We might as well group all the contrib submissions together and gently
dissuade people from using them in production. Update the references in
vhost-user to neatly refer to the storage daemon and the various
external rust backends.
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20251016150357.876415-12-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
In an effort to tidy up our device documentation split the VirtIO docs
from the rest of the index and put the index to them at the front of
the list. Sort the remaining entries alphabetically and tweak the
references appropriately.
Add a short preface to the VirtIO section nudging users to use VirtIO
unless they specifically want a particular piece of hardware
emulation.
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Message-ID: <20251016150357.876415-9-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
virtio,pci,pc: features, fixes
users can now control VM bit in smbios.
vhost-user-device is now user-createable.
intel_iommu now supports PRI
virtio-net now supports GSO over UDP tunnel
ghes now supports error injection
amd iommu now supports dma remapping for vfio
better error messages for virtio
small fixes all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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* tag 'for_upstream' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu: (75 commits)
virtio: improve virtqueue mapping error messages
pci: Fix wrong parameter passing to pci_device_get_iommu_bus_devfn()
intel_iommu: Simplify caching mode check with VFIO device
intel_iommu: Enable Enhanced Set Root Table Pointer Support (ESRTPS)
vdpa-dev: add get_vhost() callback for vhost-vdpa device
amd_iommu: HATDis/HATS=11 support
intel-iommu: Move dma_translation to x86-iommu
amd_iommu: Refactor amdvi_page_walk() to use common code for page walk
amd_iommu: Do not assume passthrough translation when DTE[TV]=0
amd_iommu: Toggle address translation mode on devtab entry invalidation
amd_iommu: Add dma-remap property to AMD vIOMMU device
amd_iommu: Set all address spaces to use passthrough mode on reset
amd_iommu: Toggle memory regions based on address translation mode
amd_iommu: Invalidate address translations on INVALIDATE_IOMMU_ALL
amd_iommu: Add replay callback
amd_iommu: Unmap all address spaces under the AMD IOMMU on reset
amd_iommu: Use iova_tree records to determine large page size on UNMAP
amd_iommu: Sync shadow page tables on page invalidation
amd_iommu: Add basic structure to support IOMMU notifier updates
amd_iommu: Add a page walker to sync shadow page tables on invalidation
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Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
This patch adds the ability to map a host unix socket to a guest tcp socket when
using the slirp backend. This feature was added in libslirp version 4.7.0.
A new syntax for unix socket: -hostfwd=unix:hostpath-[guestaddr]:guestport
Signed-off-by: Viktor Kurilko <murlockkinght@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Message-ID: <20250808143904.363907-1-murlockkinght@gmail.com>
The version in the system might be too old for QEMU; this will be
especially true if Rust is going to be enabled by default.
Adjust the docs to suggest using pyvenv/bin/meson, which is in fact
what the "make" wrappers will be running internally.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This commit adds support for the vhost-user interface to the passt
network backend, enabling high-performance, accelerated networking for
guests using passt.
The passt backend can now operate in a vhost-user mode, where it
communicates with the guest's virtio-net device over a socket pair
using the vhost-user protocol. This offloads the datapath from the
main QEMU loop, significantly improving network performance.
When the vhost-user=on option is used with -netdev passt, the new
vhost initialization path is taken instead of the standard
stream-based connection.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
This commit introduces support for passt as a new network backend.
passt is an unprivileged, user-mode networking solution that provides
connectivity for virtual machines by launching an external helper process.
The implementation reuses the generic stream data handling logic. It
launches the passt binary using GSubprocess, passing it a file
descriptor from a socketpair() for communication. QEMU connects to
the other end of the socket pair to establish the network data stream.
The PID of the passt daemon is tracked via a temporary file to
ensure it is terminated when QEMU exits.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Add a chapter to explain how to use passt(1) instead of '-net user'.
passt(1) can be connected to QEMU using UNIX socket or vhost-user.
With vhost-user, migration of the VM is allowed and internal state of
passt(1) is transfered from one side to the other
Bug: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2827
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To avoid problems with the meson installation from the host
system, we should always use the meson from our venv instead.
Thus use this in the documentation, too.
While we're at it, also mention that it has to be run from
the build folder (in the igb.rst file; the other two files
were already fine).
Suggested-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20250318055415.16501-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The tests have been converted to the functional framework, so
we should not talk about Avocado here anymore.
Fixes: f7d6b77220 ("tests/functional: Convert BananaPi tests to the functional framework")
Fixes: 380f7268b7 ("tests/functional: Convert the OrangePi tests to the functional framework")
Fixes: 4c0a2df81c ("tests/functional: Convert some tests that download files via fetch_asset()")
Message-ID: <20250311160847.388670-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The Open Compute Project [1] includes a Datacenter NVMe
SSD Specification [2]. The most recent version of this specification
(as of November 2024) is 2.6.1. This specification layers on top of
the NVM Express specifications [3] to provide additional
functionality. A key part of of this is the 512 Byte OCP SMART / Health
Information Extended log page that is defined in Section 4.8.6 of the
specification.
We add a controller argument (ocp) that toggles on/off the SMART log
extended structure. To accommodate different vendor specific specifications
like OCP, we add a multiplexing function (nvme_vendor_specific_log) which
will route to the different log functions based on arguments and log ids.
We only return the OCP extended SMART log when the command is 0xC0 and ocp
has been turned on in the nvme argumants.
Though we add the whole nvme SMART log extended structure, we only populate
the physical_media_units_{read,written}, log_page_version and
log_page_uuid.
This patch is based on work done by Joel but has been modified enough
that he requested a co-developed-by tag rather than a signed-off-by.
[1]: https://www.opencompute.org/
[2]: https://www.opencompute.org/documents/datacenter-nvme-ssd-specification-v2-6-1-pdf
[3]: https://nvmexpress.org/specifications/
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
Add a new device, ivshmem-flat, which is similar to the ivshmem PCI but
does not require a PCI bus. It's meant to be used on machines like those
with Cortex-M MCUs, which usually lack a PCI/PCIe bus, e.g. lm3s6965evb
and mps2-an385.
The device currently only supports the sysbus bus.
The new device, just like the ivshmem PCI device, supports both peer
notification via hardware interrupts and shared memory.
The device shared memory size can be set using the 'shmem-size' option
and it defaults to 4 MiB, which is the default size of shmem allocated
by the ivshmem server.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1134
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
[PMD: Rebased updating Property and using DEFINE_TYPES macro]
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20241216141818.111255-2-gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
shm_open() creates and opens a new POSIX shared memory object.
A POSIX shared memory object allows creating memory backend with an
associated file descriptor that can be shared with external processes
(e.g. vhost-user).
The new `memory-backend-shm` can be used as an alternative when
`memory-backend-memfd` is not available (Linux only), since shm_open()
should be provided by any POSIX-compliant operating system.
This backend mimics memfd, allocating memory that is practically
anonymous. In theory shm_open() requires a name, but this is allocated
for a short time interval and shm_unlink() is called right after
shm_open(). After that, only fd is shared with external processes
(e.g., vhost-user) as if it were associated with anonymous memory.
In the future we may also allow the user to specify the name to be
passed to shm_open(), but for now we keep the backend simple, mimicking
anonymous memory such as memfd.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (QAPI schema)
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20240618100519.145853-1-sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
We don't ship a binary that is simply called "qemu", so we should
avoid this in the documentation. Use the configurable binary name
via "|qemu_system|" instead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
