This option gives the ability to switch one "accelerator" like kvm, xen
or the default one tcg. We can specify more than one accelerator by
separate them by a colon. QEMU will try each one and use the first whose
works.
So,
./qemu -machine accel=xen:kvm:tcg
which would try Xen support first, then KVM and finally TCG if none of
the other works.
By default, QEMU will use TCG. But we can specify another default in the
global configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
helpfull -> helpful
usefull -> useful
cotrol -> control
and a grammar fix.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
New option -display none. This option differs from -nographic by not
trying to take control of stdio etc. but instead behaves as if a
graphics display is enabled, except that it doesn't show one.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the
setting of the display mode. Valid options are:
sdl/curses/default
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This option allow to disable adaptive behaviors in some encodings.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When MSI is off, each interrupt needs to be bounced through the io
thread when it's set/cleared, so vhost-net causes more context switches and
higher CPU utilization than userspace virtio which handles networking in
the same thread.
We'll need to fix this by adding level irq support in kvm irqfd,
for now disable vhost-net in these configurations.
Added a vhostforce flag to force vhost-net back on.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
With current sndbuf default value, a blocked
target guest can prevent another guest from
transmitting any packets. While current
sndbuf value (1M) is reported to help some
UDP based workloads, the default should
be safe (0).
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Adding a chardev backend for spice, where spice determines what
to do with it based on the name attribute given during chardev creation.
For usage by spice vdagent in conjunction with a properly named
virtio-serial device, and future smartcard channel usage.
Example usage:
qemu -device virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
-device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0
v4->v5:
* add tracing events
* fix missing comma
* fix help string to show debug is optional
v3->v4:
* updated commit message
v1->v3 changes: (v2 had a wrong commit message)
* removed spice-qemu-char.h, folded into ui/qemu-spice.h
* removed dead IOCTL code
* removed comment
* removed ifdef CONFIG_SPICE from qemu-config.c and qemu-options.hx help.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
qxl is a paravirtual graphics card. The qxl device is the bridge
between the guest and the spice server (aka libspice-server). The
spice server will send the rendering commands to the spice client, which
will actually render them.
The spice server is also able to render locally, which is done in case
the guest wants read something from video memory. Local rendering is
also used to support display over vnc and sdl.
qxl is activated using "-vga qxl". qxl supports multihead, additional
cards can be added via '-device qxl".
[ v2: add copyright to files ]
[ v2: use qemu-common.h for standard includes ]
[ v2: create separate qxl-vga device for primary ]
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Add an option to specify the host IP to send multicast packets from,
when using a multicast socket for networking. The option takes an IP
address and sets the IP_MULTICAST_IF socket option, which causes the
packets to use that IP's interface as an egress.
This is useful if the host machine has several interfaces with several
virtual networks across disparate interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Mike Ryan <mikeryan@ISI.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Add -spice command line switch. Has support setting passwd and port for
now. With this patch applied the spice client can successfully connect
to qemu. You can't do anything useful yet though.
This patch adds an optional command line switch '-trace' to specify the
filename to write traces to, when qemu starts.
Eg, If compiled with the 'simple' trace backend,
[temp@system]$ qemu -trace FILENAME IMAGE
Allows the binary traces to be written to FILENAME instead of the option
set at config-time.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This is equivalent to SM_PASSTHROUGH security model.
The only exception is, failure of privilige operation like chown
are ignored. This makes a passthrough like security model usable
for people who runs kvm as non root
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* 'for-anthony' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin:
Fix -snapshot deleting images on disk change
block: Use error codes from lower levels for error message
block: default to 0 minimal / optiomal I/O size
move 'unsafe' to end of caching modes in help
virtio-blk: Create exit function to unregister savevm
block migration: propagate return value when bdrv_write() returns < 0
ide/atapi: add support for GET EVENT STATUS NOTIFICATION
The lossy option can be used to enable lossy compression
methods like gradient or jpeg. This patch disable them by
default.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Libvirt parses qemu help output to determine qemu features. In particular
it probes for the following: "cache=writethrough|writeback|none". The
addition of the unsafe cache mode was inserted within this string, as
opposed to being added to the end, which impacted libvirt's probe.
