[libvirt] PATCH: Fix permissions problem starting QEMU

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Fri Jul 31 08:28:37 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:00 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There is a minor bug when running QEMU non-root, and having
> capng enabled. libvirt is unable to write the PID file in
> /var/run/libvirt/qemu, since its now owned by 'qemu', but
> libvirtd has dropped all capabilties at this point. The fix
> is to delay dropping capabilities until after the PID file
> has been created. We should also be sure to kill the child
> if writing the PID file fails

I haven't looked into it much yet, but don't we need to open up the
permissions on /var/lib/libvirt/images now? At least from 700 to 711 so
qemu can open images?

Cheers,
Mark.




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