A job stored its error and its result's warning as English text, much
of it built with the values in it (volume paths, a disk, libvirt's
error), so no catalog could translate it, and the job pages and panel
showed English whatever the language.
A job now stores them as messages: our English text, marked for
translation, and its values; libvirt's own text is a message without
values and is shown as it is. The jobs API and pages put them in the
reader's language. OperationError keeps its text and values apart for
the same reason, so a refusal raised while a job is submitted is shown
translated too. Messages one after another still read as sentences.
Errors stored before are kept as one message each, shown as they were.
With threaded workers a request waiting on a stuck host holds one
thread, but each new request to that host (a VM list's poll every 5 s,
an F5) held another until the threads ran out.
In a process at most two web requests now use one host at a time,
counted by its name whatever the login. Another waits up to the connect
timeout (5 s) for one of them to end, and is then refused as the host
not answering: VM lists show the host as not reachable, pages show the
connection error. A request counts on the host it connected to last,
until it ends, so one that reads several hosts in turn holds none it
has left. Threads outside a request (the job worker's, the consoles')
are not counted: a job holds its host for as long as it runs.
Two disks of a VM with the same file name in different directories
were both offered the same destination pool by default. The form was
sent, and the migration job refused it only then: both copies would
be one file.
The plan now gives each such disk, by default, a pool no earlier disk
of that name is copied into, and says under its choice that another
disk has the file name. A choice that still puts them in one pool is
refused by the job, as before.
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 libvirtError made in a test takes the message of the thread's last real
libvirt error: in a live run, after another test's closed connection,
"no marker" read "client socket is closed" and the test failed. It now
checks that the move raised that very error, as the test after it does.
The Migrate tab shows a running VM's live migration switch, on by
default. A VM shut down after the tab opened, as one is to move it shut
off, was then refused: "A shut-off VM cannot be migrated live". A
shut-off VM now moves offline whatever the request says about live, as
the tab tells for a shut-off VM; the tuning options are for a running VM
only, as before. An offline request for a running or paused VM is still
refused.
A shut-off VM with TPM state, as every Windows 11 VM, was refused for
migration: the state is a file of the source host, and an offline move
would start it there with a new TPM. Such a VM now migrates as a shut-off
VM with disks to copy does: its UEFI variables are copied, it is started
paused, its CPUs never run, migrates live, which carries the TPM state,
and is shut off on the destination. A shut-off VM with a saved state is
refused before any of that, for every way it moves: started paused, it
would resume and then lose the saved memory.
The clone tab says that a clone gets a new, empty TPM, and the destroy
page that the TPM state goes with the VM.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 > Clone was a horizontal form with unlabelled checkboxes. The
owner chose this layout from three rendered options: the clone's name
on top, a "Network" card with a new MAC address per NIC, a "Storage"
card with a new volume name per disk, then the optional title and
description and a footer with Clone.
Codex reviewed cloning end to end; these are fixed:
- Every NIC of the clone gets a new random MAC when the form opens.
Only the first did, so a VM with two NICs gave its clone the second
NIC's MAC. Guess MAC is offered for the first NIC only: a name's DHCP
host entry holds one address.
- A VM without a NIC can be cloned: the first NIC's MAC was required.
- The disk name script uses the persistent disks, as the form does; a
disk added pending the next start kept the source's volume name.
- A running or paused VM is not cloned while a copied disk changes at
the next start: the backup copies the running disk, so the clone
would get the old contents under the new definition.
- A derived volume name that does not start with the source's name now
starts with the clone's name and the disk's device, so a second clone
or a second disk does not take the same name.
- Guess for the clone name says when the DHCP file has no free name; it
stopped with a script error.
- The qcow2 metadata preallocation box shows only for a shut-off VM: a
live clone's backup ignores it.
Other users no longer get hidden MAC and disk inputs or the scripts that
filled them: the server derives those values and ignored the posted ones.
