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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu |
Date: | Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:07:58 +0200 |
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On 11/05/2009 05:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Having the tap accessible to management also allows it to run tcpdump or collect statistics on it at runtime.I'm not advocating removing -net tap,fd=. But -net bridge is obviously useful and makes writing management tools that do common things easier. Not doing something that helps management tools and command line users tremendously simply because it's possible to do it another way for management tools (but not for command line users) is almost user hostile.
As your patchset shows, it's not "tremendously" difficult. The basic helper (which is all libvirt would need; plus PolicyKit integration) is 200 lines. I don't see why you consider placing functionality in the management stack vs qemu user hostile, considering who our users are.
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