[openstack-dev] [glance][nova] Globally disabling hw_qemu_guest_agent support

Erno Kuvaja ekuvaja at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 00:38:33 UTC 2016


Hi Daniel,

You might want to have look on the Glance Property Protections [0].
I'd assume that would do it for you?

[0] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/property-protections.html

Best,
Erno

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Daniel Russell
<DanielR at hostworks.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We are running a public cloud and allow customers to upload their own
> images.  A concern we have is that a customer could set
> hw_qemu_guest_agent=yes in the image metadata and then get a socket to the
> hypervisor created when running.  For us, this is a bit of a security
> concern and I’m not aware of any way to globally disable this feature at the
> moment.
>
>
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> Is there any work going on to add the ability to enable/disable the feature
> globally?  Would it be of interest to the project(s) to add that?
>
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> I am happy to look into it and am keen to start contributing if it’s deemed
> low enough hanging fruit for a new guy!
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> DANIEL RUSSELL
> Solution Architect
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