On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:05:57PM +0700, Ryan Erwin wrote: > Hello, > > I was using `virt-what` and noticed that you require root before running > `/usr/lib/virt-what/virt-what-cpuid-helper` however I also noticed that > directly running the cpuid-helper binary without root it still worked fine > for me on several machines when I directly run the helper binary. > > What circumstances have you found where cpuid-helper actually does requrie > root? Is it SELinux related? virt-what could be run as non-root. The original reason for requiring root was so we could run dmidecode (nothing to do with cpuid). However that information is now available in /sys/firmware and other places (on Linux at least). Since no one has done the work, virt-what still requires root though. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
