[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Issue 976 - Make able Ginger's 'Virt User' profile users manage Kimchi guests.

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

+1



On 07/13/2016 06:47 PM, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote:
> Current implementation of Kimchi enables only users with root access
> (sudo ALL) to create and manage virtual machines. Once the virtual machine
> is created, 'normal users' access to the guest created can be granted by
> changing the virtual machine permission configuration.
>
> There are two different use cases (one of them related in [1]) which 'normal'
> users or users with virtualization permission can be able to create and
> manage virtual machines. Since Ginger's User Management feature provides
> a schema to add users in one of fours different profiles (Regular, Regular
> (No shell), Virt User and Administrator) this RFC comes to propose a
> change in the implementation to make 'Virt User's (user added to system's
> kvm group) be able to:
>
>   1. create new virtual machines, based in already created templates (templates
> creation/edition continue only granted to admin users); and
>   2. use/edit guests which the user was added in guest's permission list.
>
> Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
> Best regards,