[pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES common/qemu-server v2 00/32] preparation for switch to blockdev

Fiona Ebner f.ebner at proxmox.com
Wed Jun 18 15:01:37 CEST 2025


Changes in v2 (I hope I remembered everything, because of the
indentation changes, I couldn't use my usual git range-diff O:)):

* Rebase + tidy all patches (this is not noted on individual patches).
* Indicate that version guards are for the switch to -blockdev via
  comments.
* Fix deleting throttle group, ID string was wrongly quoted.
* For backup restore, only skip dropped keys when parsing drive
  property string, rather than allowing all additional properties.
* Order Perl file names in Makefile.
* Add patch to drop superfluous fallack for migration type.
* For templates, keep using minimized config for timeout calculation.
* Also support unix socket NBD paths.
* Coerce some more strings by quoting for JSON, just to be sure.
* Introduce json_bool() helper.
The following (i.e. patches 19/32 to 24/32) are orthogonal:
* Add patches for PCI module improvements.
* Never reserve PCI usage for 'qm showcmd', add dedicated test for
  checking that reservation is respected.

This is a preparatory series for the switch to -blockdev with Proxmox
VE 9, QEMU machine version 10.0, based in part on Alexandre's series
here [0].

While the last patch actually does the switch, many operations are not
yet supported. It is included to show what changes I made there. It
should not yet be applied and supporting everything is the goal for a
following series based on the rest of Alexandre's patches. It was time
to send this however, as it's already gotten large enough (but most
patches are quite small, so don't worry reviewers ;)).

There are mostly cleanups, moving and defining helpers, as well as
doing non-intrusive preparation for the switch with machine version
10.0. Quite a large chunk of the series is for having
activate_volumes() be called before config_to_command() with proper
cleanup handling.

A breaking change is the removal of the gone-since-QEMU-3.1 drive
geometry options. It was not possible to even start or backup a VM
with those options set since then. Still, restore of old backups with
such an option is made explicitly supported.

NOTE: Dependency bump qemu-server -> libpve-common-perl needed.

[0]: https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/mailman.347.1749728041.395.pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com/T/


common:

Fiona Ebner (2):
  schema: parse property string: support skipping keys
  json schema: add helper to convert to JSON boolean

 src/PVE/JSONSchema.pm | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


qemu-server:

Alexandre Derumier via pve-devel (1):
  vm devices list: prepare querying block device names for -blockdev

Fiona Ebner (29):
  buildsys: order Perl source files in QemuServer/Makefile
  drive: code cleanup: drop unused $vmid parameter from
    get_path_and_format()
  cfg2cmd: require at least QEMU binary version 6.0
  drive: parse: use hash argument for optional parameters
  drive: parse: properly handle dropped properties for restore
  drive: remove geometry options gone since QEMU 3.1
  clone disk: io uring check: fix call to determine cache direct
  drive: move storage_allows_io_uring_default() and
    drive_uses_cache_direct() helpers to drive module
  drive: introduce aio_cmdline_option() helper
  drive: introduce detect_zeroes_cmdline_option() helper
  vm start: assert that migration type is set for 'tcp' migration
  introduce StateFile module for state file related helpers
  vm start: move state file handling to dedicated module
  vm start: move config_to_command() call further down
  vm start/commandline: also clean up pci reservation when
    config_to_command() fails
  vm start/commandline: activate volumes before config_to_command()
  pci: add missing includes
  test: add tests for PCI reservations
  cfg2cmd: print vga: fix call to print_pcie_addr()
  pci: code cleanup: remove superfluous machine type paramater from
    print_pci_addr
  cfg2cmd: collect optional parameters as a hash
  qm: showcmd: never reserve PCI devices
  print drive device: explicitly set write-cache starting with machine
    version 10.0
  print drive device: set {r,w}error front-end properties starting with
    machine version 10.0
  print drive device: don't reference any drive for 'none' starting with
    machine version 10.0
  drive: create a throttle group for each drive starting with machine
    version 10.0
  blockdev: add helpers to generate blockdev commandline
  blockdev: add support for NBD paths
  command line: switch to blockdev starting with machine version 10.0

 src/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm                          |  15 +-
 src/PVE/QemuServer.pm                         | 605 +++++++++---------
 src/PVE/QemuServer/Blockdev.pm                | 234 +++++++
 src/PVE/QemuServer/Drive.pm                   | 108 +++-
 src/PVE/QemuServer/Makefile                   |  26 +-
 src/PVE/QemuServer/PCI.pm                     |  30 +-
 src/PVE/QemuServer/RNG.pm                     |   4 +-
 src/PVE/QemuServer/StateFile.pm               |  79 +++
 src/PVE/QemuServer/USB.pm                     |   8 +-
 src/test/Makefile                             |   5 +-
 src/test/cfg2cmd/aio.conf.cmd                 |  16 +-
 src/test/cfg2cmd/old-qemu.conf                |   4 +-
 .../q35-linux-hostpci-mapping.conf.cmd        |   2 +-
 src/test/run_config2command_tests.pl          |  24 +-
 src/test/run_pci_reservation_tests.pl         | 175 +++++
 15 files changed, 950 insertions(+), 385 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/PVE/QemuServer/Blockdev.pm
 create mode 100644 src/PVE/QemuServer/StateFile.pm
 create mode 100755 src/test/run_pci_reservation_tests.pl


Summary over all repositories:
  16 files changed, 960 insertions(+), 386 deletions(-)

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