Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] qemu: XMLToNative: Don't open vhostfd

On 03/14/2014 07:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The point is to get something that works with the "native" tools. In > Xen world the goal was to create a valid /etc/xen/ config file, in > QEMU world the goal is to create an ARGV set you can use to launch > QEMU. So you are correct that we shouldn't generate ARGV that rely > on FD passing, since the user can't run those. Maybe we could modify the output to give the full shell line, including redirections, as in: qemu ... -use-of-fd 5 ... 5<>/path/to/file But we still have to figure out how to pick fd numbers, and to modify our output to handle redirections...