The Resize tab offered vCPU counts only up to the host's logical CPUs.
A VM whose maximum was higher (4 on a 2-CPU host, say) found no option
for it, so the Maximum list showed 1, and a resize of the shut-off VM
lowered its maximum to that without a word.
get_max_cpus() now takes the VM's own maximum as a floor, and the
Instance's vcpu_range passes it. The host's CPU count shown on the page
and used by the clone form is read from the host alone, not from that
range.
A checkbox marked a device as booting and also chose what Up and Down
moved, which moved every checked device at once: to move one device the
others had to be unchecked and checked again. The buttons sat apart
from the rows, and a VM booting by device type got a note that did not
say what to do.
Now the devices the VM tries are a numbered chain, each with its own
up, down and Remove, and the others are listed below it with Add; the
posted order is unchanged. Devices read by kind first (CD-ROM sda,
Disk vda) with their file or network below; a VM booting by device
type says so and how to choose an order. Autostart and the boot menu
sit below, lighter. Focus stays on the device that moved, and on a
narrow screen a device's buttons wrap below its name.
The Turkish catalog says "Ön yükleme" and "sanal makine" throughout,
also in the Power tab texts.
The tab put Power Off and Suspend, then Power Cycle and Force Off, in
joined button groups with a paragraph under each, so which sentence
told which button was left to the reader, and the two power cuts
looked like one control as large as the rest.
Now the tab shows the three states a VM moves between, Active,
Suspended and Off, the current one marked, and under each the action
that takes the VM there with one line on what it does. The power cuts
are small outlined buttons on a line of their own with one warning;
their confirmations stay. A state outside the three (shutting down,
crashed) is named above them. The test of the tab now finds the
outlined power-cut buttons, which its class match missed.
A quota refusal put the English name of the quota (cpu, memory, disk,
instance) into a translated sentence, so a Turkish page read "memory
kotası doldu". check_user_quota now returns which quota and its numbers
(QuotaExceeded), each quota has a whole sentence, and the refusals put
that sentence before what is refused; QUOTA_DEBUG adds the numbers as
before. The clone job stores the refusal as a message, so the Jobs page
shows it in its reader's language.
The connection errors of vrtManager (did not answer within, still
waited for, closed, failed with libvirt's text) were English f-strings;
they are messages now, each close reason a whole one. A connection
that died without a close callback raised an error reading "None"; it
now names the host. Logs keep the English text.
vrtManager's errors (some 140: a disk that does not move, a network
address outside its subnet, a host device given to another VM, the
disks a migration cannot copy) were English f-strings, so no catalog
could translate them, on pages or in jobs.
They are marked texts with their values now; a variant that differs by
a word (internal or external, running or persistent, with a subnet or
without) is a whole message of its own, and a list of problems is a
list of messages. OperationError reads in the active language, so the
pages that show one translate it as they are; its args stay English, and
so do the logs and the audit log. Host device problems and the Migrate
tab's reasons a disk is not copied are messages too.
The VM page's and the Settings page's views marked their messages with
gettext_noop, so every message they gave (a refused resize, a saved
setting, a QoS change, a busy VM) showed in English whatever the
language, though the catalogs translate them. They translate in the
request's language now; their module-level texts lazily. The Settings
page's group titles stay English in the view, as the page links them
by their slugs and translates them itself.
Two values went into translated messages as English codes: a job's
state ("... is running on this resource") and a QoS direction ("Remove
the inbound limit ..."). They are named as the pages name them.
A pool whose refresh failed, one busy with a volume copy for example,
was skipped without a word, so a hand-copied image stayed missing with
no reason given. The other pools are still refreshed; each failure is
shown with libvirt's error.
The API comment no longer says listing the ISO images refreshes pools.
The VM page refreshed every active storage pool to list the ISO images
for its CD-ROM drives. A pool holding large disk images took up to
seconds to refresh, most of the page's time, on every page load.
The page now lists the ISO images libvirt already knows. Images
uploaded through the panel are known at once. For an image copied to a
pool by hand, the Removable media section has a Refresh ISO list button
that refreshes the active pools and returns to the page.
A template's page was a VM's: it opened on Power, with only a note there
that a template is not started, while its clone form waited in a section
of Settings, next to a console, access, snapshots and stats that a VM
that never runs has no use for. A template's page now carries a Template
badge and a Clone button, opens on the clone form, and leaves out Power,
Access, Snapshot, Stats, the console settings, host devices and the
guest agent and address lines; Resize, Settings and Destroy stay for
whoever may change it. A page that no section opens shows its first.
