From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com>,
passt-dev@passt.top, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au,
berrange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: Update README.md
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:31:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250924103131.GU1460@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250924110909.43a16cfa@elisabeth>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 11:09:09AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> And now that you say that, I just realised that it would be as simple
> as:
>
> https://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#permission-denied-when-running-libguestfs-as-root
>
> LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct virt-edit...
While that will indeed work, we're trying to discourage people from
doing that, since it removes the other good things that libvirt does,
such as setting up SELinux.
The real solution here IMHO is for libvirt to make session mode work
for root without changing UID. It actually goes out of its way to
stop this working at the moment[1].
Rich.
[1] In qemuStateInitialize -> virQEMUDriverConfigNew, I think
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-24 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-19 1:43 Yumei Huang
2025-09-19 5:00 ` David Gibson
2025-09-19 9:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-22 3:03 ` Yumei Huang
2025-09-22 20:03 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-23 6:36 ` Yumei Huang
2025-09-23 7:16 ` Yumei Huang
2025-09-23 10:32 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-24 1:58 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 1:58 ` Yumei Huang
2025-09-24 3:44 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 4:02 ` Yumei Huang
2025-09-24 8:46 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-24 8:56 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2025-09-24 9:09 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-24 10:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2025-09-24 11:00 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-09-25 9:21 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2025-09-24 11:05 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-24 11:20 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-09-24 11:48 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-25 5:16 ` Yumei Huang
2025-09-23 7:49 ` David Gibson
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