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libvirt 8.6.0 introduced these checks and very clearly delineated two possible firmware selection scenarios: manual firmware selection, where the user is responsible for providing all information, and firmware autoselection, where a list of desired features is provided and everything else is handled by libvirt. In the interest of maintaining the clear separation between these two scenarios, setting most attributes when firmware autoselection is active will result in the configuration being rejected. This works fine, but is unnecessarily restrictive: in most cases, the additional information that the user has provided matches the information that libvirt would have discovered on its own by looking at firmware descriptors, and asking the user to scrub it from the XML only result in pointless friction. Remove these checks entirely. Unsurprisingly, this results in a few test cases that were rejected until now to suddenly start working and producing sensible results. The firmware-auto-efi-loader-path-nonstandard test case is notable: while we can now enable the xml2xml part of the test, the xml2argv part is still failing, although in a slightly different way. This is expected: since the firmware binary is a non-standard one, libvirt is unable to figure out the missing information from a firmware descriptor, and the configuration is still ultimately an invalid one. However, if we were to find such a configuration on disk at daemon startup, we would not ignore it completely and instead would offer the user a chance to fix it. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@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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