Package: libvirt-bin Version: 0.8.3-5+squeeze1 Severity: important Tags: upstream
If you configure libvirt to spawn qemu with it's own user you can run into problems getting KVM to work. This is because although the qemu user belongs to the kvm and disk groups without calling initgroups the spawned process won't be able to access /dev/kvm (root:kvm) and much hilarity/head scratching will ensue. This problem has been documented upstream and has been patched in recent releases: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664406 In the end the workaround I applied was to nail the /dev/kvm device to: ls -l /dev/kvm crw-rw---- 1 root qemu 10, 232 Jun 12 11:51 /dev/kvm And nailed it up with: cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local-permissions.rules # Make kvm available to qemu KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="qemu", MODE="0660" -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
