From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6p6W-0003Gj-5d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:36 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6p6U-0003Fn-Ar for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:35 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54627 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6p6U-0003Fk-4n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:34 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34466) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6p6T-0007WA-P2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for -net bridge From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1257294485-27015-5-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> References: <1257294485-27015-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <1257294485-27015-5-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:29:27 +0000 Message-ID: <1257614967.30774.424.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Arnd Bergmann , Dustin Kirkland , Michael Tsirkin , Juan Quintela , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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