Re: Are root privileges really needed to run kvm?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> Avi,
>
> On 6/13/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> > BTW if qemu_system_x86-64 runs at user privileges, can the memory
>> > consumed be subject to whatever per-user limits that may be set
>> > systemwide?
>> >
>>
>> That's the intent, but currently this isn't implemented.
>
> So, expecting that eventually it will be, it seems to be worth
> pursuing running kvm at users privileges at the moment memory is being
> consumed. Such memory limit control will be easier to implement in
> this case rather than if all instances of KVM ran at root.
>

Sure.  Running kvm as a nonprivileged user is a supported and 
recommended way of working.  A virtual machine is subject to all user 
access restrictions except, at the moment, the memory locking limits.

[We could as a temporary measure check against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, but this 
seems hardly worthwhile; better to fix the issue instead]

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