On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 12:19:11PM +0100, Achill Gilgenast via Devel wrote:
> It's already defined by default in systemd:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.6/sysusers.d/basic.conf.in#L32
>
> Adding it again here in libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf causes the following
> warning by validating it with sd-sysuers:
>
> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/libvirt-qemu.conf:1: Conflict with earlier configuration for group 'kvm' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/basic.conf:32, ignoring line.
>
> I don't know if the GID is important, but from simple grepping around it
> doesn't seem that way.
I'm changing this line to say:
On Fedora/RHEL systemd is built with -Dkvm-gid=36 so there is no change
in the allocated GID on these platforms. Other platforms have the same
facility available to them if they wish to retain a fixed GID.
>
> Signed-off-by: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>
> ---
> src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
and pushed. Apologies for the delay to this trivial patch
>
> diff --git a/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf b/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf
> index 3189191e738a..05c35f94d814 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf
> +++ b/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf
> @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
> -g kvm 36
> g qemu 107
> u qemu 107:qemu "qemu user" - -
> m qemu kvm
> --
> 2.51.2
>
With regards,
Daniel
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