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  1. Bug #1445386
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1445386

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 1445386] Re: virtual machine cannot access p9 filesystem

Quoting Muelli (<email address hidden>):
> when the directory is chgrp()ed to kvm then I can indeed write to it from the guest.

Thanks for confirming.

> I think it'd be good to show that information somewhere in virt-manager when creating the filesystem share.

Do you have any suggestions about where to add this? Where did you
look when you were looking for info?

> it's a bit unfortunate, though. The user need to be either in the kvm
> or in the libvirt-qemu group. At least the latter seems to be a non
> standard requirement.

Agreed. Perhaps libvirt should try to add an ACL for the libvirt-qemu
user.