On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:47:52PM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote: > I'm looking at building a framework which makes use of KVM's > pseudo-migration support for snapshot management. To my knowledge, this > functionality is not presently available through libvirt. > > Is it possible to send arbitrary qemu/kvm admin console commands to a VM > started and controlled by libvirt, or does any requirement for > funtionality not presently exposed through libvirt conflict with its use? Providing access to the monitor console is a huge security hole - the guest admin would be able to access any file on the host. There was a previous CVE issued for such a security flaw in Xen. Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list