A while back I wrote the attached code to demonstrate how to use
events and serial console to create a serial console that stays up
even when the VM is down. It might need some work, as I am not
terribly strong with Python.
* examples/python/consolecallback.py: New file.
* examples/python/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Ship it.
virsh.pod had several instances in which it referred to "the
documentation" which was a little puzzling to me since it is
documentation. Reading the document from end to end makes it clear
that it means a specific URI which was noted previously in the text,
but I had never noticed those URIs in several years of referring to
the man page. This patch adds those URIs to several additional places
in the text.
Remove suggestion that people file bugs against RHEL 5 and add a
suggestion that people increase the visibility of their bugs by
mentioning them on libvir-list.
Someone mentioned to me that they interpreted this section of the KVM
driver page as suggesting that new guests should be created by
creating a qemu commandline and converting it to XML with
domxml-from-native. I don't think that's the intent of
domxml-from-native, so I added that clarification.
The storage pools page contains details about the capabilities of the
various pool types, but not an overview of how they are intended to be
used. This patch adds some explanation of what pools and volumes can
be used for and why an administrator might want to use them.
Make uninstall currently fails with the following message:
rmdir /etc/sasl2/
rmdir: failed to remove `/etc/sasl2/': Directory not empty
That's fine (correct in fact) so force the command to return success
with || :
The description of the list command seemed to suggest that it could
take a set of domains as an argument, which is not correct in the
current HEAD. If virsh list is intended to take a list of domains,
then this patch should be NAK'd and a bug opened against virsh list.
Reported by hachi on #virt
v2:
Change language to include transient domains
Osier pointed out that transient domains are not defined, so what I
had originally proposed wasn't quite correct.
The "libvirt supports:" section on the main page of libvirt.org
contains a list of hypervisors with links that point to the sites of
the underlying virt technologies. The entry for KVM points to
http://www.linux-kvm.org/, for example. People coming to libvirt.org
for the first time are likely to know about those sites, and they're
probably interested in how libvirt manages those technologies. This
patch points those links to the libvirt driver pages instead. It also
consolidates KVM and QEMU as there is only one libvirt driver page for
them. Finally, it adds a line about networking support.
v2: incorporate Eric's feedback adding project links to driver pages.
website: Add project links to KVM/QEMU driver page
website: Add project links to Xen driver page
website: Add project links to LXC driver page
website: Add project links to OpenVZ driver page
website: Add project links to UML driver page
website: Add project links to Virtualbox driver page
website: Add project links to ESX driver page
website: Add project links to VMware driver page
Many volume operations will fail if the volume in question is being
allocated. These operations were returning VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR
when they should be returning VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID.
Some kernels, such as the one used in RHEL-5, have vport_create and
vport_delete operation files in /sys/class/scsi_host/hostN directory
instead of /sys/class/fc_host/hostN. Let's check both paths for
compatibility reasons.
This also removes unnecessary '/' characters from sysfs paths containing
LINUX_SYSFS_FC_HOST_PREFIX.
There are many naming conventions for partitions associated with a
block device. Some of the major ones are:
/dev/foo -> /dev/foo1
/dev/foo1 -> /dev/foo1p1
/dev/mapper/foo -> /dev/mapper/foop1
/dev/disk/by-path/foo -> /dev/disk/by-path/foo-part1
The universe of possible conventions isn't clear. Rather than trying
to understand all possible conventions, this patch divides devices
into two groups, device mapper devices and everything else. Device
mapper devices seem always to follow the convention of device ->
devicep1; everything else is canonicalized.
* This patch is a modification of a patch submitted by Nigel Jones.
It fixes several memory leaks on device addition/removal:
1. Free the virNodeDeviceDefPtr in udevAddOneDevice if the return
value is non-zero
2. Always release the node device reference after the device has been
processed.
* Refactored for better readability per the suggestion of clalance
* It appears that the udev event for HBA creation arrives before the
associated sysfs data is fully populated, resulting in bogus data
for the nodedev entry until the entry is refreshed. This problem is
particularly troublesome when creating NPIV vHBAs because it results
in libvirt failing to find the newly created adapter and waiting for
the full timeout period before erroneously failing the create
operation. This patch forces an update before any attempt to use
any scsi_host nodedev entry.
* If a nodedev has a parent that we don't want to display, we should
continue walking up the udev device tree to see if any of its
earlier ancestors are devices that we display. It makes the tree
much nicer looking than having a whole lot of devices hanging off
the root node.
* Incorporated Jim's feedback (v1 & v2)
* Moved case of DEVTYPE == "wlan" up as it's definitive that we have a network interface.
* Made comment more detailed about the wired case to explain better
how it differentiates between wired network interfaces and USB
devices.
* virStorageEncryptionFormat is called from both
virDomainDiskDefFormat and virStorageVolTargetDefFormat. The proper
indentation in the generated XML depends on the caller. My earlier
patch to fix the incorrect indentation for the domain XML broke the
indentation for the storage XML. This patch adopts Laine's
suggestion of requring the caller of virStorageEncryptionFormat to
provide an unsigned int with the number of spaces the output should
be indented. The patch modifies both callers to provide the
additional argument.
