[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#819331: closed by Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> (Not a bug but a support request - hint howto and close)

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 04:24:14PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> #819331: libvirt0: fails to start KVM instance using readonly ISO image
> 
> It has been closed by Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>.

[...]

> you can disable dynamic ownership in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, see [1]
> for the file in the source.
> There you could also overwrite the user/group that is used to do so.

That is a global setting though that disables dynamic ownership completely,
which is a blunt tool.

> Since this is not a bug that can be fixed in the source/package we can
> close it safely.

There could be a separate setting for read-only media, or a per-device
override in the domain.xml, the latter is probably more useful.

I'm leaving the bug report closed for now, but I'd be grateful if it could
be reopened.

   Simon

> [1]: https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/master/src/qemu/qemu.conf#L457