The interfaces page read the XML of every node device (183 on a test host)
to keep the network ones; libvirt now lists only those. Same names on both
test hosts, 756 -> 261 ms over TCP and 475 -> 173 ms over SSH.
Cloning a UEFI VM defined a persistent storage pool on the NVRAM's
directory when no pool held it, and dropped <nvram> from the clone,
which found its copy only because libvirt chose the same file name.
The copy is now made through the NVRAM directory's pool (a transient one
when there is none) or the pool that holds the file, with the original's
format, owner and mode, and the clone's definition names it. A failed
definition removes it with the copied disks. An NVRAM that is not a file
is refused before anything is copied.
A volume of an LVM or iSCSI pool can be attached: by its own path, with
the format its volume reports (raw when the pool knows none). Detaching
a disk takes each definition's own description of it, so a disk only in
the persistent definition goes too. Every NIC type can be a boot device;
bridge and direct NICs were dropped from the boot order. The video model
is a value, never parsed as XML. QoS changes clear the page's read cache.
The NIC model "default" leaves the choice to libvirt instead of writing
model "default", and rt18139 is rtl8139: a VM with either did not start
(checked on a RHEL 10 host). A migration corrects the default NIC type
setting.
The overview read the host's info four times, now once (12 libvirt calls).
A connection object keeps it next to the capabilities, and the VM page and
VM stats take it from there; the VM page's cached_reads block holds only
the VM's own data. Free memory is still read each time.
Measured on the create page: 751 ms and 72 libvirt calls, now 123 ms and
13. Its getters parsed the host's capabilities some 60 times, each read
from libvirt. A connection object (one per request) now reads them once,
and the domain capabilities once per emulator, arch, machine and domain
type. The VM page's cached_reads block no longer needs its own copy.
libvirt undefines the source domain after a migration but keeps its NVRAM
file. A VM created later on that host with the same name reuses the file
and starts with the old VM's UEFI variables (boot entries, enrolled keys):
checked on libvirt 11.10, where only VIR_DOMAIN_START_RESET_NVRAM
recreates it from the template.
After a successful migration the file is now deleted on the source, as a
volume of the pool on libvirt's NVRAM directory or of a transient one.
Only a file in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram, and only when the destination
cannot create a marker file the source just created there (an exclusive
create also fails on shared storage whose listing an NFS client caches).
A failed removal is logged with the migration, which stands and is
recorded.
When a VM action failed because its host could not be reached (the
connection could not be opened, or it dropped during the call), the
error page showed libvirt's connection error to any user: it names the
host and how it is reached, e.g. "ssh: connect to host 10.x port 22".
The lists and the VM page already keep that to administrators.
- Opening a connection now fails with ConnectionFailed (a subclass of
OperationError). A dropped connection is recognized by its error
domain and code (RPC/remote/SSH layer with a transport code, measured:
a keepalive timeout is VIR_FROM_RPC/VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR); an
operation the daemon does not support (VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT) is not
treated as one.
- ExceptionMiddleware (pages and API) and the views that report the
error themselves (snapshot, revert, disk deletion, clone) show it to
superusers and view_instances users, and to everyone else "The host
of this virtual machine cannot be reached right now." Errors of the
operation itself ("domain is not running") are shown as before.
Checked on the test setup: powering on a VM of an unreachable compute
shows the owner the generic text and the administrator the error. The
tests fail on the previous code.
Four lookups built XPath expressions from values that come from
requests (CodeQL py/xpath-injection, plus get_capabilities, which
CodeQL did not flag; the pages are for superusers):
- The architecture in the create wizard's URLs went into
arch[@name='...'] in get_emulator, get_machine_types and
get_capabilities: "nope' or '1'='1" matched every architecture. It is
now an XPath variable ($arch), which is never parsed as XPath.
- Network filter rules were found with a predicate built from the
posted action, direction and priority: a quote raised SyntaxError (an
error page). The rule is now found by comparing its attributes.
