Re: Console for specific VMs only

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On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 08:47:38AM -0500, Steve Amerige wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just joined this list.  I've been using KVM for a couple of
> years now and have just joined the list.  I use virt-manager as well
> as command line tools and custom software that we've written to
> manage a KVM server farm based on CentOS 6.6 and CentOS 7.0.
> 
> My first question for the group is this: While I, as an
> administrator, use virt-manager and can open the console to a
> particular VM, I frequently have internal customers that I want to
> give access to a specific VM only so that they can have console
> access to their VM.
> 
> If virt-manager had a way of being restricted to showing just one
> VM, then I could provide a secure script that calls virt-manager in
> this way.
> 
> Is this possible?  Is there any way today to open from the command
> line the console for a specific VM?

Although you can try to script something with libvirt ACLs as Cole
suggested, in reality what you're looking for is a multi-tenant cloud
management system, of which the most obvious choice is OpenStack
(available on CentOS as RDO: https://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page)

Rich.

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