Unbreak libvirt by keeping the existing cache modes intact and add
unsafe to the end.
This problem only manifests itself if a caching mode is explicitly
specified in the libvirt xml, in which case older syntax for caching is
passed to qemu, which it no longer understands.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Commit 5989020bc1 introduced a chardev
option to disable signals on stdio. Add the corresponding documentation.
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
The new option is:
-fsdev fstype,id=myid,path=/share_path/,security_model=[mapped|passthrough]
-virtfs fstype,path=/share_path/,security_model=[mapped|passthrough],mnt_tag=tag
In the case of mapped security model, files are created with QEMU user
credentials and the client-user's credentials are saved in extended attributes.
Whereas in the case of passthrough security model, files on the
filesystem are directly created with client-user's credentials.
Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When using -snapshot we don't care about data integrity of the cow file
at all, so let's disable flushing there and squeeze out the last drop
of performance we could possibly get.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Usually the guest can tell the host to flush data to disk. In some cases we
don't want to flush though, but try to keep everything in cache.
So let's add a new cache value to -drive that allows us to set the cache
policy to most aggressive, disabling flushes. We call this mode "unsafe",
as guest data is not guaranteed to survive host crashes anymore.
This patch also adds a noop function for aio, so we can do nothing in AIO
fashion.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Commit 6616b2ad reverted commit 40ea285c. Looks like a mismerge to
me.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Currently the commandline to create a virtual-filesystem pass-through between
the guest and the host is as follows:
#qemu -fsdev fstype,id=ID,path=path/to/share \
-device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=ID,mount_tag=tag \
This patch provides a syntactic short-cut to achieve the same as follows:
#qemu -virtfs fstype,path=path/to/share,mount_tag=tag
This will be internally expanded as:
#qemu -fsdev fstype,id=tag,path=path/to/share, \
-device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=tag,mount_tag=tag \
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch creates a new command line option named -fsdev to hold any file
system specific information.
The option will currently hold the following attributes:
-fsdev fstype id=id,path=path_to_share
where
fstype: Type of the file system.
id: Identifier used to refer to this fsdev
path: The path on the host that is identified by this fsdev.
[aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Abstraction using FsContext]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This adds vhost binary option to tap, to enable vhost net accelerator.
Default is off for now, we'll be able to make default on long term
when we know it's stable.
vhostfd option can be used by management, to pass in the fd. Assigning
vhostfd implies vhost=on.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Move target specific functions and RAM handling to arch_init.c.
Add a flag to QEMUOptions structure to indicate for which
architectures the option is allowed, check the flag
in run time and remove conditional code in option handling.
Now that no target dependencies remain, compile vl.c only once
for all targets.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Port qemu-kvm's -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options. These are useful
for backing guest memory with huge pages via hugetlbfs.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
CC: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
* Add line options to function index.
* Add description for -set (TODO).
* Add description for -global (TODO).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Similar to the qemu-img.c patch, but I also have to unescape remaining
% signs in qemu-options.hx.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Since qemu-options.h is only used in vl.c, we can avoid using
brittle interpolation from a generated file.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
While there, use "property" rather than "option", for consistency with
-global.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Some more command line options had entries for command line help,
but documentation for texi and derived formats (man, html, info)
was missing.
For conditional options, the texi documentation was added
unconditionally.
This seems reasonable because typically man pages are
shared, and html users expect to see one documentation
(not several nearly identical documents for the different
systems).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* Fix column for help text.
* Give some more help, especially for the new '?' parameters.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
A new option, -nodefconfig is introduced to prevent loading from the default
config location. Otherwise, two configuration files will be searched for,
qemu.conf and target-<TARGET_NAME>.conf.
To ensure that the default configuration is overridden by a user specified
config, we introduce a two stage option parsing mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This commit converts the virtio-console device to create a new
virtio-serial bus that can host console and generic serial ports. The
file hosting this code is now called virtio-serial-bus.c.
The virtio console is now a very simple qdev device that sits on the
virtio-serial-bus and communicates between the bus and qemu's chardevs.