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 > Network was a table whose fields were read-only inputs cut
off at phone width, an unlabelled "+", three icon buttons per NIC and
a separate QoS table keyed by MAC. The owner chose card layout from
three rendered options, with the QoS limits folding out like the
device details:
- A card per NIC: a VM's only NIC spans the row, two or more sit side
by side from md. Each has its name and target, the link state as a
switch, its source and IPv4 addresses, and "Device details"
(type, MAC, model, NWFilter, IPv6) in a <details>.
- "QoS limits" in a second <details>, its summary naming the limited
directions: a form per inbound or outbound limit, with Save and
Delete limit, and the units.
- Labelled Edit, Add QoS and Delete in the card footer; "Add network
device" by the heading. The edit and add-QoS dialogs are titled and
labelled, and the edit dialog's fields have labels.
The limits come from each NIC of the persistent definition, so the QoS
table, Instance.config_qos and wvmInstance.get_all_qos are removed.
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.
Plan reviewed with Codex; libvirt's behaviour checked on a host.
- A filter is not deleted while a VM's interface references it, as the
VM runs or as saved for its next boot (a stopped VM too), or while
another filter references it: libvirt refuses only one a running VM
uses, and a VM using a filter that references a deleted one does not
start. The VMs are read from one listing, one or two XML reads each,
instead of a connection per VM; the refusal names them.
- Create refuses a name or UUID the host has, clone a name in use or
one outside the panel's names, and editing the XML must keep the
filter's name and UUID: each would replace another filter or make a
copy. Entered XML is read for these checks without expanding entities
or taking a DTD (util.parse_xml, shared with the network editor),
and a rule is one <rule> element.
- A rule or reference is deleted only while it reads as the page showed
it, not by index and three attributes: a rule alike in those or a
filter changed meanwhile loses nothing.
- A reference is added only to another filter of the host not
referenced yet; the picker offers those.
- References keep their parameters, in order (a name may repeat); a
rule shows every protocol element it has, a rule without one too.
- One change a POST (two would both start from the page's reading,
the second undoing the first); every change redirects and reports its
refusal as a message, a POST for a filter gone meanwhile going to the
list; the catch-all that showed any error goes, and so does
wvmInstance.get_filterrefs, which only the old delete check used. The list reads each filter's
XML once from one listing; a filter's page reads its XML once and
only the other filters' names; the per-filter XML dialog of the list
goes (a filter's page shows its XML). The XML editors send their text
untouched too.
Plan reviewed with Codex; tried on a udev host (AlmaLinux 10) and a
netcf one (AlmaLinux 8).
- Changes are one change of the host's configuration (libvirt's
interface change transaction): a bridge that does not start used to
be undefined, leaving its member without the addresses and start
mode the bridge took from it; now the whole change rolls back, the
member's own configuration too, and so does a commit libvirt refuses.
A rollback that fails too is reported with the failure, saying the
host's configuration may be changed.
Deleting a bridge, which defines its
members again on their own, is one change as well.
- A running interface is not deleted: the page hid Delete, but a post
deleted it. A bridge with addresses and several members is refused
(which member takes the addresses is the user's choice); the
confirmation says that its members are defined again.
- A bridge takes only a device in no bridge, bond or VLAN as the host
has them configured, at any depth (a bridge's bond's devices), not
the loopback, a libvirt network's bridge or a VM's tap; an ethernet
interface configures only such a device too.
- Whether the host can change interfaces: unsupported or refused by
its access rules is a no, bad XML a yes, anything else (the
connection, the login) is raised instead of taken for a yes. A page
whose host could not be read offers no actions.
