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Markus Armbruster
f037809907 help: Fix markup of heading "USB options" so it appears in -help
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-18 08:39:48 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
c70a01e449 doc: Fix texinfo @table markup in qemu-options.hx
End tables before headings, start new ones afterwards.  Fixes
incorrect indentation of headings "File system options" and "Virtual
File system pass-through options" in manual page and qemu-doc.

Normalize markup some to increase chances it survives future edits.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-5-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-18 08:39:48 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
6265c43b0c doc: Fill some option doc gaps in manual page and qemu-doc
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-4-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-18 08:39:48 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
b8f490eb27 doc: Fix some option entries in qemu-doc's function index
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-18 08:39:47 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
31e70d6c12 help: Drop bogus help on -qtest and -qtest-log
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360781383-28635-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-18 08:39:47 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
d037d6bbbc chardev: Fix manual page and qemu-doc for -chardev tty
Broken in commit d59044ef.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360767256-610-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-13 11:57:32 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
3949e59414 qemu-char: Saner naming of memchar stuff & doc fixes
New device, has never been released, so we can still improve things
without worrying about compatibility.

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.  Therefore:

* Rename CirMemCharDriver to RingBufCharDriver, and call the thing a
  "ringbuf" in the API.

* Rename QMP and HMP commands from memchar-FOO to ringbuf-FOO.

* Rename device parameter from maxcapacity to size (simple words are
  good for you).

* Clearly mark the parameter as optional in documentation.

* Fix error reporting so that chardev-add reports to current monitor,
  not stderr.

* Replace cirmem in C identifiers by ringbuf.

* Rework documentation.  Document the impact of our crappy UTF-8
  handling on reading.

* QMP examples that even work.

I could split this up into multiple commits, but they'd change the
same documentation lines multiple times.  Not worth it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-06 16:35:19 -06:00
Lei Li
51767e7cf2 qemu-char: Add new char backend CirMemCharDriver
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2013-01-25 11:23:06 -02:00
Tim Hardeck
7536ee4bc3 vnc: added initial websocket protocol support
This patch adds basic Websocket Protocol version 13 - RFC 6455 - support
to QEMU VNC. Binary encoding support on the client side is mandatory.

Because of the GnuTLS requirement the Websockets implementation is
optional (--enable-vnc-ws).

To activate Websocket support the VNC option "websocket"is used, for
example "-vnc :0,websocket".
The listen port for Websocket connections is (5700 + display) so if
QEMU VNC is started with :0 the Websocket port would be 5700.
As an alternative the Websocket port could be manually specified by
using ",websocket=<port>" instead.

Parts of the implementation base on Anthony Liguori's QEMU Websocket
patch from 2010 and on Joel Martin's LibVNC Websocket implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tim Hardeck <thardeck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-01-21 13:33:12 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
88a946d32d chardev: add parallel chardev support to chardev-add (qmp)
Also alias the old parport name to parallel for -chardev.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2013-01-16 06:58:54 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann
d59044ef74 chardev: add serial chardev support to chardev-add (qmp)
Similar to file, except that no separate in/out files are supported
because it's pointless for direct device access.  Also the special
tty ioctl hooks (pass through linespeed settings etc) are activated
on Unix.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2013-01-16 06:58:54 +01:00
Marc-André Lureau
5a49d3e9a7 spice-qemu-char: add spiceport chardev
Add a new spice chardev to allow arbitrary communication between the
host and the Spice client via the spice server.

Examples:

This allows the Spice client to have a special port for the qemu
monitor:

... -chardev spiceport,name=org.qemu.monitor,id=monitorport
    -mon chardev=monitorport

v2:
- remove support for chardev to chardev linking
- conditionnaly compile with SPICE_SERVER_VERSION

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-12-17 14:01:41 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
3528a3cba1 qemu-options: Fix space at EOL
There's no need to add a space at the end of line.
Moreover, it can make problems in some projects that
store the help output into a file (and run couple of
tests based on that) and have space at EOL forbidden.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2012-12-07 12:34:12 +01:00
Kevin Wolf
a13e5e0557 Documentation: Update block cache mode information
Somehow we forgot to update this when cache=writeback became the
default. While changing the information on the default, also make the
description of all caches modes a bit more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2012-11-30 11:33:24 +01:00
Bruce Rogers
c6e88b3b27 Legacy qemu-kvm options have no argument
The options no-kvm, no-kvm-pit, no-kvm-pit-reinjection, and no-kvm-irqchip
should be marked as having no argument.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-11-23 10:37:04 -02:00
Anthony Liguori
a36e956128 Merge remote-tracking branch 'kiszka/queues/slirp' into staging
* kiszka/queues/slirp:
  slirp: Add domain-search option to slirp's DHCP server
  slirp: Don't crash on packets from 0.0.0.0/8.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-11-19 09:27:24 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
ad1db3b341 Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging
* kwolf/for-anthony: (26 commits)
  qemu-io: Use bdrv_drain_all instead of qemu_aio_flush
  megasas: Use bdrv_drain_all instead of qemu_aio_flush
  vmdk: Fix data corruption bug in WRITE and READ handling
  fdc: remove last usage of FD_STATE_SEEK
  fdc: fix typo in zero constant
  fdc: remove double affectation of FD_MSR_CMDBUSY flag
  fdc-tests: add tests for VERIFY command
  fdc: implement VERIFY command
  fdc-test: Check READ ID
  fdc: fix false FD_SR0_SEEK
  fdc: fix FD_SR0_SEEK for initial seek on DMA transfers
  fdc: fix FD_SR0_SEEK for non-DMA transfers and multi sectors transfers
  fdc: use status0 field instead of a local variable
  fdc-test: add tests for non-DMA READ command
  fdc-test: insert media before fuzzing registers
  fdc-test: split test_media_change() test, so insert part can be reused
  fdc: Remove status0 parameter from fdctrl_set_fifo()
  aio: rename AIOPool to AIOCBInfo
  aio: use g_slice_alloc() for AIOCB pooling
  aio: switch aiocb_size type int -> size_t
  ...

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-11-19 09:27:00 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
68d98d3e42 vl: add -object option to create QOM objects from the command line
This will create a new QOM object in the '/objects' path.  Note that properties
are set in order which allows for simple objects to be initialized entirely
with this option and then realized.

This option is roughly equivalent to -device but for things that are not
devices.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-11-16 08:36:12 -06:00
Klaus Stengel
63d2960bc4 slirp: Add domain-search option to slirp's DHCP server
This patch will allow the user to include the domain-search option in
replies from the built-in DHCP server. The domain suffixes can be
specified by adding dnssearch= entries to the "-net user" parameter.

[Jan: tiny style adjustments]

Signed-off-by: Klaus Stengel <Klaus.Stengel@asamnet.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2012-11-15 10:27:14 +01:00
Bharata B Rao
8809e28937 qemu: Document GlusterFS block driver usage
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-11-14 18:19:21 +01:00
Jan Kiszka
a0dac021fa Emulate qemu-kvms -no-kvm option
Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm
to qemu.git.

Port -no-kvm option.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-10-30 23:39:53 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
88eed34a6b Issue warning when deprecated -tdf option is used
Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm
to qemu.git.

Port -tdf option.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-10-30 23:39:52 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
c21fb4f8b8 Use global properties to emulate -no-kvm-pit-reinjection
Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm
to qemu.git.

Port -no-kvm-pit-reinjection.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-10-30 23:39:51 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
4086bde8c0 Issue warning when deprecated -no-kvm-pit is used
Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm
to qemu.git.

Port -no-kvm-pit option.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-10-30 23:39:50 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
e43d594ee5 Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip
Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm
to qemu.git.

Port -no-kvm-irqchip option.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-10-30 23:39:50 -02:00
Corey Bryant
587ed6be0b qemu-config: Add new -add-fd command line option
This option can be used for passing file descriptors on the
command line.  It mirrors the existing add-fd QMP command which
allows an fd to be passed to QEMU via SCM_RIGHTS and added to an
fd set.

This can be combined with commands such as -drive to link file
descriptors in an fd set to a drive:

    qemu-kvm -add-fd fd=3,set=2,opaque="rdwr:/path/to/file"
             -add-fd fd=4,set=2,opaque="rdonly:/path/to/file"
             -drive file=/dev/fdset/2,index=0,media=disk

This example adds dups of fds 3 and 4, and the accompanying opaque
strings to the fd set with ID=2.  qemu_open() already knows how
to handle a filename of this format.  qemu_open() searches the
corresponding fd set for an fd and when it finds a match, QEMU
goes on to use a dup of that fd just like it would have used an
fd that it opened itself.

Signed-off-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-10-24 10:26:19 +02:00
Peter Maydell
585f60368f qemu-options.hx: Change from recommending '?' to 'help'
Update the -help output and documentation so that it recommends
'help' rather than '?' for the various "list valid values for this
option" cases. '?' is deprecated (as it can fail confusingly if
not quoted), so it's better to steer users towards 'help'. ('?'
still works, for backwards compatibility.)

This is the -help option part of the change otherwise done in
commit c8057f9, since we are now past release 1.2 and free to
change our help text without worrying about breaking libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2012-10-19 20:29:54 +02:00
Amos Kong
ac05f34924 add a boot parameter to set reboot timeout
Added an option to let qemu transfer a configuration file to bios,
"etc/boot-fail-wait", which could be specified by command
    -boot reboot-timeout=T
T have a max value of 0xffff, unit is ms.

With this option, guest will wait for a given time if not find
bootabled device, then reboot. If reboot-timeout is '-1', guest
will not reboot, qemu passes '-1' to bios by default.

This feature need the new seabios's support.

