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.
As we now have a common function to parse backing store string for RBD
backing store we can reuse it in the backing store walker so that we
don't fail on files backed by RBD storage.
This patch also adds a few tests to verify that the parsing works as
expected.
The code that parses the schema from the URI touches the "hosts[0]"
member of the storage file source structure in case the URI contains a
schema. The hosts array was not yet allocated at the point in the code
where the transport protocol was parsed and set. This lead to a crash of
libvirtd.
Fix the code by allocating the "hosts" array upfront and add a test case
to verify this scenario. (Unfortunately this requires shuffling the test
case numbers too).
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156288
Add a new parameter to virStorageFileGetMetadata that will break the
backing chain detection process and report useful error message rather
than having to use virStorageFileChainGetBroken.
This patch just introduces the option, usage will be provided
separately.
The parent directory doesn't necessarily need to be stored after we
don't mangle the path stored in the image. Remove it and tweak the code
to avoid using it.
Store backing chain paths as non-canonical. The canonicalization step
will be already taken. This will allow to avoid storing unnecessary
amounts of data.
libvirt always uses an absolute path to address the top image of an
image chain. Our storage test tests also the relative path which won't
ever be used. Additionally it makes the test more complicated.
Now that we store only relative names in virStorageSource's member
relPath the backingRelative member is obsolete. Remove it and adapt the
code to the removal.
Due to various refactors and compatibility with the virstoragetest the
relPath field of the virStorageSource structure was always filled either
with the relative name or the full path in case of absolutely backed
storage. Return its original purpose to store only the relative name of
the disk if it is backed relatively and tweak the tests.
Now that we changed ordering of the stored metadata so that the backing
store is described by the child element the test should reflect this
change too.
Remove the expected backing store field as it's actually described by
the next element in the backing chain, so there's no need for
duplication.
This patch introduces a function that will allow us to resolve a
relative difference between two elements of a disk backing chain. This
function will be used to allow relative block commit and block pull
where we need to specify the new relative name of the image to qemu.
This patch also adds unit tests for the function to verify that it works
correctly.
Introduce a common function that will take a callback to resolve links
that will be used to canonicalize paths on various storage systems and
add extensive tests.
The block commit code looks for an explicit base file relative
to the discovered top file; so for a chain of:
base <- snap1 <- snap2 <- snap3
and a command of:
virsh blockcommit $dom vda --base snap2 --top snap1
we got a sane message (here from libvirt 1.0.5):
error: invalid argument: could not find base 'snap2' below 'snap1' in chain for 'vda'
Meanwhile, recent refactoring has slightly reduced the quality of the
libvirt error messages, by losing the phrase 'below xyz':
error: invalid argument: could not find image 'snap2' in chain for 'snap3'
But we had a one-off, where we were not excluding the top file
itself in searching for the base; thankfully qemu still reports
the error, but the quality is worse:
virsh blockcommit $dom vda --base snap2 --top snap2
error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'block-commit': Base '/snap2' not found
Fix the one-off in blockcommit by changing the semantics of name
lookup - if a starting point is specified, then the result must
be below that point, rather than including that point. The only
other call to chain lookup was blockpull code, which was already
forcing the lookup to omit the active layer and only needs a
tweak to use the new semantics.
This also fixes the bug exposed in the testsuite, where when doing
a lookup pinned to an intermediate point in the chain, we were
unable to return the name of the parent also in the chain.
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileChainLookup): Change
semantics for non-NULL startFrom.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockJobImpl): Adjust caller,
to keep existing semantics.
* tests/virstoragetest.c (mymain): Adjust to expose new semantics.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add some more tests of what happens when we restrict a lookup
to begin at a point in the middle of a chain. In particular,
we want to ensure that a parent is not found when starting at
the child. This commit also demonstrates that we have a slight
difference in behavior on what parent we report when filtering
is in effect; as the determination of the parent affects the
code in block commit, exposing this in the testsuite will help
justify changes in future patches that tweak the semantics of
what lookups are allowed.
* tests/virstoragetest.c (testStorageLookup): Test user input.
(TEST_LOOKUP_TARGET): Add parameter.
(mymain): Add lookup tests.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The next patch will be adding tests, including adding a parameter
for testing more conditions. For ease of review of that patch, I
want to create common context lines that don't change when the new
tests are added (it's easier to visually review additions than it
is to review an entire chunk of tests rewritten into another
larger chunk of tests).
* tests/virstoragetest.c (mymain): Add a parameter and renumber
the lookup tests.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Typing chain->backingStore->backingStore gets old after a while;
introduce some alias variables to make the test more compact.
* tests/virstoragetest.c (mymain): Introduce some shorthand.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
When the test is failing but the debug output isn't enabled the
resulting line would look ugly like and would not contain the actual
difference.
TEST: virstoragetest
.................chain member 1!chain member 1!chain member 1!
Store the member index in the actual checked string to hide this problem
All the fields crammed into two lines weren't easy to parse by human
eyes. Split up the format string into lines and put it into a central
variable so that changes in two places aren't necessary.
Use the new backing store parser in the backing chain crawler. This
change needs one test change where information about the NBD image are
now parsed differently.
Stat the path of the storage file being tested to set the correct type
into the virStorageSource. This will avoid breaking the test suite when
inquiring metadata of directory paths in the next patches.
My future work will modify the metadata crawler function to use the
storage driver file APIs to access the files instead of accessing them
directly so that we will be able to request the metadata for remote
files too. To avoid linking the storage driver to every helper file
using the utils code, the backing chain traversal function needs to be
moved to the storage driver source.
Additionally the virt-aa-helper and virstoragetest programs need to be
linked with the storage driver as a result of this change.
In "src/util/" there are many enumeration (enum) declarations.
Sometimes, it's better using a typedef for variable types,
function types and other usages. Other enumeration will be
changed to typedef's in the future.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Each backing store of a given disk is associated with a unique index
(which is also formatted in domain XML) for easier addressing of any
particular backing store. With this patch, any backing store can be
addressed by its disk target and the index. For example, "vdc[4]"
addresses the backing store with index equal to 4 of the disk identified
by "vdc" target. Such shorthand can be used in any API in place for a
backing file path:
virsh blockcommit domain vda --base vda[3] --top vda[2]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
