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2010-09-09trace: Add trace file name command-line optionPrerna Saxena
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>
2010-09-08virtio-9p: Add SM_NONE security modelAneesh Kumar K.V
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>
2010-08-22compile -fsdev and -virtfs cmd line options unconditionally.Gerd Hoffmann
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-07-30Merge branch 'for-anthony' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevinAurelien Jarno
* '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
2010-07-26vnc: add lossy optionCorentin Chary
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>
2010-07-26move 'unsafe' to end of caching modes in helpBruce Rogers
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>
2010-07-13qemu-options: add documentation for stdio signal=on|offAurelien Jarno
Commit 5989020bc11f8ba448d6fb79f4562f882a693d89 introduced a chardev option to disable signals on stdio. Add the corresponding documentation. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-06-22virtio-9p: Introduces an option to specify the security model.Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)
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>
2010-05-27Make cache=unsafe the default for -snapshotAlexander Graf
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>
2010-05-26Add cache=unsafe parameter to -driveAlexander Graf
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>
2010-05-22Fix -device help and documentationMarkus Armbruster
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>
2010-05-03virtio-9p: Create a syntactic shortcut for the file-system pass-thruGautham R Shenoy
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>
2010-05-03virtio-9p: Create a commandline option -fsdevGautham R Shenoy
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>
2010-04-26chardev: Document mux optionJan Kiszka
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2010-04-01tap: add vhost/vhostfd optionsMichael S. Tsirkin
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>
2010-03-29Refactor target specific handling, compile vl.c only onceBlue Swirl
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>
2010-03-27qemu-options.hx: fix a typoAurelien Jarno
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-03-18Fix manpage errorsBlue Swirl
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>
2010-03-04Add option to use file backed guest memoryMarcelo Tosatti
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>
2010-02-27Fix qemu -net user,hostfwd= exampleAurelien Jarno
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-02-10Documentation: Add command line options to function indexStefan Weil
* 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>
2010-02-08vl.c: avoid preprocessor directives in a printf callPaolo Bonzini
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>
2010-02-08do not interpolate % from vl.c to qemu-options.hPaolo Bonzini
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>
2010-02-03qdev: update help on -deviceMarkus Armbruster
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>
2010-01-26Documentation: Add missing texi description for command line optionsStefan Weil
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>
2010-01-26Documentation: Improve command line help for -device optionStefan Weil
* 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>
2010-01-24Load global config files by defaultAnthony Liguori
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>
2010-01-20virtio-console: qdev conversion, new virtio-serial-busAmit Shah
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>
2010-01-20Added drives' readonly optionNaphtali Sprei
Signed-off-by: Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20Documentation: Add missing documentation for qdev related command line optionsStefan Weil
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>
2010-01-11make help output be a little more self-consistentBruce Rogers
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-08debugcon: support for debugging consoles (e.g. Bochs port 0xe9)H. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-12-28Add missing newline at the end of options listMichael Tokarev
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>
2009-12-12add -qmp convinience switchGerd Hoffmann
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>
2009-12-12add new -mon switchGerd Hoffmann
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>
2009-12-12default devices: add global cmd line option.Gerd Hoffmann
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>
2009-12-12Revert "monitor: Command-line flag to enable control mode"Gerd Hoffmann
This reverts commit adcb181afe5a951c521411c7a8e9d9b791aa6742. Conflicts: monitor.h Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties.Gerd Hoffmann
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>
2009-12-03monitor: Command-line flag to enable control modeLuiz Capitulino
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>
2009-11-09QemuOpts: command line switches for the config file.Gerd Hoffmann
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>
2009-11-09Documentation: Add documentation for -chardevMatthew Booth
Adds documentation for all -chardev backends. Signed-off-by: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-27net: add a vnet_hdr=on|off parameterMark McLoughlin
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>
2009-10-27net: import linux tap ioctl definitionsMark McLoughlin
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>
2009-10-15Documentation: Move msmouse description to an appropriate placeKevin Wolf
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>
2009-10-15Documentation: Add missing tags to placeholdersKevin Wolf
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>
2009-10-15Documentation: Highlight placeholders in suboptionsKevin Wolf
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>
2009-10-15net: add -netdev optionMark McLoughlin
Patchworks-ID: 35506 Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-06offer right-ctrl as a grab optionDustin Kirkland
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>
2009-10-05Enable host-clock-based RTCJan Kiszka
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>
2009-10-05Refactor RTC command line switchesJan Kiszka
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>
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