The patch adds the backend driver to support iSCSI format storage pools
and volumes for ESX host. The mapping of ESX iSCSI specifics to Libvirt
is as follows:
1. ESX static iSCSI target <------> Libvirt Storage Pools
2. ESX iSCSI LUNs <------> Libvirt Storage Volumes.
The above understanding is based on http://libvirt.org/storage.html.
The operation supported on iSCSI pools includes:
1. List storage pools & volumes.
2. Get XML descriptor operaion on pools & volumes.
3. Lookup operation on pools & volumes by name, UUID and path (if applicable).
iSCSI pools does not support operations such as: Create / remove pools
and volumes.
The patch refactors the current ESX storage driver due to following reasons:
1. Given most of the public APIs exposed by the storage driver in Libvirt
remains same, ESX storage driver should not implement logic specific
for only one supported format (current implementation only supports VMFS).
2. Decoupling interface from specific storage implementation gives us an
extensible design to hook implementation for other supported storage
formats.
This patch refactors the current driver to implement it as a facade pattern i.e.
the driver exposes all the public libvirt APIs, but uses backend drivers to get
the required task done. The backend drivers provide implementation specific to
the type of storage device.
File changes:
------------------
esx_storage_driver.c ----> esx_storage_driver.c (base storage driver)
|
|---> esx_storage_backend_vmfs.c (VMFS backend)
After the connection to ESX 5.1 being broken since g1e7cd39, the fix
in bab7752c helped a bit, but still missed a spot, so the connection
is now successful, but some APIs (for example defineXML) don't work.
Two cases missing are added in this patch to avoid that.
The libvirt coding standard is to use 'function(...args...)'
instead of 'function (...args...)'. A non-trivial number of
places did not follow this rule and are fixed in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Also remove warnings for upcoming versions. There hadn't been any
compatibility problems with new ESX version over the whole lifetime
of the ESX driver, so I don't expect any in the future.
Update documentation to mention vSphere 5.x support.
libcurl uses a SIGALRM in combination with sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to be
able to abort a DNS lookup when it takes too long. The problem with this
in a multi-threaded application is that the signal handler for SIGALRM
and the call to siglongjmp can be executed on a thread that is different
from the one that initially did the SIGALRM setup and the call to
sigsetjmp. In the reported case this triggered a segfault.
Disable libcurl's use of signals to avoid this situation. This has the
disadvantage of losing the ability to abort synchronous DNS lookups which
might result in libcurl getting stuck in a DNS lookup in the worst case.
When libcurl was build with an asynchronous DNS backend such as c-ares
then there is no problem because the timeout mechanism works without
signals here anyway.
Reported by Benjamin Wang.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html recommends that
the 'If not, see <url>.' phrase be a separate sentence.
* tests/securityselinuxhelper.c: Remove doubled line.
* tests/securityselinuxtest.c: Likewise.
* globally: s/; If/. If/
An ESX server has one or more PhysicalNics that represent the actual
hardware NICs. Those can be listed via the interface driver.
A libvirt virtual network is mapped to a HostVirtualSwitch. On the
physical side a HostVirtualSwitch can be connected to PhysicalNics.
On the virtual side a HostVirtualSwitch has HostPortGroups that are
mapped to libvirt virtual network's portgroups. Typically there is
HostPortGroups named 'VM Network' that is used to connect virtual
machines to a HostVirtualSwitch. A second HostPortGroup typically
named 'Management Network' is used to connect the hypervisor itself
to the HostVirtualSwitch. This one is not mapped to a libvirt virtual
network's portgroup. There can be more HostPortGroups than those
typical two on a HostVirtualSwitch.
+---------------+-------------------+
...---| | | +-------------+
| HostPortGroup | |---| PhysicalNic |
| VM Network | | | vmnic0 |
...---| | | +-------------+
+---------------+ HostVirtualSwitch |
| vSwitch0 |
+---------------+ |
| HostPortGroup | |
...---| Management | |
| Network | |
+---------------+-------------------+
The virtual counterparts of the PhysicalNic is the HostVirtualNic for
the hypervisor and the VirtualEthernetCard for the virtual machines
that are grouped into HostPortGroups.