This commit also includes a few changes to the virtio backing code for
pci and s390 to spawn the virtio-serial bus.
As a result of the qdev conversion, we get rid of a lot of legacy code.
The old-style way of instantiating a virtio console using
-virtioconsole ...
is maintained, but the new, preferred way is to use
-device virtio-serial -device virtconsole,chardev=...
With this commit, multiple devices as well as multiple ports with a
single device can be supported.
For multiple ports support, each port gets an IO vq pair. Since the
guest needs to know in advance how many vqs a particular device will
need, we have to set this number as a property of the virtio-serial
device and also as a config option.
In addition, we also spawn a pair of control IO vqs. This is an internal
channel meant for guest-host communication for things like port
open/close, sending port properties over to the guest, etc.
This commit is a part of a series of other commits to get the full
implementation of multiport support. Future commits will add other
support as well as ride on the savevm version that we bump up here.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The command line options -device, -nodefaults, -readconfig,
-writeconfig had entries for command line help, but
documentation for texi and derived formats (man, html, info)
was missing.
This also required moving "@end table" to the end of
qemu-options.hx again.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add generic support for debugging consoles (simple I/O ports which
when written to cause debugging output to be written to a target.)
The current implementation matches Bochs' port 0xe9, allowing the same
debugging code to be used for both Bochs and Qemu.
There is no vm state associated with the debugging port, simply
because it has none -- the entire interface is a single, stateless,
write-only port.
Most of the code was cribbed from the serial port driver.
v2: removed non-ISA variants (they can be introduced when/if someone
wants them, using code from the serial port); added configurable
readback (Bochs returns 0xe9 on a read from this register, mimic that
by default) This retains the apparently somewhat controversial user
friendly option, however.
v3: reimplemented the user friendly option as a synthetic option
("-debugcon foo" basically ends up being a parser-level shorthand for
"-chardev stdio,id=debugcon -device isa-debugcon,chardev=debugcon") --
this dramatically reduced the complexity while keeping the same level
of user friendliness.
v4: spaces, not tabs.
v5: update to match current top of tree. Calling qemu_chr_open()
already during parsing no longer works; defer until we are parsing the
other console-like devices.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
In qemu-kvm this place looks even more "interesting":
-runas user Change to user id user just before starting the VM.
-readconfig <file>
-writeconfig <file>
read/write config file-no-kvm disable KVM hardware virtualization
-no-kvm-irqchip disable KVM kernel mode PIC/IOAPIC/LAPIC
-no-kvm-pit disable KVM kernel mode PIT
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Add global command line option to disable default devices.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch adds infrastructure and command line option for setting
global defaults for device properties, i.e. you can for example use
-global virtio-blk-pci.vectors=0
to turn off msi by default for all virtio block devices. The config
file syntax is:
[global]
driver = "virtio-blk-pci"
property = "vectors"
value = "0"
This can also be used to set properties for devices which are not
created via -device but implicitly via machine init, i.e.
-global isa-fdc,driveA=<name>
This patch uses the mechanism which configures properties for the
compatibility machine types (pc-0.10 & friends). The command line
takes precedence over the machine type values.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This commit adds a flag called 'control' to the '-monitor'
command-line option. This flag enables control mode.
The syntax is:
qemu [...] -monitor control,<device>
Where <device> is a chardev (excluding 'vc', for obvious reasons).
For example:
$ qemu [...] -monitor control,tcp:localhost:4444,server
Will run QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
on localhost port 4444.
NOTE: I've tried using QemuOpts for this, but turns out that it
will try to parse the device part, which should be untouched.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Adds -readconfig and -writeconfig command line switches to read/write
QemuOpts from config file.
In theory you should be able to do:
qemu < machine config cmd line switches here > -writeconfig vm.cfg
qemu -readconfig vm.cfg
In practice it will not work. Not all command line switches are
converted to QemuOpts, so you'll have to keep the not-yet converted ones
on the second line. Also there might be bugs lurking which prevent even
the converted ones from working correctly.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This allows people to disable the IFF_VNET_HDR flag, e.g. for debugging
purposes or if they know they may migrate the guest to a machine without
IFF_VNET_HDR support.
