To use the online disk snapshot for online-backup, application-level
consistency of the snapshot image is required. However, currently the
guest agent can provide only filesystem-level consistency, and the
snapshot may contain dirty data, for example, incomplete transactions.
This patch provides the opportunity to quiesce applications before
snapshot is taken.
If --fsfreeze-hook option is specified, the hook is executed with
"freeze" argument before the filesystem is frozen by fsfreeze-freeze
command. As for fsfreeze-thaw command, the hook is executed with "thaw"
argument after the filesystem is thawed.
This patch depends on patchset to improve error reporting by Luiz Capitulino:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-11/msg03016.html
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
*clarified usage in help output
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Previously qemu-ga version was defined seperately. Since it is aligned
with QEMU releases, use QEMU_VERSION instead. This also implies the
version bump for 1.1[-rcN] release of qemu-ga.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The next commit wants to use it.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently we rely on fsfreeze/thaw commands disabling/enabling logging
then having other commands check whether logging is disabled to avoid
executing if they aren't safe for running while a filesystem is frozen.
Instead, have an explicit whitelist of fsfreeze-safe commands, and
consolidate logging and command enablement/disablement into a pair
of helper functions: ga_set_frozen()/ga_unset_frozen()
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
guest-sync leaves it as an exercise to the user as to how to reliably
obtain the response to guest-sync if the client had previously read in a
partial response (due qemu-ga previously being restarted mid-"sentence"
due to reboot, forced restart, etc).
qemu-ga handles this situation on its end by having a client precede
their guest-sync request with a 0xFF byte (invalid UTF-8), which
qemu-ga/QEMU JSON parsers will treat as a flush event. Thus we can
reliably flush the qemu-ga parser state in preparation for receiving
the guest-sync request.
guest-sync-delimited provides the same functionality for a client: when
a guest-sync-delimited is issued, qemu-ga will precede it's response
with a 0xFF byte that the client can use as an indicator to flush its
buffer/parser state in preparation for reliably receiving the
guest-sync-delimited response.
It is also useful as an optimization for clients, since, after issuing a
guest-sync-delimited, clients can safely discard all stale data read
from the channel until the 0xFF is found.
More information available on the wiki:
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent#QEMU_Guest_Agent_Protocol
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Many of the current RPC implementations are very much POSIX-specific
and require complete re-writes for Windows. There are however a small
set of core guest agent commands that are common to both, and other
commands such as guest-file-* which *may* be portable. So we introduce
commands.c for the latter, and will rename guest-agent-commands.c to
commands-posix.c in a future commit. Windows implementations will go in
commands-win32.c, eventually.
This is mostly in preparation for the win32 port, which won't use
GIO channels for reasons that will be made clearer later. Here the
GAChannel class is just a loose wrapper around GIOChannel
calls/callbacks, but we also roll in the logic/configuration for
various channel types and managing unix socket connections, which makes
the abstraction much more complete and further aids in the win32 port
since isa-serial/unix-listen will not be supported initially.
There's also a bit of refactoring in the main logic to consolidate the
exit paths so we can do common cleanup for things like pid files, which
weren't always cleaned up previously.
This is the actual guest daemon, it listens for requests over a
virtio-serial/isa-serial/unix socket channel and routes them through
to dispatch routines, and writes the results back to the channel in
a manner similar to QMP.
A shorthand invocation:
qemu-ga -d
Is equivalent to:
qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
-f /var/run/qemu-ga.pid -d
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@gmail.com>
