Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

[Alexander Graf]

On 12.04.2010, at 14:04, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Also since -net user does support samba exporting already,
> 
> This I'm interested in.  Last time I tried to use it, the "smb="
> option didn't work because Samba refused to run when launched with
> qemu's mini config file and launched as a regular user.  It needed
> access to various hard-coded root-owned directories, and spewed lots
> of errors about it into its logs.
> 
> On closer inspection, those directories were hard-coded and could not
> be changed by the config file, nor could the features they were for be
> disabled.
> 
> Even if I gave it permission to write to those, by running kvm/qemu as
> root, there was plenty of reason to worry that each instance of
> qemu-spawned Samba may interfere with the others and with the host's
> own....  starting with errors spewed into log files by both Sambas.
> 
> So I had to give up on -net user,smb= completely :-(
> 
> Is this something that you at SuSE have fixed or simply never encountered?

I think I tried -net user,smb some years ago and found it not working either.

Either way, this sounds more like someone should spend a few hours getting 
samba fixed instead of occupying a talented student for a full summer where he 
could instead to more productive things :-).


Alex