It also allows making the lack of IFF_VNET_HDR support an error
condition, e.g. in the case where a guest is being migrated from a host
which does support it.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Making features dependent on the availability of newer versions if_tun.h
is going to get seriously clumsy, so let's just import the definitions
we need. It's only a small handful.
If and when we're comfortable depending on 2.6.30 headers, we can remove
this again.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Putting it right in the middle of the explanation for "-serial udp" probably
wasn't the best idea.
Patchworks-ID: 35603
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Not all placeholders in options descriptions had the @var tag on them. Add the
tag so that it's clearly visible that they are placeholders.
Patchworks-ID: 35602
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Currently, suboptions (i.e. something like file=file for -drive) are rendered
as @code, so we're losing any @var highlighting in the man pages.
Replace them by @option, so that you actually can see what is a placeholder and
what is meant verbatim.
Patchworks-ID: 35601
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add support for -ctrl-grab to use the right-ctrl button to grab/release
the mouse in SDL.
The multi-button ctrl-alt and ctrl-alt-shift grab buttons present an
accessibility problem to users who cannot press more than one button
at a time.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/237635
Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Switch RTC emulations to the new host_clock instead of vm_clock by
default. This has the advantage that the emulated RTC will follow
automatically the host time while it might be tuned via NTP. vm_clock
can still be selected by passing '-rtc clock=vm' on the command line.
Note that some RTC emulations (at least M48T59) already use the host
time unconditionally while others (namely MC146818) do not. This patch
introduces the required infrastructure for selecting the base clock but
only converts MC146818 for now.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Deprecate -localtime, -setdate and -rtc-td-hack in favor of a new
unified command line switch:
-rtc [base=utc|localtime|date][,driftfix=none|slew]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
start switching chardevs to QemuOpts. This patch adds the
infrastructure and converts the null device.
The patch brings two new functions:
qemu_chr_open_opts()
same as qemu_chr_open(), but uses QemuOpts instead of a
option char string.
qemu_chr_parse_compat()
accepts a traditional chardev option string, returns the
corresponding QemuOpts instance, to handle backward
compatibility.
The patch also adds a new -chardev switch which can be used to create
named+unconnected chardevs, like this:
-chardev null,id=test
This uses the new qemu_chr_open_opts. Thus with this patch alone only
the null device works. The other devices will follow ...
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
extend QEMU's internal help and man page to cover the recently
added multi-core feature.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now that do have a nicer interface to work against we can add Linux native
AIO support. It's an extremly thing layer just setting up an iocb for
the io_submit system call in the submission path, and registering an
eventfd with the qemu poll handler to do complete the iocbs directly
from there.
This started out based on Anthony's earlier AIO patch, but after
estimated 42,000 rewrites and just as many build system changes
there's not much left of it.
To enable native kernel aio use the aio=native sub-command on the
drive command line. I have also added an option to qemu-io to
test the aio support without needing a guest.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The ne2k is an ancient card that performs pretty terribly under QEMU. In many
modern OSes, there is no longer drivers available for the ne2k.
Switch the default network adapter to e1000. This card is more widely
suppported and performs rather well under QEMU. There may be very old OSes
that had a ne2k driver but not an e1000 driver but I think this is likely the
exception.
I think the average user is better served with an e1000 vs ne2k.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
kqemu introduces a number of restrictions on the i386 target. The worst is that
it prevents large memory from working in the default build.
Furthermore, kqemu is fundamentally flawed in a number of ways. It relies on
the TSC as a time source which will not be reliable on a multiple processor
system in userspace. Since most modern processors are multicore, this severely
limits the utility of kqemu.
kvm is a viable alternative for people looking to accelerate qemu and has the
benefit of being supported by the upstream Linux kernel. If someone can
implement work arounds to remove the restrictions introduced by kqemu, I'm
happy to avoid and/or revert this patch.
N.B. kqemu will still function in the 0.11 series but this patch removes it from
the 0.12 series.
