Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-21 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/20/2011 10:11 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: It would need careful explanation in the management tool author's guide, yes. The main advantage is generality. It doesn't assume that a file format has just one backing file, and doesn't require new syntax wherever a file is referred to indirectly.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 06/20/2011 12:35 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/20/2011 04:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 06/20/2011 08:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/14/2011 04:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: - Starting Qemu with a backing file For this we could tell qemu that a file named "xyz" is available via fd n, via a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-20 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/20/2011 04:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 06/20/2011 08:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/14/2011 04:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: - Starting Qemu with a backing file For this we could tell qemu that a file named "xyz" is available via fd n, via an extension of the getfd command. For exam

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 06/20/2011 08:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/14/2011 04:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: - Starting Qemu with a backing file For this we could tell qemu that a file named "xyz" is available via fd n, via an extension of the getfd command. For example (qemu) getfd path="/images/my-image.img" (q

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-20 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/14/2011 04:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: - Starting Qemu with a backing file For this we could tell qemu that a file named "xyz" is available via fd n, via an extension of the getfd command. For example (qemu) getfd path="/images/my-image.img" (qemu) getfd path="/images/template.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-20 Thread Corey Bryant
On 06/18/2011 04:50 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: On 06/15/2011 03:12 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Corey Bryantwrote: sVirt provides SELinux MAC isolation for Qemu guest processes and their corresponding res

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-18 Thread Blue Swirl
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: > > > On 06/15/2011 03:12 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Corey Bryant  wrote: >>> >>> >  sVirt provides SELinux MAC isolation for Qemu guest processes and >>> > their >>> >  corresponding resources (image files). sV

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-16 Thread Corey Bryant
On 06/15/2011 03:12 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: > sVirt provides SELinux MAC isolation for Qemu guest processes and their > corresponding resources (image files). sVirt provides this support > by labeling guests and resources with security lab

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-06-15 Thread Blue Swirl
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: > sVirt provides SELinux MAC isolation for Qemu guest processes and their > corresponding resources (image files). sVirt provides this support > by labeling guests and resources with security labels that are stored > in file system extended attr