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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 05:14:03PM +0200, 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?

Nothing in particular, but we've not done so thus far

Daniel
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