A VM list showed what it read when it was loaded: a VM stopped from
inside its guest or with virsh, or made or removed elsewhere, showed only
after a reload, unlike the VM page, which reloads when its VM's state
changes. The lists of all VMs and of one host's VMs now poll the states
of their VMs, at once and then every 5 s as the VM page does, and reload
when an answer differs from the one before. The states come from one
libvirt call per host; a user who does not see hosts gets only their own
VMs. The page in use (a dialog, a field, an unsaved XML edit, a job
outcome shown) holds the reload until it is free; that check is shared
with the job panel.
A VM made without a TPM, a Windows 10 to be upgraded to Windows 11, had
no way to get one but the XML editor. The Options tab has a TPM 2.0
switch, as the RNG one: it adds an emulated TPM of the host's model to
the definition for the next start, or removes it. Its state stays on the
host until the VM is undefined, so a TPM added again has it back. A TPM
the switch did not make (passthrough, 1.2, encrypted, with its own state
path) is left to the XML editor, and a host without swtpm says so.
A running VM got its new CD-ROM on SCSI, the one bus the panel could plug
in then, and Windows does not see a virtio-scsi drive before the driver
on that ISO is installed. Add CD-ROM is now a dialog that chooses the bus
and the ISO: a running VM takes USB, first, which every guest sees and
which hot-plugs, or SCSI; a shut-off one SATA (IDE on pc), SCSI or USB.
libvirt has no empty USB drive, so a USB CD-ROM takes its ISO when it is
added and is detached instead of ejected, also while the VM runs.
A USB CD-ROM is a CD drive on QEMU's usb-bot only. Where QEMU has none
(RHEL 9), libvirt took usb-storage, which shows the guest a hard disk
that Windows does not read; the drive now asks for usb-bot, and such a
host refuses it with libvirt's message.
Windows 11 does not install without Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0, and the new
VM form offered neither: its firmware list was BIOS and one UEFI loader
guessed from file names, which on RHEL never matched the Secure Boot one.
The firmware choices are now BIOS, UEFI and UEFI Secure Boot, as the
host's libvirt reports them (its firmware features from libvirt 12.1,
before that its loaders), and libvirt picks the firmware itself: UEFI
without Secure Boot, or with Microsoft's keys enrolled. A TPM 2.0 switch,
shown when the host has swtpm, adds an emulated TPM. The create job
refuses a firmware or a TPM the host does not offer, and the API takes
both. The path-guessing helpers are gone.
An existing q35 VM whose PCIe root ports are all used takes no new
virtio disk or network device while it runs, and the only way to give
it more was editing its XML.
The Disks tab of a PCIe machine now counts its slots, "PCIe slots: 0
free of 7", in red when none is free, with what its next start will
have when that differs, and Add PCIe slots adds four root ports to its
persistent definition: libvirt numbers and places them, and a running
VM gets them at its next start. The no-slot advice of Add disk and Add
network device points at it.
On a q35 machine each PCIe device (a virtio disk, a network card) takes
a root port of its own, libvirt makes only as many ports as the VM is
defined with, and a running VM gets no new one: adding a virtio disk to
such a VM failed with libvirt's "No more available PCI slots".
A new q35 VM is now defined with the PCIe root and 14 root ports, as
virt-install makes them: libvirt puts the VM's devices into them and
leaves the rest free for devices added while it runs.
When a running VM has no free slot, Add disk and Add network device say
what to do instead of libvirt's words: for a disk, the scsi bus when
the VM has a SCSI controller (its disks need no slot of their own), or
adding it with the VM shut down, where libvirt makes the port; for a
network device, shutting the VM down. A new volume whose attach was
refused stays in its pool, as before, to attach as an existing volume.
The Edit dialog of a VM's network device selected the listed network
or interface whose name matched the device's source, and the first one
when none did: saving only a new model moved a macvtap device or a
bridge the host's lists did not show onto the first network, a bridge
named like a network became that network, and a macvtap device chosen
again lost its mode.
The dialog now offers the device's own source first, "<name>, as it
is", and posts nothing for it; the view passes no source and the
device's source element is left as it is. Choosing another source
changes it as before.
gstfsd, the root service on each compute that rewrites a shut-off VM's
/etc/shadow and authorized_keys, did what any client on its port asked.
