Add LXD VM Guest Agent Support #2145
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| ACTION=="add", SYMLINK=="virtio-ports/org.linuxcontainers.lxd", TAG+="systemd", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/systemctl start lxd-agent.service" | |||
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Can we not use systemd unit VM detection like all other agent using?
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What would you recommend? A separate check for "/dev/lxd/sock" (indicating we are in a guest LXD) that is called by systemd?
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No, systemd can have conditions in descriptive form. There is ConditionVirtualization= which can be used to detect virtualization. So we can just set that in lxd-agent.service, I think, but we should test it with and without LXC if things behave as expected.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#ConditionVirtualization=
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-detect-virt.html#
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I understand now. Hmm, looking my test system there is not a good way to detect a LXD VM specifically, systemd-detect-virt shows just qemu. Apologies, I scraped this together from the debian package lxd-agent-loader. Will dig in to see if I can better detect this. Would it not be a good enough test to check for /dev/lxd/sock in this case if the existing systemd detection is not good enough?
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Also, we may consider updating the virtualization checks for the qemu agent, as that tries and fails to load in this setup.
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systemd-detect-virt shows just qemu
Hm, I see there is no lxd 😢
Ideally we'd add lxd to systemd-detect-virt, then the Qemu problem would be solved as well 😄
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I just looked at the systemd source it looks like they are detecting /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor which shows as qemu. I just looked and LXD shows up properly in /sys/class/dmi/id/board_name.
I can try and create a PR for systemd, but that is a tall order. Any chance we can implement a hack and I can follow up later with the correct systemd PR?
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I'd prefer if we have a PR with systemd already open before patching it on our side, so the process is at least kicked off 😄
Seems that worth a try submitting a PR which just reads /sys/class/dmi/id/board_name?
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We can apply the PR also into our build system, so we not have to wait to get approved by systemd @bryanyork
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Working systemd patchset added. We are behind the latest systemd version and they refactored things. I'll work on a PR to systemd for HEAD now.
| CONFIG_NET_9P=y | ||
| CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y | ||
| CONFIG_9P_FS=y | ||
| CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL=y |
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Only comment from my side: It is really necessary to integrate all these 9P config option directly into a kernel or isn't it better to compile them as kernel modules instead? IMHO, compiling them as loadable kernel modules should be a better approach.
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Fixed. CONFIG_PCI is still required as a built-in.
| $(INSTALL) -D -m 644 $(LXD_GUEST_AGENT_PKGDIR)/99-lxd-agent.rules \ | ||
| $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-lxd-agent.rules |
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FWIW, there also linter errors on those two lines, see:
https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/actions/runs/3079333274/jobs/4979283480
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Fixed / Removed those rules as I have the systemd patch in place now.
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@agners @pvizeli Updated this PR to address issues and submitted upstream PR to systemd: systemd/systemd#24802 |
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@agners @pvizeli Updates here from the systemd PR: In later version of systemd past v250 series, LXD VM's are "properly" detected as KVM. I'm happy to keep the patch in, as v250 is still broken and detects qemu. I'll see if we can backport the fix to the v250 series. I would prefer to get something in so I can follow mainline for my installation. Thoughts on next steps to merge this PR? |
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Updated. I think this is the best option to merge. Please let me know your thoughts. It seems I can't convince folks at systemd or LXD to return as such, so we'll need to target like this to support my use-case. Perhaps in the future we will see a better conditional that is backwards compatible. |
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Thanks for merging @agners ! Do you know when this will hit a production release? |
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Hiya again @agners ! Should I create a PR to move this to the rel-9 branch? Was hoping to get this into 9.4 so I can move my install to a production version. |
Fixes #676