[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#541347: Bug#541347: If started as normal user, virt-manager gives a traceback when trying to open a VM

Aioanei Rares rares.aioanei at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 08:09:27 UTC 2009


Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Friday 14 Aug 2009 04:04:31 Aioanei Rares wrote:
>   
>> I cannot look at the vm details as normal user, because I get the same
>> error (traceback). I don't know what are you referring to regarding the
>> URI .
>>     
>
> To be able to look at the VMs, you first need to connect to the hypervisor. In 
> this case, kvm.
>
> For a local machine, the URI would be qemu:///system
>
> For a remote machine, it'd depend on what mechanism you are using.
> For example, for ssh, it'd be:
> qemu+ssh://user@hostname/system
>
>
> Ritesh
>   
My point when reporting this was simply that virt-manager is supposed to 
warn the user about his/her insufficient privileges.





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