ephemeral run: propagate kvm group permissions to container#301
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Mounting /dev/kvm into the container is not sufficient when running through user mode podman on certain distributions. We should keep our host user group in the container to propogate the appropriate permissions for running VMs Signed-off-by: Mihai Petracovici <petracvv@users.noreply.github.com>
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lgtm and harmless on systems where it's not needed.
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Mounting /dev/kvm into the container is not sufficient when running through user mode podman on certain distributions. We should keep our host user group in the container to propogate the appropriate permissions for running VMs.
I found this other permission issue when running bcvk on my (non-fedora) setup. I think this is the right approach as permissions to /dev/kvm are controlled by groups on the host as well.