The 'name' option for NBD exports is optional. Add a note that the
default for the option is the node name (people could otherwise expect
that it's the empty string like for qemu-nbd).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210305094856.18964-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
World-writeable directories have security issues. Avoid showing them in
the documentation since someone might accidentally use them in
situations where they are insecure.
There tend to be 3 security problems:
1. Denial of service. An adversary may be able to create the file
beforehand, consume all space/inodes, etc to sabotage us.
2. Impersonation. An adversary may be able to create a listen socket and
accept incoming connections that were meant for us.
3. Unauthenticated client access. An adversary may be able to connect to
us if we did not set the uid/gid and permissions correctly.
These can be prevented or mitigated with private /tmp, carefully setting
the umask, etc but that requires special action and does not apply to
all situations. Just avoid using /tmp in examples.
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210301172728.135331-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The QMP monitor, NBD server, and vhost-user-blk export all support file
descriptor passing. This is a useful technique because it allows the
parent process to spawn and wait for qemu-storage-daemon without busy
waiting, which may delay startup due to arbitrary sleep() calls.
This Python example is inspired by the test case written for libnbd by
Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
89113f484e
Thanks to Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> for suggestions on
how to get this working. Now let's document it!
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210301172728.135331-2-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Daemons often have a --pidfile option where the pid is written to a file
so that scripts can stop the daemon by sending a signal.
The pid file also acts as a lock to prevent multiple instances of the
daemon from launching for a given pid file.
QEMU, qemu-nbd, qemu-ga, virtiofsd, and qemu-pr-helper all support the
--pidfile option. Add it to qemu-storage-daemon too.
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210302142746.170535-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
On Linux, the 'security.capability' xattr holds a set of
capabilities that can change when an executable is run, giving
a limited form of privilege escalation to those programs that
the writer of the file deemed worthy.
Any write causes the 'security.capability' xattr to be dropped,
stopping anyone from gaining privilege by modifying a blessed
file.
Fuse relies on the daemon to do this dropping, and in turn the
daemon relies on the host kernel to drop the xattr for it. However,
with the addition of -o xattrmap, the xattr that the guest
stores its capabilities in is now not the same as the one that
the host kernel automatically clears.
Where the mapping changes 'security.capability', explicitly clear
the remapped name to preserve the same behaviour.
This bug is assigned CVE-2021-20263.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
The preferred syntax is to use "foo=on|off", rather than a bare
"foo" or "nofoo".
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210216191027.595031-8-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This gives us better feature parity with QMP nbd-server-start, where
max-connections defaults to 0 for unlimited.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210209152759.209074-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When we first converted our documentation to Sphinx, we split it into
multiple manuals (system, interop, tools, etc), which are all built
separately. The primary driver for this was wanting to be able to
avoid shipping the 'devel' manual to end-users. However, this is
working against the grain of the way Sphinx wants to be used and
causes some annoyances:
* Cross-references between documents become much harder or
possibly impossible
* There is no single index to the whole documentation
* Within one manual there's no links or table-of-contents info
that lets you easily navigate to the others
* The devel manual doesn't get published on the QEMU website
(it would be nice to able to refer to it there)
Merely hiding our developer documentation from end users seems like
it's not enough benefit for these costs. Combine all the
documentation into a single manual (the same way that the readthedocs
site builds it) and install the whole thing. The previous manual
divisions remain as the new top level sections in the manual.
