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On a system that is enforcing FIPS, most libraries honor the current mode by default. Qemu, on the other hand, refused to honor FIPS mode unless you add the '-enable-fips' command line option; worse, this option is not discoverable via QMP, and is only present on binaries built for Linux. So, if we detect FIPS mode, then we unconditionally ask for FIPS; either qemu is new enough to have the option and then correctly cripple insecure VNC passwords, or it is so old that we are correctly avoiding a FIPS violation by preventing qemu from starting. Meanwhile, if we don't detect FIPS mode, then omitting the argument is safe whether the qemu has the option (but it would do nothing because FIPS is disabled) or whether qemu lacks the option (including in the case where we are not running on Linux). The testsuite was a bit interesting: we don't want our test to depend on whether it is being run in FIPS mode, so I had to tweak things to set the capability bit outside of our normal interaction with capability parsing. This fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035474 * src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h (QEMU_CAPS_ENABLE_FIPS): New bit. * src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (virQEMUCapsInitQMP): Conditionally set capability according to detection of FIPS mode. * src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildCommandLine): Use it. * tests/qemucapabilitiestest.c (testQemuCaps): Conditionally set capability to test expected output. * tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_1.2.2-1.caps: Update list. * tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_1.6.0-1.caps: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
libvirt library code README
===========================
The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.
The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.
There are two core shared modules to be aware of:
* util/ - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
code. This directory is always in the include path
for all things built
* conf/ - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
files used by the public API. This directory is only
in the include path for driver implementation modules
* vmx/ - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)
Then there are the hypervisor implementations:
* esx/ - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
* hyperv/ - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
* lxc/ - Linux Native Containers
* openvz/ - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
* phyp/ - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
* qemu/ - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
* remote/ - Generic libvirt native RPC client
* test/ - A "mock" driver for testing
* uml/ - User Mode Linux
* vbox/ - Virtual Box using native API
* vmware/ - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
* xen/ - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
* xenapi/ - Xen using libxenserver
Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly
* cpu/ - CPU feature management
* interface/ - Host network interface management
* network/ - Virtual NAT networking
* nwfilter/ - Network traffic filtering rules
* node_device/ - Host device enumeration
* secret/ - Secret management
* security/ - Mandatory access control drivers
* storage/ - Storage management drivers
Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories