Re: [libvirt] Exposing some unique features?

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia(a)jp.fujitsu.com&gt; 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(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 >> >> -- >> Libvir-list mailing list >> Libvir-list(a)redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > > >