[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#717406: libvirt-bin: /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/ should be owned by libvirt-qemu

Corey Hickey bugfood-c at fatooh.org
Sun Sep 15 04:25:11 UTC 2013


I agree. At the least, the group ownership should be libvirt-qemu and
the mode 775.

For anyone wondering why this matters, it prevents a startup failure
when using a qemu guest agent as documented here:

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole


2013-09-15 04:10:45.409+0000: 13473: error : qemuProcessWaitForMonitor:1831 : internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: W: kvm binary is deprecated, please use qemu-system-x86_64 instead
char device redirected to /dev/pts/31 (label charserial0)
qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/example.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait: Failed to bind socket: Permission denied
chardev: opening backend "socket" failed


Thanks,
Corey



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