[fedora-virt] virt-manager/virsh and wheel group

Athmane Madjoudj athmane at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 6 14:06:42 UTC 2011


Hello,

virt-manager worked fine until I add myself into wheel group (for sudo), 
now it complain about libvirtd not running, see below for details:

$ virt-manager  --debug
[...SNIP...]
2011-06-06 12:54:54,429 (error:66): dialog message: Unable to open a 
connection to the libvirt management daemon.

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Verify that:
  - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started
  : authentication failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1055, 
in _try_open
     None], flags)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, in 
openAuth
     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: authentication failed

2011-06-06 12:54:57,619 (engine:477): Exiting app normally.

$ virsh -c qemu:///system
error: authentication failed
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

$ sudo virsh -c qemu:///system
[sudo] password for athmane:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
        'quit' to quit

virsh #

$ sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service
libvirtd.service - LSB: daemon for libvirt virtualization API
	  Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/libvirtd)
	  Active: active (running) since Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:50:40 -0100; 12min ago
	 Process: 3452 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/libvirtd stop (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 3460 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/libvirtd start (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
	Main PID: 3468 (libvirtd)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/libvirtd.service
		  ├ 1320 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces...
		  └ 3468 libvirtd --daemon


-- 
Athmane Madjoudj


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