Hi Jirka,

thanks for the answer. That's pretty clear.
All the best,

Matteo


On 27 Feb 2014, at 11:11, Jiri Denemark <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:45:53 +0000, Lanati, Matteo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm trying to share a folder between a host and a guest using VirtFS.
>> 
>> The source is NAS mounted on the host and QEMU runs as unprivileged user.
>> 
>> The only way for me to use the folder inside the guest is to set the access 
>> mode to 'squash' but all file operations are performed by the user running 
>> QEMU. 
>> If I ran QEMU as root, the passthrough mode works as expected.
>> 
>> Is there the possibility to configure the passthrough access also for 
>> non-root users?
> 
> There were an attempt to implement support for a proxy that would run as
> a root and would allow non-privileged qemu to use passthrough access.
> However, looks like the author's focus was moved into another direction
> and the patches were never finished...
> 
> Jirka

Matteo Lanati
Distributed Resources Group
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)
Boltzmannstrasse 1
85748   Garching b. München     (Germany)
Phone: +49 89 35831 8724


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