[libvirt-users] VirtFS accessmode

[Javi Legido]

Hi Matteo.

As far as I know this is how it works.

I asked weeks ago if there's any chance to change setuid in order to
control how the files are created in the host, but at the moment I
didn't get a reply.

Cheers.

Javier

On 26 February 2014 10:45, Lanati, Matteo <Matteo.Lanati at lrz.de> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matteo
>
>
>
> Matteo Lanati
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