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From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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Subject: Re: qemu-system-x86_64 refuses to boot HDD
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In article <1365537788407-5802686.post@n5.nabble.com> you write:

>>>  if you run qemu as root it may default to -curses too since it probably
>doesn't have permissions to access your X display
>
>Yep, that's the problem. I get the same 'could not open disk image
>/dev/ada1: Permission denied' error when I run as my own user. Should I add
>to devfs.rules something like below then?
>[localrules=10]
>add path '*a*da[0-9]*' mode 0660 group wheel
>
Just:

	add path 'ada[0-9]*' mode 0660 group wheel

should do it (or alternatively add yourself to the operator group.)

 HTH,
	Juergen