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Hi all, Just added some new pages to the wiki, this time covering how to configure remote access to libvirt through SSH, not using root: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHSetup <--- entry page http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup This has details for several different Linux distributions: * RHEL 5 & 6 * Fedora 11-13 * Centos 5 & 6 * Ubuntu 10.04 Server & Desktop * openSUSE 11.2 onwards Does anyone have info they'd like to include for other distributions? :) Regards and best wishes, Justi...

Hi, I have the following error in syslog when starting virt-manager and trying to connect: May 25 16:39:33 sage libvirtd: 16:39:33.525: error : remoteDispatchAuthPolkit:3846 : Policy kit denied action org.libvirt.unix.manage from pid 27509, uid 500, result: 512 I can manually start the kvm guest using virsh, but why can't virt-manager start them? This is on fedora14 x86_64: # rpm

Hi, Libvirtd is in listen mode. /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf listen_tls = 0 listen_tcp = 1 auth_tcp = "sasl" my trying to setup polkit authentication using http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup [root at aopcach ~]# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-org.arindam-libvirt-remote-access.pkla [Remote libvirt SSH access] Identity=unix-user:arindam Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes but it fails with: [arindam at aopcach ~]$ virsh -c q...

...iled to connect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection error: End of file while reading data: : Input/output error I have referred to http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Failed_to_connect_to_the_hypervisor#Other_errors , http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHSetup and http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup . All of them don't work. how should I do ? Help .

...ve=yes However I wasn't able to connect to libvirt on the host itself, and the logs indicated it was a PolicyKit block, so my second problem/question...Is it possible to have multiple local PolicyKit *.pkla files or can only one exist? From the documentation here, http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/SSHPolicyKitSetup, it seems like so long as the names are unique then multiple would be allowed. Reason that's key is I'm using Puppet and will have multiple servers/applications needing access and being restricted to a single file to manage will be a problem. Connecting locally with a specific pkla for &q...