On Jun 22, 2012 1:08 AM, "mallapadi niranjan" <niranjan.ashok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have a Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) with libvirt versions:
>
> libvirt-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
> virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17.noarch
>
> I have allowed non-root user to user libvirt by allowing the user through polkit
>
> cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/cat 50-org.example-libvirt-remote-access.pkla
>
> [Remote libvirt SSH access]
> Identity=unix-group:virt
> Action="">
> ResultAny=yes
> ResultInactive=yes
> ResultActive=yes
>
> After doing the above i am able to connect to virt-manager as non-root user but unable to create storage pools.
>
> [juno@reserved ~]$ id
> uid=1001(juno) gid=1001(juno) groups=1001(juno),1002(virt) context=staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0
> [juno@reserved ~]$ virsh
> Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
>
> Type: 'help' for help with commands
> 'quit' to quit
>
> virsh # pool-list
> error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor
> error: no valid connection
> error: Failed to connect socket to '@/home/juno/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused
>
> virsh # list
> error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor
> error: no valid connection
> error: Failed to connect socket to '@/home/juno/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused
>
> I have defined pool called virt-images (/virt-images) which the non-root (in this case the username is Juno) user has the read/write permissions
>
> Also tried adding the permissions to unix socket in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf as below:
>
> cat /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf | grep -v ^$ | grep -v ^#
> unix_sock_group = "virt"
> unix_sock_ro_perms = "0777"
> unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"
> unix_sock_dir = "/var/run/libvirt"
>
> But the unix socket are created in /var/run/libvirt and not in users home directory, So how do we make a non-root user virsh commands check the socket created in /var/run/libvirt. It always checks for the socket in user's home directory ?
>
> Any pointers on above would be helpfu.
>
> Regards
> Niranjan
>
>
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I believe I ran into this, try using this virsh command as the polkit authorized user
virsh -c qemu:///system
- Trey
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