Now it needs GSTFSD_KEY (64 hexadecimal characters, in the unit's
/etc/default/webvirt-gstfsd) and does not start without it. Each
connection gets a new challenge; the panel signs its request for it
with HMAC-SHA256 and gstfsd checks the signature before any change, so
a request recorded on one connection is refused on another. gstfsd
signs its reply for the same challenge and the panel's nonce, and the
panel accepts only that reply.
Each compute has a gstfsd key, the host's GSTFSD_KEY: the compute forms
and the API take it and never show it, and an empty value on an edit
keeps it. The bootstrap script makes the key file once, readable by
root only; the README shows how to make it and where the panel takes
it. The traffic is still not encrypted: a remote panel's port stays
open to the panel's address only.
The Migrate tab offered every other host alike, and its plan showed
neither a file of the same name in a destination pool nor the disks of
the VM's next start, which the job then refused. Now:
- When the tab opens, the hosts are checked first: one that cannot be
reached, or the VM's own host under another record (the same libvirt
host UUID), is shown with why and cannot be chosen, and the disks of
the first one left are checked. The job refuses the VM's own host
under another name too.
- A pool of the destination that has a file of a disk's name is shown
but cannot be chosen for it; a disk no pool can take refuses the form.
- The next start's file disks the migration does not carry are listed;
one not on storage both hosts share refuses the form, as the job does.
Destroying a VM with its disk files forced it off first and then
worked out which files to delete, so a check that failed left the VM
stopped, and only this host's VMs and volumes were checked: a file on
shared storage that a VM on another host uses was deleted.
The files are now worked out before the VM is stopped: the disks it
runs with and those of its next start, as before with their snapshot
files and seed. A file a VM or volume of another of the panel's hosts
uses at the same path (shared storage is mounted at one path on every
host, as migration needs) is kept like one used here; another record
of the VM's own host is skipped, as there the VM itself uses them. A
host that cannot be read stops the destruction with its name, before
anything is stopped or deleted.
A user's quota counted each VM's running vCPUs, memory and disks, so a
larger value set for the VM's next start was not counted, and a clone
counted only once its VM was recorded, so a user could queue clones
past the quota. Now:
- Each VM counts the larger of its running and its next-start values.
- A clone job counts as one VM with the source's persistent vCPUs,
memory and disk size, which its plan stores, from its admission until
its VM is recorded; a failed, cancelled or resolved job no longer
counts. The clone's VM and its owner are recorded in one transaction,
so the quota counts either the job or the VM, never neither.
- The quota reads each VM's definition once (cached_reads).
With one owner per VM, the VM page and a user's page counted the VM's
owners and then added one in separate steps, so two owners added at the
same moment both found the VM without one, and it got two. The check
and the insert now run in one transaction that holds the ownership lock
(PostgreSQL's advisory lock; SQLite's IMMEDIATE transactions already
serialize them): the second waits for the first and is refused. The
audit row is written after the transaction, so a failure keeps its row.
The Stats tab stacked one large card per chart, so a VM with a few
devices made a long page, and its "Real Time" and "Logs" sub-tabs were
shown to every user although only a superuser may read the logs. The
owner chose the layout from rendered options: a state line, CPU and
memory side by side, one chart per NIC and disk below, each with its
latest reading next to its title, and a small Graphs/Logs switch for
superusers.
Codex reviewed the tab; this is fixed:
- Memory is shown in MiB (it was labelled MB), and its axis grows to
the RSS when the RSS passes the balloon size instead of clipping it.
- The CPU reading says it is of the host's CPUs.
- A NIC is titled by its MAC, not an invented "eth0", and its readings
are matched to its chart by the MAC: they were matched by position, so
removing a NIC while the page was open moved the next one's readings
into its chart.
- A VM that is not running says nothing is measured.
- The logs load whenever the Logs view is shown, by keyboard too; an
empty answer says "None" and a failed one says so, instead of an
empty table. The tab shows the latest 50 rows, with a link to all of
the VM's rows on the Logs page.
- The VM's header shows memory in MiB; it said MB.
The Destroy tab was a sub-tab with one sentence and a link; its
confirmation page said only "This action is irreversible!" over a
"Remove Instance's data" switch. The tab now shows the state and
"Review destruction". The owner chose the confirmation layout from
three rendered options: the VM and its host, that its definition,
saved state and snapshot records go and that a running VM is forced
off, two plans for the files (delete the disk files, or keep them), the
VM's disks, what is always kept, the NVRAM choice, and Cancel.
