[Rdo-list] Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied (regression in devstack on CentOS?)

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 07:03:37AM -0400, Kaul, Yaniv wrote:
> Recently (this/last week) I've been hit by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950436 Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
> While running DevStack on CentOS 7.
> Has anyone else seen it? Any workarounds (besides running with QEMU
> only)?

Strange that the resetting of the 'kvm' and 'kvm_intel' modules didn't
work for you, from your comment #33.

I don't have a CentOS box near by, but maybe you can manually update the
group permissions for /dev/kvm character device?

    sudo chmod go+rw /dev/kvm

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/kashyap