Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting VM image on QEMU

[Mick]

On Friday 14 Jul 2017 10:43:23 R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > I have followed the gentoo wiki to install and setup QEMU:
> >
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU
> >
> >
> > Then I tried to start up a CoreOS image following this guide, but I must
> > be
> > doing something wrong:
> >
> > https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-with-qemu.html
> >
> >
> > This is the script's ownership and access rights:
> >
> > $ stat coreos_production_qemu.sh
> >
> >   File: 'coreos_production_qemu.sh'
> >   Size: 6635            Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   regular file
> >
> > Device: 80bh/2059d      Inode: 13631491    Links: 1
> > Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/ michael)   Gid: ( 1002/ michael)
> > Access: 2017-07-14 09:21:18.000000000 +0100
> > Modify: 2017-07-06 19:41:30.000000000 +0100
> > Change: 2017-07-14 14:38:55.104862083 +0100
> >
> >  Birth: -
> >
> > Trying to start it gives:
> >
> > $ ./coreos_production_qemu.sh -a /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -p 2222 --
> > -
> > curses
> > -bash: ./coreos_production_qemu.sh: Permission denied
> >
> > Any idea what permissions it refers to?  I have not tried to run the above
> > as root.
>
> What options are you passing to QEMU? Are you using hardware
> virtualization? If running it as root solves the problem you need to
> add yourself to any virtualization groups QEMU or your manager
> expects, like "kvm."
>
> You might also need to chmod +x the script.
>
> R0b0t1.

Thanks R0b0t1, I am not passing any options directly to QEMU other than what 
the script does.

The script is already chmod'ed as you can see above.

I have added my user to the kvm group.

I'd rather not run it as root, because there is no mention of needing to run 
it as root in the URLs I have listed above.
-- 
Regards,
Mick