[libvirt] Per-VM access control

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Feb 16 22:35:12 UTC 2009


Radek Hladik wrote:
> Jan Kasprzak napsal(a):
>>     Hello,
>>
>> is it possible to run libvirt as a "hosting-like" environment?
>> we would like to provide virtual machines for our users, but we would
>> like them to be able to reset/reboot/poweroff only their own VMs,
>> connect to the serial console of their own VMs only, and even maybe
>> connect to the graphical console of their own VMs.
> 
> I am solving the same problem.
> 
> The access to graphical console can be made via password protected VNC.
> Latest libvirt release support this. However in my setup the password
> sometimes disappears during other actions (i.e. removing iso image via
> virt-manager). 

Pretty sure this is a virt-manager bug. I'm guessing we aren't using the
correct DumpXML flags behind the scenes when redefining the VM. I'll
take a look at it.

Thanks,
Cole




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