mirror of https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu.git
79d51d7317
In contrast to qemu-nbd (where it is called --fork) and the system emulator, QSD does not have a --daemonize switch yet. Just like them, QSD allows setting up block devices and exports on the command line. When doing so, it is often necessary for whoever invoked the QSD to wait until these exports are fully set up. A --daemonize switch allows precisely this, by virtue of the parent process exiting once everything is set up. Note that there are alternative ways of waiting for all exports to be set up, for example: - Passing the --pidfile option and waiting until the respective file exists (but I do not know if there is a way of implementing this without a busy wait loop) - Set up some network server (e.g. on a Unix socket) and have the QSD connect to it after all arguments have been processed by appending corresponding --chardev and --monitor options to the command line, and then wait until the QSD connects Having a --daemonize option would make this simpler, though, without having to rely on additional tools (to set up a network server) or busy waiting. Implementing a --daemonize switch means having to fork the QSD process. Ideally, we should do this as early as possible: All the parent process has to do is to wait for the child process to signal completion of its set-up phase, and therefore there is basically no initialization that needs to be done before the fork. On the other hand, forking after initialization steps means having to consider how those steps (like setting up the block layer or QMP) interact with a later fork, which is often not trivial. In order to fork this early, we must scan the command line for --daemonize long before our current process_options() call. Instead of adding custom new code to do so, just reuse process_options() and give it a @pre_init_pass argument to distinguish the two passes. I believe there are some other switches but --daemonize that deserve parsing in the first pass: - --help and --version are supposed to only print some text and then immediately exit (so any initialization we do would be for naught). This changes behavior, because now "--blockdev inv-drv --help" will print a help text instead of complaining about the --blockdev argument. Note that this is similar in behavior to other tools, though: "--help" is generally immediately acted upon when finding it in the argument list, potentially before other arguments (even ones before it) are acted on. For example, "ls /does-not-exist --help" prints a help text and does not complain about ENOENT. - --pidfile does not need initialization, and is already exempted from the sequential order that process_options() claims to strictly follow (the PID file is only created after all arguments are processed, not at the time the --pidfile argument appears), so it makes sense to include it in the same category as --daemonize. - Invalid arguments should always be reported as soon as possible. (The same caveat with --help applies: That means that "--blockdev inv-drv --inv-arg" will now complain about --inv-arg, not inv-drv.) This patch does make some references to --daemonize without having implemented it yet, but that will happen in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Message-Id: <20220303164814.284974-3-hreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> |
||
|---|---|---|
| .github/workflows | ||
| .gitlab/issue_templates | ||
| .gitlab-ci.d | ||
| accel | ||
| audio | ||
| authz | ||
| backends | ||
| block | ||
| bsd-user | ||
| capstone@f8b1b83301 | ||
| chardev | ||
| common-user | ||
| configs | ||
| contrib | ||
| crypto | ||
| disas | ||
| docs | ||
| dtc@b6910bec11 | ||
| dump | ||
| ebpf | ||
| fpu | ||
| fsdev | ||
| gdb-xml | ||
| hw | ||
| include | ||
| io | ||
| libdecnumber | ||
| linux-headers | ||
| linux-user | ||
| meson@12f9f04ba0 | ||
| migration | ||
| monitor | ||
| nbd | ||
| net | ||
| pc-bios | ||
| plugins | ||
| po | ||
| python | ||
| qapi | ||
| qga | ||
| qobject | ||
| qom | ||
| replay | ||
| roms | ||
| scripts | ||
| scsi | ||
| semihosting | ||
| slirp@a88d9ace23 | ||
| softmmu | ||
| storage-daemon | ||
| stubs | ||
| subprojects/libvhost-user | ||
| target | ||
| tcg | ||
| tests | ||
| tools | ||
| trace | ||
| ui | ||
| util | ||
| .cirrus.yml | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .exrc | ||
| .gdbinit | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .gitlab-ci.yml | ||
| .gitmodules | ||
| .gitpublish | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .patchew.yml | ||
| .readthedocs.yml | ||
| .travis.yml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| COPYING.LIB | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.host | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README.rst | ||
| VERSION | ||
| block.c | ||
| blockdev-nbd.c | ||
| blockdev.c | ||
| blockjob.c | ||
| configure | ||
| cpu.c | ||
| cpus-common.c | ||
| disas.c | ||
| gdbstub.c | ||
| gitdm.config | ||
| hmp-commands-info.hx | ||
| hmp-commands.hx | ||
| iothread.c | ||
| job-qmp.c | ||
| job.c | ||
| memory_ldst.c.inc | ||
| meson.build | ||
| meson_options.txt | ||
| module-common.c | ||
| os-posix.c | ||
| os-win32.c | ||
| page-vary-common.c | ||
| page-vary.c | ||
| qemu-bridge-helper.c | ||
| qemu-edid.c | ||
| qemu-img-cmds.hx | ||
| qemu-img.c | ||
| qemu-io-cmds.c | ||
| qemu-io.c | ||
| qemu-keymap.c | ||
| qemu-nbd.c | ||
| qemu-options.hx | ||
| qemu.nsi | ||
| qemu.sasl | ||
| replication.c | ||
| trace-events | ||
| version.rc | ||
README.rst
=========== 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. Documentation ============= Documentation can be found hosted online at `<https://www.qemu.org/documentation/>`_. The documentation for the current development version that is available at `<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/>`_ is generated from the ``docs/`` folder in the source tree, and is built by `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/>_`. 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://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_ Submitting patches ================== The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/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 `style section <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/style.html>` of the Developers Guide. Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via the QEMU website * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_ The QEMU website is also maintained under source control. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/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 GitLab issues to track bugs. Bugs found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources should be reported via: * `<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues>`_ 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 GitLab. For additional information on bug reporting consult: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_ ChangeLog ========= For version history and release notes, please visit `<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for more detailed information. 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://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_