Andras Simon wrote:
When starting qemu-kvm as an ordinary user, I get open /dev/kvm: Permission denied Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support Does that mean that it should be run by root (scary!) or that /dev/kvm's permissions should be fixed? If the latter, does a simple chmod suffice, or should one tamper with udev rules?
KVM allows the user opening the device to arbitrarily lock large amounts of RAM so that it can't be swapped. That's normally something you don't want ordinary users to be doing ...
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/3770 has more information.
(Thanks to Dan Berrange who helped me to answer this question). Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903
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