Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] set vnc password from xenstore.

[Jamie Lokier]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>  -vnc localhost:3,passwdfd=6
> >
> >In general, I strongly dislike passing file descriptors like this.
> 
> I find this very useful, and actually think we should encourage it, and 
> also allow passing file descriptors over the monitor (using 
> SCM_RIGHTS).  This can help de-privilege qemu.  In fact, you can run a 
> guest where qemu doesn't even have permissions to open the backing file.

You can already do this:

    qemu -hdc /proc/self/fd/3 3<>MS-DOS-6.22.img

-- Jamie