On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 04:04:06PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 32, x64 > qemu-kvm-4.2.0-7.fc32.x86_64 > > Since I have figure out how to run virt-manager as a > user without having to hassle with the pol kit prompt, > I would like to move my virtual machines out of > root (or wherever the are) and into a particular user. > > I can start virt-manager as a user, but all my VM > are missing. > > How to do migrate all my vm's from root to a user? Hi, It's not that simple. virt-manager uses libvirt to manage virtual and for QEMU/KVM there are two ways of running VMs using different connections. Usually the main one is qemu:///system connection which connects to a libvirt daemon running under root user. For this connection you need to configure which other users on the system except for root can use it. By default it polkit will ask you to provide password, but you can create a polkit rule file which will allow you to use the system connection without password. Libvirt already provides some default polkit rule which allows all users that are in 'libvirt' group to access the system connection. The other connection qemu:///session works a bit differently, the libvirt daemon is started as the same user that used this connection which implicates some limitations with networking, attaching host devices into the VM and other tasks that would require root permissions. So for your use-case I would not move the VMs into the qemu:///session connection for your user but I would add your user to 'libvirt' group. In addition you need to make sure that in virt-manager you have configured 'QEMU/KVM' connection which should use qemu:///system as Libvirt URI instead of the 'QEMU/KVM User session' which uses qemu:///session as Libvirt URI. Pavel
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