These are interesting for users too, since nowadays most
qemu-user users are going to be somewhat technical rather than
just people that want to run Wine. Some detail is lost, on
the other hand some of the information I removed (e.g. basic
block unchaining) was obsolete.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
These are in README or obsolete, and the detailed version can be on a
website instead.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The user manual has an obsolete introduction, and the one in
the internals manual lists QEMU's features quite nicely.
Drop the obsolete content and remove generic user-level
documentation from qemu-tech.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Vmdk images have metadata to indicate the vmware virtual
hardware version image was created/tested to run with.
Allow users to specify that version via new 'hwversion'
option.
[ kwolf: Adjust qemu-iotests common.filter ]
Signed-off-by: Janne Karhunen <Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Migration with ivshmem needs to be carefully orchestrated to work.
Exactly one peer (the "master") migrates to the destination, all other
peers need to unplug (and disconnect), migrate, plug back (and
reconnect). This is sort of documented in qemu-doc.
If peers connect on the destination before migration completes, the
shared memory can get messed up. This isn't documented anywhere. Fix
that in qemu-doc.
To avoid messing up register IVPosition on migration, the server must
assign the same ID on source and destination. ivshmem-spec.txt leaves
ID assignment unspecified, however.
Amend ivshmem-spec.txt to require the first client to receive ID zero.
The example ivshmem-server complies: it always assigns the first
unused ID.
For a bit of additional safety, enforce ID zero for the master. This
does nothing when we're not using a server, because the ID is zero for
all peers then.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-40-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
ivshmem can be configured with and without interrupt capability
(a.k.a. "doorbell"). The two configurations have largely disjoint
options, which makes for a confusing (and badly checked) user
interface. Moreover, the device can't tell the guest whether its
doorbell is enabled.
Create two new device models ivshmem-plain and ivshmem-doorbell, and
deprecate the old one.
Changes from ivshmem:
* PCI revision is 1 instead of 0. The new revision is fully backwards
compatible for guests. Guests may elect to require at least
revision 1 to make sure they're not exposed to the funny "no shared
memory, yet" state.
* Property "role" replaced by "master". role=master becomes
master=on, role=peer becomes master=off. Default is off instead of
auto.
* Property "use64" is gone. The new devices always have 64 bit BARs.
Changes from ivshmem to ivshmem-plain:
* The Interrupt Pin register in PCI config space is zero (does not use
an interrupt pin) instead of one (uses INTA).
* Property "x-memdev" is renamed to "memdev".
* Properties "shm" and "size" are gone. Use property "memdev"
instead.
* Property "msi" is gone. The new device can't have MSI-X capability.
It can't interrupt anyway.
* Properties "ioeventfd" and "vectors" are gone. They're meaningless
without interrupts anyway.
Changes from ivshmem to ivshmem-doorbell:
* Property "msi" is gone. The new device always has MSI-X capability.
* Property "ioeventfd" defaults to on instead of off.
* Property "size" is gone. The new device can only map all the shared
memory received from the server.
Guests can easily find out whether the device is configured for
interrupts by checking for MSI-X capability.
Note: some code added in sub-optimal places to make the diff easier to
review. The next commit will move it to more sensible places.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-37-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
This kills off the funny state described in the previous commit.
Simplify ivshmem_io_read() accordingly, and update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-27-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Option parameter "share" is missing. Without it, you get a *private*
mmap(), which defeats ivshmem's purpose pretty thoroughly ;)
While there, switch to the conventional mountpoint of hugetlbfs
/dev/hugepages.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-5-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
The current documentation of chardev mux=on is rather brief and opaque;
expand it to hopefully be a bit more helpful.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <1455643738-6068-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Libtool support was needed to build shared library for libcacard.
Now there's no need to use libtool, and since the build system is
already complicated enough, we have a way to slightly de-complicate
it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Since -smb and -redir are deprecated options, we should not
use them as examples in the documentation anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Add the basic IPMI types and infrastructure to QEMU. Low-level
interfaces and simulation interfaces will register with this; it's
kind of the go-between to tie them together.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The device's guest interface and its QEMU user interface are
flawed^Whotly debated. We'll resolve that in the next development
cycle, probably by deprecating the device in favour of a cleaned up,
but not quite compatible revision.
To avoid adding more baggage to the soon-to-be-deprecated interface,
mark property "memdev" as experimental, by renaming it to "x-memdev".
