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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add class property to configure KVM device node to use
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:37:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTlSPbh2GnhOKExO@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231021134015.1119597-1-daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Daan De Meyer wrote:
> This allows passing the KVM device node to use as a file
> descriptor via /dev/fdset/XX. Passing the device node to
> use as a file descriptor allows running qemu unprivileged
> even when the user running qemu is not in the kvm group
> on distributions where access to /dev/kvm is gated behind
> membership of the kvm group (as long as the process invoking
> qemu is able to open /dev/kvm and passes the file descriptor
> to qemu).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
> ---
>  accel/kvm/kvm-all.c      | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/sysemu/kvm_int.h |  1 +
>  qemu-options.hx          |  8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-25 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-21 13:40 [PATCH] Add class property to configure KVM device node to use Daan De Meyer
2023-10-25 17:37 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2023-10-28 12:07   ` Daan De Meyer
2023-11-06 15:26     ` Daan De Meyer
2023-11-06 15:35 ` Paolo Bonzini

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