Hi!

I'm trying to create my first VM via "guix system vm <config.scm>" but
it fails with this error:

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creating qcow2 image of 70.00 MiB...
Formatting '/gnu/store/4mz1qqv7h5g5885q1aq0izlmy01knf1g-qemu-image', fmt=qcow2 size=73400320 cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
qemu-system-x86_64: failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied
Backtrace:
           2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/hyaagi7v0qda56rivy893px3rvz?")
In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:
    146:2  1 (load-in-linux-vm _ #:output _ #:qemu _ #:memory-size _ ?)
In ./guix/build/utils.scm:
    616:6  0 (invoke _ . _)

./guix/build/utils.scm:616:6: In procedure invoke:
Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &invoke-error [program: "qemu-system-x86_64" arguments: ("-nographic" "-no-reboot" "-m" "256" "-object" "rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=guixsd-vm-rng" "-device" "virtio-rng-pci,rng=guixsd-vm-rng" "-virtfs" "local,id=store_dev,path=/gnu/store,security_model=none,mount_tag=store" "-virtfs" "local,id=xchg_dev,path=xchg,security_model=none,mount_tag=xchg" "-virtfs" "local,id=tmp_dev,path=tmp,security_model=none,mount_tag=tmp" "-kernel" "/gnu/store/y5aiijqiqna1y8ypn6c0jp367813xxnc-linux-libre-4.20.3/bzImage" "-initrd" "/gnu/store/xdpsk95srxg6dvvy8pj3njxwk02pphpl-raw-initrd/initrd.cpio.gz" "-device" "virtio-blk,drive=myhd" "-drive" "if=none,file=/gnu/store/4mz1qqv7h5g5885q1aq0izlmy01knf1g-qemu-image,format=qcow2,id=myhd" "-enable-kvm" "-append" "panic=1 --load=/gnu/store/wxrmx10lmyrif8136gndxhr1msnhkrf1-linux-vm-loader console=ttyS0" "-net" "nic,model=virtio") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 5d2b00>)'.
builder for `/gnu/store/9dfr4cn5qpxp9jxj5jwp9nrjw4y4wsnr-qemu-image.drv' failed with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/9dfr4cn5qpxp9jxj5jwp9nrjw4y4wsnr-qemu-image.drv failed
View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/9d/fr4cn5qpxp9jxj5jwp9nrjw4y4wsnr-qemu-image.drv.bz2'.
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/yhzd6g6pw3j4jpxabjbpl0qwf9j232ks-run-vm.sh.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix system: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/yhzd6g6pw3j4jpxabjbpl0qwf9j232ks-run-vm.sh.drv' failed
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the permissions on /dev/kvm (via emacs eshell+tramp) are:

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ls -lah /ssh:anemone.mug.biscuolo.net:/dev/kvm 
crw-rw----   1 root           kvm             0 2018-12-18  2018 /ssh:anemone.mug.biscuolo.net:/dev/kvm
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I'm on Debian 9 and used to run other QEMU images via libvirt
(e.g. virsh --connect qemu:///system start guixsd-test) as user with no
problems (my user is in kvm and libvirt-qemu groups)

please any hint on how I can use "gnu system vm" as a normal user?

Thanks!
Giovanni

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures