apple/containerization currently runs containers in per-container VMs on
macOS hosts via Virtualization.framework. This adds a second VMM backend
so the same Swift orchestration layer (LinuxContainer / LinuxPod /
Vminitd gRPC contract) runs on Linux hosts via cloud-hypervisor + KVM.
**CloudHypervisor Swift package** (`Sources/CloudHypervisor/`) — a thin
client for cloud-hypervisor's REST-over-UDS API, layered on
AsyncHTTPClient. Endpoints cover VMM / VM lifecycle / hotplug (disk, fs,
net, vsock, remove-device). Cross-platform (compiles on macOS for unit
tests; consumed at runtime only by the Linux side of Containerization).
**CH backend in Containerization** — one cloud-hypervisor subprocess per
VM, gated behind `#if os(Linux)`. CHVirtualMachineManager /
CHVirtualMachineInstance mirror the VZ shape behind the existing
VirtualMachineManager / VirtualMachineInstance protocol. CHProcess and
VirtiofsdProcess manage the binaries; CHHotplugProvider handles
virtio-blk and virtio-fs runtime hotplug (with one virtiofsd per unique
source-hash tag, refcounted across containers).
**Linux host networking** — BridgeManager brings up a Linux bridge with
an IPv4 subnet and (opt-in via `--enable-nat`) iptables MASQUERADE +
scoped FORWARD rules. LinuxBridgedNetwork enslaves a fresh TAP per
container to the bridge. State is recorded under `/run/containerization`
so `cctl bridge delete` reverses exactly what create did. Bridge
teardown verifies the link kind via sysfs to refuse deleting non-bridge
interfaces.
**cctl run / bridge** — end-to-end Linux container run path (image pull,
ext4 rootfs assembly, VM boot, container exec) plus `cctl bridge
create|delete` for the host network plumbing.
**Build & dist** — `make linux-build` / `make linux-integration` build
and exercise the host side inside an apple/container `--virtualization`
dev container. `make dist-x86_64` produces a deployment tarball (cctl +
cloud-hypervisor + virtiofsd + initfs + kernel) cross-compiled from the
aarch64 dev container; pipeline documented in `docs/x86_64-build.md`.
Static-musl C deps and the Zig cross compiler are pinned by SHA256.
The host orchestrator runs as root. Per-VM runtime state lives under
`/run/containerization/ch/<UUID>` with mode 0700; UDS sockets inside are
bound with mode 0600. Vminitd's gRPC channel inherits that trust
boundary — socket-file perms are the auth.
Sandbox flags are upstream-secure by default. Two per-component opt-outs
exist for the apple/container dev-container case (where the host seccomp
profile SIGSYS-kills CH and virtiofsd):
- `CONTAINERIZATION_NO_CH_SECCOMP=1` — `cloud-hypervisor --seccomp
false`.
- `CONTAINERIZATION_NO_VIRTIOFSD_SANDBOX=1` — `virtiofsd --sandbox
none`. Each emits a one-shot `logger.warning` at process start. Legacy
alias `CONTAINERIZATION_RELAXED_SANDBOX=1` flips both. cctl spawns both
binaries with `setsid` and a minimal env allowlist (PATH / HOME /
RUST_LOG / RUST_BACKTRACE) so the parent's secrets don't leak to
children.
`make linux-integration` runs the cross-platform integration suite
against a real cloud-hypervisor VM inside the dev container. Linux runs
the cross-platform subset (`process true`/`false`/`echo hi`, virtiofs
round-trip, hotplug); the macOS suite is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: michael_crosby <michael_crosby@apple.com>
Extends the network plumbing to support per-interface IPv6 address
configuration.
The `Interface` protocol supports `ipv6Address` and `ipv6Gateway`.
The agent's networking RPCs carry per-family fields via new
`InterfaceAddress`, `LinkRoute`, and `DefaultRoute` types in
`ContainerizationExtras`.
`NetlinkSession` adds IPv6 methods for address and route operations.
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Co-authored-by: michael_crosby <michael_crosby@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Crosby <crosbymichael@gmail.com>
I've added an optional progress handler for rootfs unpacking so that
consumers can show progress. The Ubuntu image takes about 8 seconds to
unpack on my machine, and I'm developing an app where it would be useful
to show progress in the UI.
Total size is determined in an optional first pass that scans archive
headers. Bytes written are then reported during unpacking. The optional
first pass adds 15 (Alpine) to 115 (Ubuntu) ms to unpacking duration on
my machine, depending on image size.
The network protocol and VMNetNetwork implementation currently are
housed on ContainerManager even though they are generally useful types
even outside of this easy to use helper type. This change moves them to
not be nested types anymore, as well as exposes a new param on
VMNetNetworks constructor so we can pass the type of network.
This PR adds a `networking: Bool = true` parameter to
`ContainerManager.create()` so callers can opt out of network interface
creation on a per-container basis.
## Motivation
Currently, `ContainerManager.create()` unconditionally allocates a vmnet
network interface for every container (when the manager has a network
configured). Some use cases don't need network access and benefit from
having it disabled to reduce attack surface.
