[Libguestfs] [PATCH v3] appliance: extract UUID from QCOW2 disk image

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 07:48:52AM +0300, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
> For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, the function get_root_uuid()
> fails to get the UUID of the disk image.
> In this case, let us read the first 256k bytes of the disk image  with
> the 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the read block to the 'file'
> command.
> 
> Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den at openvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich at virtuozzo.com>

Thanks, I pushed this with a few minor adjustments to error
handling in the get_root_uuid function.

Rich.

> v3:
>   01: The code refactoring was made based on reviewers comments.
>       The e-mail thread Message-Id:
>       <1597246570-901723-1-git-send-email-andrey.shinkevich at virtuozzo.com>
> 
>  lib/appliance-kcmdline.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/appliance-kcmdline.c b/lib/appliance-kcmdline.c
> index fbeb4f4..e088fc0 100644
> --- a/lib/appliance-kcmdline.c
> +++ b/lib/appliance-kcmdline.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ read_uuid (guestfs_h *g, void *retv, const char *line, size_t len)
>   * The L<file(1)> command does the hard work.
>   */
>  static char *
> -get_root_uuid (guestfs_h *g, const char *appliance)
> +get_root_uuid_with_file (guestfs_h *g, const char *appliance)
>  {
>    CLEANUP_CMD_CLOSE struct command *cmd = guestfs_int_new_command (g);
>    char *ret = NULL;
> @@ -96,6 +96,72 @@ get_root_uuid (guestfs_h *g, const char *appliance)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * Read the first 256k bytes of the in_file with L<qemu-img(1)> command
> + * and write them into the out_file. That may be useful to get UUID of
> + * the QCOW2 disk image with further L<file(1)> command.
> + * The function returns zero if successful, otherwise -1.
> + */
> +static int
> +run_qemu_img_dd (guestfs_h *g, const char *in_file, char *out_file)
> +{
> +  CLEANUP_CMD_CLOSE struct command *cmd = guestfs_int_new_command (g);
> +  int r;
> +
> +  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg (cmd, "qemu-img");
> +  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg (cmd, "dd");
> +  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg_format (cmd, "if=%s", in_file);
> +  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg_format (cmd, "of=%s", out_file);
> +  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg (cmd, "bs=256k");
> +  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg (cmd, "count=1");
> +
> +  r = guestfs_int_cmd_run (cmd);
> +  if (r == -1) {
> +    error (g, "Failed to run qemu-img");
> +    return -1;
> +  }
> +  if (!WIFEXITED (r) || WEXITSTATUS (r) != 0) {
> +    guestfs_int_external_command_failed (g, r, "qemu-img dd", NULL);
> +    return -1;
> +  }
> +
> +  return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * Get the UUID from the appliance disk image.
> + */
> +static char *
> +get_root_uuid (guestfs_h *g, const char *appliance)
> +{
> +  char *uuid = NULL;
> +  int ret;
> +  CLEANUP_UNLINK_FREE char *tmpfile = NULL;
> +
> +  uuid = get_root_uuid_with_file (g, appliance);
> +  if (uuid) {
> +      return uuid;
> +  }
> +
> +  tmpfile = guestfs_int_make_temp_path (g, "root", "raw");
> +  if (!tmpfile) {
> +    error (g, "get_root_uuid: failed to make temporary file");
> +    return NULL;
> +  }
> +
> +  ret = run_qemu_img_dd (g, appliance, tmpfile);
> +  if (ret < 0) {
> +    return NULL;
> +  }
> +
> +  uuid = get_root_uuid_with_file (g, tmpfile);
> +  if (!uuid) {
> +    error (g, "Failed to get the appliance UUID");
> +  }
> +
> +  return uuid;
> +}
> +
> +/**
>   * Construct the Linux command line passed to the appliance.  This is
>   * used by the C<direct> and C<libvirt> backends, and is simply
>   * located in this file because it's a convenient place for this
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

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