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>
This addresses Ian C's comments on v1 of a previous patch (which
was applied instead of v2).
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Instead of having twice the same HowTo in tree and in the wiki, the one in tree
will become a link to the wiki.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.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>
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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(-)
Run a spell checker over the doc and fix the typos and spelling it uncovers
(including a few I just added myself).
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
These were mostly ones from xen/arch/x86/boot/cmdline.S which are handled early
and therefore do not use the usual infrastructure and so got missed in the
initial trawl.
The document now contains (AFAICT) every still valid option which was
previously documented at:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki?title=Xen_Hypervisor_Boot_Options&oldid=1379
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
On 64bit Xen with 32bit dom0 and crashkernel, xmalloc'ing items such
as the CPU crash notes will go into the xenheap, which tends to be in
upper memory. This causes problems on machines with more than 64GB
(or 4GB if no PAE support) of ram as the crashkernel physically cant
access the crash notes.
The solution is to force Xen to allocate certain structures in lower
memory. This is achieved by introducing two new command line
parameters; low_crashinfo and crashinfo_maxaddr. Because of the
potential impact on 32bit PV guests, and that this problem does not
exist for 64bit dom0 on 64bit Xen, this new functionality defaults to
the codebase's previous behavior, requiring the user to explicitly
add extra command line parameters to change the behavior.
This patch consists of 3 logically distinct but closely related
changes.
1) Add the two new command line parameters.
2) Change crash note allocation to use lower memory when instructed.
3) Change the conring buffer to use lower memory when instructed.
There result is that the crash notes and console ring will be placed
in lower memory so useful information can be recovered in the case of
a crash.
Changes since v1:
- Patch xen-command-line.markdown to document new options
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Introduce a command parameter to set the watchtog timeout. Manually
specifying "watchdog_timeout=<seconds>" on the command line will also
turn the watchdog on. For consistency, move opt_watchdog into nmi.c
along with opt_watchdog_timeout.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Still a work in progress, but submitted as a start.
Changes since v1:
- Include all up to date information from the wiki.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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>
Add dummy entries for parsed but undocumented cfg file options to xl.cfg:
for i in `
grep -Ew 'xlu_cfg_get_(long|string|list|list_as_string_list)' tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c | cut -f 2 -d '"' | sort -u
`
do
grep -wq $i docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 || echo $i
done
current output:
acpi_s3
acpi_s4
cpus
device_model
gfx_passthru
maxmem
nodes
sched
vif2
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Use correct string for gfx_passthru, and fix comment typo in xmexample.hvm
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Currently guests created with the xl stack will have "xenbr0"
written as their default into xenstore. It can be changed in
the individual guest config files, but there is no way to
have that default globally changed.
Add a config option to xl.conf that allows to have a different
default bridge name.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Move the sxp producing code off into a separate file. It is supported
for legacy reasons and needn't be updated other than the improve
compatibility with xm.
libxl_domain_config is not currently generated by the IDL (adding the
necessary support for Array types is on my to do list) so hand code
the json generation function for now.
Since this rather directly exposes a libxl data structure it's not
clear what sort of forward compatibility guarantees we can
make. However it seems like it should be as stable as libxl's own API
(which we are looking to stabilise)
(Gratuitous string.h include needed for memset in libxl_util.h)
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This shows an example boolean (prot_doms_locked) which can be set at
runtime to prevent dom0 from mapping memory of domains of type
prot_domU_t.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
These examples show how to use constraints and the user field of the
security label to prevent communication between virtual machines of
different customers in a multi-tenant environment.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Add a -F (fallbacks) option to xl destroy|reboot to cause an ACPI shutdown or
reset event to be sent to the guest in the event that the guest does not
support the PV control interface.
This is not the default because the response to these triggers is an
guest-internal configuration.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
send_trigger already included all the operations covered by button_press.
Rework send_trigger to take an enum instead of a string.
I stopped short at removing the xl "button-press" command but instead have
marked it as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Also add the global sharing statistics to the libxl physinfo. This is a slight
departure from libxc, but there's no reason libxl physinfo can't include extra
bits of useful and relevant information.
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Add a simple introduction to FLASK to the xl man page, at the beginning
of the FLASK chapter. Link to the xsm-flask.txt document.
Currently FLASK, TMEM and PCI PASS-THROUGH are defined as =head2 so they
look like sub-chapters of VIRTUAL DEVICE COMMANDS. Make them =head1.
Based on a text written by Daniel De Graaf.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This allow the caller to react as they think is appropriate. xl now prints a
message much like the library did previously, although hopefully somewhat more
informative.
Update the xl(1) man page to be similarly more informative.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Supports the xl subcommand sched-sedf.
The man page is only a minimal version (copy from xm man page without
examples). BTW: the xm man page seems not to be in sync with xm sched-sedf -h
regarding the time units. I used milliseconds in the xl implementation.
Only minimal semantical checks of parameters.
Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Supports the xl subcommand sched-credit2.
Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Adds cpupool awareness to output of xl sched-credit. Output can now be
restricted to a specific cpupool. The domains are printed for each cpupool
seperately.
The loop over cpupools and domains is seperated from the main command
implementation to be able to support other schedulers as well.
Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
The help text of xl sched-credit supported long options. Neither the man page
nor the implementation did.
Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
George Dunlap
David Vrabel
Anthony PERARD
Dario Faggioli
Ian Campbell
Lin Ming
Andrew Cooper
Ian Jackson
Attilio Rao
Olaf Hering
Juergen Gross
Stefan Bader
Daniel De Graaf
Wei Liu
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Keir Fraser
Stefano Stabellini