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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:12:46PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> From: Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>
> 
> 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

Regards,
Daniel
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