Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> writes:
> * Stefan Hajnoczi (stefa...@redhat.com) wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:33:31AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 02:33:25PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> > > Hi >> > > >> > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:49 AM Daniel P. Berrangé >> > > <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:41:42AM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: >> > > > > If you like running QEMU as a normal user (very common for TCG runs) >> > > > > but you have to run virtiofsd as a root user you run into connection >> > > > > problems. Adding support for an optional --socket-group allows the >> > > > > users to keep using the command line. >> > > > >> > > > If we're going to support this, then I think we need to put it in >> > > > the vhost-user.rst specification so we standardize across backends. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > Perhaps. Otoh, I wonder if the backend spec should be more limited to >> > > arguments/introspection that are used by programs. >> > > >> > > In this case, I even consider --socket-path to be unnecessary, as a >> > > management layer can/should provide a preopened & setup fd directly. >> > > >> > > What do you think? >> > >> > I think there's value in standardization even if it is an option targetted >> > at human admins, rather than machine usage. You are right though that >> > something like libvirt would never use --socket-group, or --socket-path. >> > Even admins would benefit if all programs followed the same naming for >> > these. We could document such options as "SHOULD" rather than "MUST" >> > IOW, we don't mandate --socket-group, but if you're going to provide a >> > way to control socket group, this option should be used. >> >> I agree. It's still useful to have a convention that most vhost-user >> backend programs follow. > > Alex: > Can you add the doc entry that Stefan and Marc-André are asking > for; it's probably good they go together. Sure - is docs/interop/vhost-user.rst the master spec for vhost-user daemons? > > Dave > >> Stefan -- Alex Bennée