It's the only recent user interface change.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
[Update of qemu-doc.texi squashed in]
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
The example suggests you can omit "shm". This isn't true; you must
specify exactly one of "shm", "chardev", "memdev". Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Use @var{foo} like we do everywhere else, not <foo>.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
This allows to explicitly specify file name to use with the backend. This
is important when using it together with ivshmem in order to make it backed
by hugetlbfs. By default filename is autogenerated using mkstemp(), and the
file is unlink()ed after creation, effectively making it anonymous. This is
not very useful with ivshmem because it ends up in a memory which cannot be
accessed by something else.
Distinction between directory and file name is done by stat() check. If an
existing directory is given, the code keeps old behavior. Otherwise it
creates or opens a file with the given pathname.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Igor Skalkin <i.skalkin@samsung.com>
Message-Id: <004301d11166$9672fe30$c358fa90$@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Document and give some examples of hugepages support with ivshmem device
and server.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
When using ivshmem devices, notifications between guests can be sent as
interrupts using a ivshmem-server (typical use described in documentation).
The client is provided as a debug tool.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
[fix a valgrind warning, option and server_close() segvs, extra server
headers includes, getopt() return type, out-of-tree build, use qemu
event_notifier instead of eventfd, fix x86/osx warnings - Marc-André]
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
It will be easier if you need to add info-commands to edit
only hmp-commands-info.hx, before this had to edit monitor.c and
hmp-commands.hx.
From the build point of view all documentation is saved into
qemu-monitor-info.texi which from now on is used for all user
documentation building.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <1441899541-1856-5-git-send-email-den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Many source files have doubled words (eg "the the", "to to",
and so on). Most of these can simply be removed, but a couple
were actual mis-spellings (eg "to to" instead of "to do").
There was even one triple word score "to to to" :-)
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Add a simple man page for the qemu agent.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
*squashed in review comments from Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fix a capitalization error in the OS X build instructions;
this was picked up in review of commit b352153f5f and intended to be
corrected before I applied it, but I accidentally didn't include it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
qemu-doc.texi: Add information on compiling source code on Mac OS X
Add information to the documentation on how to build QEMU
on Mac OS X.
Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <programmingkidx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
[PMM: fixed a minor capitalization error]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Raise your hand if you have a physical floppy drive in a computer
you've powered on in 2015. Okay, I see we got a few weirdos in the
audience. That's okay, weirdos are welcome here.
Kidding aside, media change detection doesn't fully work, isn't going
to be fixed, and floppy passthrough just isn't earning its keep
anymore.
Deprecate block driver host_floppy now, so we can drop it after a
grace period.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We've steered users away from QCOW/QCOW2 encryption for a while,
because it's a flawed design (commit 136cd19 Describe flaws in
qcow/qcow2 encryption in the docs).
In addition to flawed crypto, we have comically bad usability, and
plain old bugs. Let me show you.
= Example images =
I'm going to use a raw image as backing file, and two QCOW2 images,
one encrypted, and one not:
$ qemu-img create -f raw backing.img 4m
Formatting 'backing.img', fmt=raw size=4194304
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o encryption,backing_file=backing.img,backing_fmt=raw geheim.qcow2 4m
Formatting 'geheim.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=4194304 backing_file='backing.img' backing_fmt='raw' encryption=on cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=backing.img,backing_fmt=raw normal.qcow2 4m
Formatting 'normal.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=4194304 backing_file='backing.img' backing_fmt='raw' encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off
= Usability issues =
== Confusing startup ==
When no image is encrypted, and you don't give -S, QEMU starts the
guest immediately:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -monitor stdio normal.qcow2
QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) info status
VM status: running
But as soon as there's an encrypted image in play, the guest is *not*
started, with no notification whatsoever:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -monitor stdio geheim.qcow2
QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) info status
VM status: paused (prelaunch)
If the user figured out that he needs to type "cont" to enter his
keys, the confusion enters the next level: "cont" asks for at most
*one* key. If more are needed, it then silently does nothing. The
user has to type "cont" once per encrypted image:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -monitor stdio -drive if=none,file=geheim.qcow2 -drive if=none,file=geheim.qcow2
QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) info status
VM status: paused (prelaunch)
(qemu) c
none0 (geheim.qcow2) is encrypted.
Password: ******
(qemu) info status
VM status: paused (prelaunch)
(qemu) c
none1 (geheim.qcow2) is encrypted.
Password: ******
(qemu) info status
VM status: running
== Incorrect passwords not caught ==
All existing encryption schemes give you the GIGO treatment: garbage
password in, garbage data out. Guests usually refuse to mount
garbage, but other usage is prone to data loss.
