[libvirt-users] Accessing xenstore from libvirt
Hi, is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell? I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still... Thanks, Marin
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Marin Bek wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell?
I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still...
No, we don't expose this kind of capability at this time Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Marin Bek wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell?
I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still...
No, we don't expose this kind of capability at this time
And I don't think we ever will support generic xenstore read and write through libvirt. xenstore is uniquely Xen :-). In the old xen driver, xenstore is used (along with xend and hypercalls) to implement the overall functionality of the driver, but there are no specific APIs for reading from / writing to xenstore. Regards, Jim
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:43:56AM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Marin Bek wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell?
I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still...
No, we don't expose this kind of capability at this time
And I don't think we ever will support generic xenstore read and write through libvirt. xenstore is uniquely Xen :-). In the old xen driver, xenstore is used (along with xend and hypercalls) to implement the overall functionality of the driver, but there are no specific APIs for reading from / writing to xenstore.
If libvirt did ever want to support passthrough of xenstore reads/writes, it would have to be in a separate libvirt-libxl.so library, in the same way that we allow passthrough of QEMU monitor commands via a separate libvirt-qemu.so library. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
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Marin Bek