From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Kashyap Chamarthy" <kchamart@redhat.com>,
afrosi@redhat.com, "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: add qemu-storage-daemon(1) man page
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:43:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200910144400.69615-3-stefanha@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200910144400.69615-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Document the qemu-storage-daemon tool. Most of the command-line options
are identical to their QEMU counterparts. Perhaps Sphinx hxtool
integration could be extended to extract documentation for individual
command-line options so they can be shared. For now the
qemu-storage-daemon simply refers to the qemu(1) man page where the
command-line options are identical.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
docs/tools/conf.py | 2 +
docs/tools/index.rst | 1 +
docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 124 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
diff --git a/docs/tools/conf.py b/docs/tools/conf.py
index 9052d17d6d..c16290e716 100644
--- a/docs/tools/conf.py
+++ b/docs/tools/conf.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ html_theme_options['description'] = \
man_pages = [
('qemu-img', 'qemu-img', u'QEMU disk image utility',
['Fabrice Bellard'], 1),
+ ('qemu-storage-daemon', 'qemu-storage-daemon', u'QEMU storage daemon',
+ [], 1),
('qemu-nbd', 'qemu-nbd', u'QEMU Disk Network Block Device Server',
['Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>'], 8),
('qemu-trace-stap', 'qemu-trace-stap', u'QEMU SystemTap trace tool',
diff --git a/docs/tools/index.rst b/docs/tools/index.rst
index 232ce9f3e4..9b076adb62 100644
--- a/docs/tools/index.rst
+++ b/docs/tools/index.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Contents:
:maxdepth: 2
qemu-img
+ qemu-storage-daemon
qemu-nbd
qemu-trace-stap
virtfs-proxy-helper
diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0b8b1a2bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+QEMU Storage Daemon
+===================
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+**qemu-storage-daemon** [options]
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+qemu-storage-daemon provides disk image functionality from QEMU, qemu-img, and
+qemu-nbd in a long-running process controlled via QMP commands without running
+a virtual machine. It can export disk images over NBD, run block job
+operations, and perform other disk-related operations. The daemon is controlled
+via a QMP monitor socket and initial configuration from the command-line.
+
+The daemon offers the following subset of QEMU features:
+
+* Blockdev nodes
+* Block jobs
+* NBD server
+* Character devices
+* Crypto and secrets
+* QMP
+
+Commands can be sent over a QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) connection. See the
+:manpage:`qemu-storage-daemon-qmp-ref(7)` manual page for a description of the
+commands.
+
+The daemon runs until it is stopped using the ``quit`` QMP command or
+SIGINT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM.
+
+**Warning:** Never modify images in use by a running virtual machine or any
+other process; this may destroy the image. Also, be aware that querying an
+image that is being modified by another process may encounter inconsistent
+state.
+
+Options
+-------
+
+.. program:: qemu-storage-daemon
+
+Standard options:
+
+.. option:: -h, --help
+
+ Display this help and exit
+
+.. option:: -V, --version
+
+ Display version information and exit
+
+.. option:: -T, --trace [[enable=]PATTERN][,events=FILE][,file=FILE]
+
+ .. include:: ../qemu-option-trace.rst.inc
+
+.. option:: --blockdev BLOCKDEVDEF
+
+ is a blockdev node definition. See the :manpage:`qemu(1)` manual page for a
+ description of blockdev node properties and the
+ :manpage:`qemu-block-drivers(7)` manual page for a description of
+ driver-specific parameters.
+
+.. option:: --chardev CHARDEVDEF
+
+ is a character device definition. See the :manpage:`qemu(1)` manual page for
+ a description of character device properties. A common character device
+ definition configures a UNIX domain socket::
+
+ --chardev socket,id=char1,path=/tmp/qmp.sock,server,nowait
+
+.. option:: --monitor MONITORDEF
+
+ is a QMP monitor definition. See the :manpage:`qemu(1)` manual page for
+ a description of QMP monitor properties. A common QMP monitor definition
+ configures a monitor on character device ``char1``::
+
+ --monitor chardev=char1
+
+.. option:: --nbd-server addr.type=inet,addr.host=<host>,addr.port=<port>[,tls-creds=<id>][,tls-authz=<id>]
+ --nbd-server addr.type=unix,addr.path=<path>[,tls-creds=<id>][,tls-authz=<id>]
+
+ is a NBD server definition. Both TCP and UNIX domain sockets are supported.
+ TLS encryption can be configured using ``--object`` tls-creds-* and authz-*
+ secrets (see below).
+
+ To configure an NBD server on UNIX domain socket path ``/tmp/nbd.sock``::
+
+ --nbd-server addr.type=unix,addr.path=/tmp/nbd.sock
+
+.. option:: --object help
+ --object <type>,help
+ --object <type>[,<property>=<value>...]
+
+ is a QEMU user creatable object definition. List object types with ``help``.
+ List object properties with ``<type>,help``. See the :manpage:`qemu(1)`
+ manual page for a description of the object properties. The most common
+ object type is a ``secret``, which is used to supply passwords and/or
+ encryption keys.
+
+Examples
+--------
+Launch the daemon with QMP monitor socket ``qmp.sock`` so clients can execute
+QMP commands::
+
+ $ qemu-storage-daemon \
+ --chardev socket,path=qmp.sock,server,nowait,id=char1 \
+ --monitor chardev=char1
+
+Export raw image file ``disk.img`` over NBD UNIX domain socket ``nbd.sock``::
+
+ $ qemu-storage-daemon \
+ --blockdev driver=file,node-name=disk,filename=disk.img \
+ --nbd-server addr.type=unix,addr.path=nbd.sock \
+ --export type=nbd,device=disk,writable=on
+
+See also
+--------
+
+:manpage:`qemu(1)`, :manpage:`qemu-block-drivers(7)`, :manpage:`qemu-storage-daemon-qmp-ref(7)`
--
2.26.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 14:43 [PATCH v2 0/3] docs: add qemu-storage-daemon documentation Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-10 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] docs: generate qemu-storage-daemon-qmp-ref(7) man page Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-06 10:22 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-12-09 10:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-10 14:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2020-10-06 10:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: add qemu-storage-daemon(1) " Kevin Wolf
2020-09-10 14:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] MAINTAINERS: add Kevin Wolf as storage daemon maintainer Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-06 10:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-10-06 11:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-23 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] docs: add qemu-storage-daemon documentation Stefan Hajnoczi
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