[OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-10-09 06:48 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> 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
>
Hi Jim.

I decided to just go with the iscsi targets for now.

Thanks for the vboxsvc, it works great.

Geoff