Virsh Patcher

Simple utility to apply common changes to libvirtd guests.

Changes will not be applied if the guest is running.

Supported Fixes

• Error 43 for Nvidia GPUs
• Hugepages memory backing
• host-passthrough CPU type.

Installation

Arch Linux

Install virshpatcher from the AUR.

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-libvirt
sudo pip install -U https://github.com/PassthroughPOST/virsh-patcher/archive/master.zip

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install libvirt-python
$ sudo pip install -U https://github.com/PassthroughPOST/virsh-patcher/archive/master.zip

Other Distributions

The libvirt-python package is a dependency. This can be either installed by you distributions
package manager, or via pip. In the latter case, libvirt-dev is required.

Usage

$ virshpatcher --error43 --hugepages --host-passthrough win10-guest

$ virshpatcher --help
usage: virshpatcher [--connect URI] [--error43] [--hugepages]
                    [--host-passthrough] [--patch PATCH] [--help]
                    [--vendor-id ab1234567890] [--random-vendor-id]
                    [DOMAIN [DOMAIN ...]]

libvirtd xml patcher

positional arguments:
  DOMAIN

optional arguments:
  --connect URI, -c URI
                        hypervisor connection URI
  --error43             Add fixes for 'error43' with nvidia devices.
  --hugepages           Make guest use hugepages.
  --host-passthrough    Make guest CPU model `host_passthrough`.
  --patch PATCH, -p PATCH
                        `XMLPatcher` class path
  --help, -h            This help text
  --vendor-id ab1234567890
                        Vendor ID for E43 patch.
  --random-vendor-id    Set a random Vendor ID.

Future Improvements

• Add ability to connect PCI devices to guest (By name/pattern/id?)
• Interactive (?)
• More tests.