On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:56:01PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:46:20AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> > David Hare wrote:
> > > This and similar live iso's only work here in qemu with e.g. " -m 384".
> > >
> > > My hardware can't handle kvm.
> >
> > Even running as root?
> >
>
> Well, it should be sufficient to
>
> # chmod 666 /dev/kvm
>
> in order to provide kvm support to regular users.

An article points out that allowing users to allocate
arbitrary amounts of physical memory may not be the best
policy in some environments.

You can also join the user to the kvm group:

ls -l /dev/kvm

crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 May 11 11:02 /dev/kvm


btw, 'c' means character mode device. Does anyone know what
the '+' suffix means, and how you set it?

Joel

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