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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/9] libxl: Get rid of support for QEMU_USER_BASE (xen-qemuuser-domidNN)



On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:53:20PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Nov 28, 2018, at 3:32 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 05:14:56PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> QEMU_USER_BASE allows a user to specify the UID to use when running
> >> the devicemodel for a specific domain number.  Unfortunately, this is
> >> not really practical: It requires nearly 32,000 entries in
> >> /etc/passwd.  QEMU_USER_RANGE_BASE is much more practical.
> >> 
> >> Remove support for QEMU_USER_BASE.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I have no problem with you removing this, but you forgot to change
> > xl.cfg.pod.5.in.
> 
> Hmm… it seems what I *really* forgot to do was remove that entire
> section and point to the feature doc instead.  It’s quite out of date
> now (e.g., cdrom insert should work I think, qemu is chrooted so can’t
> read world-readable files, &c).  With your permission I’ll put fixing
> that up properly on a to-do list (to be done before 4.12 release at a
> minimum).

Sure.

Wei.

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