Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8] run QEMU as non-root

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 16:53 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Wasn't there some code to plumb this into xl at one point? Did that get
> > > dropped along the way?
> > 
> > device_model_user is added to the idl by this patch, I think that is
> > enough, right?
> 
> Depends what you mean by "enough", it adds it to the _libxl_ API, which is
> sufficient for the patch to be useful but it doesn't actually cause the
> option to be available to users of xl via a cfg file, which arguably it
> should.
> 
> To make it available to xl users patches to tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c would
> be needed (plus docs changes)

I see. No, xl_cmdimpl.c support for the option was never written, as it
was introduced principally for libvirt's benefit.

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