[Libguestfs] [PATCH] docs: Add extra permission needed for non-admin download with VMware 7

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu May 19 10:53:14 UTC 2022


On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 05/19/22 10:52, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > From: Ming Xie <mxie at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817050
> > ---
> >  docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> > index ab2d28e41f..60cff93994 100644
> > --- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> > +++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> > @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ Enable (check) the following objects:
> >     Provisioning:
> >       - Allow disk access
> >       - Allow read-only disk access
> > +     - Allow virtual machine download
> >   
> >   Cryptographic operations:
> >    - Decrypt
> > 
> 
> The context a bit higher up includes "using VMware vCenter 6.5"; does
> that still apply here?
> 
> ... Either way, if this new permission simply didn't exist under VMware
> vCenter 6.5 yet, users on that platform will just ignore this new hint here.
> 
> Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>

I tightened up the preceeding text to say that users should
set as many as possible.  v2 sent.

Rich.

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