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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:36:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FF5FF2.8090209@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FF4DC2.4020003@web.de>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> It looks to be broken.  I don't recall that Samba has every supported
>> running as an unprivileged user to so it would require launching as root.
>>     
>
> It works perfectly. I even have a patch pending that fixes the zombie
> issue it causes (more precisely, slirp missed that).
>
>   
>> Would anyone be opposed to removing this?
>>
>>     
>
> No reason to do so IMHO. It's very simple to use, much simpler than
> having to configure a full samba server on the host, which would include
> user/password management.
>   

But you have to run qemu as root, and you can only use -smb with one 
guest at a time?  Is that correct?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
>
>   

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-04 18:20 [Qemu-devel] Does anyone actually use -smb Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 20:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-05-04 20:25   ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-04 21:36   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-05-04 21:40     ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05  1:47   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05  6:18     ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05  7:27       ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05 12:13         ` Alexey Eremenko
2009-05-05 12:09       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 13:52         ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05 15:07           ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-05 12:10       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 13:34     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-05 13:55       ` Avi Kivity

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