similar to: [PATCH][RFC] launch: appliance is optional

QEMU upstream has broken snapshot=on ... again. These two patches stop using it entirely. Instead we run 'qemu-img create' to create overlay disks as required. Note that the libvirt and UML backends were already doing this: The libvirt backend because <transient/> has never worked, and the UML backend was running uml_mkcow because the UML-equivalent syntax of snapshot=on was

This preliminary patch series adds a libvirt backend to libguestfs. It's for review only because although it launches the guest OK, there are some missing features that need to be implemented. The meat of the patch is in part 4/4. To save you the trouble of interpreting libxml2 fragments, an example of the generated XML and the corresponding qemu command line are attached below. Note the

This is, I guess, version 3 of this patch series which adds disk labels and hotplugging (only hot-add implemented so far). The good news is .. it works! Rich.

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> You can now add remote NBD drives using: ><fs> add-drive "" format:raw protocol:nbd server:localhost (Note that you also need to add port:NNNN if the server is running on a non-standard port). The corresponding qemu-nbd service can be started by doing: qemu-nbd disk.img -t This commit also adds a test. ---

This rounds off hotplugging support by allowing you to add and remove drives at any stage (before and after launch). Rich.

This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and tcm_vhost backends). This version rebased on Rusty's virtio ring rework patches, which has already gone into virtio-next today. We hope this can go into virtio-next together with the virtio ring rework pathes. V6: rework "redo allocation of target data"

This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and tcm_vhost backends). This version rebased on Rusty's virtio ring rework patches, which has already gone into virtio-next today. We hope this can go into virtio-next together with the virtio ring rework pathes. V6: rework "redo allocation of target data"

Hi! I'm oVirt developer responsible for most of 'hostdev' support. While working on SCSI passthrough (that is hostdev type='scsi'), I've encountered few issues I'm not sure how to solve somewhat effectively and nicely. Just a note - oVirt by default disables 'dynamic_ownership', meaning we have to handle endpoint ownership/labeling ourselves. This is not

This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and tcm_vhost backends). This version rebased on Rusty's virtio ring rework patches, which has already gone into virtio-next today. We hope this can go into virtio-next together with the virtio ring rework pathes. V7: respin to fix the patch apply error V6: rework

This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and tcm_vhost backends). This version rebased on Rusty's virtio ring rework patches, which has already gone into virtio-next today. We hope this can go into virtio-next together with the virtio ring rework pathes. V7: respin to fix the patch apply error V6: rework

This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and tcm_vhost backends). This version rebased on Rusty's virtio ring rework patches. We hope this can go into virtio-next together with the virtio ring rework pathes. V5: improving the grammar of 1/5 (Paolo) move the dropping of sg_elems to 'virtio-scsi: use

This series implements virtio-scsi queue steering, which gives performance improvements of up to 50% (measured both with QEMU and tcm_vhost backends). This version rebased on Rusty's virtio ring rework patches. We hope this can go into virtio-next together with the virtio ring rework pathes. V5: improving the grammar of 1/5 (Paolo) move the dropping of sg_elems to 'virtio-scsi: use

From: Sjur Br?ndeland <sjur.brandeland at stericsson.com> Use virtio device index for creating unique device port names. Current index allocation in virtio is based on a monotonically increasing variable "index". A better handling of this is to use device index which is allocated by ida. Signed-off-by: Sjur Br?ndeland <sjur.brandeland at stericsson.com> ---

From: Sjur Br?ndeland <sjur.brandeland at stericsson.com> Use virtio device index for creating unique device port names. Current index allocation in virtio is based on a monotonically increasing variable "index". A better handling of this is to use device index which is allocated by ida. Signed-off-by: Sjur Br?ndeland <sjur.brandeland at stericsson.com> ---

These assorted patches end up with adding virtio-scsi support to libguestfs. It passes libguestfs-test-tool, but I haven't yet tried to run the full set of tests. In theory > 26 devices can be added, but it's likely that certain parts of the daemon will break if you actually try this. This of course needs to be fixed. Thanks Paolo Bonzini for invaluable help. Rich.

In some places when generating XML output in C code we use some clever macros: start_element ("memory") { attribute ("unit", "MiB"); string ("%d", g->memsize); } end_element (); This commit which is mostly refactoring moves the repeated definitions of these macros into a common header file. I also took this opportunity to change / clean up

More comprehensive support for virtio-scsi. Passes all the tests. Rich.

Add some warnings. Well, the first patch is a miscellaneous change, but patches 2-5 add some warnings. Rich.

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-October/msg00047.html However it was broken in a few ways. First of all the documentation was broken because "/**" enhanced comments were not permitted on macros. This is fixed in the new 1/4 patch. Secondly we didn't use single_element() everywhere possible, which is fixed in the new 4/4 patch. Lastly I've

Consolidate and extend the use of funky start_element() etc macros. Rich.