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The code executed later when creating a snapshot makes all decisions
based on the configured type rather than the actual type of the existing
file, while the check whether the file exists is based solely on the
on-disk type.
Since a block device is allowed to exist even when not reusing existing
files in contrast to regular files this creates a potential for a block
device to squeak past the check but then be influenced by other code
executed later. Specifically this is a problem when creating a snapshot
with the following XML:
<domainsnapshot>
<disks>
<disk name='vdb' type='file'>
<source file='/dev/sdb'/>
</disk>
</disks>
</domainsnapshot>
If the snapshot creation fails, '/dev/sdb' will be removed because it's
considered to be a regular file by the cleanup code.
Add a check that will force that the configured type matches the on-disk
state.
Additional supporting reason is that qemu stopped to accept block
devices with the 'file' backend, thus the above configuration will not
work any more. This allows us to fail sooner.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1972145
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
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