From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:40:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FF60E9.1010801@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FF5FF2.8090209@codemonkey.ws>
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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?
Nope, I'm running it as dumb user. I haven't tried multiple qemu
instances, wait... works as well.
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 18:20 [Qemu-devel] Does anyone actually use -smb Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 20:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-05-04 20:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-04 21:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 21:40 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2009-05-05 1:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 6:18 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05 7:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05 12:13 ` Alexey Eremenko
2009-05-05 12:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 13:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-05 15:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-05 12:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 13:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-05 13:55 ` Avi Kivity
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