Comment 1 for bug 1882420

Hi Wren,

Not setting the suid bit on qemu-bridge-helper is a deliberate choice due to the security concerns outlined in [1], see also the Ubuntu changelog entry for version 2.1+dfsg-3 of qemu.

On setting up a default bridge: I don't think it's something the qemu package should do, as things like networking are normally manager by higher level tools (e.g. libvirt), and there's not way to add a default that fits a broad enough set of cases without interfering with the existing setups.

I think this is a "Won't Fix" bug, but I'm setting it to Incomplete for the moment, to leave it open to further discussion, if needed. If you do not agree please change the bug status back to New after commenting back and we'll look at it again; if you do agree please change the status to Won't Fix.

Thanks!

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691138