Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: add the possibility to specify a tap prefix

2014-01-14 Thread William Dauchy
On Jan14 19:24, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/msg04279.html > and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-10/msg02149.html > for previous discussions on this topic. Thanks for pointing me this out, it's now clear. -- William signature.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: add the possibility to specify a tap prefix

2014-01-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14/01/2014 18:40, William Dauchy ha scritto: >>> I think this was nacked already in the past. You would need to >>> implement some kind of ACL system like the one that is in place >>> for bridges. Without it, for example, you could hijack >>> exi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: add the possibility to specify a tap prefix

2014-01-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/14/2014 10:15 AM, William Dauchy wrote: > this will permit to specify an interface prefix to the tap instead of the > default one ("tap") > this functionnality is useful when you need an easy way to find the s/functionnality/functionality/ > interfaces attached to a given virtual machine >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: add the possibility to specify a tap prefix

2014-01-14 Thread William Dauchy
Hello Paolo, Thanks for your quick reply. On Jan14 18:31, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I think this was nacked already in the past. You would need to > implement some kind of ACL system like the one that is in place for > bridges. Without it, for example, you could hijack existing iptables rules. I

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: add the possibility to specify a tap prefix

2014-01-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 14/01/2014 18:15, William Dauchy ha scritto: > this will permit to specify an interface prefix to the tap instead of the > default one ("tap") > this functionnality is useful when you need an easy way to find the > interfaces attached to a given virtual machine > > example: > -net bridge,prefi