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vmnet.framework support for unmodified rootless QEMU (no dependency on VDE)
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ERROR: Failed to connect to "/var/run/socket_vmnet": Permission denied #8

Closed spowelljr closed 2 years ago

spowelljr commented 2 years ago

I've been using socket_vmnet without issue for a couple months, but every time I try using it now I get: Failed to connect to "/var/run/socket_vmnet": Permission denied

$ /opt/socket_vmnet/bin/socket_vmnet_client /var/run/socket_vmnet qemu-system-aarch64
Failed to connect to "/var/run/socket_vmnet": Permission denied

I recently updated to macOS 12.6.1, may have been a coincidence (I tried on a machine with 13.0 and it works). A coworker has also been experiencing this for a little while (before 12.6.1).

I ran make uninstall and manually removed /var/run/socket_vmnet, restarted my computer, reinstalled, but still the same error.

$ ls -l /var/run
srwxrwx---   1 root          staff           0 Oct 28 10:43 socket_vmnet
-rw-r--r--   1 root          daemon          0 Oct 28 10:43 socket_vmnet.stderr
-rw-r--r--   1 root          daemon          0 Oct 28 10:43 socket_vmnet.stdout
AkihiroSuda commented 2 years ago

You aren't in the "staff" group? If so, is your account managed by your company?

spowelljr commented 2 years ago

You aren't in the "staff" group? If so, is your account managed by your company?

Thank you for the comment @AkihiroSuda, you made me realize for the first time that the user groups on my machine are very different than a standard Mac, staff isn't user anywhere. I chown the the socket to my corp group and it works now, very odd that it just started happening and was working fine previously with the staff group.