Keep it at original files, to still load it using compat rules.
This way the update should not break user's policies.
Note the unchanged policy files are still going to be removed - meaning
those calls will use the new policy.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#4370
createrepo isn't directly used by this package, but by
qubes-core-dom0-linux instead. Lets keep that dependency only there,
especially when it's changed to createrepo_c.
* tests-20181223:
tests: drop expectedFailure from qubes_desktop_run test
tests: grub in HVM qubes
tests: update dom0_update for new updates available flag
tests: regression test LVM listing code
tests/extra: wrap ProcessWrapper.wait() to be asyncio-aware
tests: adjust backupcompat for new maxmem handling
- Two new methods: .features.check_with_adminvm() and
.check_with_template_and_adminvm(). Common code refactored.
- Two new AdminAPI calls to take advantage of the methods:
- admin.vm.feature.CheckWithAdminVM
- admin.vm.feature.CheckWithTemplateAndAdminVM
- Features manager moved to separate module in anticipation of features
on app object in R5.0. The attribute Features.vm renamed to
Features.subject.
- Documentation, tests.
gnome-packagekit: no longer needed, especially not in this package;
qubes-dom0-update tool is in core-dom0-admin-linux, but preffer a `dnf
update` in a terminal emulator
bsdtar: was used by 3.x DispVM implementation, now isn't used anywhere
Handle 'os' feature - if it's Windows, then set rpc-clipboard feature.
Handle 'gui-emulated' feature - request for specifically stubdomain GUI.
With 'gui' feature it is only possible to enable gui-agent based on, or
disable GUI completely.
Handle 'default-user' - verify it for weird characters and set
'default_user' property (if wasn't already set).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#3585
This enable two things:
1. Follow global clockvm setting, without adjusting qrexec policy.
2. Avoid starting clockvm by arbitrary VM.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3588
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.
