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From: Tom Smith <tom71713-gentoo52478932@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:46:32
Message-Id: 43CD7217.3060803@yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions by Richard Fish
1 Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the
2 official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe).
3
4 Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much
5 further. :-?
6
7 Richard Fish wrote:
8
9 >On 1/17/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-gentoo52478932@×××××.com> wrote:
10 >
11 >
12 >>What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive
13 >>/etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should
14 >>edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the
15 >>following line to it:
16 >>
17 >>kqemu:root:root:0666
18 >>
19 >>
20 >
21 >The kqemu docs are out of date...udev has been changing too frequently
22 >for external packages to keep up.
23 >
24 >In /etc/udev/rules.d/48-qemu.rules, you will find the following line:
25 >
26 >KERNEL="kqemu*", NAME="%k", GROUP="qemu", MODE="0660"
27 >
28 >Paste this into /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, and change the MODE
29 >statement to "MODE:=0666".
30 >
31 >However, you could also just add any users you want to use qemu to the
32 >kqemu group, which would be the Gentoo way.
33 >
34 >-Richard
35 >
36 >
37 >
38 --
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>