Re: [PATCH] QEMU as non-root and PCI passthrough do not mix

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 17:42 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH] QEMU as non-root and PCI passthrough do
> not mix"):
> > That reminds me -- how does the qemu user selection work over migrate?
> > Does
> > it remember the specific user or does it try and pick it again on the
> > other
> > end? Do we require all hosts in a pool to have been setup in the same
> > way
> > i.e. either xen-qemuuser-domid$i or xen-qemuuser-shared but not a
> > mixture?
> 
> I forget how it was before my RFC privsep series, but afterwards the
> user is defaulted into the configuration during domain creation and I
> would expect it to be transferred with the config to the destination.
> 
> So the destination needs to have whatever user the source chose to
> use.  I think that's a reasonable restriction.

So do I, but I think it should be written in docs/misc/qemu-deprivilege.txt 
at least.

Ian.

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