be used.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Usage:
spice_image_compression=[auto_glz|auto_lz|quic|glz|lz|off]
Specifies what image compression is to be used by spice (if given),
otherwise the qemu default will be used.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The presence of the partition reference time enlightenment persuades newer
versions of Windows to prefer the TSC as their primary time source. Hence,
if rdtsc is not being emulated and is invariant then many vmexits (for
alternative time sources such as the HPET or reference counter MSR) can
be avoided.
The implementation is not yet complete as no attempt is made to prevent
emulation of rdtsc if the enlightenment is active and guest and host
TSC frequencies differ. To do that requires invasive changes in the core
x86 time code and hence a lot more testing.
This patch avoids the issue by disabling the enlightenment if rdtsc is
being emulated, causing Windows to choose another time source. This is
safe, but may cause a big variation in performance of guests migrated
between hosts of differing TSC frequency. Thus the enlightenment is not
enabled in the default set, but may be enabled to improve guest performance
where such migrations are not a concern.
See section 15.4 of the Microsoft Hypervisor Top Level Functional
Specification v4.0a for details.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>
If you add enough PCI devices then all mmio may not fit below 4G
which may not be the layout the user wanted. This allows you to
increase the below 4G address space that PCI devices can use and
therefore in more cases not have any mmio that is above 4G.
There are real PCI cards that do not support mmio over 4G, so if you
want to emulate them precisely, you may also need to increase the
space below 4G for them. There are drivers for these cards that also
do not work if they have their mmio space mapped above 4G.
This allows growing the MMIO hole to the size needed.
This may help with using pci passthru and HVM.
In the tools this is named mmio_hole_memkb.
Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- fixed build error in xl_cmdimpl.c with s/%PRIu64/%ld/.
Reworded title ]
This adds support for channel declarations of the form:
channel = [ "name=...,connection=...[,path=...][,backend=...]" ]
where 'name' is a label to identify the channel to the frontend.
If 'connection = pty' then the channel is connected to a pty in the
backend domain
If 'connection = socket' then the channel is connected to a Unix domain
socket given by 'path = ...' in the backend domain.
This patch also adds the command:
xl channel-list <domain>
which allows the state of channels to be queried. In particular if
'connection=pty' this will show the path of the pty slave device.
Signed-off-by: David Scott <dave.scott@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The commit 7471879 "tools: CMDs and APIs for Cache Monitoring Technology"
has introduced a new section but forgot to add '=back'. This will result
a build issue with newer podman:
man/xl.pod.1 around line 1443: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'
or creating a section "POD ERRORS" with older one.
At the same time, capitalize the title of the section to match the coding
style used within the files.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Introduced some new xl commands to enable/disable Cache Monitoring
Technology(CMT) feature.
The following two commands is to attach/detach the CMT feature
to/from a certain domain.
$ xl psr-cmt-attach domid
$ xl psr-cmt-detach domid
This command is to display the CMT information, such as L3 cache
occupancy.
$ xl psr-cmt-show cache_occupancy <domid>
Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Disk replication is enabled by default. This patch adds a cmdline
switch to 'xl remus' command to explicitly disable disk replication.
A new boolean field 'diskbuf' is added to the libxl_domain_remus_info
structure to represent this configuration option inside libxl.
Note: Disabling disk replication requires enabling unsafe mode.
Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Add two members in libxl_domain_remus_info:
netbuf: whether netbuf is enabled
netbufscript: the path of the script which will be run to setup
and tear down the guest's interface.
Add cmdline switches to 'xl remus' command to enable or disable
network buffering and a domain-specific hotplug script to setup
network buffering.
Add a new config var 'remus.default.netbufscript' to xl.conf, that
allows the user to override the default global script used to
setup network buffering.
Note: Network buffering is enabled by default. Disabling network
buffering requires enabling unsafe mode.
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
By default, network buffering and disk replication are enabled;
checkpoints are replicated to another standby VM.
This patch allows the user to disable any of these features by
explicitly specifying a 'run in unsafe mode' switch when invoking
the 'xl remus' command. While running Remus in an unsafe mode
makes little sense under normal circumstances, it is useful to be
able to disable one or more features mentioned above for
testing/debugging/profiling purposes.
