[arch-general] qemu-vm : access to KVM kernel denied

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 05:00:44PM +0200, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> martinus at 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::---

So, permissions on /dev/kvm look OK. Actually, you can remove yourself from the
'kvm' group.

> 
> >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

I have no idea what this means because I never used libvirt (only qemu
directly).

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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