Re: Running KVM without root privileges

[Eugene Coetzee <eugene-ms3nWvnsWYxl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>]

Luca wrote:

>>Thanks for the reply. I'm a little confused about the interaction
>>between KVM and qemu. Which binary requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability -
>>KVM or qemu ?
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>
>In the upstream package 'kvm' is just a script wrapper that invokes
>the right qemu executable (the userspace component of KVM is a
>modified QEMU). The exact naming depends on your distro, e.g. Debian
>package puts the executable in /usr/bin/kvm.
>
>Luca
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>
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Thanks for the advice. I have posted the solution to the problem on 
Ubuntu Feisty at:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/101274-running-kvm-without-root-privileges.html#post499980 


kind regards,

Eugene Coetzee

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