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author | Corey Hickey <chickey@tagged.com> | 2022-07-01 09:58:53 -0700 |
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committer | Corey Hickey <chickey@tagged.com> | 2022-07-06 16:07:56 -0700 |
commit | 03ee8204d394da467e991b9ec62581b80fc6c2fb (patch) | |
tree | 2123ff17cd2c2712ddcfd10045afe2f82ee1945f /docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-init.1.md | |
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podman machine: make 9p security model configurable; adjust docs
This addresses:
Symlinks don't work on podman machine on macOS Monterey when using volumes feature #13784
This change does NOT exactly fix the bug, but it does allow the user to
work around it via 'podman init' option, e.g.:
podman machine init -v "$HOME/git:$HOME/git:ro:security_model=none"
If the default security model were to be changed to 'none', then that
would fix the bug, at the possible cost of breaking any use cases that
depend on 'mapped-xattr'.
The documentation of the purpose and behavior of the different security
models seems to be rather light:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup#Starting_the_Guest_directly
From testing, it appears that the mapped-xattr security model intends to
manage symlinks such that the guest can see the symlinks but the host
only sees regular files (with extended attributes). As far as I can
tell, this behavior only makes sense when the guest is the only thing
that ever needs to create and read symlinks. Otherwise, symlinks created
on the host are unusable on the guest, and vice versa.
As per the original commit: 8e7eeaa4dd14621bda15e396fcd7b9187bc500c5
[NO NEW TESTS NEEDED]
Also document existing ro and rw options.
Also remove misleading statement about /mnt. By my observation, this
line is incorrect. If the intended meaning is different, then I don't
understand.
The default volume is mounted read/write and is not within /mnt.
[core@localhost ~]$ mount | grep 9p
vol0 on /Users/chickey type 9p (rw,relatime,sync,dirsync,access=client,trans=virtio)
Signed-off-by: Corey Hickey <chickey@tagged.com>
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-init.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-init.1.md index 2adb15e6a..21c98b2c7 100644 --- a/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-init.1.md +++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-init.1.md @@ -76,15 +76,33 @@ Set the timezone for the machine and containers. Valid values are `local` or a `timezone` such as `America/Chicago`. A value of `local`, which is the default, means to use the timezone of the machine host. -#### **--volume**, **-v**=*source:target* +#### **--volume**, **-v**=*source:target[:options]* Mounts a volume from source to target. Create a mount. If /host-dir:/machine-dir is specified as the `*source:target*`, Podman mounts _host-dir_ in the host to _machine-dir_ in the Podman machine. -The root filesystem is mounted read-only in the default operating system, -so mounts must be created under the /mnt directory. +Additional options may be specified as a comma-separated string. Recognized +options are: +* **ro**: mount volume read-only +* **rw**: mount volume read/write (default) +* **security_model=[model]**: specify 9p security model (see below) + +The 9p security model [determines] https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup#Starting_the_Guest_directly +if and how the 9p filesystem translates some filesystem operations before +actual storage on the host. The +default value of *mapped-xattr* specifies that 9p store symlinks and some file +attributes as extended attributes on the host. This is suitable when the host +and the guest do not need to interoperate on the shared filesystem, but has +caveats for actual shared access; notably, symlinks on the host are not usable +on the guest and vice versa. If interoperability is required, then choose +*none* instead, but keep in mind that the guest will not be able to do things +that the user running the virtual machine cannot do, e.g. create files owned by +another user. Using *none* is almost certainly the best choice for read-only +volumes. + +Example: `-v "$HOME/git:$HOME/git:ro,security_model=none"` Default volume mounts are defined in *containers.conf*. Unless changed, the default values is `$HOME:$HOME`. |