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coordination #109668: [saga][epic] Stable and updated non-qemu backends for SLE validation

coordination #100688: [epic][virtualization][3rd party hypervisor] Add svirt backend compatibility for vmware 7.0

[virtualization][3rd party hypervisor][timeboxed:10h][research] Learn about VMWare VirtualMachine.AcquireTicket("webmks") API size:S

Added by okurz almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
High
Assignee:
mkittler
Category:
Feature requests
Target version:
Ready
Start date:
2021-10-11
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:

Description

Tasks

  • For #100688 research task: Learn about VirtualMachine.AcquireTicket("webmks") API first and refine ticket to understand if we can use "VNC as-is" or need further tunneling, etc.
  • Optional: Try it out on the live production VMWare 7 server , find credentials in #100688#note-25
  • Refine and estimate #100688 with the team

Acceptance criteria

  • AC1: #100688 is updated with what is required to establish a VNC connection with VMWare 7
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 #1

Updated by okurz almost 3 years ago

  • Copied from coordination #100688: [epic][virtualization][3rd party hypervisor] Add svirt backend compatibility for vmware 7.0 added
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 #2

Updated by okurz almost 3 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Priority changed from Normal to High
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Updated by livdywan almost 3 years ago

  • Subject changed from [virtualization][3rd party hypervisor][timeboxed:10h][research] Learn about VMWare VirtualMachine.AcquireTicket("webmks") API to [virtualization][3rd party hypervisor][timeboxed:10h][research] Learn about VMWare VirtualMachine.AcquireTicket("webmks") API size:S
  • Description updated (diff)
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Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

  • Assignee set to mkittler
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 #5

Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

Login via ssh root@10.67.131.2 and on https://10.67.131.2/ui/#/login is possible using credentials from #100688#note-25. Apparently the test license for ESXi is expired. The UI denies powering on the VM due to that. I suppose that's going to be a problem. It also says the machine isn't managed via vSphere which could also be a problem.

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 #6

Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Workable to Feedback

I tried to create a new VM but unfortunately this doesn't workaround the licensing issue.

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 #7

Updated by xlai almost 3 years ago

mkittler wrote:

Login via ssh root@10.67.131.2 and on https://10.67.131.2/ui/#/login is possible using credentials from #100688#note-25. Apparently the test license for ESXi is expired. The UI denies powering on the VM due to that. I suppose that's going to be a problem. It also says the machine isn't managed via vSphere which could also be a problem.

@nanzhang Would you please help on this?

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 #8

Updated by nanzhang almost 3 years ago

I've assigned an evaluation license. Please take a try again.

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 #9

Updated by nanzhang almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Workable
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 #10

Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

It works. Now that I could have a look at a live machine I can give more concrete info:

  • The URL for requesting VNC via websocket looks like this: https://10.67.131.2/sdk/¹
    • One needs the operationID and number of the VM.
    • One gets a web socket URL in return.
  • The websocket URL looks like this: wss://10.67.131.2/ticket/c5d1da02b468acb1²

¹ Request headers:

POST /sdk/ HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.67.131.2
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Content-Type: text/xml
SOAPAction: urn:vim25/7.0.2.0
VMware-CSRF-Token: 2svu170jkxfez9og06zbfybyd1zoghm9
Content-Length: 310
Origin: https://10.67.131.2
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://10.67.131.2/ui/
Cookie: vmware_client=VMware; vmware_soap_session="6944eb445e8bcc9a1880b9ec68c6ece484146886"
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin

Request data:

<Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Header><operationID>esxui-c51d</operationID></Header><Body><AcquireTicket xmlns="urn:vim25"><_this type="VirtualMachine">2</_this><ticketType>webmks</ticketType></AcquireTicket></Body></Envelope>

Response headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:15:10 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Content-Length: 726

Response data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
 xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<AcquireTicketResponse xmlns="urn:vim25"><returnval><ticket>c5d1da02b468acb1</ticket><cfgFile>/vmfs/volumes/5ffc09f2-d9e8dde4-1604-0cc47ac51e38/tools-team-testvm/tools-team-testvm.vmx</cfgFile><port>443</port><sslThumbprint>60:57:01:9A:EB:0F:59:9E:F9:65:D5:7C:C0:F9:C7:3A:3F:FD:C6:12</sslThumbprint><url>wss://vh002.qa2.suse.asia:443/ticket/c5d1da02b468acb1</url></returnval></AcquireTicketResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

