Comments, docstrings and live test names cited item IDs of a roadmap
that is not part of the repository. They now say what is meant, or
nothing where the sentence stands without them. Test assertions and
behavior are unchanged.
Web form: the cache mode and the UEFI firmware value were checked only
after the disk volume had been created; an invalid one answered 500 and
left the volume. All checks now run before any allocation. Volumes the
request creates are removed on any failure up to the definition; ones
that cannot be removed are reported. After the definition the VM uses
them, so a later failure keeps them.
API: the new volume was never removed when the definition failed, and
the error was a 500. It is removed now and a libvirt error returns 400.
- change_network detached the NIC and attached one built from scratch,
dropping its QoS, link state and other settings. It now edits the NIC
of the persistent definition in place and defines once; a running VM
gets the change at its next start, as the UI already says.
- add_network, delete_network and set_link_state did nothing on a
paused VM, and set_link_state rewrote the persistent NIC from the live
XML. They now update the running definition when the VM is active and
the persistent one always, each from its own XML.
- Boot and console edits used xml.etree, which renamed the namespace
prefixes of other tools' metadata (<app:info> became <ns0:info>); they
use lxml now.
- The NIC table and the clone form are filled from the persistent
definition (Instance.config_networks, config_disks), so a pending NIC
change is shown and can be edited again.
A live test runs 18 domain edits on stopped, running and paused VMs
whose definition has elements WebVirtCloud does not manage, and checks
for each the effect, that nothing else in the persistent definition
changed, and that persistent-only edits leave the running VM alone.
Clone:
- only shut-off VMs are cloned, as the UI already required: a running
guest keeps writing while its disks are copied; the definition comes
from the persistent XML;
- MAC addresses and disk destinations are checked before anything is
allocated;
- every volume the clone creates (NVRAM and disks) is tracked; if a
later copy or the definition fails, only those are deleted, and any
that cannot be deleted are named in the error. Before, a failed clone
left its earlier copies behind.
libvirtError(msg) reports the thread's last libvirt error instead of
msg when there is one, so WebVirtCloud's own errors could show an
earlier, unrelated failure. util.OperationError, a libvirtError
subclass that keeps its message, replaces those raises in vrtManager,
instances and nwfilters; 'except libvirtError' still catches it.
SPICE was removed earlier; its leftovers and the console type choice go
too:
- the console settings form, update_console and the backend no longer
offer or change the type; an invalid console form now shows its
errors instead of being ignored;
- the create form, the API serializer and create_instance no longer take
a graphics type, new VMs get VNC; get_graphics_types and the graphics
entries of the domain capabilities are gone;
- migration appsettings.0013 deletes QEMU_CONSOLE_DEFAULT_TYPE;
- a VM defined elsewhere with another graphics type gets "Console type
... is not supported".
The locale catalogs still reference the deleted SPICE templates in
source comments; regenerating them is left to the translation work.
The old code edited the live XML, called attachDevice and redefined the
domain from it: a stopped VM lost its VNC password, a paused VM crashed
with UnboundLocalError, an unknown CD-ROM was silently ignored (on a
running VM the last disk of the loop could be updated instead), and a
missing ISO raised AttributeError.
Media changes now use updateDeviceFlags on the requested CD-ROM, built
from the live and the persistent definition separately. A CD-ROM
missing from one definition, an unknown ISO, an ISO name present in
more than one pool, or a change that reached only the running VM is
reported to the user. The mount and unmount log messages were swapped.
Taking or reverting an internal snapshot redefined a pflash VM with a
rom loader around the operation. libvirt 10.10 rejects that definition,
so the request ended in a 500; where it was accepted, the snapshot
recorded the fake loader, and a failure between rewrite and restore
left the VM unable to boot.
The definition is no longer touched: libvirt decides, and its error is
shown (for a running VM with raw NVRAM: 'internal snapshots of a VM
with pflash based firmware require QCOW2 nvram format'). A stopped VM's
disk-only internal snapshot is taken, as libvirt allows it. Revert
errors are shown too. The external snapshot path keeps its rewrite for
now.
Live tests cover running and stopped UEFI VMs; both failed with a 500
on the previous code.
Instance.proxy looked the domain up by its stored name. After a rename
or a name swap outside WebVirtCloud, an operation on one VM changed
another; after a VM was replaced under the same name, operations hit
the new VM.
wvmInstance takes the UUID and uses lookupByUUIDString, with no
fallback to the name: a missing UUID fails instead of picking another
domain. Every caller that has an Instance passes it: proxy, console,
quota, post-migration autostart and the VDI URL. Migration uses the
domain the proxy already resolved. getvvfile and the gstfsd requests
use the host's current name of that UUID.
Live tests cover a name swap and a VM replaced under the same name;
both fail on the previous code.
Destroy:
- Stops every active state, not only running; a paused VM used to keep
running as a transient domain after the undefine.