Codex reviewed destroying; this is fixed:
- A disk file that cannot be deleted keeps the files below it, which
it needs: they were deleted after it, leaving it broken. The files
are deleted overlays first (split_disk_paths_by_use orders them by
how many files each grows from), and if the files a kept one needs
cannot be read, none of the rest goes. A message names each file
kept so, and a failed deletion says the VM is removed.
The Snapshots tab had three sub-tabs: internal, external and the
lists, with the two kinds side by side as equals. The owner set the
direction: external snapshots are the way; internal ones pause the VM
while its memory is saved and can take long, so they stay only as a
fallback for a VM that cannot take an external one.
The tab now has the external snapshot form on top, its name and
description on one line, with its memory and freeze options; the
internal snapshot under a folded "fallback" line with its warning; and
one list of all snapshots, newest first, each on one line with its
name, description, kind and date, and Revert and Delete.
Codex reviewed snapshots end to end; these are fixed:
- The pause and memory lines follow the VM's state and the kind.
- An internal snapshot is reverted to on a shut-off VM only, on the
server too; the tab alone held that rule.
- A paused VM's revert says it comes back paused, not that it starts.
- An external snapshot waits, with the reason, while snapshots newer
than the one reverted to exist; the server refused it unexplained.
- Deleting an external snapshot says its files are merged with the
disks; "into the next one" was wrong for the last one.
- The description has no 45-character limit only the browser kept.
- Freezing is not shown ticked where it cannot be offered, and
unticking memory gives back the earlier freeze choice.
- Internal create, revert and delete refuse a saved state or a running
disk job, as external ones do.
The Access tab hid the console, the root password, the SSH key and the
remote viewer behind four sub-tabs. The owner chose a compact layout
from three rendered options: the state, a strip with the console and
the remote viewer, then two rows for root's password and key, each
saying why it waits when it does.
Codex reviewed access end to end; these are fixed:
- console.vv carries the console password only for users with the
passwordless console permission, as the console page passes it; it
gave it to every user who may open the console.
- The root password field is a labelled password input, not plain text
with a 24-character limit.
- Without a saved public key the key row is disabled and points to the
profile, instead of offering "None".
- A paused VM's console opens, as the console view allows.
- The remote viewer address and console.vv show only for a VNC or SPICE
console that listens beyond the host's loopback; a viewer on the
user's computer cannot reach the others, and a serial console gave a
pty://…:None address.
The Power tab hid each action behind a sub-tab of one sentence and one
button. The owner found the first rendered layouts crowded and chose a
compact one: the VM's state, then the actions its state allows in two
groups, those that keep the guest's data and the red ones that cut the
power, each group with one short caption.
Codex reviewed the power actions; these are fixed:
- Power Cycle and Force Off ask first, naming the VM and what is lost,
as the VM lists already did.
- The words say what happens: Power Off asks the guest to shut down;
Power Cycle cuts the power and starts the VM again, with its pending
settings; Force Off cuts the power.
- The tab follows states.allowed_actions, as the lists do; a running
VM's actions now include Force Off there too.
- A running template is not offered Power Cycle, which would start it
again; a shut-off template says to clone it instead of showing a
Power On button that only looked disabled.
- A paused VM tells its owner that an administrator can resume it; it
said an administrator had blocked it.
- Power On's please-wait dialog opens on the form's submit, from the
keyboard too.
The Resize tab's CPU, Memory and Disk panes were horizontal forms with
bold host figures. The owner chose the ledger layout from three
rendered options: each section with its heading, the VM's figures and
the host's on the left, its fields on the right, and one line on what
applies now and what at the next start.
Codex reviewed resizing end to end; these are fixed:
- A vCPU turned on or off while the VM runs is kept at its next start:
libvirt was asked without flags, which changes the running VM only.
- A paused VM offers to turn vCPUs on only: turning one off needs the
guest, which does not run.
- A smaller disk size is refused, and so is the rest of the form,
before anything grows; it was skipped without a word.
- vCPUs and memory below 1 are refused.
- The memory fields are numbers filled with the VM's values: the
"Custom value" box, its script and the preset list are gone; an empty
custom field silently used the preset.
- Units and words: MiB, not MB; a disk's field is its new size, with
its size now above it; the messages say what the VM gets.
Settings > Users was a bold title, an unlabelled "+" and a table of
names with a trash icon. The owner chose this layout from three
rendered options: one list of owners, each with what it may do
(change settings, delete the VM, change console settings, or power and
console only), Edit rights and Remove, an empty state, and a labelled
"Add owner".
