virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu.runAsRoot

If true, libvirtd runs qemu as root. If false, libvirtd runs qemu as unprivileged user qemu-libvirtd. Changing this option to false may cause file permission issues for existing guests. To fix these, manually change ownership of affected files in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu to qemu-libvirtd.

Type
boolean
Default
true
Declared
<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix>