On Mo, 25.06.18 11:54, Daniel P. Berrangé ([email protected]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:47:35PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mo, 25.06.18 11:23, Daniel P. Berrangé ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > That would break applications like libguestfs which run as non-root and > > > have valid need to access /boot/vmlinuz* > > > > Hmm, can you elaborate on that? What precisely do they need there? > > libguestfs boots a KVM guest to do its work inside and uses the installed > kernel image from /boot/vmlinuz-$UNAME_R for this purpose, together with > a custom initrd image with specific modules + specialized init binary. > > > If it's just the kernel image itself then they shouldn't really use > > /boot anyway I figure, but instead the kernel in > > /usr/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux. It's the same thing really. > > I wasn't aware of that duplicate vmlinuz file, I wonder how portable > that is across distros.
I figure it should check /usr/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux first, and then fall back to /boot/vmlinuz-$UNAME_R only if that didn't exist. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I4FGGMW4Y7NFCNBFPILEVUYAG347FZFO/