* Add a regression test for the domain XML
* src/conf/domain_conf.c src/conf/storage_conf.c
src/conf/storage_encryption_conf.c src/conf/storage_encryption_conf.h:
change the indentation code
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-encrypted-disk.args
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-encrypted-disk.xml: add a regression test
* This patch implements a memory allocator to obtain memory for
structures whose last member is a variable length array. C99 refers
to these variable length objects as structs containing flexible
array members.
* Fixed macro parentheses per Eric Blake
* Fixes per feedback from Dan and Daniel
* Added test datafiles
* Re-disabled JSON flags
* Added code to print the error policy attribute when generating XML
* Re-add empty tag
Create the filesystem on the partition used by the pool
* configure.ac: check for mkfs availability
* libvirt.spec.in: add extra require on util-linux for mkfs
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c: run mkfs with the expected
fs type when creating a filesystem pool
The daemon-conf test would fail on my system if there was a system libvirtd
running. In the course of troubleshooting that problem, I discovered that the
daemon-conf script would always fail if run by itself because it found the line:
\# that each "PARAMETER = VALUE" line in this file have the parameter
which it mistook for a line containing a parameter. I have changed the test to
avoid mistaking a line containing \"PARAMETER = VALUE\" for a parameter line.
The corrupted config tests turned out to be failing because the test daemon was
discovering the pid file from the running daemon and exiting before it processed
the test config file. Specifying the pid file for the corrupt config tests in
the same way as for the valid config test solved that problem.
The original udev node device backend neglected to lock the driverState
struct containing the device list when adding and removing devices
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c: add necessary locks in
udevRemoveOneDevice() and udevAddOneDevice()
Allows the initiator to use a variety of IQNs rather than just the
system IQN when creating iSCSI pools.
* docs/schemas/storagepool.rng: extends the syntax with <iqn name="..."/>
* src/conf/storage_conf.[ch]: read and stores the iqn name
* src/storage/storage_backend_iscsi.[ch]: implement the IQN selection
when detected
This patch removes the call to vol update after the volume build completes.
The update call is currently meaningless anyway because the vol build is passed
a copy of the definition, so the update result is thrown away. More
importantly, if the user specified a selinux label for the volume, the update
call results in a double free of the label
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c: remove the update call
This patch fixes the problem reported in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509306
The bug reporter says that vol-delete does not support the --pool
option, but that's not the case in the current head. This patch makes
vol-path behave the same way as vol-delete
* tools/virsh.c: Modified vol-path to use the same logic as vol-delete,
allowing the syntax: virsh vol-path --pool testdirpool testvol0
Erroneously included the sysfs_path and parent_sysfs_path elements in
the node device xml, they were not supposed to show up there
* src/conf/node_device_conf.c: remove the output of the 2 fields
I realized that I inadvertently added a member to the def struct to
contain each device's sysfs path when there was an existing member in the
dev struct for "OS specific path to device metadat, eg sysfs" Since the
udev backend needs to record the sysfs path while it's in the process of
creating the device, before the dev struct gets allocated, I chose to
remove the member from the dev struct.
* src/conf/node_device_conf.c src/conf/node_device_conf.h
src/node_device/node_device_driver.c src/node_device/node_device_hal.c
src/node_device/node_device_udev.c: remove devicePath from the
structure and use def->sysfs_path instead
uses libpciaccess to provide human readable names for PCI vendor and
device IDs
* configure.in: add a requirement for libpciaccess >= 0.10.0
* src/Makefile.am: add the associated compilation flags and link
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c: lookup the libpciaccess for
vendor name and product name based on their ids
* configure.in src/Makefile.am: remove the configuration check and
build instructions
* src/node_device/node_device_devkit.c: removed the module
* src/node_device/node_device_driver.c src/node_device/node_device_driver.h:
removed references to the old backend
* src/conf/node_device_conf.h src/conf/node_device_conf.c: add specific
support for SCSI target in node device capabilities
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c: add some extra detection code
when handling udev output
* configure.in: add new --with-udev, disabled by default, and requiring
libudev > 145
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c src/node_device/node_device_udev.h:
the new node device backend
* src/node_device/node_device_linux_sysfs.c: moved node_device_hal_linux.c
to a better file name
* src/conf/node_device_conf.c src/conf/node_device_conf.h: add a couple
of fields in node device definitions, and an API to look them up,
remove a couple of unused fields from previous patch.
* src/node_device/node_device_driver.c src/node_device/node_device_driver.h:
plug the new driver
* po/POTFILES.in src/Makefile.am src/libvirt_private.syms: add the new
files and symbols
* src/util/util.h src/util/util.c: add a new convenience macro
virBuildPath and virBuildPathInternal() function
* configure.in src/Makefile.am src/storage_backend.[ch]
src/storage_conf.[ch] src/storage_backend_mpath.[ch] po/POTFILES.in:
add a new module for storage multipath, it requires device-mapper
Dave Allan