[Libguestfs] How to use libguestfs access LVM as non-root user?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:39:53PM +0800, Qiu Yu wrote:
> $ cat test.py
> import guestfs
> g = guestfs.GuestFS()
> g.add_drive_opts("/dev/xenvg/123", format="qcow2")

Another option is to completely omit the 'format = ...' option.

Then libguestfs will autodetect the format for you.

However this is not as secure as specifying the format:
  http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#cve-2010-3851
so in production code you should specify the format if you know it,
especially if the guest is not trusted.

In recent libguestfs >= 1.20 you can also query the format using:
`g.disk_format (filename)' but you should still be careful that
you don't accidentally hit CVE-2010-3851.

Rich.

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