From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@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 17:40:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <573F3DFA.6060308@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22335.15490.180266.854301@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 20/05/16 17:34, 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
Definitely does break migration (as reported back around Christmas).
Probably breaks other things.
The warning is definitely annoying, and not helpful.
~Andrew
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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 [this message]
2016-05-20 16:48 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-05-20 16:53 ` Wei Liu
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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