== Need to stop the guest to add an encrypted image ==
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -monitor stdio
QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) info status
VM status: running
(qemu) drive_add "" if=none,file=geheim.qcow2
Guest must be stopped for opening of encrypted image
(qemu) stop
(qemu) drive_add "" if=none,file=geheim.qcow2
OK
Commit c3adb58 added this restriction. Before, we could expose images
lacking an encryption key to guests, with potentially catastrophic
results. See also "Use without key is not always caught".
= Bugs =
== Use without key is not always caught ==
Encrypted images can be in an intermediate state "opened, but no key".
The weird startup behavior and the need to stop the guest are there to
ensure the guest isn't exposed to that state. But other things still
are!
* drive_backup
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -monitor stdio geheim.qcow2
QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) drive_backup -f ide0-hd0 out.img raw
Formatting 'out.img', fmt=raw size=4194304
I guess this writes encrypted data to raw image out.img. Good luck
with figuring out how to decrypt that again.
* commit
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -monitor stdio geheim.qcow2
QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) commit ide0-hd0
I guess this writes encrypted data into the unencrypted raw backing
image, effectively destroying it.
== QMP device_add of usb-storage fails when it shouldn't ==
When the image is encrypted, device_add creates the device, defers
actually attaching it to when the key becomes available, then fails.
This is wrong. device_add must either create the device and succeed,
or do nothing and fail.
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -usb -qmp stdio -drive if=none,id=foo,file=geheim.qcow2
{"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 50, "minor": 2, "major": 2}, "package": ""}, "capabilities": []}}
{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
{"return": {}}
{ "execute": "device_add", "arguments": { "driver": "usb-storage", "id": "bar", "drive": "foo" } }
{"error": {"class": "DeviceEncrypted", "desc": "'foo' (geheim.qcow2) is encrypted"}}
{"execute":"device_del","arguments": { "id": "bar" } }
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1426003440, "microseconds": 237181}, "event": "DEVICE_DELETED", "data": {"path": "/machine/peripheral/bar/bar.0/legacy[0]"}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1426003440, "microseconds": 238231}, "event": "DEVICE_DELETED", "data": {"device": "bar", "path": "/machine/peripheral/bar"}}
{"return": {}}
This stuff is worse than useless, it's a trap for users.
If people become sufficiently interested in encrypted images to
contribute a cryptographically sane implementation for QCOW2 (or
whatever other format), then rewriting the necessary support around it
from scratch will likely be easier and yield better results than
fixing up the existing mess.
Let's deprecate the mess now, drop it after a grace period, and move
on.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The VHDX spec specifies that the default new block state is
PAYLOAD_BLOCK_NOT_PRESENT for a dynamic VHDX image, and
PAYLOAD_BLOCK_FULLY_PRESENT for a fixed VHDX image.
However, in order to create space-efficient VHDX images with qemu-img
convert, it is desirable to be able to set has_zero_init to true for
VHDX.
There is currently an option when creating VHDX images, to use block
state ZERO for new blocks. However, this currently defaults to 'off'.
In order to be able to eventually set has_zero_init to true for VHDX,
this needs to default to 'on'.
This patch changes the default to 'on', and provides some help
information to warn against setting it to 'off' when using qemu-img
convert.
[Max Reitz pointed out that a full stop was missing at the end of the
VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_ZERO option help text. I have added it.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 85164899eacc86e150c3ceba793cf93b398dedd7.1418018421.git.jcody@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch removes support for the cow file format.
Normally we do not break backwards compatibility but in this case there
is no impact and it is the most logical option. Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary evidence so I will show why removing the cow block
driver is the right thing to do.
The cow file format is the disk image format for Usermode Linux, a way
of running a Linux system in userspace. The performance of UML was
never great and it was hacky, but it enjoyed some popularity before
hardware virtualization support became mainstream.
QEMU's block/cow.c is supposed to read this image file format.
Unfortunately the file format was underspecified:
1. Earlier Linux versions used the MAXPATHLEN constant for the backing
filename field. The value of MAXPATHLEN can change, so Linux
switched to a 4096 literal but QEMU has a 1024 literal.
2. Padding was not used on the header struct (both in the Linux kernel
and in QEMU) so the struct layout varied across architectures. In
particular, i386 and x86_64 were different due to int64_t alignment
differences. Linux now uses __attribute__((packed)), QEMU does not.
Therefore:
1. QEMU cow images do not conform to the Linux cow image file format.
2. cow images cannot be shared between different host architectures.
This means QEMU cow images are useless and QEMU has not had bug reports
from users actually hitting these issues.
