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 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos