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337 Commits

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Anthony Liguori 0d6b0b1d81 Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.
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>
2009-08-24 08:46:48 -05:00
Anthony Liguori 4a1418e07b Unbreak large mem support by removing kqemu
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>
2009-08-24 08:02:55 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann d058fe03e5 QemuOpts: add -set option
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:
2009-08-10 13:05:26 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 6be68d7eb9 Introduce -smp , maxcpus= flag to specify maximum number of CPUS.
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>
2009-07-27 14:09:14 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann bd3c948db7 qdev: add -device command line option.
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>
2009-07-27 08:39:29 -05:00
Jan Kiszka 2221dde5d4 Update boot option documentation
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-16 08:28:12 -05:00
Anthony Liguori 52249f0f3c Disable kqemu by default at run time
-no-kqemu -> -enable-kqemu

kqemu is still present at compile time by default

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09 17:28:08 -05:00
Andi Kleen 1889465a1c Allow setting qemu process name v2
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>
2009-07-09 16:58:08 -05:00
Kevin Wolf 0aa217e461 qcow2: Make cache=writethrough default
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>
2009-07-09 16:06:37 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin fc5b81d1f6 net: set a default value for sndbuf=
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>
2009-07-09 16:06:37 -05:00
Markus Armbruster 7d4c3d535c Replace -no-virtio-balloon by -balloon
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>
2009-06-29 14:18:08 -05:00
Alexander Graf 7677f05d84 Add documentation for Multiboot
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>
2009-06-29 14:18:06 -05:00
Jan Kiszka 3c6a05803c slirp: Bind support for host forwarding rules
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>
2009-06-29 08:52:45 -05:00
Jan Kiszka c92ef6a22d slirp: Rework external configuration interface
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>
2009-06-29 08:52:45 -05:00
Jan Kiszka ad196a9d0c slirp: Move smb, redir, tftp and bootp parameters and -net channel
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>
2009-06-29 08:52:44 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin ffe6370c9f qemu/net: flag to control the number of vectors a nic has
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>
2009-06-24 09:09:15 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin 0df0ff6de7 net: add '-net tap,sndbuf=nbytes'
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>
2009-06-22 10:15:30 -05:00
Markus Armbruster c2cc47a449 Support addr=... in option argument of -drive if=virtio
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>
2009-06-22 10:15:29 -05:00
Markus Armbruster 5607c38820 Support addr=... in option argument of -net nic
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>
2009-06-22 10:15:29 -05:00
Eduardo Habkost df97b92060 Add -no-virtio-balloon command-line option
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>
2009-06-13 19:17:28 -05:00
Blue Swirl bab7944cf3 Fix Sparse warning
Fix this warning:
./qemu-options.h:198:1: error: expected preprocessor identifier

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2009-06-09 21:50:02 +03:00
Aurelien Jarno c304d317ac qemu-options.hx: fix description of cache=none suboption
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2009-05-04 10:05:10 +02:00
Richard W.M. Jones 9dd986ccf6 Hardware watchdog
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>
2009-05-01 09:44:11 -05:00
aliguori 94909d9fd9 xen: add -vga xenfb option, configure xenfb (Gerd Hoffmann)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-22 15:19:53 +00:00
aliguori e37630ca4f xen: groundwork for xen support (Gerd Hoffmann)
- 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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2009-04-22 15:19:10 +00:00
aliguori 268a362c63 added -numa cmdline parameter parser (Andre Przywara)
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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2009-04-21 22:30:27 +00:00
aliguori d4ebe1934a slirp: Enhance host-guest redirection setup (Jan Kiszka)
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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2009-04-21 19:56:44 +00:00
aliguori bb9ea79e7a net: Add support for capturing VLANs (Jan Kiszka)
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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2009-04-21 19:56:28 +00:00
blueswir1 640f42e4e9 kqemu: merge CONFIG_KQEMU and USE_KQEMU
Basically a recursive ":%s/USE_KQEMU/CONFIG_KQEMU/g".

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>



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2009-04-19 10:18:01 +00:00
aliguori b6f6e3d3a7 qemu: Add support for SMBIOS command line otions (Alex Williamson)
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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2009-04-17 18:59:56 +00:00
pbrook 9bd7e6d90d Implement --version.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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2009-04-07 22:58:45 +00:00
aliguori c20d7afb36 Remove WIN32 guard around -k
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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2009-04-06 00:35:08 +00:00
aurel32 1b530a6dfc Add new command line option -singlestep for tcg single stepping.
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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2009-04-05 20:08:59 +00:00
aliguori 59030a8cd4 gdbstub: Rework configuration via command line and monitor (Jan Kiszka)
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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2009-04-05 18:43:41 +00:00
aliguori bc14ca2453 Make `-icount' help fit 80 chars screen width (Robert Riebisch)
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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2009-04-05 18:43:37 +00:00
blueswir1 5c2f8d2d73 Fix compile problems with r6884
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2009-03-28 08:13:56 +00:00
blueswir1 5824d65122 Syncing documentation vs. -help vs. qemu_options table
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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2009-03-28 06:44:27 +00:00