Currently, the build environment made by the daemon does not preserve supplementary groups of the build users.
Thus, even though the standalone Guix system sets /dev/kvm 660, owned by root:kvm, and adds the build users to the kvm group, build users are unable to access it. This can be see with: (gexp->derivation "foo" #~(begin (mkdir #$output)(pk (stat:gid (stat "/dev/kvm")) (getgroups)))) The workaround for now is to make /dev/kvm 666. Ludo’.