add hal/PolicyKit support to kvm
Bug #273764 reported by
Dustin Kirkland
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kvm (Ubuntu) |
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kvm
The ownership of /dev/kvm is:
crw-rw---- 1 root kvm 10, 232 2008-09-23 11:04 /dev/kvm
This means that a user must be a member of kvm to use /dev/kvm.
There have been efforts elsewhere within Ubuntu Intrepid to reduce our requirements on group permissions:
* https:/
It would be nice if we could do the same for KVM. Basically, use hal if it's available. And if not (like on most Ubuntu servers still), we fall back to group permissions.
This would help out on the desktop considerably.
:-Dustin
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The attached patch works for me. I request that pitti reviews and sponsors it.
Thanks,
:-Dustin