Re: [Xen-users] Re: Live Migration Config

["Alan Greenspan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think its got to work as Ian outlined with proper configurable access 
controls like any other inet service.   Look to other services as examples, 
e,g, rsync, ftp, nfs, etc.   Mucking with iptables isn't for the average 
consumer (or even the average management tool).
Alan

> > > The following configurable controls should be implemented for Xen 
> > > migration.
> > > 1. The migration port.
> > > 2. The network interface(s) that the migration service listens on.
> > > 3. The maximum # of allowed concurrent incoming migrations from a foreign 
> > > host.
> > > 4.  Observance of the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny access 
> > > controls (or the same within a Xen config file).
> > > 5.  Some simple way to turn off incoming migration completely.
> > 1, 2 & 5 are already possible; 4 is simple and is on the todo list[*]. 3
> > is more of a higher level tools issue.
> >
> > The correct soloution is probably to have an 'xm migraterx' command that
> > generates a session key that has to be handed to 'xm migratetx'. The
> > actual transfer can then be authenticated, and potentially encrypted.
> > However, this will not be in 3.0.0.
> With an SSL Xend interface, this would work quite well.  Unfortunately, 
> this is a bit of work because Python doesn't have server-side SSL support 
> (doh!).
> > [*] The intention is that the set of allowable hosts be specificed in
> > xend-config.sxp e.g.: (migration-hosts-allow "*.test.xensource.com"
> > "129.34.45.0/24" "xenbits.xs.org" )
> This might be a bit of overkill.  Any basic firewall can provide this 
> functionality already.  What would be nice is to have some common firewall 
> configurations for dom0 in the Users Manual.  I'll write up something for 
> Shorewall this week.
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
> > It would be good if someone could knock the above up.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
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