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

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

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 05 November 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>>> How about abstracting it further and not making the helper depend on
>>> bridge code. If we put the helper into netcf, we could make that
>>> a more generic '-net netcf,helper=/usr/bin/netcf-helper' target,
>>>       
>> ...
>>
>> Whether qemu-bridge-helper should live in qemu is another point to think 
>> about.   I think I would like to start with it being in qemu but then 
>> hope someone else pulls it into a separate project along with tunctl.
>>     
>
> So how about putting your qemu-bridge-helper into qemu for the -net bridge
> wrapper, but makeing -net netcf default to a different wrapper that we
> put into netcf?
>
> The netcf version can then be extended with advanced features like routing
> and macvlan modes, as well as more sophisticated integration into the
> distro's access control infrastructure.
>   

Yup.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori