Commit cf869d5317 "qmp: support out-of-band (oob) execution" added a
general mechanism for command-independent arguments just for an
out-of-band flag:
The "control" key is introduced to store this extra flag. "control"
field is used to store arguments that are shared by all the commands,
rather than command specific arguments. Let "run-oob" be the first.
However, it failed to reject unknown members of "control". For
instance, in QMP command
{"execute": "query-name", "id": 42, "control": {"crap": true}}
"crap" gets silently ignored.
Instead of fixing this, revert the general "control" mechanism
(because YAGNI), and do it the way I initially proposed, with key
"exec-oob". Simpler code, simpler interface.
An out-of-band command
{"execute": "migrate-pause", "id": 42, "control": {"run-oob": true}}
becomes
{"exec-oob": "migrate-pause", "id": 42}
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-13-armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message typo fixed]
Commit cf869d5317 "qmp: support out-of-band (oob) execution" made
"id" mandatory for all commands when the client accepted capability
"oob". This is rather onerous when you play with QMP by hand, and
unnecessarily so: only out-of-band commands need an ID for reliable
matching of response to command.
Revert that part of commit cf869d5317 for now, but have documentation
advise on the need to use "id" with out-of-band commands.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-8-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
OOB documentation is spread over qmp-spec.txt sections 2.2.1
Capabilities and 2.3 Issuing Commands. The amount of detail is a bit
distracting there. Move the meat of the matter to new section 2.3.1
Out of band execution.
Throw in a few other improvements while there:
* 2.2 Server Greeting: Drop advice to search entire capabilities
array; should be obvious.
* 3. QMP Examples
- 3.1 Server Greeting: Update greeting to the one we expect for the
release. Now shows capability "oob". Update qmp-intro.txt
likewise.
- 3.2 Capabilities negotiation: Show client accepting capability
"oob".
- 3.7 Out-of-band execution: New.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-4-armbru@redhat.com>
[Whitespace tidied up]
Affects documentation and a few error messages.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-2-armbru@redhat.com>
vDPA support, fix to vhost blk RO bit handling, some include path
cleanups, NFIT ACPI table.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging
acpi, vhost, misc: fixes, features
vDPA support, fix to vhost blk RO bit handling, some include path
cleanups, NFIT ACPI table.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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* remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream: (31 commits)
vhost-blk: turn on pre-defined RO feature bit
ACPI testing: test NFIT platform capabilities
nvdimm, acpi: support NFIT platform capabilities
tests/.gitignore: add entry for generated file
arch_init: sort architectures
ui: use local path for local headers
qga: use local path for local headers
colo: use local path for local headers
migration: use local path for local headers
usb: use local path for local headers
sd: fix up include
vhost-scsi: drop an unused include
ppc: use local path for local headers
rocker: drop an unused include
e1000e: use local path for local headers
ioapic: fix up includes
ide: use local path for local headers
display: use local path for local headers
trace: use local path for local headers
migration: drop an unused include
...
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Add a schema that describes the different uses and properties of virtual
machine firmware.
Each firmware executable installed on a host system should come with at
least one JSON file that conforms to this schema. Each file informs the
management applications about
- the firmware's properties and one possible use case / feature set,
- configuration bits that are required to run the firmware binary.
In addition, define rules for management apps for picking the highest
priority firmware JSON file when multiple such files match the search
criteria.
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180509152608.9343-1-lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch introduces VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_HOST_NOTIFIER.
With this feature negotiated, vhost-user backend can register
memory region based host notifiers. And it will allow the guest
driver in the VM to notify the hardware accelerator at the
vhost-user backend directly.
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Introduce VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SLAVE_SEND_FD protocol
feature to allow slave to send at most 8 descriptors
in each message to master via ancillary data using the
slave channel.
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Compressed clusters are not supposed to have the COPIED bit set, but
this is not made explicit in the specs, so let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 74552e1d6e858d3159cb0c0e188e80bc9248e337.1523376013.git.berto@igalia.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Without a dedicated protocol feature, QEMU cannot know whether
the backend can handle VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG and
VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG messages.
This patch adds a protocol feature that is only advertised by
QEMU if the device implements the config ops. Vhost user init
fails if the device support the feature but the backend doesn't.
The backend should only send VHOST_USER_SLAVE_CONFIG_CHANGE_MSG
requests if the protocol feature has been negotiated.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@intel.com>
This message is sent just before the end of postcopy to get the
client to stop using userfault since we wont respond to any more
requests. It should close userfaultfd so that any other pages
get mapped to the backing file automatically by the kernel, since
at this point we know we've received everything.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
We need a better way, but at the moment we need the address of the
mappings sent back to qemu so it can interpret the messages on the
userfaultfd it reads.
This is done as a 3 stage set:
QEMU -> client
set_mem_table
mmap stuff, get addresses
client -> qemu
here are the addresses
qemu -> client
OK - now you can use them
That ensures that qemu has registered the new addresses in it's
userfault code before the client starts accessing them.
