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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communic
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:46:27 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > I expect the first problem you'll run into is that copy/paste daemon has
> > to run as an unprivileged user but /dev/vmch3 is going to be owned by
> > root. You could set udev rules for /dev/vmch3 but that's pretty
> > terrible IMHO.
>
> I don't think that's not too bad, for example, with fast-user-switching
> between multiple X servers and/or text consoles, there's already support
> code that deals with chown'ing things like /dev/snd/* devices to match
> the active console session. Doing the same with the /dev/vmch3 device so
> that it is only ever accessible to the current logged in user actually
> fits in to that scheme quite well.
With multiple X servers, there can be more than one currently logged in user.
Same with multiple text consoles - that's more familiar.
Which one owns /dev/vmch3?
-- Jamie
- [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/07/27
- [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Daniel P. Berrange, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication,
Jamie Lokier <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/07/28
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/07/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Gleb Natapov, 2009/07/29
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Richard W.M. Jones, 2009/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/28