After lot of testing it does not work properly. Could do something more
sophisticated but since calling save() is safe and probably lightweigth it is
not worth probably.
Translate empty target to '@default' keyword earlier, so that
original_target will report '@default' instead of ''. The latter is
rejected by qubes-rpc-multiplexer when the call is directed to dom0,
because it expects to get non-empty arguments about original
target.
This enable two things:
1. Follow global clockvm setting, without adjusting qrexec policy.
2. Avoid starting clockvm by arbitrary VM.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3588
Some handlers may want to call into other VMs (or even the one asking),
but vm.run() functions are coroutines, so needs to be called from
another coroutine. Allow for that.
Also fix typo in documentation.
Some kernels (like pvgrub2) may not provide modules.img and it isn't an
error. Don't break VM startup in that case, skip that device instead.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3563
"Cannot execute qrexec-daemon!" error is very misleading for a startup
timeout error, make it clearer. This rely on qrexec-daemon using
distinct exit code for timeout error, but even without that, include its
stderr in the error message.
* qubesos/pr/198:
backup.py: add vmN/empty file if no other files to backup
Allow include=None to be passed to admin.backup.Info
Add include_in_backups property for AdminVM
Use !auto_cleanup as DispVM include_in_backups default
Lots of code expects the VM to be Halted after receiving one of these
events, but it could also be Dying or Crashed. Get rid of the Dying case
at least, by waiting until the VM has transitioned out of it.
Fixes e.g. the following DispVM cleanup bug:
$ qvm-create -C DispVM --prop auto_cleanup=True -l red dispvm
$ qvm-start dispvm
$ qvm-shutdown --wait dispvm # this won't remove dispvm
$ qvm-start dispvm
$ qvm-kill dispvm # but this will
* qubesos/pr/194:
reflink: style fix
storage: typo fix
lvm_thin: _remove_revisions() on revisions_to_keep==0
lvm_thin: don't purge one revision too few
lvm_thin: really remove revision
lvm_thin: fill in volume's revisions_to_keep from pool
Using '$' is easy to misuse in shell scripts, shell commands etc. After
all this years, lets abandon this dangerous character and move to
something safer: '@'. The choice was made after reviewing specifications
of various shells on different operating systems and this is the
character that have no special meaning in none of them.
To preserve compatibility, automatically translate '$' to '@' when
loading policy files.
Provide original target as two arguments: type, value
This will ease handling special keywords without risking hitting shell
special characters or other problems.
If revisions_to_keep is 0, it may nevertheless have been > 0 before, so
it makes sense to call _remove_revisions() and hold back none (not all)
of the revisions in this case.
Rely on qrexec-client resolving QUBESRPC keyword, same as in case of VM
call. This will allow applying special treatment to such calls, like
calling qubes-rpc-multiplexer directly (avoiding shell), because we have
defined protocol what can be used here.
* qubesos/pr/190:
Missed one test, adding default-user in assert for test test_621_qdb_vm_with_network in TC_90
replaced underscore by dash and update test accordingly
Updated assert content for test_620_qdb_standalone in TC_90_QubesVM
Added the default_user property from the Qube to the qubesdb so it is available when starting X. This is the 1st part of a fix for issue https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2372
This adds the file-reflink storage driver. It is never selected
automatically for pool creation, especially not the creation of
'varlibqubes' (though it can be used if set up manually).
The code is quite small:
reflink.py lvm.py file.py + block-snapshot
sloccount 334 lines 447 (134%) 570 (171%)
Background: btrfs and XFS (but not yet ZFS) support instant copies of
individual files through the 'FICLONE' ioctl behind 'cp --reflink'.
Which file-reflink uses to snapshot VM image files without an extra
device-mapper layer. All the snapshots are essentially freestanding;
there's no functional origin vs. snapshot distinction.
In contrast to 'file'-on-btrfs, file-reflink inherently avoids
CoW-on-CoW. Which is a bigger issue now on R4.0, where even AppVMs'
private volumes are CoW. (And turning off the lower, filesystem-level
CoW for 'file'-on-btrfs images would turn off data checksums too, i.e.
protection against bit rot.)
Also in contrast to 'file', all storage features are supported,
including
- any number of revisions_to_keep
- volume.revert()
- volume.is_outdated
- online fstrim/discard
Example tree of a file-reflink pool - *-dirty.img are connected to Xen:
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/volatile-dirty.img
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/root-dirty.img
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/root.img
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/private-dirty.img
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/private.img
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/private.img@2018-01-02T03:04:05Z
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/private.img@2018-01-02T04:05:06Z
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/foo/private.img@2018-01-02T05:06:07Z
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/bar/...
- /var/lib/testpool/appvms/...
- /var/lib/testpool/template-vms/fedora-26/...
- /var/lib/testpool/template-vms/...
It looks similar to a 'file' pool tree, and in fact file-reflink is
drop-in compatible:
$ qvm-shutdown --all --wait
$ systemctl stop qubesd
$ sed 's/ driver="file"/ driver="file-reflink"/g' -i.bak /var/lib/qubes/qubes.xml
$ systemctl start qubesd
$ sudo rm -f /path/to/pool/*/*/*-cow.img*
If the user tries to create a fresh file-reflink pool on a filesystem
that doesn't support reflinks, qvm-pool will abort and mention the
'setup_check=no' option. Which can be passed to force a fallback on
regular sparse copies, with of course lots of time/space overhead. The
same fallback code is also used when initially cloning a VM from a
foreign pool, or from another file-reflink pool on a different
mountpoint.
'journalctl -fu qubesd' will show all file-reflink copy/rename/remove
operations on VM creation/startup/shutdown/etc.