Note: We don't ask for the default 'ack' reply since we've got our own.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Notify the vhost-user slave on reception of the 'postcopy-listen'
event from the source.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Wire up a notifier to send a VHOST_USER_POSTCOPY_ADVISE
message on an incoming advise.
Later patches will fill in the behaviour/contents of the
message.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Add a vhost feature flag for postcopy support, and
use the postcopy notifier to check it before allowing postcopy.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Update both the developer and spec for the new QMP OOB (Out-Of-Band)
command.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180309090006.10018-2-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: grammar tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging
Block layer patches
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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (38 commits)
block: Fix NULL dereference on empty drive error
qcow2: Replace align_offset() with ROUND_UP()
block/ssh: Add basic .bdrv_truncate()
block/ssh: Make ssh_grow_file() blocking
block/ssh: Pull ssh_grow_file() from ssh_create()
qemu-img: Make resize error message more general
qcow2: make qcow2_co_create2() a coroutine_fn
block: rename .bdrv_create() to .bdrv_co_create_opts()
Revert "IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drives"
block: test blk_aio_flush() with blk->root == NULL
block: add BlockBackend->in_flight counter
block: extract AIO_WAIT_WHILE() from BlockDriverState
aio: rename aio_context_in_iothread() to in_aio_context_home_thread()
docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter
specs/qcow2: Fix documentation of the compressed cluster descriptor
iotest 033: add misaligned write-zeroes test via truncate
block: fix write with zero flag set and iovector provided
block: Drop unused .bdrv_co_get_block_status()
vvfat: Switch to .bdrv_co_block_status()
vpc: Switch to .bdrv_co_block_status()
...
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
# Conflicts:
# include/block/block.h
Move qapi-schema.json to qapi/, so it's next to its modules, and all
files get generated to qapi/, not just the ones generated for modules.
Consistently name the generated files qapi-MODULE.EXT:
qmp-commands.[ch] become qapi-commands.[ch], qapi-event.[ch] become
qapi-events.[ch], and qmp-introspect.[ch] become qapi-introspect.[ch].
This gets rid of the temporary hacks in scripts/qapi/commands.py,
scripts/qapi/events.py, and scripts/qapi/common.py.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-28-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[eblake: Fix trailing dot in tpm.c, undo temporary hack for OSX toolchain]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* Fix guidance on error classes
* Point to generated documentation
* Drop plea for documentation, because the QAPI code generator
enforces it since commit 3313b6124b
* Minor tweaks here and there
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-27-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This patch fixes several mistakes in the documentation of the
compressed cluster descriptor:
1) the documentation claims that the cluster descriptor contains the
number of sectors used to store the compressed data, but what it
actually contains is the number of sectors *minus one* or, in other
words, the number of additional sectors after the first one.
2) the width of the fields is incorrectly specified. The number of bits
used by each field is
x = 62 - (cluster_bits - 8) for the offset field
y = (cluster_bits - 8) for the size field
So the offset field's location is [0, x-1], not [0, x] as stated.
3) the size field does not contain the size of the compressed data,
but rather the number of sectors where that data is stored. The
compressed data starts at the exact point specified in the offset
field and ends when there's enough data to produce a cluster of
decompressed data. Both points can be in the middle of a sector,
allowing several compressed clusters to be stored next to one
another, sharing sectors if necessary.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Introduce two vhost-user meassges: VHOST_USER_CREATE_CRYPTO_SESSION
and VHOST_USER_CLOSE_CRYPTO_SESSION. At this point, the QEMU side
support crypto operation in cryptodev host-user backend.
Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Longpeng(Mike) <longpeng2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This patch adds main information about Parallels Disk
format, which consists of DiskDescriptor.xml and other files.
Signed-off-by: Edgar Kaziakhmedov <edgar.kaziakhmedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Klim Kireev <klim.kireev@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Message-id: 20180112090122.1702-2-klim.kireev@virtuozzo.com
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The number of queues supported by the slave is queried with
message VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM, not with message
VHOST_USER_GET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Add VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG/VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG messages which can be
used for live migration of vhost user devices, also vhost user devices
can benefit from the messages to get/set virtio config space from/to the
I/O target. For the purpose to support virtio config space change,
VHOST_USER_SLAVE_CONFIG_CHANGE_MSG message is added as the event notifier
in case virtio config space change in the slave I/O target.
Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The vhost-user protocol specification does not define "guest address"
and "user address". It does not explain how to access memory given such
addresses.
This patch explains how memory access works, including the IOTLB.
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
When you cancel an in-progress 'mirror' job (or "active `block-commit`")
with QMP `block-job-cancel`, it emits the event: BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED.
However, when `block-job-cancel` is issued *after* `drive-mirror` has
indicated (via the event BLOCK_JOB_READY) that the source and
destination have reached synchronization:
[...] # Snip `drive-mirror` invocation & outputs
{
"execute":"block-job-cancel",
"arguments":{
"device":"virtio0"
}
}
{"return": {}}
It (`block-job-cancel`) will counterintuitively emit the event
'BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED':
{
"timestamp":{
"seconds":1510678024,
"microseconds":526240
},
"event":"BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED",
"data":{
"device":"virtio0",
"len":41126400,
"offset":41126400,
"speed":0,
"type":"mirror"
}
}
But this is expected behaviour, where the _COMPLETED event indicates
that synchronization has successfully ended (and the destination now has
a point-in-time copy, which is at the time of cancel).
