On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:47:35PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mo, 25.06.18 11:23, Daniel P. Berrangé (berrange@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > That would break applications like libguestfs which run as non-root and > > have valid need to access /boot/vmlinuz* > > Hmm, can you elaborate on that? What precisely do they need there? libguestfs boots a KVM guest to do its work inside and uses the installed kernel image from /boot/vmlinuz-$UNAME_R for this purpose, together with a custom initrd image with specific modules + specialized init binary. > If it's just the kernel image itself then they shouldn't really use > /boot anyway I figure, but instead the kernel in > /usr/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux. It's the same thing really. I wasn't aware of that duplicate vmlinuz file, I wonder how portable that is across distros. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/T7AIYPBWUSAHHAUVM4YGIVRJ5DMPARZT/
