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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>
2009-07-09qcow2: Make cache=writethrough defaultKevin Wolf1-3/+1
The performance of qcow2 has improved meanwhile, so we don't need to special-case it any more. Switch the default to write-through caching like all other block drivers. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09net: set a default value for sndbuf=Mark McLoughlin1-1/+2
On reflection, perhaps it does make sense to set a default value for the sndbuf= tap parameter. For best effect, sndbuf= should be set to just below the capacity of the physical NIC. Setting it higher will cause packets to be dropped before the limit is hit. Setting it much lower will not cause any problems unless you set it low enough such that the guest cannot queue up new packets before the NIC has emptied its queue. In Linux, txqueuelen=1000 by default for ethernet NICs. Given a 1500 byte MTU, 1Mb is a good choice for sndbuf. If it turns out that txqueuelen is actually much lower than this, then sndbuf is essentially disabled. In the event that txqueuelen is much higher, it's unlikely that the NIC will be able to empty a 1Mb queue. Thanks to Herbert Xu for this logic. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29Replace -no-virtio-balloon by -balloonMarkus Armbruster1-4/+9
We want to do (at least) two things to the virtio-balloon device: suppress it, and control its PCI address. Option -no-virtio-balloon lets us do only the former. To get the latter, replace -no-virtio-balloon with -balloon none disable balloon device -balloon virtio[,addr=str] enable virtio balloon device (default) Syntax suggested by Anthony Liguori. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29Add documentation for MultibootAlexander Graf1-4/+13
The documentation shows how to use -kernel and friends for booting Linux, but obviously knows nothing about multiboot yet. Let's include some documentation for multiboot, so people know how to fully exploit this cool new feature. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29slirp: Bind support for host forwarding rulesJan Kiszka1-5/+6
Extend the hostfwd rule format so that the user can specify on which host interface qemu should listen for incoming connections. If omitted, binding will takes place against all interfaces. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29slirp: Rework external configuration interfaceJan Kiszka1-18/+34
With the internal IP configuration made more flexible, we can now enhance the user interface. This patch adds a number of new options to "-net user": net (address and mask), host, dhcpstart, dns and smbserver. It also renames "redir" to "hostfwd" and "channel" to "guestfwd" in order to (hopefully) clarify their meanings. The format of guestfwd is extended so that the user can define not only the port but also the virtual server's IP address the forwarding starts from. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-29slirp: Move smb, redir, tftp and bootp parameters and -net channelJan Kiszka1-98/+111
So far a couple of slirp-related parameters were expressed via stand-alone command line options. This it inconsistent and unintuitive. Moreover, it prevents both dynamically reconfigured (host_net_add/ delete) and multi-instance slirp. This patch refactors the configuration by turning -smb, -redir, -tftp and -bootp as well as -net channel into options of "-net user". The old stand-alone command line options are still processed, but no longer advertised. This allows smooth migration of management applications to to the new syntax and also the extension of that syntax later in this series. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-24qemu/net: flag to control the number of vectors a nic hasMichael S. Tsirkin1-6/+8
Add an option to specify the number of MSI-X vectors for PCI NIC cards. This can also be used to disable MSI-X, for compatibility with old qemu. This option currently only affects virtio cards. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22net: add '-net tap,sndbuf=nbytes'Mark McLoughlin1-1/+8
2.6.30 adds a new TUNSETSNDBUF ioctl() which allows a send buffer limit for the tap device to be specified. When this limit is reached, a tap write() will return EAGAIN and poll() will indicate the fd isn't writable. This allows people to tune their setups so as to avoid e.g. UDP packet loss when the sending application in the guest out-runs the NIC in the host. There is no obviously sensible default setting - a suitable value depends mostly on the capabilities of the physical NIC through which the packets are being sent. Also, note that when using a bridge with netfilter enabled, we currently never get EAGAIN because netfilter causes the packet to be immediately orphaned. Set /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge nf-call-iptables to zero to disable this behaviour. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22Support addr=... in option argument of -drive if=virtioMarkus Armbruster1-0/+3
Make drive_init() accept addr=, put the value into struct DriveInfo. Use it in all the places that create virtio-blk-pci devices: pc_init1(), bamboo_init(), mpc8544ds_init(). Don't support addr= in third argument of monitor command pci_add and second argument of drive_add, because that clashes with their first arguments. Admittedly unelegant. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22Support addr=... in option argument of -net nicMarkus Armbruster1-3/+4
Make net_client_init() accept addr=, put the value into struct NICinfo. Use it in pci_nic_init(), and remove arguments bus and devfn. Don't support addr= in third argument of monitor command pci_add, because that clashes with its first argument. Admittedly unelegant. Machines "malta" and "r2d" have a default NIC with a well-known PCI address. Deal with that the same way as the NIC model: make pci_nic_init() take an optional default to be used when the user doesn't specify one. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-13Add -no-virtio-balloon command-line optionEduardo Habkost1-0/+9
This new option may be used to disable the virtio-balloon device. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-09Fix Sparse warningBlue Swirl1-1/+1
Fix this warning: ./qemu-options.h:198:1: error: expected preprocessor identifier Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2009-05-04qemu-options.hx: fix description of cache=none suboptionAurelien Jarno1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2009-05-01Hardware watchdogRichard W.M. Jones1-0/+49
Here is an updated hardware watchdog patch, which should fix everything that was raised about the previous version ... Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-22xen: add -vga xenfb option, configure xenfb (Gerd Hoffmann)aliguori1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7228 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-22xen: groundwork for xen support (Gerd Hoffmann)aliguori1-0/+11
- configure script and build system changes. - wind up new machine type. - add -xen-* command line options. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7219 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-21added -numa cmdline parameter parser (Andre Przywara)aliguori1-0/+8
adds a -numa command line parameter and sets a QEMU global array with the memory sizes. The CPU-to-node assignemnt is written into the CPUState. If no specific values for memory and CPUs are given, all resources will be split equally across all nodes. This code currently support only up to 64 virtual CPUs. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7210 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-21slirp: Enhance host-guest redirection setup (Jan Kiszka)aliguori1-1/+1
Allow to establish a TCP/UDP connection redirection also via a monitor command 'host_net_redir'. Moreover, assume TCP as connection type if that parameter is omitted. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7204 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-21net: Add support for capturing VLANs (Jan Kiszka)aliguori1-0/+7
This patch is derived from Tristan Gingold's patch. It adds a new VLAN client type that writes all traffic on the VLAN it is attached to into a pcap file. Such a file can then be analyzed offline with Wireshark or tcpdump. Besides rebasing and some minor cleanups, the major differences to the original version are: - support for enabling/disabling via the monitor (host_net_add/remove) - no special ordering of VLAN client list, qemu_send_packet now takes care of properly ordered packets - 64k default capturing limit (I hate tcpdump's default) Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7200 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-19kqemu: merge CONFIG_KQEMU and USE_KQEMUblueswir11-2/+2
Basically a recursive ":%s/USE_KQEMU/CONFIG_KQEMU/g". Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7189 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-17qemu: Add support for SMBIOS command line otions (Alex Williamson)aliguori1-0/+21
Create a new -smbios option (x86-only) to allow binary SMBIOS entries to be passed through to the BIOS or modify the default values of individual fields of type 0 and 1 entries on the command line. Binary SMBIOS entries can be generated as follows: dmidecode -t 1 -u | grep $'^\t\t[^"]' | xargs -n1 | \ perl -lne 'printf "%c", hex($_)' > smbios_type_1.bin These can then be passed to the BIOS using this switch: -smbios file=smbios_type_1.bin Command line generation supports the following syntax: -smbios type=0[,vendor=str][,version=str][,date=str][,release=%d.%d] -smbios type=1[,manufacturer=str][,product=str][,version=str][,serial=str] [,uuid=$(uuidgen)][,sku=str][,family=str] For instance, to add a serial number to the type 1 table: -smbios type=1,serial=0123456789 Interface is extensible to support more fields/tables as needed. aliguori: remove texi formatting from help output Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7163 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-07Implement --version.pbrook1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7035 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-06Remove WIN32 guard around -kaliguori1-2/+0
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7006 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-05Add new command line option -singlestep for tcg single stepping.aurel321-0/+7
This replaces a compile time option for some targets and adds this feature to targets which did not have a compile time option. Add monitor command to enable or disable single step mode. Modify monitor command "info status" to display single step mode. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7004 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-05gdbstub: Rework configuration via command line and monitor (Jan Kiszka)aliguori1-10/+16
Introduce a more canonical gdbstub configuration (system emulation only) via the new switch '-gdb dev'. Keep '-s' as shorthand for '-gdb tcp::1234'. Use the same syntax also for the corresponding monitor command 'gdbserver'. Its default remains to listen on TCP port 1234. Changes in v4: - Rebased over new command line switches meta file Changes in v3: - Fix documentation Changes in v2: - Support for pipe-based like to gdb (target remote | qemu -gdb stdio) - Properly update the qemu-doc Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6992 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-05Make `-icount' help fit 80 chars screen width (Robert Riebisch)aliguori1-1/+2
On Windows default screen width for the command prompt (A.K.A. "DOS window") is 80 chars. `-icount' help is 87 chars wide. So make it fit. Signed-off-by: Robert Riebisch <rr@bttr-software.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6991 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-03-28Fix compile problems with r6884blueswir11-1/+1
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6885 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-03-28Syncing documentation vs. -help vs. qemu_options tableblueswir11-0/+1462
Try to keep documentation about command line switches, -help text and qemu_options table synchronized. In true Qemu tradition, an include file is generated from single .hx file containing all relevant information in one place. The include file is parsed once for getting the enums, another time for getopt tables and hird time for help messages. Texi documentation for the options is generated from the same .hx file. git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6884 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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