- unset_qos put the posted direction into the path, so "*" removed
every bandwidth setting. It accepts inbound and outbound, as set_qos
does; the network page shows an error for anything else.
No other XPath in vrtManager is built from a value; the remaining
expressions are constants. The tests fail on the previous code.
The connection manager registered libvirt's event implementation and
started the event loop thread when vrtManager.connection was imported.
novncd imports it and then forks a child per console (websockify's
multiprocessing), so every child was forked from a process with a
running libvirt thread, which libvirt does not support, and the child
had no loop thread of its own: keepalive never ran there. Measured in
the test setup: in such a child, a call on a host that went silent
still waited after 70 s.
- The loop starts with the first get_connection of a process. The
state is per process and shared by all managers; libvirt's event
implementation is registered once and a child inherits it.
- After a fork, the child renews the lock and starts its own loop on
first use. It stops using the inherited connections, which are the
parent's sockets, but keeps them: releasing them would run libvirt
destructors in the child. No process connects before forking today
(novncd's parent does not connect, gunicorn does not preload); this
keeps such a case safe.
With the change, novncd's parent has no libvirt thread, the console
child starts its own, and the same call fails after 29 s with a
keepalive timeout. A test forks a real child; it fails without the
fork handling.
libvirt has no timeout for opening a connection. Measured in the test
setup: an unreachable host blocked qemu+tcp for 135 s and qemu+ssh for
133 s; a daemon that accepts and never answers blocks forever. Gunicorn
runs sync workers and the instance list connects to every compute, so
one unreachable compute held a worker for minutes per page load.
- A connection is opened in a helper thread, at most one per
connection at a time. The request waits LIBVIRT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
(default 5 s). An open nobody waits for any more keeps running; until
it ends, requests get its error at once, and if it succeeds later the
connection is used. A failed open is not repeated for
LIBVIRT_RETRY_AFTER (default 30 s). A stuck host holds one thread and
does not keep other hosts from connecting.
- qemu+ssh runs ssh through vrtManager/libvirt-ssh (the URI's command
parameter), which adds ConnectTimeout=10 and BatchMode=yes, so an
abandoned ssh process ends and no prompt can hang. The user's ssh
configuration (aliases, ProxyJump, keys) still applies.
- The close callback acts only for the connection it was registered
for: a late callback of a replaced connection dropped its successor.
The reason is reported as text. A connection that closed before it
was published is an error.
- Compute.status is a bool (it returned the exception object, so the
"host is down" check in refresh_instance_database never fired); the
message is Compute.connection_error.
Unit tests cover the timeout, retry delay, late success, single open,
a stuck host next to a healthy one and the close callback. Live tests
(vrtManager/test_live_connection.py), for TCP and SSH computes of the
test setup: an unreachable address (no ssh left after 10 s), an endpoint
that never answers, a slow open completing later, a host that goes
silent on an established connection (keepalive ends calls within 45 s,
the next request reconnects), an ssh_config alias and a ProxyJump host.
- host_is_up returned the exception object for a down host, which is
truthy: check_user_quota then connected to it and failed, so a user
with a VM on a down host could not open its page, clone or resize,
and migrate_instance's "target is down" check never fired. It returns
True or False now, closes its socket, and accepts IPv6 and host:port.
- The connection manager no longer holds its global lock while a new
connection is opened, so one slow host does not delay new connections
to the others.
Bounding the connection time itself (including SSH aliases and jump
hosts) is left for a separate change.
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.
move wvmCreate.get_cache_modes() to wvmConnect
add wvmConnect.get_busses(), wvmConnect.get_image_formats(), used in forms
add corresponding default values to settings (INSTANCE_VOLUME_DEFAULT_FORMAT INSTANCE_VOLUME_DEFAULT_BUS INSTANCE_VOLUME_DEFAULT_CACHE)
