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authorAndrew Walbran <qwandor@google.com>2020-06-05 11:31:58 +0100
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README: Document permissions needed for running.
Change-Id: Ia86cb49ffc89ad66fe67698e05968e6d6f19f743
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/2231364
Auto-Submit: Andrew Walbran <qwandor@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Barber <smbarber@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Stephen Barber <smbarber@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Barber <smbarber@chromium.org>
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@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ Known issues:
     policies [into the crosvm binary](http://crbug.com/1052126).
 *   Devices can't be jailed if `/var/empty` doesn't exist. `sudo mkdir -p
     /var/empty` to work around this for now.
+*   You need read/write permissions for `/dev/kvm` to run tests or other crosvm
+    instances. Usually it's owned by the `kvm` group, so `sudo usermod -a -G kvm
+    $USER` and then log out and back in again to fix this.
+*   Some other features (networking) require `CAP_NET_ADMIN` so those usually
+    need to be run as root.
 
 And that's it! You should be able to `cargo build/run/test`.