- Remove and Edit rights come back to the VM's Users tab: the return
address carried #users unencoded, so it was lost, and Edit rights
went to the user's account page. Both accounts views now go to a
?next page of this site.
- The add-owner list offers only users who are not owners yet and not
administrators, who can use every VM anyway; a superuser owner also
took the only place when a VM may have one owner.
- The unused del_owner view and URL are removed: the list uses the
accounts page, which asks before removing an owner.
XML:
- An XML edit not saved yet is kept: the page no longer reloads itself
when the VM's state changes, and the browser asks before leaving it.
A state change lost the edit.
- The button that opens the review dialog reads "Review changes"; it
did not save, as "Change" suggested. Closing the dialog gives focus
back to the editor.
Two settings the owner chose to add to Settings > Options after the
page's review with Codex. Both change the persistent definition, so
they are saved while the VM runs and used from its next start.
- Random number generator: a switch for a virtio RNG device fed from
the host's /dev/urandom, so a new VM does not wait for entropy at
boot. Another RNG device, or the panel's with a rate or driver, is
shown as the VM's own and left to the XML editor.
- When the guest crashes: Restart or Stop (on_crash restart or
destroy); libvirt's default, Stop, when the definition has none.
Stop keeps a VM that crashes again and again down for a look. Any
other action is shown and left to the XML editor.
Settings > Options was four forms under bold sentences, most of them
disabled while the VM ran. The owner chose this layout from three
rendered options: one list, each row a setting with its description on
the left and its control on the right: VM details (title, description),
Template, primary video model, QEMU guest agent. vCPU hot plug moved to
Resize > CPU, next to the vCPU counts.
Codex reviewed the four forms; these are fixed:
- Title, description and the video model are saved while the VM runs:
they are in the persistent definition, used at the next start.
- The template flag has its own form and view, set_template, for
superusers and staff, and only for a shut-off VM: a running VM made a
template left the quota while it kept running. Turning a template
back into a VM checks the quota there, and each change is audited.
The title form no longer touches the flag.
- A new video model stays the primary one; the old model's memory and
head settings, which are its own, go with it.
- The agent and vCPU hot plug forms show the persistent definition; they
showed the running VM's, so a pending change looked undone.
- Enabling the guest agent adds its channel only where it is missing:
saving Enabled again failed, and a channel pending the next start kept
a running VM from getting one.
- The agent line tells a VM that is not running, one without a channel,
and a connected or not connected agent apart.
Settings > Migrate was a horizontal form of six switches without
explanations. The owner chose this layout from three rendered options:
the route on top as "From" (the source host) and "To" (the
destination select) side by side, a "Storage" card with
where each disk goes, a "Transfer settings" card with the switches in
two columns, each with a line saying what it does, and a footer.
Codex reviewed migration end to end; these are fixed:
- No Offline switch: the mode follows the VM's state, and one line says
which. A shut-off VM moved offline whether the switch was on or off.
- Live migration shows for a running or paused VM; Auto converge,
Compressed and Unsafe only for a running VM, the only state the
migration applies them to. Unsafe was offered for a paused or shut-off
VM and ignored.
- Unsafe says it skips libvirt's safety checks; Delete source files
says it deletes only the files of copied disks.
- A VM that cannot migrate anywhere (no other host, a state that does
not migrate, snapshots, host devices) gets the reason and a disabled
button instead of the disk plan and the switches; it learned that
after submitting.
- Migrate stays disabled while the destination did not answer or a disk
cannot go there; it was enabled after any plan.
Settings > Console was one horizontal form, and on a running VM its
Update button was disabled. The owner chose this layout from three
rendered options: the console type on top, then a "VNC connection" card
(listen address, keymap) and a "VNC password" card.
- The password is changed by an action: keep it, generate a new one,
set a new one or remove it. This replaces the Generate and Clear
boxes and their precedence, and an emptied field no longer removes
the password silently. The pane says whether a password is set; the
form no longer carries the password itself.
- A VNC password takes at most 8 bytes: libvirt refuses a longer one
("VNC password is 9 characters long, only 8 permitted"). Generate and
a new VM's random password now make 8 characters; they made 12, which
libvirt 11 refuses. A set password keeps its spaces.
- Every check is in the form, so a refused save changes nothing; before,
a refused password removal still saved the other settings.
- The settings can be saved while the VM runs: they are in the
persistent definition. A line says the running console keeps its
settings until the VM is shut down and started.
- The console type shown and compared is the persistent one; it was the
running VM's, so a pending switch to Serial showed VNC and a later
save could switch again.
