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
Do not initialize it only at qubes.xml load time, but re-read vm.kernel
property each time the path is constructed. While at it, add support for
vm.kernel set to 'None' - simply don't include modules.img (xvdd) then.
Keep it uniform - QubesVM() object is responsible for handling
vm.dir_path, Storage() is responsible for handling disk volumes (which
may live in that directory
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
Allow specific pool implementation to provide asynchronous
implementation. vm.storage.* methods will detect if given implementation
is synchronous or asynchronous and will act accordingly.
Then it's up to pool implementation how asynchronous should be achieved.
Do not force it using threads (`run_in_executor()`). But pool
implementation is free to use threads, if consider it safe in a
particular case.
This commit does not touch any pool implementation - all of them are
still synchronous.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
Use the right cow image and apply the second layer to provide read-write
access. The correct setup is:
- base image + base cow -> read-only snapshot (base changes "cached"
until committed)
- read-only snapshot + VM cow -> read-write snapshot (changes discarded
after VM shutdown)
This way, even VM without Qubes-specific startup scripts will can
benefit from Template VMs, while VMs with Qubes-specific startup scripts
may still see original root.img content (for possible signature
verification, when storage domain got implemented).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
In case of LVM (at least), "internal" flag is initialized only when
listing volume attached to given VM, but not when listing them from the
pool. This looks like a limitation (bug?) of pool driver, it looks like
much nicer fix is to handle the flag in qvm-block tool (which list VMs
volumes anyway), than in LVM storage pool driver (which would need to
keep second copy of volumes list - just like file driver).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
There are mutiple cases when snapshots are inconsistently created, for
example:
- "-back" snapshot created from the "new" data, instead of old one
- "-snap" created even when volume.snap_on_start=False
- probably more
Fix this by following volume.snap_on_start and volume.save_on_stop
directly, instead of using abstraction of old volume types.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
Just calling pool.init_volume isn't enough - a lot of code depends on
additional data loaded into vm.storage object. Provide a convenient
wrapper for this.
At the same time, fix loading extra volumes from qubes.xml - don't fail
on volume not mentioned in initial vm.volume_config.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
- add missing lvm remove call when commiting changes
- delay creating volatile image until domain startup (it will be created
then anyway)
- reset cache only when really changed anything
- attach VM to the volume (snapshot) created for its runtime - to not
expose changes (for example in root volume) to child VMs until
shutdown
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2412QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
The wrapper doesn't do anything else than translating command
parameters, but it's load time is significant (because of python imports
mostly). Since we can't use python lvm API from non-root user anyway,
lets drop the wrapper and call `lvm` directly (or through sudo when
necessary).
This makes VM startup much faster - storage preparation is down from
over 10s to about 3s.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
...instead of manual copy in python. DD is much faster and when used
with `conv=sparse` it will correctly preserve sparse image.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
1. Add a helper function on vm.storage. This is equivalent of:
vm.storage.get_pool(vm.volumes[name]).export(vm.volumes[name])
2. Make sure the path returned by `export` on LVM volume is accessible.
* core3-devices:
Fix core2migration and tests for new devices API
tests: more qubes.devices tests
qubes/ext/pci: implement pci-no-strict-reset/BDF feature
qubes/tools: allow calling qvm-device as qvm-devclass (like qvm-pci)
qubes: make pylint happy
qubes/tools: add qvm-device tool (and tests)
tests: load qubes.tests.tools.qvm_ls
tests: PCI devices tests
tests: add context manager to catch stdout
qubes/ext/pci: move PCI devices handling to an extension
qubes/devices: use more detailed exceptions than just KeyError
qubes/devices: allow non-persistent attach
qubes/storage: misc fixes for VM-exposed block devices handling
qubes: new devices API
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#2257
Add 'backenddomain' element when source (not target) domain is not dom0.
Fix XML elemenet name. Actually set volume.domain when listing
VM-exposed devices.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2256
- DispVM is no longer a special case for storage
- Add missing 'rw=True' for volatile volume
- Handle storage initialization (copy&paste from AppVM)
- Clone properties from DispVM template
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2253
This directory is not only for disk images (in fact disk images may be
elsewhere depending on choosen volume pool), so it would be cleaner to
handle (create/remove) it directly in QubesVM class.
In some places full volume object was called, in others - just file
path. Since this function is also used in some volume init/teardown, use
path everywhere.
Check directly vm.template, throwing AttributeError when not found.
There may be some value in converting it to more descriptive error, but
since that's mostly for internal users (not user facing actions) don't
bother for now.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#1842
It may make sense to create 'snapshot' volume out of already 'snapshot',
not only 'origin'. In pracice it will exactly the same as 'snapshot
connected directly to 'origin'.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#866
- Remove old qvm-remove
- Remove a log line from Storage, because it prints confusing lines, like:
Removing volume kernel: /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.1.13-6/modules.img
This is squashed woju/qubes-core-admin#8 by @kalkin
- LinuxKernel.volumes() lists all available kernels
- LinuxKernel use kernel version as vid
- LinuxKernel add docstrings
- Linux.kernel use os.listdir instead of os.walk
- LinuxKernel dynamically list available kernels
- Remove all *_dev_config methods
- Checks if a storage image exists moved to XenPool
- Storage.remove wraps Pool.remove()
- Stop volumes on domain sutdown/kill
- Warn when using deprecated methods
Keep all the non-template VMs in 'appvms'. Having it split makes no
sense since any VM can be "converted" to NetVM by simply changing its
provides_network attribute and probably assigning some PCI device.
On the other hand, it may be useful to set this manually, for example by
management stack - based on VM function, not type. But don't care about
it for now.
@woju what was consensus on 'servicevms' dir? Since "being network
provider" is no longer separate type and can be changed during VM
lifetime, maybe we should abandon that idea? Or maybe just set it as VM
property (some storage pool config argument) - that way mgmt stack could
put all the sys-* VMs into separate directory, regardless of the type.
The following list is bollocks. There were many, many more.
Conflicts:
core-modules/003QubesTemplateVm.py
core-modules/005QubesNetVm.py
core/qubes.py
core/storage/__init__.py
core/storage/xen.py
doc/qvm-tools/qvm-pci.rst
doc/qvm-tools/qvm-prefs.rst
qubes/tools/qmemmand.py
qvm-tools/qvm-create
qvm-tools/qvm-prefs
qvm-tools/qvm-start
tests/__init__.py
vm-config/xen-vm-template-hvm.xml
This commit took 2 days (26-27.01.2016) and put our friendship to test.
--Wojtek and Marek
