With container based virt, it is useful to be able to pass
pre-opened file descriptors to the container init process.
This allows for containers to be auto-activated from incoming
socket connections, passing the active socket into the container.
To do this, introduce a pair of new APIs, virDomainCreateXMLWithFiles
and virDomainCreateWithFiles, which accept an array of file
descriptors. For the LXC driver, UNIX file descriptor passing
will be used to send them to libvirtd, which will them pass
them down to libvirt_lxc, which will then pass them to the container
init process.
This will only be implemented for LXC right now, but the design
is generic enough it could work with other hypervisors, hence
I suggest adding this to libvirt.so, rather than libvirt-lxc.so
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add new API in order to set the balloon memory driver statistics collection
period in order to allow dynamic period adjustment for the virsh dommemstats to
display balloon stats data
This patch introduces two new APIs virDomainMigrate3 and
virDomainMigrateToURI3 that may be used in place of their older
variants. These new APIs take optional migration parameters (such as
bandwidth, domain XML, ...) in an array of virTypedParameters, which
makes adding new parameters easier as there's no need to introduce new
APIs whenever a new migration parameter needs to be added. Both APIs are
backward compatible and will automatically use older migration calls in
case the new calls are not supported as long as the typed parameters
array does not contain any parameter which was not supported by the
older calls.
This patch introduces the virAccessManagerPtr class as the
interface between virtualization drivers and the access
control drivers. The viraccessperm.h file defines the
various permissions that will be used for each type of object
libvirt manages
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini pointed out that it's actually possible to migrate a qemu
instance that was paused due to I/O error and it will be able to work on
the destination if the storage is accessible.
This patch introduces flag VIR_MIGRATE_ABORT_ON_ERROR that cancels the
migration in case an I/O error happens while it's being performed and
allows migration without this flag. This flag can be possibly used for
other error reasons that may be introduced in the future.
This patch fixes changes done in commit 29c1e913e4
that was pushed without implementing review feedback.
The flag introduced by the patch is changed to VIR_DOMAIN_VCPU_GUEST and
documentation makes the difference between regular hotplug and this new
functionality more explicit.
The virsh options that enable the use of the new flag are changed to
"--guest" and the documentation is fixed too.
This flag will allow to use qemu guest agent commands to disable
(offline) and enable (online) processors in a live guest that has the
guest agent running.
For future work we need _virDomainEventGraphicsAddress and
_virDomainEventGraphicsSubjectIdentity members to be char * not const
char *. We are strdup()-ing them anyway, so they should have been char *
anyway (from const correctness POV). However, we don't want users to
change passed values, so we need to make the callback's argument const.
Although this is an API change (not ABI though), real callers won't be
impacted. Why?
1. these callback members are read-only, so it is less likely that
someone is trying to assign into the struct members.
2. The only way to register a virConnectDomainEventGraphicsCallback is
to cast it through a call to virConnectDomainEventRegisterAny. That is,
even if the user's callback function leaves out the const, we never use
the typedef as the direct type of any API parameter. Since they are
already casting their function pointer into a munged type before
registering it, their code will continue to compile.
Apps using libvirt will often have code like
if (virXXXX() < 0) {
virErrorPtr err = virGetLastError();
fprintf(stderr, "Something failed: %s\n",
err && err->message ? err->message :
"unknown error");
return -1;
}
Checking for a NULL error object or message leads to very
verbose code. A virGetLastErrorMessage() helper from libvirt
can simplify this to
if (virXXXX() < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Something failed: %s\n",
virGetLastErrorMessage());
return -1;
}
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The existing virNodeDeviceDettach() assumes that there is only a
single PCI device assignment backend driver appropriate for any
hypervisor. This is no longer true, as the qemu driver is getting
support for PCI device assignment via VFIO. The new API
virNodeDeviceDetachFlags adds a driverName arg that should be set to
the exact same string set in a domain <hostdev>'s <driver name='x'/>
element (i.e. "vfio", "kvm", or NULL for default). It also adds a
flags arg for good measure (and because it's possible we may need it
when we start dealing with VFIO's "device groups").
With this patch, include public headers in "" form is only allowed
for "internal.h". And only the external tools (examples|tools|python
|include/libvirt) can include the public headers in <> form.
Add a virCgroupIsolateMount method which looks at where the
current process is place in the cgroups (eg /system/demo.lxc.libvirt)
and then remounts the cgroups such that this sub-directory
becomes the root directory from the current process' POV.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_FC_HOST to filter the FC HBA,
and VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_VPORTS to filter the FC HBA
which supports vport.
Introduce a local object virIdentity for managing security
attributes used to form a client application's identity.
Instances of this object are intended to be used as if they
were immutable, once created & populated with attributes
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add a new virDomainLxcEnterSecurityLabel() function as a
counterpart to virDomainLxcEnterNamespaces(), which can
change the current calling process to have a new security
context. This call runs client side, not in libvirtd
so we can't use the security driver infrastructure.
When entering a namespace, the process spawned from virsh
will default to running with the security label of virsh.
The actual desired behaviour is to run with the security
label of the container most of the time. So this changes
virsh lxc-enter-namespace command to invoke the
virDomainLxcEnterSecurityLabel method.
