Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/4] v2v: chmod original OVA file if running as root (RHBZ#1430680).

In data lunedì 13 marzo 2017 14:47:43 CET, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto: > In the case where we are going to read the disk directly from the OVA > file (partial = true), we will create a qcow2 image backed by the OVA. > If running as root, libvirt will run qemu as a non-root user (because > of no qemu:///session support for root, which is a libvirt bug). qemu > will not be able to read the backing file and thus will fail. > > To work around this problem, chmod the backing (OVA) file. > > This isn't a complete fix since (eg) the OVA might be located in a > directory which isn't accessible by root, but there's only so much we > can do here until libvirt is fixed. > > Thanks: Kun Wei. > --- Can you please mention in the commit message that this updates commit d9b2a16c71d0c87195e28c1325fd83b344741339 ?