From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXBPn-00086Q-36 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:57:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXBPm-000862-Aa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:57:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53286 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXBPm-00085z-5S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:57:38 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:13769) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXBPl-0007Ag-OB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:57:38 -0400 Message-ID: <48B12280.9010202@qumranet.com> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:57:36 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] set vnc password from xenstore. References: <1219336054-15919-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1219336054-15919-13-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <48ADCCA2.8050201@codemonkey.ws> <20080821201955.GG1531@redhat.com> <48ADCE91.2070602@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <48ADCE91.2070602@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Gerd Hoffmann Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> -vnc localhost:3,passwdfd=6 >> > > In general, I strongly dislike passing file descriptors like this. I find this very useful, and actually think we should encourage it, and also allow passing file descriptors over the monitor (using SCM_RIGHTS). This can help de-privilege qemu. In fact, you can run a guest where qemu doesn't even have permissions to open the backing file. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function