From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: [autotest] require root? Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:51:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4A795608.5020602@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: KVM list Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:33742 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934058AbZHEJvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:51:07 -0400 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n759p7xF013910 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:51:07 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n759p7BV015828 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:51:07 -0400 Received: from zweiblum.home.kraxel.org (vpn2-8-58.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.8.58]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n759p5o3020316 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:51:06 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, What is the point in requiring running as root? It seems to work just fine as user too after adapting a few permissions (/dev/kvm, /var/log/messages). Except the hugepages test because it wants mount hugetlbfs itself, which could easily be fixed too I think. I've also noticed it complains it can't symlink a init script: 11:26:46 ERROR| ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/init.d/autotest': Permission denied 11:26:46 WARNI| Linking init scripts failed Which it shouldn't try in the first place IMO. cheers, Gerd