There's been a few bugs about an expected error from polkit:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873799https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872166
The error is:
Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available.
The error means that polkit needs a password, but there is no polkit
agent registered in your session. Polkit agents are the bit of UI that
pop up and actually ask for your password.
Preface the error with the string 'polkit:' so folks can hopefully
make more sense of it.
Most of this deals with moving the libvirt-guests.sh script which
does all the work to /usr/libexec, so it can be shared by both
systemd and traditional init. Previously systemd depended on
the script being in /etc/init.d
Required to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789747
Things are supposed to look like:
<machine canonical='pc-0.12'>pc</machine>
But are currently swapped. This can cause many VMs to revert to having
machine type='pc' which will affect save/restore across qemu upgrades.
This commit changes the behavior of LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 libvirtd:
$ git show 7022b09111
commit 7022b09111
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Sep 27 13:13:09 2012 +0100
Automatically enable systemd journal logging
Probe to see if the systemd journal is accessible, and if
so enable logging to the journal by default, rather than
stderr (current default under systemd).
Previously 'LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/libvirtd' would show all debug
output to stderr, now it send debug output to the journal.
Only use the journal by default if running in daemon mode, or
if stdin is _not_ a tty. This should make libvirtd launched from
systemd use the journal, but preserve the old behavior in most
situations.
When restoring selinux labels after a VM is stopped, any non-standard
path that doesn't have a default selinux label causes the process
to stop and exit early. This isn't really an error condition IMO.
Of course the selinux API could be erroring for some other reason
but hopefully that's rare enough to not need explicit handling.
Common example here is storing disk images in a non-standard location
like under /mnt.
virStorageVolLookupByPath is an API call that virt-manager uses
quite a bit when dealing with storage. This call use BackendStablePath
which has several usleep() heuristics that can be tripped up
and hang virt-manager for a while.
Current example: an empty mpath pool pointing to /dev/mapper makes
_any_ calls to virStorageVolLookupByPath take 5 seconds.
The sleep heuristics are actually only needed in certain cases
when we are waiting for new storage to appear, so let's skip the
timeout steps when calling from LookupByPath.
On F17 at least, every time libvirtd starts we get this in syslog:
libvirtd: Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: No such file or directory
This comes from cyrus-sasl, and happens regardless of whether the
gssapi plugin is requested, which is what actually uses
/etc/libvirt/krb5.tab.
While cyrus-sasl shouldn't complain, we can easily make it shut up by
commenting out the keytab value by default.
Also update the keytab comment to the more modern one from qemu's
sasl config file.
AUTHORS.in tracks the maintainers, as well as some folks who were
previously in AUTHORS but don't have a git commit with proper
attribution.
Generated output is sorted alphabetically and lacks pretty spacing, so
tweak AUTHORS.in to follow the same format.
Additionally, drop the syntax-check rule that previously validated
AUTHORS against git log.
On F17 at least, this command fails:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/lvcreate --name sparsetest -L 0K --virtualsize 16384K vgvirt
Unable to create new logical volume with no extents
Which is unfortunate since allocation=0 is what virt-manager tries to use
by default.
Rather than telling the user 'don't do that', let's just give them the
smallest allocation possible if alloc=0 is requested.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866481
- Add the XML header so vim gives us syntax highlighting
- polkit-policy-file-validate hasn't existed for 3 years
- Permissions comment was not accurate
Done with:
sed -i -e "s/no pool with matching uuid/no storage pool with matching uuid/g" src/storage/storage_driver.c
sed -i -e 's/"%s", _("no storage pool with matching uuid")/_("no storage pool with matching uuid %s"), obj->uuid/g' src/storage/storage_driver.c
sed -i -e 's/"%s", _("storage pool is not active")/_("storage pool '%s' is not active"), pool->def->name/g' src/storage/storage_driver.c
And a couple fixups before, during, and after, and a manual inspection
pass to make sure nothing was wonky.
Similar to the previous patch, prepending 'help' to a partial
command string doesn't cut us any slack.
$ virsh help pool-define-as --name foo --type dir
error: command 'help' doesn't support option --name
This patch adds a few hacks to make 'help' ignore everything after the
first data bit, so the above command shows help output for pool-define-as.
Often times I find myself halfway through typing a long command when
I want to see 'help' output. I instinctively append '--help' to the
command I'm typing, only to get an error:
$ virsh vol-create-as foo --help
error: command 'vol-create-as' doesn't support option --help
This patch makes --help work in a pretty hacky way. One missing piece
here is that --help isn't listed as an option in the actual 'help <cmd>'
output, but maybe this can be a starting point for someone.
