From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HtswX-0007nQ-KT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:16:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HtswV-0007nE-6L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:16:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HtswV-0007nA-0W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:16:27 -0400 Received: from squawk.glines.org ([72.36.206.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HtswU-00085t-Rv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:16:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:16:20 -0700 From: Mark Glines Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] root userid remapping? ... no UID / GID variables set in NFS root? Message-ID: <20070531151620.18e841fb@chirp> In-Reply-To: <465F46F3.1080700@visible-assets.com> References: <465F46F3.1080700@visible-assets.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: cfriedt@visible-assets.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:06:43 +0200 Christopher Friedt 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