Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for disks backed by plain files in LXC

2013-03-12 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 03:55:01PM -0500, John Ferlan wrote: > On 03/07/2013 06:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" > > > > By using a loopback device, disks backed by plain files can > > be made available to LXC containers. We make no attempt to > > auto-detect format

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for disks backed by plain files in LXC

2013-03-07 Thread John Ferlan
On 03/07/2013 06:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" > > By using a loopback device, disks backed by plain files can > be made available to LXC containers. We make no attempt to > auto-detect format if is not set, > instead we unconditionally treat that as meaning raw.

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for disks backed by plain files in LXC

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Krempa
On 03/07/13 12:41, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: From: "Daniel P. Berrange" By using a loopback device, disks backed by plain files can be made available to LXC containers. We make no attempt to auto-detect format if is not set, instead we unconditionally treat that as meaning raw. This is to avoi

[libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for disks backed by plain files in LXC

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" By using a loopback device, disks backed by plain files can be made available to LXC containers. We make no attempt to auto-detect format if is not set, instead we unconditionally treat that as meaning raw. This is to avoid the security issues inherant with format auto