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Michal Privoznik 8c8c32339a qemuDomainSaveMemory: Don't enforce dynamicOwnership
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1589115

When doing a memory snapshot qemuOpenFile() is used. This means
that the file where memory is saved is firstly attempted to be
created under root:root (because that's what libvirtd is running
under) and if this fails the second attempt is done under
domain's uid:gid. This does not make much sense - qemu is given
opened FD so it does not need to access the file. Moreover, if
dynamicOwnership is set in qemu.conf and the file lives on a
squashed NFS this is deadly combination and very likely to fail.

The fix consists of using:

  qemuOpenFileAs(fallback_uid = cfg->user,
                 fallback_gid = cfg->group,
                 dynamicOwnership = false)

In other words, dynamicOwnership is turned off for memory
snapshot (chown() will still be attempted if the file does not
live on NFS) and instead of using domain DAC label, configured
user:group is set as fallback.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2018-07-25 08:14:54 +02:00
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README.md

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Libvirt API for virtualization

Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.

For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.

Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.

Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org

License

The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.

Installation

Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install

While to build & install as an unprivileged user

$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install

The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.

Contributing

The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

Contact

The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html