² Request headers:

GET /ticket/c5d1da02b468acb1 HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.67.131.2
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Origin: https://10.67.131.2
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: binary, vmware-vvc
Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate
Sec-WebSocket-Key: u0aBMK+ibS5+ZzoR3Z3qBg==
Connection: keep-alive, Upgrade
Cookie: vmware_client=VMware; vmware_soap_session="6944eb445e8bcc9a1880b9ec68c6ece484146886"
Sec-Fetch-Dest: websocket
Sec-Fetch-Mode: websocket
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Upgrade: websocket

Response headers:

HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: binary
Sec-WebSocket-Accept: ylCtg6T1Wqyd+CfO3um5lxl0NrM=

Traffic looks like VNC. (Unfortunately Firefox's dev tools aren't well suited for looking at binary code.)

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 #11

Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Workable to Resolved

This is the minimum I could come up with for the acquiring the ticket:

Get session cookie (I replaced the credentials with "…"):

curl --insecure -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -H "SOAPAction: urn:vim25/7.0.2.0" -H "Cookie: vmware_client=VMware" -d '<Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Header><operationID>esxui-8fb8</operationID></Header><Body><Login xmlns="urn:vim25"><_this type="SessionManager">ha-sessionmgr</_this><userName>…</userName><password>…</password></Login></Body></Envelope>' https://10.67.131.2/sdk

Request the web socket URL:

curl --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -H "SOAPAction: urn:vim25/7.0.2.0" -H "Cookie: vmware_client=VMware; vmware_soap_session="84d5ef6d4cd8b80f32b8ef1a514d623c12013083"" -d '<Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Header><operationID>esxui-c51d</operationID></Header><Body><AcquireTicket xmlns="urn:vim25"><_this type="VirtualMachine">2</_this><ticketType>webmks</ticketType></AcquireTicket></Body></Envelope>' https://10.67.131.2/sdk

So the header VMware-CSRF-Token: 2svu170jkxfez9og06zbfybyd1zoghm9 is not required.

I checked the web socket headers in Chromium which can display binary data much better:

00000000: 0014 0004 0000 0000 0010 0010 574d 567f  ............WMV.
00000001: 0100 0500 0316 018a 0000 0000 0010 0010  ................
00000002: ffff fefc a0df 8000 8950 4e47 0d0a 1a0a  .........PNG....
00000003: 0000 000d 4948 4452 0000 0010 0000 0010  ....IHDR........
00000004: 0802 0000 0090 9168 3600 0000 2649 4441  .......h6...&IDA
00000005: 5428 5363 6420 1130 1252 800e 4635 1003  T(Scd .0.R..F5..
00000006: 4635 40c0 aa55 ab30 0521 202c 2c8c 1a1a  F5@..U.0.! ,,...
00000007: f003 004d ca06 11d9 feb7 6300 0000 0049  ...M......c....I
00000008: 454e 44ae 4260 8200 3001 8000 1000 1057  END.B`..0......W
00000009: 4d56 7f02 0005 0001 c000 0000 0000 0000  MV..............
0000000a: 0057 4d56 7c52 1059 6c95 0000 00         .WMV|R.Yl....

When I interpret it correctly, the encoding is specified as 574d 567f (2136362327). That's not specified in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6143#section-7.7. The fact that the PNG magic number (8950 4E47 0D0A 1A0A) is part of the payload let's me think that PNG is used here. Our VNC implementation doesn't support it. I hope the server will not use it in case the client doesn't support it.

I suppose with all of that information it should be possible to start working on #100688.

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 #12

Updated by okurz almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Feedback

please see AC1. The important parts should be in the parent epic or a sibling specific ticket with suggestions what to implement

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 #13

Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

But I have updated the description of #100688. Do I really need to replicate the content of the comments here? I also don't see any parent tickets or epics. AC1 only mentions #100688.

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 #14

Updated by okurz almost 3 years ago

Well, we need to ensure that the team can estimate #100688 accordingly. So whatever is necessary to get that done we need :)

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 #15

Updated by okurz almost 3 years ago

  • Parent task set to #100688
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 #16

Updated by mkittler almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
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