From source code, the 'devid' of x-remote-object should be one of devices in remote QEMU process. Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> Message-Id: <20210713004718.20381-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
		
			
				
	
	
		
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Multi-process QEMU
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This document describes how to configure and use multi-process qemu.
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For the design document refer to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.
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1) Configuration
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multi-process is enabled by default for targets that enable KVM
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2) Usage
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Multi-process QEMU requires an orchestrator to launch.
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Following is a description of command-line used to launch mpqemu.
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* Orchestrator:
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  - The Orchestrator creates a unix socketpair
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  - It launches the remote process and passes one of the
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    sockets to it via command-line.
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  - It then launches QEMU and specifies the other socket as an option
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    to the Proxy device object
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* Remote Process:
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  - QEMU can enter remote process mode by using the "remote" machine
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    option.
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  - The orchestrator creates a "remote-object" with details about
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    the device and the file descriptor for the device
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  - The remaining options are no different from how one launches QEMU with
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    devices.
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  - Example command-line for the remote process is as follows:
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      /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64                                        \
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      -machine x-remote                                                  \
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      -device lsi53c895a,id=lsi0                                         \
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      -drive id=drive_image2,file=/build/ol7-nvme-test-1.qcow2           \
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      -device scsi-hd,id=drive2,drive=drive_image2,bus=lsi0.0,scsi-id=0  \
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      -object x-remote-object,id=robj1,devid=lsi0,fd=4,
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* QEMU:
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  - Since parts of the RAM are shared between QEMU & remote process, a
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    memory-backend-memfd is required to facilitate this, as follows:
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    -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=2G
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  - A "x-pci-proxy-dev" device is created for each of the PCI devices emulated
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    in the remote process. A "socket" sub-option specifies the other end of
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    unix channel created by orchestrator. The "id" sub-option must be specified
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    and should be the same as the "id" specified for the remote PCI device
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  - Example commandline for QEMU is as follows:
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      -device x-pci-proxy-dev,id=lsi0,socket=3
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