Re: [libvirt-users] qemu:///session and network-mounted home directories

2015-10-10 Thread Spencer Baugh
Cole Robinson writes: > The proper way to make sure shared VMs aren't started across multiple machines > is libvirt's locking support: https://libvirt.org/locking.html > > It requires running a separate daemon though so isn't trivial, and I have no > idea if it can be made to work with qemu:///ses

[libvirt-users] qemu:///session and network-mounted home directories

2015-10-10 Thread Spencer Baugh
Dear libvirt-users, Suppose my home directory is network mounted on to several different machines. And suppose I defined some VMs in qemu:///session. The configuration files and disk images for qemu:///session are stored in my home directory. Now suppose I log in to some machine and use virsh. T

Re: [libvirt-users] How to run libvirtd as non root user

2015-07-30 Thread Spencer Baugh
Eric Blake writes: > On 07/30/2015 11:10 AM, Anshul Arora (akarora) wrote: >> Team, >> >> I note that libvertd runs as root user that is against the least privilege >> security model. >> >> root 307278 1 0 Jun20 ?04:16:46 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -listen > > Sadly, that IS the leas

Re: [libvirt-users] Access to virtualization on a multi-user system

2015-07-08 Thread Spencer Baugh
Just following up for future reference, sba...@catern.com writes: > Hi libvirt-users, > > I find myself wanting to do something that seems like it must have some > obvious solution: I have multiple users (let's just assume local Unix > accounts) on a Linux system, and I want them all to have acce