+---------------------+ +---------------+---...
| VirtualEthernetCard |---| |
+---------------------+ | HostPortGroup |
+---------------------+ | VM Network |
| VirtualEthernetCard |---| |
+---------------------+ +---------------+
|
+---------------+
+---------------------+ | HostPortGroup |
| HostVirtualNic |---| Management |
+---------------------+ | Network |
+---------------+---...
The currently implemented network driver can list, define and undefine
HostVirtualSwitches including HostPortGroups for virtual machines.
Existing HostVirtualSwitches cannot be edited yet. This will be added
in a followup patch.
esxVI_LookupHostSystemProperties guarantees that hostSystem is non-NULL.
Remove redundant NULL checks from callers.
Also prefer esxVI_GetStringValue over open-coding the logic.
Lists available PhysicalNic devices. A PhysicalNic is always active
and can neither be defined nor undefined.
A PhysicalNic is used to bridge a HostVirtualSwitch to the physical
network.
Per the FSF address could be changed from time to time, and GNU
recommends the following now: (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html)
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Foobar. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
This patch removes the explicit FSF address, and uses above instead
(of course, with inserting 'Lesser' before 'General').
Except a bunch of files for security driver, all others are changed
automatically, the copyright for securify files are not complete,
that's why to do it manually:
src/security/security_selinux.h
src/security/security_driver.h
src/security/security_selinux.c
src/security/security_apparmor.h
src/security/security_apparmor.c
src/security/security_driver.c
Update the ESX driver to use virReportError instead of
the ESX_ERROR & ESX_VI_ERROR custom macros
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Appending an item to a list transfers ownership of that item to the
list owner. But an error can occur in between item allocation and
appending it to the list. In this case the item has to be freed
explicitly. This was not done in some special cases resulting in
possible memory leaks.
Reported by Coverity.
The code is splattered with a mix of
sizeof foo
sizeof (foo)
sizeof(foo)
Standardize on sizeof(foo) and add a syntax check rule to
enforce it
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Adding "Expect:" to the header list stops libcurl from sending a
Expect header at all.
Before, a dummy Expect header was added that might confuse HTTP
proxies and result in HTTP error code 417 being reported.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648855 mentioned a
misuse of 'an' where 'a' is proper; that has since been fixed,
but a search found other problems (some were a spelling error for
'and', while most were fixed by 'a').
* daemon/stream.c: Fix grammar.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c: Likewise.
* src/conf/domain_event.c: Likewise.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c: Likewise.
* src/esx/esx_vi.c: Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c: Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetserverprogram.c: Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c: Likewise.
* src/util/conf.c: Likewise.
* src/util/dnsmasq.c: Likewise.
* src/util/iptables.c: Likewise.
* src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c: Likewise.
* src/xen/xend_internal.c: Likewise.
* src/xen/xs_internal.c: Likewise.
* tools/virsh.c: Likewise.
Allow the datacenter and compute resource parts of the path
to be prefixed with folders. Therefore, the way the path is
parsed has changed. Before, it was split in 2 or 3 items and
the items' meanings were determined by their positions. Now
the path can have 2 or more items and the the vCenter server
is asked whether a folder, datacenter of compute resource
with the specified name exists at the current hierarchy level.
Before the datacenter and compute resource lookup automatically
traversed folders during lookup. This is logic got removed
and folders have to be specified explicitly.
The proper datacenter path including folders is now used when
accessing a datastore over HTTPS. This makes virsh dumpxml
and define work for datacenters in folders.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732676
Coverity detected that the only way to get to the cleanup label
is if objectSpec had been successfully allocated, so the null
check was dead code.
* src/esx/esx_vi.c (esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType): Drop
redundant null check.
No need to request the parent of a snapshot if we aren't going to use it.
* src/esx/esx_vi.c (esxVI_GetSnapshotTreeByName): Make parent
optional.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainSnapshotCreateXML)
(esxDomainSnapshotLookupByName, esxDomainRevertToSnapshot)
(esxDomainSnapshotDelete): Simplify accordingly.
Commit 9f5e53e introduced the ability to filter snapshots to
just roots, but it was never implemented for ESX until now.
