qubes-doc/services/mgmt1.md
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# Management API
*(This page is the current draft of the proposal. It is not implemented yet.)*
The API should be implemented as a set of qrexec calls. This is to make it easy
to set the policy using current mechanism.
## The calls
| call | dest | argument | inside | return | note |
| ------------------------------------- | --------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---- |
| `mgmt.vmclass.List` | `dom0` | - | - | `<class>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.List` | `dom0|<vm>` | - | - | `<name> class=<class> state=<state>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.Create.<class>` | `dom0` | template | `name=<name> label=<label>` | - |
| `mgmt.vm.CreateInPool.<class>` | `dom0` | template | `name=<name> label=<label> pool=<pool>` | - |
| `mgmt.vm.CreateTemplate` | `dom0` | name | `root.img` | - |
| `mgmt.vm.Clone` | vm | - | `name=<name>` | - |
| `mgmt.vm.Remove` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.label.List` | `dom0` | - | - | `<property>\n` |
| `mgmt.label.Create` | `dom0` | label | `0xRRGGBB` | - |
| `mgmt.label.Get` | `dom0` | label | - | `0xRRGGBB` |
| `mgmt.label.Index` | `dom0` | label | - | `<label-index>` |
| `mgmt.label.Remove` | `dom0` | label | - | - |
| `mgmt.property.List` | `dom0` | - | - | `<property>\n` |
| `mgmt.property.Get` | `dom0` | property | - | `default={yes|no} type={str|int|bool|vm|label} <value>` |
| `mgmt.property.Help` | `dom0` | property | - | `help` |
| `mgmt.property.HelpRst` | `dom0` | property | - | `help.rst` |
| `mgmt.property.Reset` | `dom0` | property | - | - |
| `mgmt.property.Set` | `dom0` | property | value | - |
| `mgmt.vm.property.List` | vm | - | - | `<property>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.property.Get` | vm | property | - | `default={yes|no} <value>` |
| `mgmt.vm.property.Help` | vm | property | - | `help` |
| `mgmt.vm.property.HelpRst` | vm | property | - | `help.rst` |
| `mgmt.vm.property.Reset` | vm | property | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.property.Set` | vm | property | value | - |
| `mgmt.vm.feature.List` | vm | - | - | `<feature>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.feature.Get` | vm | feature | - | value |
| `mgmt.vm.feature.CheckWithTemplate` | vm | feature | - | value |
| `mgmt.vm.feature.Remove` | vm | feature | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.feature.Set` | vm | feature | value | - |
| `mgmt.vm.tag.List` | vm | - | - | `<tag>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.tag.Get` | vm | tag | - | `0` or `1` | retcode? |
| `mgmt.vm.tag.Remove` | vm | tag | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.tag.Set` | vm | tag | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.firewall.List` | vm | - | - | `<rule id> <rule>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.firewall.InsertRule` | vm | rule id | rule | rule id | insert before given rule, use `END` as rule id to add rule at the end
| `mgmt.vm.firewall.RemoveRule` | vm | rule id | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.firewall.Flush` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.device.<class>.Attach` | vm | device | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.device.<class>.Detach` | vm | device | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.device.<class>.List` | vm | - | - | `<device>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.device.<class>.Available` | vm | - | - | `<device>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.microphone.Attach` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.microphone.Detach` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.pool.List` | `dom0` | - | - | `<pool>\n` |
| `mgmt.pool.ListDrivers` | `dom0` | - | - | `<pool-driver> <property> ...\n` | Properties allowed in `mgmt.pool.Add`
| `mgmt.pool.Info` | `dom0` | pool | - | `<property>=<value>\n` |
| `mgmt.pool.Add` | `dom0` | driver | `<property>=<value>\n` | - |
| `mgmt.pool.Remove` | `dom0` | pool | - | - |
| `mgmt.pool.volume.List` | `dom0` | pool | - | volume id |
| `mgmt.pool.volume.Info` | `dom0` | pool | vid | `<property>=<value>\n` |
| `mgmt.pool.volume.ListSnapshots` | `dom0` | pool | vid | `<snapshot>\n` |
| `mgmt.pool.volume.Snapshot` | `dom0` | pool | vid | snapshot |
| `mgmt.pool.volume.Revert` | `dom0` | pool | `<vid> <snapshot>` | - |
| `mgmt.pool.volume.Resize` | `dom0` | pool | `<vid> <size_in_bytes>` | - |
| `mgmt.vm.volume.List` | vm | - | - | `<volume>\n` | `<volume>` is per-VM volume name, `<vid>` is pool-unique volume id
| `mgmt.vm.volume.Info` | vm | volume | - | `<property>=<value>\n` |
| `mgmt.vm.volume.ListSnapshots` | vm | volume | - | snapshot | duplicate of `mgmt.pool.volume.`, but with other call params |
| `mgmt.vm.volume.Snapshot` | vm | volume | - | snapshot | id. |
| `mgmt.vm.volume.Revert` | vm | volume | snapshot | - | id. |
| `mgmt.vm.volume.Resize` | vm | volume | size_in_bytes | - | id. |
| `mgmt.vm.Start` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.Shutdown` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.Pause` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.Unpause` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.vm.Kill` | vm | - | - | - |
| `mgmt.backup.Execute` | `dom0` | config i | - | - | config in `/etc/qubes/backup/<id>.conf` |
| `mgmt.backup.Info` | `dom0` | ? | content? | ? |
| `mgmt.backup.Restore` | `dom0` | ? | content | ? |
| `mgmt.Events` | `dom0|vm` | - | - | events |
Volume properties:
- `pool`
- `vid`
- `size`
- `usage`
- `rw`
- `internal`
- `source`
- `save_on_stop`
- `snap_on_start`
## Returned messages
First byte of a message is a message type. This is 8 bit non-zero integer.
Values start at 0x30 (48, `'0'`, zero digit in ASCII) for readability in hexdump.
Next byte must be 0x00 (a separator).
This alternatively can be thought of as zero-terminated string containing
single ASCII digit.
### OK (0)
```
30 00 <content>
```
Server will close the connection after delivering single message.
### EVENT (1)
```
31 00 <subject> 00 <event> 00 ( <key> 00 <value> 00 )* 00
```
Events are returned as stream of messages in selected API calls. Normally server
will not close the connection.
A method yielding events will not ever return a `OK` or `EXCEPTION` message.
When calling such method, it will produce an artificial event
`connection-established` just after connection, to help avoiding race
conditions during event handler registration.
### EXCEPTION (2)
```
32 00 <type> 00 ( <traceback> )? 00 <format string> 00 ( <field> 00 )*
```
Server will close the connection.
Traceback may be empty, can be enabled server-side as part of debug mode.
Delimiting zero-byte is always present.
Fields are should substituted into `%`-style format string, possibly after
client-side translation, to form final message to be displayed unto user. Server
does not by itself support translation.
## Tags
- `created-by-<vm>`
- `managed-by-<vm>`
- `backup-<id>`
## General notes
- there is no provision for `qvm-run`, but there already exists `qubes.VMShell` call
## TODO
- something to configure/update policy
- notifications
- how to constrain the events?
- how to pass the parameters? maybe XML, since this is trusted anyway and
parser may be complicated
- how to constrain the possible values for `mgmt.vm.property.Set` etc, like
"you can change `netvm`, but you have to pick from this set"; this currently
can be done by writing an extension
- a call for executing `*.desktop` file from `/usr/share/applications`, for use
with appmenus without giving access to `qubes.VMShell`; currently this can be
done by writing custom qrexec calls
- maybe some generator for `.desktop` for appmenus, which would wrap calls in
`qrexec-client-vm`
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