[libvirt-users] Libvirt access control drivers

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 05:25:25PM +0300, Anastasiya Ruzhanskaya wrote:
> I see. I also know OpenStack uses libvirt, nova-compute has a driver for
> communication.
> I have briefly looked through these 10 thousand lines of code in overall on
> github for openstack's libvirt driver and didn't notice any user info as
> well.
> To make the picture full don't you know is there the same scheme there:
> some high level openstack api with user information and passing only
> actions to libvirt? Or nova-compute may carry some user info to libvirt
> though it's interfaces ( which you then could use in your future role-based
> module)?

OpenStack has user information associated with VMs it is running, but it
would be hard to pass this to libvirt because a single connection is
used to manager many different users' VMs.

Regards,
Daniel
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