Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] -net bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

2011-11-08 Thread Corey Bryant
On 11/08/2011 01:46 AM, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: Why do you not develop one helper to set up bridge env for qemu guests when the host have no bridge interface? I'm not sure that I understand your question. I think the actual bridge setup should be left as an admin task, but the allocation/attach

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] -net bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

2011-11-07 Thread Zhi Yong Wu
Why do you not develop one helper to set up bridge env for qemu guests when the host have no bridge interface? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Corey Bryant wrote: > With qemu it is possible to run a guest from an unprivileged user but if > we wanted to communicate with the outside world we had to

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] -net bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

2011-11-01 Thread Corey Bryant
With qemu it is possible to run a guest from an unprivileged user but if we wanted to communicate with the outside world we had to switch to root. We address this problem by introducing a new network backend and a new network option for -net tap. This is less flexible when compared to existing -n