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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> You can already do this:
>
>     qemu -hdc /proc/self/fd/3 3<>MS-DOS-6.22.img
>
>   

Not over the monitor.

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