Bug 500472

Summary: QEMU driver should run all QEMU VMs as non-root system account
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel BerrangĂ© <berrange>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: berrange, clalance, crobinso, gczarcinski, itamar, markmc, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2009-05-12 20:19:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently all QEMU instances for qemu:///system are run as root. This is bad for security. We need to switch to run them under a dedicated system account eg 'kvm'.  We already create TAP devices from libvirt & pass the open FD, so networking won't be a problem. This will entail having libvirt chown the disk devices prior to starting a VM, but again not a hard problem.

Likely some other fun with PCI & USB device passthrough, but we'll figure that out as we encounter it.... 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.6.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Rnu a QEMU instance under qemu:///system
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Actual results:
QEMU runs as root

Expected results:
QEMU does not run as root

Additional info:
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-05-21 20:40:44 UTC 
See also:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtPrivileges
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2009-07-30 12:18:57 UTC 
THis is in rawhide, including mgmt of PCI & USB device permissions