Seabios pulls the value from the fwcfg "file" interface, this
interface is used because SeaBIOS needs a reliable way of
obtaining a name, value size, and value. It in no way requires
that there be a real file on the user's host machine.

Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-09-25 20:05:04 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
de71bd6f77 Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/net' into staging
* stefanha/net:
  net: EAGAIN handling for net/socket.c TCP
  net: EAGAIN handling for net/socket.c UDP
  net: asynchronous send/receive infrastructure for net/socket.c
  net: broadcast hub packets if at least one port can receive
  net: fix usbnet_receive() packet drops
  net: clean up usbnet_receive()
  net: add -netdev options to man page
  net: do not report queued packets as sent
  net: add receive_disabled logic to iov delivery path
  eepro100: Fix network hang when rx buffers run out
  xen: flush queue when getting an event
  e1000: flush queue whenever can_receive can go from false to true
  net: notify iothread after flushing queue
2012-09-17 10:20:48 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
8490fc78e7 add -machine mem-merge=on|off option
It allows to disable memory merge support (KSM on Linux), which is
enabled by default otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-09-17 10:18:47 -05:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
08d12022c7 net: add -netdev options to man page
Document the -netdev syntax which supercedes the older -net syntax.
This patch is a first step to making -netdev prominent in the QEMU
manual.

Reported-by: Anatoly Techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-14 08:40:32 +01:00
Yonit Halperin
27af778828 spice: increase the verbosity of spice section in "qemu --help"
Added all spice options to the help string. This can be used by libvirt
to determine which spice related features are supported by qemu.

Signed-off-by: Yonit Halperin <yhalperi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-09-05 17:11:55 +02:00
Yonit Halperin
8c9570530c spice: adding seamless-migration option to the command line
The seamless-migration flag is required in order to identify
whether libvirt supports the new QEVENT_SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED or not
(by default the flag is off).
New libvirt versions that wait for QEVENT_SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED should turn on this flag.
When this flag is off, spice fallbacks to its old migration method, which
can result in data loss.

Signed-off-by: Yonit Halperin <yhalperi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-09-05 17:11:55 +02:00
malc
e4558dcae8 Revert "qemu-options.hx: mention retrace= VGA option"
This reverts commit 39dda26062.

Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-08-27 18:33:21 +04:00
malc
df8002103c Revert "vga: add some optional CGA compatibility hacks"
This reverts commit 482f7bf86b.

Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-08-27 18:33:20 +04:00
malc
4f213879f3 Revert "i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option"
This reverts commit f278d4947f.

Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-08-27 18:33:12 +04:00
Matthew Ogilvie
f278d4947f i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option
This patch provides a way to optionally suppress spurious interrupts,
as a workaround for systems described below:

Some old operating systems do not handle spurious interrupts well,
and qemu tends to generate them significantly more often than
real hardware.

Examples:
  - Microport UNIX System V/386 v 2.1 (ca 1987)
    (The main problem I'm fixing: Without this patch, it panics
    sporadically when accessing the hard disk.)
  - AT&T UNIX System V/386 Release 4.0 Version 2.1a (ca 1991)
    See screenshot in "QEMU Official OS Support List":
    http://www.claunia.com/qemu/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9
    (I don't have this system to test.)
  - A report about OS/2 boot lockup from 2004 by Hampa Hug:
    http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-09/msg00367.html
    (My patch was partially inspired by his.)
    Also: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-06/msg00243.html
    (I don't have this system to test.)

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_qemu@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-08-24 07:44:39 +04:00
Matthew Ogilvie
482f7bf86b vga: add some optional CGA compatibility hacks
This patch adds some optional compatibility hacks (default
disabled) to allow Microport UNIX to function under qemu.

I've tried to structure it to be easy to add more hacks for other
old CGA programs, if anyone ever needs them.

Microport UNIX System V/386 v 2.1 (ca 1987) tries to program
the CGA registers directly with neither the assistance of BIOS, nor
with proper handling of EGA/VGA-only registers.  Note that it didn't
work on real VGA hardware, either (although in that case, the most
obvious problems seemed to be out-of-range hsync and/or vsync
signalling, rather than the issues in this patch).

Eventually real MDA and/or CGA support might provide an alternative to
this patch, although a hybrid approach like this patch might still
be useful in marginal cases.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_qemu@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-08-24 07:44:39 +04:00
Matthew Ogilvie
39dda26062 qemu-options.hx: mention retrace= VGA option
The feature was added in commit cb5a7aa8c3 Sep 2008.
My description is based on "Better VGA retrace emulation (needed
for some DOS games/demos)" from
http://www.boblycat.org/~malc/code/patches/qemu/index.html

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_qemu@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-08-24 07:44:38 +04:00
Eduardo Otubo
7d76ad4fa4 Command line support for seccomp with -sandbox (v8)
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
---
v7 -> v8
 - Parse options correctly (aliguori)
2012-08-16 13:41:16 -05:00
Jason Baron
ddb97f1deb memory: add -machine dump-guest-core=on|off
Add a new '[,dump-guest-core=on|off]' option to the '-machine' option. When
'dump-guest-core=off' is specified, guest memory is omitted from the core dump.
The default behavior continues to be to include guest memory when a core dump is
triggered. In my testing, this brought the core dump size down from 384MB to 6MB
on a 2GB guest.

Is anything additional required to preserve this setting for migration or
savevm? I don't believe so.

Changelog:
v3:
    Eliminate globals as per Anthony's suggestion
    set no dump from qemu_ram_remap() as well
v2:
    move the option from -m to -machine, rename option dump -> dump-guest-core

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-08-16 13:41:15 -05:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
31459f463a iscsi: Pick default initiator-name based on the name of the VM
This patch updates the iscsi layer to automatically pick a 'unique'
initiator-name based on the name of the vm in case the user has not set
an explicit iqn-name to use.

Create a new function qemu_get_vm_name() that returns the name of the VM,
if specified.

This way we can thus create default names to use as the initiator name
based on the guest session.

If the VM is not named via the '-name' command line argument, the iscsi
initiator-name used wiull simply be

    iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm

If a name for the VM was specified with the '-name' option, iscsi will
use a default initiatorname of

    iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:<name>

These names are just the default iscsi initiator name that qemu will
generate/use only when the user has not set an explicit initiator name
via the commandlines or config files.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
2012-08-09 15:04:09 +02:00
Paul Moore
0f66998ff6 vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode
FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is used
by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network.  The
solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when the
host system is operating in FIPS compliance mode and the user has specified
'-enable-fips' on the QEMU command line.

This patch causes QEMU to emit a message to stderr when the host system is
running in FIPS mode and a VNC password was specified on the commend line.
If the system is not running in FIPS mode, or is running in FIPS mode but
VNC password authentication was not requested, QEMU operates normally.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-08-03 14:28:40 -05:00
Peter Maydell
c8057f951d Support 'help' as a synonym for '?' in command line options
For command line options which permit '?' meaning 'please list the
permitted values', add support for 'help' as a synonym, by abstracting
the check out into a helper function.

This change means that in some cases where we were being lazy in
our string parsing, "?junk" will now be rejected as an invalid option
rather than being (undocumentedly) treated the same way as "?".

Update the documentation to use 'help' rather than '?', since '?'
is a shell metacharacter and thus prone to fail confusingly if there
is a single character filename in the current working directory and
the '?' has not been escaped. It's therefore better to steer users
towards 'help', though '?' is retained for backwards compatibility.

We do not, however, update the output of the system emulator's -help
(or any documentation autogenerated from the qemu-options.hx which
is the source of the -help text) because libvirt parses our -help
output and will break. At a later date when QEMU provides a better
interface so libvirt can avoid having to do this, we can update the
-help text too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-08-02 13:16:42 -05:00
Stefan Weil
43ffe61f9c Fix some more Qemus in documentation and help text
Hopefully they will be eliminated one day.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-21 10:54:40 +01:00
Michal Novotny
86ee5bc304 qemu-options.hx: Fix set_password and expire_password description
The description for set_password and expire_password commands is
incomplete. This patch fixes the man page that is being generated
to match the real behaviour of these functions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-07-17 15:40:15 -05:00
Michal Novotny
66c19bf120 qemu-options.hx: Improve -nodefaults description
This patch improves the description of -nodefaults QEMU command line
option by adding more information what is being disabled using this
command.

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-07-17 15:40:15 -05:00
Michal Novotny
ed24cfac07 qemu-options.hx: Improve -{read|write}config options description
This is the patch to improve description for -{read|write}config
functions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-07-17 15:40:15 -05:00
Alexander Graf
b412eb61bf slirp: add 'cmd:' target for guestfwd
When using guestfwd=, Qemu only connects the virtual server's TCP port
to a single chardev. This is useless in most cases, as we usually want
to have more than a single connection from the guest to the outside world.

This patch adds a new cmd: target to guestfwd= that allows for execution
of a command on every TCP connection. This leverages the same code as
the -smb parameter, just that here the command is user defined.

Reported-by: Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2012-07-09 17:38:13 +02:00
Anthony Liguori
82ac96a72b Merge remote-tracking branch 'sweil/for-1.1' into staging
* sweil/for-1.1:
  qemu-doc: Use QEMU instead of qemu for product name
  qemu-doc: Fix executable name in examples
  qemu-doc: Add missing parameter in description of -D option
  configure: Use QEMU instead of Qemu
  fix some common typos
  qemu-timer: Fix wrong error message
2012-05-14 10:06:50 -05:00
Stefan Weil
b65ee4fa29 qemu-doc: Use QEMU instead of qemu for product name
When 'qemu' was used as a product name or as a generic process name,
it is now replaced by the official upper case 'QEMU'.

v2:
Added missing period (hint from Andreas Färber).

