Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: connecting chardev to a command forked by qemu

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 17:26 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > I can see the argument about it making QEMU easier to use, and those
> > who care about security aren't forced to use this new feature. It
> > none the less has a cost on maintainers and existance of these
> > features does reflect on QEMU's security reputation even if many
> > don't use it.
> 
> With Yocto we really don't have much choice: we need a patch like this
> because the alternative (introducing support for spawning and stopping
> swtpm and then passing the right parameters to QEMU) is way more
> complex. So if this patch isn't acceptable to QEMU upstream, then I
> will keep it as simple as possible and propose it as a local patch in
> Yocto.

I don't really buy this argument. Any distro's core job is the ability
to start/stop/manage processes. Saying yocto is unable to manage
runing of swtpm is really dubious - it is simply a choice to declare
that it is QEMU's job. 

Regards,
Daniel
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