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[Libvir] Hang with virt-install graphic=no on FC 6 6.93/F7 RC2
by libvirtuser 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

I had this problem and another user confirmed the same behavior on his machine: http://pastie.caboo.se/65417 Haven't tried it with *2925.10* yet. Also, is there a way to get more verbose info about what calls are causing the "configuration file syntax error" errors? Thanks. virt-install How large would you like the disk () to be (in gigabytes)? 4 ERROR: Must provide a file, not a directory for the disk What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen/images/x6.img Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no What is the install location? http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/ Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name Retrieving Fedora... 276 kB 00:01 Retrieving vmlinuz... 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:16 Retrieving initrd.img... 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB 00:28 libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name Creating domain... 0 B 00:06 Linux version 2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen (brewbuilder(a)ls20-bc1-14.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070317 (Red Hat 4.1.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 13:51:38 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize bail 0 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000020800000 end: 0000000020800000 type: 1 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 133120 Normal 133120 -> 133120 HighMem 133120 -> 133120 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 133120 ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 132080 Kernel command line: method=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/ Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135f000 soft=c133f000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 1694.994 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8 ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 30 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 2048 ... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 1024 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 8192 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 16384 ... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 8192 memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled vmalloc area: e1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 Memory: 503936k/532480k available (2030k kernel code, 19948k reserved, 1079k data, 180k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB) pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB) vmalloc : 0xe1000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 319 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0800000 ( 520 MB) .init : 0xc130e000 - 0xc133b000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc11fb9d9 - 0xc1309714 (1079 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11fb9d9 (2030 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4262.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=8525343) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed Brought up 1 CPUs Grant table initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 Brought up 1 CPUs PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: System does not support PCI PCI: System does not support PCI NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 7256k freed IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran(a)veritas.com> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1180379657.981:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 BUG: at kernel/fork.c:994 copy_process() [<c1005d9a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c1006343>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c10063be>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<c101d044>] copy_process+0x195/0x1245 [<c101e144>] do_fork+0x50/0x117 [<c1003351>] kernel_thread+0x8e/0x96 [<c102c701>] __call_usermodehelper+0x2d/0x46 [<c102cd4f>] run_workqueue+0x89/0x145 [<c102d711>] worker_thread+0xd5/0x102 [<c102ff27>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc [<c10058db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. i8042.c: No controller found. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k ^[Domain installation still in progress. 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[ PATCH vf-token 0/8] Introduce vf-token when using userspace PF
by Vivek Kashyap 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

The VFIO PCI ABI has been extended to require userspace PF driver to set a VF token to a known value. The VF drivers are then required to provide this token to access the VF device. The vf-token is set by the PF driver before VF drivers can access the device. The kernel provides no means to retrieve the token in use; but there is no specification describing the distribution or level of confidentiality of the token. Qemu has been extended to require the vf-token when vf device is used. An important point to note is that the vf-token is required only when both the PF and VF are used in userspace. This patch series adds support to provide the vf-token (uuid format) in the domain XML and to generate the qemu commandline including the vf-token. To support vf-token the new element will be used as follows: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0' slot='0x00' function='0x1'> <vf-token uuid='00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff'/> </address> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> The generated commandline will include the following: -device {"driver":"vfio-pci","host":"0000:00:0.1", "vf-token":"00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff", "id":"hostdev0","bus":"pci.0","addr":"0x1"} Changes since initial RFC based on review comments received: 1. Added documentation 2. Added test cases and ran successful test suite after each patch commit 3. fixed spaces, coding sytle, and uuid string format 4. Used S:vftoken in virJSONValueObjectAdd instead of a conditional Vivek Kashyap (8): Define the vf-token extension for PCI device Introduce the vf-token qemu capability This patch introduces the PCI address extension flag for vf-token This patch introduces new XML parser/formatter functions for parsing the vf-token Introduce a validation function for vf-token support in qemu and generate vf-token device attribute in qemu command line Provide information about the vf-token flag Add tests for the vf-token flag to the qemuxml2argv and qemuxml2xml test suites Update news about vf-token NEWS.rst | 8 +++ docs/formatdomain.rst | 3 ++ src/conf/device_conf.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++--- src/conf/domain_addr.h | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.c | 8 +++ src/conf/schemas/basictypes.rng | 7 +++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 3 ++ src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 8 +++ src/qemu/qemu_domain_address.c | 3 ++ src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 20 ++++++++ src/util/virpci.c | 7 +++ src/util/virpci.h | 10 ++++ .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_8.1.0_s390x.xml | 1 + .../caps_8.1.0_x86_64.xml | 1 + .../caps_8.2.0_x86_64.xml | 1 + .../hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.args | 34 +++++++++++++ .../hostdev-vfio-vf-token.xml | 22 +++++++++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 1 + .../hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.xml | 40 +++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 + 22 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hostdev-vfio-vf-token.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/hostdev-vfio-vf-token.x86_64-latest.xml -- 2.33.8