The current behaviour is:
LABEL PID TTY TIME CMD
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 1 pts/0 00:00:00 systemd
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 3 pts/1 00:00:00 sh
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 24 ? 00:00:00 systemd-journal
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 29 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
staff_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 47 ? 00:00:00 ps
Note the ps command is running as unconfined_t, After this patch,
The new behaviour is this:
virsh -c lxc:/// lxc-enter-namespace dan -- /bin/ps -eZ
LABEL PID TTY TIME CMD
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 1 pts/0 00:00:00 systemd
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 3 pts/1 00:00:00 sh
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 24 ? 00:00:00 systemd-journal
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 32 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0.c1023 38 ? 00:00:00 ps
The '--noseclabel' flag can be used to skip security labelling.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Since the name (like scsi_host10) is not stable for vHBA, (it can
be changed either after recreating or system rebooting), current
API virNodeDeviceLookupByName is not nice to use for management app
in this case. (E.g. one wants to destroy the vHBA whose name has
been changed after system rebooting, he has to find out current
name first).
Later patches will support the persistent vHBA via storage pool,
with which one can identify the vHBA stably by the wwnn && wwpn
pair.
So this new API comes.
In commit 3ac26e2645 parameter "path" was
renamed to "disk" but this change was not reflected in the documentation.
Additionally, documentation of the "opaque" parameter was missing.
Working with virTypedParameters in clients written in C is ugly and
requires all clients to duplicate the same code. This set of APIs makes
this code for manipulating with virTypedParameters integral part of
libvirt so that all clients may benefit from it.
The api builder always associates comments to the last member it read,
not to the current member even if there was a comment for the previous
member and a comma was already seen.
This has the effect that the comment for the previous member gets
overwritten and the current member has no comment at all.
This patch introduces support for LXC specific public APIs. In
common with what was done for QEMU, this creates a libvirt_lxc.so
library and libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h header file.
The actual APIs are
int virDomainLxcOpenNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
int **fdlist,
unsigned int flags);
int virDomainLxcEnterNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
unsigned int nfdlist,
int *fdlist,
unsigned int *noldfdlist,
int **oldfdlist,
unsigned int flags);
which provide a way to use the setns() system call to move the
calling process into the container's namespace. It is not
practical to write in a generically applicable manner. The
nearest that we could get to such an API would be an API which
allows to pass a command + argv to be executed inside a
container. Even if we had such a generic API, this LXC specific
API is still useful, because it allows the caller to maintain
the current process context, in particular any I/O streams they
have open.
NB the virDomainLxcEnterNamespace() API is special in that it
runs client side, so does not involve the internal driver API.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
With the most recent patch from Claudio, I realized how many
indentation flaws we have in the libvirt.h.in file. Even though
they are harmless, it's still worth fixing them.
This patch adds a new API, virDomainOpenChannel, that uses streams to
connect to a virtio channel on a guest. This creates a secure
communication channel between a guest and a libvirt client.
This behaves the same as virDomainOpenConsole, except on channels
instead of console/serial/parallel devices.
Offline migration transfers inactive definition of a domain (which may
or may not be active). After successful completion, the domain remains
in its current state on source host and is defined but inactive on
destination host. It's a bit more clever than virDomainGetXMLDesc() on
source host followed by virDomainDefineXML() on destination host, as
offline migration will run pre-migration hook to update the domain XML
on destination host. Currently, copying non-shared storage is not
supported during offline migration.
Offline migration can be requested with a new migration flag called
VIR_MIGRATE_OFFLINE (which has to be combined with
VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST flag).
Add VIR_STORAGE_VOL_CREATE_PREALLOC_METADATA flag to virStorageVolCreateXML
and virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom. This flag requests metadata
preallocation when creating/cloning qcow2 images, resulting in creating
a sparse file with qcow2 metadata. It has only slightly larger disk usage
compared to new image with no allocation, but offers higher performance.
The virDomainShutdownFlags and virDomainReboot APIs allow the caller
to request the operation is implemented via either acpi button press
or a guest agent. For containers, a couple of other methods make
sense, a message to /dev/initctl, and direct kill(SIGTERM|HUP) of
the container init process.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
To be able todo controlled shutdown/reboot of containers an
API to talk to init via /dev/initctl is required. Fortunately
this is quite straightforward to implement, and is supported
by both sysvinit and systemd. Upstart support for /dev/initctl
is unclear.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add an API for sending signals to arbitrary processes in the
guest OS. This is primarily useful for container based virt,
but can be used for machine virt too, if there is a suitable
guest agent,
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Add virDomainSendProcessSignal
and virDomainProcessSignal enum
* src/driver.h: Driver entry point
* src/libvirt.c, src/libvirt_public.syms: Impl for new API
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This will call FITRIM within guest. The API has 4 arguments,
however, only 2 will be used for now (@dom and @minumum).
The rest two are there if in future qemu guest agent learns them.
As we enable more modes of snapshot creation, it becomes more important
to be able to quickly filter based on snapshot properties. This patch
introduces new filter flags; subsequent patches will introduce virsh
back-compat filtering, as well as actual libvirt filtering.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainSnapshotListFlags): Add
five new flags in two new groups.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotNum, virDomainSnapshotListNames)
(virDomainListAllSnapshots, virDomainSnapshotNumChildren)
(virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames)
(virDomainSnapshotListAllChildren): Document them.
* src/conf/snapshot_conf.h (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_FILTERS_STATUS)
(VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_FILTERS_LOCATION): Add new convenience filter
collection macros.
* tools/virsh-snapshot.c (cmdSnapshotList): Add 5 new flags.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-list): Document them.
Lately there were a few reports of the output of the virsh nodeinfo
command being inaccurate. This patch tries to avoid that by checking if
the topology actually makes sense. If it doesn't we then report a
synthetic topology that indicates to the user that the host capabilities
should be checked for the actual topology.
This is supposed to be thrown every time we need to pause domain
because of API execution (e.g. qemuDomainSaveInternal) but fails
to restore it back after. In this case, domain remains paused,
however, none of existing reasons can fit this scenario.
