Add an option in the CLI to enable nested support.
Adding an option --cpu nested=on|off to the CPU
argument to enable nested support for Microsoft
Hypervisor. By default it is enabled for both KVM
and MSHV.
Signed-off-by: Muminul Islam <muislam@microsoft.com>
Create HypervisorVmConfig early and pass the
struct to VM creation API in the vmm crate. Getting
rid of multiple conditional parameter.
Signed-off-by: Muminul Islam <muislam@microsoft.com>
Previously, state that we accumulated during the migration process in
the receiver was kept in `mut Option` variables or HashMaps. The
problem is that it is unclear in the code when these variables can be
safely used. It's also difficult to add new state, such as the state
we need to handle the upcoming feature for performing the migration
using multiple connections.
To solve this, I've refactored the code to use the state machine
pattern. Each state carries the data it needs to. Any state that
didn't arrive yet (memory_files, memory_manager) cannot be accessed
until we are in the proper state.
Some benefits that fall out of this:
- We now respond to all requests, even invalid ones, at least with an
error message.
- Any error handling a request will result in an error message being
sent.
- There is only a single place where responses are sent and thus it's
very hard to mess this up in the code.
- The main protocol state machine fits on a screen.
I would argue that especially the error cases are now much more
consistent. There is still a lot to be done. There is still state
transfer via self.vm and similar. In an ideal world, this would also
be carried by the state machine. I also want to see better handling of
payloads, which are still handled all over the place, but this change
is already too big. :)
Co-authored-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP julian.stecklina@sap.com
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
... and nuke some Option<> while I was there. Given that HashMap has a
usable default and we end up passing an empty HashMap anyway, just get
rid of the Option.
On-behalf-of: SAP julian.stecklina@sap.com
Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
This is a follow-up of [0].
# Advantages
- This saves dozens of unneeded clone()s across the whole code base
- Makes it much easier to reason about how parameters are used
(often we passed owned Arc/Rc versions without actually needing
ownership)
# Exceptions
For certain code paths, the alternatives would require awkward or overly
complex code, and in some cases the functions are the logical owners of
the values they take. In those cases, I've added
#[allow(clippy::needless_pass_by_value)].
This does not mean that one should not improve this in the future.
[0] 6a86c157af
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
This helps to uncover expensive and needless clones in the code base.
For example, I prevented extensive clones in the snapshot path where
(nested) BTreeMap's have been cloned over and over again. Further,
the lint helps devs to much better reason about the ownership of
parameters.
All of these changes have been done manually with the necessary
caution. A few structs that are cheap to clone are now `copy` so that
this lint won't trigger for them.
I didn't enable the lint so far as it is a massive rabbit hole and
needs much more fixes. Nevertheless, it is very useful.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
This is continuing the work from [0]. Some places in CHV
"misuse" Result::map_err for side-effects. inspect_err is
a better suited alternative for exactly that use-case.
Unfortunately, there is no clippy lint for this yet.
[0] f02745a7ed
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
To ensure that struct sizes are the same on 32-bit and 64-bit, various
kernel APIs use __u64 (Rust u64) to represent userspace pointers.
Userspace is expected to cast pointers to __u64 before passing them to
the kernel, and cast kernel-provided __u64 to a pointer before using
them. However, various safe APIs in Cloud Hypervisor took
caller-provided u64 values and passed them to syscalls that treat them
as userspace addresses. Therefore, passing bad u64 values would cause
memory disclosure or corruption. The memory region APIs are one example
of this, so mark them as unsafe.
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
Consuming `&Arc<T>` as argument is almost always an antipattern as it
hides whether the callee is going to take over (shared) ownership
(by .clone()) or not. Instead, it is better to consume `&dyn T` or
`Arc<dyn T>` to be more explicit. This commit cleans up the code.
The change is very mechanic and was very easy to implement across the
code base.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
Add necessary definitions and RISC-V ACPI tables to enable ACPI feature.
More specifically, this commit add MADT definitions for RISC-V AIA
interrupt chips.
Signed-off-by: Can Zhang <icloud9957@gmail.com>
Fix clippy warning `uninlined_format_args` reported by rustc rustc
1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04).
```console
warning: variables can be used directly in the `format!` string
--> block/src/lib.rs:649:17
|
649 | info!("{} failed to create io_uring instance: {}", error_msg, e);
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#uninlined_format_args
= note: `#[warn(clippy::uninlined_format_args)]` on by default
help: change this to
|
649 - info!("{} failed to create io_uring instance: {}", error_msg, e);
649 + info!("{error_msg} failed to create io_uring instance: {e}");
|
```
Signed-off-by: Ruoqing He <heruoqing@iscas.ac.cn>
Raise the max number of supported (v)CPUs on kvm x86_64 hosts
to 8192 (the max allowed value of CONFIG_NR_CPUS in the Linux kernel).
Other platfroms keep their existing CPU limits pending further
development and testing.
The change has been tested on Intel and AMD hosts.