- While the saved type is Serial, the VNC settings are not shown or
taken; choosing Serial ignores the posted VNC settings.
The Boot pane shows Autostart and the boot menu as switches that save on
change, and the boot order as one list of the VM's disks, CD-ROM drives
and NICs: the devices in the order first, checked and numbered, the
others below. Up and Down move the checked devices; Apply order saves.
- The boot menu can be changed while the VM runs: it is in the
persistent definition, so it applies at the next start, as the boot
order does.
- The boot order editor no longer needs the boot menu enabled.
- A VM that boots by device type (<os><boot dev='hd'/>) names those
types; checking devices replaces that order.
- An order is refused while a device the list does not show (a host
device, a floppy) has a boot place, so Apply does not drop it; the
message points to the XML editor.
- An empty order is refused with a message instead of being ignored.
- get_bootorder gives a NIC's full MAC as its target.
- The unused jQuery multiselect plugin is removed.
Settings > Disk was a bold title with an unlabelled "+", a CD-ROM row
in an input group, and a table whose actions were four alike icons.
The owner chose this layout from three rendered options:
- Removable media: each CD-ROM drive a card with its device, bus and
image, the ISO select and Mount (or Unmount), and Detach; "Add
CD-ROM" by the heading.
- Disks: a card each; one disk spans the row, two or more sit side by
side from md, and the device details are capped at 32rem so values
stay near their labels. The capacity large,
the used size, the pool and the source path, the device's settings
under "Device details" (they were in a popover), and labelled Edit,
Move, Detach and Delete (danger) in its footer; "Add disk" by the
heading.
- While the VM runs, "Add CD-ROM" adds the drive on the SCSI bus, and
a SCSI drive can be detached: IDE and SATA drives cannot be plugged
into or out of a running VM, SCSI ones can. Adding a drive was
disabled while the VM ran. One line says so, and why detaching other
drives and detaching or deleting disks waits for a shutdown, instead
of each button alone being greyed.
The forms, their fields and actions are unchanged. The edit dialog of each
disk is titled with its device, and its fields' ids carry the disk's
number: the dialogs of two disks had the same ids, and the title was not
the dialog's label.
The top of a VM's page was one line of values between pipes, an icon for
the guest agent and a hidden snapshot count, then a row of big action
icons; the host links sat in a bar fixed to the bottom of the window,
over the content.
One card now holds it all (design chosen by the owner from four):
- the name with the state badge, the title under it, and where the VM
is: its host and the host's VM list for administrators, the VM list
for owners;
- OS details (with a connected guest agent) and Refresh;
- the guest agent's state in words and the snapshot count;
- CPU, memory, each disk with its device name and size, and the IPv4
addresses, labelled;
- the page's sections as small labelled pills in the card's footer: one
row from 992 px, wrapping below.
The page has no other heading: base.html's heading area is a block it
leaves out.
Each section below it (Power, Access, Resize, Snapshot, Settings, Stats,
Destroy) is a card of the same kind, so the page reads as one design
(owner's choice of two): its sub-tabs as a small underlined nav in the
card's header, its panes in the card's body without their own borders.
Buttons are of normal size in the theme's primary colour, and those that
cannot be undone (Power Cycle, Force Off, Destroy) in the danger colour.
The Stats charts lose their coloured borders. instance_tabs.js finds the
Settings tabs by their tablist role.
The bottom bar and its setting (VIEW_INSTANCE_DETAIL_BOTTOM_BAR) are
removed, and with it the CSS that kept the old Settings tabs on one line.
Queuing a long operation put "... is being ...; follow it in the job
panel." above the page, while the job panel on the same page showed the
job and its progress. Every such form returns to a page with the job
panel for the job's resource (the VM, the compute's VM list, the pool),
and the panel shows a job even when it ends before its first poll. The
eight messages are removed: migrate, clone, create, volume clone and the
snapshot create, revert and delete jobs. Refusals stay messages.
The Disks tab has a Move button for each disk: it opens a dialog to
choose another storage pool of the same host, and the move runs as a job.
- Running or paused VM: libvirt copies the disk with a block job
(TRANSIENT_JOB, as the VM is persistent) into a file it creates in the
pool, then pivots. The pivot names the copy in both the running and
the next start's definition.
- Shut-off VM: the volume is copied into the pool and the copy named in
the definition.
