Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

[Jamie Lokier]

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