So add a small note to this effect in 'block-core.json'. While at it,
also update the "Live disk synchronization -- drive-mirror and
blockdev-mirror" section in 'live-block-operations.rst'.
(Thanks: Max Reitz for reminding me of this caveat on IRC.)
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qemu.org enabled HTTPS in 2017 and it should be used instead of HTTP.
There are also URLs to json.org, openvpn.net, and other domains that
support HTTPS.
This patch updates the qemu.org domains everywhere and also third-party
domains that I have checked.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20171121120435.28728-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The owner of qemu.org has delegated authority to modify DNS records to
the QEMU Project. This has allowed us to use the domain name without
worries about IP address changes or technical issues disrupting service.
The issues described in commit 8593898109
("Use qemu-project.org domain name") have therefore been mitigated.
This patch switches back to consistently using qemu.org instead of
qemu-project.org in documentation, version.rc, and the Windows installer
script.
The git submodules and SeaBIOS still use qemu-project.org for the time
being. This will be fixed in the QEMU 2.12 release cycle.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20171121120435.28728-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Introduce a privileged helper to run persistent reservation commands.
This lets virtual machines send persistent reservations without using
CAP_SYS_RAWIO or out-of-tree patches. The helper uses Unix permissions
and SCM_RIGHTS to restrict access to processes that can access its socket
and prove that they have an open file descriptor for a raw SCSI device.
The next patch will also correct the usage of persistent reservations
with multipath devices.
It would also be possible to support for Linux's IOC_PR_* ioctls in
the future, to support NVMe devices. For now, however, only SCSI is
supported.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Currently, vhost-user does not implement any means for notifying the
backend about guest endianess. This commit introduces a new message
called VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENDIAN which is analogous to the ioctl()
called VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN used for kernel vhost backends. Such
message is necessary for backends supporting legacy (pre-1.0) virtio
devices running in big-endian guests.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Cui <cui@nutanix.com>
This patch documents (including their QMP invocations) all the four
major kinds of live block operations:
- `block-stream`
- `block-commit`
- `drive-mirror` (& `blockdev-mirror`)
- `drive-backup` (& `blockdev-backup`)
Things considered while writing this document:
- Use reStructuredText as markup language (with the goal of generating
the HTML output using the Sphinx Documentation Generator). It is
gentler on the eye, and can be trivially converted to different
formats. (Another reason: upstream QEMU is considering to switch to
Sphinx, which uses reStructuredText as its markup language.)
- Raw QMP JSON output vs. 'qmp-shell'. I debated with myself whether
to only show raw QMP JSON output (as that is the canonical
representation), or use 'qmp-shell', which takes key-value pairs. I
settled on the approach of: for the first occurrence of a command,
use raw JSON; for subsequent occurrences, use 'qmp-shell', with an
occasional exception.
- Usage of `-blockdev` command-line.
- Usage of 'node-name' vs. file path to refer to disks. While we have
`blockdev-{mirror, backup}` as 'node-name'-alternatives for
`drive-{mirror, backup}`, the `block-commit` command still operates
on file names for parameters 'base' and 'top'. So I added a caveat
at the beginning to that effect.
Refer this related thread that I started (where I learnt
`block-stream` was recently reworked to accept 'node-name' for 'top'
and 'base' parameters):
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg06466.html
"[RFC] Making 'block-stream', and 'block-commit' accept node-name"
All commands showed in this document were tested while documenting.
Thanks: Eric Blake for the section: "A note on points-in-time vs file
names". This useful bit was originally articulated by Eric in his
KVMForum 2015 presentation, so I included that specific bit in this
document.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170717105205.32639-3-kchamart@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
This is part of the on-going effort to convert QEMU upstream
documentation syntax to reStructuredText (rST).
The conversion to rST was done using:
$ pandoc -f markdown -t rst bitmaps.md -o bitmaps.rst
Then, make a couple of small syntactical adjustments. While at it,
reword a statement to avoid ambiguity. Addressing the feedback from
this thread:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg05428.html
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170717105205.32639-2-kchamart@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
A bitmap directory entry is sometimes called a 'bitmap header'. This
patch leaves only one name - 'bitmap directory entry'. The name 'bitmap
header' creates misunderstandings with 'qcow2 header' and 'qcow2 bitmap
header extension' (which is extension of qcow2 header)
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170628120530.31251-3-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170628120530.31251-2-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Update the qcow2 specification to describe how the LUKS header is
placed inside a qcow2 file, when using LUKS encryption for the
qcow2 payload instead of the legacy AES-CBC encryption
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170623162419.26068-13-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This is for the future interoperability & management guide. It includes
the QAPI docs, including the automatically generated ones, other socket
protocols (vhost-user, VNC), and the qcow2 file format.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
