this patch tries to optimize zero write requests
by automatically using bdrv_write_zeroes if it is
supported by the format.
This significantly speeds up file system initialization and
should speed zero write test used to test backend storage
performance.
I ran the following 2 tests on my internal SSD with a
50G QCOW2 container and on an attached iSCSI storage.
a) mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 /dev/vdX
QCOW2 [off] [on] [unmap]
-----
runtime: 14secs 1.1secs 1.1secs
filesize: 937M 18M 18M
iSCSI [off] [on] [unmap]
----
runtime: 9.3s 0.9s 0.9s
b) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vdX bs=1M oflag=direct
QCOW2 [off] [on] [unmap]
-----
runtime: 246secs 18secs 18secs
filesize: 51G 192K 192K
throughput: 203M/s 2.3G/s 2.3G/s
iSCSI* [off] [on] [unmap]
----
runtime: 8mins 45secs 33secs
throughput: 106M/s 1.2G/s 1.6G/s
allocated: 100% 100% 0%
* The storage was connected via an 1Gbit interface.
It seems to internally handle writing zeroes
via WRITESAME16 very fast.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Adds option to -m
"size" - startup memory amount
For compatibility with legacy CLI if suffix-less number is passed,
it assumes amount in Mb.
Otherwise user is free to use suffixed number using suffixes b,k/K,M,G
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
These options are already documented on the man page but missing from
qemu --help.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@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>
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>
As long as we have no persistent GTK configuration, this allows to
enable the useful grab-on-hover feature already when starting the VM.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
[ kraxel: fix warning with CONFIG_GTK=n ]
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Add flag storage to qemu-thread-* to store the namethreads flag
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
It is possible to pre-define a character device with the -chardev option
and reference its id as serial device. The man page does not mention this
feature.
Use case: Use stdio as serial, but do not terminate VM on Ctrl-C
-chardev stdio,id=mystdio,signal=off -serial chardev:mystdio
Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
# By Paolo Bonzini (4) and Peter Lieven (1)
# Via Paolo Bonzini
* bonzini/scsi-next:
help: add id suboption to -iscsi
scsi-disk: fix WRITE SAME with large non-zero payload
block/iscsi: introduce bdrv_co_{readv, writev, flush_to_disk}
scsi-disk: fix VERIFY emulation
scsi-bus: fix transfer length and direction for VERIFY command
Message-id: 1386594157-17535-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap.
netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it
to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software
switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch
VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines.
netmap and VALE are implemented as a non-intrusive kernel module,
support NICs from multiple vendors, are part of standard FreeBSD
distributions and available in source format for Linux too.
To compile QEMU with netmap support, use the following configure
options:
./configure [...] --enable-netmap --extra-cflags=-I/path/to/netmap/sys
where "/path/to/netmap" contains the netmap source code, available at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
The same webpage contains more information about the netmap project
(together with papers and presentations).
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The install directory of qemu-bridge-helper is configurable,
but we use a fixed path in the documentation.
DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER macro isn't available in texi mode,
we should always use "/path/to/" prefix for dynamic paths
(e.g.: /path/to/image, /path/to/linux, etc).
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This feature can be used in case where users are avoiding the iops limit by
doing jumbo I/Os hammering the storage backend.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The max parameter of the leaky bucket throttling algorithm can be used to
allow the guest to do bursts.
The max value is a pool of I/O that the guest can use without being throttled
at all. Throttling is triggered once this pool is empty.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 6a85e60cb9.
Commit 51767e7 "qemu-char: Add new char backend CirMemCharDriver"
introduced a memory ring buffer character device driver named
"memory". Commit 3949e59 "qemu-char: Saner naming of memchar stuff &
doc fixes" changed the driver name to "ringbuf", along with a whole
bunch of other names, with the following rationale:
Naming is a mess. The code calls the device driver
CirMemCharDriver, the public API calls it "memory", "memchardev",
or "memchar", and the special commands are named like
"memchar-FOO". "memory" is a particularly unfortunate choice,
because there's another character device driver called
MemoryDriver. Moreover, the device's distinctive property is that
it's a ring buffer, not that's in memory.
