On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:53:12PM -0400, Nathanael Burton wrote: > Better yet why not add support in Glance for automatically determining > those things (distro, versions, etc)[1]. That way you don't have to rely on > people doing the right thing.
[Sorry I'm a little late to the party] Just a note of caution around using virt-inspector: You shouldn't rely on its output in the case where (a) you're using it against an untrusted guest image, and (b) billing or some other money-related event relies on the output. The reason is that virt-inspector parses files from the guest. For example it'll read /etc/debian_version or the Windows registry to get its results. These files can be easily altered by a user to simulate another guest for the purposes of billing. Having said that, running it on trusted images is no problem. Also, it is safe to run virt-inspector on any image, in as much as it won't crash and Bad Things won't happen. It's written to be robust against untrusted data -- just don't depend on the output for billing purposes. BTW, since OpenStack is a python program, you may prefer to use the python Inspection API directly. See: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-python.3.html#example_2__inspect_a_virtual_machine_disk_image http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#inspection Best of luck and do ask me if you have questions. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
