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

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>> I suspect there isn't a management tool out there that does the 
>>>> right thing today.
>>>
>> I suspected as much based on how strongly you were advocating this. 
>
> You're a little too suspicious.  RHEV-H has nothing to do with my 
> opposition to -net bridge.
>
>> I think my point still stands though, there's an awful lot of 
>> management software out there that gets it wrong.  It's great that 
>> you guys got it right but so far, the majority of users are not using 
>> qemu through RHEV-M so I still think we have a problem.
>
> I'm worrying that we're transforming one problem into two different 
> ones.  Expanding the scope of qemu, and making it more difficult to 
> use advanced networking functionality.

Do you object to the idea of having qemu call to a helper program 
directly or to the idea of having the helper program in qemu at all?  
Splitting the helper into a separate project may be a more constructive 
discussion as was suggested by Arnd.

As a separate project, libvirt could also make use of it and use -net 
tap,fd= if it wanted to do crazy things.  From a distro perspective, 
it's just a matter of setting up dependencies to make it Just Work so I 
don't object to it that much.  It's just a bit annoying to create an 
entire new project for a few hundred line helper.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori