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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@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 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?

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