Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > For what purpose is libvirt or QEMU using setgroups()? What goes wrong if
> > setgroups() fails?
>
> QEMU potentially needs access to files owned by a supplementary group.
> On Linux for example, /dev/kvm is often owned by 'kvm' group, but the
> 'qemu' user on Fedora
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 02:06:07PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > FWIW I compiled libvirt without the setgroups code on Mac and it
> > > > worked as expected. Not sure what the implications of that are though?
> > >
> > > OK, then the fix would be to not use setgrou
Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > FWIW I compiled libvirt without the setgroups code on Mac and it
> > > worked as expected. Not sure what the implications of that are though?
> >
> > OK, then the fix would be to not use setgroups on Mac, and nothing to do
> > in gnulib. Right?
>
> Not calling setg
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:36:15PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Marcus Furlong wrote:
> > FWIW I compiled libvirt without the setgroups code on Mac and it
> > worked as expected. Not sure what the implications of that are though?
>
> OK, then the fix would be to not use setgroups on Mac, and nothi
