- iotest patches
- Improve performance of the mirror block job in write-blocking mode
- Limit memory usage for the backup block job
- Add discard and write-zeroes support to the NVMe host block driver
- Fix a bug in the mirror job
- Prevent the qcow2 driver from creating technically non-compliant qcow2
v3 images (where there is not enough extra data for snapshot table
entries)
- Allow callers of bdrv_truncate() (etc.) to determine whether the file
must be resized to the exact given size or whether it is OK for block
devices not to shrink
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/maxreitz/tags/pull-block-2019-10-28' into staging
Block patches for softfreeze:
- iotest patches
- Improve performance of the mirror block job in write-blocking mode
- Limit memory usage for the backup block job
- Add discard and write-zeroes support to the NVMe host block driver
- Fix a bug in the mirror job
- Prevent the qcow2 driver from creating technically non-compliant qcow2
v3 images (where there is not enough extra data for snapshot table
entries)
- Allow callers of bdrv_truncate() (etc.) to determine whether the file
must be resized to the exact given size or whether it is OK for block
devices not to shrink
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* remotes/maxreitz/tags/pull-block-2019-10-28: (69 commits)
qemu-iotests: restrict 264 to qcow2 only
Revert "qemu-img: Check post-truncation size"
block: Pass truncate exact=true where reasonable
block: Let format drivers pass @exact
block: Evaluate @exact in protocol drivers
block: Add @exact parameter to bdrv_co_truncate()
block: Do not truncate file node when formatting
block/cor: Drop cor_co_truncate()
block: Handle filter truncation like native impl.
iotests: Test qcow2's snapshot table handling
iotests: Add peek_file* functions
qcow2: Fix v3 snapshot table entry compliancy
qcow2: Repair snapshot table with too many entries
qcow2: Fix overly long snapshot tables
qcow2: Keep track of the snapshot table length
qcow2: Fix broken snapshot table entries
qcow2: Add qcow2_check_fix_snapshot_table()
qcow2: Separate qcow2_check_read_snapshot_table()
qcow2: Write v3-compliant snapshot list on upgrade
qcow2: Put qcow2_upgrade() into its own function
...
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
===========
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
.. code-block:: shell
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the CODING_STYLE.rst file.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
* `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
* `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
* `<https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/>`_
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
* `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_
* `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_
* #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_