similar to: [PATCH v3] ppc64le: Use -machine cap-htm=off unconditionally

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-September/thread.html#00000 v2: - Make conditional on qemu >= 2.11.2 and libvirt >= 4.6.0. - Fix the libvirt XML to match what went upstream. Still untested. Rich.

Unfortunately I was not able to test this because I don't currently have access to a P9 machine. Rich.

On Monday, 3 September 2018 10:09:07 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > See: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614948#c23 > > Thanks: David Gibson. > --- > lib/launch-direct.c | 3 +++ > lib/launch-libvirt.c | 10 ++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/lib/launch-direct.c b/lib/launch-direct.c > index 47e8f37de..94dd995c6

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614948#c23 Thanks: David Gibson. --- lib/launch-direct.c | 4 ++++ lib/launch-libvirt.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/launch-direct.c b/lib/launch-direct.c index 47e8f37de..e99c33347 100644 --- a/lib/launch-direct.c +++ b/lib/launch-direct.c @@ -523,6 +523,10 @@ launch_direct (guestfs_h *g, void *datav,

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614948#c23 Thanks: David Gibson. --- lib/launch-direct.c | 3 +++ lib/launch-libvirt.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/launch-direct.c b/lib/launch-direct.c index 47e8f37de..94dd995c6 100644 --- a/lib/launch-direct.c +++ b/lib/launch-direct.c @@ -523,6 +523,9 @@ launch_direct (guestfs_h *g, void *datav,

Possibly for post 1.40. Rich.

Let's actually compile and test the patch this time, rather than trusting the RHEL 7.6 patch to apply directly to head ... Rich.

Hi, this adds an helper version struct, and uses it in the backends (for the libvirt and qemu versions) and inspection code. This also moves common code to that, so it is not repeated in many places. This should help with the small refactoring proposed with https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-May/msg00070.html Thanks, Pino Toscano (2): src: start unifying version handling

Thanks: Cole Robinson, Dan Horak, Thomas Huth. --- lib/launch-libvirt.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/launch-libvirt.c b/lib/launch-libvirt.c index f66c8e0ef..4adb2cfb3 100644 --- a/lib/launch-libvirt.c +++ b/lib/launch-libvirt.c @@ -1359,6 +1359,7 @@ construct_libvirt_xml_devices (guestfs_h *g, return -1; } +#ifndef __s390x__ /*

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

This commit uses -bios bios-fast.bin if available, which basically stops SeaBIOS from trying to do PCI probing during boot, which is a waste of time when using the -kernel option. v1 -> v2: - Rebase on top of Pino's work. This still has 3 dependencies: - The qemu memoization work (v2). - Support for '-L ?' in qemu:

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

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-October/msg00047.html v2 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-October/msg00051.html v3: - Back to using string/string_format and attribute/attribute_format. - Add both single_element and single_element_format. - Rebased and retested. Rich.

qemu in SLIRP mode offers DHCP services to the appliance. We don't use them, but use a fixed IP address intead. This changes the appliance to get its IP address using DHCP. Note: This is only used when the network is enabled. dhclient is somewhat slower, but the penalty (a few seconds) is only paid for network users. We could consider using the faster systemd dhcp client instead. ---

Incomplete fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417306 The full fix is waiting for a libvirt change, but this can still go upstream. Rich.

v3: - Various changes to dhclient/dhcpcd as discussed on the mailing list.

v2: - Make virbr0 configurable. - Fix the tests.

Use libvirt to set up the user network instead of a custom qemu argument. Note this requires a non-upstream patch being discussed on the libvirt mailing list at the moment. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075520#c6 Rich.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > When using the libvirt backend, don't use the SLIRP. Use > qemu-bridge-helper via libvirt to give us a full network connection. > One consequence of this is that 'ping' works in virt-builder > --run-command. > > Note unfortunately this does not fix virt-rescue (since it overrides > the default

This patch causes aarch64 to use virtio-pci instead of virtio-mmio. Virtio-pci is considerably faster than virtio-mmio, it's more like how other architectures work, and it supports hotplugging (although it's not likely we'd use the latter feature). I'm not necessarily suggesting that we apply this. Laine (CC'd) has some further patches to libvirt lined up which AIUI would