Ability to use -net socket with unix sockets

[Tefnet Developers]

It would be a nice feature (simplifying access control for example) to be able to do something like:

qemu -net socket,listen=unix:/tmp/qemunet
qemu -net socket,connect=unix:/tmp/qemunet

For now one has to use TCP connections even for guests running on the same host, which involves setting up iptables to restrict access.

[Alex Bennée (ajbennee)]

Aren't these at different levels of the stack? Network devices deal in packets not connections. It sounds like you want to use something like vsock which provides a virtual socket device to the guest.

[Daniel Berrange (berrange)]

This is just about connecting the NIC backends for 2 QEMUs together using a UNIX socket, instead of the current TCP/UDP socket. It should be fairly trivial to support i would expect. Though ideally we'd port the netdev socket backend to use QIOChannel too

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

This is an automated cleanup. This bug report got closed because it
is a duplicate.