On 02/20/2010 04:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:51:42 +0100 > Kenni Lund wrote: > >> If the user should be able to restart a crashed guest, you have to >> design the system outside of the guest, as you've already described. > > Yep. At work we have a gazillion virtual machines for testing > on different linux distros, and I cobbled up a web cgi interface > folks who need a particular machine can use to reserve it and > have the cgi script run a virsh create command for them or > a script to shutdown the machine (which first tries clean shutdown > and if that doesn't work, does virsh destroy). > > Something similar with the addition of some sort of authentication > layer could let users goto a web site and login to shutdown, > reboot, etc. their own machine. There must be canned examples > for web page login laying around on the web.
That is my backup plan which apparently I need to go for. The way I plan to do this is to create a central web interface and a management user on each host called "vmmanage" that can only execute a special script using the ssh command directive in the authorized_keys file. This script is then allowed to shutdown/destroy VMs using sudo. I still have to figure out some of the details but that's the basic idea. Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
