Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 05/23/2010 05:34 AM, KC8LDO wrote:
> Paolo;
>
> You have a couple of choices here. I'm not a Policykit expert but the below
> two methods should work.
>
> 1. At the command line run  [user at system]su -c "virtmanager". Where the
> "[user at system]" is the command line prompt for your system and "virtmanager"
> is the exact name for the virtmanager application on your system. You should
> get a request for a root password. Then it should work. If you have any
> questions about what "su" does then just type "man su" at the terminal
> window prompt without the double quote marks. That should bring up a page
> telling what "su" does and the various optional setting.
>
> 2. You can go to the "Main Menu" selection under the "System->Preferences"
> selection. Clicking on the "Main menu" item starts the menu editor. Locate
> the menu selection for the virtmanager, should be Application->System, and
> right click on it to bring up a window with one of the options being the
> "Preferences" selection then click on it. Change the command line to the
> above, without the prompt of course. Then change the "Type" setting to
> "Application in Terminal". Close everything then quit the menu editor. Now
> when you click on the virtmanager selection you should get a popup terminal
> window with a prompt for the root password.
>
> I've had to do this with several things to work around not being asked for a
> root password for several system settings and services. I know its not the
> best way but at least it should work.
>
> Regards;
>
> Lee
>
> "There are morons in every line of work.
> Some just get paid more for their stupidity ".
>
>    
Lee,
   thanks for the  info, but I don't have an issue with the way it 
works.  If libvirtd is running everything works the way it should.  I 
get prompted for a root password.  Someone else (overkill) was having 
the issue with it never prompting for password and wondering how  to get 
it to work

Paolo