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>
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>
These cover various scenarios related to firmware formats,
specifically ensuring that all the ways in which the user can
ask for a non-default format to be used work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
