On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:47:47PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/12/2016 11:56 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Add a block driver that is capable of supporting any full disk
> > encryption format. This utilizes the previously added block
> > encryption code, and at this time supports the LUKS format.
> > 
> > The driver code is capable of supporting any format supported
> > by the QCryptoBlock module, so it registers one block driver
> > for each format.
> > 
> > At this time, the "luks" driver is registered. New LUKS
> > compatible volume can be formatted using qemu-img
> > 
> > $ qemu-img create --object secret,data=123456,id=sec0 \
> >       -f luks -o key-id=sec0,cipher-alg=aes-256,\
> >           cipher-mode=cbc,ivgen-alg=plain64,hash-alg=sha256 \
> >       demo.luks 10G
> > 
> 
> > @@ -1664,6 +1664,21 @@
> >    'data': { 'file': 'BlockdevRef' } }
> >  
> >  ##
> > +# @BlockdevOptionsLUKS
> > +#
> > +# Driver specific block device options for LUKS.
> > +#
> > +# @key-id:  #optional the ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing
> > +#           the decryption key (since 2.6)
> > +#
> > +# Since: 2.6
> > +##
> > +{ 'struct': 'BlockdevOptionsLUKS',
> > +  'base': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat',
> > +  'data': { '*key-id': 'str' } }
> 
> And if key-id is omitted, how does it work?

You can only omit it if using BDRV_O_NO_IO, which is used by qemu-img info
to report info about the disk without needing to decrypt any payload.


Regards,
Daniel
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