Gnome virt-manager

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 05/22/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 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 :-).
>    
I run Gnome.  If I have libvirtd running and I select 
Applications->System Tools->Virtual Network Manager I get a prompt that says

"System policy prevents management of local virtualized systems"

and it asks for root password.

If I don't have libvirtd running then I get a prompt that says

"Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon."

and it does not prompt for password.

Paolo