* The per-manual conf.py files are no longer needed
* The man_pages[] specifications previously in each per-manual
conf.py move to the top level conf.py
* docs/meson.build logic is simplified as we now only need to run
Sphinx once for the HTML and then once for the manpages5B
* The old index.html.in that produced the top-level page with
links to each manual is no longer needed
Unfortunately this means that we now have to build the HTML
documentation into docs/manual in the build tree rather than directly
into docs/; otherwise it is too awkward to ensure we install only the
built manual and not also the dependency info, stamp file, etc. The
manual still ends up in the same place in the final installed
directory, but anybody who was consulting documentation from within
the build tree will have to adjust where they're looking.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210115154449.4801-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Document the qemu-storage-daemon tool. Most of the command-line options
are identical to their QEMU counterparts. Perhaps Sphinx hxtool
integration could be extended to extract documentation for individual
command-line options so they can be shared. For now the
qemu-storage-daemon simply refers to the qemu(1) man page where the
command-line options are identical.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201209103802.350848-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Split the documentation of the qemu-pr-helper binary into the tools
manual, and give it a manpage like our other standalone executables.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Fix also a similar typo in a code comment.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-Id: <20201117193448.393472-1-sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add a link to the top of the sidebar in every docs page that takes the
user back to the source code in gitlab.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201102130926.161183-5-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Allow the server to expose an additional metacontext to be requested
by savvy clients. qemu-nbd adds a new option -A to expose the
qemu:allocation-depth metacontext through NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS; this
can also be set via QMP when using block-export-add.
qemu as client is hacked into viewing the key aspects of this new
context by abusing the already-experimental x-dirty-bitmap option to
collapse all depths greater than 2, which results in a tri-state value
visible in the output of 'qemu-img map --output=json' (yes, that means
x-dirty-bitmap is now a bit of a misnomer, but I didn't feel like
renaming it as it would introduce a needless break of back-compat,
even though we make no compat guarantees with x- members):
unallocated (depth 0) => "zero":false, "data":true
local (depth 1) => "zero":false, "data":false
backing (depth 2+) => "zero":true, "data":true
libnbd as client is probably a nicer way to get at the information
without having to decipher such hacks in qemu as client. ;)
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201027050556.269064-11-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
- qcow2: Skip copy-on-write when allocating a zero cluster
- qemu-img: add support for rate limit in qemu-img convert/commit
- Fix deadlock when deleting a block node during drain_all
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging
Block layer patches:
- qcow2: Skip copy-on-write when allocating a zero cluster
- qemu-img: add support for rate limit in qemu-img convert/commit
- Fix deadlock when deleting a block node during drain_all
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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream:
block: End quiescent sections when a BDS is deleted
qcow2: Skip copy-on-write when allocating a zero cluster
qcow2: Report BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO more accurately in bdrv_co_block_status()
qemu-img: add support for rate limit in qemu-img convert
qemu-img: add support for rate limit in qemu-img commit
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
add support for rate limit in qemu-img convert.
Signed-off-by: Zhengui <lizhengui@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <1603205264-17424-3-git-send-email-lizhengui@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
add support for rate limit in qemu-img commit.
Signed-off-by: Zhengui <lizhengui@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <1603205264-17424-2-git-send-email-lizhengui@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The mapping rule system implemented in the last few patches is
extremely flexible, but not easy to use. Add a simple
'map' type as a sprinkling of sugar to make it easy.
e.g.
-o xattrmap=":map::user.virtiofs.:"
would be sufficient to prefix all xattr's
or
-o xattrmap=":map:trusted.:user.virtiofs.:"
would just prefix 'trusted.' xattr's and leave
everything else alone.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201023165812.36028-6-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Add a few examples of xattrmaps to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201023165812.36028-5-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Add an option to define mappings of xattr names so that
the client and server filesystems see different views.
This can be used to have different SELinux mappings as
seen by the guest, to run the virtiofsd with less privileges
(e.g. in a case where it can't set trusted/system/security
xattrs but you want the guest to be able to), or to isolate
multiple users of the same name; e.g. trusted attributes
used by stacking overlayfs.
A mapping engine is used with 3 simple rules; the rules can
be combined to allow most useful mapping scenarios.
The ruleset is defined by -o xattrmap='rules...'.
This patch doesn't use the rule maps yet.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201023165812.36028-2-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
virtiofsd cannot run in a container because CAP_SYS_ADMIN is required to
create namespaces.
Introduce a weaker sandbox mode that is sufficient in container
environments because the container runtime already sets up namespaces.
Use chroot to restrict path traversal to the shared directory.
virtiofsd loses the following:
1. Mount namespace. The process chroots to the shared directory but
leaves the mounts in place. Seccomp rejects mount(2)/umount(2)
syscalls.