- Reads: the list reads each interface's XML once from one listing
(listAllInterfaces: every state, not the active and the defined ones
apart); a page reads the running and the saved definition once each
(cached_property). netcf writes a link speed of -1 for a card that
has none (a virtio one) and then refuses its own XML: the saved one
is read instead, where virsh and the page failed. Name and MAC come
from libvirt's object, without a call. Each family says how it is
addressed (DHCP, autoconf, static or none) and every address, its
prefix where it has one; no
address is not "DHCP" any more. A bridge's members carry their link
state and speed; an unknown speed (0, -1, 4294967295) is none.
- The interface API lists from the same reader. get_details,
get_bridge, get_bridge_slave_ifaces and the per-family getters go.
Reviewed with Codex against libvirt's network format and driver.
- Addresses: wvmNetwork found a network's <ip> by its text, so one
written as <ip .../> or <ip><dhcp>... without whitespace had none,
and a second address of a family overwrote the first. ip_networks
reads every <ip> in order, its index being libvirt's parentIndex:
family (ipv4 when written), address, subnet, DHCP (a <dhcp>, also
with fixed addresses only), first range and fixed addresses. The
parentIndex was guessed from the number of families, wrong when IPv6
comes first; changes now name the address by its index.
- One read: the page read the network's XML once per getter, ten or
more round trips; it reads it once (a cached_property of the
request's wvmNetwork). A change starts from the saved definition
read anew (VIR_NETWORK_XML_INACTIVE), not the running one: two QoS
changes on a running network no longer undo the first. The XML
editor shows and changes the saved definition, and defines this
network only (its name, and its UUID if given), read for that with
no entity expanded and handed to libvirt as written; an XML declaring
its encoding is taken. The actions go back to the network's page by
its own URL.
- Fixed addresses are found by the address they had (a hidden field),
not by the editable box: changing it and pressing Delete deleted
another entry or none. A change deletes the entry and adds it anew
from a copy, keeping what the page does not show (a client id, a
lease), and puts it back if the add fails: libvirt's own change
finds an entry by any of its MAC, address or name, so it could
replace another entry, and never by an IPv6 DUID. The address must
be of the subnet, not the host's, and neither it, the MAC or DUID
nor the name another entry's; an entry gone meanwhile is refused,
not added anew; an unchanged one writes no audit row. They can be
added while the network is stopped; a running network saved with
other addresses than it runs with is not changed live, as
parentIndex would name another <ip> of it.
- An address without a netmask or prefix takes libvirt's (IPv4 its
class's, IPv6 /64), for its checks and the overlap check.
- The DHCP range must be in the subnet, in order and not take in the
host's address.
- The create form takes a known mode only ("bogus" made an isolated
network, a missing one a server error); NAT and routed networks need
an IPv4 subnet, an isolated one may have none, a bridge or macvtap
network needs its bridge or interface and gets no addresses; IPv6
only with its box (whose value was "false", so never); no name or
subnet of another network of the host. "Fixed Addresses" at create
goes: it made a random-MAC entry for every address of the range,
for no real VM.
- Refusals of a fixed address, the DHCP range, the XML and a QoS
removal are messages, not server errors.
- The IPv6 forwarding of a bridge or macvtap network is the outside
network's, not ROUTE.
- get_networks_info reads each network's XML once and gives its
autostart and addresses too. Unused can_pxe, DHCP lease helpers,
get_uuid and the per-family range and host getters go.
wvmStorage.update_volumes looked each volume up by name three times,
read its info twice and its XML once: six round trips per volume to
the host. It now lists the pool's volumes as objects (listAllVolumes)
and reads each one's XML only (volume_details): name, capacity,
allocation and format are all in it, and libvirt refreshes a volume
for its XML as it does for info(). A pool of N volumes takes 2 + N
calls instead of 2 + 6N; 100 volumes over SSH on a test host read in
about 110 ms instead of 720 ms, with the same values.
- A volume deleted between the listing and its read is left out; any
other error is raised. Volumes come sorted by name.
- get_volume_details (the API's one volume) reads it the same way.
- Only a refused refresh (a clone running in the pool) is tolerated,
not any exception.
