Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 2/2] m4: Add warning when running QEMU as root

Running QEMU as root is a pretty bad idea, so try to make the user aware of that as part of the configure summary. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- m4/virt-driver-qemu.m4 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/m4/virt-driver-qemu.m4 b/m4/virt-driver-qemu.m4 index 5d4ac66a4b..a8b9fe54b3 100644 --- a/m4/virt-driver-qemu.m4 +++ b/m4/virt-driver-qemu.m4 @@ -104,5 +104,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_DRIVER_RESULT_QEMU], [ ]) AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_RESULT_QEMU_PRIVILEGES], [ - LIBVIRT_RESULT([QEMU], [$QEMU_USER:$QEMU_GROUP]) + if test "$QEMU_USER" = "root"; then + LIBVIRT_RESULT([QEMU], [$QEMU_USER:$QEMU_GROUP], + [!!! running QEMU as root is strongly discouraged !!!])