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Currently, firmware selection is performed as part of the domain startup process. This mostly works fine, but there's a significant downside to this approach: since the process is affected by factors outside of libvirt's control, specifically the contents of the various JSON firmware descriptors and their names, it's pretty much impossible to guarantee that the outcome is always going to be the same. It would only take an edk2 update, or a change made by the local admin, to render a domain unbootable or downgrade its boot security. To avoid this, move firmware selection to the postparse phase. This way it will only be performed once, when the domain is first defined; subsequent boots will not need to go through the process again, as all the paths that were picked during firmware selection are recorded in the domain XML. Care is taken to ensure that existing domains are handled correctly, even if their firmware configuration can't be successfully resolved. Failure to complete the firmware selection process is only considered fatal when defining a new domain; in all other cases the error will be reported during startup, as is already the case today. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> |
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| access | ||
| admin | ||
| bhyve | ||
| ch | ||
| conf | ||
| cpu | ||
| cpu_map | ||
| esx | ||
| hyperv | ||
| hypervisor | ||
| interface | ||
| keycodemapdb@57ba70da53 | ||
| libxl | ||
| locking | ||
| logging | ||
| lxc | ||
| network | ||
| node_device | ||
| nwfilter | ||
| openvz | ||
| qemu | ||
| remote | ||
| rpc | ||
| secret | ||
| security | ||
| storage | ||
| storage_file | ||
| test | ||
| util | ||
| vbox | ||
| vmware | ||
| vmx | ||
| vz | ||
| admin_protocol-structs | ||
| datatypes.c | ||
| datatypes.h | ||
| driver-hypervisor.h | ||
| driver-interface.h | ||
| driver-network.h | ||
| driver-nodedev.h | ||
| driver-nwfilter.h | ||
| driver-secret.h | ||
| driver-state.h | ||
| driver-storage.h | ||
| driver-stream.h | ||
| driver.c | ||
| driver.h | ||
| internal.h | ||
| libvirt_driver_modules.syms | ||
| libvirt_esx.syms | ||
| libvirt_internal.h | ||
| libvirt_libssh2.syms | ||
| libvirt_libssh.syms | ||
| libvirt_linux.syms | ||
| libvirt_logging.syms | ||
| libvirt_lxc.syms | ||
| libvirt_openvz.syms | ||
| libvirt_private.syms | ||
| libvirt_probes.d | ||
| libvirt_public.syms | ||
| libvirt_qemu.syms | ||
| libvirt_remote.syms | ||
| libvirt_sasl.syms | ||
| libvirt_socket.syms | ||
| libvirt_vmware.syms | ||
| libvirt_vmx.syms | ||
| libvirt-domain-checkpoint.c | ||
| libvirt-domain-snapshot.c | ||
| libvirt-domain.c | ||
| libvirt-host.c | ||
| libvirt-interface.c | ||
| libvirt-lxc.c | ||
| libvirt-lxc.pc.in | ||
| libvirt-network.c | ||
| libvirt-nodedev.c | ||
| libvirt-nwfilter.c | ||
| libvirt-qemu.c | ||
| libvirt-qemu.pc.in | ||
| libvirt-secret.c | ||
| libvirt-storage.c | ||
| libvirt-stream.c | ||
| libvirt.c | ||
| libvirt.conf | ||
| libvirt.pc.in | ||
| lock_protocol-structs | ||
| lxc_monitor_protocol-structs | ||
| lxc_protocol-structs | ||
| meson.build | ||
| qemu_protocol-structs | ||
| README | ||
| remote_protocol-structs | ||
| virkeepaliveprotocol-structs | ||
| virnetprotocol-structs | ||
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:
* bhyve - bhyve - The BSD Hypervisor
* 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
* qemu/ - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
* remote/ - Generic libvirt native RPC client
* test/ - A "mock" driver for testing
* vbox/ - Virtual Box using native API
* vmware/ - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
* xen/ - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, 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