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Allow users to access libvirt in Debian 9 Stretch

In /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf, uncomment these two lines:

unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

Then add your user to the libvirt and libvirt-qemu groups:

sudo usermod -a -G libvirt david
sudo usermod -a -G libvirt-qemu david

Sources:

https://libvirt.org/auth.html

https://wiki.debian.org/KVM

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