[fedora-virt] Prevent virt-manager from chowning ISOs

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 13:42:44 UTC 2014


On 09/30/2014 09:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 03:56:12PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> - Networking: historically the only real networking mode available with
>> qemu:///session is usermode networking, which has limited functionality
>> compared to what some users will expect by default. See
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking#User_Networking_.28SLIRP.29
> 
> Sorry, just catching up on this list.
> 
> "historically" .. meaning there is something better than SLIRP
> available for non-root users now?
> 

You can use the setuid qemu-bridge-helper to let a non-root qemu use virbr0
provided by the default network. That's what boxes does now. But you have to
hope that virbr0 is set up correctly, since non-root libvirtd can't manage it.

- Cole



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