Unless this option is enabled, it will not be possible to
replicate memory checkpoints to /dev/null (blackhole replication),
disable network buffering or disk replication.
As a starter, the use of blackhole replication now requires that
the unsafe mode be enabled. Subsequent patches will add support
for disabling network buffering and disk replication in a similar
manner.
Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This patch optionally re-instates support for the partition time reference
counter that was previously introduced by commit
e36cd2cdc9 and reverted by commit
1cd4fab14c. The previous implementation was
non-optional and flawed.
This implementation uses the tsc of vcpu0, which is preserved across
save/restore as part of the architectural state, and then converts that
to a 100ns tick using the domain's tsc_khz.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The following commits introduced the time reference counter MSR and
TSC/APIC frequency MSRs into the viridian feature set respectively:
e36cd2cdc984657efd91
The time reference counter MSR feature was then reverted by commit
1cd4fab14c
because a flaw in the implementation meant the counter was reset on
migration.
All of these changes were made without any addtional options being
added to the VM configuration, or any compatibility checks being made
in the domain save/restore code. Hence setting the single boolean
'viridian' option in the VM configuration yields a different set of
features depending on which version of Xen the VM is started on, and the
feature set can change across migration (so new MSRs can magically appear).
This patch grandfathers in the current viridian features set and calls them
the 'base' and 'freq' feature sets. HVM_PARAM_VIRIDIAN is re-purposed as
a feature mask. The hypervisor has only ever allowed it ot be set to 0
or 1, so the presence of the base and freq sets are indicated by setting
bit 0. The freq set can then be turned off by setting bit 1, thus
restoring the pre-Xen-4.4 base set. Newly implemented viridian features
can be optionally enabled in future by setting further bits.
The viridian option in xl.cfg(5) has also been changed to a list so
that the sets can be individually enabled or disabled. For compatibility,
if the option is specified as a boolean, then a true (1) value will enable
the base and freq sets and a false (0) value will not enable any
enlightenments.
This patch also alters the allowed write accesses to HVM_PARAM_VIRIDIAN.
Currently there is nothing to stop the guest writing this value (which,
while harmless to anything else, should not happen) and nothing to
stop a toolstack from setting the value back to zero whilst the guest is
running, causing CPUID leaves to disappear and MSR accesses to start
causing GPFs in the guest. Both of these possibilities are now disallowed:
Once the parameter is set to a non-zero value it may not be modified (only
re-written with the same value), and guests no longer have any write
access.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: David Scott <dave.scott@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Before this change, xl stores domain configuration in "xl" format, which
is in fact a verbatim copy of user supplied domain config.
Now libxl provides a new API to retrieve domain configuration, switch to
that new API, store configuration in JSON format.
Tests done so far (xl.{new,old} denotes xl with{,out} "libxl-json"
support):
1. xl.new create then xl.new save, hexdump saved file: domain config
saved in JSON format
2. xl.new create, xl.new save then xl.old restore: failed on
mandatory flag check
3. xl.new create, xl.new save then xl.new restore: succeeded
4. xl.old create, xl.old save then xl.new restore: succeeded
5. xl.new create then local migrate, receiving end xl.new: succeeded
6. xl.old create then local migrate, receiving end xl.new: succeeded
Note that "xl" config is still supported and handled when restarting a
domain. "xl" config file takes precedence over "libxl-json" in that
case, so that user who uses "config-update" to store new config file
won't have regression. All other scenarios (migration, domain listing
etc.) now use the new API.
Lastly, print out warning when users invoke "config-update" to
discourage them from using this command.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Currently in xl.cfg, use 'root' and 'extra' to generate the command
line. 'cmdline' could be a more generic equivalent. So, add 'cmdline'
in xl.cfg and let it be preferred. 'root' and 'extra' still works.
But when 'cmdline' is specified, 'root' and 'extra' will be ignored.
[HVM config example]
[snip]
builder="hvm"
device_model_override="/home/cyliu/git/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64"
kernel="/mnt/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default"
ramdisk="/mnt/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default"
root="/dev/hda2"
extra="console=tty0 console=ttyS0"
[snip]
or:
[snip]
builder="hvm"
device_model_override="/home/cyliu/git/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64"
kernel="/mnt/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default"
ramdisk="/mnt/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default"
cmdline="root=/dev/hda2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0"
[snip]
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
xen side patch to support xen HVM direct kernel boot:
support 'kernel', 'ramdisk', 'cmdline' (and 'root', 'extra' as well
which would be deprecated later) in HVM config file, parse config file,
pass -kernel, -initrd, -append parameters to qemu.
It's working with qemu-xen when using the default BIOS (seabios).
[HVM config example]
name="sles11_sp2"
description="None"
uuid="5c84adcc-bd59-788a-96d2-195f9b599cfe"
memory=512
maxmem=512
vcpus=4
on_poweroff="destroy"
on_reboot="restart"
on_crash="destroy"
localtime=0
keymap="en-us"
builder="hvm"
device_model_override="/home/cyliu/git/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64"
kernel="/mnt/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default"
ramdisk="/mnt/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default"
root="/dev/hda2"
extra="console=tty0 console=ttyS0"
disk=[ 'file:/mnt/images/sles11_sp2/disk0.raw,hda,w', ]
vif=[ 'mac=00:16:3e:56:af:69,bridge=br0,type=netfront', ]
stdvga=0
vnc=1
vncunused=1
viridian=0
acpi=1
pae=1
serial="pty"
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Allow the "serial" key to accept a list of serial ports, and pass
them in using the new serial_list domain build element.
For backwards compatibility, still accept singleton values.
Also update the xl.cfg manpage.
This patch borrows substantially from the multiple USB device patch
c3a2148192.
Signed-off-by: Ed White <edmund.h.white@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
vCPU soft affinity and NUMA-aware scheduling does not have
to be related. However, soft affinity is how NUMA-aware
scheduling is actually implemented, and therefore, by default,
the results of automatic NUMA placement (at VM creation time)
are also used to set the soft affinity of all the vCPUs of
the domain.
Of course, this only happens if automatic NUMA placement is
enabled and actually takes place (for instance, if the user
does not specify any hard and soft affiniy in the xl config
file).
This also takes care of the vice-versa, i.e., don't trigger
automatic placement if the config file specifies either an
hard (the check for which was already there) or a soft (the
check for which is introduced by this commit) affinity.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To do so, we add the vcpu_soft_affinity array to build_info, and
treat it much like vcpu_hard_affinity. The new config option is
called "cpus_soft".
Note that the vcpu_hard_affinity array, introduced in a previous
patch, and the vcpu_soft_affinity array, introduced here, share
the same LIBXL_HAVE_xxx macro, in libxl.h. That is called
LIBXL_HAVE_BUILDINFO_VCPU_AFFINITY_ARRAYS, and was introduced
together with vcpu_hard_affinity, but only inside a comment.
In this change, we uncomment, and hence properly define it.
In order to avoid having to issue separate calls to
libxl_set_vcpuaffinity() (one for hard affinity and one for soft
affinity) in libxl__build_pre(), in case the caller uses
b_info->cpumap (for the former) and b_info->vcpu_soft_affinity (for
the latter), we also set (again!) a new default for b_info->cpumap.
This allows, from this change on, to always and only deal with
b_info->vcpu_hard_affinity all around libxl internals.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
and start using the vcpu_hard_affinity array instead. This is done
as when, in a subsequent patch ("libxl/xl: make it possible to
specify soft-affinity in domain config file") we will become able
to deal with soft affinity, code can be shared.
