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2012-04-30qemu-ga: improve recovery options for fsfreezeMichael Roth
guest-fsfreeze-thaw relies on state information obtained from guest-fsfreeze-freeze to determine what filesystems to unfreeze. This is unreliable due to the fact that that state does not account for FIFREEZE being issued by other processes, or previous instances of qemu-ga. This means in certain situations we cannot thaw filesystems even with a responsive qemu-ga instance at our disposal. This patch allows guest-fsfreeze-thaw to be issued unconditionally. It also adds some additional logic to allow us to thaw filesystems regardless of how many times the filesystem's "frozen" refcount has been incremented by any guest processes. Also, guest-fsfreeze-freeze now operates atomically: on success all freezable filesystems are frozen, and on error all filesystems are thawed. The ambiguous "GUEST_FSFREEZE_STATUS_ERROR" state is no longer entered. Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-12qemu-ga: add guest-sync-delimitedMichael Roth
guest-sync leaves it as an exercise to the user as to how to reliably obtain the response to guest-sync if the client had previously read in a partial response (due qemu-ga previously being restarted mid-"sentence" due to reboot, forced restart, etc). qemu-ga handles this situation on its end by having a client precede their guest-sync request with a 0xFF byte (invalid UTF-8), which qemu-ga/QEMU JSON parsers will treat as a flush event. Thus we can reliably flush the qemu-ga parser state in preparation for receiving the guest-sync request. guest-sync-delimited provides the same functionality for a client: when a guest-sync-delimited is issued, qemu-ga will precede it's response with a 0xFF byte that the client can use as an indicator to flush its buffer/parser state in preparation for reliably receiving the guest-sync-delimited response. It is also useful as an optimization for clients, since, after issuing a guest-sync-delimited, clients can safely discard all stale data read from the channel until the 0xFF is found. More information available on the wiki: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent#QEMU_Guest_Agent_Protocol Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-12qemu-ga: add guest-network-get-interfaces commandMichal Privoznik
This command returns an array of: [ifname, hwaddr, [ipaddr, ipaddr_family, prefix] ] for each interface in the system. Currently, only IPv4 and IPv6 are supported. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2012-03-12qemu-ga: add guest-suspend-hybridLuiz Capitulino
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-12qemu-ga: add guest-suspend-ramLuiz Capitulino
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-12qemu-ga: add guest-suspend-diskLuiz Capitulino
As the command name implies, this command suspends the guest to disk. The suspend operation is implemented by two functions: bios_supports_mode() and guest_suspend(). Both functions are generic enough to be used by other suspend modes (introduced by next commits). Both functions will try to use the scripts provided by the pm-utils package if it's available. If it's not available, a manual method, which consists of directly writing to '/sys/power/state', will be used. To reap terminated children, a new signal handler is installed in the parent to catch SIGCHLD signals and a non-blocking call to waitpid() is done to collect their exit statuses. The statuses, however, are discarded. The approach used to query the guest for suspend support deserves some explanation. It's implemented by bios_supports_mode() and shown below: qemu-ga | create pipe | fork() ----------------- | | | | | fork() | -------------------------- | | | | | | | | exec('pm-is-supported') | | | wait() | write exit status to pipe | exit | read pipe This might look complex, but the resulting code is quite simple. The purpose of that approach is to allow qemu-ga to reap its children (semi-)automatically from its SIGCHLD handler. Implementing this the obvious way, that's, doing the exec() call from the first child process, would force us to introduce a more complex way to reap qemu-ga's children. Like registering PIDs to be reaped and having a way to wait for them when returning their exit status to qemu-ga is necessary. The approach explained above avoids that complexity. Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-02-23qemu-ga: Add schema documentation for typesMichael Roth
Document guest agent schema types in similar fashion to qmp schema types.
2011-12-14Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/trivial-patches-next' into stagingAnthony Liguori
2011-12-14Fix spelling in comments, documentation and messagesStefan Weil
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>
2011-12-12guest agent: add supported command list to guest-info RPCMichael Roth
Not that there is blacklisting functionality we can no longer infer the agent's capabilities via version. This patch extends the current guest-info RPC to also return a list of dictionaries containing the name of each supported RPC, along with a boolean indicating whether or not the command has been disabled by a guest administrator/distro. Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-21guest agent: add guest agent RPCs/commandsMichael Roth
This adds the initial set of QMP/QAPI commands provided by the guest agent: guest-sync guest-ping guest-info guest-shutdown guest-file-open guest-file-read guest-file-write guest-file-seek guest-file-flush guest-file-close guest-fsfreeze-freeze guest-fsfreeze-thaw guest-fsfreeze-status The input/output specification for these commands are documented in the schema. Example usage: host: qemu -device virtio-serial \ -chardev socket,path=/tmp/vs0.sock,server,nowait,id=qga0 \ -device virtserialport,chardev=qga0,name=org.qemu.quest_agent.0 ... echo "{'execute':'guest-info'}" | socat stdio unix-connect:/tmp/qga0.sock guest: qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \ -p /var/run/qemu-guest-agent.pid -d Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@gmail.com>