Re: [Bug 840925] [NEW] Please make /dev/kvm world-accessible in 45-qemu-kvm.rules

2011-09-05 Thread Soren Hansen
The reasons for limiting access to /dev/kvm expired years ago. There's no longer any particular reason to not make it world writable. -- Soren Hansen        | http://linux2go.dk/ Ubuntu Developer    | http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/ -- You received this

[Bug 840925] [NEW] Please make /dev/kvm world-accessible in 45-qemu-kvm.rules

2011-09-04 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: It would be nice if /dev/kvm were world-accessible, so that unprivileged users could use hardware virtualization features without needing to be added to the kvm group in advance by a system administrator. Currently the following rule is in place on Natty: