3:39 p.m.
Currently when we build with nbdkit support, libvirt will always try to
use nbdkit to access remote disk sources when it is available. But
without an up-to-date selinux policy allowing this, it will fail.
Because the required selinux policies are not yet widely available, we
have disabled nbdkit support on rpm builds for all distributions before
Fedora 40.
Unfortunately, this makes it more difficult to test nbdkit support.
After someone updates to the necessary selinux policies, they would also
need to rebuild libvirt to enable nbdkit support. By introducing a
configure option (storage_use_nbdkit), we can build packages with nbdkit
support but have it disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma(a)redhat.com>
---
Suggested as an option for making testing easier by Andrea Bolognani
libvirt.spec.in | 10 +---------
src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug | 3 +++
src/qemu/qemu.conf.in | 10 ++++++++++
src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
src/qemu/qemu_conf.h | 2 ++
src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 3 +++
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 15 +++++++++------
7 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index f50c451e73..e2ba245ade 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -174,16 +174,8 @@
%endif
%endif
-# We should only enable nbdkit support if the OS ships a SELinux policy that
-# allows libvirt to launch it. Right now that's not the case anywhere, but
-# things should be fine by the time Fedora 40 is released.
-#
-# TODO: add RHEL 9 once a minor release that contains the necessary SELinux
-# bits exists (we only support the most recent minor release)
%if %{with_qemu}
- %if 0%{?fedora} >= 40
- %define with_nbdkit 0%{!?_without_nbdkit:1}
- %endif
+ %define with_nbdkit 0%{!?_without_nbdkit:1}
%endif
%ifarch %{arches_dmidecode}
diff --git a/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug b/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
index ed097ea3d9..43485b43fb 100644
--- a/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
+++ b/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ module Libvirtd_qemu =
let capability_filters_entry = str_array_entry "capability_filters"
+ let storage_entry = bool_entry "storage_use_nbdkit"
+
(* Each entry in the config is one of the following ... *)
let entry = default_tls_entry
| vnc_entry
@@ -170,6 +172,7 @@ module Libvirtd_qemu =
| nbd_entry
| swtpm_entry
| capability_filters_entry
+ | storage_entry
| obsolete_entry
let comment = [ label "#comment" . del /#[ \t]*/ "# " . store
/([^ \t\n][^\n]*)?/ . del /\n/ "\n" ]
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in b/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in
index 6897e0f760..1017edefa5 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in
@@ -974,3 +974,13 @@
# "full" - both QEMU and its helper processes are placed into separate
# scheduling group
#sched_core = "none"
+
+# Using nbdkit to access remote disk sources
+#
+# If this is set then libvirt will use nbdkit to access remote disk sources
+# when available. nbdkit will export an NBD share to qemu rather than having
+# qemu attempt access the remote server directly.
+#
+# Possible values are 0 or 1. Disabled by default.
+#
+# storage_use_nbdkit = 1
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
index 513b5ebb1e..b5c0ca10b4 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,17 @@ virQEMUDriverConfigLoadCapsFiltersEntry(virQEMUDriverConfig *cfg,
}
+static int
+virQEMUDriverConfigLoadStorageEntry(virQEMUDriverConfig *cfg,
+ virConf *conf)
+{
+ if (virConfGetValueBool(conf, "storage_use_nbdkit",
&cfg->storageUseNbdkit) < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
int virQEMUDriverConfigLoadFile(virQEMUDriverConfig *cfg,
const char *filename,
bool privileged)
@@ -1136,6 +1147,9 @@ int virQEMUDriverConfigLoadFile(virQEMUDriverConfig *cfg,
if (virQEMUDriverConfigLoadCapsFiltersEntry(cfg, conf) < 0)
return -1;
+ if (virQEMUDriverConfigLoadStorageEntry(cfg, conf) < 0)
+ return -1;
+
return 0;
}
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
index 1a3ba3a0fb..36049b4bfa 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ struct _virQEMUDriverConfig {
char *deprecationBehavior;
+ bool storageUseNbdkit;
+
virQEMUSchedCore schedCore;
};
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
index ae19ce884b..f8dda6c898 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
@@ -10333,6 +10333,9 @@ qemuDomainPrepareStorageSourceNbdkit(virStorageSource *src,
{
g_autoptr(qemuNbdkitCaps) nbdkit = NULL;
+ if (!cfg->storageUseNbdkit)
+ return false;
+
if (virStorageSourceGetActualType(src) != VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_NETWORK)
return false;
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index 4fda68a4ce..3c64fcc7eb 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1115,7 +1115,6 @@ mymain(void)
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-cdrom-empty-network-invalid");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-cdrom-bus-other");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-cdrom-network");
- DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-cdrom-network-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-cdrom-tray");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-floppy");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-floppy-q35");
@@ -1161,8 +1160,6 @@ mymain(void)
DO_TEST_CAPS_VER("disk-network-sheepdog", "6.0.0");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-network-source-auth");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-network-source-curl");
- DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-source-curl-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
- DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-source-curl-nbdkit-backing",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-network-nfs");
driver.config->vxhsTLS = 1;
driver.config->nbdTLSx509secretUUID =
g_strdup("6fd3f62d-9fe7-4a4e-a869-7acd6376d8ea");
@@ -1173,13 +1170,10 @@ mymain(void)
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-network-tlsx509-nbd-hostname");
DO_TEST_CAPS_VER("disk-network-tlsx509-vxhs", "5.0.0");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-network-http");
- DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-http-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
VIR_FREE(driver.config->nbdTLSx509secretUUID);
VIR_FREE(driver.config->vxhsTLSx509secretUUID);
driver.config->vxhsTLS = 0;
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-network-ssh");
- DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-ssh-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_SSH);
- DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-ssh-password",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_SSH);
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-no-boot");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-nvme");
DO_TEST_CAPS_VER("disk-vhostuser-numa", "4.2.0");
@@ -1249,6 +1243,15 @@ mymain(void)
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-geometry");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-blockio");
+ driver.config->storageUseNbdkit = 1;
+ DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-cdrom-network-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
+ DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-source-curl-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
+ DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-source-curl-nbdkit-backing",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
+ DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-http-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_CURL);
+ DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-ssh-nbdkit",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_SSH);
+ DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_NBDKIT("disk-network-ssh-password",
QEMU_NBDKIT_CAPS_PLUGIN_SSH);
+ driver.config->storageUseNbdkit = 0;
+
DO_TEST_CAPS_VER("disk-virtio-scsi-reservations", "5.2.0");
DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("disk-virtio-scsi-reservations");
--
2.41.0