Re: [libvirt] XML support for arbitrary command line arguments

On 9/14/2010 9:34 AM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) wrote: >On 9/14/2010 2:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:03:04AM +0530, Harsh Bora wrote: >>>As QEMU provides support for accessing such shared directory with the >>>help of 9p server, and therefore need to be passed additional >>>commandline argument while starting, I wanted to test it using XML and >>>libvirt. >> >>>So, if the idea looks good to everyone, we can have something like: >>> >>><shareddir fstype=local path='/folder/to/share' mount_tag='unique_tag' >>>security_model='as_applicable'> > >fstype may not be 'local' all the time. So in the XML description, I would >propose something like >fstype='filesystem type' or something like that. For now only QEMU >supports local. >This keyword represents all local filesystems like ext3/ext4 etc. >> >>We already have an XML syntax defined for filesystems using >>the<filesystem> element. I've proposed an impl for QEMU using >>p9fs before, but we didn't apply it yet. >> >>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-July/msg00458.html Taking a closer look at the Danial's patch above, it covers almost all our needs. Except that the fstype and security models are hard coded.

+ virBufferAddLit(&opt, "local,security_model=mapped"); Any reason why it was not taken yet?