[Libguestfs] qemu:could not load kernel

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:39:26AM +0200, Giuseppe Calarco wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem when i run java examples of libguestfs. It needs root
> privileges. This is the output of libguestfs-test-tool:
[...]
> qemu: could not load kernel '/var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/kernel.9392':
> Permission denied

If this is Ubuntu, then it's a bug in Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/759725
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#where-can-i-get-the-latest-binaries-for-...-

Rich.

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