Yes, I already get that output. I also made sure that the xml scripts and the VM images are not root:root, but root:kvm.
I'm using the Virtual Machine Manager GUI as the interface...that is where I get challenged for the root pw. Maybe I need to go to create a script that runs qemu-kvm as the regular user to start the VMs.
Dave M
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 18:09 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, David McGuffey davidmcguffey@verizon.net wrote:
Tried as I might, I cannot get kvm on CentOS 5.4 to run as a non-root user.
Post the error message.
Have Googled and followed guidance I've found (put the regular user in the kvm group, change permissions on several files, etc.).
Anyone have decent (e.g., working) guidance on how to do this?
The output of "ls -l /dev/kvm" should be like this:
crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 2010-07-02 09:27 /dev/kvm
I have not had to do anything special as long as the non root user is member of "kvm" group.
HTH -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos