For injecting multi-core and multi-threading CPU topology into guests
extend the -smp syntax to accommodate cores and threads specification.
Syntax: -smp smp_value[,cores=nr_cores][,threads=nr_threads]\
[,socket=nr_sockets][,maxcpus=max_cpus]
smp_value is the legacy value specifying the total number of vCPUs for
the guest. If you specify one of cores, threads or sockets this value
can be omitted. Missing values will be computed to fulfill:
smp_value = nr_cores * nr_threads * nr_sockets
where it will favour sockets over cores over threads (to mimic the
current behavior, which will only inject multiple sockets.)
So -smp 4,threads=2 will inject two sockets with 2 threads each,
-smp cores=4 is an abbreviation for -smp 4,cores=4,threads=1,sockets=1.
If max_cpus (the number of hotpluggable CPUs) is omitted, it will
be set to smp_value.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
Hi,
After discussing the issue with Avi, Gleb and a couple others on irq,
we came to the conclusion that it is preferred to have QEMU request
features from the BIOS, rather than notifying the BIOS that it is
running on QEMU or KVM. This way memory ranges can change etc. and
an older BIOS will continue to work on newer QEMU if it receives the
info as a fw_cfg value.
This one also matches what qemu-kvm does for irq0override, except I
haven't made it configurable. I leave that as an exercise for whoever
would be interested in switching off irq0override.
Thanks,
Jes
Set irq0 override in fw_cfg, informing the BIOS that QEMU expects
override on irq0. This matches qemu-kvm, and will help sharing a
single BIOS binary.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
If the user does not want autostart, they can specify -S.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Depending on what glibc/kernel headers you are compiling against,
PR_SET_NAME may or may not be defined. Do the right thing if
PR_SET_NAME isn't defined and skip setting the process name.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
This patch introduces dynamic timer intervals: we slow down the refresh
rate when there in no much activity but we get back to a fast refresh
rate when the activity resume.
Please note that qemu_timer_expired is not an inline function any more
because I needed to call it from vnc.c however I don't think this change
should have any serious consequence.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
First user of the new drive property. With this patch applied host
and guest config can be specified separately, like this:
-drive if=none,id=disk1,file=/path/to/disk.img
-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=disk1
You can set any property for virtio-blk-pci now. You can set the pci
address via addr=. You can switch the device into 0.10 compat mode
using class=0x0180. As this is per device you can have one 0.10 and one
0.11 virtio block device in a single virtual machine.
Old syntax continues to work. Internally it does the same as the two
lines above though. One side effect this has is a different
initialization order, which might result in a different pci address
being assigned by default.
Long term plan here is to have this working for all block devices, i.e.
once all scsi is properly qdev-ified you will be able to do something
like this:
-drive if=none,id=sda,file=/path/to/disk.img
-device lsi,id=lsi,addr=<pciaddr>
-device scsi-disk,drive=sda,bus=lsi.0,lun=<n>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
This adds a host drive, but doesn't implicitly add a guest drive for it.
First step in splitting host and guest configuration, check the
following patches to see how this can be used ...
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
Make -device switch use the QemuOpts framework.
Everything should continue to work like it did before.
New: "-set device.$id.$property=$value" works.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
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:
Since migration returns right away, starting the VM right
after calling qemu_start_incoming_migration is wrong even
if -S is not passed. We have to do this after migration
has completed.
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
On Win32 the setvbuf function requires the last parameter to be size between 2 and INT_MAX bytes, so the calls always failed. Since the whole point of the calls is to set line-buffered mode for the file handle and that's not supported on Win32 anyway, conditionally remove them.
Signed-off-by: Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
While fixing migration with -S, commit
89befdd1a6 broke the rest of us. Poor
glommer, with a poor family, spare him his life from this monstruosity.
Since the unconditional vm_start, not autostart was the villain, I'm putting
back autostart. Let me know if you prefer other solutions, it doesn't really matter,
doesn't really matter to me.
Any way the wind blows...
