Dear all:
It's my first time to give a patch.
I've been trying to clone a virtual machine, where invoking the virt-clone from an Apache.
However, virt-clone give me such error
$ virt-clone -o debian-test -n debian-test6 -f /home/xen/domains/debian-test6.img
ERROR Must be privileged to clone Xen guests
I don't know if there are some serious concern about the clone priv,
but more over, I really need to clone the VM without root priv,
As a result, I made a patch as following, which give the clove priv to group libvirtd. ; )
--- a/virtinst/User.py
+++ b/virtinst/User.py
@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ class User(object):
is_xen = not conn or conn.lower()[0:3] == 'xen'
if priv in [ self.PRIV_CLONE, self.PRIV_CREATE_DOMAIN ]:
if is_xen:
- return self._euid == 0
+ import grp, pwd
+ virt_grps = grp.getgrnam("libvirtd")[3]
+ usr_name = pwd.getpwuid(self._euid)[0]
+ return self._euid == 0 or usr_name in virt_grps
return True
return self._euid == 0
--
Best Regards,
莊承恩,
Cheng-En, Chuang
