Commit Graph

658 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Anthony Liguori
f92f8afebe Eliminate --disable-gfx-check and make VNC default when SDL not available
--disable-gfx-check predates VNC server support.  It made sense back then
because the only thing you could do without SDL was use -nographic mode or
similar tricks.  Since this is a very advanced mode of operation, gfx-check
provided a good safety net for casual users.

A casual user is very likely to use VNC to interact with a guest.  In fact, it's
often frustrating to install QEMU on a server and have to specify
disable-gfx-check when you only want to use VNC.

This patch eliminates disable-gfx-check and makes SDL behave like every other
optional dependency.  If SDL is not available, instead of failing ungracefully
if no special options are specified, we default to -vnc localhost:0,to=99.
When we do default to VNC, we also print a message to tell the user that we've
done this include which port we're currently listening on.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-21 08:47:48 -05:00
Jean-Christophe Dubois
9ed415b28b initialize struct sigevent before timer_create
When qemu is run under valgrind, valgrind shows the following output
on exit:

==3648== 1 errors in context 2 of 2:
==3648== Syscall param timer_create(evp) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==3648==    at 0x54E936A: timer_create (in /lib/librt-2.9.so)
==3648==    by 0x405DCF: dynticks_start_timer (vl.c:1549)
==3648==    by 0x40A966: main (vl.c:1726)
==3648==  Address 0x7fefffb34 is on thread 1's stack
==3648==  Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation
==3648==    at 0x405D60: dynticks_start_timer (vl.c:1534)

This patch is a simple fix to remove this potential problem.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
2009-05-20 09:12:58 -05:00
Jean-Christophe Dubois
e332340a77 Fix NULL alarm_timer pointer at exit
This fixes a SIGSEGV error on qemu exit.

Here is the valgrind output related to this error

==3648== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
==3648==  Access not within mapped region at address 0x8
==3648==    at 0x40636B: host_alarm_handler (vl.c:1345)
==3648==    by 0x52D807F: (within /lib/libpthread-2.9.so)
==3648==    by 0x5C0A12E: tcsetattr (in /lib/libc-2.9.so)
==3648==    by 0x4DD601: term_exit (qemu-char.c:700)
==3648==    by 0x5B636EC: exit (in /lib/libc-2.9.so)
==3648==    by 0x5B4B5AC: (below main) (in /lib/libc-2.9.so)

This simple fix check for a valid pointer as host_alarm_handler is
also called after alarm_timer is released in the exit path.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
2009-05-20 09:12:58 -05:00
Paul Brook
aae9460e24 Basic qdev infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-05-14 22:35:06 +01:00
Paul Brook
4cfce484c5 Fix kqemu build failure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-05-13 18:08:17 +01:00
Paul Brook
fbe1b5953d Remove vga_ram_size
The vga_ram_size argument to machine init functions always has the same
value, and is ignored by many machines (including SPARC32 which has an
obsolete ifdef for VGA_RAM_SIZE).

