#!/bin/bash - # libguestfs # Copyright (C) 2011-2025 Red Hat Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. # Test that qemu snapshots are really isolating writes from the # underlying disk image. If this test were to fail, you could expect # libguestfs to cause massive disk corruption on live guests. source ./functions.sh set -e set -x skip_if_skipped f=isolation-qcow2.img rm -f $f guestfish disk-create $f qcow2 100M preallocation:metadata md5sum="$(do_md5 $f)" guestfish </dev/null part-disk /dev/sda mbr mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 / write /test This_is_a_test fill-pattern abc 5M /test2 # Really try hard to force writes to the disk. umount-all sync EOF # Now verify that the original disks have not been touched. function serious_error { echo echo echo "***** SERIOUS ERROR *****" echo "qemu’s snapshot isolation does not appear to be working." echo "Running libguestfs could cause disk corruption on live guests." echo echo "DO NOT USE libguestfs before you have resolved this problem." echo exit 1 } if [ "$(do_md5 $f)" != "$md5sum" ]; then serious_error fi rm $f