Benefits to blktap2 over the old version of blktap:
* Isolation from xenstore - Blktap devices are now created directly on
the linux dom0 command line, rather than being spawned in response
to XenStore events. This is handy for debugging, makes blktap
generally easier to work with, and is a step toward a generic
user-level block device implementation that is not Xen-specific.
* Improved tapdisk infrastructure: simpler request forwarding, new
request scheduler, request merging, more efficient use of AIO.
* Improved tapdisk error handling and memory management. No
allocations on the block data path, IO retry logic to protect
guests
transient block device failures. This has been tested and is known
to work on weird environments such as NFS soft mounts.
* Pause and snapshot of live virtual disks (see xmsnap script).
* VHD support. The VHD code in this release has been rigorously
tested, and represents a very mature implementation of the VHD
image
format.
* No more duplication of mechanism with blkback. The blktap kernel
module has changed dramatically from the original blktap. Blkback
is now always used to talk to Xen guests, blktap just presents a
Linux gendisk that blkback can export. This is done while
preserving the zero-copy data path from domU to physical device.
These patches deprecate the old blktap code, which can hopefully be
removed from the tree completely at some point in the future.
Signed-off-by: Jake Wires <jake.wires@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Dutch Meyer <dmeyer@cs.ubc.ca>
Remove *all* hardcoded "/etc/xen" strings in python code.
Additionally, it removes pygrub_path from osdep.py. Its use has been
replaced with auxbin.pathTo("pygrub").
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
To use, set CONFIG_OCAML_XENSTORED=y at build time.
Then the build system will automatically download the remote repo
to tools/ocaml-xenstored.
Signed-off-by: Alex Zeffertt <alex.zeffertt@eu.citrix.com>
* Move code for generating an absolute version of XEN_ROOT
into a common make variable set in Config.mk
* Use this common code when invoking make -C ioemu-dir clean
from tools/, which avoids a problem where `make clean' fails
because qemu's (ioemu-remote's) build system wants to run
`make clean' in `tests' but XEN_ROOT is a confection involving
../'s.
* Use this common code in stubdom/Makefile, instead of $(abspath...)
as the latter is a relatively new feature in GNU make and is not
available in all the places that we want to be able to build
(cf c/s 17997:3f23e01d31985899dbd1660b166f229f1ee74292)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add --cpu to IOEMU_CONFIGURE_CROSS since otherwise qemu uses the
output of `uname -m` even for cross-building. Pass
IOEMU_CONFIGURE_CROSS to xen-setup which passes it on to
ioemu/configure.
Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>
With this patch you can set QEMU_TAG to check out a specific version.
When we set it, QEMU_TAG ought to be in Config.mk, I think.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
* Remove ioemu-dir before replacing it with a symlink so that
switching between trees doesn't go wrong.
* Remove case-based arrangement for making XEN_ROOT absolute
and replace with $(abspath ...) since we depend on GNU make
anyway.
* `make clean' recurses into ioemu-dir
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This provides support for building the new merged qemu from
qemu-xen.git, or from a local checkout.
The default is still to use the in-tree version, because the patchman
infrastructure for testing, and propagation from staging to
xen-unstable, needs a small amount of work to cope with git.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Pass Xen cross-compilation options through to ioemu.
Export CROSS_SYS_ROOT for use by scripts. Unexport
IOEMU_DIR since it isn't used outside of the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>
This patch removes all trace of the standalone paravirt framebuffer
daemon. With this there is no longer any requirement for
LibVNCServer. Everything is handled by the QEMU device model. The
xenfb.c and xenfb.h files are now moved (without code change) into
tools/ioemu/hw/ & the temporary Makefile hack from the previous patch
is removed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
require it and it does't seem to pull in any major dependencies.
The alternative would have been to hack tools/python/setup.py to
conditionally compile the flask stuff.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
- convert raw "install" command to use $(INSTALL)
- convert some $(INSTALL) to $(INSTALL_DATA) as appropriate
- modify the specific $(INSTALL) definitions to use -p.
Original patch by Ben Thomas <ben@virtualiron.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
extensively hacked based on feedback from xen-devel.
Its architecture is comparable to the common split device driver
architecture: xenfb and xenkbd modules serve as frontend in domU, and
the user space vncfb or sdlfb process serves as backend in dom0.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@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>
save/restore working in the xen-ia64-unstable.hg thanks to some
excellent work by Tristan. This simply splits the xcutils components
from the x86-ish linux_save/restore files in a way that should be
friendly to powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Keir Fraser
Keir Fraser
kfraser@localhost.localdomain
Ian Campbell
Tim Deegan
Ewan Mellor
Steven Smith
jfehlig@jfehlig2.provo.novell.com
kaf24@localhost.localdomain
kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
chris@kneesaa.uk.xensource.com
jchesterfield@dhcp92.uk.xensource.com