On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:10:59AM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:58 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > Another quick couple of questions: firstly is there a way to bypass > > > "Open Connection" dialog on startup so that it assumes that the default > > > "Local Xen Host" is selected? I can see the -C option for a URI but > > > can't see a way to specify the equivalent of "Local Xen Host" on the > > > command line? > > > > virt-manager --connect Xen > > > > Will do the trick IIRC. > > > Actually, I've just found out this doesn't work. I've finally got around > to creating a menu entry in Ubuntu which reads: "gksu virt-manager > --connect Xen" and when selected, it does bypass the selection dialog > and go straight to the list of virtual machines. However, when I try and > start my Windows XP virtual machine, nothing happens! > > I eventually tried running "virt-manager --connect Xen" directly and got > the following message on the console: "libvir: Domain error winxp: > operation virDomainCreate forbidden for read only access". However, if I > I just execute "virt-manager" and select "Local host" and hit "Connect", > then I can start the VMs fine. > > The only conclusion I can come to is that if you specify "--connect Xen" > on the command line for virt-manager that it behaves the same as if you > tick the "Read only" checkbox in the "Open Connection" dialog. Am I > right in thinking this is a bug? Looking at the code, that is indeed true. I'll see about fixing that. In fact I think I'll probably remove the 'read only' checkbox from the dialog too, and have virt-manager automatically try a full read write connection, falling back to read only when doing Xen as non-root. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
