Quoting Muelli (<email address hidden>):
> when the directory is chgrp()ed to kvm then I can indeed write to it from the guest.
Thanks for confirming.
> I think it'd be good to show that information somewhere in virt-manager when creating the filesystem share.
Do you have any suggestions about where to add this? Where did you
look when you were looking for info?
> it's a bit unfortunate, though. The user need to be either in the kvm
> or in the libvirt-qemu group. At least the latter seems to be a non
> standard requirement.
Agreed. Perhaps libvirt should try to add an ACL for the libvirt-qemu
user.
Quoting Muelli (<email address hidden>):
> when the directory is chgrp()ed to kvm then I can indeed write to it from the guest.
Thanks for confirming.
> I think it'd be good to show that information somewhere in virt-manager when creating the filesystem share.
Do you have any suggestions about where to add this? Where did you
look when you were looking for info?
> it's a bit unfortunate, though. The user need to be either in the kvm
> or in the libvirt-qemu group. At least the latter seems to be a non
> standard requirement.
Agreed. Perhaps libvirt should try to add an ACL for the libvirt-qemu
user.