This is what we released in 1.4.0.
Unfortunately, the rename missed a critical instance of "memory": the
actual driver name. Thus, the new device could be used only by an
entirely undocumented name. The documented name did not work.
Bummer.
Commit 6a85e60 fixes this by changing the documentation to match the
code. It also changes some, but not all related occurences of
"ringbuf" to "memory". Left alone are identifiers in C code, HMP and
QMP commands. The latter are external interface, so they can't be
changed.
The result is an inconsistent mess. Moreover, "memory" is a rotten
name. The device's distinctive property is that it's a ring buffer,
not that's in memory. User's don't care whether it's in RAM, flash,
or carved into chocolate tablets by Oompa Loompas.
Revert the commit. Next commit will fix just the bug.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1374849874-25531-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Otherwise, a new user will be wondering how to switch between the
console and monitor.
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
[Issue]
When we offer a customer support service and a problem happens
in a customer's system, we try to understand the problem by
comparing what the customer reports with message logs of the
customer's system.
In this case, we often need to know when the problem happens.
But, currently, there is no timestamp in qemu's error messages.
Therefore, we may not be able to understand the problem based on
error messages.
[Solution]
Add a timestamp to qemu's error message logged by
error_report() with g_time_val_to_iso8601().
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
With mon:stdio you can exit the VM by switching to the monitor and
sending the "quit" command. It is then useful to pass Ctrl-C to the
VM instead of exiting.
This in turn lets us stop tying the default signal handling behavior
to -nographic, removing gratuitous differences between "-display none"
and "-nographic".
This patch changes behavior for "-display none -serial mon:stdio", as
expected, but not for "-display none -serial stdio".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1372868986-25988-1-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This also introduces a new suboption, "cpus=",
which is the default. So after this patch,
-smp n,sockets=y
is the same as
-smp cpus=n,sockets=y
(with "cpu" being some generic thing, referring to
either cores, or threads, or sockets, as before).
We still don't validate relations between different
numbers, for example it is still possible to say
-smp 1,sockets=10
and it will be accepted to mean sockets=1.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Message-id: 1372072012-30305-1-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
It is the (implied sub)option name which is optional, not
the value of that (sub)option, make it so in the help output.
(Introduced by commit 22a0e04b9b)
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Manual page and qemu-doc on talk about "Bochs BIOS". We use SeaBIOS,
and it implements the feature. Replace by just "BIOS", and drop the
TODO line wondering about the Bochs reference.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1371208516-7857-7-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now we have memory char device, but the backend name of it
is a little confusion. We actually register it by 'memory', but
the description in qemu-option, the name of open functions
and the new api backend called it 'ringbuf'. It should keep
consistent. This patch named it all to 'memory'.
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1369132079-11377-2-git-send-email-lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Added TLS support to the VNC QEMU Websockets implementation.
VNC-TLS needs to be enabled for this feature to be used.
The required certificates are specified as in case of VNC-TLS
with the VNC parameter "x509=<path>".
If the server certificate isn't signed by a rooth authority it needs to
be manually imported in the browser because at least in case of Firefox
and Chrome there is no user dialog, the connection just gets canceled.
As a side note VEncrypt over Websocket doesn't work atm because TLS can't
be stacked in the current implementation. (It also didn't work before)
Nevertheless to my knowledge there is no HTML 5 VNC client which supports
it and the Websocket connection can be encrypted with regular TLS now so
it should be fine for most use cases.
Signed-off-by: Tim Hardeck <thardeck@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1366727581-5772-1-git-send-email-thardeck@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
In certain scenario, latency induced by paging is significant and
memory locking is needed. Also, in the scenario with untrusted
guests, latency improvement due to mlock is desired.
This patch introduces a following new option to mlock guest and
qemu memory:
-realtime mlock=on|off
Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1366382526-26146-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.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>
Fix various typos and misspellings. The bulk of these were found with
codespell.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Seabios already added a new device type to halt booting.
Qemu can add "HALT" at the end of bootindex string, then
seabios will halt booting after trying to boot from all
selected devices.
