libvirtd problem under x86_64

2011-01-09 Thread Paul F. Johnson 
Hi,

Is there some form of magic that I need to use to get virt-manager to
work as non-root on x86_64?

When I run it, I'm getting 

Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Verify that:
 - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started

More details shows

authentication failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py, line 983, in
_try_open
None], flags)
  File /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py, line 107, in
openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: authentication failed

This seems to be an x86_64 problem and is on BZ (reported for f13 and
f14, but can't seem to see anything for rawhide).

Any ideas?

BZ is 579579

TTFN

Paul
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Re: libvirtd problem under x86_64

2011-01-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones 
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:06:56PM +, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
 Is there some form of magic that I need to use to get virt-manager to
 work as non-root on x86_64?

I don't know why the problem would be x86-64-specific, but in any case
you may need to modify the PolicyKit configuration to allow
virt-manager to connect to libvirtd as a particular non-root user.
This page should cover the essentials:

http://libvirt.org/auth.html

The default _Fedora_ policy seems to be that virt-manager running at
the console should be able to manage libvirt (but requiring the user's
password).  I don't know why this wouldn't be working.

Rich.

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