[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#578209: closed by Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> (Need to be root)

[IAN DELANEY]

From: owner at bugs.debian.org
To: johneed at hotmail.com
Subject: Bug#578209 closed by Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> (Need to be root)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:33:08 +0000

This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
which was filed against the virtinst package:
 
#578209: virtinst-0.400.0-7 can't complete a network paravirt install via virt-manager
 
It has been closed by Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>.
 
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:30:45 +0200
From: agx at sigxcpu.org
To: 578209-done at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Need to be root

Hi Ian,
You need to be root to talk to the XEN HV later on (at least in this
ver- if you are you can write to that location. See get_scratchdir in
the source.
Cheers,
 -- Guido
 
Guido, thanks for the reply, I'm afraid you've lost me. You need to be root, eh so does this mean the install need be done as root,
i.e. invoke virt-manager with 
sudo virt-manager,
invoking root status?  to that location, do you mean /var/lib/xen/?  The paravirt install failed citing permission denied.
I don't understand what the file   /var/lib/xen/virtinst-.treeinfo._9njz refers to.
It doesn't exist in /var/lib/xen. Is the install trying to create it in /var/lib/xen?
What is the source for  get_scratchdir?
I'd be happy to follow your suggestion through but I need to follow it.

This has been improved in 0.500.1 where .virtinst/ is being used.

makes me think of libvirt allocating permissions. Is that on the right track.
I decided to send this to your own email address too just to ensure it gets through to you.

Ian 
 
 		 	   		  
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