This patch added a new boot option to configure if boot
from un-selected devices.
This option only effects when boot priority is changed by
bootindex options, the old style(-boot order=..) will still
try to boot from un-selected devices.
v2: add HALT entry in get_boot_devices_list()
v3: rebase to latest qemu upstream
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1363674207-31496-1-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for cancelling an executing TPM command.
In Linux for example a user can cancel a command through the TPM's
sysfs 'cancel' entry using
echo "1" > /sysfs/class/misc/tpm0/device/cancel
This patch propagates the cancellation of a command inside a VM
to the host TPM's sysfs entry.
It also uses the possibility to cancel the command before QEMU VM
shutdown or reboot, which helps in preventing QEMU from hanging while
waiting for the completion of the command.
To relieve higher layers or users from having to determine the TPM's
cancel sysfs entry, the driver searches for the entry in well known
locations.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1361987275-26289-7-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch is based of off version 9 of Stefan Berger's patch series
"QEMU Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration"
and adds a new backend driver for it.
This patch adds a passthrough backend driver for passing commands sent to the
emulated TPM device directly to a TPM device opened on the host machine.
Thus it is possible to use a hardware TPM device in a system running on QEMU,
providing the ability to access a TPM in a special state (e.g. after a Trusted
Boot).
This functionality is being used in the acTvSM Trusted Virtualization Platform
which is available on [1].
Usage example:
qemu-system-x86_64 -tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0,path=/dev/tpm0 \
-device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0 \
-cdrom test.iso -boot d
Some notes about the host TPM:
The TPM needs to be enabled and activated. If that's not the case one
has to go through the BIOS/UEFI and enable and activate that TPM for TPM
commands to work as expected.
It may be necessary to boot the kernel using tpm_tis.force=1 in the boot
command line or 'modprobe tpm_tis force=1' in case of using it as a module.
Regards,
Andreas Niederl, Stefan Berger
[1] http://trustedjava.sourceforge.net/
Signed-off-by: Andreas Niederl <andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1361987275-26289-6-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for TPM command line options.
The command line options supported here are
./qemu-... -tpmdev passthrough,path=<path to TPM device>,id=<id>
-device tpm-tis,tpmdev=<id>,id=<other id>
and
./qemu-... -tpmdev help
where the latter works similar to -soundhw help and shows a list of
available TPM backends (for example 'passthrough').
Using the type parameter, the backend is chosen, i.e., 'passthrough' for the
passthrough driver. The interpretation of the other parameters along
with determining whether enough parameters were provided is pushed into
the backend driver, which needs to implement the interface function
'create' and return a TPMDriverOpts structure if the VM can be started or
'NULL' if not enough or bad parameters were provided.
Monitor support for 'info tpm' has been added. It for example prints the
following:
(qemu) info tpm
TPM devices:
tpm0: model=tpm-tis
\ tpm0: type=passthrough,path=/dev/tpm0,cancel-path=/sys/devices/pnp0/00:09/cancel
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1361987275-26289-2-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Fix LP#1151450 the wrong description in qemu manual:
'qemu-system-x86_84' should be 'qemu-system-x86_64'.
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
# By MORITA Kazutaka (5) and others
# Via Stefan Hajnoczi
* stefanha/block:
block: for HMP commit() operations on 'all', skip non-COW drives
sheepdog: add support for connecting to unix domain socket
sheepdog: use inet_connect to simplify connect code
sheepdog: accept URIs
move socket_set_nodelay to osdep.c
slirp/tcp_subr.c: fix coding style in tcp_connect
dataplane: remove EventPoll in favor of AioContext
virtio-blk: fix unplug + virsh reboot
ide/macio: Fix macio DMA initialisation.
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>
Add support for BDRV_O_UNMAP from the QEMU command-line.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1361354641-51969-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Collect them from "Standard options", "File system options", "Virtual
File system pass-through options", "Debug/Expert options".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-8-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
--device is under heading "USB options". --name and --uuid are under
"Virtual File system pass-through options". Move all three to
"Standard options".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-7-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
