Re: [libvirt] libguestfs integration: rich disk access for libvirt applications

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:34:19AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [To explain this option in more detail] (a) Modify guestfs_add_domain in the case where the libvirt connection is remote. How do we know if the libvirt connection is remote? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-April/msg00890.html As Dan pointed out elsewhere, any libvirt URI that has a host element is probably "remote" even if the host element is "localhost" (since that might indicate some sort of cross-user/-policy access). (b) Add a libvirt API to open up a remote libguestfs. Something like this: int virConnectStartGuestfsDaemon ( virConnectPtr conn, /* libvirt connection */ const char *unix_path, /* path to local unix domain socket */ unsigned int flags ); (c) At the remote end, libvirtd launches the libguestfs appliance in qemu. - How would it do this? - Would it reuse libguestfs code for this? - Would it call febootstrap-supermin-helper itself? Or another method? - Do we need to pass any libguestfs parameters over (eg. path? qemu? verbose? append? memsize? selinux?) - Where do qemu log messages go to? (d) The virtio serial port is forwarded back to the libvirt client side, causing the Unix domain socket to be opened. (e) The libguestfs library now calls guestfs_set_attach_method with the name of the socket. (f) The libguestfs tool works away as before. (No change to the tool or API, which is good). (g) guestfs_close closes the socket. - Does libvirt detect this automatically? - Do we need to take some action to knock down the forwarding? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org