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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrea Bolognani
24ad99d76d qemu: Automatically add firmware type/features information
Even when the user is not taking advantage of firmware
autoselection and instead manually providing all the necessary
information, in most cases they're still going to use firmware
builds that are provided by the OS vendor, are installed in
standard paths and come with a corresponding firmware
descriptor.

Similarly, even when the user is not guiding the autoselection
process by specifying the desired status of certain features
and instead is relying on the system-level descriptor priority
being set up correctly, libvirt will still ultimately decide to
use a specific descriptor, which includes information about the
firmware's features.

In both these cases, take the additional information that were
obtained from the firmware descriptor and reflect them back into
the domain XML, where they can be conveniently inspected by the
user and management applications alike.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2023-03-22 13:49:53 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
50d68c1d10 qemu: Don't drop firmware type/features information
Now that we no longer reject configurations that include both
this information and explicit firmware details, as long of
course as everything is internally consistent, and that we've
ensured that we produce maximally compatible XML on migration,
we can stop stripping this information at the end of the
firmware selection process.

There are several advantages to keeping this information around:

  * if the user wants to change the firmware configuration for
    an existing VM, they can simply drop the <loader> and
    <nvram> elements, tweak the firmware autoselection parameters
    and let libvirt pick a firmware that matches on the new
    requirements;

  * management applications can inspect the XML and easily
    figure out firmware-related information without having to
    reverse-engineer them based on some opaque paths.

Overall, this change makes things more transparent and easier to
understand. The improvement is so significant that, in a
follow-up commit, we're going to ensure that this information is
available in even more cases.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2023-03-22 13:49:53 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
9567f3ba1f qemu: Move firmware selection from startup to postparse
Currently, firmware selection is performed as part of the
domain startup process. This mostly works fine, but there's a
significant downside to this approach: since the process is
affected by factors outside of libvirt's control, specifically
the contents of the various JSON firmware descriptors and
their names, it's pretty much impossible to guarantee that the
outcome is always going to be the same. It would only take an
edk2 update, or a change made by the local admin, to render a
domain unbootable or downgrade its boot security.

To avoid this, move firmware selection to the postparse phase.
This way it will only be performed once, when the domain is
first defined; subsequent boots will not need to go through
the process again, as all the paths that were picked during
firmware selection are recorded in the domain XML.

Care is taken to ensure that existing domains are handled
correctly, even if their firmware configuration can't be
successfully resolved. Failure to complete the firmware
selection process is only considered fatal when defining a
new domain; in all other cases the error will be reported
during startup, as is already the case today.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2023-03-03 13:49:56 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
1fa20cd87c tests: Unify input files for firmware tests
Most of the differences, such as those in the domain name or
amount of memory, are fairly harmless, but they still make it
more cumbersome than necessary to directly compare different
input (and output) files.

More importantly, the use of unversioned machine types in some
of the test cases results in the descriptor-based autoselection
logic being effectively skipped, because the compatible machine
types as listed in them are only the versioned variants.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2023-03-03 13:40:43 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
926594dcc8 qemu: Add implicit watchdog for q35 machine types
The iTCO watchdog is part of the q35 machine type since its inception,
we just did not add it implicitly.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137346

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2023-01-26 16:40:30 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
29bbd927f8 tests: Don't use loader.secure=no with firmware autoselection
This currently has not effect whatsoever, so it's just cluttering
the input files.

We're going to add specific handling for this scenario, as well
as a test case covering it, in an upcoming commit.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-07-01 15:10:14 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
2ce1dcc6b5 tests: Don't set NVRAM path manually
This does the opposite of

  commit 392292cd99
  Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
  Date:   Wed Feb 23 12:45:51 2022 +0000

    tests: don't use auto-generated NVRAM path in tests

in order to minimize input files.

We're going to add a test case specifically covering the use of
custom NVRAM paths with firmware autoselection in an upcoming
commit.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-07-01 15:10:13 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
53cdfd7994 tests: Use minimal hardware for firmware tests
When testing firmware selection, we don't really care about any
of the hardware assigned to the VM, and in fact it's better to
keep it as minimal as possible to make sure that the focus
remains on the firmware bits.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-07-01 15:10:12 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
f29a8bcef1 tests: Rename and reorganize firmware tests
Group all tests related to firmware selection together and give
them consistent names that leave room for further tests to be
added in an upcoming commit.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2022-07-01 15:10:10 +02:00