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authorSteve Yarmie <steve.yarmie@gmail.com>2009-11-20 15:41:05 +0100
committerDaniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>2009-11-20 15:41:05 +0100
commitb827338a7219106bc6d17cebb5d0c7f5d4bc7d6d (patch)
treee7fd04b4f4ccc79563f4cc56dde46bd170d9bc71
parentfix deprecated iptables command syntax (diff)
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qemu-kvm needs -enable-kvm flag for VT optimization
Recent qemu releases require command option '-enable-qemu' in order for the kvm functionality be activated. Libvirt needs to pass this flag to qemu when starting a domain. Note that without the option, even if both the kernel and qemu support KVM, KVM will not be activated and VMs will be very slow. * src/qemu/qemu_conf.h src/qemu/qemu_conf.c: parse the extra command line option from help and add it when running kvm * tests/qemuhelptest.c: this modified the flags output for qemu-0.10.5 and qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc2 regression tests
-rw-r--r--src/qemu/qemu_conf.c14
-rw-r--r--src/qemu/qemu_conf.h1
-rw-r--r--tests/qemuhelptest.c6
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
index c807688e0..f26e94dd8 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
@@ -878,6 +878,8 @@ static unsigned int qemudComputeCmdFlags(const char *help,
flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_KQEMU;
if (strstr(help, "-no-kvm"))
flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_KVM;
+ if (strstr(help, "-enable-kvm"))
+ flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KVM;
if (strstr(help, "-no-reboot"))
flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NO_REBOOT;
if (strstr(help, "-name"))
@@ -1595,6 +1597,7 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
struct utsname ut;
int disableKQEMU = 0;
int disableKVM = 0;
+ int enableKVM = 0;
int qargc = 0, qarga = 0;
const char **qargv = NULL;
int qenvc = 0, qenva = 0;
@@ -1653,6 +1656,15 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
def->virtType == VIR_DOMAIN_VIRT_QEMU)
disableKVM = 1;
+ /* Should explicitly enable KVM if
+ * 1. Guest domain is 'kvm'
+ * 2. The qemu binary has the -enable-kvm flag
+ * NOTE: user must be responsible for loading the kvm modules
+ */
+ if ((qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KVM) &&
+ def->virtType == VIR_DOMAIN_VIRT_KVM)
+ enableKVM = 1;
+
/*
* Need to force a 32-bit guest CPU type if
*
@@ -1780,6 +1792,8 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
ADD_ARG_LIT("-no-kqemu");
if (disableKVM)
ADD_ARG_LIT("-no-kvm");
+ if (enableKVM)
+ ADD_ARG_LIT("-enable-kvm");
ADD_ARG_LIT("-m");
ADD_ARG_LIT(memory);
if (def->hugepage_backed) {
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
index 5d433d38d..1bf3e1672 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ enum qemud_cmd_flags {
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_XEN_DOMID = (1 << 20), /* -xen-domid (new style xen integration) */
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_MIGRATE_QEMU_UNIX = (1 << 21), /* Does qemu support unix domain sockets for migration? */
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_CHARDEV = (1 << 22), /* Is the new -chardev arg available */
+ QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KVM = (1 << 23), /* Is the -enable-kvm flag available to "enable KVM full virtualization support" */
};
/* Main driver state */
diff --git a/tests/qemuhelptest.c b/tests/qemuhelptest.c
index 428d9a38d..a747da740 100644
--- a/tests/qemuhelptest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuhelptest.c
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ mymain(int argc, char **argv)
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_FORMAT |
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_SERIAL |
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_VGA |
- QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_0_10,
+ QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_0_10 |
+ QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KVM,
10005, 0, 0);
DO_TEST("qemu-kvm-0.10.5",
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_VNC_COLON |
@@ -177,7 +178,8 @@ mymain(int argc, char **argv)
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_VGA |
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_0_10 |
QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCIDEVICE |
- QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_MEM_PATH,
+ QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_MEM_PATH |
+ QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KVM,
10092, 1, 0);
return ret == 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;