I agree. At the least, the group ownership should be libvirt-qemu and the mode 775.
For anyone wondering why this matters, it prevents a startup failure when using a qemu guest agent as documented here: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole 2013-09-15 04:10:45.409+0000: 13473: error : qemuProcessWaitForMonitor:1831 : internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: W: kvm binary is deprecated, please use qemu-system-x86_64 instead char device redirected to /dev/pts/31 (label charserial0) qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/example.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait: Failed to bind socket: Permission denied chardev: opening backend "socket" failed Thanks, Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org