On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:08:50AM +0200, Karel Hendrych wrote: > Hi, after migrating to libvirt/libxl according to: > Hi, > https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt > > I've noticed that my Xen PV domains are being launched by > qemu-system-i386 running under root privileges. > > I am wondering why is this? Previously no qemu process was used. > > If qemu is needed for some reason, are there any guidelines for > non-root operation? > In general qemu is used for the following purposes: - for certain domU disk backend types (image files), and/or if there's no blktap driver in dom0 kernel. - domU graphical console (PVFB) VNC server, if it's enabled for the domU. > -- > Karel Hendrych -- Pasi _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
