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Jan Kiszka 9052ea6bf4 Generalize -machine command line option
-machine somehow suggests that it selects the machine, but it doesn't.
Fix that before this command is set in stone.

Actually, -machine should supersede -M and allow to introduce arbitrary
per-machine options to the command line. That will change the internal
realization again, but we will be able to keep the user interface
stable.

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino ae73e5919a qemu-options.hx: Document missing -drive options
They are 'werror', 'rerror' and 'readonly'.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 15:39:05 +02:00
Vasily Khoruzhick 9312805d33 pxa2xx_lcd: add proper rotation support
Until now, pxa2xx_lcd only supported 90deg rotation, but
some machines (for example Zipit Z2) needs 270deg rotation.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
2011-07-04 22:12:21 +02:00
Matthew Fernandez c235d7387c Command line support for altering the log file location
Add command line support for logging to a location other than /tmp/qemu.log.

With logging enabled (command line option -d), the log is written to
the hard-coded path /tmp/qemu.log. This patch adds support for writing
the log to a different location by passing the -D option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Fernandez <matthew.fernandez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-06-15 16:51:24 +00:00
Brad Hards caef55ed14 doc: Minor typo fix.
Thanks to agraf_, stefanha and Snader_LB for their IRC assistance.

Thanks to Markus Armbruster and Alexander Graf (again) for their
assistance with the second version of this patch. No patch is too
simple to test...

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
2011-06-10 23:25:36 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau 48b3ed0a68 spice: add SASL support
Turn on SASL support by appending "sasl" to the spice arguments, which
requires that the client use SASL to authenticate with the spice.  The
exact choice of authentication method used is controlled from the
system / user's SASL configuration file for the 'qemu' service. This
is typically found in /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf. If running QEMU as an
unprivileged user, an environment variable SASL_CONF_PATH can be used
to make it search alternate locations for the service config.  While
some SASL auth methods can also provide data encryption (eg GSSAPI),
it is recommended that SASL always be combined with the 'tls' and
'x509' settings to enable use of SSL and server certificates. This
ensures a data encryption preventing compromise of authentication
credentials.

It requires support from spice 0.8.1.

[ kraxel: moved spell fix to separate commit ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-06-06 09:14:42 +02:00
Hans de Goede d4970b071f spice: add option for disabling copy paste support
Some people want to be able disable spice's guest <-> client copy paste support
because of security considerations.

[ kraxel: drop old-version error message ]
2011-06-06 09:14:42 +02:00
Brad Hards de1db2a172 doc: Add explanation that -alt-grab and -ctrl-grab affect special keys
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>
2011-05-15 00:13:48 +02:00
Anthony PERARD 303d4e865b Introduce -machine command option.
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>
2011-05-08 10:09:59 +02:00
Brad Hards b0b36e5d2e doc: fix slirp description
net/slirp.c says:
    /* default settings according to historic slirp */
    struct in_addr net  = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000200) }; /* 10.0.2.0 */
    struct in_addr mask = { .s_addr = htonl(0xffffff00) }; /* 255.255.255.0 */
    struct in_addr host = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000202) }; /* 10.0.2.2 */
    struct in_addr dhcp = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a00020f) }; /* 10.0.2.15 */
    struct in_addr dns  = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000203) }; /* 10.0.2.3 */

Which I think is not what the documentation says.

