Re: [Kimchi-devel] [kimchi-devel RFC] REST API for Permission check and fixes

于 2014/1/13 16:14, Royce Lv 写道: > User scenarios: > > Users may create template from ISOs from shallow/deep scan or from a > user specified local path. Because kimchid runs as root and have > access of most ISOs scanned. For qemu, however, the real user to > start a vm, does not always have access of the ISO to install a vm. > Under this circumstance, we need to denote that: > > 1. On scanning, indicate which ISOs may not be accessible by qemu user. > 2. When create a template from an ISO which qemu does not have access > , ask if user want to fix permission, if not, disable the template. > 3. If user accept fix permission, change permission of template cdrom. > > Rest API will look like: > 1. scanning and report > GET /storagepools/pool-1/storagevolumes/iso-volume > {'type': 'raw', 'path': '/home/i-am-an-iso.iso', 'accessible': False} > > 2. Create template > POST /templates > {'name': 'template-1' > 'cdrom': 'a-b-c'} "a-b-c.iso" not accessible by qemu > ----> > {'name': 'template-1', 'status': 'disable'} > NOTE: template in 'disable' status may because of any of its facility > not active (storagepool, iso, network, etc) > > 3. Fix permission(Permission fix just open for template, we don't > support fix for single volume/path temporarily) > PUT /templates/t-1/cdrom {'accessible': True} First of all, I don't like to fix the permission of an existing ISO to make it accessable by qemu process. I think it is the system administrator's responsibility to fix the permission instead of Kimchi's. However, we can give a hint in the UI for all the ISOs found which can not be accessed by qemu process and hint the system administrator to do the manual fix.

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