- Undefines with MANAGED_SAVE and SNAPSHOTS_METADATA, before any disk is
deleted. A managed-save image used to make the undefine fail after the
disks were already gone; now a failed undefine deletes nothing.
- Keeps disks that another domain references, directly or as a backing
file anywhere in its chain (running domains' backingStore, and the
backingStore of the volumes in the active pools for stopped ones), and
says so; they used to be deleted with the VM.
Volume delete:
- Detaches from the live domain in every active state, including paused.
- Deletes the volume only after neither the live nor the persistent
definition has the disk (bounded wait for the guest to release it),
and refuses a volume another VM references. Otherwise the volume is
kept and the user is told why.
Both hold the compute exclusively for the usage scan and the deletion,
so another VM cannot attach the disk in between; the destroy
confirmation page (GET) takes no lock.
Live tests reproduce each case on a RHEL qemu-kvm host and fail on the
previous code; unit tests cover the destroy ordering and the locks.
The edit form posts net-*-<n> fields for NIC n and carries only the
new MAC. The backend read index 0 and looked the NIC up by the new MAC,
so editing a MAC detached nothing and attached a second NIC, and edits
of any NIC but the first were applied with empty values.
The form now also posts the current MAC (net-old-mac-<n>). The view
reads the submitted NIC's fields, validates the new MAC and reports
errors. The backend replaces the NIC with the old MAC, refuses an
unknown one, and on a failed attach restores the old NIC and raises
instead of reporting success.
The view crashed with a TypeError without a Referer header; it now
returns to the instance page, and a Referer from another site is
ignored.
- Flavor create/update/delete fell back to the nonexistent
instances:flavors URL; reverse() ran on every request, so each of
them raised NoReverseMatch. Fall back to instances:index.
- Creating a VM from XML called instances.utils.refresh_instance_database,
which does not exist; use utils.refr.
Both found by running the live libvirt suite.
Disk edits:
- edit_disk built a new <disk> from the form and replaced the old one,
losing what the form does not show (e.g. encryption and virtio
driver options); a bus change detached and re-attached the disk.
The disk of the persistent definition is now edited in place and the
domain defined once; a bus change picks a free device name and drops
the old address and virtio-only options. Pending persistent changes of
a running VM are kept.
- Clone omits empty disk devices, refuses a disk without a supported
source and destination, and checks the name before allocating storage.
Locks:
- Every VM change held its compute's exclusive lock, so one slow
operation blocked all VMs on that compute. A VM change now holds its
own VM lock plus a shared compute lock; reconciliation, migration and
cloning hold the compute exclusively (two clones of different VMs
must not pass the name check together).
- Quota-checked changes of one user (CPU, memory and disk resize,
clone) run one at a time under a per-user lock, also across computes,
so concurrent requests cannot all pass the check against the old
allocation. It is the outermost lock; superusers, who have no quota,
skip it.
- A busy lock answers 409 to the API and a message in the web UI. API
power and destroy actions return the view's error instead of success.
A disk without driver/@type could not be edited: the empty format was
rejected, and edit_disk would have written type=''. An empty format is
now accepted and edit_disk leaves the type attribute out.
Clone refused VMs that cloned fine before: a disk without a volume got a
None disk name, and a source image with characters such as a space or "@"
produced a derived name outside the allowed pattern. Disks without a
volume (which clone_instance does not copy) are no longer validated, and
derived disk names are sanitized to the allowed charset. Names typed by a
superuser are still validated strictly.
The edit_volume bus change detached the disk and attached a new one built
as a file disk, so block and rbd disks lost their source and auth, and a
failed attach left the disk detached. Add wvmInstance.change_disk_bus,
which reuses the disk element and only changes <target> (dropping the old
bus address), and re-attaches the original disk if attaching fails.
edit_disk also rebuilt every disk with <source file=...>; it now keeps the
existing <source> and <auth> of block and network disks.
- Hash the root password with a random SHA-512 salt instead of the fixed
"$6$kgPoiREy".
- Talk to gstfsd through one helper with a 120 s socket timeout; an
unreachable daemon or a bad reply is an error message, not a 500.
- gstfsd refuses to listen on a non-loopback address unless
GSTFSD_ALLOW_REMOTE=1: it is an unauthenticated root service.
- gstfsd: encode replies (sendall(str) raised TypeError on Python 3, so
the success path never worked) and use octal chmod modes.
- README: what gstfsd does and how to allow it on a remote compute.
- edit_volume passed driver_type to attach_disk, which has no such
parameter, so every bus change failed after the disk was detached; pass
format_type.
- A disk without a driver type shows "None" in the edit form; keep the
disk's current format instead of rejecting it.
- Validate with fullmatch, so a trailing newline is no longer accepted,
and use one volume-name pattern for disk views and clone.
change_options set is_template for any owner with is_change; the
"staff only" rule existed only as a disabled checkbox in the UI. A
non-staff owner could mark or unmark templates with a POST, and because a
disabled checkbox is not submitted, a non-staff owner who only edited a
template's title or description silently unmarked it, which lifted the
template-only restrictions.
