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From: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, libvir-list@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com,
	eblake@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add support for fd: protocol
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:06:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E527E9E.5080106@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110822153820.GA4774@lst.de>

On 08/22/2011 11:38 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I'm still totally against this.  FD passing is a nice feature for sandboxing,
> but the passing should be between closely cooperating programs.  We'll
> need a tool shipped from the qemu source tree to open and set up the
> FDs, and not someone external.  With that setup in place we can use
> a protocol similar to the various OpenBSD privilegue separated deaemons
> to also allow reopening / snapshots / etc.
>
> Opening fds in libvirt and passing them into qemu is exactly the wrong way,
> and just cements the current horrors where libvirt duplicates parsing
> of image format headers.
>

This is following suit with exiting support that passes an fd for a TAP 
interface.  Libvirt already passes a file descriptor to Qemu via '-net 
tap,fd='.  Are you against that as well?

Regards,
Corey

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-22 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 14:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add support for fd: protocol Corey Bryant
2011-08-22 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-22 16:06   ` Corey Bryant [this message]
2011-08-22 16:24   ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-22 16:29     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 16:50       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-22 17:25         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 17:42           ` Corey Bryant
2011-08-22 18:39             ` Blue Swirl
2011-08-23 15:13               ` Corey Bryant
2011-08-23 15:26                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-23 15:50                   ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-23 15:51                     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-23 16:04                       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-23 16:14                     ` Corey Bryant
2011-08-22 18:22           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-22 18:54             ` Blue Swirl
2011-08-22 19:25             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-23 14:26               ` Corey Bryant
2011-08-23 14:33                 ` Anthony Liguori

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