Paul, please Ack or Nack this patch.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
One use case will be file for drives (no filename quoting issues), i.e.
-drive id=test,if=virtio
-set drive.test.file=/vmdisk/test-virtio.img
It will work for any other option (assuming handled by QemuOpts) though.
Except for id= for obvious reasons ;).
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
Follow on patch will use it to determine the size of the MADT and
other BIOS tables.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The -device switch is the users frontend to the qdev_device_add function
added by the previous patch.
Also adds a linked list where command line options can be saved.
Use it for the new -device and for the -usbdevice and -bt switches.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Set the Linux process name to the name argument specified with name. I find
this useful to see which guests are taking CPU time in top.
This doesn't affect ps, which checks argv[0], but rewriting the
environment uses much more code, so I only used this simple way.
v2: Use separate process= argument, no prefixes.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The performance of qcow2 has improved meanwhile, so we don't need to
special-case it any more. Switch the default to write-through caching
like all other block drivers.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
On reflection, perhaps it does make sense to set a default value for
the sndbuf= tap parameter.
For best effect, sndbuf= should be set to just below the capacity of
the physical NIC.
Setting it higher will cause packets to be dropped before the limit
is hit. Setting it much lower will not cause any problems unless
you set it low enough such that the guest cannot queue up new packets
before the NIC has emptied its queue.
In Linux, txqueuelen=1000 by default for ethernet NICs. Given a 1500
byte MTU, 1Mb is a good choice for sndbuf.
If it turns out that txqueuelen is actually much lower than this, then
sndbuf is essentially disabled. In the event that txqueuelen is much
higher, it's unlikely that the NIC will be able to empty a 1Mb queue.
Thanks to Herbert Xu for this logic.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
We want to do (at least) two things to the virtio-balloon device:
suppress it, and control its PCI address. Option -no-virtio-balloon
lets us do only the former. To get the latter, replace
-no-virtio-balloon with
-balloon none disable balloon device
-balloon virtio[,addr=str]
enable virtio balloon device (default)
Syntax suggested by Anthony Liguori.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The documentation shows how to use -kernel and friends for booting Linux,
but obviously knows nothing about multiboot yet.
Let's include some documentation for multiboot, so people know how to fully
exploit this cool new feature.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Extend the hostfwd rule format so that the user can specify on which
host interface qemu should listen for incoming connections. If omitted,
binding will takes place against all interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
With the internal IP configuration made more flexible, we can now
enhance the user interface. This patch adds a number of new options to
"-net user": net (address and mask), host, dhcpstart, dns and smbserver.
It also renames "redir" to "hostfwd" and "channel" to "guestfwd" in
order to (hopefully) clarify their meanings. The format of guestfwd is
extended so that the user can define not only the port but also the
virtual server's IP address the forwarding starts from.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
So far a couple of slirp-related parameters were expressed via
stand-alone command line options. This it inconsistent and unintuitive.
Moreover, it prevents both dynamically reconfigured (host_net_add/
delete) and multi-instance slirp.
This patch refactors the configuration by turning -smb, -redir, -tftp
and -bootp as well as -net channel into options of "-net user". The old
stand-alone command line options are still processed, but no longer
advertised. This allows smooth migration of management applications to
to the new syntax and also the extension of that syntax later in this
series.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add an option to specify the number of MSI-X vectors for PCI NIC cards. This
can also be used to disable MSI-X, for compatibility with old qemu. This
option currently only affects virtio cards.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2.6.30 adds a new TUNSETSNDBUF ioctl() which allows a send buffer limit
for the tap device to be specified. When this limit is reached, a tap
write() will return EAGAIN and poll() will indicate the fd isn't
writable.
This allows people to tune their setups so as to avoid e.g. UDP packet
loss when the sending application in the guest out-runs the NIC in the
host.
There is no obviously sensible default setting - a suitable value
depends mostly on the capabilities of the physical NIC through which the
packets are being sent.
Also, note that when using a bridge with netfilter enabled, we currently
never get EAGAIN because netfilter causes the packet to be immediately
orphaned. Set /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge nf-call-iptables to zero to
disable this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Make drive_init() accept addr=, put the value into struct DriveInfo.
