On 08/14/2013 11:03 AM, Salvatore Cuzzilla wrote:
> 
> hello dears,
> 
> i'm trying to perform a guest installation from an unprivileged account but 
> it looks like virt-manager/install does't like it too much. The all 
> installation is done from an nfs share and … i've got the some error with 
> both virt-install & virt-manager: "ERROR    Error validating install 
> location: Privilege is required for NFS installations".
> 
> Is there anyway to complete the vm installation without root permissions?
> 

With NFS, not really. However if the NFS share is already mounted on the host,
you should be able to do --location /path/to/mount, and then inside the
installer have it mount the NFS share. But to mount NFS on the host, you need
to be root.

- Cole

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