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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next prev parent 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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