On 07/03/2015 02:01 AM, sbaugh@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > (please keep me CC'd, I'm not subscribed to this list) > > Hi, > > Has there been any thought given to supporting remote connections to > QEMU session instances in virt-manager? > (i.e. qemu+ssh://hostname/session?socket=path) Manually hacking in the > URI with dconf seems to mostly work, but (for example) I quickly > encountered a bug when creating a VM where virt-manager assumed the only > usable storage pool was my *local* homedir instead of the remote > homedir. > > virsh and other tools support these connections just fine. > > The reason I want to remotely connect to a QEMU session instance is > because with qemu-bridge-helper giving unprivileged access to bridges, > if one also does chmod 666 /dev/kvm, QEMU session instances actually > become quite useful. You can run actual production VMs with them. > > Specifically, I want to use them as a way to roll out a virtual machine > service for all the students at my university: Just give them a shell > account, set some ulimits and tell them how to make a session-mode > vm. (I know, there are some flaws in my ability to really do limits > here, but it's enough for my use case). If they were able to use > virt-manager instead of virsh to manage those VMs, it would sure make it > easier for them... and I think there are a lot of this kind of use case > that are enabled by the existence of qemu-bridge-helper. > Honestly I didn't even realize that's possible. Feel free to file an upstream bug for it: https://virt-manager.org/bugs/ Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list