From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPTd-0007yB-1a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:10:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPTZ-0007rQ-8o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:10:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56806 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPTZ-0007qf-0O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:10:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40457) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYPTY-0000Ng-An for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:10:36 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7RIAXwr025956 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:10:33 -0400 Received: from file.fab.redhat.com (file.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.6]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7RIAVio023467 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:10:32 -0400 Received: from file.fab.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by file.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7RIAVYL024582 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:31 +0100 Received: (from berrange@localhost) by file.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m7RIAVFG024578 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:31 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:31 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse Message-ID: <20080827181031.GI27669@redhat.com> References: <48B580B5.8030804@codemonkey.ws> <20080827170228.GG3644@pintsize> <48B5963B.9000906@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B5963B.9000906@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:00:27PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Luca Bigliardi wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > >>1) disable the root readable limitation in fuse, this has to be done > >>globally and I suspect is unlikely to be done by distros. > >> > > > >I'm sorry, why you don't like to pass '-o allow_root' to fuse_main() from > >your application ? > > > > It also requires user_allow_root to be specified in /etc/fuse.conf. > > Why don't you like qemu-nbd? FWIW, I'm open to fuse but I don't think > we should have both an NBD server and a fuse filesystem. I think we > should try and have a single mechanism to access guest images. Well qemu-nbd also allows sharing to remote machines, whereas fuse only exposes it locally. qemu-nbd also allows access to things which aren't filesystems. eg, you could have LVM / software RAID devices inside your qcow file - qemu-fuse won't help you get access to those. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|