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.

>My2Cents

/proc/cpuinfo must show the vmx flag to use kvm. Here it does not and
there is no option in bios to enable it. Older Intel core2.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Processor_support

Never mind, I can still use qemu as far as the iso's menu otherwise
boot them fully and usably with "findiso" from grub.

D

On 13 May 2016 at 13:48, Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:
> KatolaZ wrote:
> Joel Roth wrote:
>
>> > 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?
>> >
>>
>> The "+" means that you have an ACL (Access Control List) set for that
>> file. You manage ACLs with setfacl and getfacl.
>
> Interesting, because of the ACL settings I didn't need to
> use root nor join the kvm group:
>
> $ getfacl /dev/kvm
> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
> # file: dev/kvm
> # owner: root
> # group: kvm
> user::rw-
> user:jroth:rw-
> group::rw-
> mask::rw-
> other::---
>
> I hope these ACLs are used sparingly in Devuan/Debian. The permissions model
> itself has taken a long time for me to grok.
>
> Hmm, so why do files like /etc/apt/sources.list have ACLs?
> Oh, I see they change automagically when permissions change.
> Guess I'll look for a tutorial somewheres.
>
> I'd thought ACL was something I could ignore, like selinux,
> without consequence.
>
> I think of the analogy with the suprise nay frustration I
> faced when settings in /etc/someapp not working as expected
> because of stuff in /etc/default/someapp I hadn't known
> about.
>
> cheers,
>
> Joel
>
>> HND
>>
>> KatolaZ
>>
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