On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:05:59PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
There's lot more to document about the nodedev driver, besides PCI and SR-IOV (even this might need to be extended), but let's start small-ish and at least have a page for it linked from the drivers.html. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- docs/drivers.html.in | 6 +- docs/drvnodedev.html.in | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 docs/drvnodedev.html.in
diff --git a/docs/drvnodedev.html.in b/docs/drvnodedev.html.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ed185c3df --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/drvnodedev.html.in @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> + <body> + <h1>Host device management</h1> + + <p> + Libvirt provides management of both physical and virtual host devices + (historically also referred to as node devices) like USB, PCI, SCSI, and + network devices. This also includes various virtualization capabilities + which the aforementioned devices provide for utilization, for example + SR-IOV, NPIV, MDEV, DRM, etc. <br/> + <br/> + The node device driver provides means to list and show details about host + devices (<code>virsh nodedev-list</code>, + <code>virsh nodedev-dumpxml</code>), which are generic and can be used + with all devices. It also provides means to create and destroy devices + (<code>virsh nodedev-create</code>, <code>virsh nodedev-destroy</code>) + which are meant to be used to create virtual devices, currently only + supported by NPIV + (<a href="http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/NPIV_in_libvirt";>more info about NPIV)</a>). <br/>
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+ <br/> + Devices on the host system are arranged in a tree-like hierarchy, with + the root node being called <code>computer</code>. The node device driver + supports two backends to manage the devices, HAL and udev, with the former + being deprecated in favour of the latter.<br/>
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