Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

On Friday 09 February 2007 22:33, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:27:08PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 22:19, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > 1) When you accidentally run qemu as root, could it NOT try to go into
> > > a full-screen display by default resulting in a corrupted display you
> > > can't break out of and have to power cycle the machine?
> >
> > This is a feature of your SDL libraries. They're probably trying to use
> > console framebuffer output. Complain to whoever supplied your SDL
> > libraries.
>
> True but I think Rob wants to prevent the  "accidentally" bit because
> that isn't the only bad thing you can do with QEMU as root by accident.
> The user's intention can be (more or less) detected with a parameter
> like "-force-run-as-root". Since once of QEMU's main points is to avoid
> the need for root access I think that's reasonable.

I've very little sympathy (read: none) for people who "accidentally" break 
things by running them as root.

Paul