This sounds like an issue with the documentation, as it's a permissions error outside of Nova
** Changed in: nova Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: nova Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1670950 Title: nova can't bind to dpdk (vhostuser) socket Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Opinion Bug description: Hi everyone. I'm installing Openstack Ocata version with OVS-DPDK. I installed openvswitch-switch-dpdk packages from ubuntu repository. I setup dpdk use this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/DPDK.html And When I create a vhostuser port, It works and its socket is correct permission. But when I launch an instance on this compute node. It has failed. 2017-03-07 03:55:44.381 21100 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 5c5c4eae-8f07-4128-9f84-0f2ed87319d9] libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2017-03-07T08:55:43.986446Z qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=charnet0,path=/var/run/openvswitch/vhost_socket/vhufcf54d1f- 4b,server: Failed to bind socket to /var/run/openvswitch/vhost_socket /vhufcf54d1f-4b: Permission denied Here is full log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24129861/ OVS_DPDK version: openvswitch-switch-dpdk 2.6.1-0ubuntu5~cloud0 DPDK Version: dpdk 16.11-1ubuntu3~cloud0 Thanks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1670950/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp