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>
I've been asked too many times about a hint in xm man page on how to
'detach' from a guest console - aka Ctrl+]
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@novell.com>
Xen-API already specifies these actions for the 'on_crash' domain exit
event. This patch makes them available for use in traditional domU
config files and through the xm tool as well.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@novell.com>
In various places in documentation and code, IP addresses are provided
as examples, defaults, or dummy configuration. In general the
specific IP addresses used in Xen are not always appropriate. (For
example, 1.2.3.4 is used in a few places!)
The following addresses should be used:
* For examples and documentation, 192.0.2.0/24. (See RFC3330.)
* For defaults for private networks, a random network from RFC1918.
I have randomly selected 172.30.206.0/24 for this purpose and
documented this in at the only registry I know of,
www.ucam.org/cam-grin. This network should henceforth be used for
default configurations of local bridges, test networks, etc. in
Xen tools.
The following addresses should NOT be used:
* 10.0.*.*, 10.1.*.*, 192.168.0.*, 192.168.1.*, etc. Using these
addresses gives greatly increased likelihood of collision, as
ignorant network administrators and reckless middlebox vendors
often pick networks from the bottom of 10/8 and 192.168/16.
* 169.254.*.*. These are reserved for zeroconf (ad-hoc networking)
and should not be used for Xen private networks, bridges, etc.,
etc. Use of these addresses by Xen scripts causes trouble on hosts
(eg laptops) which find themselves in ad-hoc networking
environments. I think this is not hypothetical (!) since at least
one Linux distribution have specific code to detect this case and
cause Xen startup to fail iff the host already has an external
zeroconf address.
* 1.2.3.4. WTF !?
I have also used 127.0.255.255 in one place where apparently a dummy
address is needed (some Linux kernels won't accept a lack of an NFS
server address). If 127.0.255.255 is mistakenly used it is unlikely
to do any damage to real traffic even if it does escape into the
network at large.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This patch implements a (non Xen-API) legacy XML-RPC interface for the
ACM commands and funnels the calls into code introduced by the Xen-API
support for ACM security management. Since some of the functionality
has changed, also the xm applications have changed. In particular the
following old commands have been removed along with some tools the
have become obsolete now:
- loadpolicy (included in: setpolicy)
- makepolicy (included in: setpolicy)
- cfgbootpolicy (included in: setpolicy)
and the following commands been introduced:
- setpolicy
- getpolicy
- resetpolicy
All tools have been adapted to work in Xen-API and legacy XML-RPC
mode. Both modes support the same functionality.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
sysctl.physinfo.nr_cpus. This also avoids miscalculation of
sockets_per_node by Xen where the number of CPUs in the system is
clipped.
From: Elizabeth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
- Fixed description of "Mem" column in "xm list" output.
- Added a bit of text for the credit scheduler.
- Described the --force option to block-detach.
- Made formatting and spelling more consistent.
- etc...
Signed-off-by: Charles Coffing <ccoffing@novell.com>
It currently says to use "ro" or "rw" for the mode, when it seems,
empirically, to take "r" or "w" for the mode, respectively. Update
the man page to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
kernel version) to determine where to make the entry into the grub
configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
be under /var/log/xen instead of under /var/log directly. This has
the advantage of cleaning things up a little and also can make it
easier to restrict the permissions needed by xend.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
labels. The new subcommands are 'xm resources', 'xm rmlabel', 'xm
getlabel' and 'xm dry-run'. In addition, the 'xm addlabel' subcommand
now uses an updated syntax to support labeling both domains and
resources. See the xm man page for details on each subcommand.
Beyond the new subcommands, this patch allows users to immediately see
when security checks will fail by pushing some basic security checking
into the beginning of 'xm create' and 'xm block-attach'. ACM security
attributes for block devices are added to XenStore in order to support
the final security enforcement, which will be performed in the kernel
and included in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Bryan D. Payne <bdpayne@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com>
the integrated access control management commands. The man page is a
good place to start exploring these commands.
Signed-off by: Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com>
CPUs a domains' vcpus can use. The older 'cpu' config option is
prepended to the list of cpus to use and will keep the behavior of
pinning VCPU0.
The cpus option supports ranges and negation, so:
cpus = "0-3,5,^1" produces -> [0,2,3,5]
The list is circular, so in a domain with the following config:
vcpus = 4
cpus = "0,3,7" # Use any of 0, 3, 7 for this domain.
would see vcpus 0-3 pinned to cpus 0,3,7,0 respectively.
Also, the pin operation is moved before the memory reservation as vcpu
to cpu mapping will be helpful for future NUMA work when trying to
allocate pages close to the physical cpus being used.
An update to the display of cpumap was needed to normalize the cpumap
values to the range of possible cpus.
I've also included some text for the xmdomain.cfg(5) man page.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Upon further investigation it sets Device parameters that don't exist any
longer, thus causing exceptions. As it looks like this is completely
obsolete, and no one is actively working on it, we should just rip it out to
end the confusion.
Signed-off-by: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net>
all the param variables, make consistant use of bold and italics in the the
man pages to make it easier to read, and adds a few minor content additions.
It makes actually reading the man page a lot easier.
Signed-off-by: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net>
page. Most of this content came from the xensource wiki or the sedf doc in
the Xen tree. It still needs more work, but it is a good first start.
Signed-off-by: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net>
adds pretty reasonable text to most of the code xen domain and host commands
(device and scheduler will come in the future).
Signed-off-by: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net>