- The pool page reads its volumes and space only to render itself;
its actions, which all redirect, no longer read every volume first.
- get_volume_size and get_volume_allocation go: nothing else used them.
- The pool list is a card per pool, two to a row, as the host
Overview's Hardware and Software cards: its name with Active or
Stopped and Autostart badges in the header, then its type, its path
(an RBD pool's Ceph pool), its volume count and its space as the
Overview shows it (computes/pool_bar.html, without the name again);
a stopped pool's space is unavailable, not zero.
wvmStorages.get_storages_info gives the path, autostart and percent
used, which computes.views.host_pools computed for itself.
- A pool's page has a Space card (percent, used of size, of what: the
filesystem of its path, its volume group or the Ceph cluster, which
other pools may share; free) and a Pool card (state, autostart,
type, path) instead of a two-column list mixing facts and forms.
Start or Stop is its heading's button; autostart and deleting a
stopped pool are in its menu; the confirmations stay.
- The volume table drops the row number; a volume's capacity and what
it has allocated share a column hidden on a phone; its format is a
badge; its actions are one group, Clone and a menu with Delete,
named for the volume.
- "New pool", "New volume" and "Upload ISO" are labelled buttons
instead of bare green pluses; their dialogs' titles name them.
- The New pool dialog is one form (design reviewed with Codex): the
pool's type as radio cards, as the VM create page chooses its disk
source (their style moves to webvirtcloud.css), one name, and only
the chosen type's fields, the others hidden and disabled.
- A directory's or a share's mount path follows the name
(/var/lib/libvirt/<name>) until it is edited: no default path of
another pool any more.
- ISO images is a directory preset named iso; when the host has an
iso pool, a card links to it instead.
- Ceph offers the host's Ceph secrets by their names, not every
secret by UUID; without one it says so and links the Secrets page.
- LVM asks to agree that the device is erased, the server too.
- AddStgPool checks each type's fields, a name or a path another
pool has, an RBD secret that is not one of the host's Ceph secrets,
and the names "." and "..". A refused pool, or one libvirt refuses,
opens the dialog again with what was entered, the reasons beside
the fields and focus on the first; the audit row for a taken name
stays.
libvirt measures a pool's size and free space only when the pool is
refreshed and keeps those figures until the next refresh. The pool
lists read them without a refresh, so they showed a pool's space as of
whenever libvirt last refreshed it: two hosts sharing one pool's
storage told different free space for it, each its own refresh's. On a
test host, a 1 GiB file left libvirt's free space unchanged while df
showed 1 GiB less, until the pool was refreshed.
get_storages_info refreshes each active pool before reading it; a
refresh libvirt refuses (while a volume is cloned in the pool) leaves
the last figures, as the pool pages already do. A refresh scans the
pool's volumes, so pools are read only where one host's are shown: a
host's overview (views.host_pools, its Storage card) and its Storages
page and API. The Computes list and the new-VM dialog's host lines,
which read every host at once, no longer show pools; Compute.capacity
is the vCPUs and memory given.
A host the panel could not reach made its overview the 500 page,
without the host's sections, and the Computes list gave such a host an
Overview button that led nowhere. The page now keeps the host's name,
sections, "Edit connection" and "Remove from panel" (the existing
confirmation), and says "Not connected" with the reason and a "Try
again". Details that cannot be read are said in an alert; the VMs,
capacity and load still show, as they are read on their own.
A reachable host's page leads with what it runs and what it gave:
- its VMs by state (running, shut off, paused, other), linked to
Instances;
- the vCPUs, memory and storage pools given, as on the Computes list,
which now shares those parts (computes/capacity_*.html) and their
preparation (views.shown_capacity) with it;
- CPU and memory in use, side by side, with the current reading in
words, a note on what the charts hold and when they were last
updated, or since when not; memory in GB like the rest of the page;
- Hardware and Software and connection: logical CPUs and clock from
virNodeGetInfo, but physical cores, sockets and NUMA nodes counted
from the CPUs of the capabilities' NUMA cells, as virNodeGetInfo
makes a topology up for hosts it cannot describe (asymmetric NUMA);
the hypervisor's own name and version, libvirt, emulator, the guest
architectures as text instead of menus of dead links. A host without
sysinfo shows no processor instead of failing.
