Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread KC8LDO
Paolo; You have a couple of choices here. I'm not a Policykit expert but the below two methods should work. 1. At the command line run [u...@system]su -c virtmanager. Where the [u...@system] is the command line prompt for your system and virtmanager is the exact name for the virtmanager

Re: Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 05/23/2010 05:34 AM, KC8LDO wrote: Paolo; You have a couple of choices here. I'm not a Policykit expert but the below two methods should work. 1. At the command line run [u...@system]su -c virtmanager. Where the [u...@system] is the command line prompt for your system and virtmanager

Re: Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread Overkill
With everyone's help I finally figured out that it works just fine from the console/desktop and the error is caused with the nomachine/freenx client. So I did the same little workaround like Lee suggested and modified the argument in the Main Menu to use ssh -X r...@localhost 'virt-manager'.

Re: Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:33:00 -0400 Overkill wrote: I can live with that until I figure out why this polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 has an issue with nx client. I've noticed that my gnome-settings-daemon aborts when run under NX, apparently due to no sound being available (that's only a

Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Overkill
Greetings, I'm currently using FC12 32bit using the GNOME and need some help bringing up virt-manager as a regular user. When I go to Applications - System Tools - Virtual Machine Manager it gives me an error that its Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. I know it's

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 05/22/2010 08:51 AM, Overkill wrote: Greetings, I'm currently using FC12 32bit using the GNOME and need some help bringing up virt-manager as a regular user. When I go to Applications - System Tools - Virtual Machine Manager it gives me an error that its Unable to open a connection to

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I was prompted for the root password. Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 tool, if you are trying to use

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/22/2010 10:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I was prompted for the root password. Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 05/22/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I was prompted for the root password. Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Overkill
All, I know that libvirtd is running. How can I quickly make this policy change to ask for the password again? I try running that command /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 tool from the command and no luck. I'll have to read up on it. Thanks again, [r...@system ~]# ps -ef |