There's no way to achieve this today without either:
- Initializing the `ContainerManager` without a network (which disables
networking for *all* containers)
- Clearing `config.interfaces` in the configuration closure (which
wastes an IP allocation from the vmnet pool since `network.create(id)`
has already been called)
## Changes
- Add `networking: Bool = true` to all three `create()` overloads on
`ContainerManager`
- When `false`, `self.network?.create(id)` is skipped entirely. No
interface is allocated, and no DNS is configured.
- `releaseNetwork`/`delete` remain safe to call regardless, since
`Allocator.release` silently ignores unknown IDs.
- Add unit test `testNetworkingFalseSkipsInterfaceCreation` using the
existing `NilGatewayNetwork` fixture
- Add integration tests `testNetworkingDisabled` and
`testNetworkingEnabled` that create containers through a network-enabled
`ContainerManager` and verify the presence/absence of `eth0` via
`/sys/class/net/`
This adds support to LinuxContainer to be able to provide an optional
writable layer. This is useful as today the rootfs size is determined by
the size of the image block itself which is set in stone at unpack time
of the image. This leaves a lot to be desired because a user might want
a larger or smaller rootfs size, but it's not configurable on a per
container basis because of this. To support this, we can pass an
additional writable block device that we can overlayfs with the image
contents in the guest. All writes will go to this writable layer, and
the rootfs size in the container is now whatever size this writable
layer is.
The block devices (via our ext4 package, but you could use whatever) are
cheap enough to generate on the fly that you can choose whatever size
you want easily.
I've extracted the network cleanup step from `delete` into a new public
`releaseNetwork` method. This mirrors the existing `release` on
`VmnetNetwork` and enables stop-and-restart workflows where the network
allocation needs to be freed without removing the container's rootfs.
## Changes
- Add `ContainerManager.release(_:)` — frees network resources for a
container after it has stopped
- Refactor `delete(_:)` to call `releaseNetwork(_:)` before removing
files, preserving existing behavior
## Motivation
Currently the only way to free a container's network allocation is
`delete`, which also removes its files. This makes it impossible to stop
a container (freeing the network so the ID can be re-allocated) and
later restart it with its filesystem intact. The new `releaseNetwork `
method fills this gap.
- Guarded against ipv4Gateway if nil and throw
`ContainerizationError(.invalidState, ...)` instead of force unwraping
- Added a unit test
`ContainerManagerTests.testCreateThrowsWhenGatewayMissing`
- Simplifies processing and validation of MAC addresses for
apple/container#1005, where we need to create MAC addresses and
corresponding link local IPv6 addresses.
- Adds Codable for IPAddress and CIDR for apple/container#1006, so we
can parse and relay IP addresses regardless of address family for port
forwards.
Taking in a filehandle gives the user quite a bit more freedom on how to
handle boot log output. They can set up a kqueue watch on it and
redirect output somewhere else etc etc. The implementation for this has
us take in a new BootLog type that has two options:
1. .file, which is analogous to what we had prior. Just provide a URL
and a true by default append field.
2. .fileHandle which is the new addition. Can pass any fd that is
writable, and the VMM should write serial console output to it.
Closes#227
Previously, the bootlog was supplied once in the constructor to
VZVirtualMachineManager which meant that if you used this same manager
for multiple ctrs that all logs would end up going to the same file,
which becomes quite cumbersome to follow..
This change moves bootlog to be a container configuration param and also
moves it to be a VMConfiguration param, so it can be threaded through
from LinuxContainer -> vmm.create() and be truly container unique now.
The largest driver for this was the integration tests which today every
single test spits out logs to a singular file, making guest
investigations tricky to actually look into.
Result after:
```
➜ containerization git:(bootlog-per-ctr) ✗ ls -alh bin/bootlogs
total 1520
drwxr-xr-x@ 24 dcantah staff 768B Oct 22 17:34 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 dcantah staff 256B Oct 22 17:34 ..
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-cat-mount.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 22K Oct 22 17:34 test-cgroup-limits.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 249K Oct 22 17:34 test-concurrent-processes-output-stress.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 167K Oct 22 17:34 test-concurrent-processes.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-devconsole.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-hostname.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-hosts-file.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-manager.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 22K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-reuse.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-statistics.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-container-stdin.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 0B Oct 22 17:34 test-nested-virt.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-pause-resume-io.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-pause-resume-wait.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-pause-resume.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-custom-home-envvar.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-echo-hi.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-false.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-home-envvar.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-true.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 11K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-tty-envvar.log
-rw-------@ 1 dcantah staff 38K Oct 22 17:34 test-process-user.log
```
Today this protocols create method is just odd. Our only implementation
of it immediately casts to LinuxContainer, failing if it cannot do so. I
think what might make more sense is to pass in a configuration itself
with core parameters that we expect every vmm to be able to support, and
then in a specific implementation they can continue to cast this type to
a specific one to possibly extract some extra configuration values
(rosetta for VZ for example).
This rework will also make it simpler to support a Pod type, as the vm
setup is identical and simple.
The `allocations` property in the nested `Allocator` structure wasn't
updated. This PR resolves the problem by using mutating methods and
keeping the original types as structs.
A ContainerManager is a type that handles more of the required resource
needed to create and run a container.
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Signed-off-by: crosbymichael <michael_crosby@apple.com>
Michael Crosby