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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Allow host_net_add monitor command accept file descriptors
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:30:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246901401.12086.20.camel@blaa> (raw)

Hi,
	You can pass file descriptors to qemu via the command line using '-net
tap,fd=' or '-net socket,tap='. However, you cannot currently do this
via the monitor.

	libvirt always configures tap interfaces before passing them to qemu.
One reason for this is to allow libvirtd to have privileges
to /dev/net/tun without allowing qemu those privileges. Because of this,
libvirt currently does not support NIC hotplug for qemu.

	The following three patches add support for passing a file descriptor
to the monitor command by allowing file descriptors to be received over
monitor commands on a unix socket.

	For reference:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_NIC_Hotplug
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtPrivileges

Cheers,
Mark.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-06 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 17:30 Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2009-07-06 17:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Make tcp_chr_read() use recvmsg() Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-06 17:31   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Add SCM_RIGHTS support to unix socket character devices Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-06 17:32     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add support for fd=msgfd for tap and socket networking Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-07  5:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Allow host_net_add monitor command accept file descriptors Avi Kivity
2009-07-07  7:43   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-07  7:52     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-07  8:13       ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-07  9:03         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-07 10:06           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-07-08 14:56             ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 14:57               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Make tcp_chr_read() use recvmsg() Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 14:57                 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add SCM_RIGHTS support to unix socket character devices Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 14:57                   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Add getfd and closefd monitor commands Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 14:57                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add monitor_get_fd() command for fetching named fds Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 14:57                       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Add support for fd=name to tap and socket networking Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 15:26                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Add getfd and closefd monitor commands Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 16:03                       ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 16:15                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 18:08                           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 18:11                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 18:21                               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 18:32                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 18:50                                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 19:52                                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-11  1:12                                       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-21 16:40                                       ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-21 16:53                                         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make tcp_chr_read() use recvmsg() Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-21 17:13                                           ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-22  0:00                                             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-22  8:10                                             ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-22  8:11                                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] " Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-22  8:11                                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add SCM_RIGHTS support to unix socket character devices Mark McLoughlin
2009-08-13 16:20                                                 ` Cam Macdonell
2009-08-14  6:38                                                   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-22  8:11                                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Add getfd and closefd monitor commands Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-22  8:11                                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add monitor_get_fd() command for fetching named fds Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-22  8:11                                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Add support for fd=name to tap and socket networking Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-23 13:37                                                 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-21 16:53                                         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add SCM_RIGHTS support to unix socket character devices Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-21 16:53                                         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add getfd and closefd monitor commands Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-21 16:53                                         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add monitor_get_fd() command for fetching named fds Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-21 16:53                                         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for fd=name to tap and socket networking Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-22  2:20                                         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Add getfd and closefd monitor commands Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22  8:09                                           ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-23  7:00                                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-23  7:51                                               ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 15:25                   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add SCM_RIGHTS support to unix socket character devices Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 16:04                     ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-08 16:17                       ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 18:11                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 18:17                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-11  1:15                           ` Jamie Lokier

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