Remove it and push VGA_RAM_SIZE into vga_int.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-05-13 17:56:25 +01:00
Paul Brook
bc24a225af Follow coding conventions
Remove explicit struct qualifiers and rename structure types.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-05-10 01:44:56 +01:00
Jan Kiszka
322f9d0153 Drop CONFIG_GDBSTUB
This is no user-flippable switch, and no arch makes use of disabling
gdbstub support. So it's pointless to keep the related #ifdefs and
configure hunks around - and risking breakages like 711c410fdd again.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2009-05-08 13:24:12 +01:00
Anthony Liguori
e6a6dfe454 Fix serial option with -drive
This is from the KVM tree.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-01 09:44:12 -05:00
Xiantao Zhang
704aec581c Build fix for !CONFIG_GDBSTUB case
Once CONFIG_GDBSTUB not configured, compile will generate error.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-01 09:44:11 -05:00
Richard W.M. Jones
9dd986ccf6 Hardware watchdog
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>
2009-05-01 09:44:11 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
ffad4116b9 net: Fix -net socket parameter checks
My commit ea053add70 broke -net socket by
overwriting an intermediate buffer in the added check_param. Fix this
by switching check_param to automatic buffer allocation and release, ie.
callers no longer have to worry about providing a scratch buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-01 09:44:11 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
a7e21219b0 Fix qemu_event_init
Falling through to "fail" made qemu_event_init() close the pipe fds
immediately again, breaking timer event notification.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2009-04-29 18:38:28 +00:00
Blue Swirl
ef28c4b009 Fix Win32 warning 2009-04-25 12:56:37 +00:00
aliguori
d6dc3d424e qemu: introduce iothread (Marcelo Tosatti)
Fill in the hooks and introduce iothread.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:04:07 +00:00
aliguori
6e29f5da4d qemu: handle stop request in main loop (Marcelo Tosatti)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:04:02 +00:00
aliguori
e6e35b1ea3 qemu: refactor tcg cpu execution loop (Marcelo Tosatti)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:57 +00:00
aliguori
e568902a02 qemu: use debug_requested global instead of cpu_exec return (Marcelo Tosatti)
Necessary for the next refactoring patch.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:54 +00:00
aliguori
4870852c9e qemu: introduce lock/unlock_iothread (Marcelo Tosatti)
Hook to allow iothread to drop the global mutex.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:49 +00:00
aliguori
8edac960a7 qemu: introduce qemu_cpu_kick (Marcelo Tosatti)
To notify cpu of pending interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:45 +00:00
aliguori
0bf46a40a1 qemu: introduce qemu_init_vcpu (Marcelo Tosatti)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:41 +00:00
aliguori
43b9685807 qemu: refactor main_loop (Marcelo Tosatti)
Break main loop into 3 main functions.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:33 +00:00
aliguori
50317c7fa7 qemu: factor out event notification / rearm alarm timer on main_loop_wait (Marcelo Tosatti)
Special events that have no particular event descriptor (either fd for UNIX
or HANDLE for Windows) associated with make use of an artificial one.

Factor the alarm timer notification so that it can be used for other events,
and move dyntick timer rearm to main_loop_wait.

aliguori: made sure to return a value in qemu_event_init() on win32

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:29 +00:00
aliguori
3fcf7b6bed qemu: introduce qemu_init_main_loop (Marcelo Tosatti)
Hook to allow iothread initialization.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:25 +00:00
aliguori
d9f75a4eb4 qemu: create helper for event notification (Marcelo Tosatti)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-24 18:03:11 +00:00
aliguori
94909d9fd9 xen: add -vga xenfb option, configure xenfb (Gerd Hoffmann)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-22 15:19:53 +00:00
aliguori
28b85ed8db simplify vga selection (Gerd Hoffmann)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-22 15:19:48 +00:00
aliguori
62d23efac8 xen: add block device backend driver. (Gerd Hoffmann)
This patch adds a block device backend driver to qemu.  It is a pure
userspace implemention using the gntdev interface.  It uses "qdisk" as
backend name in xenstore so it doesn't interfere with the other existing
backends (blkback aka "vbd" and tapdisk aka "tap").

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-22 15:19:30 +00:00
aliguori
e37630ca4f xen: groundwork for xen support (Gerd Hoffmann)
- 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>


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2009-04-22 15:19:10 +00:00
aliguori
268a362c63 added -numa cmdline parameter parser (Andre Przywara)
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>


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2009-04-21 22:30:27 +00:00
aliguori
d4ebe1934a slirp: Enhance host-guest redirection setup (Jan Kiszka)
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>


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2009-04-21 19:56:44 +00:00
aliguori
1030021681 Allow empty params for check_params (Jan Kiszka)
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-21 19:56:23 +00:00
blueswir1
640f42e4e9 kqemu: merge CONFIG_KQEMU and USE_KQEMU
Basically a recursive ":%s/USE_KQEMU/CONFIG_KQEMU/g".