Empty notes no longer show "None"; labels stack over their values on a
phone instead of running into them.
Pools that cannot be read no longer drop a host's vCPUs and memory from
its capacity: the storage part says so. get_capacity also counts the
VMs by state.
- Deleting a rule removes the row clicked, by its position, instead of the
first rule with the same action, direction and priority; a filter changed
since the page was read is refused instead of losing another rule.
- An added rule is added as entered, with all its attributes. It was merged
into a rule with the same action, direction and priority, where libvirt
keeps only the first protocol, so the new rule was silently dropped.
- A new filter shows in the list after it is created.
When the guest agent failed, the Guest Info section stayed empty with no
word: the request's error answer was not handled. An agent without the
time zone or host name command lost the OS details it had answered too.
The section now shows the agent's error, and a missing command leaves out
only its own details.
Cloud images read their first-boot settings with cloud-init. The panel
served them only over HTTP, which a VM reaches only with the network
and a reverse DNS name for its address. A new VM can now carry them
itself: Cloud-init seed (Advanced) on the create form, or cloud_init in
the API.
The job writes a NoCloud seed, an ISO labelled cidata, into the disk's
directory pool as cidata-<uuid>.iso and puts it in the VM's CD-ROM
drive. Its meta-data holds the VM's UUID as instance-id and its name as
hostname, written as JSON so a VM named 123 or yes keeps a string
hostname; its user-data is what the HTTP datasource serves, with the
creating user's SSH keys. The ISO is built with pycdlib and written
through a libvirt stream, as the NVRAM copy is, now one helper for both.
A seed needs a CD-ROM bus and a directory pool, else the create is
refused. A failed create deletes the seed with the new disk, recovery
names one left behind, and deleting the VM with its disks deletes its
seed, found in the pools by name even when ejected. A clone's drive is
left empty: the seed is the source VM's identity.
A quiesced snapshot and a live clone freeze the guest's file systems
through libvirt, which asks the agent without a timeout: with the agent
hung, the job waited, holding the VM, with no end.
The agent must now first answer a guest-ping within 10 s; a frozen or
dead agent fails the job in seconds, before anything is frozen. The
freeze itself stays libvirt's, without a timeout: a timed freeze was
tried and left the guest frozen, since the freeze still ran in the
guest when the agent came back, after its thaw had failed.
The VM page read the guest's addresses with interfaceAddresses() from
the agent, and the OS details with agent commands without a timeout.
A connected agent that hangs (a frozen guest) kept the page from
loading at all and held a worker: seen still loading after 120 s.
Both now go through the 10 s guest agent command the root password and
SSH key use. The addresses come from guest-network-get-interfaces, in
the form the page's address code already reads; an agent that does not
answer leaves the ARP address. With the agent frozen the page loads in
about 10 s and the OS details answer with the agent's error (400) in
5 s, instead of a server error.
The Access tab's Root Password and SSH Keys worked only on a shut-off
VM, through gstfsd on the compute. A running VM whose QEMU guest agent
is connected now gets them through the agent: guest-set-user-password
with the SHA-512 crypt hash, and guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys adding
the key to root's keys. A shut-off VM still goes through gstfsd; any
other VM is refused with "Shut the VM down, or start its QEMU guest
agent, and try again", and the buttons are disabled.
Each is one agent command with a 10 s timeout. libvirt's own calls for
them (setUserPassword, authorizedSSHKeysSet) wait for a hung agent
indefinitely, holding a worker and the VM's lock, and the domain's
agent timeout would change every other agent call of the VM too.