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[RFC PATCH v4 0/5] Added virtio-net RSS with eBPF support.
by Andrew Melnychenko 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

This series of rfc patches adds support for loading the RSS eBPF program and passing it to the QEMU. Comments and suggestions would be useful. QEMU with vhost may work with RSS through eBPF. To load eBPF, the capabilities required that Libvirt may provide. eBPF program and maps may be unique for particular QEMU and Libvirt retrieves eBPF through qapi. For now, there is only "RSS" eBPF object in QEMU, in the future, there may be another one(g.e. network filters). That's why in Libvirt added logic to load and store any eBPF object that QEMU provides using qapi schema. One of the reasons why this series of patches is in RFC are tests. To this series of patches, the tests were added. For now, the tests are synthetic, the proper "reply" file should be generated with a new "caps" file. Currently, there are changes in caps-9.0.0* and caps-9.1.0 files. There was added support for ebpf_rss_fds feature, and request-ebpf command. So, overall, the tests are required for review, comment, and discussion how we want them to be implemented in the future. For virtio-net RSS, the document has not changed. ``` <interface type="network"> <model type="virtio"/> <driver queues="4" rss="on" rss_hash_report="off"/> <interface type="network"> ``` Simplified routine for RSS: * Libvirt retrieves eBPF "RSS" and load it. * Libvirt passes file descriptors to virtio-net with property "ebpf_rss_fds" ("rss" property should be "on" too). * if fds was provided - QEMU using eBPF RSS implementation. * if fds was not provided - QEMU tries to load eBPF RSS in own context and use it. * if eBPF RSS was not loaded - QEMU uses "in-qemu" RSS(vhost not supported). Changes since RFC v3: * changed tests a bit * refactored and rebased * removed "allowEBPF" from qemu config(now env is used for tests) Changes since RFC v2: * refactored and rebased. * applied changes according to the Qemu. * added basic test. Changes since RFC v1: * changed eBPF format saved in the XML cache. * refactored and checked with syntax test. * refactored patch hunks. Andrew Melnychenko (5): qemu_monitor: Added QEMU's "request-ebpf" support. qemu_capabilities: Added logic for retrieving eBPF objects from QEMU. qemu_interface: Added routine for loading the eBPF objects. qemu_command: Added "ebpf_rss_fds" support for virtio-net. tests: Added tests for eBPF blob loading. libvirt.spec.in | 3 + meson.build | 7 + meson_options.txt | 1 + src/qemu/meson.build | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 132 ++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 5 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 60 ++++++ src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 4 + src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_interface.c | 87 ++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_interface.h | 7 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 9 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 4 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 27 +++ src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 4 + .../caps_9.0.0_sparc.replies | 95 +++++---- .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_9.0.0_sparc.xml | 3 + .../caps_9.0.0_x86_64.replies | 199 ++++++++++-------- .../caps_9.0.0_x86_64.xml | 4 + .../caps_9.1.0_x86_64.replies | 199 ++++++++++-------- .../caps_9.1.0_x86_64.xml | 4 + tests/qemuxml2argvmock.c | 24 +++ .../net-virtio-rss-bpf.x86_64-latest.args | 37 ++++ .../net-virtio-rss-bpf.x86_64-latest.xml | 46 ++++ tests/qemuxmlconfdata/net-virtio-rss-bpf.xml | 46 ++++ tests/qemuxmlconftest.c | 5 + 26 files changed, 792 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/net-virtio-rss-bpf.x86_64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/net-virtio-rss-bpf.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/net-virtio-rss-bpf.xml -- 2.45.2

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[PATCH 0/3] hw/sd/sdcard: Deprecate support for spec v1.10
by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Deprecate SD spec v1.10, use v3.01 as new default. Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (3): hw/sd/sdcard: Deprecate support for spec v1.10 hw/sd/sdcard: Use spec v3.01 by default hw/sd/sdcard: Remove support for spec v1.10 docs/about/removed-features.rst | 5 +++++ include/hw/sd/sd.h | 1 - hw/sd/sd.c | 14 +++----------- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.41.0

