[Users] Ubuntu & Debian guest agent
Hi, I'm currently investigating the use of the guest agent on the above mentioned operating systems (12.04.3 lts server for Ubuntu and Debian 7). The wiki pages seem outdated to me, as it states for Ubuntu: "There are binary packages available on launchpad PPA. These packages are just for demo." AFAIK there should be somewhere a package with production ready agent at least for Ubuntu(I saw this mentioned somewhere)? ATM I'm running engine 3.3.1 but plan to upgrade to 3.3.2, once RC gets released on Monday. Are there any known limitations in combining different agent/vdsm/engine versions? Can someone point me to some more accurate and up-to-date information than these? http://www.ovirt.org/Ubuntu/GuestAgent http://www.ovirt.org/Debian/GuestAgent http://www.ovirt.org/Category:Ovirt_guest_agent http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt_guest_agent Thanks in advance -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Okay, i was able to resolve some of my questions already with the help of Vinzenz Feenstra in ovirt IRC (Thanks again). I'm somewhat impressed, the agent reports IPv4 addresses and even multiple ipv6 addresses from the vm. But I have some additional question: There is a huge dependency tree, resulting in the download of the following packages on Ubuntu 12.04.3: fontconfig fontconfig-config hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libnl1 libpango1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libuser1 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 python-ethtool shared-mime-info ttf-dejavu-core usermode I investigated a little and it seems that most of this stuff (graphic libs) gets pulled in by the package "usermode" which is a graphical tool for end users for manipulating passwords etc. I can understand that this tool might be needed for SSO and okay for desktop users. But I want to ask if it can't be substituted through sudo or similar commandline tools for the purpose of installing the agent on a server. from a security perspective you don't want files like libjpeg on your server if you don't need them. I don't know how/why exactly usermode is used/needed so maybe this can be changed? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
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From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske@mittwald.de> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:16:48 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Ubuntu & Debian guest agent
Okay,
i was able to resolve some of my questions already with the help of Vinzenz Feenstra in ovirt IRC (Thanks again).
I'm somewhat impressed, the agent reports IPv4 addresses and even multiple ipv6 addresses from the vm.
Have you seen this feature page [1] ? It is already implemented and part of ovirt-engine since 3.2. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/ReportingVnicInformation
But I have some additional question:
There is a huge dependency tree, resulting in the download of the following packages on Ubuntu 12.04.3:
fontconfig fontconfig-config hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libnl1 libpango1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libuser1 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 python-ethtool shared-mime-info ttf-dejavu-core usermode
I investigated a little and it seems that most of this stuff (graphic libs) gets pulled in by the package "usermode" which is a graphical tool for end users for manipulating passwords etc.
I can understand that this tool might be needed for SSO and okay for desktop users.
But I want to ask if it can't be substituted through sudo or similar commandline tools for the purpose of installing the agent on a server.
from a security perspective you don't want files like libjpeg on your server if you don't need them.
I don't know how/why exactly usermode is used/needed so maybe this can be changed?
-- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Hi, no I was not aware of this feature page, and it is a little outdated, as reporting of ipv4 and ipv6 addresses does work with the current agent. what bothers me are the unneeded dependencies, resulting in a more vulnerable vm. Can someone elaborate why "usermode" is used instead of "sudo"? Am 19.12.2013 13:26, schrieb Moti Asayag:
Have you seen this feature page [1] ? It is already implemented and part of ovirt-engine since 3.2.
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/ReportingVnicInformation --
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
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