On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:06:01PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: [...] > Why can lscpu find the same information without being root? > Most of the checks (cpuid, file locations etc) can be found out > by non-root. Only dmidecode seems to require trust, aren't there > enough ways to find out without using dmidecode?
Yes, we can probably make virt-what run as non-root, although some tests (the ones relying on dmidecode) will have to be disabled. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
