From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to access XenStore remotely?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:24:32 +0100
Message-ID: <4A8D1650.4040902@eu.citrix.com>
References: <add59a3f0908191924i685933bcl84e32487a3a5e260@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <add59a3f0908191924i685933bcl84e32487a3a5e260@mail.gmail.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
To: weiming <zephyr.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, "xen-api@lists.xensource.com" <xen-api@lists.xensource.com>
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

weiming wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to read/write the xenstore from another physical machine?
>
> I know it uses Unix socket. So it looks hard to access it remotely, 
> isn't it?
Hi weiming,

whilst it's not possible at the moment and certainly a bad idea security 
wise, make xenstored listen on a tcp socket along with the unix socket 
is very easy.

cheers,
--
Vincent