Mailinglist Archive: vhostmd (42 mails)

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [Here are three patches which I committed already (by accident).  I'm
> posting them for review instead here.  If there are problems we can
> revert or amend what was committed.]
>
> This first patch changes the default exported disk to be
> /dev/shm/vhostmd0 (instead of /dev/shm/vhostmd/disk0).
>
> Having the intermediate vhostmd directory is problematic because there
> is no good place to change the permissions on this directory, and if
> the permissions aren't made more permissive that the default then
> libvirt will fail to start KVM-based domains.
>
>   
> From 0e903207780030521c4dad7f41e5b7b748376d85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Richard Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:49:02 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Make the default disk be /dev/shm/vhostmd0.
>
> Previously we used a subdirectory (/dev/shm/vhostmd/).  However
> the permissions on the subdirectory had to be set by hand by the
> system administrator, and if the sysadmin didn't set them, then
> libvirt would fail to start the guest.
>
> However by just putting the metrics disk into /dev/shm directly,
> the permissions can be controlled by vhostmd when it creates the
> device.
>
> Not having the subdirectory is also simpler.
> ---
>  README                  |    4 ++--
>  docs/man/vhostmd.8      |    4 ++--
>  libmetrics/libmetrics.c |    2 +-
>  vhostmd.xml             |    2 +-
>  vhostmd/vhostmd.c       |    2 +-
>  5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>   

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