On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:49:43PM +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Thanks for the fast response. > > The UID's match on host and guest. Notice that the problems with directory > listing occurred as root (UID 0). The copy problem was as ross. Most of the > files are owned by ross (UID 1000). > > Eventually, I'll want to operate from the guest with a UID not present on > the host, although I could add it to the host if necessary. > > Although it's possible this is a KVM issue, a significant number of similar > problems reported on the net were the result of libvirt, usually the security > framework (selinux or apparmor--are either relevant for Debian?), but > sometimes also the exact mode choices. The fact that I can't access host > files as root from the guest, with libvirt daemon running as root (I think) > on the host suggests something is getting in the way. The apparent logic is > "group and other have no access rights to the file; file's owner UID = 1000; > accessing process UID=0; no acesss."
Using accessmode=mapped works fine if the directory/files are writeable by the user running libvirt (libvirt-qemu by default). For passthrough run kvm/qemu as root. Proxy filesystem is currently not supported by libvirt. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