The source file goes then, unless a VM or volume of any compute uses it
(shared storage holds it for every host that mounts it), a compute
cannot be read, or the delete fails: the job lists such a file under
"Left behind", and the move stands.
A disk moves when:
- the VM is defined and running, paused or shut off, without snapshots,
a saved state or a block job;
- the disk is a writable, unshared, unencrypted raw or qcow2 file of a
storage pool, without a backing file, and the same file in both
definitions;
- the pool keeps disk files, is another directory, and has no file of
that name (libvirt would write into it).
Otherwise it is refused with the reason before anything changes.
The job claims the VM and the file's name in both pools. A cancel aborts
the block copy, and ends the job cancelled once the VM is back on its
file. A failed move deletes the copy it made, unless a definition names
it (a lost reply after the pivot); a file there before the copy began is
never deleted. Recovery after a stopped worker
ends a copy left mirroring, matched by its destination, and reads the
outcome from the definitions.
Superusers only, like the other disk edits.
A migration needed every disk on storage both hosts share: it was refused
when the destination lacked a disk file, and a file of the same name
there was taken for the VM's own disk.
The Migrate tab now lists the VM's disk files for the chosen destination.
For each disk it offers the destination's pools that keep disk files
(directory, filesystem and NFS pools). A disk on storage both hosts share
can also stay where it is.
A directory counts as shared when both hosts have it as a storage pool
and a marker file created on the source exists on the destination. A
directory the probe cannot tell is never taken as shared.
libvirt copies the chosen disks during the migration: migrate3 with
NON_SHARED_DISK for those targets, and destination and persistent
definitions naming the new paths, where libvirt creates the files.
- A shut-off VM is started paused for the copy and shut off on the
destination; its CPUs never run. Its UEFI variables are copied first,
as the destination would start from the firmware's template. If the
migration fails, the VM is shut off on the source again.
- Refused before anything changes, each disk with its reason:
- a disk neither shared nor given a pool, also one only the next
start's definition has;
- CD-ROM images, read-only or encrypted disks, formats other than raw
and qcow2, and disks with a backing file;
- a pool that is not of disk files, or that has a file of that name,
which libvirt would reuse and overwrite;
- two disks copied to one file.
- The job claims each copy's name in its pool, and the source volume.
- A failed or cancelled migration deletes the copies libvirt made, and
the UEFI variables copy, unless a VM on the destination has them.
- The source files stay and are named in the log. With "Delete the
source files of copied disks" they go, except one another VM or volume
uses; a failed delete is logged and the migration stands.
The NVRAM sharing check uses the same probe: a shut-off move stops when
it cannot be told, and the source file stays.
The API's migrate call takes disk_pools ({target: pool}) and
delete_source.
- A running VM gets a PCI device of its host at once and for its next
start, in one libvirt call; a hot plug libvirt could not keep for the
next start says that the device is in the running VM only. A q35 VM
without a free pcie-root-port gets libvirt's error and where a slot
comes from.
- A PCI device is taken from the running VM and from its next start, each
as it has it; a refusal by the guest stops there. When the guest has
not let the device go within libvirt's wait, the page says the removal
is requested and the Logs row records the request: the device stays in
the running VM until the guest lets it go or the VM stops.
- A paused VM, or one with a saved state, does not change its PCI devices.
- A device for a running VM is checked alone too, as libvirt takes only
the hot-plugged device from its host driver.
- The Host devices tab gives a shut-off VM a PCI device of its host and
takes it back; libvirt binds the device to vfio-pci when the VM starts
and gives it back when it stops (managed). The VM's PCI devices are
listed with whether the running VM and its next start have them.
- A device is offered, and accepted on the server under the compute's
claim, only when it is no bridge of any kind (bridge header, PCIe port,
or of the bridge class: host bridge, LPC), the host has none of its own
network interfaces, disks or graphics card on it (else: bind it to
vfio-pci on the host first), no other VM names it, and every other
endpoint of its IOMMU group is the VM's too or has no driver or
vfio-pci and no other VM; bridges in the group stay with pcieport, and
a member that cannot be read keeps the group. Nothing in the group is
taken implicitly.
- A snapshot revert checks the PCI devices of the snapshot with the same
rules; migration and clones already leave host devices out.
- The add forms of the tab load together, when the tab opens.
- A Host devices tab on the VM page lists the VM's USB host devices, each
once: how it is chosen (its address, or any device of its model), the
device the running VM holds and whether its next start has it; its other
host devices (PCI, SCSI, mediated) are listed for the XML editor.
