Not sure how this ever worked before, if it did.
The device nodes pointed to by /dev/qubes_dom0/* are owned by
root:disk with perms 660, qubes user is not in disk group,
and service is invoked as qubes user, not root.
Implement this in two parts:
1. Permissions checks, getting a path from appropriate storage pool
2. Actual data import
The first part is done by qubesd in a standard way, but then, instead of
accepting all the data (which may be several GB), return a path to which
a shell script (in practice: `dd` command) will write the data.
Then the script call back to qubesd again to report success/failure and
qubesd response from that call is actually returned to the user.
This way we do not pass all the data through qubesd, but still can
control the process from there in a meaningful way. Note that the last
part (second call to qubesd) may perform all kind of verification (like
a signature check on the data, or so) and can also prevent VM from
starting (hooking also domain-pre-start event) from not verified image.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2622
Install files in /etc/qubes-rpc for all methods defined in API
documentation, even if not yet implemented (qubesd will handle it
raising appropriate exception).
Use minimal program written in C (qubesd-query-fast), instead of
qubesd-query in python for performance reasons:
- a single qubesd-query run: ~300ms
- equivalent in shell (echo | nc -U): ~40ms
- qubesd-query-fast: ~20ms
Many tools makes multiple API calls, so performance here do matter. For
example qvm-ls (from VM) currently takes about 60s on a system with 24
VMs.
Also make use of `$include:` directive in policy file, to make it easier
defining a VM with full Admin API access.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#853
If running as normal user, chown will fail. This isn't a problem,
because the file is probably already owned by the correct user. The
whole point about this chown is to give access to the file for normal
user, so if the write succeeded, it isn't needed.
HVM can set some xenstore entries (in qubes-tools/ subtree) to pass
informations about installed tools to dom0. qubes.NotifyTools service
triggers update of VM properties (like qrexec_installed).
This way, after installation of Qubes Windows Tools, the user doesn't need
to change any VM settings to use the tools.
