I set up my certificates, ca client and server, as described in your documentation: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TLSCreateServerCerts. I followed it step by step so it must be ok. However, when I run virsh -c qemu://192.168.1.2/system and I try a command like list --all I get: error: impossible connect to the hypervisor errore: no valid connection errore: Unable to set x509 CA certificate: /etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem: Error while reading file. If I run the same command with root privileges: virsh -c qemu://192.168.1.2/system everything works, anyway I get this warning too: 2014-02-26 13:03:25.035+0000: 10825: info : libvirt version: 1.1.1 2014-02-26 13:03:25.035+0000: 10825: warning : virNetTLSContextCheckCertKeyPurpose:364 : Certificate /etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem purpose does not allow use for with a TLS client I don't know if it is a problem, I need to live migrate machines... Anyway, main problem is that I don't want to run virsh with root privileges. Where the problem is?