Re: [libvirt-users] Listing machines as non-root user
Hi Maciej,
On 04/26/2011 09:13 AM Maciej Gałkiewicz wrote:
I have a problem with virsh. I'm using eucalyptus software on top
of xen 4
(debian squeeze). The problem is that unix user "eucalyptus" cannot see vm
machines when it executes "virsh list". My libvirt version is 0.8.8-3 from
debian sid repository. The same
problem occurs with older versions.
What is more I have tried to change unix_sock_ro_perms to "2777". After
libvirt restart it started to work. Even when I reverted this change it was
still working. Unfortunately after server restart virsh still does not work
(I am not sure but I cannot restart my production servers right now).
Everything is fine when I run virsh as root. I have the same issue on 7
machines.
have you tried a different connection URI?:
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$ virsh -c qemu:///system 'list'
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If not explicitly stated, the virsh binary uses the 'qemu:///session' URI
(at least under debian).
See also .. VIRSH(1):
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qemu:///system
"connect locally as root to the daemon supervising QEmu and KVM domains"
qemu:///session
"connect locally as a normal user to his own set of QEmu and KVM domains"
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Please note that in order for the 'qemu:///system' URI to work probably the
user must be part of the 'libvirt' group. This way you won't have to touch
the permission set of any of the respective sockets.
I hope this helps ;)
Cheers
Jan