Currently we only allow /dev/random and /dev/hwrng as host input
for <rng><backend model='random'/> device. This was added after
various upstream discussions in commit 4932ef45
However this restriction has generated quite a few complaints over
the years, so a new discussion was initiated:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00987.html
Several people suggested removing the restriction, and nobody really
spoke up to defend it. So this patch drops the path restriction
entirely
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074464
The current code was a little bit odd. At first we've removed all
possible implicit input devices from domain definition to add them later
back if there was any graphics device defined while parsing XML
description. That's not all, while formating domain definition to XML
description we at first ignore any input devices with bus different to
USB and VIRTIO and few lines later we add implicit input devices to XML.
This seems to me as a lot of code for nothing. This patch may look
to be more complicated than original approach, but this is a preferred
way to modify/add driver specific stuff only in those drivers and not
deal with them in common parsing/formating functions.
The update is to add those implicit input devices into config XML to
follow the real HW configuration visible by guest OS.
There was also inconsistence between our behavior and QEMU's in the way,
that in QEMU there is no way how to disable those implicit input devices
for x86 architecture and they are available always, even without graphics
device. This applies also to XEN hypervisor. VZ driver already does its
part by putting correct implicit devices into live XML.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
<controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
is auto-added to pc* machine types.
Without this controller PCI bus 0 is not available and
no PCI addresses are assigned by default.
Since older libvirt supported PCI bus 0 even without
this controller, it is removed from the XML when migrating.
Qemu's implementation of virtio RNG supports rate limiting of the
entropy used. This patch exposes the option to tune this functionality.
This patch is based on qemu commit 904d6f588063fb5ad2b61998acdf1e73fb4
The rate limiting is exported in the XML as:
<devices>
...
<rng model='virtio'>
<rate bytes='123' period='1234'/>
<backend model='random'/>
</rng>
...
There is some controversy[1] on the qemu list on whether qemu should
have ever allowed arbitrary file name passthrough, or whether it
should be restricted to JUST /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. It is
always easier to add support for additional filenames than it is
to remove support for something once released, so this patch
restricts libvirt 1.0.3 (where the virtio-random backend was first
supported) to just the two uncontroversial names, letting us defer
to a later date any decision on whether supporting arbitrary files
makes sense. Additionally, since qemu 1.4 does NOT support
/dev/fdset/nnn fd passthrough for the backend, limiting to just
two known names means that we don't get tempted to try fd
passthrough where it won't work.
[1]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/threads.html#00023
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainRNGDefParseXML): Only allow
/dev/random and /dev/hwrng.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Flag invalid files.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsRng): Document this.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args:
Update test to match.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml:
Likewise.
