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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 05 November 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > It'd still install the default helper you've provided and use it by
> > default, of course.
> >   
> That's already how it behaves.  You can say -net 
> bridge,helper=/usr/local/bin/my-helper
> 

How about abstracting it further and not making the helper depend on
bridge code. If we put the helper into netcf, we could make that
a more generic '-net netcf,helper=/usr/bin/netcf-helper' target,
with netcf doing the correct thing for the system configuration,
whether that is tap+bridge, tap+route, macvtap or something else
coming up. The helper would essentially become a black box for
providing a tap-like file descriptor with external connectivity.

        Arnd <><