On 04/21/2009 12:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
is there a mechanism for customizing VMM settings on a per-user
basis? i ask since i'd like to test guestfish and libguestfs on a
recently-created VM but, by default, new VM images are created in
/var/lib/libvirt/images, and that directory is not accessible to
non-root users.
as a non-root user, if i was about to start working with VMs, i'd
like to be able to invoke "virt-manager" and, *before* creating any
VMs, set some config options, such as where my images are going to go
(ideally, in a personal images directory). that would make those
images accessible to my account.
but if i fire up "virt-manager", i can see "Edit" ->
"Preferences"
but that doesn't allow me that kind of per-user configuration. does
that kind of configuration even exist? and, with those default
settings and permissions, how *would* one use libguestfs and guestfish
as a regular user?
Per user configuration is handled by gconf, so if user1 changed a
setting in Preferences, user2 would still have the default.
However, there is no global way yet to change what the 'default' storage
location is. There is a place in the new VM wizard to type in a manual
path to provision (such as your home directory), which would then allow
you to use libguestfs on it.
- Cole