By adding a Random Number Generator device to Instances we can prevent
entropy starvation inside guest.
The default source is /dev/random on the host, but this can be configured
to another source when present, for example a hardware RNG.
When enabled it will add the following to the Instance's XML definition:
<rng model='virtio'>
<rate period='1000' bytes='2048' />
<backend model='random'>/dev/random</backend>
</rng>
If the Instance has the proper support, which most modern distributions have,
it will have a /dev/hwrng device which it can use for gathering entropy.
More information: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsRng
Implements a VM volume/disk file activity checker that checks if QCOW2 file
has been changed before starting the VM. This is useful as a pessimistic
approach to save VMs that were running on faulty hosts that CloudStack could
try to launch on other hosts while the host was not cleanly fenced. This is
optional and available only if you enable the settings in agent.properties
file, on per-host basis.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
This improvements checks for "guest.cpu.features" property which is a space
separated list of cpu features that is specific for a host. When added, it
will add <feature policy='require' name='{{feature-you-listed}}'/> in the
<cpu> section of the generated vm spec xml.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
(cherry picked from commit ea7fd37783cbc7ec78de5a5e84395381b1800a3e)
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
Detail: lack of newline at end of file was keeping cloudstack-setup-agent from
properly editing/creating new config.
BUG-ID: CLOUDSTACK-1487
Signed-off-by: Marcus Sorensen <marcus@betterservers.com> 1362191198 -0700