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
2012-05-14 07:27:24 +02:00
Stefan Weil
3804da9dbe qemu-doc: Fix executable name in examples
The executable name qemu was replaced some time ago by qemu-system-i386.
Fix all examples accordingly.

Some examples will only work with qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64
for obvious reasons ("dos.img").

To keep things simple, I did not vary the executable name.
Place holders like qemu-system-TARGET were also only used once
in the enhanced description for QEMU launches using Wine.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
2012-05-14 07:27:24 +02:00
Stefan Weil
8bd383b41a qemu-doc: Add missing parameter in description of -D option
'logfile' is a place holder for a non optional parameter.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
2012-05-14 07:27:24 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
f29a56147b implement -no-user-config command-line option (v3)
Changes v2 -> v3:
 - Rebase against latest qemu.git

Changes v1 -> v2:
 - Change 'userconfig' field/variables to bool instead of int
 - Coding style change

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-05-10 12:37:57 -05:00
Stefan Weil
071c939458 Replace Qemu by QEMU in user visible documentation
The official spelling is QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-04-07 13:58:06 +00:00
Blue Swirl
b7c8e15a14 Merge branch 'arm-devs.for-upstream' of git://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm
* 'arm-devs.for-upstream' of git://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm:
  pl031: switch clock base to rtc_clock
  pl031: rearm alarm timer upon load
  arm: switch real-time clocks to rtc_clock
  omap: switch omap_lpg to vm_clock
  rtc: add -rtc clock=rt
2012-03-31 12:10:07 +00:00
Anthony Liguori
c7f0f3b1c8 qtest: add test framework
The idea behind qtest is pretty simple.  Instead of executing a CPU via TCG or
KVM, rely on an external process to send events to the device model that the CPU
would normally generate.

qtest presents itself as an accelerator.  In addition, a new option is added to
establish a qtest server (-qtest) that takes a character device.  This is what
allows the external process to send CPU events to the device model.

qtest uses a simple line based protocol to send the events.  Documentation of
that protocol is in qtest.c.

I considered reusing the monitor for this job.  Adding interrupts would be a bit
difficult.  In addition, logging would also be difficult.

qtest has extensive logging support.  All protocol commands are logged with
time stamps using a new command line option (-qtest-log).  Logging is important
since ultimately, this is a feature for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-30 08:14:11 -05:00
Paolo Bonzini
788081417a rtc: add -rtc clock=rt
This will let people use backwards-compatible semantics for devices that
will be affected by the following patches.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2012-03-30 10:31:21 +00:00
Miroslav Rezanina
3017b72cd0 Man page: Add -global description
There's only TODO information in qemu man page for -global option. This is a basic description of this option with simple example.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>

v4:
 - break long line

v3:
 - add use case description
 - use prop instead of property

v2:
 - Use better value in example
Patch:
--
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-26 14:21:14 -05:00
Peter A. G. Crosthwaite
379b5c7c3c qemu-options.hx: allow -dtb argument for all archs
Signed-off-by: Peter A. G. Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@petalogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
2012-03-05 23:00:15 +01:00
Grant Likely
412beee6a0 arm: add device tree support
If compiled with CONFIG_FDT, allow user to specify a device tree file using
the -dtb argument.  If the machine supports it then the dtb will be loaded
into memory and passed to the kernel on boot.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
[Peter Maydell: Use machine opt rather than global to pass dtb filename]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2012-03-02 11:56:38 +00:00
Anthony Liguori
6c263e26a5 Merge remote-tracking branch 'qemu-kvm/uq/master' into staging
* qemu-kvm/uq/master:
  apic: Fix legacy vmstate loading for KVM
  kvm: Implement kvm_irqchip_in_kernel like kvm_enabled
  kvm: Allow to set shadow MMU size
2012-02-15 18:41:28 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
cf5cfe0471 Merge remote-tracking branch 'kraxel/vnc.2' into staging
* kraxel/vnc.2:
  vnc: lift modifier keys on client disconnect.
  vnc: implement shared flag handling.
  vnc: fix ctrl key in vnc terminal emulation
  Fix vnc memory corruption with width = 1400
2012-02-15 18:40:53 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
8cf364898c vnc: implement shared flag handling.
VNC clients send a shared flag in the client init message.  Up to now
qemu completely ignores this.  This patch implements shared flag
handling.  It comes with three policies:  By default qemu behaves as one
would expect:  Asking for a exclusive access grants exclusive access to
the client connecting.  There is also a desktop sharing mode which
disallows exclusive connects (so one forgetting -shared wouldn't drop
everybody else) and a compatibility mode which mimics the traditional
(but non-conforming) qemu behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-02-10 09:58:33 +01:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
f9dadc9855 iSCSI: add configuration variables for iSCSI
This patch adds configuration variables for iSCSI to set
initiator-name to use when logging in to the target,
which type of header-digest to negotiate with the target
and username and password for CHAP authentication.

This allows specifying a initiator-name either from the command line
-iscsi initiator-name=iqn.2004-01.com.example:test
or from a configuration file included with -readconfig
    [iscsi]
      initiator-name = iqn.2004-01.com.example:test
      header-digest = CRC32C|CRC32C-NONE|NONE-CRC32C|NONE
      user = CHAP username
      password = CHAP password

If you use several different targets, you can also configure this on a per
target basis by using a group name:
    [iscsi "iqn.target.name"]
    ...

The configuration file can be read using -readconfig.
Example :
qemu-system-i386 -drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.ronnie.test/1
 -readconfig iscsi.conf

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-02-09 16:17:50 +01:00
Jan Kiszka
39d6960aab kvm: Allow to set shadow MMU size
Introduce the KVM-specific machine option kvm_shadow_mem. It allows to
set a custom shadow MMU size for the virtual machine. This is useful for
stress testing e.g.

Only x86 supports this for now, but it is in principle a generic
concept for all targets with shadow MMUs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-02-08 15:57:50 -02:00
Anthony Liguori
dc717bfd05 Merge remote-tracking branch 'aneesh/for-upstream' into staging
* aneesh/for-upstream:
  hw/9pfs: Remove O_NOATIME flag from 9pfs open() calls in readonly mode
  hw/9pfs: Update MAINTAINERS file
  fsdev: Fix parameter parsing for proxy helper
  hw/9pfs: Fix crash when mounting with synthfs
  hw/9pfs: Preserve S_ISGID
  hw/9pfs: Add new security model mapped-file.
2012-02-08 07:23:55 -06:00
Corey Bryant
a7c36ee492 Add support for net bridge
The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge.  This
requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a
tap device to pass to the script.

This model is great for portability and flexibility but it's incredibly
difficult to eliminate the need to run qemu as root.  The only really viable
mechanism is to use tunctl to create a tap device, attach it to a bridge as
root, and then hand that tap device to qemu.  The problem with this mechanism
is that it requires administrator intervention whenever a user wants to create
a guest.

By essentially writing a helper that implements the most common qemu-ifup
script that can be safely given cap_net_admin, we can dramatically simplify
things for non-privileged users.  We still support existing -net tap options
as a mechanism for advanced users and backwards compatibility.

Currently, this is very Linux centric but there's really no reason why it
couldn't be extended for other Unixes.

A typical invocation would be similar to one of the following:

  qemu linux.img -net bridge -net nic,model=virtio

  qemu linux.img -net tap,helper="/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper"
                 -net nic,model=virtio

  qemu linux.img -netdev bridge,id=hn0
                 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,id=nic1

  qemu linux.img -netdev tap,helper="/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper",id=hn0
                 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,id=nic1

The default bridge that we attach to is br0.  The thinking is that a distro
could preconfigure such an interface to allow out-of-the-box bridged networking.

Alternatively, if a user wants to use a different bridge, a typical invocation
would be simliar to one of the following:

  qemu linux.img -net bridge,br=qemubr0 -net nic,model=virtio

  qemu linux.img -net tap,helper="/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper --br=qemubr0"
                 -net nic,model=virtio

  qemu linux.img -netdev bridge,br=qemubr0,id=hn0
                 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,id=nic1

  qemu linux.img -netdev tap,helper="/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper --br=qemubr0",id=hn0
                 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,id=nic1

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richa Marwaha <rmarwah@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-02-01 16:24:40 -06:00
Jan Kiszka
6a48ffaaa7 kvm: Activate in-kernel irqchip support
Make the basic in-kernel irqchip support selectable via
-machine ...,kernel_irqchip=on. Leave it off by default until it can
fully replace user space models.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2012-01-19 12:14:42 +01:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
2c30dd744a hw/9pfs: Add new security model mapped-file.
This enable us to do passthrough equivalent security model on NFS directory.
NFS server mostly do root squashing and don't support xattr. Hence we cannot
use 'passthrough' or 'mapped' security model

Also added "mapped-xattr" security to indicate earlier "mapped" security model
Older name is still supported.

POSIX rules regarding ctime update on chmod are not followed by this security model.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-19 12:21:11 +05:30
Benjamin
0e0e7facc7 Support for UDP unicast network backend
Signed-off-by: Benjamin MARSILI <mlspirat42@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-01-12 10:34:20 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
a2e4d53ec5 Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/trivial-patches' into staging
* stefanha/trivial-patches:
  qemu-nbd: drop loop which can never loop
  Make python mandatory
  net/socket.c: Fix fd leak in net_socket_listen_init() error paths
  gdbstub: Fix fd leak in gdbserver_open() error path
  configure: Fix test for supported host CPU type
  configure: CONFIG_QEMU_INTERP_PREFIX only for user mode
  scsi virtio-blk usb-msd: Clean up device init error messages
  Strip trailing '\n' from error_report()'s first argument (again)
  qemu-options.hx: fix tls-channel help text
2012-01-06 12:51:21 -06:00
Alon Levy
d70d6b3109 qemu-options.hx: fix tls-channel help text
Remove the default compiled out tunnel channel, add the always available
cursor channel. Optimally the man page would depend on compiled in
options, but that's harder to do.