- Superusers add a USB device of the host and take it back, on a running
VM too. The add form is loaded when the tab opens, as its choices read
every VM of the host; a hub, a device the host has its own disks or
network interfaces on, or one another VM names is not offered, with the
reason, and refused on the server under the compute's claim. A device is
chosen by model when the host has one of it, else by its address.
- A VM without a USB controller is refused; a device is taken from each
definition as that definition describes it.
- A clone gets none of the VM's host devices (the clone form says so), and
a VM with host devices is not migrated. A snapshot revert is refused when
it would give the VM a device another VM names or the host uses.
- A NIC that is a host device is no longer edited or removed from the
Network tab: the XML editor changes it.
- A named CPU model is written without check='none' and with
fallback='forbid': libvirt checks before the start that the host runs
it, and it is not swapped for another model.
- Mode maximum is written as that mode; it was written as a model named
maximum.
- Model names up to 64 characters: the -noTSX and -IBRS models, the ones a
mixed set of hosts needs, were refused at 20.
- The mode or model is checked against the host's capabilities when the VM
is defined, from the page and the API alike; no CPU element (QEMU's
oldest default CPU) is no longer offered.
- The default CPU mode setting offers the modes the new VM dialog has;
no-model and custom, which matched none of them, become host-model.
- The search read a row's whole text, so a word on a button or in a
state label matched every row. VM rows now carry data-search (the
name, title and owners, and the host in the flat list), and
table_filter.js searches that text when a row has it; the state has
its own filter.
- Nothing matching left an empty table. table_filter.js shows the
page's #no-match while no row does; the VM list's says so and offers
"Clear the filters". A user with no VMs at all is told so instead of
an empty table.
- The grouped list's "#" toggled each host on its own: a host
collapsed by hand opened while the others closed. It now collapses
every host, or opens them all once all are collapsed.
- One alert names every host the panel cannot reach, with why, in
place of one dismissible alert per host; users who see no hosts keep
their own message.
- A host's VM list showed a VM's maximum memory, the Instances page
its current memory: both show the current memory now.
- The owners' users are prefetched with the VMs; the flat list's
Bootstrap 4 font-italic is fst-italic.
The Instances page (grouped and not) and a host's Instances page read
the VMs without an order, so they showed in whatever order the database
returned them: insertion order on SQLite, any order on PostgreSQL,
where it changed between page loads and made a state test fail at
random in CI. They are now ordered by name.
- The VM's console settings have no "Clear keymap" box: it wrote an empty
keymap attribute into the VM, and choosing Auto already removes the
keymap; that change is logged as "remove console keymap".
- The "Clip viewport" switch was labelled "View Clipboard".
- The full console page no longer fills the password field with "None"
for a VM without a console password.
- A VM delete reads delete_disk and delete_nvram as booleans from a JSON
or form body. The view read them as HTML checkboxes from the form body
only: JSON {"delete_disk": true} kept the disks while reporting success,
and a form "delete_disk=false" deleted them. Refused options stop
nothing; the API schema names both options.
- Power on and power cycle of a template answer 409 instead of reporting a
start that did not happen.
- The VM details leave out the host's ISO images for non-superusers, as
the VM page does; reading them also refreshed every pool of the host.
- Flavors take values of at least 1, as the web form does, and show their
id for later changes; a migration needs neither live nor offline; a VM
create on an unknown compute answers 404 instead of 500.
A boot device moved up or down was rebuilt without its click handler, so
unticking it afterwards left it in the boot order that was applied; the
moved label now keeps its checkbox. An empty root password did nothing
and said nothing; it is refused with a message. Changing a NIC of a
shut-off VM gave no confirmation; it now says the device changed.
The resource pattern was not anchored and took any letters after the VM's
name, so VM "web" also counted "webserver" and "myweb"; a VM with no
resource of its own got "Secondary/OK", stored on every page view. A
VM's resources are now its name or name_SUFFIX at the start of a line,
and a VM without one is "None DRBD".
The saved console form had no initial values, so every posted field
counted as changed: saving only a password also logged the keymap and the
listen address again, each time. A listen address the form does not list
(set in the XML editor) was not a choice, so the select showed localhost
and a save moved the console there. The form now takes its initial values
from the VM, on the page and on the save, and offers the VM's own address.
Only administrators suspend and resume, and the page tells an owner of a
paused VM "Administrator blocked your instance", but the power views let
the owner force it off or cycle it, on the page and the API, and start it
again: the block ended. The power permission now refuses a paused VM to
everyone but administrators.
