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 mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
