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Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:36:50 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> It looks to be broken.  I don't recall that Samba has every supported
>> running as an unprivileged user to so it would require launching as root.
>>     
>
> It works perfectly. I even have a patch pending that fixes the zombie
> issue it causes (more precisely, slirp missed that).
>
>   
>> Would anyone be opposed to removing this?
>>
>>     
>
> No reason to do so IMHO. It's very simple to use, much simpler than
> having to configure a full samba server on the host, which would include
> user/password management.
>   

But you have to run qemu as root, and you can only use -smb with one 
guest at a time?  Is that correct?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
>
>