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2010-05-03virtio-9p: Create a syntactic shortcut for the file-system pass-thruGautham R Shenoy1-0/+35
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 Shenoy1-0/+34
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 Kiszka1-15/+20
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. Tsirkin1-1/+3
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 Swirl1-151/+158
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 Jarno1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-03-18Fix manpage errorsBlue Swirl1-6/+6
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 Tosatti1-0/+16
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 Jarno1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-02-10Documentation: Add command line options to function indexStefan Weil1-28/+125
* 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 Bonzini1-2/+2
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 Bonzini1-5/+6
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 Armbruster1-13/+10
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 Weil1-0/+35
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 Weil1-4/+13
* 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 Liguori1-0/+9
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 Shah1-0/+4
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 Sprei1-1/+1
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 Weil1-4/+21
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 Rogers1-19/+20
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 Anvin1-0/+11
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 Tokarev1-1/+1
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 Hoffmann1-0/+2
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 Hoffmann1-0/+7
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 Hoffmann1-0/+5
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 Hoffmann1-3/+2
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 Hoffmann1-0/+3
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 Capitulino1-2/+3
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 Hoffmann1-0/+5
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 Booth1-4/+230
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 McLoughlin1-1/+3
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 McLoughlin1-7/+1
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 Wolf1-2/+2
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 Wolf1-21/+22
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 Wolf1-9/+9
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 McLoughlin1-0/+10
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 Kirkland1-0/+10
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 Kiszka1-4/+10
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 Kiszka1-22/+25
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>
2009-09-11switch chardev to QemuOpts: infrastructure, null deviceGerd Hoffmann1-0/+2
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>
2009-09-04add documentation for multi-core featuresAndre Przywara1-3/+11
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>
2009-08-27raw-posix: add Linux native AIO supportChristoph Hellwig1-1/+3
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>
2009-08-24Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.Anthony Liguori1-1/+1
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>
2009-08-24Unbreak large mem support by removing kqemuAnthony Liguori1-19/+0
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>
2009-08-10QemuOpts: add -set optionGerd Hoffmann1-1/+5
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:
2009-07-27Introduce -smp , maxcpus= flag to specify maximum number of CPUS.Jes Sorensen1-1/+4
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>
2009-07-27qdev: add -device command line option.Gerd Hoffmann1-0/+2
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>
2009-07-16Update boot option documentationJan Kiszka1-4/+23
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09Disable kqemu by default at run timeAnthony Liguori1-4/+4
-no-kqemu -> -enable-kqemu kqemu is still present at compile time by default Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09Allow setting qemu process name v2Andi Kleen1-1/+3
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>
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