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Akshar Patel
Asked: 2017-10-27 00:22:30 +0800 CST

KVM Installation on Ubuntu 17.10

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I have gone through this article.

But I am getting following error when adding user to group.

adduser: The group `libvirtd' does not exist.

This worked perfectly in 16.04.

Is there anything missing in Ubuntu 17.10?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I had the same problem following the guide you've mentioned above.

    The problem is - that group is called libvirt and NOT libvirtd.

    You should already be part of it (run groups to check), so just logout and login back.

    To check if it's ok run virsh -c qemu:///system list WITHOUT sudo.

    More info

    The answer was found here:

    According to this ubuntu help, the correct group name is libvirt.

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  2. In recent releases (>= Ubuntu Yakkety) the user group libvirtd was renamed to libvirt. An upgraded system gets a new libvirt group with the same gid as the libvirtd group to match that.

    Do this Bash script to resolve it.

    cat /etc/group | grep "libvirt"   
sudo adduser root libvirt
sudo adduser ubuntu libvirt
sudo adduser root libvirtd       # legacy
sudo adduser ubuntu libvirtd     # legacy
cat /etc/group | grep "libvirt"
sudo systemctl restart libvirtd
sudo systemctl status libvirtd
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