libvirt users - Mar 2016 - Re: Accessing xenstore from libvirt

Hi,

is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other
programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell?

I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still...


Thanks,
Marin

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Marin Bek
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any other
> programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell?
> 
> I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still...
No, we don't expose this kind of capability at this time

Regards,
Daniel
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Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Marin Bek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to access xenstore through libvirt? Or at least any
other
>> programatic means other than calling xenstore-read/write through shell?
>>
>> I understand it is somewhat of a security risk but still...
> 
> No, we don't expose this kind of capability at this time
And I don't think we ever will support generic xenstore read and write
through
libvirt. xenstore is uniquely Xen :-). In the old xen driver, xenstore is used
(along with xend and hypercalls) to implement the overall functionality of the
driver, but there are no specific APIs for reading from / writing to xenstore.

Regards,
Jim