Re: [PATCH] Add class property to configure KVM device node to use

[Daan De Meyer]

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On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 14:07, Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anything else needed before this patch can be merged?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daan
>
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 19:37, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Daan De Meyer wrote:
> > > This allows passing the KVM device node to use as a file
> > > descriptor via /dev/fdset/XX. Passing the device node to
> > > use as a file descriptor allows running qemu unprivileged
> > > even when the user running qemu is not in the kvm group
> > > on distributions where access to /dev/kvm is gated behind
> > > membership of the kvm group (as long as the process invoking
> > > qemu is able to open /dev/kvm and passes the file descriptor
> > > to qemu).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  accel/kvm/kvm-all.c      | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  include/sysemu/kvm_int.h |  1 +
> > >  qemu-options.hx          |  8 +++++++-
> > >  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> >
> >
> > With regards,
> > Daniel
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