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Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests. |
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Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:48:51 +0000 |
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On Friday 09 February 2007 22:33, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:27:08PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 22:19, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > 1) When you accidentally run qemu as root, could it NOT try to go into
> > > a full-screen display by default resulting in a corrupted display you
> > > can't break out of and have to power cycle the machine?
> >
> > This is a feature of your SDL libraries. They're probably trying to use
> > console framebuffer output. Complain to whoever supplied your SDL
> > libraries.
>
> True but I think Rob wants to prevent the "accidentally" bit because
> that isn't the only bad thing you can do with QEMU as root by accident.
> The user's intention can be (more or less) detected with a parameter
> like "-force-run-as-root". Since once of QEMU's main points is to avoid
> the need for root access I think that's reasonable.
I've very little sympathy (read: none) for people who "accidentally" break
things by running them as root.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Rob Landley, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Rob Landley, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Dan Shearer, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.,
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Ed Swierk, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Daniel Jacobowitz, 2007/02/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Rob Landley, 2007/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Jan Marten Simons, 2007/02/12
- CAP_NET_ADMIN (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.), Kevin F. Quinn, 2007/02/10
- Re: CAP_NET_ADMIN (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.), Paul Brook, 2007/02/10
- Re: CAP_NET_ADMIN (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.), Chris Friedhoff, 2007/02/12
[Qemu-devel] QEMU and SMP Option on dual core processor, Danny Chieh-Yao, Cheng, 2007/02/12