similar to: [PATCH 2/4] launch: libvirt: free format string

If the user doesn't specify a format (ie. they want autodetection) then we must do the file format detection ourselves since libvirt disabled this and now doesn't work at all on qcow2 overlays that have no backing_fmt field set. --- src/launch-libvirt.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 07:42:20PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > This feature allows you to use different image formats for the fixed > appliance. The raw format is used by default. I wonder if you're stil using this feature? Unfortunately because of a recent change in libvirt it is no longer possible to have a backing file where libvirt will autodetect the format. See:

Make sure to free the backend string after using it. --- src/launch-libvirt.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/launch-libvirt.c b/src/launch-libvirt.c index 899742f..6f95e98 100644 --- a/src/launch-libvirt.c +++ b/src/launch-libvirt.c @@ -719,6 +719,8 @@ parse_capabilities (guestfs_h *g, const char *capabilities_xml, * appliance VM. */ if

Newer versions of qemu use file locking for the images by default, and apparently that does not work with /dev/null. Since this test just calls qemu-img to get the format of an empty image, create a temporary one instead. --- tests/regressions/test-big-heap.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tests/regressions/test-big-heap.c

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 01:44:17PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > Newer versions of qemu use file locking for the images by default, and > apparently that does not work with /dev/null. Since this test just > calls qemu-img to get the format of an empty image, create a temporary > one instead. ACK, but feels like this is a bug in qemu-img to me. Rich. >

In the guestfs_disk_create API we have traditionally allowed you to set backingfile without setting backingformat. The meaning of this is to let qemu autodetect the backing format when opening the overlay disk. However libvirt >= 6.0 refuses to even pass such disks to qemu (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798148). For this reason, move the autodetection earlier and make it

On Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:20:19 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > In the guestfs_disk_create API we have traditionally allowed you to > set backingfile without setting backingformat. The meaning of this is > to let qemu autodetect the backing format when opening the overlay > disk. > > However libvirt >= 6.0 refuses to even pass such disks to qemu (see >

Previously, is_custom_hv() used to compare the QEMU executable found during configure to the hypervisor set to check whether it is a custom one; however, the QEMU found at configure time can be different than what libvirt was configured with. This fixes the libvirt backend when libguestfs is configured with a different QEMU, that now will be specified as emulator overriding the libvirt one. ---

On Monday, 9 March 2020 11:40:46 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:07:20AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > On Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:20:19 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > In the guestfs_disk_create API we have traditionally allowed you to > > > set backingfile without setting backingformat. The meaning of this is > > > to let

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:07:20AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:20:19 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > In the guestfs_disk_create API we have traditionally allowed you to > > set backingfile without setting backingformat. The meaning of this is > > to let qemu autodetect the backing format when opening the overlay > > disk. > >

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:19:39AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 12:07:08PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > On Monday, 9 March 2020 11:40:46 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:07:20AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:20:19 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > In

The current diagnostic is terrible. This one tells the user how to diagnose and fix the problem. --- src/launch-libvirt.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/launch-libvirt.c b/src/launch-libvirt.c index 1c0bfac..d4c4c47 100644 --- a/src/launch-libvirt.c +++ b/src/launch-libvirt.c @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static int is_blk (const

We've been carrying this exact patch in RHEL 7 for several years. It reverts the change made in 2014 where we switched to using the virbr0 bridge for libguestfs networking instead of SLIRP. We thought SLIRP was going to become unsupported in qemu, but recently there have been more encouraging signs since it looks like SLIRP will be spun off as a separate project, running as a modular process

Implement the GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_SECRET argument of guestfs_add_drive_opts. For libvirt we have to save the secret in libvirtd first, get a UUID, and then pass the UUID back through the domain XML. --- src/launch-libvirt.c | 227 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 224 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/launch-libvirt.c b/src/launch-libvirt.c

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 12:07:08PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Monday, 9 March 2020 11:40:46 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:07:20AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > On Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:20:19 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > In the guestfs_disk_create API we have traditionally allowed you to > > > > set

This commit implements some hairy C macros to simplify XML generation. Given the target XML: <cpu mode="host-passthrough"> <model fallback="allow"/> </cpu> The old code would have looked like this: XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterStartElement (xo, BAD_CAST "cpu")); XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute (xo, BAD_CAST

Unlink the sockets in the shutdown callback, instead of right before creating a new ones. This makes sure we are unlinking the right sockets. --- src/launch-libvirt.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/launch-libvirt.c b/src/launch-libvirt.c index 185b44b..8a5d93e 100644 --- a/src/launch-libvirt.c +++ b/src/launch-libvirt.c @@ -397,7 +397,6 @@

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 04:12:35PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > This feature allows you to use different image formats for the fixed > appliance. The raw format is used by default. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> > --- > lib/create.c | 5 +++-- > lib/guestfs-internal.h | 2 ++ > lib/launch-direct.c | 2 ++ >

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 01:34:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > On Friday, 21 September 2018 11:53:52 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > +/** > > > + * Test if the qemu-img info command supports the C<-U> option to > > > + * disable locking. The result is memoized in the handle.

On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:50:07 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 01:34:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > On Friday, 21 September 2018 11:53:52 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > +/** > > > > + * Test if the qemu-img info command supports the