On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:07:49PM -0500, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Freddie Cash wrote: > > The script can be run as a normal user, as it will use sudo where > > needed. However, this causes all the VMs to be run as root (this is > > developed on Debian where they've added that annoying "feature" of not > > being able to create/use tun/tap devices as non-root users). If > > anyone knows how to unbreak Debian to allow non-root users to create > > tun/tap devices, I'm all ears. > > change the group, owner, and/or privileges of /dev/net/tun, usually maneged > by > udev
This won't help with recent kernels as you need CAP_NET_ADMIN to create a device. I use tunctl which is part of uml-utilities in Debian to create the network device and then pass it to qemu with ifname. e.g USER=kvm NAME=test IFACE=tap${NAME} IFACE=$(sudo $TUNCTL -b -u $USER -t ${IFACE}) qemu-system-x86_64 ... -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,ifname=${IFACE} bill -- Bill Boughton -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html