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qemu-kvm package

  1. Bug #703514
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Comment 1 for bug 703514

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Marco Davids (mdavids) wrote :

Okay, the error came back... (can't go unnoticed, it was painfully slow again)

open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support

Turns out that the ownership is reset after 'qemu-kvm' is restarted. As a workaround I added 'chgrp kvm /dev/kvm' in the 'pre-start script' section of /etc/init/qemu-kvm.conf.