[OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-10-09 08:18, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>
> I was doing an upgrade of vboxsvc on one of my machines and I noticed
> the zvolrights smf:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/vboxsvc/code/HEAD/tree/usr/share/doc/vboxsvc/README-zvolrights.txt
>
>
> Are people using that successfully to be able to run VirtualBox VMs
> under a non-root level user?
>
> Right now I use iscsi targets to expose my zvols, but being able to
> access them directly would be a lot easier to manage.

Well, I did run it in testing (but use more portable files or
dual-booted raw partitions for "production"), and I believe
Edward Ned Harvey used his (different) script to set rights
and he used zvols a lot more, though with a different solution
to maintain the access rights.

So far nobody reported use of this script/service for their
non-root VMs, so I can't say how well it works outside of my
greenhouse lab testing. Feel free to be the first reporter :)

But Ned's example may prove that generally such usage exists.

//Jim