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From: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
To: cfriedt@visible-assets.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] root userid remapping? ... no UID / GID variables set in NFS root?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:16:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070531151620.18e841fb@chirp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465F46F3.1080700@visible-assets.com>

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:06:43 +0200
Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@visible-assets.com> wrote:

> (is there any way to create a disk image from a directory tree??)

http://www.hohnstaedt.de/e2fsimage/

If you use this, you will get a raw e2fs filesystem image.  It will not
have a partition table, which means you will want to mount it directly
as /dev/hda (or /dev/sda), not /dev/hda1 (or /dev/sda1).


> The strange thing is, is that although I specify no_root_squash in my 
> /etc/exports (and I've been using NFS for quite a long time
> successfully with other machines), only when I'm using Qemu does the
> user id of the 'init' process [0] get remapped to some completely
> absurd value of 4294967295.

4294967295 is decimal for 0xffffffff, also known as -1.  Maybe some
kind of bug?

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-31 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-31 22:06 [Qemu-devel] root userid remapping? ... no UID / GID variables set in NFS root? Christopher Friedt
2007-05-31 22:16 ` Mark Glines [this message]
2007-06-01  5:48 ` Rob Landley

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