Re: [Libvir] Thoughts on remote storage support

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:31:47PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There's an open-ended access control problem here. libvirtd runs as > root and host+path gives a way to read and write any file on the system. > > Better might be to allow the system administrator to configure > directories w

Re: [Libvir] Thoughts on remote storage support

2007-10-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Tóth István wrote: Richard W.M. Jones wrote: For example, here are the domains and their images running on my Xen host at the moment. I got this by writing a simple script which parses the domain XML: fc6_0: /var/lib/xen/images/fc6_0.img -> xvda /var/lib/xen/images/home.disk

Re: [Libvir] Thoughts on remote storage support

2007-10-08 Thread Tóth István
OOps, my spam filter ate your reply, sorry for the delay. Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Tóth István wrote: Hello! I had a hobby project where I needed to manipulate xen disk images on remote systems, that used a model similar to libirt's remote support. Based on what I learnt from it, I came up wi

Re: [Libvir] Thoughts on remote storage support

2007-09-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Tóth István wrote: Hello! I had a hobby project where I needed to manipulate xen disk images on remote systems, that used a model similar to libirt's remote support. Based on what I learnt from it, I came up with a possible model for libvirt's remote storage support. I present it here for discus

[Libvir] Thoughts on remote storage support

2007-09-14 Thread Tóth István
Hello! I had a hobby project where I needed to manipulate xen disk images on remote systems, that used a model similar to libirt's remote support. Based on what I learnt from it, I came up with a possible model for libvirt's remote storage support. I present it here for discussion. We typically