Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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?

Nope, I'm running it as dumb user. I haven't tried multiple qemu
instances, wait... works as well.

Jan


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