[Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb

[Jan Kiszka]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> It looks to be broken.  I don't recall that Samba has every supported
>> running as an unprivileged user to so it would require launching as root.
> 
> It works perfectly. I even have a patch pending that fixes the zombie
> issue it causes (more precisely, slirp missed that).
> 
>> Would anyone be opposed to removing this?
>>
> 
> No reason to do so IMHO. It's very simple to use, much simpler than
> having to configure a full samba server on the host, which would include
> user/password management.
> 
> Jan
> 

BTW, I'm sitting on a large rework of all the slirp-related command line
options + a fully-configurable slirp (not yet multi-instance, but that
may come as well). Is your question motivated by some slirp-affecting
work, or just cleanup considerations?

Jan

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