For some reason I only get this after applying subsequent upcoming
patches that touch virsh, but don't seem to actually cause the warning.
virsh.c: In function ‘vshCommandParse’:
virsh.c:2014:46: error: ‘opt_index’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Otherwise distcheck can fail with:
GEN check-symfile
Can't open perl script "../../src/check-symfile.pl": No such file or directory
make[4]: *** [check-symfile] Error 2
If we do ./autogen.sh && ./configure, then later try ./autogen.sh --system,
configure isn't invoked with the requested params. Instead
config.status --recheck is run.
We were using the libvirt release version (like 0.9.11) and not
the configure version (which for stable releases is 0.9.11.X)
Most other places got this right so hopefully that's all the fallout
from the version format change :)
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
lvcreate want's the parent pool's name, not the pool path
lvchange and lvremove want lv specified as $vgname/$lvname
This largely worked before because these commands strip off a
starting /dev. But https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714986
is from a user using a 'nested VG' that was having problems.
I couldn't find any info on nested LVM and the reporter never responded,
but I reproduced with XML that specified a valid source name, and
set target path to a symlink.
Previously we would have:
"os type 'hvm' & arch 'idontexist' combination is not supported"
Now we get
"No guest options available for arch 'idontexist'"
or if options available but guest OS type not applicable:
"No os type 'xen' available for arch 'x86_64'"
Input to the volume cloning code is a source volume and an XML
descriptor for the new volume. It is possible for the new volume
to have a greater size than source volume, at which point libvirt
will just stick 0s on the end of the new image (for raw format
anyways).
Unfortunately a logic error messed up our tracking of the of the
excess amount that needed to be written: end result is that sparse
clones were made very much non-sparse, and cloning regular disk
images could end up excessively sized (though data unaltered).
Drop the 'remain' variable entriely here since it's redundant, and
track actual allocation directly against the desired 'total'.
If you are sitting in front of a physical machine and logged in as
a regular user, you can connect to the system libvirtd instance
by providing a root password to policykit. This is how most
virt-manager users talk to libvirt.
However, if you are launching virt-manager over ssh -X, or over
VNC started from say /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, our policykit policy
rejects the user outright, providing no option to provide the root
password. This is confusing to users and doesn't seem to serve much
point.
Change the policy to allow inactive (VNC) and non-local (SSH, VNC)
to provide root credentials for accessing system libvirtd. We use
auth_admin rather than auth_admin_keep so that credentials aren't
cached at all, and every subsequent reconnection to libvirt requires
auth.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625115
Similar change to PackageKit policy:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528511
Several not uncommon issues can be diagnosed through pkcheck output, like
lack of/malfunctioning desktop agent, or lack of/malfunctioning polkit
dbus agent.
And hook it up for policykit auth. This allows virt-manager to detect
that the user clicked the policykit 'cancel' button and not throw
an 'authentication failed' error message at the user.
On F16 at least, empty volume groups don't have a directory under /dev.
The directory only appears once a logical volume is created.
This tickles some behavior in BackendStablePath which ends with
libvirt sleeping for 5 seconds while waiting for the directory to appear.
This causes all sorts of problems for the virStorageVolLookupByPath API
which virtinst uses, even if trying to resolve a path that is independent
of the logical pool.
In reality we don't even need to do that checking since logical pools
always have a stable target path. Short circuit the polling in that
case.
Fixes bug 782261
The following XML:
<serial type='udp'>
<source mode='connect' service='9999'/>
</serial>
is accepted by domain_conf.c but maps to the qemu command line:
-chardev udp,host=127.0.0.1,port=2222,localaddr=(null),localport=(null)
qemu can cope with everything omitting except the connection port, which
seems to also be the intent of domain_conf validation, so let's not
generate bogus command lines for that case.
The defaults are empty strings for addresses and 0 for the localport
Additionally, tweak the qemu cli parsing to handle omitted host
parameters
for -serial udp
We had a bit too many elements crammed in there. Separate it into different
headings:
- CPU Allocation (<vcpus>)
- CPU Tuning (<cputune>)
- Memory allocation (<memory> and <currentMemory>)
- Memory backing (<memoryBacking>)
- Memory tuning (<memtune>)
- Numa tuning (<numatune>)
- Block I/O tuning (<blkiotune>)
Though we prefer users to have SSH keys setup, virt-manager users still
depend on remote SSH connections to launch a password dialog. This fixes
launch ssh-askpass
Fix suggested by danpb
Turns out I was right in removing this the first time :) This is
needed in our custom __del__ function, but the C code wasn't
being generated. Add new infrastructure to do what we want
These functions aren't intended to be called directly by users, so mark
them as private.
