From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: KVM kernel module permission denied on foreign distro
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 12:32:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvi3tvh6.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874la4a7k5.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
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Hi Pierre,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> If I'm not mistaken, this is because you need to add the builders to the 'kvm'
> group.
yes! this solved the "Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission
denied" I had with "guix system vm" (both as user and root):
$ for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do sudo usermod -G guixbuild,kvm guixbuilder$i; done
$ sudo systemctl restart guix-daemon.service # since my init system is systemd
the fact that builds are made by a dedicated daemon using dedicated
unprivileged users (guixbuilder${i}) in an isolated environment is
pretty new to me and sometimes I forget it :-S
> From the manual ((guix) 2.4.1 Build Environment Setup):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> To use ‘guix system vm’ and related commands,
> you may need to add the build users to the ‘kvm’ group so they can
> access ‘/dev/kvm’, using ‘-G guixbuild,kvm’ instead of ‘-G guixbuild’
> (*note Invoking guix system::).
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I read that but skipped that because lazy people like me use installers
:-), so I used the shell installer script mentioned in "(guix)Binary
Installation" and that does not add guixbuilder${i} users to the kvm
group in "sys_create_build_user()" shell function
moreover, "(guix)Invoking guix system" should mention this in the "`vm`"
section, in case users (like me) skipped or misunderstood that part of
"(guix)Build Environment Setup" for any reason
tomorrow I'm going to propose a couple of patches to address both of the
above mentioned issues
Thanks!
Giovanni
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-20 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-19 9:44 KVM kernel module permission denied on foreign distro Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-01-19 16:22 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-01-19 17:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-20 11:32 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2019-01-21 7:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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