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-04-25 23:10:04 +02:00
Stefan Weil 61cc8701f3 Fix some typos in comments and documentation
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>
2011-04-16 12:24:28 +01:00
Jes Sorensen 47b053690e error message if user specifies curses on cmd line when curses is disabled
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:12 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 58fc096c76 error message if user specifies SDL cmd line option when SDL is disabled
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:12 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 3264ff120c Add support for -display vnc
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 4171d32e6e Introduce -display none
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>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 1472a95bab Introduce -display argument
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>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Corentin Chary 80e0c8c39b vnc: add a non-adaptive option
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>
2011-02-23 16:28:29 -06:00
mst@redhat.com 5430a28fe4 vhost: force vhost off for non-MSI guests
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>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin f157ed202e tap: safe sndbuf default
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>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Alon Levy cbcc6336ce spice: add chardev (v5)
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>
2011-01-24 15:41:40 +01:00
Aurelien Jarno 818c2e1b97 Merge branch 'spice.v23.pull' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu
* 'spice.v23.pull' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu:
  vnc/spice: add set_passwd monitor command.
  vnc: support password expire
  vnc: auth reject cleanup
  spice: add qmp 'query-spice' and hmp 'info spice' commands.
  spice: connection events.
  spice: add qxl device
  spice: add qxl vgabios binary.
2010-12-27 22:59:48 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann a19cbfb346 spice: add qxl device
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>
2010-12-09 14:23:24 +01:00
Mike Ryan 3a75e74c76 net/sock: option to specify local address
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>
2010-12-09 12:45:50 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann 7d72e76228 intel-hda: documentation update
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2010-11-02 00:41:04 +03:00
Gerd Hoffmann 84a23f251f spice: add misc config options
This patch adds a few more options to tweak spice server behavior.
The documentation update chunk has the details ;)
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann 333b0eebcc spice: add config options for the listening address
Make listening address configurable.  Also add options to
force using IPv4 or IPv6.
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann 17b6dea08b spice: add config options for channel security.
This allows to enforce tls or plaintext usage for certain spice
channels.

[ v2: code style fixup ]
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Yonit Halperin 9f04e09e36 spice: make compression configurable.
This patch adds options to the -spice command line switch to
configure image compression.

[ v2: speling fix in the documentation ]
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann c448e8552b spice: tls support
Add options to the -spice command line switch to setup tls.
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann 29b0040be6 spice: core bits
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.
2010-09-21 18:36:42 +02:00
Prerna Saxena ab6540d55e trace: Add trace file name command-line option
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>
2010-09-09 16:22:44 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 12848bfc5d virtio-9p: Add SM_NONE security model
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>
2010-09-08 22:56:42 +05:30
Gerd Hoffmann 03b0ba70ab compile -fsdev and -virtfs cmd line options unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-22 17:11:06 -05:00
Aurelien Jarno cdc6f54200 Merge branch 'for-anthony' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin
* '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
2010-07-30 21:12:24 +02:00
Corentin Chary 6f9c78c149 vnc: add lossy option
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>
2010-07-26 17:23:53 -05:00
Bruce Rogers 6c6b6ba20a move 'unsafe' to end of caching modes in help
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>
2010-07-26 13:39:39 +02:00
Aurelien Jarno b7fdb3ab0e qemu-options: add documentation for stdio signal=on|off
Commit 5989020bc1 introduced a chardev
option to disable signals on stdio. Add the corresponding documentation.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-07-13 21:13:12 +02:00
Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) 9ce56db6f0 virtio-9p: Introduces an option to specify the security model.
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>
2010-06-22 15:15:30 -05:00
Alexander Graf c317728872 Make cache=unsafe the default for -snapshot
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>
2010-05-27 00:08:09 +02:00
Alexander Graf 016f5cf6ff Add cache=unsafe parameter to -drive
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>
2010-05-26 20:05:14 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 9848bbf1a8 Fix -device help and documentation
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>
2010-05-22 08:37:48 +00:00
Gautham R Shenoy 3d54abc7b7 virtio-9p: Create a syntactic shortcut for the file-system pass-thru
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>
2010-05-03 12:17:39 -05:00
Gautham R Shenoy 74db920c32 virtio-9p: Create a commandline option -fsdev
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>
2010-05-03 12:17:37 -05:00
Jan Kiszka 97331287ed chardev: Document mux option
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2010-04-26 16:36:31 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 82b0d80ef6 tap: add vhost/vhostfd options
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>
2010-04-01 13:56:43 -05:00
Blue Swirl ad96090a01 Refactor target specific handling, compile vl.c only once
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>
2010-03-29 19:23:52 +00:00
Aurelien Jarno 8d533561f6 qemu-options.hx: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-03-27 11:52:05 +01:00
Blue Swirl 609c1daced Fix manpage errors
Split long unbreakable lines to smaller sections.

Spotted by Debian Lintian tool:
http://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#qemu

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-03-18 18:41:49 +00:00
Marcelo Tosatti c902760fb2 Add option to use file backed guest memory
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>
2010-03-04 00:28:47 -03:00
Aurelien Jarno aa37520618 Fix qemu -net user,hostfwd= example
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-02-27 10:50:32 +01:00