Re: [Qemu-devel] Starting QEMU by PHP/Apache

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:26:25PM +0200, Bolle wrote:
> Did anybody had success to start a QEMU instance by a PHP script under 
> the Apache web server ?
>
> I allow the Apache user with the help of sudoers to start the QEMU binary 
> as root. I've hacked the "qemu-socket.c" to set the access mode to allow 
> communication for the monitor socket (only add "chmod(path, <needed file 
> mode bits>)").

I don't understand why you want to start qemu as root.  It doesn't
need to be root (even for KVM support) and we run it as non-root all
the time in http://libguestfs.org/

Rich.

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