kata-containers/pulls#3771 added TDX support for Cloud Hypervisor, but
two big things got overlooked while doing that.
1. virtio-fs, as of now, cannot be part of the trust boundary, so the
Confidential Guest will not be using it.
2. virtio-block hotplug should be enabled in order to use virtio-block
for the rootfs (used with the devmapper plugin).
When trying to use cloud-hypervisor with TDX using virtio-fs, we're
facing the following error on the guest kernel:
```
virtiofs virtio2: device must provide VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM
```
After checking and double-checking with virtiofs and cloud-hypervisor
developers, it happens as confidential containers might put some
limitations on the device, so it can't access all of the guests' memory
and that's where this restriction seems to be coming from. Vivek
mentioned that virtiofsd do not support VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM (aka
VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM) yet, and that for ecrypted guests virtiofs may
not be the best solution at the moment.
@sboeuf put this in a very nice way: "if the virtio-fs driver doesn't
support VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM, then the pages corresponding to the
virtqueues and the buffers won't be marked as SHARED, meaning the VMM
won't have access to it".
Interestingly enough, it works with QEMU, and it may be due to some
change done on the patched QEMU that @devimc is packaging, but we won't
take the path to figure out what was the change and patch
cloud-hypervisor on the same way, because of 1.
Fixes: #3810
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
As mounting volumes into the guest requires SharedFS setup, let's ensure
we error out if trying to do so in a situation where SharedFS is not
supported.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
supportsSharedFS() is a new method to be used to ensure that no SharedFS
specifics are called when, for a reason or another, Cloud Hypervisor is
in a mode where SharedFSs are not supported.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
Similarly to the `createVirtiofsDaemon` and `stopVirtiofsDaemon` methos,
let's introduce and use loadVirtiofsDaemon, at it'll also be handy later
in this series.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
Similary to the `createVirtiofsDaemon` method, let's introduce and use
its counterpart, as it'll also be handy later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
Similarly to what's been done with the `createVirtiofsDaemon`, let's
create a `setupVirtiofsDaemon` one.
It will also become handy later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
Let's introduce and use a new `createVirtiofsDaemon` method. Its name
says it all, and it'll be handy later in this series when, spoiler
alert, SharedFS cannot be used (in such cases as in Confidential
Guests).
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
