On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Leonid Isaev
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:30:38AM +0200, arnaud gaboury wrote:
I found my entries about this topic, but no clear answer.
As user, I want to install a VM with virt-install. $ virt-install --connect qemu:///system --LONG list of options
Error : could not access KVM kernel module: permission denied. Running the above command as root returns the same.
My configuration: martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % uname -r 3.16.1-1-ARCH martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % ls -al /dev/kvm crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Aug 17 11:05 /dev/kvm martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % groups martinus adm wheel video audio kalu libvirt qemu kvm martinus
You don't need to be in 'kvm' group to use /dev/kvm. What does 'getfacl /dev/kvm' say? Can you run a plain qemu-system-<something>?
martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % getfacl /dev/kvm getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/kvm # owner: root # group: kvm user::rw- user:martinus:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::---
From man virt-install :
qemu:///system For creating KVM and QEMU guests to be run by the system libvirtd instance. This is the default mode that virt-manager uses, and what most KVM users want. qemu:///session For creating KVM and QEMU guests for libvirtd running as the regular user. ------------------------------ $ >> $ virt-install --connect qemu:///session works perfectly. I am not fully sure it is the right way, but now, as a regular user, I can install VM and there is no complains about permission denied.