Can't launch VMs from virt-manager or virsh: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
qemu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since today's qemu updates
laney@raleigh> apt-cache policy qemu ~
qemu:
Installed: 1.3.0+dfsg-
Candidate: 1.3.0+dfsg-
Version table:
*** 1.3.0+dfsg-
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1.
500 http://
I get
laney@raleigh> virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualisation interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh # start raring-vm
error: Failed to start domain raring-vm
error: 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/13
Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied
No accelerator found!
virsh #
and the same with virt-manager.
laney@raleigh> getfacl /dev/kvm
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/kvm
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
user:laney:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: qemu 1.3.0+dfsg-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 13 11:03:24 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (128 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121007)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: qemu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.