In case when a management application will require to store the nvram in
a block device instead of a file libvirt needs to be able to set up the
block device.
This patch introduces support for setting up the block device by using
'qemu-img convert' to produce a qcow2-formatted block device.
The use of 'qcow2' is made mandatory as the UEFI firmware requires that
the NVRAM image has the exact expected size, which is almost impossible
with block devices. 'qcow2' also allows libvirt to detect wheher the
block device is formatted allowing file-like semantics.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The setup of nvram will later be extended to also support block-device
backed nvram, so extract the file-backed nvram setup steps from
'qemuPrepareNVRAM' into 'qemuPrepareNVRAMFile'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The nvram image can have any supported format and there's no technical
requirement of them having the same format. In fact the actual nvram
image doesn't necessarily need to have the same format as the template
if the user is willing to format it themselves (as libvirt is not going
to convert it).
Remove the nonsensical check and adjust tests. The test case required
swapping around the format in order to work properly.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Basing the selection on the format of the actual NVRAM image makes no
sense as user may format the image themselves.
Additionally it doesn't make much sense to even limit the firmware
selection based on the nvram template itself. As format of the template
is given and firmware images don't really provide any choice.
Remove the limitation so that autoselection can pick a template
regardless of the selected format or template format.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Refuse situations where the user configures a different format for a
file-backed nvram than the template file has.
At this point it's still required that the NVRAM and firmware share
format, but that is going to be relaxed, thus we need to refuse
configurations that the code can't handle.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The code historically skipped the 'format' field for 'raw' images as we
didn't output it when no format support was present. Stop misleading and
output the format also for 'raw' images.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
As the 'format' field is meant to carry the format of the nvram image we
should output it even when the image is 'raw'.
Currently this is not a problem but later patches will allow mismatch
between the nvram format and loader format (as nothing really
technically requires them to be the same and this then could become
problem).
Modify the condition and update tests.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Currently the qemu firmware code weirdly depends on the 'format' field
of the nvram image itself to do the auto-selection process as well as
then uses it to declare the actual type to qemu.
As it's not technically required that the template and the on disk image
share the type introduce a 'templateFormat' field which will split off
from the shared purpose of the type and will be used for the selection
and instantiation process, while 'format' will be left for the actual
type of the on disk image.
This patch introduces the field, adds XML infrastructure as well as
plumbs it to the firmware bits.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The NVRAM template file may be autoselected same as the loader/firmware
image. Add a hint that this can occur and also that it doesn't
necessarily need to be from the 'qemu.conf' configured files.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Restructure the code to assign first (as this is simpler to refactor in
the future) and avoid mixing implicit value checks with explicit ones by
checking for _NONE.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The qemu driver does support qcow2 images for the firmware and nvram
pflash devices, but we do not do the full backing chain setup for them
as we don't expect that those images would actually have a backing
store. We don't tell that to qemu though which theoretically can lead to
qemu probing the backing store from the image itself. We don't want that
for now.
Deny qemu probing the backing store by installing a "terminator" empty
virStorageSource as 'backingStore' for pflash and nvram.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
'qemuFirmwareEnsureNVRAM' which fills the NVRAM configuration bits which
may be missing was basing its decision to do something based on whether
the 'path' field was set. This is insufficient if remote storage is to
be considered.
Use 'virStorageSourceIsEmpty()' instead as that properly considers
remote filesystems and explain why the source is unref'd when the
function decides to rewrite the config.
The 'firmware-auto-efi-format-nvram-qcow2-network-nbd' is modified to
omit filling the 'path' field, which without this fix would result in
the nvram to be reset to a local file.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
'virFileRewrite()' which is used to setup the NVRAM image if it doesn't
exist or when it is requested by the user forcibly replaces the
destination file by the file it creates. For block devices this
overwrites the device node file or the symlink pointing to the device
node by a regular file instead of formatting it.
As this not only makes the VM fail to start but also breaks user's /dev/
filesystem forbid it for now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The rule catches incorrect attempts to use internal references,
but doesn't guide the developer hitting a failure towards the
not exactly obvious acceptable alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
When using recent Fedora and RHEL versions, the manual setup that
is otherwise necessary to enable the module can be replaced with
executing a single command.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The page contains some confusing information, especially around
limitations that supposedly only affect one of the two variants,
and goes into what is arguably an unnecessary amount of detail
when it comes to its inner workings.
We can make the page a lot shorter and snappier without
affecting its usefulness, so let's do just that.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Problem with qemu_domain.c is that it's constantly growing. But
there are few options for improvement. For instance, validation
functions were moved out and now live in qemu_validate.c. We can
do the same for PostParse functions, though since PostParse may
modify domain definition, some functions need to be exported from
qemu_domain.c.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
When qemuDomainDeleteDevice() gets "DeviceNotFound" error it is a
special case as we're trying to remove a device which does not exists
any more. Such occasion is indicated by the return value -2.
Callers of the aforementioned function ought to base their behaviour on
the return value. However not all callers take as much care for the
return value as one could realistically anticipate.
Follow the usual direction of removing possible backend object (in case
of character devices), remove the device from its XML without waiting
for the device removal from QEMU (since it is already not there) and
basically follow the same algorithm as there is when the device was
removed, skipping over the wait for the device removal.
The overall return value also needs to be adjusted since
qemuDomainDeleteDevice() does not set an error on the -2 return value
and would otherwise trigger an unknown error being reported to the user
or management application.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
When moving function and/or renaming them sometimes corresponding
change to corresponding header file is not done. This leaves us
with functions that are declared in header files, but nowhere
implemented. Drop such declarations.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The function the comment is referring to is
virNetServerClientPrivNew() not virNetServerClintPrivNew(). The
latter doesn't even exist.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
As requested on the libvirt users list I am adding this mention to the
apps page.
Reported-by: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This switches to newer freebsd 14.1 and implements the new RUN_PIPELINE
behaviour introduced by Daniel.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
When removing a socket in virCHMonitorClose() fails, a warning is
printed. But it doesn't contain errno nor g_strerror() which may
shed more light into why removing of the socket failed.
Oh, and since virCHMonitorClose() is registered as autoptr
cleanup for virCHMonitor() it may happen that virCHMonitorClose()
is called with mon->socketpath allocated but file not existing
yet (see virCHMonitorNew()). Thus ignore ENOENT and do not print
warning in that case - the file doesn't exist anyways.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The virCHMonitorClose() is meant to be called when monitor to
cloud-hypervisor process closes. It removes the socket and frees
string containing path to the socket.
In general, there is a problem with the following pattern:
if (var) {
do_something();
g_free(var);
}
because if the pattern executes twice the variable is freed
twice. That's why we have VIR_FREE() macro. Well, replace plain
g_free() with g_clear_pointer(). Mind you, this is NOT a
destructor where clearing pointers is needless.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add some basic plumbing, based on the qemu driver.
Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This should be better than the current for both hotplug:
error: internal error: Invalid target model for serial device
and hot-unplug:
error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
which should not be reached at all.
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-66222
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-66223
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