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neel Natu <neelnatu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ofir Weisse <oweisse@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
This commit removes the SGX support from cloud hypervisor. SGX support
was deprecated in May as part of #7090.
Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakrawar <schakrawar@crusoe.ai>
This is the first change to Cloud Hypervisor in a series of changes
intended to increase the max number of supported vCPUs in guest VMs,
which is currently limited to 255 (254 on x86_64).
No user-visible/behavior changes are expected as a result of
applying this patch, as the type of boot_cpus and related
fields in config structs remains u8 for now, and all configuration
validations remain the same.
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neel Natu <neelnatu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ofir Weisse <oweisse@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
This allows us to enable/disable the fw_cfg device via the cli
We can also now upload files into the guest vm using fw_cfg_items
via the cli
Signed-off-by: Alex Orozco <alexorozco@google.com>
Here we add the fw_cfg device as a legacy device to the device manager.
It is guarded behind a fw_cfg flag in vmm at creation of the
DeviceManager. In this cl we implement the fw_cfg device with one
function (signature).
Signed-off-by: Alex Orozco <alexorozco@google.com>
The changes were mostly automatically applied using the following
Python script:
```python
import os, re
for root, _, files in os.walk("."):
for f in files:
if not f.endswith(".rs"):
continue
p = os.path.join(root, f)
with open(p, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
lines = file.readlines()
changed = False
for i in range(len(lines) - 1):
if re.search(r'#\[error\(".*: \{0[^}]*\}"\)\]', lines[i]) and "#[source]" in lines[i + 1].strip():
lines[i] = re.sub(r': \{0[^}]*\}"\)\]', '")]', lines[i])
changed = True
if changed:
with open(p, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
file.writelines(lines)
print("Fixed:", p)
```
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
# Conflicts:
# vmm/src/api/http/mod.rs
This streamlines the code base to follow best practices for
error handling in Rust: Each error struct implements
std::error::Error (most due via thiserror::Error derive macro)
and sets its source accordingly.
This allows future work that nicely prints the error chains,
for example.
So far, the convention is that each error prints its
sub error as part of its Display::fmt() impl.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
# What
This commit introduces file-based advisory locking for the files backing
up the block devices by using the fcntl() syscall with OFD locks. The
per-open-file-descriptor (OFD) locks are more robust than traditional
POSIX locks (F_SETLK) as they are not tied to process IDs and avoid
common issues in multithreaded or multi-fd scenarios [1]. Therefore,
we don't use `std::fs::File::try_lock()`, which is backed by F_SETLKW.
The locking mechanism is aware of the `readonly` property and allows
`n` readers or `1` writer (exclusive mode).
As the locks are advisory, multiple cloud-hypervisor processes can
prevent themselves from writing to the same file. However, this is not
a system-wide file-system level locking mechanism preventing to open()
a file.
The introduced new locking mechanism does not cover vhost-user devices.
# Why
To prevent misconfiguration and improve safety, it is good practice to
protect disk image files with a locking mechanism. Experience and common
best practices suggest that advisory locks are preferable over mandatory
locks due to better compatibility and fewer pitfalls (in fs space).
The introduced functionality is aligned with the approach taken by
QEMU [0], and is also recommended in [1].
# Implementation Details
We need to ensure that not only normal operation keeps working but also
state save/resume and live-migration. Especially for live migration,
it is crucial that the sender VMM releases the locks when the VM stops
so the receiver VMM can acquire them right after that.
Therefore, the locking and releasing happen directly on the block
device struct. The device manager knows all block devices and can
forward requests to these types.
Last but not least, this commit uses on explicit lock acquiring
but implicit lock releasing (FD close). It only explicitly releases
the locks where this integrates more smoothly into the existing
code.
# Testing
I tested
- normal operation
- state save/resume,
- device hot plugging,
- and live-migration
with read/shared and write/exclusive locks.
One can use the `fcntl-tool` to test if locks are actually acquired
or released [2].
# Links
[0] 825b96dbce/util/osdep.c (L266)
[1] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20101213
[2] https://crates.io/crates/fcntl-tool
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
The larger the VM memory, the greater the memory pressure, and the
greater the stop_dirty_log() overhead. Moving stop_dirty_log() outside
the downtime period can reduce downtime.
Signed-off-by: Jinrong Liang <cloudliang@tencent.com>
When VM restore fails, the VMM state is left with some side-effects,
such as a VM being created. It would prevent the VMM from creating and
booting a new VM or restoring from a VM snapshot.
To fix this issue, this patch explicitly handles the side effects to the
VMM state when VM restore fails, e.g. clear the VmConfig and shutdown
the VM being created.
Fixes: #6869
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <bo.arvin.chen@gmail.com>
With VM restore, the VMM is always re-creating a VM based on the
restored `VmConfig`. We should always re-generate the 'console_info'
from the `Vmm` struct to stay consistent with the new VM being created.
