Validate that we are able to parse back the dotted syntax arrays we were
generating in the pre-blockdev era.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
libguestfs abuses a quirk of qemu's parser to accept also other variants
of the 'sslverify' field which would be valid on the command line but
are not documented in the QMP schema.
If we encounter the 'off' string instead of an boolean handle it rather
than erroring out to continue support of pre-blockdev configurations.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add support for parsing the recently added fields from backing file
pseudo-protocol strings.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Include unistd.h in all files that use it, instead
of relying on it being pulled in via virutil.h
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
We create some images for testing our code. We've recorded wrong format
of the backing file for one of the images though.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
If the parsed 'raw' format JSON string has 'offset' or 'size' attributes
parse them as the format slice.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1791788
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
QEMU allows specifying the offset and size into a raw file to expose a
sub-slice of the image to the guest with the raw driver. Libvirt
currently doesn't support it but we can add test case for future
reference.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add few cases that prove the second format of "json:" pseudo-URIs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Add few test cases for nbd+unix style URIs with few corner cases.
The NBD URI syntax is documented at
https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/blob/master/doc/uri.md
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When parsing legacy NBD backing file strings such as
'nbd:unix:/tmp/sock:exportname=/' we'd fail to set the transport to
VIR_STORAGE_NET_HOST_TRANS_UNIX. This started to be a problem once we
actually started to generate config of the backing store on the command
line with -blockdev as the JSON code would try to format it as TCP and
fail with:
internal error: argument key 'host' must not have null value
Set the type properly and add a test.
This bug was found by the libguestfs test suite in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1791614
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Ming Xie <mxie@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Historically there are two places where we format authentication and
encryption for a disk. The logich which formats it for backing files was
flawed though and didn't format it at all. This worked if the image
became a backing file through the means of a snapshot but not directly.
Force formatting of the source and encryption for any non-disk case to
fix the issue.
This caused problems in many places as we use the formatter to copy the
definition. Effectively any copy lost the secret definition.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1789310https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788898
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
A few places were importing dirname.h without actually using it.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Assuming that the backing image format is raw is wrong when doing image
detection:
1) In -drive mode qemu will still probe the image format of the backing
image. This means it will try to open a backing file of the image
which will fail if a more advanced security model is in use.
2) In blockdev mode the image will be opened as raw actually which is
wrong since it might be qcow. Not opening the backing images will
also end up in the guest seeing corrupted data.
Rather than attempt to solve various corner cases when us assuming the
storage file being raw and actually being right forbid startup when the
guest image doesn't have the format specified in the metadata.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588373
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
EXP_WARN and ALLOW_PROBE flags for the testStorageChain cases are no
longer used so we can remove them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Pass in 'true' as '@report_broken' of virStorageFileGetMetadata to make
it fail in the tests. The most important code paths (when starting the
VM) expect this function to fail rather than silently return partial
data. Switch the test to exercise this more important code path.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In few places we have the following code pattern:
int ret;
... /* @ret is not accessed here */
ret = f(...);
return ret;
This pattern can be written less verbose:
...
return f(...);
This patch was generated with following coccinelle spatch:
@@
type T;
constant C;
expression f;
identifier ret;
@@
-T ret = C;
... when != ret
-ret = f;
-return ret;
+return f;
Afterwards I needed to fix a few places, e.g. comment in
virDomainNetIPParseXML() was removed too because coccinelle
thinks it refers to @ret while in fact it doesn't. Also in few
places it replaced @ret declaration with a few spaces instead of
removing the line. But nothing terribly wrong.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Replace all occurrences of
if (VIR_STRDUP(a, b) < 0)
/* effectively dead code */
with:
a = g_strdup(b);
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Now that all the types using VIR_AUTOUNREF have a cleanup func defined
to virObjectUnref, use g_autoptr instead of VIR_AUTOUNREF.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Since commit 44e7f02915
util: rewrite auto cleanup macros to use glib's equivalent
VIR_AUTOPTR aliases to g_autoptr. Replace all of its use by the GLib
macro version.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Since commit 44e7f02915
util: rewrite auto cleanup macros to use glib's equivalent
VIR_AUTOFREE is just an alias for g_autofree. Use the GLib macros
directly instead of our custom aliases.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Since commit 44e7f02915
util: rewrite auto cleanup macros to use glib's equivalent
VIR_AUTOCLEAN is just an alias for g_auto. Use the GLib macros
directly instead of our custom aliases.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Use G_GNUC_UNUSED from GLib instead of ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Using inline authentication for storage volumes will not work properly
as libvirt requires use of the secret driver for the auth data and
thus would not be able to represent the passwords stored in the backing
store string.
