Re: [libvirt-users] manage VM without root access?

On 03/19/2012 07:21 AM, Jun Koi wrote:

hi,

with libvirt, is it possible to manage VMs (using virsh, for e.g) without root access?

The daemon is usually running as root, but virsh can do everything as a user also.

if that is possible, how can i do that?

I'm using *local* connection to libvirt with these settings: /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf: uri_default = "qemu:///system" /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf unix_sock_group = "libvirt" unix_sock_ro_perms = "0777" unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770" unix_sock_dir = "/var/run/libvirt" And my user is in the "libvirt" group. You can also use other authentication methods as someone mentioned before me.