You might try looking at the website http://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI
Towards the bottom there is a Makefile example of creating disk images without root permission -Mike -----Original Message----- From: qemu-discuss-bounces+mike_bradley=mentor....@nongnu.org [mailto:qemu-discuss-bounces+mike_bradley=mentor....@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of qemu-discuss-requ...@nongnu.org Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 12:01 PM To: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org Subject: Qemu-discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 5 Send Qemu-discuss mailing list submissions to qemu-discuss@nongnu.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to qemu-discuss-requ...@nongnu.org You can reach the person managing the list at qemu-discuss-ow...@nongnu.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Qemu-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: manipulating raw disk image as non-root user (Dale R. Worley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:14:04 -0400 From: wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) To: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] manipulating raw disk image as non-root user Message-ID: <201408041514.s74fe4sx008...@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> Perhaps you could add an entry to /etc/fstab with the 'user' option. It would allow the mounting of a file with a specific name, looped back to a specific mount point. (Assuming you can set up loopback mounts in /etc/fstab.) It may be possible to set enough restrictions in the fstab entry (noexec, nodev, etc.) to prevent this from being a gigantic security hole. (The actual safe way would be to write a setuid program that is given the basic formatting specifications, creates an empty filesystem, and mounts that. That way the user can't put anything into the disk image file beforehand that would compromise security.) Dale ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qemu-discuss mailing list Qemu-discuss@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss End of Qemu-discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 5 *******************************************
