Re: [PATCH] Add class property to configure KVM device node to use

[Daan De Meyer]

Anything else needed before this patch can be merged?

Cheers,

Daan

On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 19:37, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Daan De Meyer wrote:
> > This allows passing the KVM device node to use as a file
> > descriptor via /dev/fdset/XX. Passing the device node to
> > use as a file descriptor allows running qemu unprivileged
> > even when the user running qemu is not in the kvm group
> > on distributions where access to /dev/kvm is gated behind
> > membership of the kvm group (as long as the process invoking
> > qemu is able to open /dev/kvm and passes the file descriptor
> > to qemu).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  accel/kvm/kvm-all.c      | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/sysemu/kvm_int.h |  1 +
> >  qemu-options.hx          |  8 +++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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