From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix device_model_user description of its default value
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:53:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160520165319.GE31272@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160520164837.GA1184@perard.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 05:48:37PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 05:34:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Anthony PERARD writes ("[PATCH] docs: Fix device_model_user description of its default value"):
> > > docs/misc/qemu-deprivilege.txt and libxl suggest that "xen-qemuuser" is
> > > the default prefix, reflect that in the man.
> > >
> > > Also add some emphasis.
> >
> > I'm going to make a perhaps-controversial suggestion:
> >
> > This feature should be deprecated for 4.7. Specifically,
> > - the warning about running qemu as root should go away
> > - the docs should mention that running qemu not as root
> > may well break things
>
> Yes. The doc bearly mention an issue with migration and pci passthrough.
> I could boot a guest, but shutdown did not work.
>
So I guess we should just remove relevant manpage sections? The code can
be left as-is so that we can develop this thing further.
Wei.
> > Right now, the privsep is not finished and I think trying to run qemu
> > as non-root won't (usually) actually work.
> >
> > Ian.
>
> --
> Anthony PERARD
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-20 15:48 [PATCH] docs: Fix device_model_user description of its default value Anthony PERARD
2016-05-20 16:34 ` Ian Jackson
2016-05-20 16:40 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-20 16:48 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-05-20 16:53 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-05-23 11:21 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-23 11:35 ` [PATCH] libxl: Do not warn about non existing user for the device model Anthony PERARD
2016-05-23 11:57 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-23 14:09 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-05-23 14:14 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-23 15:49 ` Ian Jackson
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