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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12 virtual-machine images to EC2. It implements QEMU guest setup and VM lifecycle operations in Docker containers, integrates VM networking and security-group port forwarding, and adds tests, CI coverage, and documentation. ChangesEC2 VM support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EC2Client
participant EC2Service
participant Docker
participant VMContainer
participant QEMUGuest
EC2Client->>EC2Service: Request VM launch
EC2Service->>Docker: Build runner and fetch base image
EC2Service->>Docker: Create and start VM container
VMContainer->>QEMUGuest: Boot guest with QEMU and seed data
QEMUGuest-->>EC2Service: Emit console readiness markers
EC2Service-->>EC2Client: Return instance state
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Resolve VM rebuild failure handling and resource rollback before merging. Network fallback can leave newly allowed ports unreachable, cached images are not reverified, and seed-generation failures lose useful diagnostics. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to VM execution reduces defense-in-depth around guest-facing processes and adds conditional access to host virtualization facilities. Concurrent replacement and termination can also leave a VM running after termination. Fixed runner images, controlled storage mounts and existing network controls limit exposure, but host-policy enforcement and recovery behavior are not fully established. Retained concerns
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- Around line 1040-1052: In ChangeType, if recreateVM fails after updating the
stored VM instance, restore InstanceType, VCPUs, and MemoryMB to their
pre-change values before returning the rebuild error.
Review comments at @cli/internal/svc/ec2/vm/hc-vm-fetch:
- Line 8: Update the cache-file check before the download flow to verify an
existing `$dest` against `$sum` using the supported checksum algorithm. Reuse
the checksum logic already used for downloaded images if available; exit only
when the cached file matches, and remove a mismatched file so it is downloaded
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- Line 73: Update the VM backup description around CloudWatch’s `HC/EC2` metrics
in `architecture.md` to state that the root volume is backed up and the base
image is downloaded again on restore; keep it consistent with the backup
behavior documented in `CHANGELOG.md` and implemented in `vm.go`, where only the
`vm-images` volume is skipped.
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- Line 6: Update the docker build invocation in the probe script to exit with a
nonzero status if the image build fails. Preserve the existing handling of
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…he open-file limit, unconfine AppArmor), report and log the network mode, rebuild on rule changes in the fallback, shorter test waits
… not writable for it on Ubuntu hosts), better fallback hints
… log tee, vendor-data installs qemu-guest-agent, QGA and /proc parsers
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- Around line 583-599: Update rebuildVM to persist the replacement cid in the
instance before calling Docker.Start, returning a contextual error if that
update fails. If starting the replacement fails, persist the instance as stopped
with a failure reason and return the start error; preserve the existing success
flow and update PublicPorts only after a successful start.
- Around line 269-286: Persist the final network mode selected by the current
runner invocation in both vmStart and successful rebuildVM startup after
fallback selection completes and before lifecycle port synchronization. This
keeps VMNetwork consistent with the mode vmFwdMatches uses when checking
HC_VM_HOSTFWD; do not reconcile immediately after Docker.Start, since mode
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- Around line 23-26: Update the genisoimage invocation in the seed ISO creation
block to suppress stdout without discarding stderr, so its failure details
remain available in the container logs appended by launchVM.
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…umount2 and pivot_root instead of seccomp=unconfined
…images, containers recreated from their disk after a restore, stable NIC slot
…etrics) with the VM disk work; watch passt while the guest runs
…CI runs the disk test too
…vents), more memory headroom; fail the VM test as soon as passt is gone
…es (at boot or later), tests accept either network mode, fix the passt log handling that broke the fallback
…s AppArmor profile, backup test fixed - qemu-guest-agent no longer needs the guest's network: its packages (and the dependencies the distribution's minimal image lacks) are downloaded once into the image cache in a ubuntu:24.04 / debian:12 container and put on the cloud-init seed disk; the vendor data installs them with dpkg, falls back to the package mirror and retries at every boot while the agent is missing. - run-command's 409 says the agent is not connected and why (still booting, install failed, or not running). - passt runs from /usr/local/libexec/homecloud: a Docker host with the passt package (Ubuntu runners) attaches its AppArmor profile to /usr/bin/passt and confined the container's passt, which then died at the first inbound connection. A sandbox blocked by Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restriction is reported with a hint; the passt death report is kept in the server log before the container is rebuilt. - The image cache volume is created only when missing. - Tests: the backup used an account label that dockertest had replaced, so it archived nothing (226 bytes) and the restore had no disk to recreate the container from; it now uses dockertest's account, writes to a file and checks the size. The test image cache is not labelled with the test account (kept between tests). The network mode is read after the guest answers (the fallback can start mid-test), and a run-command timeout prints the console's agent install lines.
On Ubuntu 24.04 hosts (kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=1) passt
binds its socket, then fails to detach its namespaces and exits about 20 ms
later ("Failed to sandbox process"), after the entrypoint's start check, so the
guest booted with passt, lost its network and was rebuilt in user-mode
networking (a second boot after a 90 s power-off wait). The entrypoint now waits
up to 3 seconds for passt's sandbox and falls back to user-mode networking
before QEMU starts, with the AppArmor hint.
…orts
A passt that fails its sandbox has already bound every port; QEMU's user-mode
networking then could not set up its port forwards ("Could not set up host
forwarding rule 'tcp::22-:22'") and the container exited. The entrypoint now
kills and waits for that passt before starting QEMU. Checked locally with a
seccomp profile that lets passt bind its ports and then fail its sandbox: the
fallback starts QEMU with the forwards.
… VM instances in the services table)
…ork mode, rebuild start failure) - ChangeType: when the rebuild fails before replacing the container, the record gets the old instance type, vCPUs and memory back. - hc-vm-fetch verifies a cached cloud image against its checksum before using it and downloads it again when it does not match. - Start and rebuild record a fallback to user-mode networking chosen by the entrypoint (after it decides, before ports are synced), so vmFwdMatches compares the forwarded ports for such guests. - rebuildVM stores the replacement container before starting it; when the start fails, the instance is stopped with the reason and the error is returned instead of logged. - genisoimage errors stay in the container log. - The passt failure report no longer ends with the next line's timestamp.
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Part of #3.
RunInstances with a VM AMI (
ami-ubuntu-24-04-vm,ami-debian-12-vm) boots the official cloud image as a QEMU virtual machine. Same EC2 API, CLI, console and Terraform; container AMIs are unchanged.vm_network: passt|user, and the reason is in the server log. On Ubuntu 24.04 hosts (including GitHub's runners) passt can't sandbox because AppArmor restricts unprivileged user namespaces, so guests there run in the fallback; see VM instances: passt cannot run on Ubuntu 24.04 Docker hosts (guests fall back to user-mode networking) #90.-accel kvm -cpu host) when the Docker host exposes /dev/kvm, emulation (TCG) otherwise (virtualization: emulated). aarch64 guests use UEFI onvirt, x86_64 guestsq35./dev/disk/by-id/virtio-<volume id>); attach/detach rebuilds the guest. Snapshots, CreateImage andhomecloud backupflatten the root disk into a standalone qcow2.ubuntu:24.04/debian:12container) and put on the seed disk; the guest installs them without needing the network (the package mirror is the fallback, retried every boot). When the agent isn't connected, run-command's 409 says why.vmjob enables KVM on the runner and boots VMs end to end (lifecycle, run-command, metrics, serial terminal, security groups, disks, snapshots, images, backup and restore).