[libvirt] [Patch v3 0/3] Add QEMU network helper support

rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 3 20:33:04 UTC 2012


From: Richa Marwaha <rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

QEMU has a new feature which allows QEMU to execute under an unprivileged user ID and still be able to
add a tap device to a Linux network bridge. Below is the link to the QEMU patches for the bridge helper
feature:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-01/msg03562.html

The existing libvirt tap network device support for adding a tap device to a bridge (-netdev tap) works
only when connected to a libvirtd instance running as the privileged system account 'root'.
When connected to a libvirtd instance running as an unprivileged user (ie. using the session URI) creation of
the tap device fails as follows:

error: Failed to start domain F14_64 error: Unable to create tap device vnet%d: Operation not permitted

With this support, creating a tap device in the above scenario will be possible.  Additionally, hot attaching
a tap device to a bridge while running when connected to a libvirtd instance running as an unprivileged user
will be possible.

Richa Marwaha (3):
  Add -netdev bridge capabilities
  Add -netdev bridge support
  apparmor: QEMU bridge helper policy updates

 AUTHORS                        |    1 +
 examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu |   21 ++++++++++++++-
 src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c   |   13 ++++++---
 src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h   |    1 +
 src/qemu/qemu_command.c        |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 src/qemu/qemu_command.h        |    2 +
 src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c        |   31 ++++++++++++++-------
 tests/qemuhelptest.c           |    3 +-
 8 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)




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