When first starting GNOME Boxes on a clean install I get this error:
Obviously that's not a great experience, so we should probably just add users to the kvm group by default.
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| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | chris.lamb | T292 GNOME Boxes won't run any virtual machines | ||
| Duplicate | None | T715 GNOME Boxes: "User is not in kvm group" error on startup |
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From a user experience POV it would be better to not be bothered like this.
From a security POV however, I suspect it is not worse to silently grant users access rights weakening their systems and arguably needed only for development purposes.
The current user experience of a popup was added as a patch by @chris.lamb - see T292 for more info on that.
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What are the security implications of adding users to the kvm group?
Also, if we deem this to be a developer-only app, we should just not ship it by default, and add the user to the kvm group when they install the app.
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@tbernard I suggest you repeat your question to ensure that the others tracking the original bug which this is a duplicate/mirror of hears it. You might also want to read the backlog, as they might have already answered your question ;-)