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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Bolle <bolle@geodb.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Starting QEMU by PHP/Apache
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:10:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091020101012.GA11879@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-1431679@x41.ch>

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:26:25PM +0200, Bolle wrote:
> Did anybody had success to start a QEMU instance by a PHP script under 
> the Apache web server ?
>
> I allow the Apache user with the help of sudoers to start the QEMU binary 
> as root. I've hacked the "qemu-socket.c" to set the access mode to allow 
> communication for the monitor socket (only add "chmod(path, <needed file 
> mode bits>)").

I don't understand why you want to start qemu as root.  It doesn't
need to be root (even for KVM support) and we run it as non-root all
the time in http://libguestfs.org/

Rich.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13 11:26 [Qemu-devel] Starting QEMU by PHP/Apache Bolle
2009-10-13 13:12 ` François Revol
2009-10-14  5:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Bolle
2009-10-16  4:49   ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [REASON][PATCH-REQUEST] " Bolle
2009-10-20 10:10 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]

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