Let's get rid of this thing, it serves no purpose and no one will be
affected.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1410877464-20481-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
preallocation=falloc allocates disk space by posix_fallocate(),
preallocation=full allocates disk space by writing zeros to disk.
Both modes imply preallocation=metadata.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new option preallocation for raw format, and implements
falloc and full preallocation.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Since QEMU 0.15, slirp (user mode networking) supports ping to the
Internet, see e6d43cfb1f
Signed-off-by: Gernot Hillier <gernot.hillier@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Add 'nocow' option so that users could have a chance to set NOCOW flag to
newly created files. It's useful on btrfs file system to enhance performance.
Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest
in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this bad
performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files. Generally, there are
two ways to turn off NOCOW on btrfs: a) by mounting fs with nodatacow, then
all newly created files will be NOCOW. b) per file. Add the NOCOW file
attribute. It could only be done to empty or new files.
This patch tries the second way, according to the option, it could add NOCOW
per file.
For most block drivers, since the create file step is in raw-posix.c, so we
can do setting NOCOW flag ioctl in raw-posix.c only.
But there are some exceptions, like block/vpc.c and block/vdi.c, they are
creating file by calling qemu_open directly. For them, do the same setting
NOCOW flag ioctl work in them separately.
[Fixed up 082.out due to the new 'nocow' creation option
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
English language grammar does not allow usage
of the word "allows" directly followed by an
infinitive, declaring constructs like "something
allows to do somestuff" un-grammatical. Often
it is possible to just insert "one" between "allows"
and "to" to make the construct grammatical, but
usually it is better to re-phrase the statement.
This patch tries to fix 4 examples of "allows to"
usage in qemu doc, but does not address comments
in the code with similar constructs. It also adds
missing "the" in the same line.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Since 1.7, the default framebuffer settings for PowerPC are 800x600x32.
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
CC: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
A few minor tidy-ups, plus add reference to the new -vga tcx and cg3 options.
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
The qemu-img.texi / qemu-doc.texi files currently describe the
qcow2/qcow2 encryption thus
"Encryption uses the AES format which is very secure (128 bit
keys). Use a long password (16 characters) to get maximum
protection."
While AES is indeed a strong encryption system, the way that
QCow/QCow2 use it results in a poor/weak encryption system.
Due to the use of predictable IVs, based on the sector number
extended to 128 bits, it is vulnerable to chosen plaintext
attacks which can reveal the existence of encrypted data.
The direct use of the user passphrase as the encryption key
also leads to an inability to change the passphrase of an
image. If passphrase is ever compromised the image data will
all be vulnerable, since it cannot be re-encrypted. The admin
has to clone the image files with a new passphrase and then
use a program like shred to secure erase all the old files.
Recommend against any use of QCow/QCow2 encryption, directing
users to dm-crypt / LUKS which can meet modern cryptography
best practices.
[Changed "Qcow" to "qcow" for consistency.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Commit 9117b47717 ("qcow2: Change default
for new images to compat=1.1") changed the default qcow2 image format
version but forgot to update qemu-doc.texi and qemu-img.texi.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The man page for qemu-img, and the qemu-doc, did not mention VHDX
as a supported format. This adds in reference to VHDX in those
documents.
[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> suggested s/Block Size/Block size/ for
consistency. I have made this change.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Sun4c and Sun4d architectures and related CPUs are not fully implemented
(especially Sun4c MMU) and there has been no interest for them.
Likewise, a few CPUs (Cypress, Ross etc) are only half implemented.
Remove the machines and CPUs, they can be re-added if needed later.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Commit 98af93fde2 removed the
--audio-card-list option in configure, and commit
8f3b664f6c always compiled in
the adlib, gus and cs4231a audio cards.
Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Has been removed in commit fc9c54124d.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
libssh2_sftp_fsync is an extension to libssh2 to support fsync(2) over
sftp, which is itself an extension of OpenSSH.
If both libssh2 and the ssh daemon support it, this will allow
bdrv_flush_to_disk to commit changes through to disk on the remote
server.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=ssh://hostname/some/image
QEMU will ssh into 'hostname' and open '/some/image' which is made
available as a standard block device.
You can specify a username (ssh://user@host/...) and/or a port number
(ssh://host:port/...). You can also use an alternate syntax using
properties (file.user, file.host, file.port, file.path).
Current limitations:
- Authentication must be done without passwords or passphrases, using
ssh-agent. Other authentication methods are not supported.
- Uses a single connection, instead of concurrent AIO with multiple
SSH connections.
