id = 1626
title = "QEMU insists on using /var/tmp instead of /tmp"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2023-04-26T20:35:49.560Z"
closed_at = "2023-08-05T22:06:37.688Z"
labels = ["Storage"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1626"
host-os = "n/a"
host-arch = "n/a"
qemu-version = "n/a"
guest-os = "n/a"
guest-arch = "n/a"
description = """On a host, our sysadmins have decided for whatever reason that `/var/tmp` is not a thing that normal users can write to (and perhaps that's dumb, but it is what it is and would be a challenging non-technical problem to solve). Whenever QEMU detects the temporary directory is /tmp, it changes it to `/var/tmp` without a mechanism to change it (see https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/69fbfff95e849156985cf95e2010ffc8762e34e6).

I'm sure in the general case this is fine, but can you add an environment variable or a ./configure option to make this location configurable? I really would like to write to `/tmp`."""
reproduce = "n/a"
additional = "n/a"