This change also enables more advanced VCPU to PCPU (hard, for now)
affinity specification, in case a list is used, like:
cpus = ["3-4", "2-6,^4"]
What it means is that VCPU 0 must be pinned to PCPU 3,4 and VCPU 1
to PCPUs 2,3,5,6 (before this change, cpus=[xx, yy] only supported
single values). Of course, the old (e.g., cpus=[2, 3]) syntax
continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Getting happens via `xl vcpu-list', which now looks like this:
# xl vcpu-list -s
Name ID VCPU CPU State Time(s) Affinity (Hard / Soft)
Domain-0 0 0 11 -b- 5.4 8-15 / all
Domain-0 0 1 11 -b- 1.0 8-15 / all
Domain-0 0 14 13 -b- 1.4 8-15 / all
Domain-0 0 15 8 -b- 1.6 8-15 / all
vm-test 3 0 4 -b- 2.5 0-12 / 0-7
vm-test 3 1 0 -b- 3.2 0-12 / 0-7
Setting happens by specifying two pCPU masks to the `xl vcpu-pin'
command, the first one will be hard affinity, the second soft
affinity. If only one mask is specified, it is only hard affinity
that is affected. To change only soft affinity, '-' can be used
as the hard affinity mask parameter, and it will be left alone.
xl manual page is updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
If the "generation_id" option is set in the domain configuration,
generate and set a new random VM generation ID every time a domain is
created or restored.
xl lacks the infrastructure to fully track the lifecycle of VM images
as they are snapshotted and cloned (etc) so always using a new ID is
the safe option and ensures that a new one will be used where it matters.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Print out a warning and suggest user use "-V" option when invoking "xl
create". Also remove that option in manpage. This will introduce a
minor functional regression but it's very easy to work around.
The rationale behind this change is that, this option is actually not
part of domain configuration. It just affects whether a vncviewer
should be automatically spawn, but has nothing to do with how a domain
should be constructed. And this option is also bogus, considering if you
migrate a domain to a remote host and the receiver spawns a vncviewer on
the receiving side then it either dies silently or occupies resource.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Add support for changing max number of hypervisor leaves from configuration
file.
This number can be specified using xl's standard 'cpuid' option. Only lowest
8 bits of leaf's 0x4000xx00 eax register are processed, all others are ignored.
The changes allow us to revert commit 80ecb40362
which is most likely no longer needed now anyway (Solaris bug that it addressed
has been fixed and backported to earlier releases) but leave possibility of
running unpatched version of Solaris by forcing number of leaves to 2 in the
configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
The man page mentions passing config snippets key=val in xl create.
Unfortunately, the config syntax contain characters which are
interpreted (and often discarded) by the shell before getting passed
in, resulting in a parsing error.
For example:
xl create hvm.cfg cpus="0-3"
The shell will eat the quotes and pass 'cpus=0-3' to xl, which won't
parse properly without the quotes.
Mention this in the man page, and recommend the use of single quotes, as well
as separating multiple arguments with a semicolon, thus:
xl create hvm.cfg 'cpus="0-3"; pci=["1.0","1.1"]'
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
When dom0 is not the hardware domain, it can be destroyed in the same
way as any other service domain. To avoid accidental use when a domain
is not resolved, destroying domain 0 requires passing -f to xl destroy.
Since the hypervisor already prevents a domain from destroying itself,
this patch is only useful in a disaggregated environment.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
I've retained xen.lowlevel.{xc,xs} since they seem more widely useful. I also
kept xen.lowlevel.xl even though it is disabled by default and IMHO useless in
its current form.
I've tried to clean up the various associated bits like example configs, init
scripts, udev rules etc but no doubt I have missed something, those can easily
be cleaned up later.
I've also removed xm-test since although it could in theory be reworked to
test xl it hasn't been touched for years. If someone wants to resurrect it
then they could do so via the git history.
This has been built but not runtime tested.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
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v2: Clean out some .*ignore cruft
Remove some xm/xend docs.
Olaf Hering
Ian Jackson
Julien Grall
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Fabio Fantoni
George Dunlap
Riku Voipio
Dario Faggioli
Wei Liu
Daniel De Graaf
Chao Peng
Paul Durrant
Don Slutz
David Scott
Yang Hongyang
Meng Xu
Arianna Avanzini
Chunyan Liu
White, Edmund H
David Vrabel
Zhigang Wang
Boris Ostrovsky
Ian Campbell