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virCommand was previously calling virSetUIDGID() to change the uid and gid of the child process, then separately calling virSetCapabilities(). This did not work if the desired uid was != 0, since a setuid to anything other than 0 normally clears all capabilities bits. The solution is to use the new virSetUIDGIDWithCaps(), sending it the uid, gid, and capabilities bits. This will get the new process setup properly. Since the static functions virSetCapabilities() and virClearCapabilities are no longer called, they have been removed. NOTE: When combined with "filecap $path-to-qemu sys_rawio", this patch will make CAP_SYS_RAWIO (which is required for passthrough of generic scsi commands to a guest - see commits e8daeeb, 177db08, 397e6a7, and 74e0349) be retained by qemu when necessary. Apparently that capability has been broken for non-root qemu ever since it was originally added.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>