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Message-ID: <4EB968AB.9060907@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:36:43 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org list" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Am?rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels

On 11/08/2011 07:34 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>> It could work with a btrfs snapshot, but not everyone uses that.
>> Or LVM snapshot.  Either way, just reusing the root fs without care
>> is a dumb idea, and I really don't want any tool or script that
>> encurages such braindead behaviour in the kernel tree.
>
>
> Heh, yeah, the intent was obviously to have a separate rootfs tree
> somewhere in a directory. But that's not available at first when
> running this, so I figured for a simple "get me rolling" FAQ directing
> the guest's rootfs to / at least gets you somewhere (especially when
> run as user with init=/bin/bash).
>

Right, init=/bin/bash is not too insane for rootfs passthrough.

/proc will be completely broken though, need to mount the guest's.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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