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
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
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
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.
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