[pve-devel] [RFC v10 qemu-server/manager] API for disk import and OVF

Fabian Ebner f.ebner at proxmox.com
Tue Jan 18 10:08:41 CET 2022


Am 17.01.22 um 16:43 schrieb Fabian Grünbichler:
> On January 13, 2022 11:08 am, Fabian Ebner wrote:
>> Extend qm importdisk/importovf functionality to the API.
>>
>>
>> Used Dominic's latest version[0] as a starting point. GUI part still
>> needs to be rebased/updated, so it's not included here.
>>
>>
>> Changes from v9:
>>
>> * Split patch into smaller parts
>>
>> * Some minor (style) fixes/improvements (see individual patches)
>>
>> * Drop $manifest_only parameter for parse_ovf
>>
>>      Instead, untaint the path when calling file_size_info, which makes
>>      the call also work via API which uses the -T switch. If we do want
>>      to keep $manifest_only, I'd argue that it should also skip the
>>      file existence check and not only the file size check. Opinions?
>>
>> * Re-use do_import function
>>
>>      Rather than duplicating most of it. The down side is the need to
>>      add a new parameter for skipping configuration update. But I
>>      suppose the plan is to have qm import switch to the new API at
>>      some point, and then do_import can be simplified.
>>
>> * Instead of adding an import-sources parameter to the API, use a new
>>    import-from property for the disk, that's only available with
>>    import/alloc-enabled API endpoints via its own version of the schema
>>
>>      Avoids the split across regular drive key parameters and
>>      'import_soruces', which avoids quite a bit of cross-checking
>>      between the two and parsing/passing around the latter.
>>
>>      The big downsides are:
>>      * Schema handling is a bit messy.
>>      * Need to special case print_drive, because we do intermediate
>>        parse/print to cleanup drive paths. At a first glance, this
>>        seems not too easy to avoid without complicating things elsewehere.
>>      * Using the import-aware parse_drive in parse_volume, because that
>>        is used via the foreach_volume iterators handling the parameters
>>        of the import-enabled endpoints. Could be avoided by using for
>>        loops with the import-aware parse_drive instead of
>>        foreach_volume.
>>
>>      Counter-arguments for using a single schema (citing Fabian G.):
>>      * docs/schema dump/api docs: shouldn't look like you can put that
>>        everywhere where we use the config schema
>>      * shouldn't have nasty side-effects if someone puts it into the
>>        config
>>
>>
>> After all, the 'import-from' disk property approach turned out to be
>> a uglier than I hoped it would.
>>
>> My problem with the 'import-sources' API parameter approach (see [0]
>> for details) is that it requires specifying both
>>      scsi0: <target storage>:-1,<properties>
>>      import-sources: scsi0=/path/or/volid/for/source
>> leading to a not ideal user interface and parameter handling needing
>> cross-checks to verify that the right combination is specified, and
>> passing both around at the same time.
>>
>> Another approach would be adding a new special volid syntax using
>>      my $IMPORT_DISK_RE = qr!^(([^/:\s]+):)import:(.*)$!;
>> allowing for e.g.
>>      qm set 126 -scsi1 rbdkvm:import:myzpool:vm-114-disk-0,aio=native
>>      qm set 126 -scsi2 rbdkvm:import:/dev/zvol/myzpool/vm-114-disk-1,backup=0
>> Yes, it's a hack, but it would avoid the pain points from both other
>> approaches and be very simple. See the end of the mail for a POC.
> 
> the biggest down-side is that this 'invades' the storage plugin-owned
> volume ID namespace (further than the pre-existing, documented new disk
> syntax) - a volume ID is defined as anything starting with a storage
> identifier, followed by ':', followed by an arbitrary string (where the
> semantics of that string are up to the plugin).
> 
> while I don't think there is a storage plugin out there that somehow
> starts its volume IDs with 'import:' by default, it still doesn't feel
> very nice.. there might be plugins that are not very strict in their
> parsing that might accept such an 'import volid' as regular volid, and
> parse the latter part (which can be a regular volid after all!) instead
> of the full thing, which would make code paths that should not accept
> import volids accept them and just use the source without importing,
> with potentially disastrous consequences :-/
> 

Ok, good point!

> that being said - other then this bigger conceptual question I only
> found nits/fixup/followup material - so if we want to take the current
> RFC I'd give this a more in-depth test spin in the next few days and
> apply with the small stuff adressed ;)
> 

Fine by me. I could also re-spin with the import-sources API parameter 
if that's preferred. If we go with the import-from approach, besides 
addressing your nits, I'd also not make parse_volume unconditionally 
parse with the extended schema, but replace the foreach_volume iterators 
in the appropriate places.