* src/esx/esx_vi.h (esxVI_GetNumberOfSnapshotTrees)
(esxVI_GetSnapshotTreeNames): Add parameter.
* src/esx/esx_vi.c (esxVI_GetNumberOfSnapshotTrees)
(esxVI_GetSnapshotTreeNames): Allow choice of recursion or not.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainSnapshotNum)
(esxDomainSnapshotListNames): Use it to limit to roots.
Commit 498d783 cleans up some of virtual file names for parsing strings
in memory. This patch cleans up (hopefuly) the rest forgotten by the
first patch.
This patch also changes all of the previously modified "filenames" to
valid URI's replacing spaces for underscores.
Changes to v1:
- Replace all spaces for underscores, so that the strings form valid
URI's
- Replace spaces in places changed by commit 498d783
Detected by Coverity. The beginning of the function already filtered
out NULL objectContentList as invalid. Further investigation shows:
esxVI_RetrieveProperties is generated and returns a list of objects
that match the given propertyFilterSpec.
esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType then tests whether the result
corresponds to the expected occurrence and reports an error otherwise.
This simplifies the callers of esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType, but
due to the missing dereference the check was never performed because
the code thought that at least one item was obtained. NULL represents
an empty list. This is a potential segfault fix because callers of
esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType that specified "required" occurrence
assume *objectContentList to be non-NULL when
esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType succeeds.
* src/esx/esx_vi.c (esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType): Check
correct pointer.
When the session has expired then multiple threads can race while
reestablishing it.
This race condition is not that critical as it requires a special usage
pattern to be triggered. It can only happen when an application doesn't
do API calls for quite some time (the session expires after 30 min
inactivity) and then multiple threads doing simultaneous API calls and
end up doing simultaneous calls to esxVI_EnsureSession.
These VIR_XXXX0 APIs make us confused, use the non-0-suffix APIs instead.
How do these coversions works? The magic is using the gcc extension of ##.
When __VA_ARGS__ is empty, "##" will swallow the "," in "fmt," to
avoid compile error.
example: origin after CPP
high_level_api("%d", a_int) low_level_api("%d", a_int)
high_level_api("a string") low_level_api("a string")
About 400 conversions.
8 special conversions:
VIR_XXXX0("") -> VIR_XXXX("msg") (avoid empty format) 2 conversions
VIR_XXXX0(string_literal_with_%) -> VIR_XXXX(%->%%) 0 conversions
VIR_XXXX0(non_string_literal) -> VIR_XXXX("%s", non_string_literal)
(for security) 6 conversions
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
We already have virAsprintf, so picking a similar name helps for
seeing a similar purpose. Furthermore, the prefix V before printf
generally implies 'va_list', even though this variant was '...', and
the old name got in the way of adding a new va_list version.
global rename performed with:
$ git grep -l virBufferVSprintf \
| xargs -L1 sed -i 's/virBufferVSprintf/virBufferAsprintf/g'
then revert the changes in ChangeLog-old.
This warnings come from partly generated code. Therefore, the best
solution is to mark them as potentially being unused using the
ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED macro. This is suggested by the gcc documentation.
Reported by Christophe Fergeau
Now the VMware driver doesn't depend on the ESX driver anymore.
Add a WITH_VMX option that depends on WITH_ESX and WITH_VMWARE.
Also add a libvirt_vmx.syms file.
Move some escaping functions from esx_util.c to vmx.c.
Adapt the test suite, ESX and VMware driver to the new code layout.
Connecting to a ESX(i) server that is part of a cluster failed
when the connection also involved a vCenter.
Accept ClusterComputeResource type in addition to ComputeResource
type in the object lookup function.
Reported by Guillaume Le Louët.
Instead of just reporting that a task failed get the
localized message from the TaskInfo error and include
it in the reported error message.
Implement minimal deserialization support for the
MethodFault type in order to obtain the actual fault
type.
For example, this changes the reported error message
when trying to create a volume with zero size from
Could not create volume
to
Could not create volume: InvalidArgument - A specified parameter was not correct.
Not perfect yet, but better than before.
