Re: XSA-180 follow-up: repurpose xenconsoled for logging

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>]

On 06/21/2016 09:53 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 21/06/16 16:11, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Wei Liu writes ("Re: XSA-180 follow-up: repurpose xenconsoled for logging"):
>>> Here is what we have gathered so far:
>> ...
>>> We can, however, just make recommendation that system administrators can
>>> easily set up and call it a day. There are suggestions that we can
>>> recommend conserver or sympathy, but I haven't seen a concrete viable
>>> proposal yet. What I hope is that we can have a document in tree in the
>>> end.
>> sympathy would need some extra engineering to become suitable.  It's
>> also not widely adopted.  (Not even in Debian, yet.  Sorry about that,
>> but in my defence it's not my project...)
>>
>>> Another way is to invent our own "virtlogd" -- it could be a new daemon,
>>> it could be xenconsoled. The major concern is that we're adding a
>>> critical component to the system and it may not scale well. We can make
>>> a compromise by using non-blocking fd to make the new component less
>>> critical and doesn't hinder scalability.
>> I think this is probably the best answer.  We already have most of
>> this in the form of xenconsoled.
>>
>>> Another way is to alter libxl API and ask the application to pass in a
>>> fd for logging. The major concern is that this is not suitable in the
>>> context of a security issue.
>> Any solution needs to work for xl as well as other users of libxl.  So
>> this is not a description of a solution option; rather it is a
>> proposal to move the functionality/glue/problem/whatever out of libxl
>> into xl.
> ...or libvirt, or xapi (should it ever be ported to libxl).
>
> I think that having the option to pass an fd in would be useful and will
> probably be wanted at some point; I think libvirt for instance should
> probably be modified to use such an interface once it's available to
> connect qemu to virtlogd.

It would be easy enough to do since the qemu driver is already doing this.

Regards,
Jim


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