[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2] docs: Add extra permission needed for non-admin download with VMware 7

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu May 19 12:02:04 UTC 2022


On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 01:27:38PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 05/19/22 12:52, 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 | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> > index ab2d28e41f..bccf0f7490 100644
> > --- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> > +++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> > @@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ write to libvirt or any other supported target.
> >  
> >  Instead of using the vCenter Administrator role, you can create a
> >  custom non-administrator role to perform the conversion.  You will
> > -however need to give it a minimum set of permissions as follows
> > -(using VMware vCenter 6.5):
> > +however need enable the following permissions (or as many as are
> > +available, older versions of VMware were missing some of these
> > +settings):
> >  
> >  =over 4
> >  
> > @@ -585,6 +586,7 @@ Enable (check) the following objects:
> >     Provisioning:
> >       - Allow disk access
> >       - Allow read-only disk access
> > +     - Allow virtual machine download
> >   
> >   Cryptographic operations:
> >    - Decrypt
> > 
> 
> Great, thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>

Thanks - commit 2bf8fae2a6

Rich.

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