The agent's or libvirt's error is shown as is through error_text, so
users who do not see the hosts get no connection details, and the
attempt is logged as failed. The README names the SELinux boolean a
RHEL-family guest needs before its agent may add SSH keys.
The capacity read lived in its own module with raw libvirt calls and a
thread pool with a deadline, beside helpers that already read the same
things. It now uses them:
- wvmHostDetails.get_capacity() sums the vCPUs and memory of all and of
the running VMs from get_host_instances(), against the host's info.
- get_storages_info() also gives each pool's free space.
- Compute.capacity joins the two, like cpu_count and ram_size, and is
None when the host is down or the read fails.
The page reads the hosts one after another, as it already connected to
each of them; a host that cannot be reached is given up after the
connect timeout. computes/capacity.py and its thread handling are gone.
The page looks and sorts as before.
The live suite run against v3.1.0 on two Vagrant computes (TCP and SSH,
TLS, a socket inside compute1) found two tests that no longer held, and
nothing else:
- A SATA disk added to a running VM is refused by libvirt; since
90c148d a refused form goes back to its page with the reason instead
of a 500. The test expected the 500; it now expects the redirect and
the message, and still checks that neither definition changed.
- The NVRAM copy test built its libvirtError("define failed") and
matched that text, but libvirt-python gives a new libvirtError the
message of the last error its thread recorded: in the socket run a
connection of an earlier live test was closed by then ("client socket
is closed"). The test now checks that its own error object is raised.
The serial console test names its compute and VM per connection type, so
the TCP and SSH host can be the same machine. The shut-off migration
fakes reset libvirt's last error first: a libvirtError takes the message
of an earlier real error in the thread, which a live test can leave.
The move copies the VM's NVRAM file to the destination with libvirt
streams (unless both hosts share the NVRAM directory) and removes the
copy if the move fails; the source's file goes with the existing
cleanup. The undefine keeps the file, as libvirt refuses to undefine a
VM with NVRAM otherwise. A VM with TPM state is still refused.
libvirt's backup copies the disks of a running or paused VM from one
instant into new volumes while it keeps running; the clone is defined
shut off as before. The VM is held for the copy, the copy can be
cancelled, and recovery reads the job's records and libvirt.
The clone's definition is one method for both paths; wvmInstance can check,
start, follow, read and abort a push backup of a VM's disks into new
volumes, and freeze/thaw the guest.
A disk-only snapshot was taken without any space check, though its
overlays grow as the guest writes and a later delete merges them down;
a full pool pauses the guest and can leave the snapshot undeletable.
Only a memory snapshot was checked, for the memory alone.
Before a snapshot, each storage pool with a disk of the VM must have
free a share of those disks' virtual size (10%, at least 1 GiB), and
the pool of the memory file the VM's memory on top. Both values are on
the Settings page (Snapshot Free Percent, Snapshot Free Min GiB; 0
turns a rule off, an invalid value keeps the default). The pools are
refreshed first, and a failed refresh or an unreadable volume refuses
the snapshot instead of skipping the check; a disk in no pool is not
checked. Nothing is reserved: later writes can still fill a pool.
A disk-only snapshot of a running VM is crash-consistent: data the
guest has not written yet is missing from it. With a connected QEMU
guest agent, the snapshot form now offers to freeze the guest's file
systems while the disks are snapshotted (libvirt's QUIESCE flag); the
box is checked by default and can be cleared. It is offered only for a
running VM whose agent is connected, and not together with memory:
libvirt accepts quiesce only for disk-only snapshots, and a memory
snapshot keeps the whole guest state anyway. A request that does not
fit is refused before libvirt is called.
libvirt keeps snapshot metadata on the source host and a migration does
not carry it, even when both hosts share the disks. Only the shut-off
path refused such a VM itself; a running or paused one relied on
libvirt's own refusal. moveto now refuses it for every state, before
any check against the destination, with the same message.
