From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>,
Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>,
Michael Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>,
Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for -net bridge
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:29:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257614967.30774.424.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257294485-27015-5-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 18:28 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This
> requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a
> tap device to pass to the script.
Does it?
Tap devices can be created (and configured) in advance, and can be
chowned so that they can be opened by an otherwise unprivileged user (or
group). You don't need root privileges to use a tap device.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-07 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 0:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 0:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add basic version of bridge helper Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 0:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add access control support to qemu-bridge-helper Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add access control support toqemu-bridge-helper Krumme, Chris
2009-11-04 14:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 14:37 ` Krumme, Chris
2009-11-05 15:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add access control support to qemu-bridge-helper Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-04 0:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add cap reduction support to enable use as SUID binary Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 0:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for -net bridge Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 13:49 ` Krumme, Chris
2009-11-04 14:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 14:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 14:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 14:49 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-06 2:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-07 17:29 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2009-11-07 22:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-08 8:27 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-08 8:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-08 8:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-09 14:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-09 15:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-09 15:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-09 19:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-10 12:23 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-04 12:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu Alexander Graf
2009-11-04 14:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 15:02 ` Alexander Graf
2009-11-04 16:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 17:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-04 19:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 20:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-04 20:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 8:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-05 13:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-04 22:40 ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-11-05 0:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 2:12 ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-11-05 4:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 8:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-06 2:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-06 11:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-06 20:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-08 11:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-05 13:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 14:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 14:36 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 14:46 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-05 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 16:51 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-06 1:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 14:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 15:05 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 15:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 16:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 16:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 16:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 17:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-05 17:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 18:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-05 19:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 18:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 18:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 19:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-06 1:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-06 7:22 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-06 10:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-06 12:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-07 3:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-06 14:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-07 9:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-07 9:43 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-07 14:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-07 21:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-07 22:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-08 8:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-07 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-06 0:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-06 7:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-06 16:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-07 9:27 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-07 10:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-07 11:23 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-09 19:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-10 12:25 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-10 13:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-07 13:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 15:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 15:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-06 2:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 16:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:15 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 16:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 16:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 17:16 ` Scott Tsai
2009-11-05 18:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-06 2:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 18:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-06 2:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 15:11 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-05 15:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 15:20 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-05 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:20 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 16:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 16:35 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 16:53 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-05 17:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-05 17:16 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-06 2:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 17:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-05 19:54 ` Gerhard Stenzel
2009-11-06 2:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-05 15:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mark McLoughlin
2009-11-05 15:14 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-05 15:28 ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-11-05 15:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
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