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I have a fresh Open Nebula 3.2.1 installation which I'm trying to get working and manage some freshly-installed debian squeeze kvm hosts.

My problem is that when Open Nebula deploys VMs the KVM process does not have access to the /dev/kvm device on the host.

I've set up everything according to documentation:

root@onhost1:~# ls -al /dev/kvm
crw-rw----  1 root kvm 10, 232 Feb  8 11:24 /dev/kvm

root@onhost1:~# id oneadmin
uid=500(oneadmin) gid=500(oneadmin) groups=500(oneadmin),106(kvm),108(libvirt)

libvirt/qemu.conf has:
user = "oneadmin"
group = "oneadmin"

When libvirt creates VMs they do not have any of the secondary groups set so the process doesn't have access to /dev/kvm via file permissions. OK, fair enough, though the Open Nebula documentation seems to indicate it should be set up this way.

I've tried mounting cgroups to try and resolve this problem. After I do so, the kvm process has the following cgroup entry:

1:devices,cpu:/libvirt/qemu/one-29

corresponding to:

/dev/cgroup/libvirt/qemu/one-29/devices.list:c 10:232 rwm

My lack of understanding of how cgroups work indicate to me that this ought to allow the process to access /dev/kvm, but no go.

I can make things work by adding an ACL entry (setfacl -m u:oneadmin:rw /dev/kvm) but that doesn't Seem Right. Shouldn't Open Nebula/libvirt be handling this?

  • What are the Correct Changes to make?
  • Should the documentation be changed?
  • Have I missed something?
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Try chaning libvirt/qemu.conf to:

user = "oneadmin"
group = "kvm"
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  • This specifically contradicts the OpenNebula documentation. While this will work, it may also cause other unintended side effects which I'm trying to avoid.
    – MikeyB
    Feb 8, 2012 at 19:31
  • Documentation can be bugged too. :)
    – Giovanni Toraldo
    Feb 8, 2012 at 19:32
  • Which is my 2nd-last point in the question. Changing /dev/kvm to 777 will also work but is not necessarily the right thing to do.
    – MikeyB
    Feb 8, 2012 at 19:37

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