[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#635846: Bug#635846: virt-manager: cannot create new virtual machine

[Guido Günther]

severity 635846 normal
tags 635846 +unreproducible
thanks

See http://wiki.debian.org/libvirt#Bugreports.2BAC8-Debugging please.
 -- Guido


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:46:18PM -0700, Lee Azzarello wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.8.7-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: wheezy
> 
> My local user belongs to the group libvirt and I launch virt-manager. I create
> a new virtual machine. When I choose the default "Virtual Network (default):
> NAT" and click "Finish" I receive the following stack trace.
> 
> Unable to complete install: 'internal error Process exited while reading
> console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/8
> open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
> failed to initialize KVM: Operation not permitted
> '
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 45, in
> cb_wrapper
>     callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1643, in
> do_install
>     guest.start_install(False, meter=meter)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1186, in
> start_install
>     start_xml, final_xml, is_initial)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1245, in
> _create_guest
>     dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1686, in createLinux
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
> libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output:
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/8
> open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
> failed to initialize KVM: Operation not permitted
> 
> The permissions of /dev/kvm have group rw for libvirt
> crw-rw----+ 1 root libvirt 10, 232 Jul 28 12:47 /dev/kvm
> 
> If I change the permissions of /dev/kvm to 777 I can create a virtual machine.
> I would prefer not to fall back to world writable permissions to make a new VM.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
> ii  gconf2                        2.32.4-1   GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  librsvg2-common               2.34.0-1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG
> ii  python                        2.6.6-14   interactive high-level object-orie
> ii  python-dbus                   0.84.0-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  python-glade2                 2.24.0-2   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
> ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-2   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
> ii  python-gtk-vnc                0.4.3-1    A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
> ii  python-gtk2                   2.24.0-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
> ii  python-ipy                    1:0.72-1   Python module for handling IPv4 an
> ii  python-libvirt                0.9.2-7    libvirt Python bindings
> ii  python-support                1.0.13     automated rebuilding support for P
> ii  python-urlgrabber             3.9.1-4    A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
> ii  python-vte                    1:0.28.1-2 Python bindings for the VTE widget
> ii  virtinst                      0.500.6-1  Programs to create and clone virtu
> 
> Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
> ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-2   GNOME Desktop icon theme
> ii  libvirt-bin                   0.9.2-7    the programs for the libvirt libra
> 
> Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
> ii  gnome-keyring                 3.0.3-2    GNOME keyring services (daemon and
> ii  hal                           0.5.14-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer
> ii  python-gnomekeyring           2.30.2-1   Python bindings for the GNOME keyr
> pn  ssh-askpass                   <none>     (no description available)
> ii  virt-viewer                   0.3.1-2    Displaying the graphical console o
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
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