On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:52:57PM +0200, Philippe Berthault wrote: Yes. See http://libvirt.org/FAQ.html : 3. Failure to use the API for non-root users Large parts of the API may only be accessible with root priviledges, however the read only access to the xenstore data doesnot have to be forbidden to user, at least for monitoring purposes. If "virsh dominfo" fails to run as an user, change the mode of the xenstore read-only socket with: chmod 666 /var/run/xenstored/socket_ro and also make sure that the Xen Daemon is running correctly with local HTTP server enabled, this is defined in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp which need the following line to be enabled: (xend-http-server yes) If needed restart the xend daemon after making the change with the following command run as root: service xend restart Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com&gt;