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[PATCH rfcv4 00/13] LIBVIRT: X86: TDX support
by Zhenzhong Duan 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Hi, This series brings libvirt the x86 TDX support. * What's TDX? TDX stands for Trust Domain Extensions which isolates VMs from the virtual-machine manager (VMM)/hypervisor and any other software on the platform. To support TDX, multiple software components, not only KVM but also QEMU, guest Linux and virtual bios, need to be updated. For more details, please check link[1]. This patchset is another software component to extend libvirt to support TDX, with which one can start a TDX guest from high level rather than running qemu directly. * Misc As QEMU use a software emulated way to reset guest which isn't supported by TDX guest for security reason. We simulate reboot for TDX guest by kill and create a new one in FakeReboot framework. Complete code can be found at [2], matching qemu code can be found at [3]. There is a 'debug' property for tdx-guest object which isn't in matching qemu[3] yet. I keep them intentionally as they will be implemented in qemu as extention series of [3]. * Test start/stop/reboot with virsh stop/reboot trigger in guest stop with on_poweroff=destroy/restart reboot with on_reboot=destroy/restart * Patch organization - patch 1-4: Support query of TDX capabilities. - patch 5-8: Add TDX type to launchsecurity framework. - patch 9-11: Add reboot support to TDX guest - patch 12-13: Add test and docs TODO: - update QEMU capabilities data in tests, depending on qemu TDX merged beforehand - add reconnect logic in virsh command [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/cover.1708933498.git.isaku.yamahata@intel.com [2] https://github.com/intel/libvirt-tdx/commits/tdx_for_upstream_rfcv4 [3] https://github.com/intel/qemu-tdx/tree/tdx-qemu-upstream-v5 Thanks Zhenzhong Changelog: rfcv4: - add a check to tools/virt-host-validate-qemu.c (Daniel) - remove check of q35 (Daniel) - model 'SocktetAddress' QAPI in xml schema (Daniel) - s/Quote-Generation-Service/quoteGenerationService/ (Daniel) - define bits in tdx->policy and add validating logic (Daniel) - presume QEMU choose split kernel irqchip for TDX guest by default (Daniel) - utilize existing FakeReboot framework to do reboot for TDX guest (Daniel) - drop patch11 'conf: Add support to keep same domid for hard reboot' (Daniel) - add test in tests/ to validate parsing and formatting logic (Daniel) - add doc in docs/formatdomain.rst (Daniel) - add R-B rfcv3: - Change to generate qemu cmdline with -bios - drop firmware auto match as -bios is used - add a hard reboot method to reboot TDX guest rfcv3: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.libvirt.org/msg00385.html rfcv2: - give up using qmp cmd and check TDX directly on host for TDX capabilities. - use launchsecurity framework to support TDX - use <os>.<loader> for general loader - add auto firmware match feature for TDX A example TDVF fimware description file 70-edk2-x86_64-tdx.json: { "description": "UEFI firmware for x86_64, supporting Intel TDX", "interface-types": [ "uefi" ], "mapping": { "device": "generic", "filename": "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE-tdx.fd" }, "targets": [ { "architecture": "x86_64", "machines": [ "pc-q35-*" ] } ], "features": [ "intel-tdx", "verbose-dynamic" ], "tags": [ ] } rfcv2: https://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg219378.html Zhenzhong Duan (13): tools: Secure guest check for Intel in virt-host-validate qemu: Check if INTEL Trust Domain Extention support is enabled qemu: Add TDX capability conf: expose TDX feature in domain capabilities conf: add tdx as launch security type qemu: Add command line and validation for TDX type qemu: force special parameters enabled for TDX guest Add Intel TDX Quote Generation Service(QGS) support qemu: add FakeReboot support for TDX guest qemu: Support reboot command in guest qemu: Avoid duplicate FakeReboot for secure guest Add test cases for Intel TDX docs: domain: Add documentation for Intel TDX guest docs/formatdomain.rst | 68 ++++ docs/formatdomaincaps.rst | 1 + src/conf/domain_capabilities.c | 1 + src/conf/domain_capabilities.h | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.c | 312 ++++++++++++++++++ src/conf/domain_conf.h | 75 +++++ src/conf/schemas/domaincaps.rng | 9 + src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 135 ++++++++ src/conf/virconftypes.h | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 36 +- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 139 ++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 28 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 6 +- src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 75 +++++ src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 44 +++ ...unch-security-tdx-qgs-fd.x86_64-latest.xml | 77 +++++ .../launch-security-tdx-qgs-fd.xml | 30 ++ ...ch-security-tdx-qgs-inet.x86_64-latest.xml | 77 +++++ .../launch-security-tdx-qgs-inet.xml | 30 ++ ...ch-security-tdx-qgs-unix.x86_64-latest.xml | 77 +++++ .../launch-security-tdx-qgs-unix.xml | 30 ++ ...h-security-tdx-qgs-vsock.x86_64-latest.xml | 77 +++++ .../launch-security-tdx-qgs-vsock.xml | 30 ++ tests/qemuxmlconftest.c | 24 ++ tools/virt-host-validate-common.c | 22 +- tools/virt-host-validate-common.h | 1 + 30 files changed, 1407 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-fd.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-fd.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-inet.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-inet.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-unix.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-unix.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-vsock.x86_64-latest.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxmlconfdata/launch-security-tdx-qgs-vsock.xml -- 2.34.1

