Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

[Dan Shearer]

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.

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Dan Shearer
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