Make sure that the backing store parsers return 1 which is a sign for
the caller to not use the file in certain cases.
The test data include iscsi via a json pseudo-protocol string and URIs
with the userinfo part being present.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Modify testBackingParse to allow testing other return values of the
backing store string parser.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Return the parsed storage source via an pointer in arguments and return
an integer from the function. Describe the semantics with a comment for
the function and adjust callers to the new semantics.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Automatically clean the temporary buffer and get rid of the cleanup
label.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
If the nbd export name contains a colon, our parser would not parse it
properly as we split the string by colons. Modify the code to look up
the exportname and copy any trailing characters as the export name is
supposed to be at the end of the string.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733044
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Commits 4bc42986 and 218c81ea removed virDomainStorageSourceFormat on
the grounds that there were no external callers; however, the upcoming
backup code wants to output a <target> (push mode) or <scratch> (pull
mode) element that is in all other respects identical to a domain's
<source> element, where the previous virDomainStorageSourceFormat fit
the bill nicely. But rather than reverting the commits, it's easier to
just add an additional parameter for the element name to use, and
update all callers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This reverts commit a5e1602090.
Getting rid of unistd.h from our headers will require more work than
just fixing the broken mingw build. Revert it until I have a more
complete proposal.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
util/virutil.h bogously included unistd.h. Drop it and replace it by
including it directly where needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The layout of my home directory is somewhat peculiar: I store
all git repositories in ~/src/upstream, but since I spend
almost all of my time hacking on libvirt, I also have a
convenience symlink ~/src/libvirt -> ~/src/upstream/libvirt
that I use to access that specific git repository.
The above setup has served me well for years; however, ever
since commit ca1471622d dropped our own custom definitions
for abs_{,top_}{src,build}dir and started using the ones
provided by autotools, virstoragetest has started reliably
failing with errors such as
2) Storage backing chain 2 ...
Offset 0
Expect [chain member: 0
path:/home/abologna/src/upstream/libvirt/tests/virstoragedata/raw
backingStoreRaw: <null>
capacity: 0
encryption: 0
relPath:<null>
type:1
format:1
protocol:none
hostname:<null>
]
Actual [chain member: 0
path:/home/abologna/src/libvirt/tests/virstoragedata/raw
backingStoreRaw: <null>
capacity: 0
encryption: 0
relPath:<null>
type:1
format:1
protocol:none
hostname:<null>
]
... FAILED
Using abolute paths instead of canonical ones in the tests makes
the problem go away.
Note that all tests that are specifically designed to test path
canonicalization via TEST_PATH_CANONICALIZE() were passing even
before this patch and are not touched by it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Now that virStorageSource is a subclass of virObject we can use
virObjectUnref and remove virStorageSourceFree which was a thin wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Since virStorageSource is now a subclass of virObject, we can use
VIR_AUTOUNREF instead.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Add virStorageSourceNew and refactor places allocating that structure to
use the helper.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Let's make use of the auto __cleanup capabilities cleaning up any
now unnecessary goto paths.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
To prepare for subsequent change to use VIR_AUTOPTR logic rename
the @ret to @def.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Let's make use of the auto __cleanup capabilities cleaning up any
now unnecessary goto paths.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Let's make use of the auto __cleanup capabilities cleaning up any
now unnecessary goto paths.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
In many files there are header comments that contain an Author:
statement, supposedly reflecting who originally wrote the code.
In a large collaborative project like libvirt, any non-trivial
file will have been modified by a large number of different
contributors. IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,
omitting people who have made significant contribitions.
In some places Author: lines have been added despite the person
merely being responsible for creating the file by moving existing
code out of another file. IOW, the Author: lines give an incorrect
record of authorship.
With this all in mind, the comments are useless as a means to identify
who to talk to about code in a particular file. Contributors will always
be better off using 'git log' and 'git blame' if they need to find the
author of a particular bit of code.
This commit thus deletes all Author: comments from the source and adds
a rule to prevent them reappearing.
The Copyright headers are similarly misleading and inaccurate, however,
we cannot delete these as they have legal meaning, despite being largely
inaccurate. In addition only the copyright holder is permitted to change
their respective copyright statement.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The URI parser used by libvirt does not populate uri->path if the
trailing slash is missing. The code virStorageSourceParseBackingURI
would then not populate src->path.
As only NBD network disks are allowed to have the 'name' field in the
XML defining the disk source omitted we'd generate an invalid XML which
we'd not parse again.
Fix it by populating src->path with an empty string if the uri is
lacking slash.
