The "loadparm" machine property is useful for selecting alternative
kernels on the disk of the guest, but so far we do not tell the users
yet how to use it. Add some documentation to fill this gap.
Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2128235
Message-Id: <20221114132502.110213-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220707163720.1421716-5-berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
In rST markup, single backticks `like this` represent "interpreted
text", which can be handled as a bunch of different things if tagged
with a specific "role":
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#interpreted-text
(the most common one for us is "reference to a URL, which gets
hyperlinked").
The default "role" if none is specified is "title_reference",
intended for references to book or article titles, and it renders
into the HTML as <cite>...</cite> (usually comes out as italics).
To format a literal (generally rendered as fixed-width font),
double-backticks are required.
protvirt.rst consistently uses single backticks when double backticks
are required; correct it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210726142338.31872-7-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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>
At least some s390 cpu models support "Protected Virtualization" (PV),
a mechanism to protect guests from eavesdropping by a compromised
hypervisor.
This is similar in function to other mechanisms like AMD's SEV and
POWER's PEF, which are controlled by the "confidential-guest-support"
machine option. s390 is a slightly special case, because we already
supported PV, simply by using a CPU model with the required feature
(S390_FEAT_UNPACK).
To integrate this with the option used by other platforms, we
implement the following compromise:
- When the confidential-guest-support option is set, s390 will
recognize it, verify that the CPU can support PV (failing if not)
and set virtio default options necessary for encrypted or protected
guests, as on other platforms. i.e. if confidential-guest-support
is set, we will either create a guest capable of entering PV mode,
or fail outright.
- If confidential-guest-support is not set, guests might still be
able to enter PV mode, if the CPU has the right model. This may be
a little surprising, but shouldn't actually be harmful.
To start a guest supporting Protected Virtualization using the new
option use the command line arguments:
-object s390-pv-guest,id=pv0 -machine confidential-guest-support=pv0
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Booting on s390x is a little bit different compared to other architectures.
Let's add some information for people who are not yet used to this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200806150507.12073-1-thuth@redhat.com>
[CH: minor wording tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Fix the type name in the mdevctl example.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20200716145031.771476-1-cohuck@redhat.com>
There is some additional information about the 3270 support in our Wiki
at https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/3270 - so let's include this information
into the main documentation now to have one single source of information
(the Wiki page could later be removed).
While at it, I also shortened the lines of the first example a little bit.
Otherwise they showed up with a horizontal scrollbar in my Firefox browser.
Message-Id: <20200713075112.442-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
device_del requires an id and not a sysfsfile.
Fixes: bac03ec72f ("s390x/vfio-ap: document hot plug/unplug of vfio-ap device")
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200617160604.5593-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
[CH: add missing '$']
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Add a basic example for passing a dasd via vfio-ccw.
Message-Id: <20200518075522.97643-1-cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Add some basic info how to use 3270 devices.
Message-Id: <20200515151518.83950-3-cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Let's add some documentation for the Protected VM functionality.
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20200319131921.2367-16-frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Create a subdirectory for s390x under docs/system/ and move the
existing vfio-ap documentation there.
Create an initial document describing s390x system emulation.
Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20200318103940.1169-1-cohuck@redhat.com>
