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On 11/08/2011 07:34 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>> It could work with a btrfs snapshot, but not everyone uses that.
>> Or LVM snapshot.  Either way, just reusing the root fs without care
>> is a dumb idea, and I really don't want any tool or script that
>> encurages such braindead behaviour in the kernel tree.
>
>
> Heh, yeah, the intent was obviously to have a separate rootfs tree
> somewhere in a directory. But that's not available at first when
> running this, so I figured for a simple "get me rolling" FAQ directing
> the guest's rootfs to / at least gets you somewhere (especially when
> run as user with init=/bin/bash).
>

Right, init=/bin/bash is not too insane for rootfs passthrough.

/proc will be completely broken though, need to mount the guest's.

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