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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.
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* configure.ac, spec file: firewalld defaults to enabled if dbus is available, otherwise is disabled. If --with_firewalld is explicitly requested and dbus is not available, configure will fail. * bridge_driver: add dbus filters to get the FirewallD1.Reloaded signal and DBus.NameOwnerChanged on org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1. When these are encountered, reload all the iptables reuls of all libvirt's virtual networks (similar to what happens when libvirtd is restarted). * iptables, ebtables: use firewall-cmd's direct passthrough interface when available, otherwise use iptables and ebtables commands. This decision is made once the first time libvirt calls iptables/ebtables, and that decision is maintained for the life of libvirtd. * Note that the nwfilter part of this patch was separated out into another patch by Stefan in V2, so that needs to be revised and re-reviewed as well. ================ All the configure.ac and specfile changes are unchanged from Thomas' V3. V3 re-ran "firewall-cmd --state" every time a new rule was added, which was extremely inefficient. V4 uses VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT to set up a one-time initialization function. The VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT(x) macro references a static function called vir(Ip|Eb)OnceInit(), which will then be called the first time that the static function vir(Ip|Eb)TablesInitialize() is called (that function is defined for you by the macro). This is thread-safe, so there is no chance of any race. IMPORTANT NOTE: I've left the VIR_DEBUG messages in these two init functions (one for iptables, on for ebtables) as VIR_WARN so that I don't have to turn on all the other debug message just to see these. Even if this patch doesn't need any other modification, those messages need to be changed to VIR_DEBUG before pushing. This one-time initialization works well. However, I've encountered problems with testing: 1) Whenever I have enabled the firewalld service, *all* attempts to call firewall-cmd from within libvirtd end with firewall-cmd hanging internally somewhere. This is *not* the case if firewall-cmd returns non-0 in response to "firewall-cmd --state" (i.e. *that* command runs and returns to libvirt successfully.) 2) If I start libvirtd while firewalld is stopped, then start firewalld later, this triggers libvirtd to reload its iptables rules, however it also spits out a *ton* of complaints about deletion failing (I suppose because firewalld has nuked all of libvirt's rules). I guess we need to suppress those messages (which is a more annoying problem to fix than you might think, but that's another story). 3) I noticed a few times during this long line of errors that firewalld made a complaint about "Resource Temporarily unavailable. Having libvirtd access iptables commands directly at the same time as firewalld is doing so is apparently problematic. 4) In general, I'm concerned about the "set it once and never change it" method - if firewalld is disabled at libvirtd startup, causing libvirtd to always use iptables/ebtables directly, this won't cause *terrible* problems, but if libvirtd decides to use firewall-cmd and firewalld is later disabled, libvirtd will not be able to recover. |
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>