Hi Erno,

For the size of team I am in I think it would work well but it feels like I am 
putting the security of Nova in the hands of Glance.

What I was more after was a setting in Nova that says 'this hypervisor does not 
allow guest sockets and will ignore any attempt to create them', 'this 
hypervisor always creates guest sockets regardless of your choice', 'this 
hypervisor will respect whatever you throw in hw_qemu_guest_agent with a 
default of no', or 'this hypervisor will respect whatever you throw in 
hw_qemu_guest_agent with a default of yes'.  It feels like a more appropriate 
place to control and manage that kind of configuration.

Thanks for the pointer, and I will implement it in our environment, but I guess 
it opens up a larger question of '*should* I manage that kind of config in that 
manner?'

Regards,
Daniel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erno Kuvaja [mailto:ekuv...@redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2016 10:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][nova] Globally disabling 
hw_qemu_guest_agent support

Hi Daniel,

You might want to have look on the Glance Property Protections [0].
I'd assume that would do it for you?

[0] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/property-protections.html

Best,
Erno

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Daniel Russell <dani...@hostworks.com.au> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We are running a public cloud and allow customers to upload their own 
> images.  A concern we have is that a customer could set 
> hw_qemu_guest_agent=yes in the image metadata and then get a socket to 
> the hypervisor created when running.  For us, this is a bit of a 
> security concern and I’m not aware of any way to globally disable this 
> feature at the moment.
>
>
>
> Is there any work going on to add the ability to enable/disable the 
> feature globally?  Would it be of interest to the project(s) to add that?
>
>
>
> I am happy to look into it and am keen to start contributing if it’s 
> deemed low enough hanging fruit for a new guy!
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> DANIEL RUSSELL
> Solution Architect
>
>
>
>
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