This is implemented using libssh2 on the client side. The server just
requires a regular ssh daemon with sftp-server support. Most ssh
daemons on Unix/Linux systems will work out of the box.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for a unix domain socket for a connection
between qemu and local sheepdog server. You can use the unix domain
socket with the following syntax:
$ qemu sheepdog+unix:///<vdiname>?socket=<socket path>[#snapid]
Signed-off-by: MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The URI syntax is consistent with the NBD and Gluster syntax. The
syntax is
sheepdog[+tcp]://[host:port]/vdiname[#snapid|#tag]
Signed-off-by: MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Switch the default for qemu_log logging output from "/tmp/qemu.log"
to stderr. This is an incompatible change in some sense, but logging
is mostly used for debugging purposes so it shouldn't affect production
use. The previous behaviour can be obtained by adding "-D /tmp/qemu.log"
to the command line.
This change requires us to:
* update all the documentation/help text (we take the opportunity
to smooth out minor inconsistencies between the phrasing in
linux-user/bsd-user/system help messages)
* make linux-user and bsd-user defer to qemu-log for the default
logging destination rather than overriding it themselves
* ensure that all logfile closing is done via qemu_log_close()
and that that function doesn't close stderr
as well as the obvious change to the behaviour of do_qemu_set_log()
when no logfile name has been specified.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1361901160-28729-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Document new and yet undocumented options and image formats. The
qemu-img man page contains information only for raw and qcow2 now and
references the HTML documentation for a more detailed description of
other formats.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The URI syntax is consistent with the Gluster syntax. Export names
are specified in the path, preceded by one or more (otherwise unused)
slashes.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch updates the iscsi layer to automatically pick a 'unique'
initiator-name based on the name of the vm in case the user has not set
an explicit iqn-name to use.
Create a new function qemu_get_vm_name() that returns the name of the VM,
if specified.
This way we can thus create default names to use as the initiator name
based on the guest session.
If the VM is not named via the '-name' command line argument, the iscsi
initiator-name used wiull simply be
iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm
If a name for the VM was specified with the '-name' option, iscsi will
use a default initiatorname of
iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:<name>
These names are just the default iscsi initiator name that qemu will
generate/use only when the user has not set an explicit initiator name
via the commandlines or config files.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is used
by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network. The
solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when the
host system is operating in FIPS compliance mode and the user has specified
'-enable-fips' on the QEMU command line.
This patch causes QEMU to emit a message to stderr when the host system is
running in FIPS mode and a VNC password was specified on the commend line.
If the system is not running in FIPS mode, or is running in FIPS mode but
VNC password authentication was not requested, QEMU operates normally.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
For command line options which permit '?' meaning 'please list the
permitted values', add support for 'help' as a synonym, by abstracting
the check out into a helper function.
This change means that in some cases where we were being lazy in
our string parsing, "?junk" will now be rejected as an invalid option
rather than being (undocumentedly) treated the same way as "?".
Update the documentation to use 'help' rather than '?', since '?'
is a shell metacharacter and thus prone to fail confusingly if there
is a single character filename in the current working directory and
the '?' has not been escaped. It's therefore better to steer users
towards 'help', though '?' is retained for backwards compatibility.
We do not, however, update the output of the system emulator's -help
(or any documentation autogenerated from the qemu-options.hx which
is the source of the -help text) because libvirt parses our -help
output and will break. At a later date when QEMU provides a better
interface so libvirt can avoid having to do this, we can update the
-help text too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Although the rule also allows 'an' for historical reasons,
'a' is more common because 'h' is pronounced.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When 'qemu' was used as a product name or as a generic process name,
it is now replaced by the official upper case 'QEMU'.
v2:
Added missing period (hint from Andreas Färber).
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
The executable name qemu was replaced some time ago by qemu-system-i386.
Fix all examples accordingly.
Some examples will only work with qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64
for obvious reasons ("dos.img").
To keep things simple, I did not vary the executable name.
Place holders like qemu-system-TARGET were also only used once
in the enhanced description for QEMU launches using Wine.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
It's been orphaned, not compiling for a long time and despite Apple's
drop of their Rosetta ppc emulation technology with Mac OS X Lion no one
has stepped up to fix it.
Testing necessary changes wrt QOM'ification thus is impossible, so we
might as well remove it completely.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The official spelling is QEMU.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
The official spelling is QEMU.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
This patch adds configuration variables for iSCSI to set
initiator-name to use when logging in to the target,
which type of header-digest to negotiate with the target
and username and password for CHAP authentication.
