633388 – Android Studio does not allow users to run AVDs due to KVM permissions.

Bug 633388 - Android Studio does not allow users to run AVDs due to KVM permissions.

Summary: Android Studio does not allow users to run AVDs due to KVM permissions.

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2017-10-03 16:16 UTC by Mark I Manning IV
Modified:	2017-10-28 15:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Mark I Manning IV 2017-10-03 16:16:35 UTC

Android studio comes with its own built in version of QEMU (because google is special).  If someone installs android-studio but does not install qemu or does not already have it installed then the udev rules for kvm will be missing.  

Any attempt to run an AVD will be met with permission denied errors on /dev/kvm.

The android-studio ebuild should borrow the udev rules from the qemu ebuild and install them into /lib/udev/rules.d/ just as if qemu had been installed.

I shall leave it up to the gentoo devs as to how best to resolve any potential conflicts here :)

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-10-19 07:49:55 UTC

please add cat/pkg to the title.