As pointed out above NBD is special in this case since we actually allow
it being NULL. The URI path is used as export name. Since an empty
export does not make sense the new approach clears the src->path if the
trailing slash is present but nothing else.
Add test cases now to cover all the various cases for NBD and non-NBD
uris as there was to time only 1 test abusing the quirk witout slash for
NBD and all other URIs contained the slash or in case of NBD also the
export name.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
All of the ones being removed are pulled in by internal.h. The only
exception is sanlock which expects the application to include <stdint.h>
before sanlock's headers, because sanlock prototypes use fixed width
int, but they don't include stdint.h themselves, so we have to leave
that one in place.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 9cf38263d0.
Jansson cannot parse QEMU's quirky JSON.
Revert back to yajl.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614569
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Yajl has not seen much activity upstream recently.
Switch to using Jansson >= 2.5.
All the platforms we target on https://libvirt.org/platforms.html
have a version >= 2.7 listed on the sites below:
https://repology.org/metapackage/jansson/versionshttps://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:libraries:c_c++/libjansson
Additionally, Ubuntu 14.04 on Travis-CI has 2.5. Set the requirement
to 2.5 since we don't use anything from newer versions.
Implement virJSONValue{From,To}String using Jansson, delete the yajl
code (and the related virJSONParser structure) and report an error
if someone explicitly specifies --with-yajl.
Also adjust the test data to account for Jansson's different whitespace
usage for empty arrays and tune up the specfile to keep 'make rpm'
working when bisecting.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Now that all test cases with TEST_CHAIN were testing the same thing
twice drop one of them. Note that some of the cases were duplicate even
before dropping the image format probing tests.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Storage drivers now don't allow it so there's no need to test it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The second set of arguments for TEST_CHAIN always specifies the
'ALLOW_PROBE' flag. Make it part of the macro.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
We have a test case for QED disk image with autodetection but not with
the format explicitly specified.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Replace instances where we previously called virGetLastError just to
either get the code or to check if an error exists with
virGetLastErrorCode to avoid a validity pre-check.
Signed-off-by: Ramy Elkest <ramyelkest@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The latter is impossible to mock on platforms that use the
gnulib implementation, such as FreeBSD, while the former
doesn't suffer from this limitation.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
We can't really detect all the authentication data in a sane manner for
disk backing chains. Since the old RBD parser parses it in some cases as
the argv->XML convertor requires it, we can't just drop it.
Instead clear any detected authentication data in the code paths related
to disk backing chain lookup and fix the tests to cope with the change.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1544659
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
The QEMU driver loadable module needs to be able to resolve all ELF
symbols it references against libvirt.so. Some of its symbols can only
be resolved against the storage_driver.so loadable module which creates
a hard dependancy between them. By moving the storage file backend
framework into the util directory, this gets included directly in the
libvirt.so library. The actual backend implementations are still done as
loadable modules, so this doesn't re-add deps on gluster libraries.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
While the QEMU QAPI schema describes 'lun' as a number, the code dealing
with JSON strings does not strictly adhere to this schema and thus
formats the number back as a string. Use the new helper to retrieve both
possibilities.
Note that the formatting code is okay and qemu will accept it as an int.
Tweak also one of the test strings to verify that both formats work
with libvirt.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540290
VM drivers may need to store additional private data to the status XML
so that it can be restored after libvirtd restart. Since not everything
is needed add a callback infrastructure, where VM drivers can add only
stuff they need.
Note that the private data is formatted as a <privateData> sub-element
of the <disk> or <backingStore> <source> sub-element. This is done since
storing it out of band (in the VM private data) would require a complex
matching process to allow to put the data into correct place.
Split on the last colon and avoid parsing port if the split remainder
contains the closing square bracket, so that IPv6 addresses are
interpreted correctly.
Original implementation used 'SocketAddress' equivalent from qemu for
the disk server field, while qemu documentation specifies
'InetSocketAddress'. The backing store parser uses the correct parsing
function but the formatter used the incorrect one (and also with the
legacy mode enabled which was wrong).
Right-aligning backslashes when defining macros or using complex
commands in Makefiles looks cute, but as soon as any changes is
required to the code you end up with either distractingly broken
alignment or unnecessarily big diffs where most of the changes
are just pushing all backslashes a few characters to one side.
Generated using
$ git grep -El '[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]\\$' | \
grep -E '*\.([chx]|am|mk)$$' | \
while read f; do \
sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]*[[:blank:]]\\$/ \\/g' "$f"; \
done
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Since the virStorageAuthDefPtr auth; is a member of _virStorageSource
it really should be allowed to be a subelement of the disk <source>
for the RBD and iSCSI prototcols. That way we can set up to allow
the <auth> element to be formatted within the disk source.
