From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walimis Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: handle failure of command Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:12:52 +0800 Message-ID: <20110810061252.GD16258@walimis-desktop> References: <1312944249-4946-1-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com> <1312944249-4946-2-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com> <20110810050340.GB16258@walimis-desktop> <4E42176B.7000701@kernel.org> <20110810053304.GC16258@walimis-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , Ingo Molnar , Sasha Levin , Prasad Joshi , Asias He , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:49054 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751121Ab1HJG3K (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:29:10 -0400 Received: by qwk3 with SMTP id 3so380236qwk.19 for ; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:53:53AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:33 AM, walimis wrote: >>>>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: >> =E7=87=9Catal, could not open /dev/kvm: Permission denied > >You should probably just add yourself to the 'kvm' group: > >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation OK, that works for me to access /dev/kvm without sudo. Thanks. But another sudo requirement is to use tap interface: Warning: Config tap device error. Are you root? So how do you use tap interface in your environment? walimis > >> 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. > >Heh, I never login as 'root' to the host machine. :-) > > Pekka