[Libvir] Web Interface Question

[Henri Cook]

I'd be very interested in the output, I really enjoy learning languages
by-project although in my case the result isn't often the best way of
doing things :p Maybe it's the way I learn!!

The bonus of python presumably is that you can use the api straight from
a python website, at the moment i'm using PHP (which i know extremely
well and can whack up a website in in no time) to exec() perl scripts
which do the administrative tasks for me.

There's certainly an open source project in here somewhere, something
where sysadmins can slot in a solution with their existing setup without
having to do enormous amounts of reconfiguration - in an operating
system independent manner (even the webserver could be packaged, like
webmin or cpanel)). Glad to hear i'm not the only one out there, let me
know if I can help at all.

Henri

Spencer Parker wrote:
> I am actually in the process of trying to develop one of these in
> Python.  Since I am pretty new to python or programming in general, it
> has been a really good learning experience.  I haven't really gotten
> very far yet...since its all learning about basically everything...its
> been fun.  I have made some basic calls to the API and had the info
> shoved into a MySQL database...but thats about...nothing grand.
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
> <berrange at redhat.com <mailto:berrange at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:38:17PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>     > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:35:33PM +0100, Henri Cook wrote:
>     > > I'm designing a web interface for libvirt so that my customers can
>     > > manage their DomUs - unless you know of a good one that
>     already exists???
>     > >
>     > > I'm thinking that the best way to run this is have the web server
>     > > connected to libvirtd - but I can't find any documentation
>     about the API
>     > > it presents - can you help?
>     >
>     > I sort of gathered from IRC that you are using Perl & Dan's Perl
>     > bindings.  This is the right approach.
>     >
>     > In order to be able to contact libvirtd without needing to run
>     > anything as root you (may) need to change the permissions on the
>     > libvirtd socket (normally /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock).  If your
>     > libvirt was configured to use PolicyKit you may also need to
>     edit the
>     > configuration file /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to allow your web
>     > server user access to the privilege 'org.libvirt.unix.manage'.
>
>     PolicyKit is one option - you'd need to edit
>     /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
>     to add an explicit rule allowing the httpd user access.
>
>     Alternatively you could switch the UNIX socket to use SASL as its auth
>     method, and setup a SASL username & password
>
>     There's some docs here
>
>     http://libvirt.org/auth.html
>
>     Dan.
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