We need to be able to run qemu as not root. Has anyone tried using qemu with fakechroot?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245703 Title: LD_PREFIX option reads directories recursively in an endless loop Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: If I run qemu user emulation with -L /path/to/my/sysroot/ in which also the proc and dev filesystem is mounted QEMU eats my memory until it gets killed by the kernel. According to the strace output it follows the symbolic links in the proc filesystem running forever in a recursive loop. The easiest solution would be to add in the function "add_dir_maybe" in the file util/path.c an additional check for symbolic links that it don't follow them. Also I don't really understand the need of doing this. A lot of ressources are wasted everytime QEMU-user is started just by having the directory structure in memory. In my case this are more than 20000 entries which QEMU is loading every time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1245703/+subscriptions
