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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: 23838@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23838: Guix on Debian 8.3 'guix system vm ...' -> "ERROR: qemu failed "qemu-system-x86_64"
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:47:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160624144746.GA1545@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86lh1ur8vr.fsf@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 09:53:12AM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
> g1@e3b:~/dev/vms$ guix system vm ../configs/c01system.scm --expose=$HOME --share=$HOME/tmp=/exchange --verbosity=1

[...]

> Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
> failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

On Debian, /dev/kvm is by default not accessible to unprivileged users.
I manually do `chmod 666 /dev/kvm` when I need to use QEMU with KVM,
after each reboot.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-24 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-24 13:53 bug#23838: Guix on Debian 8.3 'guix system vm ...' -> "ERROR: qemu failed "qemu-system-x86_64" myglc2
2016-06-24 14:47 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-06-24 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-24 19:34   ` myglc2
2016-06-24 22:15     ` myglc2
2016-06-26 10:20     ` Ludovic Courtès

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