This allows specifying a initiator-name either from the command line
-iscsi initiator-name=iqn.2004-01.com.example:test
or from a configuration file included with -readconfig
[iscsi]
initiator-name = iqn.2004-01.com.example:test
header-digest = CRC32C|CRC32C-NONE|NONE-CRC32C|NONE
user = CHAP username
password = CHAP password
If you use several different targets, you can also configure this on a per
target basis by using a group name:
[iscsi "iqn.target.name"]
...
The configuration file can be read using -readconfig.
Example :
qemu-system-i386 -drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.ronnie.test/1
-readconfig iscsi.conf
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Commit d396a657ba removed the code
for SVP, so the documentation needs this update.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add a new section about using iSCSI LUNs with qemu
and provide a short example on how to set up a target and access it
using the built-in initiator
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This bug was detected by codespell.
In mips_mipssim.c a grammatical error was fixed, too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Allow to enlarge or shrink the screen via CTRL-ALT-+/-. In contrast to
scaling the window, these controls always preserve the aspect ratio of
the current console.
CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Phillip Merensky reported that the special keys (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-f for full
screen) did not work correctly if -alt-grab is used.
BUG: 696530
Review of ui/sdl.c:sdl_refresh indicates that this is the intended behaviour,
so we should update the documentation to match the actual behaviour, as
suggested by Phillip in the bug report.
Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Each @section should have a menu entry and a @node entry.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
An empty environment is sometimes useful in user mode.
The new option provides it for linux-user and bsd-user
(darwin-user still has no environment related options).
The patch also adds the documentation for other
environment related options.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
This patch allows to connect Qemu using NBD protocol to an nbd-server
using named exports.
For instance, if on the host "isoserver", in /etc/nbd-server/config, you have:
[generic]
[debian-500-ppc-netinst]
exportname = /ISO/debian-500-powerpc-netinst.iso
[Fedora-10-ppc-netinst]
exportname = /ISO/Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso
You can connect to it, using:
qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=debian-500-ppc-netinst
qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=Fedora-10-ppc-netinst
NOTE: you need at least nbd-server 2.9.18
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
resend for bug fix related to removal of irqfd
Support an inter-vm shared memory device that maps a shared-memory object as a
PCI device in the guest. This patch also supports interrupts between guest by
communicating over a unix domain socket. This patch applies to the qemu-kvm
repository.
-device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>]
Interrupts are supported between multiple VMs by using a shared memory server
by using a chardev socket.
-device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>]
[,chardev=<id>][,msi=on][,ioeventfd=on][,vectors=n][,role=peer|master]
-chardev socket,path=<path>,id=<id>
The shared memory server, sample programs and init scripts are in a git repo here:
www.gitorious.org/nahanni
Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* Add some keywords for the concept index.
* Add some keywords for the keystroke index.
* Mark invalid or unclear documentation with TODO.
Is there a better proposal how to do this?
* Fix copy+paste error in ColdFire section
(options were copied from ARM).
* Fix documentation for Wine.
* Add placeholders for missing system emulations.
* Add placeholders for missing user emulation commands.
* Add an appendix with license (to be discussed).
* Add an appendix for every type of index which is
supported by texinfo. Currently, not all are used,
but this might change in the future.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
@itemize @minus does not work as expected
(the items start with "* -").
A simple @itemize gives a better result.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
At least for Linux distributions UTF-8 is now standard,
so the QEMU documentation should use this encoding, too.
Even if there was currently only a single special character
using ISO-8859-1, this might change in the future.
So the texinfo keywords @documentlanguage and
@documentencoding now document the language and the
encoding. The special character was changed to UTF-8
(it could also have been changed to an x, but the
original cross looks really nice if it is displayed
correctly).
These changes fix the html presentation at
http://www.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC65
(ARM System emulator).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
update-info-dir maintains an index of all available
documentation in info format (the file /usr/share/info/dir).
It reads special @direntry tags in info files.
This patch (extracted from a larger patch provided by
Dirk Ullrich) adds these tags for qemu-doc.info and
qemu-tech.info.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The "Cross compilation for Windows with Linux" section of qemu-doc.texi
still instructs the user to use 'configure --enable-mingw32'
even after the option was removed in Aug 2008:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=cd01b4a312248dd4e12c3d389d1a349cea4015d8
This documentation only change updates the instructions to:
* Remove use of '--enable-mingw32' in the configure example
* Correct the 'sdl-config' script name
* Remove references to i386-mingw32msvc.tar.gz which no longer exists in
recent SDL releases
* Document the zlib dependency
Signed-off-by: Scott Tsai <scottt.tw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add core tile memeory to the RealView PBX-A9 board. Document the
memeory maps that are known to work with the qemu bootloader.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Allow the user to specify the number of cores present on the
RealView EB + ARM11MPCore board. Also split into its own config
rather than guessing from the CPU name.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.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>
Re-implement GUEST_BASE support.