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <bo.arvin.chen@gmail.com>
Add support for cross-host live migration over TCP, which
significantly improves performance in cross-host live migration
scenarios compared to the Unix socket forwarding method.
Signed-off-by: Jinrong Liang <cloudliang@tencent.com>
Pass memory size from vmm crate to hypervisor VM
creation API so use for creating Bitmap for SEV-SNP
guest.
Signed-off-by: Muminul Islam <muislam@microsoft.com>
Asserting on .is_ok()/.is_err() leads to hard to debug failures (as if
the test fails, it will only say "assertion failed: false". We replace
these with `.unwrap()`, which also prints the exact error variant that
was unexpectedly encountered (we can to this these days thanks to
efforts to implement Display and Debug for our error types). If the
assert!((...).is_ok()) was followed by an .unwrap() anyway, we just drop
the assert.
Inspired by and quoted from @roypat.
Signed-off-by: Ruoqing He <heruoqing@iscas.ac.cn>
Since cloning Option<Arc<T>> will clone for Arc<T>, this patch fixes the
follow warning:
warning: this call to `as_ref.map(...)` does nothing
--> vmm/src/lib.rs:872:13
|
872 | self.console_resize_pipe.as_ref().map(Arc::clone),
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ help: try: `self.console_resize_pipe.clone()`
|
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#useless_asref
= note: `#[warn(clippy::useless_asref)]` on by default
Signed-off-by: Songqian Li <sionli@tencent.com>
This patch removes pub import vm_config in config.rs to eliminate
the ambiguity of vm_comfig reference.
Signed-off-by: Songqian Li <sionli@tencent.com>
By introducing `imports_granularity="Module"` format strategy,
effectively groups imports from the same module into one line or block,
improving maintainability and readability.
Signed-off-by: Ruoqing He <heruoqing@iscas.ac.cn>
Historically the Cloud Hypervisor coding style has been to ensure that
all imports are ordered and placed in a single group. Unfortunately
cargo fmt has no support for ensuring that all imports are in a single
group so if whitespace lines were added as part of the import statements
then they would only be odered correctly in the group.
By adopting "group_imports="StdExternalCrate" we can enforce a style
where imports are placed in at most three groups for std, external
crates and the crate itself. Choosing a style enforceable by the tooling
reduces the reviewer burden.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@rivosinc.com>
This patch removes locks in VmCreate request and VmInfo response
since we needn't use a lock here and should ensure that internal
implementation is transparent to the runtime.
Signed-off-by: Songqian Li <sionli@tencent.com>
For a VM with virt-console enabled, when a reboot is requested, the
console devices are closed during the shutdown path. As part of this
the sigwinch listener process and the console resizer pipe are closed.
For the new incarnation of the VM, fresh set of console devices are
setup and a new console resizer pipe is created. The new VM should
be setup to use the newly created console devices including the console
resizer pipe.
Reading from the older console resizer pipe results in unexpected eof
error and terminates the cloud hypervisor process.
Signed-off-by: BharatNarasimman <bharatn@microsoft.com>
DeviceManager::add_virtio_console_device used to create the console
resize pipe and assign it to self.console_resize_pipe, but when this
was changed to use console_info, that was deleted without replacement.
This meant that, even though the console resize pipe was created by
pre_create_console_devices, the DeviceManager never found out about
it, so console resize didn't work (at least for pty consoles).
To fix this, the console resize pipe needs to be passed to the Vm
initializer, which is already supported, it was just previously not
used for new VMs.
Since DeviceManager already stores the console resize pipe in an Arc,
and Vmm also needs a copy of it, the sensible thing to do is change
DeviceManager::new to take Arc, and then we don't need to dup the file
descriptor, which could fail.
Fixes: 52eebaf6 ("vmm: refactor DeviceManager to use console_info")
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Pvmemcontrol provides a way for the guest to control its physical memory
properties, and enables optimizations and security features. For
example, the guest can provide information to the host where parts of a
hugepage may be unbacked, or sensitive data may not be swapped out, etc.
Pvmemcontrol allows guests to manipulate its gPTE entries in the SLAT,
and also some other properties of the memory map the back's host memory.
This is achieved by using the KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU capability. When this
capability is available, the changes in the backing of the memory region
on the host are automatically reflected into the guest. For example, an
mmap() or madvise() that affects the region will be made visible
immediately.
There are two components of the implementation: the guest Linux driver
and Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) device. A guest-allocated shared
buffer is negotiated per-cpu through a few PCI MMIO registers, the VMM
device assigns a unique command for each per-cpu buffer. The guest
writes its pvmemcontrol request in the per-cpu buffer, then writes the
corresponding command into the command register, calling into the VMM
device to perform the pvmemcontrol request.
The synchronous per-cpu shared buffer approach avoids the kick and busy
waiting that the guest would have to do with virtio virtqueue transport.
The Cloud Hypervisor component can be enabled with --pvmemcontrol.
Co-developed-by: Stanko Novakovic <stanko@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <tatashin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
