From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: VM image creation Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:41:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20150202124156.GA4451@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> References: <20150202121629.GA17207@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46188) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIGKN-0000aC-0S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:42:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIGKH-0006uv-Gp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:42:06 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:52077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIGKH-0006up-7A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:42:01 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150202121629.GA17207@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Not normal: After installing qemu-kvm from debian, which resulted in: [ ok ] Loading kvm module kvm_intel, the error message changed from On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:16:29PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory > failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory to Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied As suggested by the fine manual, I added the user running guix as well as the builders guix-builder1 etc. to the group kvm. $ ll /dev/kvm crw-rw---T+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Feb 2 13:34 /dev/kvm so that /dev/kvm can be read and written by them. Nothing changed, and running the command as root fails with the same message. What am I missing? Andreas