[elbe-devel] [PATCH] docs: quickstart: add a user to kvm group instaed of libvirt-qemu

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Tue Mar 28 12:45:42 CEST 2023


From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>

Adding a user to the kvm group enables unprivileged access to the
/dev/kvm device, and libvirt group is enough to add unprivileged
access to the libvirt tools.

Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
---
 docs/quickstart.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/quickstart.txt b/docs/quickstart.txt
index 8bc08302..1b52de00 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.txt
+++ b/docs/quickstart.txt
@@ -82,14 +82,14 @@ This virtual-machine is referred to as `initvm`. You will want your
 initvm to be the same architecture as your workstation. This allows
 using hardware accelerated virtualization implemented by kvm.
 
-In order to be able to work with virtual machines as a regular user,
-that user needs to be added to libvirt groups:
+To work with virtual machines as a regular user, the user needs to
+be added to kvm and libvirt groups:
 
 For Debian 9 (Stretch) or newer, run (as root):
 
 --------------------------------------------------------
+# adduser <youruser> kvm
 # adduser <youruser> libvirt
-# adduser <youruser> libvirt-qemu
 --------------------------------------------------------
 
 Now create an `initvm` subdirectory and builds the initvm inside this directory.
-- 
2.34.1



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