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[PATCH 0/4] hw/s390x: Alias @dump-skeys -> @dump-s390-skey and deprecate
by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

We are trying to unify all qemu-system-FOO to a single binary. In order to do that we need to remove QAPI target specific code. @dump-skeys is only available on qemu-system-s390x. This series rename it as @dump-s390-skey, making it available on other binaries. We take care of backward compatibility via deprecation. Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (4): hw/s390x: Introduce the @dump-s390-skeys QMP command hw/s390x: Introduce the 'dump_s390_skeys' HMP command hw/s390x: Deprecate the HMP 'dump_skeys' command hw/s390x: Deprecate the QMP @dump-skeys command docs/about/deprecated.rst | 5 +++++ qapi/misc-target.json | 5 +++++ qapi/misc.json | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ include/monitor/hmp.h | 1 + hw/s390x/s390-skeys-stub.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/s390x/s390-skeys.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- hmp-commands.hx | 17 +++++++++++++++-- hw/s390x/meson.build | 5 +++++ 8 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 hw/s390x/s390-skeys-stub.c -- 2.41.0

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix python error reporting for some storage operations
by Cole Robinson 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

In the python bindings, all vir* classes expect to be passed a virConnect object when instantiated. Before the storage stuff, these classes were only instantiated in virConnect methods, so the generator is hardcoded to pass 'self' as the connection instance to these classes. Problem is there are some methods that return pool or vol instances which aren't called from virConnect: you can lookup a storage volume's associated pool, and can lookup volumes from a pool. In these cases passing 'self' doesn't give the vir* instance a connection, so when it comes time to raise an exception crap hits the fan. Rather than rework the generator to accomodate this edge case, I just fixed the init functions for virStorage* to pull the associated connection out of the passed value if it's not a virConnect instance. Thanks, Cole diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py index 01a17da..c706b19 100755 --- a/python/generator.py +++ b/python/generator.py @@ -962,8 +962,12 @@ def buildWrappers(): list = reference_keepers[classname] for ref in list: classes.write(" self.%s = None\n" % ref[1]) - if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork", "virStoragePool", "virStorageVol" ]: + if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork" ]: classes.write(" self._conn = conn\n") + elif classname in [ "virStorageVol", "virStoragePool" ]: + classes.write(" self._conn = conn\n" + \ + " if not isinstance(conn, virConnect):\n" + \ + " self._conn = conn._conn\n") classes.write(" if _obj != None:self._o = _obj;return\n") classes.write(" self._o = None\n\n"); destruct=None

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[RFC 0/4] meson: Enable -Wundef
by Andrea Bolognani 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

