Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] Add support for net bridge

2011-12-15 Thread Corey Bryant
On 12/15/2011 10:26 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 11/13/2011 09:45 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This patch br

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] Add support for net bridge

2011-12-15 Thread Corey Bryant
On 12/15/2011 10:26 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 11/13/2011 09:45 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This patch br

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] Add support for net bridge

2011-12-15 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 11/13/2011 09:45 PM, Corey Bryant wrote: The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This patch breaks the build: anthony@titi:~/build/qemu$ make

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] Add support for net bridge

2011-11-13 Thread Corey Bryant
The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a tap device to pass to the script. This model is great for portability and flexibility but it's incredibly difficult to eliminate the need to ru