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>
libvirt 8.6.0 introduced these checks and very clearly delineated
two possible firmware selection scenarios: manual firmware
selection, where the user is responsible for providing all
information, and firmware autoselection, where a list of desired
features is provided and everything else is handled by libvirt.
In the interest of maintaining the clear separation between these
two scenarios, setting most attributes when firmware autoselection
is active will result in the configuration being rejected.
This works fine, but is unnecessarily restrictive: in most cases,
the additional information that the user has provided matches
the information that libvirt would have discovered on its own by
looking at firmware descriptors, and asking the user to scrub it
from the XML only result in pointless friction.
Remove these checks entirely.
Unsurprisingly, this results in a few test cases that were
rejected until now to suddenly start working and producing
sensible results.
The firmware-auto-efi-loader-path-nonstandard test case is
notable: while we can now enable the xml2xml part of the test,
the xml2argv part is still failing, although in a slightly
different way. This is expected: since the firmware binary is a
non-standard one, libvirt is unable to figure out the missing
information from a firmware descriptor, and the configuration
is still ultimately an invalid one. However, if we were to find
such a configuration on disk at daemon startup, we would not
ignore it completely and instead would offer the user a chance
to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