Offset guest ddress space by default if the guest binary contains
regions below the host mmap_min_addr.
Implement support for i386, x86-64 and arm hosts.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
This text is no longer accurate. After the patch is applied, the
generated version at http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html should be
regenerated.
This patch is also a candidate for the stable branch. (The URL above is
probably generated from the stable branch anyways, so maybe it goes
without saying.)
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
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>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7004 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6884 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
This patch introduces a generic internal API for access control lists
to be used by network servers in QEMU. It adds support for checking
these ACL in the VNC server, in two places. The first ACL is for the
SASL authentication mechanism, checking the SASL username. This ACL
is called 'vnc.username'. The second is for the TLS authentication
mechanism, when x509 client certificates are turned on, checking against
the Distinguished Name of the client. This ACL is called 'vnc.x509dname'
The internal API provides for an ACL with the following characteristics
- A unique name, eg vnc.username, and vnc.x509dname.
- A default policy, allow or deny
- An ordered series of match rules, with allow or deny policy
If none of the match rules apply, then the default policy is
used.
There is a monitor API to manipulate the ACLs, which I'll describe via
examples
(qemu) acl show vnc.username
policy: allow
(qemu) acl policy vnc.username denya
acl: policy set to 'deny'
(qemu) acl allow vnc.username fred
acl: added rule at position 1
(qemu) acl allow vnc.username bob
acl: added rule at position 2
(qemu) acl allow vnc.username joe 1
acl: added rule at position 1
(qemu) acl show vnc.username
policy: deny
0: allow fred
1: allow joe
2: allow bob
(qemu) acl show vnc.x509dname
policy: allow
(qemu) acl policy vnc.x509dname deny
acl: policy set to 'deny'
(qemu) acl allow vnc.x509dname C=GB,O=ACME,L=London,CN=*
acl: added rule at position 1
(qemu) acl allow vnc.x509dname C=GB,O=ACME,L=Boston,CN=bob
acl: added rule at position 2
(qemu) acl show vnc.x509dname
policy: deny
0: allow C=GB,O=ACME,L=London,CN=*
1: allow C=GB,O=ACME,L=Boston,CN=bob
By default the VNC server will not use any ACLs, allowing access to
the server if the user successfully authenticates. To enable use of
ACLs to restrict user access, the ',acl' flag should be given when
starting QEMU. The initial ACL activated will be a 'deny all' policy
and should be customized using monitor commands.
eg enable SASL auth and ACLs
qemu .... -vnc localhost:1,sasl,acl
The next patch will provide a way to load a pre-defined ACL when
starting up
Makefile | 6 +
b/acl.c | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
b/acl.h | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
configure | 18 +++++
monitor.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
qemu-doc.texi | 49 ++++++++++++++
vnc-auth-sasl.c | 16 +++-
vnc-auth-sasl.h | 7 ++
vnc-tls.c | 19 +++++
vnc-tls.h | 3
vnc.c | 21 ++++++
vnc.h | 3
12 files changed, 491 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6726 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
This patch adds the new SASL authentication protocol to the VNC server.
It is enabled by setting the 'sasl' flag when launching VNC. SASL can
optionally provide encryption via its SSF layer, if a suitable mechanism
is configured (eg, GSSAPI/Kerberos, or Digest-MD5). If an SSF layer is
not available, then it should be combined with the x509 VNC authentication
protocol which provides encryption.
eg, if using GSSAPI
qemu -vnc localhost:1,sasl
eg if using TLS/x509 for encryption
qemu -vnc localhost:1,sasl,tls,x509
By default the Cyrus SASL library will look for its configuration in
the file /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf. For non-root users, this can be overridden
by setting the SASL_CONF_PATH environment variable, eg to make it look in
$HOME/.sasl2. NB unprivileged users may not have access to the full range
of SASL mechanisms, since some of them require some administrative privileges
to configure. The patch includes an example SASL configuration file which
illustrates config for GSSAPI and Digest-MD5, though it should be noted that
the latter is not really considered secure any more.
Most of the SASL authentication code is located in a separate source file,
vnc-auth-sasl.c. The main vnc.c file only contains minimal integration
glue, specifically parsing of command line flags / setup, and calls to
start the SASL auth process, to do encoding/decoding for data.
