Re: [Openstack] [nova] Disk attachment consistency

2012-08-19 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:35:28PM -0700, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: a) The device name only makes sense for linux. FreeBSD will select different device names, and windows doesn't even use device names. In addition xen uses /dev/xvda and kvm uses /dev/vda b) The device sent in kvm will not

Re: [Openstack] [OSSA 2012-011] Compute node filesystem injection/corruption (CVE-2012-3447)

2012-08-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:08:48AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Also note that current work is being done to make libguestfs use libvirt to launch its appliance VMs, at which point libguestfs VMs will be strongly confined by sVirt (SELinux/AppArmour), and also able to run as a separate

Re: [Openstack] [OSSA 2012-011] Compute node filesystem injection/corruption (CVE-2012-3447)

2012-08-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:30:29AM -0700, Matt Joyce wrote: I have to ask. Wasn't FUSE designed to do alot of this stuff? It is userspace and it doesn't do nasty stuff to file systems. Why aren't we going that route? FUSE is not really related to this issue. It's just the API. You can use

Re: [Openstack] Libguestfs weirdness??

2012-06-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:12:23AM -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there has been anyone else who has used this flag with libguestfs (on RH 6.2) that has noticed file sync issues. force_raw_images=true I have been turning that to false so that images need not be

Re: [Openstack] Agreeing a common set of Image Properties

2012-05-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:53:12PM -0400, Nathanael Burton wrote: Better yet why not add support in Glance for automatically determining those things (distro, versions, etc)[1]. That way you don't have to rely on people doing the right thing. [Sorry I'm a little late to the party] Just a note

Re: [Openstack] RHEL / CentOS - interfaces.template

2012-02-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:56:18PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: The netcf lib looks interesting. Perhaps it could leverage libguestfs (already integrated) to maximise the types and configurations of guests it could target? It's an interesting thought, not one that I'd really thought about

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2012-01-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 11:04:10AM -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote: This does seem like an interesting project -- I've asked one of our guys at DreamHost to do some investigation (LoE estimates, mostly) over the next week or so, as he has time. This may be something that we're interested in

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2012-01-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 06:41:28PM +, Caitlin Bestler wrote: Is there any prospect of defining a universal agent for all virtio guests? (ovirt, kvm, xen, ...) Oh sure. In fact there are several :-) . qemu virt-agent (I think now called qemu-va?) . Matahari You could also consider the

Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection

2011-12-21 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:43:13AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: c.) No way to modify contents of the service after instance launch. OK, I said 2 features, and really this one is wishlist. If we had an arbitrary key-value store that was available, the user could interact with the

Re: [Openstack] Libguestfs??

2011-11-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:42:50AM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 20:18 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote: I was wondering if there was a reason that openstack is not using libguestfs more frequently than not. Was there a technical reason for that, or a lack of packages in