>>
>>
>> [0]: https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2021-June/048564.html
>>
>>
>> pve-manager:
>>
>> Fabian Ebner (1):
>>    api: nodes: add readovf endpoint
>>
>>   PVE/API2/Nodes.pm | 7 +++++++
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>>
>> qemu-server:
>>
>> Dominic Jäger (1):
>>    api: support VM disk import
>>
>> Fabian Ebner (6):
>>    schema: add pve-volume-id-or-absolute-path
>>    parse ovf: untaint path when calling file_size_info
>>    api: add endpoint for parsing .ovf files
>>    image convert: allow block device as source
>>    schema: drive: use separate schema when disk allocation is possible
>>    api: create disks: factor out common part from if/else
>>
>>   PVE/API2/Qemu.pm             | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>   PVE/API2/Qemu/Makefile       |  2 +-
>>   PVE/API2/Qemu/OVF.pm         | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>   PVE/QemuConfig.pm            |  2 +-
>>   PVE/QemuServer.pm            | 57 +++++++++++++++++++---
>>   PVE/QemuServer/Drive.pm      | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>   PVE/QemuServer/ImportDisk.pm |  2 +-
>>   PVE/QemuServer/OVF.pm        |  9 ++--
>>   8 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 PVE/API2/Qemu/OVF.pm
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.30.2
>>
>> diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
>> index 6992f6f..6a22899 100644
>> --- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
>> @@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ use PVE::ReplicationConfig;
>>   use PVE::GuestHelpers;
>>   use PVE::QemuConfig;
>>   use PVE::QemuServer;
>> -use PVE::QemuServer::Drive;
>>   use PVE::QemuServer::CPUConfig;
>> +use PVE::QemuServer::Drive;
>> +use PVE::QemuServer::ImportDisk;
>>   use PVE::QemuServer::Monitor qw(mon_cmd);
>>   use PVE::QemuServer::Machine;
>>   use PVE::QemuMigrate;
>> @@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ my $resolve_cdrom_alias = sub {
>>   };
>>   
>>   my $NEW_DISK_RE = qr!^(([^/:\s]+):)?(\d+(\.\d+)?)$!;
>> +my $IMPORT_DISK_RE = qr!^(([^/:\s]+):)import:(.*)$!;
>>   my $check_storage_access = sub {
>>      my ($rpcenv, $authuser, $storecfg, $vmid, $settings, $default_storage) = @_;
>>   
>> @@ -86,6 +88,9 @@ my $check_storage_access = sub {
>>   	    my $scfg = PVE::Storage::storage_config($storecfg, $storeid);
>>   	    raise_param_exc({ storage => "storage '$storeid' does not support vm images"})
>>   		if !$scfg->{content}->{images};
>> +	} elsif (!$isCDROM && ($volid =~ $IMPORT_DISK_RE)) {
>> +	    warn "check access matched: $2 and $3\n";
>> +	    warn "TODO implement import access check!\n";
>>   	} else {
>>   	    PVE::Storage::check_volume_access($rpcenv, $authuser, $storecfg, $vmid, $volid);
>>   	}
>> @@ -212,6 +217,29 @@ my $create_disks = sub {
>>   	    $disk->{size} = PVE::Tools::convert_size($size, 'kb' => 'b');
>>   	    delete $disk->{format}; # no longer needed
>>   	    $res->{$ds} = PVE::QemuServer::print_drive($disk);
>> +	} elsif ($volid =~ $IMPORT_DISK_RE) {
>> +	    my ($storeid, $source) = ($2, $3);
>> +
>> +	    $source = PVE::Storage::abs_filesystem_path($storecfg, $source, 1);
>> +	    my $src_size = PVE::Storage::file_size_info($source);
>> +	    die "Could not get file size of $source" if !defined($src_size);
>> +
>> +	    my (undef, $dst_volid) = PVE::QemuServer::ImportDisk::do_import(
>> +		$source,
>> +		$vmid,
>> +		$storeid,
>> +		{
>> +		    drive_name => $ds,
>> +		    format => $disk->{format},
>> +		    'skip-config-update' => 1,
>> +		},
>> +	    );
>> +
>> +	    push @$vollist, $dst_volid;
>> +	    $disk->{file} = $dst_volid;
>> +	    $disk->{size} = $src_size;
>> +	    delete $disk->{format}; # no longer needed
>> +	    $res->{$ds} = PVE::QemuServer::print_drive($disk);
>>   	} else {
>>   
>>   	    PVE::Storage::check_volume_access($rpcenv, $authuser, $storecfg, $vmid, $volid);
>> diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer/ImportDisk.pm b/PVE/QemuServer/ImportDisk.pm
>> index 51ad52e..7557cac 100755
>> --- a/PVE/QemuServer/ImportDisk.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/QemuServer/ImportDisk.pm
>> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ sub do_import {
>>   	PVE::Storage::activate_volumes($storecfg, [$dst_volid]);
>>   	PVE::QemuServer::qemu_img_convert($src_path, $dst_volid, $src_size, undef, $zeroinit);
>>   	PVE::Storage::deactivate_volumes($storecfg, [$dst_volid]);
>> -	PVE::QemuConfig->lock_config($vmid, $create_drive);
>> +	PVE::QemuConfig->lock_config($vmid, $create_drive) if !$params->{'skip-config-update'};
>>       };
>>       if (my $err = $@) {
>>   	eval { PVE::Storage::vdisk_free($storecfg, $dst_volid) };
>> -- 
>> 2.30.2
>>
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