Re: [Libguestfs] How to use libguestfs access LVM as non-root user?

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:58:30AM +0800, Qiu Yu wrote: Actually, it depends on udev rules. On my machine device mapper nodes very much are owned by the disk group: $ ll /dev/dm-* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 253, 0 May 15 13:26 /dev/dm-0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 253, 1 May 15 13:26 /dev/dm-1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 253, 10 May 24 13:54 /dev/dm-10 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 253, 11 May 15 13:26 /dev/dm-11 brw-rw----. 1 root root 253, 12 May 29 21:29 /dev/dm-12 [etc] You can add udev rules to change the ownership. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top