Re: [Qemu-discuss] manipulating raw disk image as non-root user

[Dale R. Worley]

> From: Dallas Clement <address@hidden>
> 
> I would like to be able to create, partition, format, mount, and populate a
> raw disk image file as a non-root user.  I am able to create the image file
> with dd and partition it with parted as a non-root user.  I have not
> figured out a way to format, mount, and populate it as a non-root user.
>  Tools such as losetup and kpartx seem perfect for the task, but
> unfortunately require root.
> 
> Is it possible to do what I want with qemu?

Since you can run Qemu as a non-root user, and you can present an
arbitrary file to it as a disk, it seems that you should be able to
use the standard disk tools within a Qemu guest to do what you want.

Dale