On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Yushu Yao wrote: > It seems that libvirtd has to run with root, is this true? To make itself useful it should be root yes. > But why does libvirtd need to run for QEMU? If it's for start/stop/pause vm, > is Qemu's command line tool not enough? I presume it works by keeping reference to the domain, and is not able to manipulate the domain if it does not own it... but this is a guess :) Stefan -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list