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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix system disk-image: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 13:32:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180303183240.GA32541@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87606dw2zb.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:14:32PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> My host system is Void Linux (which I don't know so well).
> Permissions for /dev/kvm seem to be correct:
> 
> 	> ls -l /dev/kvm
> 	crw-rw----   1 root           kvm             0 2018-03-03 14:56 /dev/kvm
> 
> My user is part of the kvm group.  Also the module seems to be loaded fine:
> 
> 	> lsmod | grep kvm
> 	kvm_intel             225280  0
> 	kvm                   630784  1 kvm_intel
> 	irqbypass              16384  1 kvm
> 
> Not sure what's wrong.  I am not very familiar with QEMU / KVM I'm afraid...
> Any clue?
> 
> Besides, and maybe unrelated, some certificates seem to be missing.  Any
> idea how that could happen?

Did you try adding the guixbuild users to the KVM group?

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html

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2018-03-03 16:14 guix system disk-image: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-03 18:32 ` Leo Famulari [this message]

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