[fedora-virt] F16 guestfs-browser as non-root

[Frank Murphy]

On 02/04/12 11:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> What's the actual, complete error message?
>
> What's the output when you use:
>
>    export LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1
>
> How about if you use:
>
>    export LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1

guestfs-browser -x
libguestfs: trace: add_drive_opts 
"/var/lib/libvirt/images/01-Old-32.img" "readonly:true" "format:raw"
libguestfs: trace: add_drive_opts = -1 (error)
libguestfs: trace: close

Both give above.

ls -l /var/lib/libvirt/images
total 335544764
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 11:32 01-Old-32.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 09:30 02-Old-64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 09:53 03-Current-32.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 10:02 04-urrent-64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 10:12 05-Branched-32.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 10:20 06-Branched-64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 08:31 07-Rawhide-32.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 Apr  2 08:49 08-Rawhide-64.img


Virt-Manager doesn't have the "readonly" checked in the virtio disk

>
> libguestfs itself doesn't use PolicyKit, so it's doubtful that
> creating that .pkla file is having any effect whatsoever.  libvirt
> uses PolicyKit, and libguestfs uses libvirt to get a list of local
> guests, so a *libvirt* .pkla file may be necessary, but without
> knowing what the error is, it's hard to tell.
>
> Rich.
>

There is a libvirt.pkla in place.

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Regards,
Frank
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