[libvirt] Exposing some unique features?

[Atsushi SAKAI]

Hi, Quynh

Thank you for your comment.
I am clearified your question.
But I have no good idea to solve.
Someone may have a good idea.

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI



"Nguyen Anh Quynh" <aquynh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But that access control is about authenticating/authorizing, and that
> has nothing to do with the idea of "exposing unique features".
> 
> Thanks,
> Q
> 
> 
> >
> > "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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> >