Tom

I agree it is discouraged and I generally don't like the idea of doing stuff as root, either. But I don't think you can mount block devices using fakeroot. Root...

That would be an option.

What is your host system?

It seems like others have had issues on 14.04. I'm on 14.10 currently and it works fine there. If I have some time, I might set up another 14.04 VM...

I don't know, haven't tried it. Unfortunately my time is rather limited. If you have solutions for your problems, I'd love to know about them so that I can fix...

Maybe it's not the only source of power drain, I don't know for sure. All I know is that my battery life is pretty pathetic unless I run Windows on...

I believe one would have to use `PR_SET_PDEATHSIG` (on Linux anyway) after `fork()` if the child process wants to make sure it gets killed when the parent goes away. So...

Nice! I wonder how easily we could abstract the AML interpreter so we can run unit tests? It feels like we could abstract all kernel/io interactions into an interface maybe?