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From: Iordan Iordanov <iordan@cdf.toronto.edu>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: restricting users to only power control of VMs
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:45:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0110F7.4070903@cdf.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF08101.5070100@redhat.com>

Hi Avi,

On 06/09/11 04:14, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 09:10 PM, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
>> As the subject suggests, we are wondering whether there is any way to
>> restrict certain classes of users from performing any action other
>> than powering a VM up and down, and resetting it?

snip...

>
> It's a job for the management layer; I think it should be easy to script
> libvirt to do this.
>

I read the documentation of libvirt, and out of the box, I don't see how 
this can be "configured". So, I understand your reply as meaning that we 
need to write a program that uses the libvirt API to control this? If I 
haven't understood properly, can you please correct me?

Thanks!
Iordan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-08 18:10 restricting users to only power control of VMs Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-09  8:14 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-21 21:45   ` Iordan Iordanov [this message]
2011-06-22  8:00     ` Avi Kivity

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