Sunday 22 January 2023

Running KVM VM's as a regular user on OpenSuse 15.4

 Things you need to do to allow a regular user to use virt-manager for VM's

  1. Add user to the following groups: kvm, libvirt, qemu
  2. These bits let regular users redirect USB devices to a VM...
    Add the line: org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess     yes:no:yes
    to: /etc/polkit-default-privs.local 
  3. After this run: /sbin/set_polkit_default_privs
  4. Add the line: usr/bin/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper  root:root  4755
    to: /etc/permissions.local
  5. After this run: chkstat --system --set
Credit to simon at serverfault