Can I run pqos from terminal or C code without root permission?

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Can I run pqos from terminal or C code without root permission? #221

Closed kazi-m22 closed 2 years ago

kazi-m22 commented 2 years ago

I have tried running pqos from both terminal and C code. Even if I add prefix to install it somewhere else than default path, it asks for root permission each time. Is there any way to run it without root permission? If I do not use sudo, i get:

API lock initialization error! Error initializing PQoS library!

aleksinx commented 2 years ago

No, root permissions are needed to access MSR register or resctrl filesystem.