[Bug 1767302] Re: User is not added to kvm group when installing gnome-boxes

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Hi - Jeremy yes, not in qemu at least.

IMHO this is
a) a user configurable change (add user to kvm group) (so it isn't very high severity)
b) a fix in older versions is limited to gnome-boxes which

It makes no sense to do (b) for qemu as it works without it just fine.
The latter changes I mentioned are even better as they also fix gnome-boxes in newer Ubuntu versions (via the uaccess method in systemd 239-6 and later).

If it wants to add that we could do the suggested (very) old style "add
all sudo users to kvm group on install" in gnome-boxes postinst then at
least the fix would match the scope of the issue.

Thanks for pointing that out, let me properly mark the tasks to avoid
further confusion.

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Disco)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Incomplete

** Also affects: gnome-boxes (Ubuntu Disco)
   Importance: High
       Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-boxes (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-boxes (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

** Changed in: gnome-boxes (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: Fix Released => Invalid

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: Fix Released => Invalid

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: gnome-boxes (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: gnome-boxes (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  User is not added to kvm group when installing gnome-boxes

Status in gnome-boxes package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-boxes source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed
Status in qemu source package in Bionic:
  Won't Fix
Status in systemd source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-boxes source package in Cosmic:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Cosmic:
  Invalid
Status in systemd source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-boxes source package in Disco:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Disco:
  Invalid
Status in systemd source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Installing gnome-boxes does not add the user to the needed kvm group.
  This leads to the problem that it is impossible to start any system within gnome-boxes.

  Gnome-Boxes throwes the error: CPU mode 'custom' for x86_64 kvm domain
  on x86_64 host is not supported by hypervisor

  adduser <username> kvm solves that problem but how should an average
  user know that. Gnome-Boxes is not usable as of now.

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