Use it in all the places that create virtio-blk-pci devices:
pc_init1(), bamboo_init(), mpc8544ds_init().
Don't support addr= in third argument of monitor command pci_add and
second argument of drive_add, because that clashes with their first
arguments. Admittedly unelegant.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Make net_client_init() accept addr=, put the value into struct
NICinfo. Use it in pci_nic_init(), and remove arguments bus and
devfn.
Don't support addr= in third argument of monitor command pci_add,
because that clashes with its first argument. Admittedly unelegant.
Machines "malta" and "r2d" have a default NIC with a well-known PCI
address. Deal with that the same way as the NIC model: make
pci_nic_init() take an optional default to be used when the user
doesn't specify one.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This new option may be used to disable the virtio-balloon device.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Here is an updated hardware watchdog patch, which should fix
everything that was raised about the previous version ...
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
- configure script and build system changes.
- wind up new machine type.
- add -xen-* command line options.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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adds a -numa command line parameter and sets a QEMU global array with
the memory sizes. The CPU-to-node assignemnt is written into the
CPUState. If no specific values for memory and CPUs are given,
all resources will be split equally across all nodes.
This code currently support only up to 64 virtual CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Allow to establish a TCP/UDP connection redirection also via a monitor
command 'host_net_redir'. Moreover, assume TCP as connection type if
that parameter is omitted.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This patch is derived from Tristan Gingold's patch. It adds a new VLAN
client type that writes all traffic on the VLAN it is attached to into a
pcap file. Such a file can then be analyzed offline with Wireshark or
tcpdump.
Besides rebasing and some minor cleanups, the major differences to the
original version are:
- support for enabling/disabling via the monitor (host_net_add/remove)
- no special ordering of VLAN client list, qemu_send_packet now takes
care of properly ordered packets
- 64k default capturing limit (I hate tcpdump's default)
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Create a new -smbios option (x86-only) to allow binary SMBIOS entries
to be passed through to the BIOS or modify the default values of
individual fields of type 0 and 1 entries on the command line.
Binary SMBIOS entries can be generated as follows:
dmidecode -t 1 -u | grep $'^\t\t[^"]' | xargs -n1 | \
perl -lne 'printf "%c", hex($_)' > smbios_type_1.bin
These can then be passed to the BIOS using this switch:
-smbios file=smbios_type_1.bin
Command line generation supports the following syntax:
-smbios type=0[,vendor=str][,version=str][,date=str][,release=%d.%d]
-smbios type=1[,manufacturer=str][,product=str][,version=str][,serial=str]
[,uuid=$(uuidgen)][,sku=str][,family=str]
For instance, to add a serial number to the type 1 table:
-smbios type=1,serial=0123456789
Interface is extensible to support more fields/tables as needed.
aliguori: remove texi formatting from help output
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This replaces a compile time option for some targets and adds
this feature to targets which did not have a compile time option.
Add monitor command to enable or disable single step mode.
Modify monitor command "info status" to display single step mode.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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Introduce a more canonical gdbstub configuration (system emulation only)
via the new switch '-gdb dev'. Keep '-s' as shorthand for
'-gdb tcp::1234'. Use the same syntax also for the corresponding monitor
command 'gdbserver'. Its default remains to listen on TCP port 1234.
Changes in v4:
- Rebased over new command line switches meta file
Changes in v3:
- Fix documentation
Changes in v2:
- Support for pipe-based like to gdb (target remote | qemu -gdb stdio)
- Properly update the qemu-doc
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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On Windows default screen width for the command prompt (A.K.A. "DOS
window") is 80 chars. `-icount' help is 87 chars wide. So make it fit.
Signed-off-by: Robert Riebisch <rr@bttr-software.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Try to keep documentation about command line switches, -help text and
qemu_options table synchronized.
In true Qemu tradition, an include file is generated from single .hx file
containing all relevant information in one place. The include file is
parsed once for getting the enums, another time for getopt tables and
hird time for help messages. Texi documentation for the options is
generated from the same .hx file.
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