On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:22:28PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The current vshInit function in virsh tries some dodgy heuristics to see
> if it should connect readonly or read/write to the hypervisor.
> Unfortunately these heuristics fail, eg. when you have a root-owned
> system-wide qemud, and a user trying to run virsh as non-root.
>
> This patch removes the heuristics and replaces them with a simple -r |
> --readonly flag on the command line. If omitted, we try to connect
> read/write, otherwise we try to connect readonly.
I like this patch, but I don't think we can apply it in exactly the
form it is now. There may well be people already using virsh in a
non-root context with Xen, and this will break them requiring them
to add a --readonly arg in. I think we should add the explicit
--readonly flag patch attached, but also put in a simplified
heuristic for the Xen non-root case. I'd think I'd add in a snippet
of code looking like:
if (ctl->uid != 0 && (ctl->name == NULL ||
!strcmp(ctl->name, "Xen"))
ctl->readonly = TRUE;
If people agree, I'll apply Rich's patch with this addition ?
Regards,
Dan.
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