RHBZ: 688586

Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-06 15:07:00 +00:00
M. Mohan Kumar
84a87cc4cc hw/9pfs: Add support to use named socket for proxy FS
Add option to use named socket for communicating between proxy helper
and qemu proxy FS. Access to socket can be given by using command line
options -u and -g.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-04 21:23:55 +05:30
M. Mohan Kumar
f67e3ffd34 hw/9pfs: Documentation changes related to proxy fs
Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-04 21:23:53 +05:30
Michael Ellerman
b1746dddfc Documentation: Move balloon option out of i386 only section
The balloon option is not i386 only, so move it into the standard
options section.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-12-19 10:27:33 -06:00
Michael Ellerman
a3adb7ad3b vl.c: In qemu -h output, only print options for the arch we are running as
Only print options in the help output that are accepted by our arch.
This is less confusing for users and also for other programs that
consume the help output.

The options affected are:

 -g and -prom-env only displayed on PPC or SPARC

 -win2k-hack, -rtc-td-hack, -no-fd-bootchk, -no-acpi, -no-hpet,
 -acpitable, -smbios only displayed on i386

 -semihosting only displayed on ARM, M68K or XTENSA

 -old-param only displayed on ARM

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-12-19 10:27:33 -06:00
Stefan Weil
e7d81004e4 Fix spelling in comments, documentation and messages
accidently->accidentally
annother->another
choosen->chosen
consideres->considers
decriptor->descriptor
developement->development
paramter->parameter
preceed->precede
preceeding->preceding
priviledge->privilege
propogation->propagation
substraction->subtraction
throught->through
upto->up to
usefull->useful

Fix also grammar in posix-aio-compat.c

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-14 11:09:44 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
fb0490f69f block: add -drive copy-on-read=on|off
This patch adds the -drive copy-on-read=on|off command-line option:

  copy-on-read=on|off
  copy-on-read is "on" or "off" and enables whether to copy read backing
  file sectors into the image file.  Copy-on-read avoids accessing the
  same backing file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing
  file is over a slow network.  By default copy-on-read is off.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-05 14:51:38 +01:00
Zhi Yong Wu
0563e19151 block: add the blockio limits command line support
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-05 14:51:35 +01:00
Anthony Liguori
8494a397b6 Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging
Conflicts:
	block/vmdk.c
2011-10-31 11:09:00 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
9db221ae73 hw/9pfs: Add synthetic file system support using 9p
This patch create a synthetic file system with mount tag
v_synth when -virtfs_synth command line option is specified
in qemu. The synthetic file system can be mounted in guest
using 9p using the below command line

mount -t 9p -oversion=9p2000.L,trans=virtio v_synth  <mountpint>

Synthetic file system enabled different qemu subsystem to register
callbacks for read and write events from guest. The subsystem
can create directories and files in the synthetic file system as show
in ex below

    qemu_v9fs_synth_mkdir(NULL, 0777, "test2", &node);
    qemu_v9fs_synth_add_file(node, 0777, "testfile",
                             my_test_read, NULL, NULL);

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-31 12:34:18 +05:30
M. Mohan Kumar
2c74c2cb4b hw/9pfs: Read-only support for 9p export
A new fsdev parameter "readonly" is introduced to control accessing 9p export.
"readonly" can be used to specify the access type. By default "rw" access
is given to 9p export.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-31 12:34:17 +05:30
Ronnie Sahlberg
d99902287c Documentation: Add syntax for using sheepdog devices
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:50 +02:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
08ae330e17 Documentation: Describe NBD URL syntax
This patch adds a short description of how to specify a NBD device
to QEMU.
Syntax for both TCP and Unix Domain Sockets are provided as well
as examples.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:49 +02:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
0f5314a2c8 Documentation: Add iSCSI section
Add new section for device URL syntax for special files and describe the iSCSI
URL with examples

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:49 +02:00
Anthony Liguori
1f99b94932 Merge remote-tracking branch 'aneesh/for-upstream-6' into staging
Conflicts:
	trace-events
2011-10-20 08:42:08 -05:00
M. Mohan Kumar
d9b36a6e56 hw/9pfs: Handle Security model parsing
Except local fs driver all other fs drivers (handle, synth) don't need
security model. Update fsdev parameter parsing accordingly.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-15 15:30:27 +05:30
Aneesh Kumar K.V
7c92a3d2a1 qemu-options.hx: Update virtfs command documentation
Clarify the virtfs option better
Updates from:Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-15 15:30:26 +05:30
Stefan Hajnoczi
3a846906c9 qemu-options: avoid #if in spicevmc texi help
Preprocessor directives cannot be used in STEXI/ETEXI sections since
they are not passed through the preprocessor.  The spicevmc chardev
option help currently uses #if, which is included verbatim in the man
page output.

Fix this by simply stating that spicevmc chardevs are available only in
builds with spice support.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-14 14:36:03 +01:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
d3ab98e691 hw/9pfs: Add new virtfs option writeout=immediate skip host page cache
writeout=immediate implies the after pwritev we do a sync_file_range.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-12 19:11:23 +05:30
Max Filippov
1ddeaa5d42 target-xtensa: implement SIMCALL
Tensilica iss provides support for applications running in freestanding
environment through SIMCALL command. It is used by Tensilica libc to
access argc/argv, for file I/O, etc.

Note that simcalls that accept buffer addresses expect virtual addresses.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-10 16:57:39 +00:00
Stefan Weil
c1ba4e0be1 qemu-options: Improve help texts for options which depend on configure
* Replace "available only" by the more common "only available".

* Tracing options depend on the configuration of the QEMU executable,
  so clarify the help text for both options.

Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-09 09:43:18 +01:00
Brad
e2d8830efc Allow overriding the location of Samba's smbd.
Allow overriding the location of Samba's smbd.

Pretty much every OS I look at has some means of
changing this path (patching) so lets just make
it easier for OS developers creating packages
and/or end users to override the location.

Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-03 17:45:48 +00:00
Lluís
9a82b6a590 trace: [stderr] add support for dynamically enabling/disabling events
Uses the generic interface provided in "trace/control.h" in order to provide
a programmatic interface as well as command line and monitor controls.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
23d15e860b trace: add "-trace events" argument to control initial state
The "-trace events" argument can be used to provide a file with a list of trace
event names that will be enabled prior to starting execution, thus providing
early tracing.

This saves the user from manually toggling event states through the monitor
interface or whichever backend-specific interface.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
e4858974ec trace: avoid conditional code compilation during option parsing
A default implementation for backend-specific routines is provided in
"trace/default.c", which backends can override by setting "trace_default=no" in
"configure".

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:53 +01:00
Lluís
6d8a764e0f trace: [configure] rename CONFIG_*_TRACE into CONFIG_TRACE_*
Provides a more hierarchical view of the variable domain.

Also adds the CONFIG_TRACE_* variables for all backends.

[Stefan added missing 'test' in stap if statement]

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-01 10:34:53 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
92196b2f56 block: add cache=directsync parameter to -drive
This patch adds -drive cache=directsync for O_DIRECT | O_SYNC host file
I/O with no disk write cache presented to the guest.

This mode is useful when guests may not be sending flushes when
appropriate and therefore leave data at risk in case of power failure.
When cache=directsync is used, write operations are only completed to
the guest when data is safely on disk.

This new mode is like cache=writethrough but it bypasses the host page
cache.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-23 14:15:17 +02:00
Michael Tokarev
104bf02eb5 revamp acpitable parsing and allow to specify complete (headerful) table
This patch almost rewrites acpi_table_add() function
(but still leaves it using old get_param_value() interface).
The result is that it's now possible to specify whole table
(together with a header) in an external file, instead of just
data portion, with a new file= parameter, but at the same time
it's still possible to specify header fields as before.

Now with the checkpatch.pl formatting fixes, thanks to
Stefan Hajnoczi for suggestions, with changes from
Isaku Yamahata, and with my further refinements.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: John Baboval <john.baboval@virtualcomputer.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
[yamahata@valinux.co.jp: fix compile error, comment fallthrough]
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-07-30 09:33:31 +00:00
wayne
3d3b8303c6 showing a splash picture when start
Added options to let qemu transfer two configuration files to bios:
"bootsplash.bmp" and "etc/boot-menu-wait", which could be specified by command
    -boot splash=P,splash-time=T
P is jpg/bmp file name or an absolute path, T have a max value of 0xffff, unit
is ms. With these two options, if user invoke qemu with menu=on option, then
a splash picture would be showed in a given time. For example:
    qemu -boot menu=on,splash=/root/boot.bmp,splash-time=5000
would make boot.bmp shown as a brand with 5 seconds in the booting up process.
This feature need the new seabios's support, which could be got from git.

Signed-off-by: Wayne Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-29 08:25:44 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
c54ed5bcdd slirp: Canonicalize restrict syntax
All other boolean arguments accept on|off - except for slirp's restrict.
Fix that while still accepting the formerly allowed yes|y|no|n, but
reject everything else. This avoids accidentally allowing external
connections because syntax errors were so far interpreted as
'restrict=no'.

CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
80f52a6694 Deprecate -M command line options
Superseded by -machine. Therefore, this patch removes -M from the help
list and pushes -machine at the same place in the output.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
9052ea6bf4 Generalize -machine command line option
-machine somehow suggests that it selects the machine, but it doesn't.
Fix that before this command is set in stone.

