Erp! Meant to send this to libvirt-users. Sorry about the noise, you can ignore this. --landon On 08/07/2014 11:19 AM, Landon Gilbert-Bland wrote: > I am using kvm libvirt/qemu, and am trying to get VNC working with unix > sockets. I'm using the following in my XML: > > <graphics type='vnc' socket='/tmp/kvmtest'/> > > This works, it creates the unix socket and I can use it for VNC. But it > creates the socket with 755 permissions, and owned by libvirt-qemu:kvm. > Ideally, I would like it to be 770 root:libvirtd, but could also work > with 775 libvirt-qemu:kvm. > > Basically, I would like the group to be read/write/execute, so that > anyone in this group can use virt-manager (or whatever) to get into the > vm with vnc. I haven't found a way to change this in the settins. It > doesn't seem to be honoring the unix socket settings in > /etc/libvirt/libvirdd.conf (it looks like those are only for > libvirt-sock and libvirt-sock-ro), and I haven't been able to find any > documentation about changing these permissions in the XML. > > I can manually chmod/chown the socket after it is created (manually or > with a cron), but that is far from an ideal solution. I don't suppose > anyone has run across a configuration option for this that I have missed? > > I have only tested this in ubuntu 14.01 and debian sid, for what it's worth. > > Thanks, > --landon > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list