Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: connecting chardev to a command forked by qemu

2017-11-07 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Tue, 2017-11-07 at 09:23 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 17:26 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > I can see the argument about it making QEMU easier to use, and > > > those > > > who care about securit

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: connecting chardev to a command forked by qemu

2017-11-07 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 17:26 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > I can see the argument about it making QEMU easier to use, and those > > who care about security aren't forced to use this new feature. It > > none the less has a cost on

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: connecting chardev to a command forked by qemu

2017-11-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 17:26 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > I can see the argument about it making QEMU easier to use, and those > who care about security aren't forced to use this new feature. It > none the less has a cost on maintainers and existance of these > features does reflect on QEMU's

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: connecting chardev to a command forked by qemu

2017-11-06 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 06:11:43PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Hello! > > When Amarnath proposed the initial patch set for interacting with swtpm > without relying on CUSE, letting QEMU invoke swtpm was part of the > patch series. When using some virtual machine management framework like > virt-

[Qemu-devel] RFC: connecting chardev to a command forked by qemu

2017-11-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
Hello! When Amarnath proposed the initial patch set for interacting with swtpm without relying on CUSE, letting QEMU invoke swtpm was part of the patch series. When using some virtual machine management framework like virt-manager that might not be necessary. But our goal was to use QEMU+swtpm to