Actually, -machine should supersede -M and allow to introduce arbitrary
per-machine options to the command line. That will change the internal
realization again, but we will be able to keep the user interface
stable.

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
ae73e5919a qemu-options.hx: Document missing -drive options
They are 'werror', 'rerror' and 'readonly'.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 15:39:05 +02:00
Vasily Khoruzhick
9312805d33 pxa2xx_lcd: add proper rotation support
Until now, pxa2xx_lcd only supported 90deg rotation, but
some machines (for example Zipit Z2) needs 270deg rotation.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
2011-07-04 22:12:21 +02:00
Matthew Fernandez
c235d7387c Command line support for altering the log file location
Add command line support for logging to a location other than /tmp/qemu.log.

With logging enabled (command line option -d), the log is written to
the hard-coded path /tmp/qemu.log. This patch adds support for writing
the log to a different location by passing the -D option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Fernandez <matthew.fernandez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-06-15 16:51:24 +00:00
Brad Hards
caef55ed14 doc: Minor typo fix.
Thanks to agraf_, stefanha and Snader_LB for their IRC assistance.

Thanks to Markus Armbruster and Alexander Graf (again) for their
assistance with the second version of this patch. No patch is too
simple to test...

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
2011-06-10 23:25:36 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau
48b3ed0a68 spice: add SASL support
Turn on SASL support by appending "sasl" to the spice arguments, which
requires that the client use SASL to authenticate with the spice.  The
exact choice of authentication method used is controlled from the
system / user's SASL configuration file for the 'qemu' service. This
is typically found in /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf. If running QEMU as an
unprivileged user, an environment variable SASL_CONF_PATH can be used
to make it search alternate locations for the service config.  While
some SASL auth methods can also provide data encryption (eg GSSAPI),
it is recommended that SASL always be combined with the 'tls' and
'x509' settings to enable use of SSL and server certificates. This
ensures a data encryption preventing compromise of authentication
credentials.

It requires support from spice 0.8.1.

[ kraxel: moved spell fix to separate commit ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-06-06 09:14:42 +02:00
Hans de Goede
d4970b071f spice: add option for disabling copy paste support
Some people want to be able disable spice's guest <-> client copy paste support
because of security considerations.

[ kraxel: drop old-version error message ]
2011-06-06 09:14:42 +02:00
Brad Hards
de1db2a172 doc: Add explanation that -alt-grab and -ctrl-grab affect special keys
Phillip Merensky reported that the special keys (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-f for full
screen) did not work correctly if -alt-grab is used.

BUG: 696530

Review of ui/sdl.c:sdl_refresh indicates that this is the intended behaviour,
so we should update the documentation to match the actual behaviour, as
suggested by Phillip in the bug report.

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-05-15 00:13:48 +02:00
Anthony PERARD
303d4e865b Introduce -machine command option.
This option gives the ability to switch one "accelerator" like kvm, xen
or the default one tcg. We can specify more than one accelerator by
separate them by a colon. QEMU will try each one and use the first whose
works.

So,
./qemu -machine accel=xen:kvm:tcg

which would try Xen support first, then KVM and finally TCG if none of
the other works.

By default, QEMU will use TCG. But we can specify another default in the
global configuration file.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-05-08 10:09:59 +02:00
Brad Hards
b0b36e5d2e doc: fix slirp description
net/slirp.c says:
    /* default settings according to historic slirp */
    struct in_addr net  = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000200) }; /* 10.0.2.0 */
    struct in_addr mask = { .s_addr = htonl(0xffffff00) }; /* 255.255.255.0 */
    struct in_addr host = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000202) }; /* 10.0.2.2 */
    struct in_addr dhcp = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a00020f) }; /* 10.0.2.15 */
    struct in_addr dns  = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000203) }; /* 10.0.2.3 */

Which I think is not what the documentation says.

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-04-25 23:10:04 +02:00
Stefan Weil
61cc8701f3 Fix some typos in comments and documentation
helpfull -> helpful
usefull -> useful
cotrol -> control

and a grammar fix.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-04-16 12:24:28 +01:00
Jes Sorensen
47b053690e error message if user specifies curses on cmd line when curses is disabled
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:12 -05:00
Jes Sorensen
58fc096c76 error message if user specifies SDL cmd line option when SDL is disabled
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:12 -05:00
Jes Sorensen
3264ff120c Add support for -display vnc
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Jes Sorensen
4171d32e6e Introduce -display none
New option -display none. This option differs from -nographic by not
trying to take control of stdio etc. but instead behaves as if a
graphics display is enabled, except that it doesn't show one.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Jes Sorensen
1472a95bab Introduce -display argument
This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the
setting of the display mode. Valid options are:
sdl/curses/default

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Corentin Chary
80e0c8c39b vnc: add a non-adaptive option
This option allow to disable adaptive behaviors in some encodings.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-23 16:28:29 -06:00
mst@redhat.com
5430a28fe4 vhost: force vhost off for non-MSI guests
When MSI is off, each interrupt needs to be bounced through the io
thread when it's set/cleared, so vhost-net causes more context switches and
higher CPU utilization than userspace virtio which handles networking in
the same thread.

We'll need to fix this by adding level irq support in kvm irqfd,
for now disable vhost-net in these configurations.

Added a vhostforce flag to force vhost-net back on.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
f157ed202e tap: safe sndbuf default
With current sndbuf default value, a blocked
target guest can prevent another guest from
transmitting any packets. While current
sndbuf value (1M) is reported to help some
UDP based workloads, the default should
be safe (0).

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Alon Levy
cbcc6336ce spice: add chardev (v5)
Adding a chardev backend for spice, where spice determines what
to do with it based on the name attribute given during chardev creation.
For usage by spice vdagent in conjunction with a properly named
virtio-serial device, and future smartcard channel usage.

Example usage:
 qemu -device virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
 -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0

v4->v5:
 * add tracing events
 * fix missing comma
 * fix help string to show debug is optional

v3->v4:
 * updated commit message

v1->v3 changes: (v2 had a wrong commit message)
 * removed spice-qemu-char.h, folded into ui/qemu-spice.h
 * removed dead IOCTL code
 * removed comment
 * removed ifdef CONFIG_SPICE from qemu-config.c and qemu-options.hx help.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-01-24 15:41:40 +01:00
Aurelien Jarno
818c2e1b97 Merge branch 'spice.v23.pull' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu
* 'spice.v23.pull' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu:
  vnc/spice: add set_passwd monitor command.
  vnc: support password expire
  vnc: auth reject cleanup
  spice: add qmp 'query-spice' and hmp 'info spice' commands.
  spice: connection events.
  spice: add qxl device
  spice: add qxl vgabios binary.
2010-12-27 22:59:48 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann
a19cbfb346 spice: add qxl device
qxl is a paravirtual graphics card.  The qxl device is the bridge
between the guest and the spice server (aka libspice-server).  The
spice server will send the rendering commands to the spice client, which
will actually render them.

The spice server is also able to render locally, which is done in case
the guest wants read something from video memory.  Local rendering is
also used to support display over vnc and sdl.

qxl is activated using "-vga qxl".  qxl supports multihead, additional
cards can be added via '-device qxl".

[ v2: add copyright to files                     ]
[ v2: use qemu-common.h for standard includes    ]
[ v2: create separate qxl-vga device for primary ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 14:23:24 +01:00
Mike Ryan
3a75e74c76 net/sock: option to specify local address
Add an option to specify the host IP to send multicast packets from,
when using a multicast socket for networking. The option takes an IP
address and sets the IP_MULTICAST_IF socket option, which causes the
packets to use that IP's interface as an egress.

This is useful if the host machine has several interfaces with several
virtual networks across disparate interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Mike Ryan <mikeryan@ISI.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 12:45:50 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
7d72e76228 intel-hda: documentation update
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2010-11-02 00:41:04 +03:00
Gerd Hoffmann
84a23f251f spice: add misc config options
This patch adds a few more options to tweak spice server behavior.
The documentation update chunk has the details ;)
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
333b0eebcc spice: add config options for the listening address
Make listening address configurable.  Also add options to
force using IPv4 or IPv6.
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
17b6dea08b spice: add config options for channel security.
This allows to enforce tls or plaintext usage for certain spice
channels.

[ v2: code style fixup ]
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Yonit Halperin
9f04e09e36 spice: make compression configurable.
This patch adds options to the -spice command line switch to
configure image compression.

[ v2: speling fix in the documentation ]
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
c448e8552b spice: tls support
Add options to the -spice command line switch to setup tls.
2010-10-08 12:49:51 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
29b0040be6 spice: core bits
Add -spice command line switch.  Has support setting passwd and port for
now.  With this patch applied the spice client can successfully connect
to qemu.  You can't do anything useful yet though.
2010-09-21 18:36:42 +02:00
Prerna Saxena
ab6540d55e trace: Add trace file name command-line option
This patch adds an optional command line switch '-trace' to specify the
filename to write traces to, when qemu starts.
Eg, If compiled with the 'simple' trace backend,
[temp@system]$ qemu -trace FILENAME IMAGE
Allows the binary traces to be written to FILENAME instead of the option
set at config-time.

Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-09 16:22:44 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
12848bfc5d virtio-9p: Add SM_NONE security model
This is equivalent to SM_PASSTHROUGH security model.
The only exception is, failure of privilige operation like chown
are ignored. This makes a passthrough like security model usable
for people who runs kvm as non root

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-08 22:56:42 +05:30
Gerd Hoffmann
03b0ba70ab compile -fsdev and -virtfs cmd line options unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-22 17:11:06 -05:00
Aurelien Jarno
cdc6f54200 Merge branch 'for-anthony' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin
* 'for-anthony' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin:
  Fix -snapshot deleting images on disk change
  block: Use error codes from lower levels for error message
  block: default to 0 minimal / optiomal I/O size
  move 'unsafe' to end of caching modes in help
  virtio-blk: Create exit function to unregister savevm
  block migration: propagate return value when bdrv_write() returns < 0
  ide/atapi: add support for GET EVENT STATUS NOTIFICATION
2010-07-30 21:12:24 +02:00
Corentin Chary
6f9c78c149 vnc: add lossy option
The lossy option can be used to enable lossy compression
methods like gradient or jpeg. This patch disable them by
default.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-07-26 17:23:53 -05:00
Bruce Rogers
6c6b6ba20a move 'unsafe' to end of caching modes in help
Libvirt parses qemu help output to determine qemu features. In particular
it probes for the following: "cache=writethrough|writeback|none". The
addition of the unsafe cache mode was inserted within this string, as
opposed to being added to the end, which impacted libvirt's probe.
Unbreak libvirt by keeping the existing cache modes intact and add
unsafe to the end.

This problem only manifests itself if a caching mode is explicitly
specified in the libvirt xml, in which case older syntax for caching is
passed to qemu, which it  no longer understands.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-07-26 13:39:39 +02:00
Aurelien Jarno
b7fdb3ab0e qemu-options: add documentation for stdio signal=on|off
Commit 5989020bc1 introduced a chardev
option to disable signals on stdio. Add the corresponding documentation.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-07-13 21:13:12 +02:00
Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)
9ce56db6f0 virtio-9p: Introduces an option to specify the security model.
The new option is:

-fsdev fstype,id=myid,path=/share_path/,security_model=[mapped|passthrough]
-virtfs fstype,path=/share_path/,security_model=[mapped|passthrough],mnt_tag=tag

In the case of mapped security model, files are created with QEMU user
credentials and the client-user's credentials are saved in extended attributes.
Whereas in the case of passthrough security model, files on the
filesystem are directly created with client-user's credentials.

Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-06-22 15:15:30 -05:00
Alexander Graf
c317728872 Make cache=unsafe the default for -snapshot
When using -snapshot we don't care about data integrity of the cow file
at all, so let's disable flushing there and squeeze out the last drop
of performance we could possibly get.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-05-27 00:08:09 +02:00
Alexander Graf
016f5cf6ff Add cache=unsafe parameter to -drive
Usually the guest can tell the host to flush data to disk. In some cases we
don't want to flush though, but try to keep everything in cache.

So let's add a new cache value to -drive that allows us to set the cache
policy to most aggressive, disabling flushes. We call this mode "unsafe",
as guest data is not guaranteed to survive host crashes anymore.

This patch also adds a noop function for aio, so we can do nothing in AIO
fashion.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-05-26 20:05:14 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
9848bbf1a8 Fix -device help and documentation
Commit 6616b2ad reverted commit 40ea285c.  Looks like a mismerge to
me.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-05-22 08:37:48 +00:00
Gautham R Shenoy
3d54abc7b7 virtio-9p: Create a syntactic shortcut for the file-system pass-thru
Currently the commandline to create a virtual-filesystem pass-through between
the guest and the host is as follows:
#qemu -fsdev fstype,id=ID,path=path/to/share \
      -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=ID,mount_tag=tag \

This patch provides a syntactic short-cut to achieve the same as follows:
#qemu -virtfs fstype,path=path/to/share,mount_tag=tag

This will be internally expanded as:
#qemu -fsdev fstype,id=tag,path=path/to/share, \
      -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=tag,mount_tag=tag \

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-03 12:17:39 -05:00
Gautham R Shenoy
74db920c32 virtio-9p: Create a commandline option -fsdev
This patch creates a new command line option named -fsdev to hold any file
system specific information.

The option will currently hold the following attributes:
-fsdev fstype id=id,path=path_to_share
where
fstype: Type of the file system.
id:     Identifier used to refer to this fsdev
path:   The path on the host that is identified by this fsdev.

[aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Abstraction using FsContext]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-03 12:17:37 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
97331287ed chardev: Document mux option
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2010-04-26 16:36:31 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
82b0d80ef6 tap: add vhost/vhostfd options
This adds vhost binary option to tap, to enable vhost net accelerator.
Default is off for now, we'll be able to make default on long term
when we know it's stable.

vhostfd option can be used by management, to pass in the fd. Assigning
vhostfd implies vhost=on.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-01 13:56:43 -05:00
Blue Swirl
ad96090a01 Refactor target specific handling, compile vl.c only once
Move target specific functions and RAM handling to arch_init.c.

Add a flag to QEMUOptions structure to indicate for which
architectures the option is allowed, check the flag
in run time and remove conditional code in option handling.

Now that no target dependencies remain, compile vl.c only once
for all targets.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-03-29 19:23:52 +00:00
Aurelien Jarno
8d533561f6 qemu-options.hx: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-03-27 11:52:05 +01:00
Blue Swirl
609c1daced Fix manpage errors
Split long unbreakable lines to smaller sections.

Spotted by Debian Lintian tool:
http://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#qemu

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-03-18 18:41:49 +00:00
Marcelo Tosatti
c902760fb2 Add option to use file backed guest memory
Port qemu-kvm's -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options. These are useful
for backing guest memory with huge pages via hugetlbfs.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
CC: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
2010-03-04 00:28:47 -03:00
Aurelien Jarno
aa37520618 Fix qemu -net user,hostfwd= example
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-02-27 10:50:32 +01:00
Stefan Weil
6616b2adb5 Documentation: Add command line options to function index
* Add line options to function index.

* Add description for -set (TODO).

* Add description for -global (TODO).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10 12:44:25 -06:00
Paolo Bonzini
e8105ebb94 vl.c: avoid preprocessor directives in a printf call
Similar to the qemu-img.c patch, but I also have to unescape remaining
% signs in qemu-options.hx.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2010-02-08 12:12:40 +03:00
Paolo Bonzini
bec7c2d414 do not interpolate % from vl.c to qemu-options.h
Since qemu-options.h is only used in vl.c, we can avoid using
brittle interpolation from a generated file.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2010-02-08 12:12:40 +03:00
Markus Armbruster
40ea285c14 qdev: update help on -device
While there, use "property" rather than "option", for consistency with
-global.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-03 12:39:01 -06:00
Stefan Weil
95d5f08bad Documentation: Add missing texi description for command line options
Some more command line options had entries for command line help,
but documentation for texi and derived formats (man, html, info)
was missing.

For conditional options, the texi documentation was added
unconditionally.

This seems reasonable because typically man pages are
shared, and html users expect to see one documentation
(not several nearly identical documents for the different
systems).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-26 15:42:01 -06:00
Stefan Weil
69a319d131 Documentation: Improve command line help for -device option
* Fix column for help text.

* Give some more help, especially for the new '?' parameters.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-26 15:42:01 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
292444cb87 Load global config files by default
A new option, -nodefconfig is introduced to prevent loading from the default
config location.  Otherwise, two configuration files will be searched for,
qemu.conf and target-<TARGET_NAME>.conf.

To ensure that the default configuration is overridden by a user specified
config, we introduce a two stage option parsing mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-24 09:37:26 -06:00
Amit Shah
98b19252cf virtio-console: qdev conversion, new virtio-serial-bus
This commit converts the virtio-console device to create a new
virtio-serial bus that can host console and generic serial ports. The
file hosting this code is now called virtio-serial-bus.c.

The virtio console is now a very simple qdev device that sits on the
virtio-serial-bus and communicates between the bus and qemu's chardevs.

This commit also includes a few changes to the virtio backing code for
pci and s390 to spawn the virtio-serial bus.

As a result of the qdev conversion, we get rid of a lot of legacy code.
The old-style way of instantiating a virtio console using

    -virtioconsole ...

is maintained, but the new, preferred way is to use

    -device virtio-serial -device virtconsole,chardev=...

With this commit, multiple devices as well as multiple ports with a
single device can be supported.

For multiple ports support, each port gets an IO vq pair. Since the
guest needs to know in advance how many vqs a particular device will
need, we have to set this number as a property of the virtio-serial
device and also as a config option.

In addition, we also spawn a pair of control IO vqs. This is an internal
channel meant for guest-host communication for things like port
open/close, sending port properties over to the guest, etc.

This commit is a part of a series of other commits to get the full
implementation of multiport support. Future commits will add other
support as well as ride on the savevm version that we bump up here.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20 08:25:23 -06:00
Naphtali Sprei
3f3ed5933a Added drives' readonly option
Signed-off-by: Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20 08:25:22 -06:00
Stefan Weil
3dbf2c7fc5 Documentation: Add missing documentation for qdev related command line options
The command line options -device, -nodefaults, -readconfig,
-writeconfig had entries for command line help, but
documentation for texi and derived formats (man, html, info)
was missing.

This also required moving "@end table" to the end of
qemu-options.hx again.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20 08:25:22 -06:00
Bruce Rogers
ca1a8a0658 make help output be a little more self-consistent
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-11 13:41:00 -06:00
H. Peter Anvin
c9f398e53f debugcon: support for debugging consoles (e.g. Bochs port 0xe9)
Add generic support for debugging consoles (simple I/O ports which
when written to cause debugging output to be written to a target.)
The current implementation matches Bochs' port 0xe9, allowing the same
debugging code to be used for both Bochs and Qemu.

There is no vm state associated with the debugging port, simply
because it has none -- the entire interface is a single, stateless,
write-only port.

