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

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 11/05/2009 05:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Having the tap accessible to management also allows it to run tcpdump 
>> or collect statistics on it at runtime.
>
> I'm not advocating removing -net tap,fd=.  But -net bridge is 
> obviously useful and makes writing management tools that do common 
> things easier.  Not doing something that helps management tools and 
> command line users tremendously simply because it's possible to do it 
> another way for management tools (but not for command line users) is 
> almost user hostile.
>

As your patchset shows, it's not "tremendously" difficult.  The basic 
helper (which is all libvirt would need; plus PolicyKit integration) is 
200 lines.  I don't see why you consider placing functionality in the 
management stack vs qemu user hostile, considering who our users are.

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