When QEMU uid/gid is set to non-root this is pointless as if we just
used a regular setuid/setgid call, the process will have all its
capabilities cleared anyway by the kernel.
When QEMU uid/gid is set to root, this is almost (always?) never
what people actually want. People make QEMU run as root in order
to access some privileged resource that libvirt doesn't support
yet and this often requires capabilities. As a result they have
to go find the qemu.conf param to turn this off. This is not
viable for libguestfs - they want to control everything via the
XML security label to request running as root regardless of the
qemu.conf settings for user/group.
Clearing capabilities was implemented originally because there
was a proposal in Fedora to change permissions such that root,
with no capabilities would not be able to compromise the system.
ie a locked down root account. This never went anywhere though,
and as a result clearing capabilities when running as root does
not really get us any security benefit AFAICT. The root user
can easily do something like create a cronjob, which will then
faithfully be run with full capabilities, trivially bypassing
the restriction we place.
IOW, our clearing of capabilities is both useless from a security
POV, and breaks valid use cases when people need to run as root.
This removes the clear_emulator_capabilities configuration
option from qemu.conf, and always runs QEMU with capabilities
when root. The behaviour when non-root is unchanged.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The keycodemap tool is told to generate docs in rst format now
instead of pod.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The rst2man tool is provided by python docutils, and as the name
suggests, it converts RST documents into man pages.
The intention is that our current POD docs will be converted to
RST format, allowing one more use of Perl to be eliminated from
libvirt.
The manual pages will now all be kept in the docs/manpages/ directory,
which enables us to include the man pages in the published website.
This is good for people searching for libvirt man pages online as it
makes it more likely google will send them to the libvirt.org instead
of some random third party man page site with outdated content.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We no longer support python2, so using a file based dep for rst2html
is not required. We do still have to do special casing for RHEL-7
though as the RPM is annoyingly different.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The generated man pages were previously bundled in the dist, so pod2man
was inside the autotools conditional. We no longer bundle any generated
files in the dist though, so pod2man must always be present.
rst2html then mistakenly just followed what pod2man did.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Pull in changes which support use of RST for docs output format
instead of POD.
The generator tool has changed its command line arg handling
so all args must be after the command name. The docs title and
subtitle must be specified separately too.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The recent specfile addition broke syntax-check:
cppi: ../libvirt.spec.in: line 338: not properly indented
cppi: ../libvirt.spec.in: line 341: not properly indented
cppi: ../libvirt.spec.in: line 344: not properly indented
Fixes: ac063cb2e7
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Our website is written assuming HTML5 standard & doctype:
commit b1c81567c7
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 18:01:25 2017 +0100
docs: switch to using HTML5 doctype declaration
so we want the RST conversion to also use HTML5. Ubuntu 16.04 still
only has the HTML4 generating tools though, so we have that as a
fallback.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
With all plumbing in place, we can now enable the new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Mores <pmores@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Since blockcommit is asynchronous, libvirtd can be restarted while the
operation runs. To ensure the information necessary to finish up the job
is not lost, serialisation to and deserialisation from the status XML is
added.
To unittest this, the new element was only added to the active commit test,
the non-active commit test doesn't have the new element so as to test its
absence.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Mores <pmores@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
When blockcommit finishes successfully, one of the
qemuBlockJobProcessEventCompletedCommit() and
qemuBlockJobProcessEventCompletedActiveCommit() event handlers is called.
This is where the delete flag (stored in qemuBlockJobCommitData since the
previous commit) can actually be used to delete the committed snapshot
images if requested.
We use virFileRemove() instead of a simple unlink() to cover the case where
the image to be removed is on an NFS volume.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Mores <pmores@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Propagate the delete flag from qemuDomainBlockCommit() (which was just
ignoring it until now) to qemuBlockJobDiskNewCommit() where it can be
stored in the qemuBlockJobCommitData structure which holds information
necessary to finish the job asynchronously.
In the actual qemuBlockJobDiskNewCommit() in this commit, we temporarily
pass a literal 'false' to preserve the current behaviour until the whole
implementation of the feature is in place.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Mores <pmores@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Teach virt-aa-helper how to label a qcow2 data_file, tracked internally
as externalDataStore. It should be treated the same as its sibling
disk image
Reviewed-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Adjust virLXCDriverGetCapabilities to fill in driver->caps if it is
empty, regardless of the passed 'refresh' value. This matches the
pattern used in virQEMUDriverGetCapabilities
This fixes LXC XML startup parsing for me
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Clang complains about condition being always true:
src/util/virkeyfile.c:113:23: error: result of comparison of constant 128 with expression of type 'const char' is always true [-Werror,-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
while (!IS_EOF && IS_ASCII(CUR) && CUR != ']')
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/util/virkeyfile.c:80:26: note: expanded from macro 'IS_ASCII'
~~~ ^ ~~~
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Extend configure to pass the detect python binary to C code, and
use it in the test suite, rather than searching PATH
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The path needs to be adjusted for the new script location
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The .pc files in src/ are intended for use with the ./run script,
to ease building bindings against an uninstalled libvirt build.
The pointer to the API XML files is incorrect though, it needs to
point into the build tree.
This fixes use of the run script for building libvirt-python, ex:
/path/to/libvirt.git/run ./setup.py build
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
