The current network services now support encryption via TLS and in some
cases support authentication via SASL. In cases where SASL is not
available, x509 client certificates can be used as a crude authorization
scheme, but using a sub-CA and controlling who you give certs to. In
general this is not very flexible though, so this series introduces a
new standard authorization framework.
It comes with four initial authorization mechanisms
- Simple - an exact username match. This is useful when there is
exactly one user that is known to connect. For example when live
migrating from one QEMU to another with TLS, libvirt would use
the simple scheme to whitelist the TLS cert of the source QEMU.
- List - an full access control list, with optional regex matching.
This is more flexible and is used to provide 100% backcompat with
the existing HMP ACL commands. The caveat is that we can't create
these via the CLI -object arg yet.
- ListFile - the same as List, but with the rules stored in JSON
format in an external file. This avoids the -object limitation
while also allowing the admin to change list entries on the file.
QEMU uses inotify to notice these changes and auto-reload the
file contents. This is likely a good default choice for most
network services, if the "simple" mechanism isn't sufficient.
- PAM - delegate the username lookup to a PAM module, which opens
the door to many options including things like SQL/LDAP lookups.
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/berrange/tags/authz-core-pull-request' into staging
Add a standard authorization framework
The current network services now support encryption via TLS and in some
cases support authentication via SASL. In cases where SASL is not
available, x509 client certificates can be used as a crude authorization
scheme, but using a sub-CA and controlling who you give certs to. In
general this is not very flexible though, so this series introduces a
new standard authorization framework.
It comes with four initial authorization mechanisms
- Simple - an exact username match. This is useful when there is
exactly one user that is known to connect. For example when live
migrating from one QEMU to another with TLS, libvirt would use
the simple scheme to whitelist the TLS cert of the source QEMU.
- List - an full access control list, with optional regex matching.
This is more flexible and is used to provide 100% backcompat with
the existing HMP ACL commands. The caveat is that we can't create
these via the CLI -object arg yet.
- ListFile - the same as List, but with the rules stored in JSON
format in an external file. This avoids the -object limitation
while also allowing the admin to change list entries on the file.
QEMU uses inotify to notice these changes and auto-reload the
file contents. This is likely a good default choice for most
network services, if the "simple" mechanism isn't sufficient.
- PAM - delegate the username lookup to a PAM module, which opens
the door to many options including things like SQL/LDAP lookups.
# gpg: Signature made Tue 26 Feb 2019 15:33:46 GMT
# gpg: using RSA key BE86EBB415104FDF
# gpg: Good signature from "Daniel P. Berrange <dan@berrange.com>" [full]
# gpg: aka "Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>" [full]
# Primary key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF
* remotes/berrange/tags/authz-core-pull-request:
authz: delete existing ACL implementation
authz: add QAuthZPAM object type for authorizing using PAM
authz: add QAuthZListFile object type for a file access control list
authz: add QAuthZList object type for an access control list
authz: add QAuthZSimple object type for easy whitelist auth checks
authz: add QAuthZ object as an authorization base class
hw/usb: switch MTP to use new inotify APIs
hw/usb: fix const-ness for string params in MTP driver
hw/usb: don't set IN_ISDIR for inotify watch in MTP driver
qom: don't require user creatable objects to be registered
util: add helper APIs for dealing with inotify in portable manner
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
-- End