On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:03:53PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about interface script (e.g., qemu-ifup) for qemu/kvm. > qemu/kvm is dropped its all capabilities by libcap-ng before executed. > So the script that is executed by qemu/kvm will fail if it executes > privileged operations which are usual jobs of it. > > It means we cannot use <script> anymore? or I'm missing something? That is correct. > I think executing the script in libvirtd after creating a tap and before > dropping capabilities would be a solution for that issue. Am I wrong? If we want to keep the 'script' capability, then that is pretty much the only option I see. Personally though I'd rather people never used the script capability because its an opaque blackbox doing who knows what Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list