Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-08-23 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hallo Jan, * Jan Lübbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23-08-08 12:13]: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 19:31 +0200, Tim Niemeyer wrote: > > Yes but the file permission on /dev/kvm is wrong for this group thing to > > work! > > The group assignment is handled by udev: > > $ rgrep kvm /etc/udev/ > /etc/udev/rules.d

Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-08-23 Thread Jan Lübbe
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 19:31 +0200, Tim Niemeyer wrote: > Yes but the file permission on /dev/kvm is wrong for this group thing to > work! The group assignment is handled by udev: $ rgrep kvm /etc/udev/ /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules:KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP=

Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-08-22 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Yes but the file permission on /dev/kvm is wrong for this group thing to work! Tim Niemeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-07-31 Thread Teodor
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The package should create the kvm group automatically. Didn't that work >> on your system? > > Hmm, didn't seem to -- I did "grep kvm /etc/group" and didn't see any > matches. Also w

Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-07-31 Thread Miles Bader
Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The package should create the kvm group automatically. Didn't that work > on your system? Hmm, didn't seem to -- I did "grep kvm /etc/group" and didn't see any matches. Also when I did "ls -l /dev/kvm" initially, the owner/group were listed as root/root.

Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-07-31 Thread Jan Luebbe
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:19 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Package: kvm > Version: 71+dfsg-1 > Severity: wishlist > > > > It would be nice if there was a standard way for users to get write > access to /dev/kvm, without running kvm itself as root. > > The typical debian method, I guess would be to

Bug#493053: /dev/kvm device access

2008-07-30 Thread Miles Bader
Package: kvm Version: 71+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if there was a standard way for users to get write access to /dev/kvm, without running kvm itself as root. The typical debian method, I guess would be to create a "kvm" group and use that group for /dev/kvm. Then one could giv