On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 11/06/2011 03:35 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> > To quickly get going, just execute the following as user: >> > >> > $ ./Documentation/run-qemu.sh -r / -a init=/bin/bash >> > >> > This will drop you into a shell on your rootfs. >> > >> >> Doesn't work on Fedora 15. F15's qemu-kvm doesn't have -machine or >> -virtfs. Even qemu.git on F15 won't build virtfs since xattr.h >> detection is broken (patch posted). > > Nevermind that running virtfs as a rootfs is a really dumb idea. You > do now want to run a VM that has a rootfs that gets changed all the > time behind your back. > > Running qemu -snapshot on the actual root block device is the only > safe way to reuse the host installation, although it gets a bit > complicated if people have multiple devices mounted into the namespace. Using block devices also requires root. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
