The <graphics type="vnc" .... powerControl="on"/> option instructs the VNC server to enable an extension that lets the client perform a graceful shutdown, reboot and hard reset. This is enabled by default since it cannot be assumed that the VNC client user has administrator rights over the guest OS. In the case where the VNC user is a guest administrator though, it is reasonable to allow direct power control host side too. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/formatdomain.rst | 5 +++++ docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 5 +++++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 12 ++++++++++++ src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst index eafd6b3396..580319365c 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst @@ -5791,6 +5791,11 @@ interaction with the admin. ``autoport`` having no effect due to security reasons) :since:`Since 1.0.6` . + For VNC, the ``powerControl`` attribute can be used to enable VM shutdown, + reboot and reset power control features for the VNC client. This is + appropriate if the authenticated VNC client user already has administrator + privileges in the guest :since:`Since 7.1.0`. + Although VNC doesn't support OpenGL natively, it can be paired with graphics type ``egl-headless`` (see below) which will instruct QEMU to open and use drm nodes for OpenGL rendering. diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng index e6de934456..49dc4b5130 100644 --- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng +++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng @@ -3663,6 +3663,11 @@ </choice> </attribute> </optional> + <optional> + <attribute name="powerControl"> + <ref name="virYesNo"/> + </attribute> + </optional> </group> <group> <optional> diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index b731744f04..91933bf292 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -13150,6 +13150,7 @@ virDomainGraphicsDefParseXMLVNC(virDomainGraphicsDefPtr def, g_autofree char *websocketGenerated = virXMLPropString(node, "websocketGenerated"); g_autofree char *sharePolicy = virXMLPropString(node, "sharePolicy"); g_autofree char *autoport = virXMLPropString(node, "autoport"); + g_autofree char *powerControl = virXMLPropString(node, "powerControl"); if (virDomainGraphicsListensParseXML(def, node, ctxt, flags) < 0) return -1; @@ -13206,6 +13207,13 @@ virDomainGraphicsDefParseXMLVNC(virDomainGraphicsDefPtr def, } } + if (powerControl && + virStringParseYesNo(powerControl, &def->data.vnc.powerControl) < 0) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, + _("cannot parse vnc power control '%s'"), powerControl); + return -1; + } + def->data.vnc.keymap = virXMLPropString(node, "keymap"); if (virDomainGraphicsAuthDefParseXML(node, &def->data.vnc.auth, @@ -27148,6 +27156,10 @@ virDomainGraphicsDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf, virDomainGraphicsVNCSharePolicyTypeToString( def->data.vnc.sharePolicy)); + if (def->data.vnc.powerControl) + virBufferAsprintf(buf, " powerControl='%s'", + def->data.vnc.powerControl ? "yes" : "no"); + virDomainGraphicsAuthDefFormatAttr(buf, &def->data.vnc.auth, flags); break; diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h index 930eed60de..544ec1b2fa 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h @@ -1712,6 +1712,7 @@ struct _virDomainGraphicsDef { char *keymap; virDomainGraphicsAuthDef auth; int sharePolicy; + bool powerControl; } vnc; struct { char *display; -- 2.29.2

On a Tuesday in 2021, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: The "no" branch is dead code. If you don't want to format "no" unless it was explicitly requested, use virTristateBool. Jano

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 14:08:52 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote: Invoking this check from qemuValidateDomainDeviceDefGraphics will give you define-time check whether the VM supports this rather than startup-time. So we don't want to be able to explicitly turn this off? [...] Rather than adding the capability, either convert the test case to DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST or add a separate _LATEST() case for it.