From fd1b84af98585dbfa62c7545edf689e380062f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daan De Meyer <daan@amutable.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:57:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] vmspawn: pass --log-level=error and --modcaps=-mknod to
 virtiofsd

Reduce virtiofsd log noise by setting --log-level=error, and drop
the unnecessary mknod capability with --modcaps=-mknod, matching
mkosi's virtiofsd invocation.

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/vmspawn/vmspawn.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/vmspawn/vmspawn.c b/src/vmspawn/vmspawn.c
index a93fb0d456..18f2833ae7 100644
--- a/src/vmspawn/vmspawn.c
+++ b/src/vmspawn/vmspawn.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,9 @@ static int start_virtiofsd(
                         "--shared-dir", source_uid == FOREIGN_UID_MIN ? "/run/systemd/mount-rootfs" : directory,
                         "--xattr",
                         "--fd", sockstr,
-                        "--no-announce-submounts");
+                        "--no-announce-submounts",
+                        "--log-level=error",
+                        "--modcaps=-mknod");
         if (!argv)
                 return log_oom();