A shut-off clone copies the VM's NVRAM file just before it defines the
clone; a worker that stopped between the two left the copy, unnamed by
the job, which recovery then reported as leaving nothing. The job
records the copy's path once libvirt made it, and recovery deletes that
file when the clone was not defined, in whichever pool it is.
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The clone took a new UUID but kept the VM's in its SMBIOS system
information, and libvirt refused the definition (UUID mismatch between
<uuid> and <sysinfo>). The SMBIOS entry takes the clone's UUID.
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A shut-off clone kept the VM's TPM element as it was: an emulated TPM
with a state path of its own, a host's TPM or an external one would be
shared with the VM, not the new, empty TPM the clone form promises. An
emulated TPM loses its state path, and the others are refused.
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libvirt refused the copy only after the job had begun; recovery then
found a volume of the planned name and ended the job uncertain, holding
the VM. The names are checked when the job is queued and before it runs,
as a live clone did; that check now refreshes the pool first, so a live
clone's free space is read current too.
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Tests that build vrtManager objects and touch no view, form or model of
an app lived in that app; vrtManager/tests already holds such tests, so
the convention was split. They move to vrtManager/tests: the firmware,
CPU mode and PCIe port definitions of a new VM (test_create), USB and PCI
host devices, the console listener, host CPU reads, interface reads,
deletes and XML, network filters, PCI passthrough rules, node devices,
network changes, addresses and leases, pool XML, secrets, and the live
tests that use vrtManager only (disk resize, ISO, snapshots, XML, live
clone). livetest.py, the live-test helper six apps import, and the
network test driver move with them.
Others go to their app: the quota with a host down to instances, the
401/403 Logs rows (webvirtcloud's middleware) to webvirtcloud, the VM
page's tab script test to instances, novncd's own tests out of the
console views tests, the compute lock and input validation tests out of
the computes views tests, the interface views out of the forms tests.
instances/tests/test_views.py, entirely live, is test_live_views.py.
Test modules imported fixtures from each other; shared ones are now in
vrtManager/tests/fakes.py (migration fakes, node devices, IOMMU groups,
leases, a NAT network, a Ceph secret), interfaces/tests/fakes.py,
console/tests/daemons.py (novncd loaded once), livetest.wait_for and
instances/tests/create_page.BODY. Every live test checks
livetest.enabled(). The suite runs the same 2097 tests.
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.
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.
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.