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
Demo QemuOpts in action ;)
Implementing a alternative way to specify the filename should be
just a few lines of code now once we decided how the cmd line syntax
should look like.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
cleanup pretty simliar to the drives_table removal patch:
- drop the table and make a linked list out of it.
- pass around struct pointers instead of table indices.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
-drive accepts the new id= now, allowing to explicitely name your
drives. They will show up with that name in "info block" if specified,
otherwise the existing namimg scheme is used to autogenerate one.
There is also a new function to lookup drives by name. Not used yet.
The plan is to link disk drivers and drives using the drive id instead
of passing around pointers to BlockDriveState.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
First step cleaning up the drives handling. This one does nothing but
removing drives_table[], still it became seriously big.
drive_get_index() is gone and is replaced by drives_get() which hands
out DriveInfo pointers instead of a table index. This needs adaption in
*tons* of places all over.
The drives are now maintained as linked list.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
Add an 'alias' field to QEMUMachine and display it in the output of
'qemu -M ?' with an '(aliased to foo)' suffix.
Aliases can change targets in newer versions of qemu, so management tools
may choose canonicalize machine types to ensure that if a user chooses an
alias, that the actual machine type used will remain compatible in
future.
This is intended to mimic a symlink to a machine description file.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The header sys-queue.h must be #included early, otherwise at some point OS
queue macros will be used. On OpenBSD, those don't define TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
This add support for switching devices into a compatibility mode
using device properties. Machine types can have a list of properties
for specific devices attached to allow the easy creation of machine
types compatible to older qemu versions.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
-S is not honored by qemu on incoming migration. If a domain is migrated
while paused, thus, it will start running on the remote machine; this
is wrong.
Given the trivial patch to fix this, it looks more like a thinko
than anything else, probably dating back to the qemu-kvm merge.
The interesting part is that the -S mechanism was in fact *used* when
migrating (setting autostart = 0) and the incoming migration code was
starting the VM at the end of the migration.
Since I was removing the vm_start from there, I also corrected a related
imprecision. The code was doing a vm_stop "just in case", but we can
be sure that the VM is not running---the vm_start call in vl.c has not
been reached yet. So the vm_stop is removed together with the vm_start.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Disable the lengthy BIOS prompt for selecting a boot device by default,
but let the user reenable it via '-boot menu=on'.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This allows to specify an exceptional boot order only for the first
startup of the guest. After reboot, qemu will switch back to the default
order (or what was specified via 'order='). Makes installing from CD
images and then booting the freshly set up harddisk more handy.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Will be used by '-boot once=...', and should also help in other use
cases.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Convert the reset handler maintenance code to TAILQ services.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Move registration function for the boot_set callback handler and provide
qemu_boot_set so that it can also be used outside the monitor code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical format
-boot [order=drives][,...]
where 'drives' is using the same format as the old -boot. The format
switch allows to add the 'menu' and 'once' options in later patches. The
old format is still understood and will be processed at least for a
transition time.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
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>
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>
This reverts commit 8217606e6e (and
updates later added users of qemu_register_reset), we solved the
problem it originally addressed less invasively.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
During startup and after reset we have to synchronize user space to the
in-kernel KVM state. Namely, we need to transfer the VCPU registers when
they change due to VCPU as well as APIC reset.
This patch refactors the required hooks so that kvm_init_vcpu registers
its own per-VCPU reset handler and adds a cpu_synchronize_state to the
APIC reset. That way we no longer depend on the new reset order (and can
drop this disliked interface again) and we can even drop a KVM hook in
main().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Avoid the need for slirp_is_inited by refactoring the protected
slirp_select_* functions. This also avoids the clearing of all fd sets
on select errors.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Improve the monitor interface for adding and removing host forwarding
rules by splitting it up in two commands and rename them to hostfwd_add
and hostfwd_remove. Also split up the paths taken for legacy -redir
support and the monitor add command as the latter will be extended later
on.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
In order to parse multiple instances of the same param=value pair,
introduce get_next_param_value which can pass back to string parsing
position after reading a parameter value.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Avi pointed out that it's not entirely safe to rely on madvise zeroing out
memory. So let's do it explicitly before calling madvise.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>