Most of the code was cribbed from the serial port driver.

v2: removed non-ISA variants (they can be introduced when/if someone
wants them, using code from the serial port); added configurable
readback (Bochs returns 0xe9 on a read from this register, mimic that
by default)  This retains the apparently somewhat controversial user
friendly option, however.

v3: reimplemented the user friendly option as a synthetic option
("-debugcon foo" basically ends up being a parser-level shorthand for
"-chardev stdio,id=debugcon -device isa-debugcon,chardev=debugcon") --
this dramatically reduced the complexity while keeping the same level
of user friendliness.

v4: spaces, not tabs.

v5: update to match current top of tree.  Calling qemu_chr_open()
already during parsing no longer works; defer until we are parsing the
other console-like devices.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-08 09:58:40 -06:00
Michael Tokarev
19e65b47f6 Add missing newline at the end of options list
In qemu-kvm this place looks even more "interesting":

 -runas user     Change to user id user just before starting the VM.
 -readconfig <file>
 -writeconfig <file>
                read/write config file-no-kvm         disable KVM hardware virtualization
 -no-kvm-irqchip disable KVM kernel mode PIC/IOAPIC/LAPIC
 -no-kvm-pit     disable KVM kernel mode PIT

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2009-12-28 15:22:22 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann
6ca5582d4f add -qmp convinience switch
Acts like -monitor but switched into qmp mode.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12 07:59:43 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
22a0e04b9b add new -mon switch
Add -mon switch which maps pretty straight forward into the QemuOpts
internal representation:

  -mon chardev=<name>[,mode=[control|readline]][,[no]default]

Via config file:

[mon]
   chardev = "<name>"
   mode = "readline"
   default = "on"

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12 07:59:43 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
d8c208dd8a default devices: add global cmd line option.
Add global command line option to disable default devices.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12 07:59:43 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
4e307fc883 Revert "monitor: Command-line flag to enable control mode"
This reverts commit adcb181afe.

Conflicts:

	monitor.h

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12 07:59:41 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
d0fef6fbea qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties.
This patch adds infrastructure and command line option for setting
global defaults for device properties, i.e. you can for example use

  -global virtio-blk-pci.vectors=0

to turn off msi by default for all virtio block devices.  The config
file syntax is:

[global]
  driver = "virtio-blk-pci"
  property = "vectors"
  value = "0"

This can also be used to set properties for devices which are not
created via -device but implicitly via machine init, i.e.

  -global isa-fdc,driveA=<name>

This patch uses the mechanism which configures properties for the
compatibility machine types (pc-0.10 & friends).  The command line
takes precedence over the machine type values.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12 07:59:40 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
adcb181afe monitor: Command-line flag to enable control mode
This commit adds a flag called 'control' to the '-monitor'
command-line option. This flag enables control mode.

The syntax is:

qemu [...] -monitor control,<device>

Where <device> is a chardev (excluding 'vc', for obvious reasons).

For example:

$ qemu [...] -monitor control,tcp:localhost:4444,server

Will run QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
on localhost port 4444.

NOTE: I've tried using QemuOpts for this, but turns out that it
will try to parse the device part, which should be untouched.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-03 09:41:21 -06:00
Gerd Hoffmann
715a664ac4 QemuOpts: command line switches for the config file.
Adds -readconfig and -writeconfig command line switches to read/write
QemuOpts from config file.

In theory you should be able to do:

  qemu < machine config cmd line switches here > -writeconfig vm.cfg
  qemu -readconfig vm.cfg

In practice it will not work.  Not all command line switches are
converted to QemuOpts, so you'll have to keep the not-yet converted ones
on the second line.  Also there might be bugs lurking which prevent even
the converted ones from working correctly.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-09 08:43:13 -06:00
Matthew Booth
7273a2dbcc Documentation: Add documentation for -chardev
Adds documentation for all -chardev backends.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-09 08:43:12 -06:00
Mark McLoughlin
baf74c9580 net: add a vnet_hdr=on|off parameter
This allows people to disable the IFF_VNET_HDR flag, e.g. for debugging
purposes or if they know they may migrate the guest to a machine without
IFF_VNET_HDR support.

It also allows making the lack of IFF_VNET_HDR support an error
condition, e.g. in the case where a guest is being migrated from a host
which does support it.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-27 12:29:00 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin
76682299a8 net: import linux tap ioctl definitions
Making features dependent on the availability of newer versions if_tun.h
is going to get seriously clumsy, so let's just import the definitions
we need. It's only a small handful.

If and when we're comfortable depending on 2.6.30 headers, we can remove
this again.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-27 12:29:00 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
be8b28a940 Documentation: Move msmouse description to an appropriate place
Putting it right in the middle of the explanation for "-serial udp" probably
wasn't the best idea.

Patchworks-ID: 35603
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-15 09:32:03 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
4e257e5e81 Documentation: Add missing tags to placeholders
Not all placeholders in options descriptions had the @var tag on them. Add the
tag so that it's clearly visible that they are placeholders.

Patchworks-ID: 35602
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-15 09:32:03 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
b3f046c296 Documentation: Highlight placeholders in suboptions
Currently, suboptions (i.e. something like file=file for -drive) are rendered
as @code, so we're losing any @var highlighting in the man pages.

Replace them by @option, so that you actually can see what is a placeholder and
what is meant verbatim.

Patchworks-ID: 35601
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-15 09:32:03 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin
a1ea458fdf net: add -netdev option
Patchworks-ID: 35506
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-15 09:32:01 -05:00
Dustin Kirkland
0ca9f8a42d offer right-ctrl as a grab option
Add support for -ctrl-grab to use the right-ctrl button to grab/release
the mouse in SDL.

The multi-button ctrl-alt and ctrl-alt-shift grab buttons present an
accessibility problem to users who cannot press more than one button
at a time.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/237635

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-06 14:36:09 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
6875204c78 Enable host-clock-based RTC
Switch RTC emulations to the new host_clock instead of vm_clock by
default. This has the advantage that the emulated RTC will follow
automatically the host time while it might be tuned via NTP. vm_clock
can still be selected by passing '-rtc clock=vm' on the command line.

Note that some RTC emulations (at least M48T59) already use the host
time unconditionally while others (namely MC146818) do not. This patch
introduces the required infrastructure for selecting the base clock but
only converts MC146818 for now.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-05 09:32:45 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
1ed2fc1fa3 Refactor RTC command line switches
Deprecate -localtime, -setdate and -rtc-td-hack in favor of a new
unified command line switch:

    -rtc [base=utc|localtime|date][,driftfix=none|slew]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-05 09:32:45 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann
191bc01bc9 switch chardev to QemuOpts: infrastructure, null device
start switching chardevs to QemuOpts.  This patch adds the
infrastructure and converts the null device.

The patch brings two new functions:

qemu_chr_open_opts()
	same as qemu_chr_open(), but uses QemuOpts instead of a
	option char string.

qemu_chr_parse_compat()
	accepts a traditional chardev option string, returns the
	corresponding QemuOpts instance, to handle backward
	compatibility.

The patch also adds a new -chardev switch which can be used to create
named+unconnected chardevs, like this:

	-chardev null,id=test

This uses the new qemu_chr_open_opts.  Thus with this patch alone only
the null device works.  The other devices will follow ...

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-11 10:19:47 -05:00
Andre Przywara
58a04db187 add documentation for multi-core features
extend QEMU's internal help and man page to cover the recently
added multi-core feature.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-04 09:37:26 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
5c6c3a6c54 raw-posix: add Linux native AIO support
Now that do have a nicer interface to work against we can add Linux native
AIO support.  It's an extremly thing layer just setting up an iocb for
the io_submit system call in the submission path, and registering an
eventfd with the qemu poll handler to do complete the iocbs directly
from there.

This started out based on Anthony's earlier AIO patch, but after
estimated 42,000 rewrites and just as many build system changes
there's not much left of it.

To enable native kernel aio use the aio=native sub-command on the
drive command line.  I have also added an option to qemu-io to
test the aio support without needing a guest.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-08-27 20:30:22 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
0d6b0b1d81 Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.
The ne2k is an ancient card that performs pretty terribly under QEMU.  In many
modern OSes, there is no longer drivers available for the ne2k.

Switch the default network adapter to e1000.  This card is more widely
suppported and performs rather well under QEMU.  There may be very old OSes
that had a ne2k driver but not an e1000 driver but I think this is likely the
exception.

I think the average user is better served with an e1000 vs ne2k.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-08-24 08:46:48 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
4a1418e07b Unbreak large mem support by removing kqemu
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>
2009-08-24 08:02:55 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann
d058fe03e5 QemuOpts: add -set option
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:
2009-08-10 13:05:26 -05:00
Jes Sorensen
6be68d7eb9 Introduce -smp , maxcpus= flag to specify maximum number of CPUS.
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>
2009-07-27 14:09:14 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann
bd3c948db7 qdev: add -device command line option.
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>
2009-07-27 08:39:29 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
2221dde5d4 Update boot option documentation
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-16 08:28:12 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
52249f0f3c Disable kqemu by default at run time
-no-kqemu -> -enable-kqemu

kqemu is still present at compile time by default

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09 17:28:08 -05:00
Andi Kleen
1889465a1c Allow setting qemu process name v2
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>
2009-07-09 16:58:08 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
0aa217e461 qcow2: Make cache=writethrough default
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>
2009-07-09 16:06:37 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin
fc5b81d1f6 net: set a default value for sndbuf=
On reflection, perhaps it does make sense to set a default value for
the sndbuf= tap parameter.

For best effect, sndbuf= should be set to just below the capacity of
the physical NIC.

