Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: handle failure of command

[walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:30:19AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>On 8/10/11 8:03 AM, walimis wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:02:01AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Liming Wang<walimisdev@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>handle failure of calling command function, especially, only handle
>>>>EPERM error now.
>>>>
>>>>Signed-off-by: Liming Wang<walimisdev@gmail.com>
>>>I applied the patch because I absolutely loved the error handling
>>>cleanups from the previous patch. However, out of curiosity, are you
>>>seeing EPERM with some command in particular?
>>Yes. Because I'm using ubuntu and if I don't use sudo to execute
>>"kvm pause", pause command can't work and doesn't prompt anything.
>
>That's odd. I don't use sudo with the tool either. Sasha?
If I don't use sudo to run "kvm run", kvm prompt me:
  Fatal, could not open /dev/kvm: Permission denied

So I use sudo to execute "kvm run".
>>BTW, do you always login as "root" user?
>
>Depends on which image you're using.
I don't refer to the guest image. I mean that in your host PC, which user
you login and operate as.

walimis
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>                            Pekka