[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] Add support for an XKCD mode

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 11:44:21 UTC 2016


On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:30:26 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The XKCD website primarily publishes comics, but many of them
> are in fact design blueprints showing best practice for software
> developers. A number of these designs are applicable to libvirt
> and will provide valuable features to our users. This series
> introduces a new framework for enabling these enhanced features
> via a so called "XKCD mode". They are not enabled by default
> since we want to retain backwards compatibility for existing
> users. Users of libvirt though are encouraged to enable as many
> of the features as possible for their deployments.
> 
> Daniel P. Berrange (4):
>   xkcd: add initial framework to enabling XKCD mode
>   xkcd: enable more efficient random number generator
>   xkcd: enabling pre-processing of XML with perl
>   xkcd: generate secure rememberable qcow2 passwords
> 
>  src/Makefile.am                 |  2 +
>  src/libvirt_private.syms        |  4 ++
>  src/util/virrandom.c            | 26 ++++++++-----
>  src/util/virstorageencryption.c | 47 ++++++++++++----------
>  src/util/virxkcd.c              | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/util/virxkcd.h              | 31 +++++++++++++++
>  src/util/virxml.c               | 35 ++++++++++++++---
>  7 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/util/virxkcd.c
>  create mode 100644 src/util/virxkcd.h

ACK and safe for the release.

Jirka




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