Gnome virt-manager

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700
Paolo Galtieri wrote:

> When I tried running the virtual machine manager as  a  regular user I 
> was prompted for the root password.

Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the
/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
tool, if you are trying to use virt-manager, but
aren't in a gnome session, you'll need to get that
running first. (The gnome designers seem to have
"never call a subroutine when you can talk dbus to
a bunch of separate daemons instead" as a primary
design principle :-).