On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at 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