[Bug 522619] [NEW] libvirt launced kvm / qemu system processes run as root by default

[Chris Bainbridge]

Public bug reported:

Upstream recommends to use default user:group = qemu:qemu

>From http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html

In the "system" instance, libvirt releases from 0.7.0 onwards allow
control over the user/group that the QEMU virtual machines are run as. A
build of libvirt with no configuration parameters set will still run
QEMU processes as root:root. It is possible to change this default by
using the --with-qemu-user=$USERNAME and --with-qemu-group=$GROUPNAME
arguments to 'configure' during build. It is strongly recommended that
vendors build with both of these arguments set to 'qemu'.

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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libvirt launced kvm / qemu system processes run as root by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522619
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