From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: VM image creation Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:12:56 +0100 Message-ID: <877fw0rmhj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150202121629.GA17207@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> <20150202124156.GA4451@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54626) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIPEt-0000pO-5I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:13:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIPEp-0004pG-00 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:13:03 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIPEo-0004pB-TC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:12:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150202124156.GA4451@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:41:56 +0100") 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > 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? See . For now, just =E2=80=9Cchmod 666 /dev/kvm=E2=80=9D; this is why the system = distro does, shamelessly. Ludo=E2=80=99.