Re: [Qemu-discuss] kvm_intel is loaded but user can not access that

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 13:39, Mahmood Naderan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >Does your user have the right permissions for the /dev/kvm device?
> >(For ubuntu this usually means the user should be in the 'kvm'
> >group.)
>
> There is no such group
>
> mahmood@hpcc-ubuntu:~$ sudo grep kvm /etc/group
> mahmood@hpcc-ubuntu:~$
> mahmood@hpcc-ubuntu:~$ sudo ls -l /dev/kvm
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 10, 232 ژوئن  20 12:13 /dev/kvm

Well, with those permissions on /dev/kvm only root can use KVM.
You need to sort them out one way or another...

A quick google suggests maybe the group name has changed to 'libvirt' in later
releases of Ubuntu. You might also get some helpful answers from an
Ubuntu-specific help forum, if this is indeed an Ubuntu system. (There
are various ways to fix the permissions, but working with the way that
the distro intends them to be used will generally have better results
than working "against the grain".)

thanks
-- PMM