Setting it higher will cause packets to be dropped before the limit
is hit. Setting it much lower will not cause any problems unless
you set it low enough such that the guest cannot queue up new packets
before the NIC has emptied its queue.

In Linux, txqueuelen=1000 by default for ethernet NICs. Given a 1500
byte MTU, 1Mb is a good choice for sndbuf.

If it turns out that txqueuelen is actually much lower than this, then
sndbuf is essentially disabled. In the event that txqueuelen is much
higher, it's unlikely that the NIC will be able to empty a 1Mb queue.

Thanks to Herbert Xu for this logic.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09 16:06:37 -05:00
Markus Armbruster
7d4c3d535c Replace -no-virtio-balloon by -balloon
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>
2009-06-29 14:18:08 -05:00
Alexander Graf
7677f05d84 Add documentation for Multiboot
The documentation shows how to use -kernel and friends for booting Linux,
but obviously knows nothing about multiboot yet.

Let's include some documentation for multiboot, so people know how to fully
exploit this cool new feature.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29 14:18:06 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
3c6a05803c slirp: Bind support for host forwarding rules
Extend the hostfwd rule format so that the user can specify on which
host interface qemu should listen for incoming connections. If omitted,
binding will takes place against all interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29 08:52:45 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
c92ef6a22d slirp: Rework external configuration interface
With the internal IP configuration made more flexible, we can now
enhance the user interface. This patch adds a number of new options to
"-net user": net (address and mask), host, dhcpstart, dns and smbserver.
It also renames "redir" to "hostfwd" and "channel" to "guestfwd" in
order to (hopefully) clarify their meanings. The format of guestfwd is
extended so that the user can define not only the port but also the
virtual server's IP address the forwarding starts from.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29 08:52:45 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
ad196a9d0c slirp: Move smb, redir, tftp and bootp parameters and -net channel
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>
2009-06-29 08:52:44 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
ffe6370c9f qemu/net: flag to control the number of vectors a nic has
Add an option to specify the number of MSI-X vectors for PCI NIC cards. This
can also be used to disable MSI-X, for compatibility with old qemu. This
option currently only affects virtio cards.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-24 09:09:15 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin
0df0ff6de7 net: add '-net tap,sndbuf=nbytes'
2.6.30 adds a new TUNSETSNDBUF ioctl() which allows a send buffer limit
for the tap device to be specified. When this limit is reached, a tap
write() will return EAGAIN and poll() will indicate the fd isn't
writable.

This allows people to tune their setups so as to avoid e.g. UDP packet
loss when the sending application in the guest out-runs the NIC in the
host.

There is no obviously sensible default setting - a suitable value
depends mostly on the capabilities of the physical NIC through which the
packets are being sent.

Also, note that when using a bridge with netfilter enabled, we currently
never get EAGAIN because netfilter causes the packet to be immediately
orphaned. Set /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge nf-call-iptables to zero to
disable this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 10:15:30 -05:00
Markus Armbruster
c2cc47a449 Support addr=... in option argument of -drive if=virtio
Make drive_init() accept addr=, put the value into struct DriveInfo.
Use it in all the places that create virtio-blk-pci devices:
pc_init1(), bamboo_init(), mpc8544ds_init().

Don't support addr= in third argument of monitor command pci_add and
second argument of drive_add, because that clashes with their first
arguments.  Admittedly unelegant.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 10:15:29 -05:00
Markus Armbruster
5607c38820 Support addr=... in option argument of -net nic
Make net_client_init() accept addr=, put the value into struct
NICinfo.  Use it in pci_nic_init(), and remove arguments bus and
devfn.

Don't support addr= in third argument of monitor command pci_add,
because that clashes with its first argument.  Admittedly unelegant.

Machines "malta" and "r2d" have a default NIC with a well-known PCI
address.  Deal with that the same way as the NIC model: make
pci_nic_init() take an optional default to be used when the user
doesn't specify one.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 10:15:29 -05:00
Eduardo Habkost
df97b92060 Add -no-virtio-balloon command-line option
This new option may be used to disable the virtio-balloon device.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-13 19:17:28 -05:00
Blue Swirl
bab7944cf3 Fix Sparse warning
Fix this warning:
./qemu-options.h:198:1: error: expected preprocessor identifier

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2009-06-09 21:50:02 +03:00
Aurelien Jarno
c304d317ac qemu-options.hx: fix description of cache=none suboption
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2009-05-04 10:05:10 +02:00
Richard W.M. Jones
9dd986ccf6 Hardware watchdog
Here is an updated hardware watchdog patch, which should fix
everything that was raised about the previous version ...

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-01 09:44:11 -05:00
aliguori
94909d9fd9 xen: add -vga xenfb option, configure xenfb (Gerd Hoffmann)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-22 15:19:53 +00:00
aliguori
e37630ca4f xen: groundwork for xen support (Gerd Hoffmann)
- configure script and build system changes.
- wind up new machine type.
- add -xen-* command line options.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-22 15:19:10 +00:00
aliguori
268a362c63 added -numa cmdline parameter parser (Andre Przywara)
adds a -numa command line parameter and sets a QEMU global array with
the memory sizes. The CPU-to-node assignemnt is written into the
CPUState. If no specific values for memory and CPUs are given,
all resources will be split equally across all nodes.
This code currently support only up to 64 virtual CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-21 22:30:27 +00:00
aliguori
d4ebe1934a slirp: Enhance host-guest redirection setup (Jan Kiszka)
Allow to establish a TCP/UDP connection redirection also via a monitor
command 'host_net_redir'. Moreover, assume TCP as connection type if
that parameter is omitted.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-21 19:56:44 +00:00
aliguori
bb9ea79e7a net: Add support for capturing VLANs (Jan Kiszka)
This patch is derived from Tristan Gingold's patch. It adds a new VLAN
client type that writes all traffic on the VLAN it is attached to into a
pcap file. Such a file can then be analyzed offline with Wireshark or
tcpdump.

Besides rebasing and some minor cleanups, the major differences to the
original version are:
 - support for enabling/disabling via the monitor (host_net_add/remove)
 - no special ordering of VLAN client list, qemu_send_packet now takes
   care of properly ordered packets
 - 64k default capturing limit (I hate tcpdump's default)

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-21 19:56:28 +00:00
blueswir1
640f42e4e9 kqemu: merge CONFIG_KQEMU and USE_KQEMU
Basically a recursive ":%s/USE_KQEMU/CONFIG_KQEMU/g".

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>



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2009-04-19 10:18:01 +00:00
aliguori
b6f6e3d3a7 qemu: Add support for SMBIOS command line otions (Alex Williamson)
Create a new -smbios option (x86-only) to allow binary SMBIOS entries
to be passed through to the BIOS or modify the default values of
individual fields of type 0 and 1 entries on the command line.

Binary SMBIOS entries can be generated as follows:

dmidecode -t 1 -u | grep $'^\t\t[^"]' | xargs -n1 | \
        perl -lne 'printf "%c", hex($_)' > smbios_type_1.bin

These can then be passed to the BIOS using this switch:

 -smbios file=smbios_type_1.bin

Command line generation supports the following syntax:

 -smbios type=0[,vendor=str][,version=str][,date=str][,release=%d.%d]
 -smbios type=1[,manufacturer=str][,product=str][,version=str][,serial=str]
              [,uuid=$(uuidgen)][,sku=str][,family=str]

For instance, to add a serial number to the type 1 table:

 -smbios type=1,serial=0123456789

Interface is extensible to support more fields/tables as needed.

aliguori: remove texi formatting from help output

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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2009-04-17 18:59:56 +00:00
pbrook
9bd7e6d90d Implement --version.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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2009-04-07 22:58:45 +00:00
aliguori
c20d7afb36 Remove WIN32 guard around -k
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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2009-04-06 00:35:08 +00:00
aurel32
1b530a6dfc Add new command line option -singlestep for tcg single stepping.
This replaces a compile time option for some targets and adds
this feature to targets which did not have a compile time option.

Add monitor command to enable or disable single step mode.

Modify monitor command "info status" to display single step mode.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

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2009-04-05 20:08:59 +00:00
aliguori
59030a8cd4 gdbstub: Rework configuration via command line and monitor (Jan Kiszka)
Introduce a more canonical gdbstub configuration (system emulation only)
via the new switch '-gdb dev'. Keep '-s' as shorthand for
'-gdb tcp::1234'. Use the same syntax also for the corresponding monitor
command 'gdbserver'. Its default remains to listen on TCP port 1234.

Changes in v4:
 - Rebased over new command line switches meta file

Changes in v3:
 - Fix documentation

Changes in v2:
 - Support for pipe-based like to gdb (target remote | qemu -gdb stdio)
 - Properly update the qemu-doc

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-05 18:43:41 +00:00
aliguori
bc14ca2453 Make `-icount' help fit 80 chars screen width (Robert Riebisch)
On Windows default screen width for the command prompt (A.K.A. "DOS
window") is 80 chars. `-icount' help is 87 chars wide. So make it fit.

Signed-off-by: Robert Riebisch <rr@bttr-software.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-05 18:43:37 +00:00
blueswir1
5c2f8d2d73 Fix compile problems with r6884
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2009-03-28 08:13:56 +00:00
blueswir1
5824d65122 Syncing documentation vs. -help vs. qemu_options table
Try to keep documentation about command line switches, -help text and
qemu_options table synchronized. 

In true Qemu tradition, an include file is generated from single .hx file
containing all relevant information in one place. The include file is
parsed once for getting the enums, another time for getopt tables and
hird time for help messages. Texi documentation for the options is
generated from the same .hx file.


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2009-03-28 06:44:27 +00:00