[fedora-virt] virsh as user? F16+ host.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:56:37AM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> the xml files are in:
> /etc/libvirt/qemu/*.xml
> Usually I have to start as root.
> 
> If I try as user:
> cd /etc/libvirt/qemu && virsh start 02-64-Bit-Old && virsh console
> 02-64-Bit-Old
> bash: cd: /etc/libvirt/qemu: Permission denied
> 
> I would like to be able to do this as user,
> I was thinking chown user:user /etc/libvirt/qemu
> 
> but am worried about any security issues.

Use virsh -c qemu:///system start [...]

You may need to adjust the PolicyKit configuration to allow
passwordless access:

http://libvirt.org/auth.html

Rich.

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