vm.kernel property have type 'str'. Putting None there makes a lot of
troubles: it gets encoded as 'None' in qubes.xml and then loaded back as
'None' string, not None value. Also it isn't possible to assign None
value to str property throgh Admin API.
kernel='' is equally good to specify "no kernel from dom0".
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2622
While libvirt handle locking itself, there is also Qubes-specific
startup part. Especially starting qrexec-daemon and waiting until
qrexec-agent connect to it. When someone will attempt to start VM the
second time (or simply assume it's already running) - qrexec will not be
connected yet and the operation will fail. Solve the problem by wrapping
the whole vm.start() function with a lock, including a check if VM is
running and waiting for qrexec.
Also, do not throw exception if VM is already running.
This way, after a call to vm.start(), VM will be started with qrexec
connected - regardless of who really started it.
Note that, it will not solve the situation when someone check if VM is
running manually, like:
if not vm.is_running():
yield from vm.start()
Such code should be changed to simply:
yield from vm.start()
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#2001FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#2666
And place them in /qubes-service/ QubesDB directory. This allows
extensions to easily store some data not exposed to VM, but also have
control what VM will see. And at the same time, it make it compatible
with existing services framework
QubesOS/qubes-issues#1637
Setting VMProperty to None VM should be encoded as '' value (according
to VMProperty._none_value). But value validation rejected this value.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2622
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
Allow importing not only from another volume, but also raw data. In
practice, for all currently implemented storage pools, this is the same
as Pool.export, because path returned there is read-write. But lets not
abuse this fact, some future implementation may need different methods.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2622QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
Remove debug prints, log full traceback (of handled exception) only when
debug mode enabled (--debug, introduce in this commit too).
--debug option also enables sending tracebacks to the API clients.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#853
