On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 at 23:59:48 +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > Its man page states: > | Note that you need to call this as root. > > I guess this is because of vmdb2, which requires superuser privileges.
As a stopgap solution for this, the latest version in git will try to use fakemachine(1) if you are not uid 0. fakemachine is currently only available on amd64 (it has to make non-portable assumptions while building the initramfs that it will use for the VM). I think the long-term solution is to bootstrap from an official cloud image or by running -build-qemu as root, then build any subsequent, more minimal images by booting a pre-existing VM image and running vmdb2 inside it (or by running whatever tool we use instead of vmdb2, if the implementation of -build-qemu changes). This is how I do it in <https://salsa.debian.org/smcv/vectis>. smcv
