[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#701649: Bug#701649: libvirt-bin - libvirtd changes permissions of devices to libvirt-qemu:kvm

[Bastian Blank]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:52:25AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> This is configuratble via the group option in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf. I
> do think that kvm is a reasonable choice since kvm isn't a general
> purpose group but one reserved for processes running kvm instances.

kvm is general purpose group for access to /dev/kvm. It always have
been. If not, please bring this up with the kvm/udev/kernel maintainers.

> However I'm open for discussion to switch this to libvirt-qemu as well.
> (but leaving kvm as the libvirt-qemu user's primary group).

Change the devices to group "disk". The CTTE ruled some years ago that
"disk" must be the default group of all disk devices.

Bastian

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