[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#930929: libvirt: is no longer able to use kvm

[Raphael Hertzog]

Control: found -1 5.0.0-3
Control: found -1 5.2.0-2

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> For a few days/weeks (I'm not sure when it started exactly), I can no
> longer run my VM with virt-manager.

I tried downgrading to the version in testing, but the problem stayed the
same. I also tried with the version 5.2.0-2 in experimental, same result.
(But that was before I realized the problem with my systemd version, see
below)

> When I try to start a VM I see this in the logs of libvirtd:
> libvirtd[12569]: Unable to read from monitor: Connexion ré-initialisée par le correspondant

FWIW, the part of this message in French is "Connection reset by peer".

> $ ls -al /dev/kvm
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 10, 232 juin  22 19:07 /dev/kvm

This was wrong, and it was due to a systemd/udev version that I manually
built out of experimental with upstream patches to test... now I
downgraded to the version in unstable and I have this:

$ ls -al /dev/kvm
crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 juin  22 21:14 /dev/kvm

And despite this I still have the error and yet the libvirt-qemu user
is part of the kvm group:

$ id libvirt-qemu
uid=124(libvirt-qemu) gid=130(kvm) groupes=130(kvm),132(libvirt-qemu)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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