Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Also since -net user does support samba exporting already,

This I'm interested in.  Last time I tried to use it, the "smb="
option didn't work because Samba refused to run when launched with
qemu's mini config file and launched as a regular user.  It needed
access to various hard-coded root-owned directories, and spewed lots
of errors about it into its logs.

On closer inspection, those directories were hard-coded and could not
be changed by the config file, nor could the features they were for be
disabled.

Even if I gave it permission to write to those, by running kvm/qemu as
root, there was plenty of reason to worry that each instance of
qemu-spawned Samba may interfere with the others and with the host's
own....  starting with errors spewed into log files by both Sambas.

So I had to give up on -net user,smb= completely :-(

Is this something that you at SuSE have fixed or simply never encountered?

My problems were with Debian and Ubuntu installations.  I suspect they
might have "fixed" some Samba problems by patching in different problems.

-- Jamie