On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:01:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Of course, if you are doing all this, it does beg the question of why > libguestfs couldn't simply mount both the root and boot partitions of > the guest vm, chroot into the root fs, then issue all the above grub > commands using the guest vm's copy of grub (I'm assuming grub is > installed, after all, it isn't guaranteed to be able to boot in the > future if you uninstall the grub rpm package after guest installation). I'm wary about running guest code. Such code can trivially take over the appliance, and from there try to exploit qemu or send back bogus data to the library part. I like to think that libguestfs is programmed defensively, but it's very easy to make mistakes in a large C library (let alone qemu). For more see the "security:" sub-heading here: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#running_commands Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
