[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 08:28:12 UTC 2009


Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Friday 14 Aug 2009 13:39:27 Aioanei Rares wrote:
>   
>> My point when reporting this was simply that virt-manager is supposed to
>> warn the user about his/her insufficient privileges.
>>     
>
> I think there's a misunderstanding.
>
> virt-manager, by itself, doesn't need any privileges. To connect to a 
> hypervisor, you do need privileges. And that depends on how libvirt is 
> configured.
>
> So without the URI it is difficult to say what you were connecting to.
> And thus it is difficult to make out what insufficient privilege problems that 
> could be.
>
> Ritesh
>   
Ok, I understand. Please tell me how should I find the URI.





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