From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Sassmannshausen Subject: Re: VM image creation Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:42:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87a90w32mh.fsf@yamato.home> References: <20150202121629.GA17207@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> <20150202124156.GA4451@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> Reply-To: alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIGOe-00031F-H7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:46:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIGOb-0008Fp-0u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:46:32 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::231]:39995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIGOa-0008Fc-RQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:46:28 -0500 Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id l61so38755765wev.8 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:46:28 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: <20150202124156.GA4451@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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > 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. Indeed, I can confirm this issue and also currently do not have a work around. Cheers, Alex