The virsh commands has long forced the connection to be read-only if running as non-root. This is bogus because it is perfectly capable of authenticating full read-write connections as non-root since we gained kerberos/policykit support. The user can always use the explicit --readonly flag if they only want a read only connection Dan. Index: src/virsh.c =================================================================== RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/virsh.c,v retrieving revision 1.135 diff -r1.135 virsh.c 6048,6054d6047 < #ifndef __MINGW32__ < /* Force a non-root, Xen connection to readonly */ < if ((ctl->name == NULL || < !strcasecmp(ctl->name, "xen")) && ctl->uid != 0) < ctl->readonly = 1; < #endif < -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list