Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: Storing command line options in images

[Laurent Vivier]

Markus Hitter wrote:
> 
> Am 13.08.2007 um 11:19 schrieb Laurent Vivier:
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>> We can modify qemu to test if the argument is a directory, if yes, it
>> reads args
>> from file args in this directory and for security the disk image must
>> be in the
>> same directory.
>>
>> for instance, we have:
>>
>> ./pc1/
>> ./pc1/args
>> ./pc1/my_disk
>>
>> and in ./pc1/args, we have "-hda my_disk"
> 
> ... and "-hdb ../pc2/my_other_disk"

If we want to preserve security we should forbid this, but you can make a soft 
link:

ln -s shared_disks/my_disk1 pc1/my_shared_disk
ln -s shared_disks/my_disk1 pc2/my_shared_disk

and have pc1/args and pc2/args = "-hda my_disk -hdb my_shared_disk"
to have:

qemu -hda pc1/my_disk -hdb pc1/my_shared_disk

qemu -hda pc2/my_disk and -hdb pc2/my_shared_disk

> The directory idea sounds good. Especially for me, as I'm obviously the
> only one running one disk image in different virtual machines.
> 
> Plus, it'd work for physical partitions / disks: Simply have a directory
> with an "args" file only.
> 
> 
> my $ 0.01
> Markus
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