If kernel package ships default-kernelopts-common.txt file, use that
instead of hardcoded Linux-specific options.
For Linux kernel it may include xen_scrub_pages=0 option, but only if
initrd shipped with this kernel re-enable this option later.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#4839QubesOS/qubes-issues#4736
The new property is meant for management stack (Salt) to set which DVM
template should be used to maintain given VM. Since the DispVM based on
it will be given ultimate control over target VM (qubes.VMShell
service), it should be trusted. The one pointed to by default_dispvm
not necessary is one.
The property defaults to the value from the template (if any), and then
to a global management_dispvm property. By default it is set to None.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Use maxmem=0 for disabling dynamic memory balance, instead of cryptic
service.meminfo-writer feature. Under the hood, meminfo-writer service
is also set based on maxmem property (directly in qubesdb, not
vm.features dict).
Having this as a property (not "feature"), allow to have sensible
handling of default value. Specifically, disable it automatically if
otherwise it would crash a VM. This is the case for:
- domain with PCI devices (PoD is not supported by Xen then)
- domain without balloon driver and/or meminfo-writer service
The check for the latter is heuristic (assume presence of 'qrexec' also
can indicate balloon driver support), but it is true for currently
supported systems.
This also allows more reliable control of libvirt config: do not set
memory != maxmem, unless qmemman is enabled.
memory != maxmem only makes sense if qmemman for given domain is
enabled. Besides wasting some domain resources for extra page tables
etc, for HVM domains this is harmful, because maxmem-memory difference
is made of Popupate-on-Demand pool, which - when depleted - will kill
the domain. This means domain without balloon driver will die as soon
as will try to use more than initial memory - but without balloon driver
it sees maxmem memory and doesn't know about the lower limit.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#4135
When a VM (or its template) does not explicitly set a qrexec_timeout,
fall back to a global default_qrexec_timeout (with default value 60),
instead of hardcoding the fallback value to 60.
This makes it easy to set a higher timeout for the whole system, which
helps users who habitually launch applications from several (not yet
started) VMs at the same time. 60 seconds can be too short for that.
Multiple properties are related to system installed inside the VM, so it
makes sense to have them the same for all the VMs based on the same
template. Modify default value getter to first try get the value from a
template (if any) and only if it fails, fallback to original default
value.
This change is made to those properties:
- default_user (it was already this way)
- kernel
- kernelopts
- maxmem
- memory
- qrexec_timeout
- vcpus
- virt_mode
This is especially useful for manually installed templates (like
Windows).
Related to QubesOS/qubes-issues#3585
Use VM's actual IP address as a gateway for other VMs, instead of
hardcoded link-local address. This is important for sys-net generated
ICMP diagnostics packets - those must _not_ have link-local source
address, otherwise wouldn't be properly forwarded back to the right VM.
Human readable format `str(datetime.datetime)` is a nightmare for Admin
API level communication. Especially setting the property in a format
that it was read was not supported, and handling such format in
untrusted input handling code is a bad idea. Revert to a simple intiger
format.
When dom0 do not provide the kernel, it should also not set kernel
command line in libvirt config. Otherwise qemu in stubdom fails to start
because it get -append option without -kernel, which is illegal
configuration.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3339
* fixes-20170929:
vm: do not start QubesDB watch instance multiple times
vm: report storage.stop() errors to log
vm: move comment
storage: fix method name in LinuxModules volume
Prevent removing domain that is referenced from anywhere
vm: add vm.klass property
Move QubesVM.{name,qid,uuid,label} to BaseVM
vm: do not allow deleting template property from AppVM and DispVM
vm/qubesvm: emit event on failed startup
vm/qubesvm: remove duplicated qmemman_client.close()
vm/dispvm: cleanup DispVM also on failed startup
vm/dispvm: fix error message
ext/block: properly list devtype=cdrom option
block: fix handling non-existing devices
block: improve handling device name and description
* qubesos/pr/150:
qubes/tests: moar fixes
test-packages: add missing libvirt classes
qubes/tests: do not deadlock on .drain()
qubes/vm: put name= first in __repr__
tests: fix some memory leaks
tests: complain about memory leaks
tests: use one event loop and one libvirtaio impl
* qubesos/pr/111:
vm: drop 'internal' property
qmemman: make sure to release lock
qmemman: fix meminfo parsing for python 3
devices: drop 'data' and 'frontend_domain' fields, rename 'devclass' to 'bus'
1. It is unclear yet whether dispvm_netvm will be implemented in core3, but
probably not.
2. Remove tests for setting memory/cpu above host resouces - rejecting
those values at property set time would break backup restore on some
machines (when migrating from bigger to smaller system).
