IvanHunters 94abf6940b feat(kubernetes): let kubevirt-csi detach without the HotplugVolumes gate (#4451)
## What this PR does

This lets kubevirt-csi detach volumes without the deprecated KubeVirt
`HotplugVolumes` gate. The default stays as it is, so nothing changes at
runtime yet. Part of #4032.

The driver got a switch upstream for exactly this, and I bumped to it.
kubevirt/csi-driver#382 added `--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback`, merged as
cb4770e4e475. With it set to false, the driver no longer calls the
VMI-level `removevolume` on a VMI owned by a VM. virt-api rejects that
call once `HotplugVolumes` is off.

Our wrapper now passes the flag to upstream and no longer has its own
hot-unplug path. `unpublishHotplugVolume` was a backport of
kubevirt/csi-driver#184, and the previous pin already contained that
change. Upstream detaches from the VMI when the VM is gone, then waits
for the VMI status to drop the volume before it returns. So the
wrapper's re-check never found the volume attached. Adding the ownership
check there would have been dead code.

Closes #4450

The chart leaves the flag at its default of true and does not render it.
The driver image in the chart is stamped only at release preparation, so
between releases main runs the previous release's binary, which does not
know the flag. Go's `flag` package exits on an unknown flag. Rendering
`=true` would crash-loop the CSI controller for no effect. The right
value depends on the KubeVirt CR, not on the tenant, so the comment next
to `HotplugVolumes` in `kubevirt-cr.yaml` points at the controller
Deployment. The follow-up PR drops the gate and renders the flag as
false.

Nothing changes on the node side. Main already pins f5de10d39556, and
cb4770e4e475 is that commit plus kubevirt/csi-driver#382.

A Go unit test runs an unpublish through the wrapper during a teardown,
with the flag on, off with a VM-owned VMI, and off with an orphaned VMI.
It checks that the flag reaches upstream and that only upstream makes
the VMI-level call. Upstream's own tests cover the ownership rule. A
second test holds that an NFS volume only releases the node from its
CiliumNetworkPolicy and never reaches the upstream hot-unplug. A
helm-unittest pins that the chart renders no such argument. I haven't
built the image or run e2e. Volume attach and detach on a tenant cluster
in e2e is the real check.

### Screenshots

No UI change.

### Downstream repositories

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- follow-up:
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- follow-up:
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- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
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follow-up:
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follow-up:
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[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
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follow-up:
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### Release note

```release-note
feat(kubernetes): kubevirt-csi supports --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback, so it can detach volumes without the KubeVirt HotplugVolumes feature gate. The flag stays true for now and behaviour is unchanged.
```
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