The qemu-img.texi / qemu-doc.texi files currently describe the
qcow2/qcow2 encryption thus
"Encryption uses the AES format which is very secure (128 bit
keys). Use a long password (16 characters) to get maximum
protection."
While AES is indeed a strong encryption system, the way that
QCow/QCow2 use it results in a poor/weak encryption system.
Due to the use of predictable IVs, based on the sector number
extended to 128 bits, it is vulnerable to chosen plaintext
attacks which can reveal the existence of encrypted data.
The direct use of the user passphrase as the encryption key
also leads to an inability to change the passphrase of an
image. If passphrase is ever compromised the image data will
all be vulnerable, since it cannot be re-encrypted. The admin
has to clone the image files with a new passphrase and then
use a program like shred to secure erase all the old files.
Recommend against any use of QCow/QCow2 encryption, directing
users to dm-crypt / LUKS which can meet modern cryptography
best practices.
[Changed "Qcow" to "qcow" for consistency.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Commit 9117b47717 ("qcow2: Change default
for new images to compat=1.1") changed the default qcow2 image format
version but forgot to update qemu-doc.texi and qemu-img.texi.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The man page for qemu-img, and the qemu-doc, did not mention VHDX
as a supported format. This adds in reference to VHDX in those
documents.
[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> suggested s/Block Size/Block size/ for
consistency. I have made this change.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Sun4c and Sun4d architectures and related CPUs are not fully implemented
(especially Sun4c MMU) and there has been no interest for them.
Likewise, a few CPUs (Cypress, Ross etc) are only half implemented.
Remove the machines and CPUs, they can be re-added if needed later.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Commit 98af93fde2 removed the
--audio-card-list option in configure, and commit
8f3b664f6c always compiled in
the adlib, gus and cs4231a audio cards.
Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Has been removed in commit fc9c54124d.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
libssh2_sftp_fsync is an extension to libssh2 to support fsync(2) over
sftp, which is itself an extension of OpenSSH.
If both libssh2 and the ssh daemon support it, this will allow
bdrv_flush_to_disk to commit changes through to disk on the remote
server.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=ssh://hostname/some/image
QEMU will ssh into 'hostname' and open '/some/image' which is made
available as a standard block device.
You can specify a username (ssh://user@host/...) and/or a port number
(ssh://host:port/...). You can also use an alternate syntax using
properties (file.user, file.host, file.port, file.path).
Current limitations:
- Authentication must be done without passwords or passphrases, using
ssh-agent. Other authentication methods are not supported.
- Uses a single connection, instead of concurrent AIO with multiple
SSH connections.
This is implemented using libssh2 on the client side. The server just
requires a regular ssh daemon with sftp-server support. Most ssh
daemons on Unix/Linux systems will work out of the box.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for a unix domain socket for a connection
between qemu and local sheepdog server. You can use the unix domain
socket with the following syntax:
$ qemu sheepdog+unix:///<vdiname>?socket=<socket path>[#snapid]
Signed-off-by: MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The URI syntax is consistent with the NBD and Gluster syntax. The
syntax is
sheepdog[+tcp]://[host:port]/vdiname[#snapid|#tag]
Signed-off-by: MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Switch the default for qemu_log logging output from "/tmp/qemu.log"
to stderr. This is an incompatible change in some sense, but logging
is mostly used for debugging purposes so it shouldn't affect production
use. The previous behaviour can be obtained by adding "-D /tmp/qemu.log"
to the command line.
This change requires us to:
* update all the documentation/help text (we take the opportunity
to smooth out minor inconsistencies between the phrasing in
linux-user/bsd-user/system help messages)
* make linux-user and bsd-user defer to qemu-log for the default
logging destination rather than overriding it themselves
* ensure that all logfile closing is done via qemu_log_close()
and that that function doesn't close stderr
as well as the obvious change to the behaviour of do_qemu_set_log()
when no logfile name has been specified.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1361901160-28729-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Document new and yet undocumented options and image formats. The
qemu-img man page contains information only for raw and qcow2 now and
references the HTML documentation for a more detailed description of
other formats.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The URI syntax is consistent with the Gluster syntax. Export names
are specified in the path, preceded by one or more (otherwise unused)
slashes.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
Although the rule also allows 'an' for historical reasons,
'a' is more common because 'h' is pronounced.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
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>
It's been orphaned, not compiling for a long time and despite Apple's
drop of their Rosetta ppc emulation technology with Mac OS X Lion no one
has stepped up to fix it.
Testing necessary changes wrt QOM'ification thus is impossible, so we
might as well remove it completely.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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>
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>
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>
Commit d396a657ba removed the code
for SVP, so the documentation needs this update.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add a new section about using iSCSI LUNs with qemu
and provide a short example on how to set up a target and access it
using the built-in initiator
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This bug was detected by codespell.
In mips_mipssim.c a grammatical error was fixed, too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Allow to enlarge or shrink the screen via CTRL-ALT-+/-. In contrast to
scaling the window, these controls always preserve the aspect ratio of
the current console.
CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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>
Each @section should have a menu entry and a @node entry.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
An empty environment is sometimes useful in user mode.
The new option provides it for linux-user and bsd-user
(darwin-user still has no environment related options).
The patch also adds the documentation for other
environment related options.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
This patch allows to connect Qemu using NBD protocol to an nbd-server
using named exports.
For instance, if on the host "isoserver", in /etc/nbd-server/config, you have:
[generic]
[debian-500-ppc-netinst]
exportname = /ISO/debian-500-powerpc-netinst.iso
[Fedora-10-ppc-netinst]
exportname = /ISO/Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso
You can connect to it, using:
qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=debian-500-ppc-netinst
qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=Fedora-10-ppc-netinst
NOTE: you need at least nbd-server 2.9.18
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
resend for bug fix related to removal of irqfd
Support an inter-vm shared memory device that maps a shared-memory object as a
PCI device in the guest. This patch also supports interrupts between guest by
communicating over a unix domain socket. This patch applies to the qemu-kvm
repository.
-device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>]
Interrupts are supported between multiple VMs by using a shared memory server
by using a chardev socket.
-device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>]
[,chardev=<id>][,msi=on][,ioeventfd=on][,vectors=n][,role=peer|master]
-chardev socket,path=<path>,id=<id>
The shared memory server, sample programs and init scripts are in a git repo here:
www.gitorious.org/nahanni
Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* Add some keywords for the concept index.
* Add some keywords for the keystroke index.
* Mark invalid or unclear documentation with TODO.
Is there a better proposal how to do this?
* Fix copy+paste error in ColdFire section
(options were copied from ARM).
* Fix documentation for Wine.
* Add placeholders for missing system emulations.
* Add placeholders for missing user emulation commands.
* Add an appendix with license (to be discussed).
* Add an appendix for every type of index which is
supported by texinfo. Currently, not all are used,
but this might change in the future.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
@itemize @minus does not work as expected
(the items start with "* -").
A simple @itemize gives a better result.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
At least for Linux distributions UTF-8 is now standard,
so the QEMU documentation should use this encoding, too.
Even if there was currently only a single special character
using ISO-8859-1, this might change in the future.
So the texinfo keywords @documentlanguage and
@documentencoding now document the language and the
encoding. The special character was changed to UTF-8
(it could also have been changed to an x, but the
original cross looks really nice if it is displayed
correctly).
These changes fix the html presentation at
http://www.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC65
(ARM System emulator).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
