virt-install: failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

2014-08-19 Thread arnaud gaboury
$ uname -r 3.16.1-1-ARCH - As a regular user, member of the libvirt group, I run this command to create a basic VM: virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name=test --ram 2048 --cpu host-model-only --os-variant=win7 --disk /myVM/test --boot cdrom,hd --virt-type kvm --graphics

Re: virt-install: failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

2014-08-20 Thread arnaud gaboury
> Those permissive permissions are set by a udev rule installed by > qemu-system-x86: > > $ cat /lib/udev/rules.d/80-kvm.rules > KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0666" > > So perhaps your distro should do the same. > I have it as /lib/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules. In fact, I solved my issue when s