2. Pid namespace. This should be fine because virtiofsd is the only
process running in the container.
3. Network namespace. This should be fine because seccomp already
rejects the connect(2) syscall, but an additional layer of security
is lost. Container runtime-specific network security policies can be
used drop network traffic (except for the vhost-user UNIX domain
socket).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201008085534.16070-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
If you like running QEMU as a normal user (very common for TCG runs)
but you have to run virtiofsd as a root user you run into connection
problems. Adding support for an optional --socket-group allows the
users to keep using the command line.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200925125147.26943-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
dgilbert: Split long line
The virtiofsd --help output documents the cache=auto default value but
the man page does not. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Harry G. Coin <hgcoin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200916112250.760245-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
I found that there are many spelling errors in the comments of qemu,
so I used the spellcheck tool to check the spelling errors
and finally found some spelling errors in the docs folder.
Signed-off-by: zhaolichang <zhaolichang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200917075029.313-4-zhaolichang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Commit 93bb3d8d4c ("virtiofsd: remove symlink fallbacks") removed
the implementation of the "norace" option, so remove it from the
cmdline help and the documentation too.
Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200717121110.50580-1-slp@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Right now we enable remote posix locks by default. That means when guest
does a posix lock it sends request to server (virtiofsd). But currently
we only support non-blocking posix lock and return -EOPNOTSUPP for
blocking version.
This means that existing applications which are doing blocking posix
locks get -EOPNOTSUPP and fail. To avoid this, people have been
running virtiosd with option "-o no_posix_lock". For new users it
is still a surprise and trial and error takes them to this option.
Given posix lock implementation is not complete in virtiofsd, disable
it by default. This means that posix locks will work with-in applications
in a guest but not across guests. Anyway we don't support sharing
filesystem among different guests yet in virtiofs so this should
not lead to any kind of surprise or regression and will make life
little easier for virtiofs users.
Reported-by: Aa Aa <jimbothom@yandex.com>
Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Misono Tomohiro <misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
The use of 'qemu-img amend' to change qcow2 backing files is not
tested very well. In particular, our implementation has a bug where
if a new backing file is provided without a format, then the prior
format is blindly reused, even if this results in data corruption, but
this is not caught by iotests.
There are also situations where amending other options needs access to
the original backing file (for example, on a downgrade to a v2 image,
knowing whether a v3 zero cluster must be allocated or may be left
unallocated depends on knowing whether the backing file already reads
as zero), but the command line does not have a nice way to tell us
both the backing file to use for opening the image as well as the
backing file to install after the operation is complete.
Even if we do allow changing the backing file, it is redundant with
the existing ability to change backing files via 'qemu-img rebase -u'.
It is time to deprecate this support (leaving the existing behavior
intact, even if it is buggy), and at a point in the future, require
the use of only 'qemu-img rebase' for adjusting backing chain
relations, saving 'qemu-img amend' for changes unrelated to the
backing chain.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200706203954.341758-8-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
'force' option will be used for some unsafe amend operations.
This includes things like erasing last keyslot in luks based formats
(which destroys the data, unless the master key is backed up
by external means), but that _might_ be desired result.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200608094030.670121-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Allow capabilities to be added or removed from the allowed set for the
daemon; e.g.
default:
CapPrm: 00000000880000df
CapEff: 00000000880000df
-o modcaps=+sys_admin
CapPrm: 00000000882000df
CapEff: 00000000882000df
-o modcaps=+sys_admin:-chown
CapPrm: 00000000882000de
CapEff: 00000000882000de
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200629115420.98443-4-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Prefer a consistent naming for the --merge argument.
Fixes: 3b51ab4bf
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200529144527.1943527-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Make it easier to copy all the persistent bitmaps of (the top layer
of) a source image along with its guest-visible contents, by adding a
boolean flag for use with qemu-img convert. This is basically
shorthand, as the same effect could be accomplished with a series of
'qemu-img bitmap --add' and 'qemu-img bitmap --merge -b source'
commands, or by their corresponding QMP commands.
