[libvirt] RFC: virt-console

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:49:34PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:56:25AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:21:38PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> > > 
> > > See implementation here:
> > > 
> > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~johnlev/virt-console/
> > > 
> > > (inside libvirt.hg/patches/libvirt/virt-console)
> > 
> >   Hum :-)
> > 
> > ++ * Daniel Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> > ++ *
> > ++ * Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> 
> What?

  Well I found that a bit strange, if Daniel Berrange wrote it I doubt the
copyright would be Sun Microsystem, and vice-versa, maybe there is an
author missing or something.

> > > This splits virsh console into a separate binary to allow it to be
> > > setuid-root on Solaris (where we check permissions then drop privilege).
> > > It also fixes a number of RFEs
> > > 
> > > This is against 0.4.0, so it's not ready for merging yet (I hope to get
> > > it forward ported at some point).
> > 
> >   I may be mistaken but this seems to basically be limited to console 
> > for domains running on the local machine, and hum, I doubt it's really
> > a good approach.
> 
> This is an incremental improvement over what exists in the current code
> (and indeed, is a partially a response to code review comments from
> Dan). It's not reasonable to expect me to go off and implement
> something else altogether (a remote console server).

  okay, I wasn't sure it was the plan and I was asking. As Dan pointed 
out it's the right approach, okay, I'm just surprized.

Daniel

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