[Replying to my own email] 04.11.2010 00:16, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 03.11.2010 22:44, Khaled El Mously wrote: >> The host kernel is on Ubuntu: 2.6.32-25-generic >> >> The guest kernel is 2.6.34-something. >> >> I have figured out what the problem is. When I first attempted to run kvm, >> it said access to /dev/kvm was denied. So I did "chmod o+rw /dev/kvm" and >> reloaded. It stopped complaining about permissions, but apparently it won't >> work unless you have the +x as well (i.e. need to do "chmod o+rwx /dev/kvm" >> ). Perhaps that should be documented somewhere. Or maybe kvm should >> specifically check for that and complain early. > > Um. Please excuse me but this is a complete bullshit.
As others pointed out, this is too harsh. It wasn't intentional to be extra harsh here, it was just me not realizing how harsh such a statement is, as English is not my native language and I dont use it much. Far more appropriate word for this context is "nonsense". I apologize for using inappropriate words. > qemu opens /dev/kvm in O_RDWR mode. It does not > execute that file, execute bit is not needed. /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
