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>
By using the auto-generated NVRAM path in test data files, we won't see
bugs where a user specified path gets accidentally overwritten by a
post-parse callback, or VM startup. For example, this caused us to miss
the bug fixed by:
commit 24adb6c7a6
Author: Michal Prívozník <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Feb 23 08:50:44 2022 +0100
qemu: Don't regenerate NVRAM path if parsed from domain XML
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently the QEMU driver secretly sets the QEMU_AUDIO_DRV env variable
- VNC - set to "none", unless passthrough of host env variable is set
- SPICE - always set to "spice"
- SDL - always passthrough host env
- No graphics - set to "none", unless passthrough of host env variable is set
The setting of the QEMU_AUDIO_DRV env variable is done in the code which
configures graphics.
If no <audio> element is present, we now auto-populate <audio> elements
to reflect this historical default config. This avoids need to set audio
env when processing graphics.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The previous approac of just purging the alias combined with the fact
that we filled in fake machine types in the test data meant that if a
test case used an alias machine type such as 'pc' or 'q35' it would not
properly resolve to the actual data returned by qemu.
This started to be a problem since the CPU driver now looks at the
default CPU reported with the machine type.
This patch replaces the original approach of just removing the alias by
replacing it with a copy of the machine type data which the type would
alias to. This means that we are using the real data while we don't
modify the test output after every qemu upgrade.
Additionally this change will allow us to drop adding the fake machine
types later.
The test fallout is from actually excercising the CPU driver with
actual data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
We didn't do this earlier because the DO_TEST_CAPS_ARCH_LATEST()
macro was limited to qemuxml2argv until recently.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
