Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 05:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The main problem is that we've never really used the 'session' 
> > instances,
> > since networking configs are rather limited to pretty much just SLIRP
> > and people expect full bridging.  I think this patch series you've
> > done is invaluable and will let us finally make full use of the libvirt
> > 'session' instances for desktop virt, running everything unprivileged.
> >
> >    
>
> What's to stop you from using the same idea to get a tap fd for the 
> unprivileged libvirtd instance?

Why limit this to just libvirt based management tools?  The helper has 
to live somewhere, why not have it live in qemu?

libvirt can still call it and pass the fd to qemu if it really wants to.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori