Re: [libvirt-users] [ovs-discuss] create ovs port without root

Thanks for answers,but as I see libvirt call ovs-vsctl that tries to connect to ovs-vswitchd socket,that have rw to root.how can I specify socket permissions in vswitchd? On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 02:05:15PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: > Hello! How can i operate with openvswitch without root rights? > For example - i can add my user to kvm group and create vm from > libvirt with my own user, but now i'm failed with creating port. > > errors in logs: > Mar 06 14:04:46 selfip.ru ovs-vsctl[19065]: > ovs|00001|vsctl|INFO|Called as ovs-vsctl --timeout=5 -- --if-exists > del-port > Mar 06 14:04:46 selfip.ru ovs-vsctl[19065]: > ovs|00002|vsctl|ERR|'del-port' command requires at least 1 arguments > Mar 06 14:04:46 selfip.ru libvirtd[6418]: internal error: Child > process (ovs-vsctl --timeout=5 -- --if-exists del-port) unexpected > exit status 1: ovs-vsctl: 'del-port' command requires at least 1 > arguments > Mar 06 14:04:46 selfip.ru libvirtd[6418]: Unable to delete port (null) > from OVS: Operation not permitted I assume that any admin commands related to OVS will require CAP_NET_ADMIN as is required for all non-OVS network tasks too, which pretty much means you have to be root. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|