Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 2/2] qemu: Automaticly create tap device for VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_ETHERNET

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:12:46PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > From: Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru&gt; > > If a user doesn't specify script in network type ethernet, assume > that he/she needs a simple tap device created by libvirt. This > commit does not need to run external script to create tap device > or add root to qemu process. Moreover, some functions need to be > mocked now for qemuxml2argvtest, e.g. virNetDevTapCreate() or > virNetDevSetOnline(). Hmm, even if the user does provide a script, perhaps libvirt could create the TAP device *and* run the script itself. This would finally allow us to run QEMU unprivileged with type=ethernet in all cases. eg take QEMU entirely out of the picture for NIC setup