Thank you for the responses. Yes I am running the OBS version. For Suse Is there any way to use use SSH keys to connect ? (i.e so I do not have to keep putting in the password ?) Sorry if my email was on the 'angry' side... And thank you to everybody who is working on a this project. Regards On 25 April 2012 21:11, Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cole Robinson wrote: >> On 04/25/2012 07:18 AM, Morgan Cox wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I am having major usability issues after recent updates of (I believe) >>> the blame lies in libvirt updates.... >>> >>> Previously I just setup a new connection using virt-manager - I >>> entered the root password - I used to connect then actually was able >>> to use virt-manager. >>> >>> Now... I'm having major issues. >>> >>> In openSUSE (for example) virt-manager is completely broken - even >>> though I enter username 'root' it ALWAYS connects as my username - so >>> i can no longer use virt-manager at all with that OS. >>> >>> To make things worse in KDE (this also happens in arch) I have a grey >>> dialogue box that you CANNOT!! paste the password in - I have to type >>> it out (like its windows or something..) >>> >>> To see what I mean see :- >>> >>> http://imgur.com/FOSvq >>> >>> So opensuse (kde) is completely broken - Arch linux involves typing a >>> 24 char pass in (instead of pasting) - and worse : I have to keep >>> !!TYPING!! the password in each time I do anything - i.e enter a VM - >>> so its really not usable . >>> >>> Say I want to connect and enter 4 vm's - thats 5 times I have to enter >>> the password - WHY ?????? >>> >>> As a workaround i changed the root pass to a simple (short) password >>> everytime I use virt-manager - so its a crappy workaround. >>> >>> In Debian (gnome2) I use the backports version of libvirt and the same >>> thing occurs - although that's slightly better as I can paste the pass >>> in that dialogue box - although (again) I have to type (or paste) the >>> pass in each time I do anything. >>> >>> I used to just use the SSH key to connect - why the hell can't i now ? >>> >>> Sorry for the tone of this email but virt-manager used to work 100% >>> fine and now its pretty much broken. >>> >>> How can I make it work like it used to ? (Or is downgrading the only way ?) >>> >>> I do not want to put the pass in every single time I do anything. >>> >>> How can I configure it to connect via SSH key (as i used to?) >>> >>> >> >> The change was not intentional, it's just a libvirt bug: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811397 >> >> Ask your distro to backport the relevant patch or downgrade libvirt on your host. >> > > Morgan, were you using the libvirt 0.9.11 package from OBS > Virtualization project? FYI, I added the referenced patch to the > libvirt package today. See also > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757766 > > Regards, > Jim