From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, 43650@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:06:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929070624.GM1386@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfgt4z6r.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
> Hello!
>
> > Until qemu was running as "root", which is unnecessary.
>
> Well...I can't get this to work; my childhurd does not run. Did you
> test it? Any special tricks needed, adding "childhurd" to "kvm" maybe?
>
> I do like the idea...
>
> Greetings,
> Janneke
>
Shot in the dark, do the permissions/ownership on /var/empty matter?
childhurd is far from the only user claiming /var/empty as home.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-29 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-27 15:29 [bug#43650] [PATCH 0/8] Assorted childhurd improvements Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 2/8] services: childhurd: Tweak description Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 3/8] secret-service: Clarify the origin of messages Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 4/8] services: hurd-vm: Check whether /dev/kvm exists at run time Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-28 17:02 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-29 10:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-29 14:22 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-29 20:13 ` bug#43650: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 5/8] services: guix: Generate key pair if needed during activation Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 6/8] services: hurd-vm: Initialize the guest's SSH/Guix keys at activation time Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 7/8] services: hurd-vm: Pass "-no-reboot" when spawning the Hurd VM Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 8/8] secret-service: Add a timeout when waiting for a client Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-28 16:57 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-28 22:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-29 7:06 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2020-09-29 10:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-28 17:10 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 0/8] Assorted childhurd improvements Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-28 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
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