Since we've allowed the <auth> to be a child of <disk>, we'll need
to keep track of how it was read so that when writing out we'll know
whether to format as child of <disk> or <source>. For the argv2xml
parsing, let's format under <source> as a preference. Do not allow
<auth> to be both a child of <disk> and <source>.
Modify the qemuxml2argvtest to add a parse failure when there is an
<auth> as a child of <disk> *and* an <auth> as a child of <source>.
Add tests to validate that if the <auth> was found in <source>, then
the resulting xml2xml and xml2arg works just fine. The two new .args
file are exact copies of the non "-source" version of the file.
The virschematest will read the new test files and validate from a
RNG viewpoint things are fine
Update the virstoragefile, virstoragetest, and args2xml file to show
the "preference" to place <auth> as a child of <source>.
Add helpers that will simplify checking if a backing file is valid or
whether it has backing store. The helper virStorageSourceIsBacking
returns true if the given virStorageSource is a valid backing store
member. virStorageSourceHasBacking returns true if the virStorageSource
has a backing store child.
Adding these functions creates a central points for further refactors.
Add the backing parse and a test case to verify parsing of VxHS
backing storage.
Signed-off-by: Ashish Mittal <Ashish.Mittal@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Our backing probing code handles directory file types properly in
virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse(), by that I mean it leaves them
alone. However its caller, the virStorageFileGetMetadata() resets the
type to raw before probing, without even checking the type. We need
to special-case TYPE_DIR in order to achieve desired results.
Also, in order to properly test this, we need to stop resetting format
of volumes in tests for TYPE_DIR (probably the reason why we didn't
catch that and why the test data didn't need to be modified).
Partially-resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443434
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Use the full storage driver registration method that also fails if one
of the storage backends is not present. This makes the test fail if a
submodule fails registration, which is useful for testing.
Additionally return EXIT_FAILURE as usual in tests rather than -1.
Sheepdog and possibly others use nested objects for network server and
thus could be specified in a way that libvirt would not parse.
Validates that https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464821
is fixed properly.
Starting from qemu 2.9, more granular options are supported. Add parser
for the relevant bits.
With this patch libvirt is able to parse the host and target IQN of from
the JSON pseudo-protocol specification.
This corresponds to BlockdevOptionsIscsi in qemu qapi.
'SocketAddress' structure was changed to contain 'inet' instead of
'tcp' since qemu commit c5f1ae3ae7b. Existing entries have a backward
compatibility layer.
Libvirt will parse 'inet' and 'tcp' as equivalents.
The 'raw' block driver in Qemu is not directly interesting from
libvirt's perspective, but it can be layered above some other block
drivers and this may be interesting for the user.
The patch adds support for the 'raw' block driver. The driver is treated
simply as a pass-through and child driver in JSON is queried to get the
necessary information.
Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com>
Add a new storage driver registration function that will force the
backend code to fail if any of the storage backend modules can't be
loaded. This will make sure that they work and are present.
Add APIs that allow to dynamically register driver backends so that the
list of available drivers does not need to be known during compile time.
This will allow us to modularize the storage driver on runtime.
Add a modular parser that will allow to parse 'json' backing definitions
that are supported by qemu. The initial implementation adds support for
the 'file' driver.
Due to the approach qemu took to implement the JSON backing strings it's
possible to specify them in two approaches.
The object approach:
json:{ "file" : { "driver":"file",
"filename":"/path/to/file"
}
}
And a partially flattened approach:
json:{"file.driver":"file"
"file.filename":"/path/to/file"
}
Both of the above are supported by qemu and by the code added in this
commit. The current implementation de-flattens the first level ('file.')
if possible and required. Other handling may be added later but
currently only one level was possible anyways.
As we already test that the extraction of the backing store string works
well additional tests for the backing store string parser can be made
simpler.
Export virStorageSourceNewFromBackingAbsolute and use it to parse the
backing store strings, format them using virDomainDiskSourceFormat and
match them against expected XMLs.
This an ubuntu/debian packaging convention. At one point it may have
been an actually different binary, but at least as of ubuntu precise
(the oldest supported ubuntu distro, released april 2012) kvm-img is
just a symlink to qemu-img for back compat.
I think it's safe to drop support for it
If a storage file would be backed with a NBD device without path
(nbd://localhost) libvirt would crash when parsing the backing path for
the disk as the URI structure's path element is NULL in such case but
the NBD parser would access it shamelessly.
