Comment 3 for bug 599910

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Charles Curley (charlescurley) wrote : Re: [Bug 599910] Re: Libvirt/kvm permissions/ownership issue on upgrade from Kosmic to Lucid

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:56:07 -0000
Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> wrote:

> Are you part of the libvirtd group ?
> In doubt: just paste the output of "grep libvirtd /etc/group"

Yes.

root@dzur:~# grep libvirtd /etc/group
libvirtd:x:127:ccurley

However, everything is owned by root:root, and libvirtd runs as root:

root@dzur:~# ps aux | grep libvirtd | grep -v grep
root 6804 0.1 0.1 221764 5768 ? Sl Jun29
1:04 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d

root@dzur:/var/lib/libvirt/images# ll finnix-93.0.iso
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 126629888 2010-01-21 09:22 finnix-93.0.iso

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