Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 RFC 34/34] char: introduce support for TLS encrypted TCP chardev backend

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 10:07:15PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:22:37PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > This integrates support for QIOChannelTLS object in the TCP
> > chardev backend. If the 'tls-cred=NAME' option is passed with
> > the '-chardev tcp' argument, then it will setup the chardev
> > such that the client is required to establish a TLS handshake
> > when connecting. The 'acl' option will further enable the
> > creation of a 'char.$ID.tlspeername' ACL which will be used
> > to validate the client x509 certificate, if provided.
> > 
> > A complete invokation to run QEMU as the server for a TLS
> > encrypted serial dev might be
> > 
> >   $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
> >       -nodefconfig -nodefaults -device sga -display none \
> >       -chardev socket,id=s0,host=127.0.0.1,port=9000,tls-cred=tls0,server \
> >       -device isa-serial,chardev=s0 \
> >       -object qcrypto-tls-cred,id=tls0,credtype=x509,\
> >         endpoint=server,dir=/home/berrange/security/qemutls,verify-peer=off
> > 
> > To test with the gnutls-cli tool as the client:
> > 
> >   $ gnutls-cli --priority=NORMAL -p 9000 \
> >        --x509cafile=/home/berrange/security/qemutls/ca-cert.pem \
> >        127.0.0.1
> > 
> > If QEMU was told to use 'anon' credential type, then use the
> > priority string 'NOMAL:+ANON-DH' with gnutls-cli
> > 
> > Alternatively, if setting up a chardev to operate as a client,
> > then the TLS credentials registered must be for the client
> > endpoint. First a TLS server must be setup, which can be done
> > with the gnutls-serv tool
> > 
> >   $ gnutls-serv --priority=NORMAL -p 9000 \
> >        --x509cafile=/home/berrange/security/qemutls/ca-cert.pem \
> >        --x509certfile=/home/berrange/security/qemutls/server-cert.pem \
> >        --x509keyfile=/home/berrange/security/qemutls/server-key.pem
> > 
> > Then QEMU can connect with
> > 
> >   $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
> >       -nodefconfig -nodefaults -device sga -display none \
> >       -chardev socket,id=s0,host=127.0.0.1,port=9000,tls-cred=tls0 \
> >       -device isa-serial,chardev=s0 \
> >       -object qcrypto-tls-cred,id=tls0,credtype=x509,\
> >         endpoint=client,dir=/home/berrange/security/qemutls
> 
> I've applied your 'qemu-io-channel-7' branch locally, compiled QEMU and
> began to play around.
> 
>     $ git describe
>     v2.3.0-rc3-42-g5878696
> 
> When running QEMU either as server or as client, I notice this error
> (further below are the details of how I tested):
> 
>     [. . .]
>     qemu-system-x86_64: -object qcrypto-tls-cred,id=tls0,credtype=x509,:
>     invalid object type: qcrypto-tls-cred

Typo in my commit message - it should end in  '-creds' not '-cred' for
the object type.

Regards,
Daniel
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