[virt-tools-list] Virt-manager for specific user / VM

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Fri Oct 19 13:45:02 UTC 2012


On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Eric Blake wrote:

> Not yet, but there is a proposal being worked on that would eventually
> allow that to happen:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-May/msg00090.html

I see that was 'floated' earlier as well.  Is there a set of 
blockers, or milestone, to allow knowing a timeframe on a 
roadmap?  It would seem that the next major release of RHEL's 
documentation and hoped for feature set, so we probably won't 
see it in the enterprise product until a later entrant in that 
product line


We provide a 'wrapper' layer to permit access to selected 
'virsh' commands to (untrusted as to what they might attempt, 
intentionally or inadvertently) customers.  I know Luke 
Crawford at prgmr.com also has published sample code for a TUI 
console with selected commands in his 'no-starch' book
 	http://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Prgmr_menu

If you don't have the book, it is worth picking up for ideas, 
although as it is in a fast changing field, the specifics 
change
 	The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System
 	Administrator

The 'virsh' approach works for varying degrees of 'works', but 
requires either providing a static subset of commands, or a 
'sanitizing layer' of what we are willing to pass along

-- Russ herrold




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