Only change is_template for superusers and staff (for them an unchecked,
unsubmitted checkbox still means "not a template"); leave it alone for
everyone else.
The console settings form on the VM detail page renders the VNC password
(PasswordInput(render_value=True)) and was shown to every is_staff user.
A staff user with the global view_instances permission, or a staff owner
without is_vnc, could read the VNC password of every VM they could see.
Add instances.utils.can_manage_console (active superuser, or an active
owner with is_change and is_vnc), which matches what update_console
already enforced. The detail view only builds the form, and so only puts
the password into the page, when it returns True; the template and
update_console use the same rule.
Add webvirtcloud/test_authorization_matrix.py, which walks every named URL
and checks that a user without any VM/compute relation only reaches an
explicit allowlist, and that the global view_instances permission does not
open consoles. It found:
- /computes/<id>/... views without any check (compute_graph,
get_compute_*, get_dom_capabilities, storages.get_volumes): the whole
computes URL namespace is now wrapped with superuser_only, so a view
added there later cannot be exposed by a missing decorator.
- guess_mac_address (leaks dhcpd.conf host/MAC pairs), random_mac_address
and guess_clone_name: superuser-only, like the buttons that use them.
- check_instance: cross-tenant VM name lookup with no caller; removed.
- getvvfile and get_vdi_url: reachable with only view_instances, and the
.vv file contains the VNC password.
Console access now follows one rule, instances.utils.can_open_console:
an active superuser or an active owner of the VM. The global
view_instances permission is read-only. It is used by the console page,
novncd, getvvfile and get_vdi_url (getvvfile and the VDI tab are kept for
virt-viewer users). The console page answers 403 instead of 500 when
access is denied, with the same answer for a missing VM.
clone only required "view" access, so a user with clone_instances and the
global view_instances permission could clone anyone's VM and read its
disks. It also copied every POST field into clone_data, which let the
client override the server-set disk_owner_uid/gid, and disk-<dev> values
went unvalidated into volume XML and os.path.join.
- Require change permission on the source VM, except for templates,
which any user who can view them may clone.
- Build clone_data from an allowlist: name, title and description for
everyone; disk names and MAC addresses only from superusers.
- For non-superusers, derive disk names (get_clone_disk_name) and MAC
addresses (DHCP or random) on the server; their form only sent the
source VM's own values, which could never work.
- Validate every MAC address (not only the first) and every disk name;
a missing MAC is an error message instead of a KeyError.
Several views returned json.dumps() output through HttpResponse, i.e. as
text/html, and guess_mac_address reflects the URL's vname into it
(reflected XSS). Templates filled the log table and volume dropdowns by
concatenating server data into HTML strings, and log messages contain
user-entered snapshot/disk/clone names (stored XSS that runs when a
superuser opens the Logs tab).
- Use JsonResponse in guess_mac_address, random_mac_address,
guess_clone_name, sshkeys, storages.get_volumes,
datasource.os_metadata_json and logs.vm_logs; sshkeys?plain=true is
served as text/plain.
- stats_tab.html builds log rows with .text(); instance.html and
create_instance_w2.html build <option> elements with .val().text().
Disk and media mutation views (add_new_vol, add_existing_vol, edit_volume,
delete_vol, detach_vol, add_cdrom, detach_cdrom, mount_iso, unmount_iso)
were reachable by any owner with is_change, although the UI only shows the
Disk tab to superusers. An ordinary user could delete any volume on the
compute or attach arbitrary host files to their VM.
- Require superuser for all disk/media views, matching the UI.
- delete_vol resolves the volume from the VM's own disk XML by dev and
ignores the posted storage/name.
- Validate bus/cache/io/discard/detect_zeroes against the hypervisor's
lists, and format/serial/volume name against strict patterns.
- add_existing_vol only accepts volumes that exist in the selected pool.
- edit_volume only accepts a dev attached to the VM.
- vrtManager: escape all values interpolated into disk XML and pass dev
as an XPath variable in detach_disk/edit_disk.
- Relax libvirt-python and lxml version pins to allow precompiled distro packages
- Add PEP 508 environment marker to crypt-r (python_version >= 3.13) to avoid unnecessary C compilation on Python 3.12
- Add stdlib crypt fallback when crypt_r is not available in instances/views.py
- Make LDAP imports and configuration optional in settings.py.template
- Add --system-site-packages and missing packages in webvirtcloud.sh for RHEL/CentOS
- Update README with working Rocky Linux / RHEL / Fedora installation and local dev setup
* Add rest framework for API: First Commit
* modify some shell scripts to make variable references safer; modify some python scripts to reduce the code complexity and cyclomatic complexity of functions.
* Add REST API for some webvirtcloud functions. Instance list/delete/create, compute list/delete/create, storages-network list/retrieve. Add swagger and redoc for API interface
* update requirements
Co-authored-by: herengui <herengui@uniontech.com>