Note that this command will fail in the same scenarios where 'qemu-img
measure' omits a 'bitmaps size:' line, namely, when either the source
or the destination lacks persistent bitmap support altogether.
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1779893
While touching this, clean up a couple coding issues spotted in the
same function: an extra blank line, and merging back-to-back 'if
(!skip_create)' blocks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200521192137.1120211-5-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
It's useful to know how much space can be occupied by qcow2 persistent
bitmaps, even though such metadata is unrelated to the guest-visible
data. Report this value as an additional QMP field, present when
measuring an existing image and output format that both support
bitmaps. Update iotest 178 and 190 to updated output, as well as new
coverage in 190 demonstrating non-zero values made possible with the
recently-added qemu-img bitmap command (see 3b51ab4b).
The new 'bitmaps size:' field is displayed automatically as part of
'qemu-img measure' any time it is present in QMP (that is, any time
both the source image being measured and destination format support
bitmaps, even if the measurement is 0 because there are no bitmaps
present). If the field is absent, it means that no bitmaps can be
copied (source, destination, or both lack bitmaps, including when
measuring based on size rather than on a source image). This behavior
is compatible with an upcoming patch adding 'qemu-img convert
--bitmaps': that command will fail in the same situations where this
patch omits the field.
The addition of a new field demonstrates why we should always
zero-initialize qapi C structs; while the qcow2 driver still fully
populates all fields, the raw and crypto drivers had to be tweaked to
avoid uninitialized data.
Consideration was also given towards having a 'qemu-img measure
--bitmaps' which errors out when bitmaps are not possible, and
otherwise sums the bitmaps into the existing allocation totals rather
than displaying as a separate field, as a potential convenience
factor. But this was ultimately decided to be more complexity than
necessary when the QMP interface was sufficient enough with bitmaps
remaining a separate field.
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1779904
Reported-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200521192137.1120211-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Include actions for --add, --remove, --clear, --enable, --disable, and
--merge (note that --clear is a bit of fluff, because the same can be
accomplished by removing a bitmap and then adding a new one in its
place, but it matches what QMP commands exist). Listing is omitted,
because it does not require a bitmap name and because it was already
possible with 'qemu-img info'. A single command line can play one or
more bitmap commands in sequence on the same bitmap name (although all
added bitmaps share the same granularity, and and all merged bitmaps
come from the same source file). Merge defaults to other bitmaps in
the primary image, but can also be told to merge bitmaps from a
distinct image.
While this supports --image-opts for the file being modified, I did
not think it worth the extra complexity to support that for the source
file in a cross-file merges. Likewise, I chose to have --merge only
take a single source rather than following the QMP support for
multiple merges in one go (although you can still use more than one
--merge in the command line); in part because qemu-img is offline and
therefore atomicity is not an issue.
Upcoming patches will add iotest coverage of these commands while
also testing other features.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200513011648.166876-7-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
We already list the subcommand summaries alphabetically, we should do
the same for the documentation related to subcommand-specific
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200513011648.166876-2-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
The mapping operation of large disks especially ones stored over a
long chain of QCOW2 files can take a long time to finish.
Additionally when mapping fails there was no way recover by
restarting the mapping from the failed location.
The new options, --start-offset and --max-length allows the user to
divide these type of map operations into shorter independent tasks.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Co-developed-by: Yoav Elnekave <yoav.elnekave@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoav Elnekave <yoav.elnekave@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eyal Moscovici <eyal.moscovici@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20200513133629.18508-5-eyal.moscovici@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Move the following tools documentation files to the new tools manual:
docs/interop/qemu-img.rst
docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
docs/interop/virtfs-proxy-helper.rst
docs/interop/qemu-trace-stap.rst
docs/interop/virtiofsd.rst
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200217155415.30949-4-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Some of the documentation for QEMU "tools" which are standalone
binaries like qemu-img is an awkward fit in our current 5-manual
split. We've put it into "interop", but they're not really
about interoperability.
Create a new top level manual "tools" which will be a better
home for this documentation. This commit creates an empty
initial manual; we will move the relevant documentation
files in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200217155415.30949-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Kevin Wolf