On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:49:10PM -0400, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
> I know you need to do a "sudo adduser $USER kvm" to get KVM working for a
> user, but how to get the networking, working? Every time I try and activate
> a network or add a network bridge I get the error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/host.py", line 262, in
> start_network
>     net.start()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/network.py", line 71, in start
>     self.net.create()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 612, in create
>     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virNetworkCreate() failed', net=self)
> libvirtError: cannot create bridge 'virbr1': Operation not permitted

This is a fairly persistent problem - users cannot create or change
network interfaces (of any type); there is no permissions that can be
set to allow this that I'm aware of.  You'll need to either use a
networking type which is handled by a daemon (I don't know if one exists
for KVM/virtmanager, UML did it with a switch daemon and local sockets)
or start your guests as root via sudo

-m

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