Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] set vnc password from xenstore.

[Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >     
> > > >  -vnc localhost:3,passwdfd=6
> > > >         
> > > In general, I strongly dislike passing file descriptors like this.
> > >       
> > I find this very useful, and actually think we should encourage it, and 
> > also allow passing file descriptors over the monitor (using 
> > SCM_RIGHTS).  This can help de-privilege qemu.  In fact, you can run a 
> > guest where qemu doesn't even have permissions to open the backing file.
> >     
> You can already do this:
>
>     qemu -hdc /proc/self/fd/3 3<>MS-DOS-6.22.img
>
>   
Not over the monitor.

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