Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

> > >I'm sorry, why you don't like to pass '-o allow_root' to fuse_main() from
> > >your application ?
> > >  
> > 
> > It also requires user_allow_root to be specified in /etc/fuse.conf.

You need root access to use qemu-nbd (to mount it), and if you mount
as root you don't need to modify /etc/fuse.conf, so they're equivalent
in this regard.

> Well qemu-nbd also allows sharing to remote machines, whereas fuse
> only exposes it locally. qemu-nbd also allows access to things which
> aren't filesystems. eg, you could have LVM / software RAID devices
> inside your qcow file - qemu-fuse won't help you get access to those.

Yes, qemu-nbd lets you use all the kernel filesystems, different
partition formats, RAID, encryption etc.

-- Jamie