[Bug 703514] [NEW] wrong ownership on /dev/kvm (Maverick)

[Marco Davids]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

Installed qemu-kvm, but it was *very* slow (while using virt-manager).
Looked in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/xxxx.log and noticed that user libvirt-
qemu had no access to /dev/kvm (access denied error) and that it was
unable to use the KVM full virtualization support. Placing user libvirt-
qemu in the kvm group did not solve the issue.

Looked at /dev/kvm an noticed it was own by root.

Changed group ownership to kvm and, in combination with libvirt-qemu
being in the kvm-group, this dramatically increased the performance!

ls -al /dev/ | grep kvm
crw-rw----  1 root kvm      10, 232 2011-01-15 22:06 kvm


lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
Release:	10.10
Codename:	maverick

** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/703514

Title:
  wrong ownership on /dev/kvm (Maverick)