Run 5 on the real host bisected the guest hang: the Debian 13 image
hangs after GRUB under SeaBIOS with or without our seed and with either
CPU model, and boots under OVMF. The image's legacy boot chain is the
problem, not the provider.
images.<key>.firmware is "uefi" (default) or "bios". The domain XML
emits <os firmware="efi"> with secure boot off, so libvirt selects the
OVMF binary and manages the NVRAM file, which the existing nvram undefine
flag removes. Direct-URL images default to UEFI too. OVMF joins the
hypervisor prerequisites; sample, config table, known gaps, decision log
and the execution log record the finding.
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The first live run showed the trace working but noisy: testr printed
ts/level/msg and the per-run constants on every line, the error text
appeared twice, host appeared twice on image-cache lines, and the Go
method name was less useful than the libvirt function it maps to.
The tracer now logs rpc=virDomainLookupByName (go-libvirt's names are the
public API names without the vir prefix), error plus libvirtError (code
name) and libvirtCode, and image.go stops re-adding host. The integration
test replaces testr with a compact logr sink: time, logger name, the rpc
as headline, then fields, with provider/host/name omitted since the first
line of the run states them. Docs and execution log updated.
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A tracingAPI decorator wraps the 17-method libvirt seam and logs one
"libvirt call" line per RPC after it returns: method, the identifiers it
was given, curated results, duration, and on failure the error with its
libvirt code, name and message. At V(2) the same line carries the domain
and volume XML, metadata and addresses; upload bodies are never logged.
The pool applies it in call() when V(1) is enabled and logs connect,
dial-failure and drop events, taking the caller's logger explicitly like
every other helper in the package.
The integration test installs a testr logger at KVM_TEST_LOG_LEVEL
(default 1) so the trace interleaves with t.Log output, which also ends
the "log.SetLogger(...) was never called" warning. Docs gained a Logging
section and the test env var; the KVM provider execution log records run
4 (guest hang at GRUB) that prompted this.
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The first run against a real hypervisor (beelink, Ubuntu, libvirt 11.6)
failed at DomainCreate with "Could not open base image: Permission denied"
even with correct DAC ownership. libvirt's virt-aa-helper only grants QEMU
access to disk sources that carry a path; the <disk type="volume"> form
chosen in Step 2 gives it pool and volume names instead, so the overlay and
its backing image get no AppArmor rule on any stock Debian/Ubuntu host.
buildDomainXML now takes DiskPath/SeedPath and emits type="file" disks.
ensureOverlay and writeSeed return the volume handles and Create resolves
both paths with StorageVolGetPath before defining the domain. The domain
XML test rejects any volume/pool reference so this cannot drift back; the
Create test asserts the sources equal the paths libvirt reported.
Execution log: Step 2 note marked reverted, Step 7 entry opened with the
two failed runs and the diagnosis.
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Create looks the domain up first and only starts it when it exists;
otherwise it caches the image, reuses or creates the overlay, rebuilds
the seed ISO unconditionally (a cancelled upload can leave a truncated
seed that no later attempt would repair), defines and starts the domain.
Get maps libvirt state plus the first routable IPv4 from ARP or the
guest agent onto the provider states. Delete destroys, undefines and
removes the per-VM volumes by name, tolerating every already-gone case.
ListByTag keeps managed domains across all hosts, skipping domains it
cannot read and failing the sweep only for an unreachable host.
Also corrects the Step 2 seed determinism test: the iso9660 writer
stamps the build time into the volume descriptor, so builds differ by a
few bytes; the test now compares label, files and size.
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Introduces internal/provider/kvm with the side-effect-free pieces of the
provider: providerID format/parse, the namespaced <metadata> element that
carries the GC contract, q35 domain XML over pool volumes, volume XML for
overlays and raw seeds, the NoCloud seed ISO built with kdomanski/iso9660,
and config defaults. All unit-tested.
Step 2 of docs/plans/2026-09-04-1404-kvm-provider.md.
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