Comment 18 for bug 1637601

Hi @paelzer,

Thanks!

I had in mind to submit the patch for Debian libvirt if/once the allocation request is granted on Debian. Of course, I can submit in advance and mention it's awaiting for base-passwd.

Could you help w/ the base-passwd process? I believe it's @cjwatson who handles this on Debian and Ubuntu, right?

For reference, this is the e-mail sent to Debian base-passwd:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: request uid and gid allocation for libvirt-qemu
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:27:00 -0200
From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>

Hi,

I'd like to request an uid and gid for the libvirt-qemu user/group.

This is in support of guest migration with disk images over NFS. That
requires the same uid/gid on source and target host systems, otherwise
IO requests for disk images (owned by libvirt-qemu) fail with -EACCES,
which causes IO errors in a guest undergoing migration.

The patches for libvirt will be submitted if the allocation is granted.

According to 'base-passwd/README':
> You *may not* use any uids or gids in the 60000-64999 range without
> *first* requesting an allocation from <email address hidden>
> and waiting for confirmation that the allocation has been granted.

Thanks,

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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center