Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:14:01 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov_iter.c rewrite |
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > I guess you're running it in a VM, but still.. Doing random system > > calls as root sounds like a bad bad idea. > > I'm doing this for a long time and didn't see any problem bigger than qemu > crash[1]. ;) > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/194845/
If you use something like this:
-drive file=root_fs.img,if=virtio,snapshot=on
running trinity as root should be quite safe in a VM. :-)
- Ted
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