Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 693645
RFE: add spice option to enable/disable copy paste
Last modified: 2013-01-09 18:44:39 EST
From a security pov copy and paste between the guest and the client is not always desirable. So we need to be able to enable/disable this. The best place to do this from an administration pov is on the hypervisor, and thus on the qemu cmdline. I already have patches for spice-server to add a function call which will allow the qemu spice code to enable/disable copy paste, see bug 693638. This bug is for getting the qemu bits of this functionality into place. I've a patch for this which I'll attach.
Created attachment 489934 [details] Patch adding spice disable-copy-paste option
Mark qa_ack+ Talked to Hans via irc If you want to test it via qemu-kvm, please add options disable-copy-paste and newer spice-server -spice port=5932,disable-ticketing,disable-copy-paste
Tested on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6, there's no "disable-copy-paste" spice option. Boot with "disable-copy-paste" spice option, QEMU prompts: qemu-kvm: -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing,disable-copy-paste: Invalid parameter 'disable-copy-paste' parse error: port=5930,disable-ticketing,disable-copy-paste Verified passed on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.184.el6. 1. Boot RHEL6.2&win7 guest with the following command: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.2.0 -cpu cpu64-rhel6,+x2apic -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name RHEL6.2-64 -uuid 2b379603-6f73-497c-bbdc-d3dc948248e8 -monitor stdio -rtc base=localtime -boot c -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive file=/home/win7-32-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=ide-drive-0,format=qcow2,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=ide-drive-0,id=ide0 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:10:84:09,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel1,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -usb -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing,disable-copy-paste -k en-us -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 2. Install qxl driver, spice vdagent, and virtio-serial (win) driver inside guest. 3.Copy-paste some string between external host and guest, failed. Can not copy-paste. 4.Shutdown guest, boot guest again while removing "disable-copy-paste" option. 5.Copy-paste some string between external host and guest, succeed. The content is well copied and pasted. So, this issue is verified pass.
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Newer spice client and agent versions allow copy and pasting from client to guest, but this may not be desirable in all environments. qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.165.el6 adds a new -spice commandline argument "disable-copy-paste" which allows turning off copy and paste support for the virtual machine being started.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1531.html