A few days ago I have posted a patch[1] that addresses an issue introduced when a meson check was dropped but some uses of the corresponding WITH_ macro were not removed at the same time. That got me thinking about what we can do to prevent such scenarios from happening again in the future. I have come up with something that I think would be effective, but since applying the approach throughout the entire codebase would require a non-trivial amount of work, I figured I'd ask for feedback before embarking on it. The idea is that there are two types of macros we can use for conditional compilation: external ones, coming from the OS or other libraries, and internal ones, which are the result of meson tests. The external ones (e.g. SIOCSIFFLAGS, __APPLE__) are usually only defined if they apply, so it is correct to check for their presence with #ifdef. Using #if will also work, as undefined macros evaluate to zero, but it's not good practice to use them that way. If -Wundef has been passed to the compiler, those incorrect uses will be reported (only on platforms where they are not defined, of course). The internal ones (e.g. WITH_QEMU, WITH_STRUCT_IFREQ) are similar, but in this case we control their definition. This means that using means that the feature is not available on the machine we're building on, but it could also mean that we've removed the meson check and forgot to update all users of the macro. In this case, -Wundef would work 100% reliably to detect the issue: if the meson check doesn't exist, neither will the macro, regardless of what platform we're building on. So the approach I'm suggesting is to use a syntax-check rule to ensure that internal macros are only ever checked with #if instead of Of course this requires a full sweep to fix all cases in which we're not already doing things according to the proposal. Should be fairly easy, if annoying. A couple of examples are included here for demonstration purposes. The bigger impact is going to be on the build system. Right now we generally only define WITH_ macros if the check passed, but that will have to change and the result is going to be quite a bit of additional meson code I'm afraid. Thoughts? [1] https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/message/SKJ… Andrea Bolognani (4): configmake: Check for WIN32 correctly meson: Always define WITH_*_DECL macros syntax-check: Ensure WITH_ macros are used correctly meson: Enable -Wundef build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 5 +++++ configmake.h.in | 2 +- meson.build | 3 +++ tests/virmockstathelpers.c | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.43.2

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Re: [PATCH] Сheck snapshot disk is not NULL when searching it in the VM config
by Peter Krempa 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 14:48:47 +0000, Efim Shevrin via Devel wrote: > Hello, > > > If vmdisk is NULL, shouldn't this function (qemuSnapshotDeleteValidate()) return an error? > > I think this qemuSnapshotDeleteValidate should not return an error. > > It seems to me that when vmdisk is NULL, this does not invalidate > the snapshot itself, but indicates that the config has changed since > the snapshot was done. And if the VM config has changed, this adds evidence that the snapshot should be deleted, > because the snapshot does not reflect the real vm config. > > Since we do not have an analogue of the --force option for deleting a snapshot, in the case when qemuSnapshotDeleteValidate returns > an error when vmdisk is NULL, we will never delete a snapshot which has invalid disk. Snapshot deletion does have something that can be considered force and that is the '--metadata' option that removes just the snapshot definition (metadata) and doesn't touch the disk images. > > Similarly, disk can be NULL too > Thank you for the comment regarding the disk variable. I`ve reworked patch. > > When creating a snapshot of a VM with multiple hard disks, > the snapshot takes into account the presence of all disks > in the system. If, over time, one of the disks is deleted, > the snapshot will continue to store knowledge of the deleted disk. > This results in the fact that at the moment of deleting the snapshot, > at the validation stage, a disk from the snapshot will be searched which > is not in the VM configuration. As a result, vmdisk variable will > be equal to NULL. Dereferencing a null pointer at the time of calling > virStorageSourceIsSameLocation(vmdisk->src, disk->src) > will result in SIGSEGV. Crashing is obviously not okay ... > Also, the disk variable can also be equal to NULL and this > requires to check that disk != NULL before calling the > virStorageSourceIsSameLocation function to avoid SIGSEGV. .. but going ahead with the snapshot deletion isn't always okay either. The disk isn't referenced by the VM so the disk state can't be merged, while the state would be merged for any other disk. When reverting back to a previous snapshot, which is still referencing the older state of the disk which was removed from the VM, the VM would see that the image state of disks that were present at deletion would contain the merged state, but only a partial state for the disk which was later removed.

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[libvirt PATCH] qemu_snapshot: allow reverting to external disk only snapshot
by Pavel Hrdina 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

When snapshot is created with disk-only flag it is always external snapshot without memory state. Historically when there was not support to revert external snapshots this produced error message. error: Failed to revert snapshot s1 error: internal error: Invalid target domain state 'disk-snapshot'. Refusing snapshot reversion Now we can simply consider this as reverting to offline snapshot as the possible damage to file system is already done at the point of snapshot creation. Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21549 Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com> --- src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c b/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c index 0cac0c4146..7964f70553 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c @@ -2606,6 +2606,7 @@ qemuSnapshotRevert(virDomainObj *vm, case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_SHUTDOWN: case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_SHUTOFF: case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CRASHED: + case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_DISK_SNAPSHOT: ret = qemuSnapshotRevertInactive(vm, snapshot, snap, driver, cfg, &inactiveConfig, @@ -2617,8 +2618,6 @@ qemuSnapshotRevert(virDomainObj *vm, _("qemu doesn't support reversion of snapshot taken in PMSUSPENDED state")); goto endjob; - case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_DISK_SNAPSHOT: - /* Rejected earlier as an external snapshot */ case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_NOSTATE: case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_BLOCKED: case VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LAST: -- 2.43.0

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