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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:20:05 +0000
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 05:14:03PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 05:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >The main problem is that we've never really used the 'session' instances,
> >since networking configs are rather limited to pretty much just SLIRP
> >and people expect full bridging.  I think this patch series you've
> >done is invaluable and will let us finally make full use of the libvirt
> >'session' instances for desktop virt, running everything unprivileged.
> >
> >   
> 
> What's to stop you from using the same idea to get a tap fd for the 
> unprivileged libvirtd instance?

Nothing in particular, but we've not done so thus far

Daniel
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