While we're at it, remove unneeded exception handling, and break some
long lines.
If registering our own event loop implementation written in python,
any handles or timeouts callbacks registered by libvirt C code must
be wrapped in a python function. There is some argument trickery that
makes this all work, by wrapping the user passed opaque value in
a tuple, along with the callback function.
Problem is, the current setup requires the user's event loop to know
about this trickery, rather than just treating the opaque value
as truly opaque.
Fix this in a backwards compatible manner, and adjust the example
python event loop to do things the proper way.
Since we virEventRegisterDefaultImpl is now a public API, callers need
a way to invoke the default registered Handle and Timeout functions. We
already have general functions for these internally, so promote
them to the public API.
v2:
Actually add APIs to libvirt.h
Pure python implementation. The handler callbacks have been altered
a bit compared to the C API: RecvAll doesn't pass length of the data read
since that can be trivially obtained from python string objects, and SendAll
requires the handler to return the string data to send rather than
store the data in a string pointer.
The return values for the python version are different that the C version
of virStreamSend: on success we return a string, an error raises an exception,
and if the stream would block we return int(-2). We need to do this
since strings aren't passed by reference in python.
If qemu supports -chardev, our char frontend aliases are ex. 'charserial0'
not just 'serial0'. Typically we don't use this code path because the
pty's are scraped from stdout.
Add a simple handshake with the lxc_controller process so we can detect
process startup failures. We do this by adding a new --handshake cli arg
to lxc_controller for passing a file descriptor. If the process fails to
launch, we scrape all output from the logfile and report it to the user.
Seems reasonable to have all command wrappers in the same place
v2:
Dont move SetInherit
v3:
Comment spelling fix
Adjust WARN0 comment
Remove spurious #include movement
Don't include sys/types.h
Combine virExec enums
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Since directories can be used for <filesystem> passthrough, they are
basically storage volumes.
v2:
Skip ., .., lost+found dirs
v3:
Use gnulib last_component
v4:
Use gnulib "dirname.h", not system <dirname.h>
Don't skip lost+found
This error code has existed since the dawn of time, yet the messages it
generates are almost universally busted. Here's a small sampling:
src/conf/domain_conf.c:4889 : XML description for missing root element is not well formed or invalid
src/conf/domain_conf.c:4951 : XML description for unknown device type is not well formed or invalid
src/conf/domain_conf.c:5460 : XML description for maximum vcpus must be an integer is not well formed or invalid
src/conf/domain_conf.c:5468 : XML description for invalid maxvcpus %(count)lu is not well formed or invalid
Fix up the error code to instead be
XML error: <msg>
Adjust the few locations that were using the original correctly (or shouldn't
have been using the error code at all).
v2:
Fix wording of error code without a passed argument
virRunWithHook is now unused, so we can drop it. Tested w/ raw + qcow2
volume creation and copying.
v2:
Use opaque data to skip hook second time around
Simply command building
v3:
Drop explicit FindFileInPath
One functionality change here is that we no longer force enable the event
timeout for every queued event, only enable it for the first event after
the queue has been flushed. This is how other drivers have already done it,
and I haven't encountered problems in practice.
v3:
Adjust for new virDomainEventStateNew argument
The same code for queueing, flushing, and deregistering events exists
in multiple drivers, which will soon use these common functions.
v2:
Adjust libvirt_private.syms
isDispatching bool fixes
NONNULL tagging
v3:
Add requireTimer parameter to virDomainEventStateNew
This structure will be used to unify lots of duplicated event handling code
across the state drivers.
v2:
Check for state == NULL in StateFree
Add NONNULL tagging
Use bool for isDispatching
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Use capabilities to allow a driver to register a default <init> if none
is specified in the XML. Openvz was already open-coding this to be /sbin/init
LXC currently falls over if no init is specified, so an explicit error is
an improvement IMO.
(Side note: I don't think we can set a default value for LXC. If we use
/sbin/init but the user doesn't specify a separate root FS for their guest,
the container will rerun the host's init which can be traumatic :). For
virt-install I'm thinking of defaulting to /sbin/init if a root FS has
been specified, otherwise require the user to manually specify <init>)
Cole Robinson