Re: [Qemu-devel] (no subject)

[Erik Lotspeich]

Thank you - I overlooked the obvious.

Regards,

Erik

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Erik Lotspeich
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Please post your QEMU command-line (you can find it with "ps aux | grep
>>> qemu").
>>>
>>> If you are running through libvirt/virsh/virt-manager there may be
>>> permission requirements since the guest can be set to run as an
>>> unprivileged user without access to audio devices.   That's just a guess
>>> but worth looking into.
>>
>> Here's my qemu command line:
>>
>> qemu      5294 19.6 25.7 2444808 2101252 ?     Sl   06:47   1:00
>  ^^
> Libvirt is running the qemu-kvm process as user 'qemu'.  Does that
> user have the necessary groups (e.g. 'audio')?
>
> On my system the unprivileged user is called 'libvirt-qemu' and here's
> what I get:
>
> $ id libvirt-qemuuid=105(libvirt-qemu) gid=112(kvm) groups=112(kvm)
>
> You may need to add 'qemu' to group 'audio' or whatever is necessary
> to let it access ALSA devices or talk to a sound daemon.
> Stefan