[libvirt] Exposing some unique features?
Atsushi SAKAI
sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Aug 28 05:52:34 UTC 2008
Hi, Quynh
Did you see the libvirt access control feature?
http://libvirt.org/auth.html
You mean current access control feature is not enough for your use.
Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI
"Nguyen Anh Quynh" <aquynh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Though libvirt tries very hard to hide the difference between
> hypervisors behind an abstraction layer, there are still differences
> that we might want to expose to the users. For example, QEMU has the
> monitor interface, which provides some unique functions. Users might
> want to have access to the monitor interface and send command to it
> (like "gdbserver" command?).
>
> So how can we expose such information? We can have a new driver
> function, which return an opaque structure. The content of the
> structure is of course depends on the hypervisor type.
>
> One problem is that this might be dangerous if users relies on the
> QEMU monitor to execute some functions that should be done under
> control.
>
> Idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Quynh
>
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