[libvirt] Exposing some unique features?

[Nguyen Anh Quynh]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hi, Quynh
>
> Did you see the libvirt access control feature?
> http://libvirt.org/auth.html
> You mean current access control feature is not enough for your use.

But that access control is about authenticating/authorizing, and that
has nothing to do with the idea of "exposing unique features".

Thanks,
Q


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> "Nguyen Anh Quynh" <aquynh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Though libvirt tries very hard to hide the difference between
>> hypervisors behind an abstraction layer, there are still differences
>> that we might want to expose to the users. For example, QEMU has the
>> monitor interface, which provides some unique functions. Users might
>> want to have access to the monitor interface and send command to it
>> (like "gdbserver" command?).
>>
>> So how can we expose such information? We can have a new driver
>> function, which return an opaque structure. The content of the
>> structure is of course depends on the hypervisor type.
>>
>> One problem is that this might be dangerous if users relies on the
>> QEMU monitor to execute some functions that should be done under
>> control.
>>
>> Idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Quynh
>>
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