This is Set 3/3 of the QAPI+QGA patchsets.
These patches apply on top of qapi-backport-set2-v5, and can also be obtained
from:
git://repo.or.cz/qemu/mdroth.git qapi-backport-set3-v6
(Set1+2 are a backport of some of the QAPI-related work from Anthony's
glib tree. The main goal is to get the basic code generation infrastructure in
place so that it can be used by the guest agent to implement a QMP-like guest
interface, and so that future work regarding the QMP conversion to QAPI can be
decoupled from the infrastructure bits. Set3 is the Qemu Guest Agent
(virtagent), rebased on the new code QAPI code generation infrastructure. This
is the first user of QAPI, QMP will follow.)
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CHANGES SINCE V5:
- switched to using qemu malloc/list functions where possible
- removed unused proxy_path field in struct GAState
- pid file now opened write-only, removed lockf() in favor of O_EXCL, added
SIGINT/SIGTERM signal handlers to handle cleanup
- cleaned up error-handling, switched to asserts where appropriate, removed
unecessary gotos and NULL checks for qemu_free()/qobject_decref()
- refactored send_payload() using helper functions
- fixed improper handling of pidfile fd==0
- changed guest-shutdown's "shutdown_mode" param to "mode"
- switched to using kernel-generated FDs for guest-file-open rather than an
autoincrement value
- add maximum chunk size of guest-file-read/guest-file-write
- added checks to avoid guest-file-write from writing data beyond the
provided data buffer
- made logging best-effort, removed handling of failures to log as errors
- guest-shutdown exec errors now logged to guest syslog, clarified shutdown's
asynchronous, no gauruntee nature in schema.
CHANGES SINCE V4:
- Removed timeout mechanism via worker thread/pthread_cancel due to potential
memory leak. Will re-introduce guest-side timeout support in future version.
- Fixed up fsfreeze code to use enums specified within the guest agent's qapi
schema.
- Fixed memory leak due to a log statement, and added missing cleanup
functions for heap-allocated g_error objects.
- Made "mode" param to guest-file-open optional, defaults to "r" (read-only)
CHANGES SINCE V3:
- Fixed error-handling issues in fsfreeze commands leading to certain mounted
directories causing freeze/thaw operations to fail
- Added cleanup hook to thaw filesystems on graceful guest agent exit
- Removed unused enum values and added additional details to schema
documentation
- Fixed build issue that was missed due to deprecated files in source tree,
removed unused includes
CHANGES SINCE V2:
- Rebased on new QAPI code generation framework
- Dropped ability for QMP to act as a proxy for the guest agent, will be
added when new QMP server is backported from Anthony's glib tree
- Replaced negotiation/control events with a simple 2-way handshake
implemented by a standard RPC (guest-sync)
- Removed enforcement of "pristine" sessions, state is now global/persistant
across multiple clients/connections
- Fixed segfault in logging code
- Added Jes' filesystem freeze patches
- General cleanups
CHANGES SINCE V1:
- Added guest agent worker thread to execute RPCs in the guest. With this in
place we have a reliable timeout mechanism for hung commands, currently set at
30 seconds.
- Add framework for registering init/cleanup routines for stateful RPCs to
clean up after themselves after a timeout.
- Added the following RPCs: guest-file-{open,close,read,write,seek},
guest-shutdown, guest-info, and removed stubs for guest-view-file (now
deprecated)
- Added GUEST_AGENT_UP/GUEST_AGENT_DOWN QMP events
- Switched to a TCP-style host-initiated 3-way handshake for channel
negotiation, this simplifies client negotiation/interaction over the wire
- Added configurable log level/log file/pid file options for guest agent
- Various fixes for bugs/memory leaks and checkpatch.pl fixups
ISSUES/TODOS:
- Add unit tests for guest agent wire protocol
OVERVIEW
For a better overview of what these patches are meant to accomplish, please
reference the RFC for virtagent:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/96096
These patches integrate the previous virtagent guest agent work directly in
QAPI/QMP to leverage it's auto-generated marshalling code. This has numerous
benefits:
- addresses previous concerns over relying on external libraries to handle
data encapsulation
- reduces the need for manual unmarshalling of requests/responses, which
makes adding new RPCs much safer/less error-prone, as well as cutting down on
redundant code
- QAPI documentation aligns completely with guest-side RPC implementation
- is Just Better (TM)
BUILD/USAGE
build:
./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
make
make qemu-ga #should be built on|for target guest
start guest:
qemu \
-drive file=/home/mdroth/vm/rhel6_64_base.raw,snapshot=off,if=virtio \
-net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:00 \
-net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup \
-vnc :1 -m 1024 --enable-kvm \
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/qga.sock,server,nowait,id=qga \
-device virtio-serial \
-device virtserialport,chardev=qga,name=qga"
use guest agent:
./qemu-ga -h
./qemu-ga -c virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/qga