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>



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2009-04-19 10:18:01 +00:00
aliguori
b6f6e3d3a7 qemu: Add support for SMBIOS command line otions (Alex Williamson)
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>



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2009-04-17 18:59:56 +00:00
aliguori
c4be29ff43 qemu: Add prototype and make qemu_uuid_parse() non-static (Alex Williamson)
SMBIOS parameters can also provide a UUID outside of vl.c.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-17 18:58:14 +00:00
aliguori
29203dcf31 kvm: Sync CPU state on reset (Jan Kiszka)
Make sure KVM gets informed about the reset CPU state.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-17 14:26:17 +00:00
pbrook
94a6b54fd6 Implement dynamic guest ram allocation.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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2009-04-11 17:15:54 +00:00
pbrook
5579c7f37e Remove code phys_ram_base uses.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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2009-04-11 14:47:08 +00:00
pbrook
4a19f1eced Add --with-pkgversion.
Allows distributors to identify their builds without needing to hack the
sources.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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2009-04-07 23:17:49 +00:00
pbrook
9bd7e6d90d Implement --version.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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2009-04-07 22:58:45 +00:00
aurel32
1b530a6dfc Add new command line option -singlestep for tcg single stepping.
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>

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2009-04-05 20:08:59 +00:00
aliguori
8215e91463 stop dirty tracking just at the end of migration (Glauber Costa)
If there is still work to do, it is not safe to assume we
can end the dirty tracking. Specifically, kvm can update the dirty
tracking log inside ram_save_block(), leaving pages still out of sync
if we go with the current code.

Based on a patch by Yaniv Kamay

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-04-05 19:30:55 +00:00
aliguori
59030a8cd4 gdbstub: Rework configuration via command line and monitor (Jan Kiszka)
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>


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2009-04-05 18:43:41 +00:00
blueswir1
b9e82a5946 Fix some win32 compile warnings
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2009-04-05 18:03:31 +00:00
aliguori
6295e564f7 Remove nodisk_ok machine feature (Jan Kiszka)
All archs have some kind of firmware to load and can be fine with it
already. So there is not much use in enforcing the presence of a disk.
If the system setup requires one, the user will notice it anyway once
the firmware/bios fails to boot from it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-03-28 17:28:58 +00:00
blueswir1
a718acec08 Fix warning in vl.c
vl.c calls dma_helper_init, so it needs to include dma.h to get a
definition for it, otherwise we get compiler warnings like:

/home/hch/work/qemu/vl.c: In function 'main':
/home/hch/work/qemu/vl.c:5518: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dma_helper_init'


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


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2009-03-28 08:24:44 +00:00
blueswir1
5824d65122 Syncing documentation vs. -help vs. qemu_options table
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.


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2009-03-28 06:44:27 +00:00
aliguori
6512a2a710 Implement cancellation method for dma async I/O (Avi Kivity)
Move the dma helpers to a private aio pool, and implement a cancellation
method for them.  Should prevent issues when cancelling I/O while dma is
in progress.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-03-20 18:26:07 +00:00
blueswir1
d78f399542 Delete some unused macros detected with -Wp,-Wunused-macros use
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2009-03-16 16:33:01 +00:00
aliguori
7b5d76dae3 DisplayAllocator interface (Stefano Stabellini)
Hi all,
this patch adds a DisplayAllocator interface that allows display
frontends (sdl in particular) to provide a preallocated display buffer
for the graphical backend to use.

Whenever a graphical backend cannot use
qemu_create_displaysurface_from because its own internal pixel format
cannot be exported directly (text mode or graphical mode with color
depth 8 or 24), it creates another display buffer in memory using
qemu_create_displaysurface and does the conversion.
This new buffer needs to be blitted into the sdl surface buffer every time
we need to update portions of the screen.
We can avoid this using the DisplayAllocator interace: sdl provides its
own implementation of qemu_create_displaysurface, giving back the sdl
surface buffer directly (as we used to do before the DisplayState
changes).
Since the buffer returned by sdl could be in bgr format we need to put
back in the handlers of that case.

This approach is good if the two following conditions are true:

1) the sdl surface is a software surface that resides in main memory;

2) the host display color depth is either 16 or 32 bpp.

If first condition is false we can have bad performances using sdl
and vnc together.
If the second condition is false performances are certainly not going to
improve but they shouldn't get worse either.

The first condition is always true, at least on linux/X11 systems; but I
believe is true also on other platforms.
The second condition is true in the vast majority of the cases.

This patch should also have the good side effect of solving the sdl
2D slowness malc was reporting on MacOS, because SDL_BlitSurface is not
going to be called anymore when the guest is in text mode or 24bpp.
However the root problem is still present so I suspect we may
still see some slowness on MacOS when the guest is in 32 or 16 bpp.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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