Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for bridge

2011-10-06 Thread Corey Bryant
On 10/06/2011 02:19 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/06/2011 01:15 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: On 10/06/2011 01:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/06/2011 10:38 AM, Richa Marwaha wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for bridge

2011-10-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 10/06/2011 01:15 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: On 10/06/2011 01:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/06/2011 10:38 AM, Richa Marwaha wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for bridge

2011-10-06 Thread Corey Bryant
On 10/06/2011 01:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/06/2011 10:38 AM, Richa Marwaha wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This model is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for bridge

2011-10-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 10/06/2011 10:38 AM, Richa Marwaha wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This model is great for portability and flexibility but it's i

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for bridge

2011-10-06 Thread Richa Marwaha
The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This model is great for portability and flexibility but it's incredibly difficult to eliminate the need to ru