Having Admin API, it is possible to do this properly now:
- create DisposableVM
- assign it proper permissions to create VMs and control those created
VMs
- run restore process inside
- cleanup DisposableVM afterwards
Since the RestoreInDisposableVM class contains de facto reverse parser
for qvm-backup-restore command line, add a test that will spot when it
gets out of sync.
This feature depends on modifications in various other components,
including:
- linux-utils and core-agent-linux for update qfile-unpacker
- core-admin for qrexec policy modification
QubesOS/qubes-issues#5310
Allow setting alternative qrexec service to retrieve backup content. The
service API is slightly different than the default one: it will get only
list of files/directories to extract on its stdin, but not backup
location. The latter could be provided as a service argument, or using
other out-of-band mechanism.
This will be useful for paranoid backup restore mode, to take away
control over location/command from sandboxed qvm-backup-restore process.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#5310
Allow configuring options per VM or globally per GuiVM. The
qvm-start-daemon program reads the options from VM features, and
generates a configuration file for qubes-guid.
Requires QubesOS/qubes-gui-daemon#47 (customizing the configuration
file).
Both tools issue a large number of Admin API calls and greatly benefit
from a cache filled with a single per-vm Admin API call
(admin.vm.property.GetAll). In case of qvm-ls, this also saves multiple
admin.vm.CurrentState calls (power state is given in the admin.vm.List
response too).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#3293
* origin/pr/118:
qvm-start-daemon: adjust pacat pid file path
qvm-start-daemon: check if layout is parsed
qvm-start-daemon: allow multiple options in keyboard layout
qvm-start-daemon: improve parsing args for setting keyboard layout
qvm-start-daemon: set keyboard-layout only for the first set layout
gui: set keyboard layout when starting daemon
daemon: start it for dom0 unconditionnaly
qvm-start-daemon: ensure separate task between GUI/AUDIO
qvm-start-daemon: allow starting only if service enabled
Fix and improvements from Marek's comments
Change qvm-start-gui to qvm-start-daemon for handling audio too
Support for AudioVM
Rules will be reset to a single 'accept' line, which is something
that the GUI tools like. It's an easy way to get out of CLI firewall
modifications if someone wants to go back to using GUI for them.
fixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#4710
The code assumes that QubesVMInUseError is thrown for a failed
dependency check, but there are also other reasons. We need to
handle the case when dependency list is empty, and also display
the original message.
See also QubesOS/qubes-core-admin#308 for which this was needed.
* origin/pr/124:
Add missing docstrings
Add a test for vm.get_mem()
Update tests to mock admin.vm.CurrentState
qvm-ls: display memory as integer number
Use admin.vm.CurrentState method for power state and memory
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#5166
qvm-shutdown with the --wait option checks if the machine
state is 'Halted', but a disposable VM is usually deleted by
the time of the final check, resulting in a non-zero exit code.
This change handles properly disposable VMs, and makes sure
we always output an error message when finishing with a non-zero
exit code.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#5245.
* origin/pr/111:
Add tests for --tree option of qvm-ls
Sort domains in network tree list
network tree manpage entry added
added feature to list domains as network tree
If the VM is powered off shortly after startup, it may happen that
qubes.SetMonitorLayout would start it again. Avoid this by using
autostart=False argument to run_service() function.
Note that there is a vm.is_running() check at the beginning of the
function already, but if it happens while the VM is cleaned up, it may
still report that it's running, but at the time of run_service() call it
is not.
Previous commit introduced protection against uncommon (potentially
malicious) compression filters. This breaks restoring backups made with
a custom compression filter. Add an option to override this check, by
naming compression filter to use explicitly.
Add support for importing volume data with qvm-volume tool.
This could be also used to clear volume by issuing:
qvm-volume import --no-resize some-vm:private /dev/null
QubesOS/qubes-issues#5192
Reinstalling template is a recommended way to get it back to a clean
state after potential compromise. In that case it is essential to
discard any persistent storage of old template, as it could be used by
the attacker to re-compromise it after reinstall.
Do this similar as root volume is overridden - via volume import
function.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#5192
