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qemu package

  1. Bug #156085
  2. Comment #51

Comment 51 for bug 156085

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TJ (tj) wrote : Re: [Bug 156085] Re: Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 23:15 +0000, Anders Häggström wrote:
> When KVM has been installed, the group "kvm" is created. I suspect the
> group "qemu" is created when you install QEMU, but do not know if this
> is the case.

The problem here is that all hypervisors might want access to the USB
devices (kvm, qemu, virtualbox, etc.). If the device group is
package-specific that will cause all sorts of unwanted and unnecessary
issues for users that work with multiple hypervisors.

It would make sense to have a separate package that all hypervisors can
either depend on or recommend that uses a group specially for the
purpose, and assigns it via a udev rule. "plugdev" might have been good
but if it is being deprecated then some other solution needs to be
found.