On 01/03/2013 06:36 PM, bibop554 wrote: > Hello, > > I use debian testing and virt-manager 0.9.1. > I don't understand why virtual machines that i try to create cannot read files > that i own, such as .iso files > I see that kvm is started with user=libvirt-qemu, but i really don't > understand why. Why isn't kvm started with the user that started virtual-manager ? Because you are talking to the system libvirtd instance over RPC which is launching the VMs. > Is there a way to tell virt-manager to start kvm with the same user he has > been started with, so that kvm could read my .iso file ? > > another, related question: > How could 2 users start their own VMs and be sure that VM of user #1 cannot > write on disks of user #2, if both VMs are started in user=libvirt-qemu ? That's what svirt handles, but your host needs to have selinux or apparmor enabled. It sounds like you are expecting the behavior provided by the qemu:///session libvirt URI, which auto-launches a libvirtd instance as your current user. You can use that with virt-manager like virt-manager --connect qemu:///session However functionality is not entirely equivalent, particularly the networking mode is less featureful (getting good networking basically requires root, hence the system libvirtd instance) - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
