On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:20:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
in short, ext4 filesystem support now appears to work, but there's still the issue (perhaps addressed earlier) that non-root users don't have access to KVM support but, from the perspective of libguestfs, does that really matter?
KVM makes things do a lot faster, which is always nice.
which inspires the obvious question -- is kvm *required* for any libquestfs functionality? speed is always nice, but it's important to know that, even if things are slow, they will still work equally well.
You can do the following:
# chmod o+rw /dev/kvm
You have to do (just) that command as root, but after that qemu-kvm and guestfish itself can all be run as non-root, and will benefit from KVM acceleration.
or, for permanence, add the appropriate udev rule, which is what i prefer, since it persists across reboots.
p.s. i could have sworn i didn't get that /dev/kvm perms error yesterday. did something about that change since version 1.0.4?
Yes, libguestfs changed to detect and enable KVM by default. Before today it wasn't using KVM at all.
gotcha, thanks.
rday --
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