On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:43:56AM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Marin Bek wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other > >> programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell? > >> > >> I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still... > > > > No, we don't expose this kind of capability at this time > > And I don't think we ever will support generic xenstore read and write through > libvirt. xenstore is uniquely Xen :-). In the old xen driver, xenstore is used > (along with xend and hypercalls) to implement the overall functionality of the > driver, but there are no specific APIs for reading from / writing to xenstore. If libvirt did ever want to support passthrough of xenstore reads/writes, it would have to be in a separate libvirt-libxl.so library, in the same way that we allow passthrough of QEMU monitor commands via a separate libvirt-qemu.so library. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