There are several possible stacks for reading & writing of data, depending
on the combo of VNC authentication methods in use
- Clear. read/write straight to socket
- TLS. read/write via GNUTLS helpers
- SASL. encode/decode via SASL SSF layer, then read/write to socket
- SASL+TLS. encode/decode via SASL SSF layer, then read/write via GNUTLS
Hence, the vnc_client_read & vnc_client_write methods have been refactored
a little.
vnc_client_read: main entry point for reading, calls either
- vnc_client_read_plain reading, with no intermediate decoding
- vnc_client_read_sasl reading, with SASL SSF decoding
These two methods, then call vnc_client_read_buf(). This decides
whether to write to the socket directly or write via GNUTLS.
The situation is the same for writing data. More extensive comments
have been added in the code / patch. The vnc_client_read_sasl and
vnc_client_write_sasl method implementations live in the separate
vnc-auth-sasl.c file.
The state required for the SASL auth mechanism is kept in a separate
VncStateSASL struct, defined in vnc-auth-sasl.h and included in the
main VncState.
The configure script probes for SASL and automatically enables it
if found, unless --disable-vnc-sasl was given to override it.
Makefile | 7
Makefile.target | 5
b/qemu.sasl | 34 ++
b/vnc-auth-sasl.c | 626 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
b/vnc-auth-sasl.h | 67 +++++
configure | 34 ++
qemu-doc.texi | 97 ++++++++
vnc-auth-vencrypt.c | 12
vnc.c | 249 ++++++++++++++++++--
vnc.h | 31 ++
10 files changed, 1129 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6724 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Resent with fixed formatting.
This patch adds two new command line options:
-chroot <dir>
-runas <user>
This is useful for running qemu as an unprivileged user in a chroot
jail. To avoid having to populate the jail, chrooting happens right
before the start of guest execution.
Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@sigbus.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This is needed to dynamically add SLIC tables with Windows
activation keys.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Adds "msmouse" character device, which emulates a serial mouse.
Use it with -serial msmouse.
Signed-Off-By: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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Support all kinds of pci vga cards (including none)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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Rearrange code, help printout and docs so that they are in the same
(hopefully more logical) order for easier maintenance.
Add help and docs for undocumented options.
Reformat slightly for more consistent help output.
Add comments to encourage better synchronization in the future.
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After my last patch to fix interrupt coalescing was rejected
on the basis that it is too intrusive we decided to make the
fix much more localized and only fix the problem for RTC time
source. Unfortunately it is impossible to fix the problem entirely
inside RTC code like Andrzej proposed since Windows reads RTC
register C more then once on each time interrupt so it is impossible
to count reliably how many interrupt windows actually handled.
Proposed solution is localized to I386 target and is disabled by
default. To enable it "-rtc-td-hack" flag should be used.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Allow the user to supply a vlan client name on the command line.
This is probably only useful for management tools so that they can
use their own names rather than parsing the output of 'info network'.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Windows calculates HW "uniqueness" based on a hard drive serial number
among other things. The patch allows to specify drive serial number
from a command line.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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The TSC2102 chip is not included in documentation because a patch is
pending.
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This allows easier use of the change vnc password monitor command from
management scripts, without having to implement expect(1)-like behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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qcow2 writes a cluster reference count on every cluster update. This causes
performance to crater when using anything but cache=writeback. This is most
noticeable when using savevm. Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format
regardless of the type of cache your using because metadata is not updated in
the correct order. Considering this, I think it's somewhat reasonable to use
writeback caching by default with qcow2 files.
It at least avoids the massive performance regression for users until we sort
out the issues in qcow2.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Virtio-blk is a paravirtual block device based on VirtIO. It can be used by
specifying the if=virtio parameter to the -drive parameter.
When using -enable-kvm, it can achieve very good performance compared to IDE or
SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Minor fixes of spelling and grammar in comments and documentation
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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This patch changes the cache= option to accept none, writeback, or writethough
to control the host page cache behavior. By default, writethrough caching is
now used which internally is implemented by using O_DSYNC to open the disk
images. When using -snapshot, writeback is used by default since data integrity
it not at all an issue.
cache=none has the same behavior as cache=off previously. The later syntax is
still supported by now deprecated. I also cleaned up the O_DIRECT
implementation to avoid many of the #ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Instead of having (current)three command line switches -std-vga,
-cirrusvga and -vmwarevga, provide one -vga switch which takes
an argument, so that:
qemu -std-vga becomes qemu -vga std
qemu -cirrusvga becomes qemu -vga cirrus
qemu -vmwarevga becomes qemu -vga vmware
Update documentation accordingly.
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Instead of having separate option for each card and driver use
--audio-drv-list and --audio-card-list options.
Under Linux it allows to set the default(first probed) driver
to something other than OSS.
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