[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] Add export to RHEV

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:14:46PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> Allow guests to be written to a RHEV NFS export storage domain.
> 
> Add 'rhev' output method and -osd command-line option.
> Example command line:
> 
>  virt-v2v -f virt-v2v.conf -ic 'esx://yellow.rhev.marston/' \
>           -o rhev -osd blue:/export/export RHEL3-32
> 
> This will connect to an ESX server and write the guest 'RHEL3-32' to
> blue:/export/export, which is a pre-initialised RHEV export storage domain.

> +    open($uuidgen, '<', '/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid')
> +        or die("Unable to open /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid: $!");

This really exists?  I'd be inclined to use the uuidgen command.  It
probably does the same thing, but I bet it's much more portable.

> +package Sys::VirtV2V::Target::RHEV::NFSHelper;

What's the purpose of this module?  It forks and changes EUID/EGID,
then runs a command, then execs /bin/true.  I couldn't understand why
it doesn't just run the command directly, with a wrapper around that
to change EUID/EGID, ie. what is the reason for forking?

Anyhow, the OVF may be hideous, but the general outline of this patch
is fine, so ACK.

Rich.

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