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feat: Convert guests on a host-arch qemu appliance - #38
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds configurable build targets, foreign-ISA execution through runtime binfmt registration, host-attached debug shells, configurable converter staging paths, explicit vSphere credentials, QEMU mount cleanup, and stricter dracut validation. ChangesBuild and converter configuration
Foreign-ISA execution and debug channel
QEMU mount lifecycle
Initramfs driver injection
Explicit vSphere credentials
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR enables foreign-architecture guest tooling and adds new VMware and QEMU debug workflows, but it currently permits guest-derived paths to influence privileged cleanup outside the intended mount root, exposes VMware passwords through command-line arguments, and documents credentialed connections with TLS verification disabled. These security and reliability issues should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ApplianceBuilder
participant GuestAgent
participant BinfmtMisc
participant GuestELF
ApplianceBuilder->>GuestAgent: Package foreign qemu-user-static
GuestAgent->>BinfmtMisc: Mount and register F-flag rules
GuestELF->>BinfmtMisc: Execute foreign-ISA ELF
BinfmtMisc->>GuestELF: Invoke matching qemu-user interpreter
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In `@cmd/kc-copy/main.go`:
- Around line 75-80: Normalize JSON credential fields with strings.TrimSpace
before the fallback checks in the input credential handling block, so
whitespace-only Username and Password values are treated as empty and receive
the CLI values. Preserve existing precedence for non-empty credentials and apply
the same behavior to both fields.
- Around line 22-23: Update the password handling in main so vSphere credentials
are read from a password-file or stdin rather than the --password argv flag,
while preserving the existing fallback behavior where applicable; remove the
password flag and revise its help/documentation to direct users to the non-argv
input mechanism.
Apply the same fix in `@docs/debug/fetch-vmware-disks.md` around lines 39 - 42:
The documentation currently forwards the password through the command-line
argument.
In `@docs/apps/kc-convert-windows.md`:
- Around line 21-30: Update the later Input-section guidance to reference the
configured --virtio-win-dir root when locating drivers, and describe
/usr/share/virtio-win only as its default value. Remove the outdated claim that
driver location is not controlled by CLI flags, keeping the existing
drivers/by-os path relationship and staging guidance consistent.
In `@docs/architecture/backends.md`:
- Around line 292-303: Update the documented qemu debug-socket workflow so the
fallback selection assigns the chosen path to the sock variable before invoking
socat; preserve use of KC_QEMU_DEBUG_SOCK when it is set and ensure the
unset-variable path no longer passes an empty socket to socat.
In `@docs/debug/fetch-vmware-disks.md`:
- Around line 81-84: Update the disk image ordering loop around disks and IMGDIR
so it uses a sorting approach supported on both documented host platforms,
preserving numeric ordering of diskN.img files and ensuring the resulting disks
array receives each drive argument.
- Around line 39-46: Remove the --insecure option from the credentialed kc-copy
command and configure certificate validation through --ca-cert or the system
trust store; retain --insecure only in a clearly separate lab example.
In `@docs/debug/README.md`:
- Around line 39-45: Update the build cookbook’s KC_APPLIANCE_ARCH and ARCHES
examples to use amd64 for x86_64 Linux hosts, while preserving arm64 guidance
for arm64 hosts and ensuring both variables select the host architecture
consistently.
In `@docs/debug/start-appliance.md`:
- Around line 34-52: Update the Apple Silicon/arm64 Linux QEMU command in the
appliance startup documentation to use KVM on Linux instead of hardcoding HVF;
preserve the repository contract by selecting HVF only on macOS, using separate
commands or platform-based accelerator selection.
In `@pkg/backend/plugins/qemu/discover.go`:
- Around line 180-184: Ensure mount paths recorded by the Apply flow cannot
escape mountRoot: normalize the guest mount point before constructing
mountEntry, and validate that hostMountFromGuest or applianceMountPath returns a
path contained within mountRoot. Preserve valid mount mappings while rejecting
crafted traversal such as /../../proc before it can affect UnmountAll.
In `@pkg/backend/plugins/qemu/run.go`:
- Around line 78-86: Update ensureDevFds to return the first devFdLinks creation
error instead of only logging it, while treating an already-correct link as
success. Propagate this error through mountVirtualFS and make RunCommand abort
before starting chroot when setup fails.
In `@pkg/backend/plugins/qemu/teardown.go`:
- Around line 27-29: Update UnmountFilesystems so recordAdoptedMounts is called
only when b.mounts is empty and b.session.ownedExternally is true; preserve the
existing unmount flow for local sessions.
In `@pkg/v2v/vsphere/connect.go`:
- Around line 51-52: Update the credential handling around the username and
password variables to preserve non-empty explicit values exactly, especially the
password passed to url.UserPassword and c.Login. Use trimmed copies only when
checking whether explicit credentials are blank, and trim file-derived contents
separately before applying URL fallback and final empty-credential validation.
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Register binfmt so an arm64 appliance can run x86 guest tools, and document a local qemu debug path with staged packages. Fix chroot /dev/fd and adopted-mount unmount so dracut and finalize succeed in that flow. Signed-off-by: yaacov <yzamir@redhat.com>
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Register binfmt so an arm64 appliance can run x86 guest tools, and document a local qemu debug path with staged packages. Fix chroot /dev/fd and adopted-mount unmount so dracut and finalize succeed in that flow.
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