<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; color: black; font-family: arial; ">Yes it does, thank you!</span> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br> </span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; color: black; font-family: arial; ">I had altered ~/.gconf/apps/virt-manager/connections/</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">%gconf.xml<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to include the correct username but it took a long time before the changes showed up in virtman.</span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br> </span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Your solution is far better though, thanks, I didn't know you could do it that way.</span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br> </span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Best,</span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">John<br> </span></font> <div style="clear: both; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: arial; "></div> <br> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">-----Original Message----- <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_a776a978-dd43-423c-a7f1-d0498ae168ba" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Sure. The newest versions of virt-manager let you specific the user to connect with. But, the older versions should (in theory) let you put in "user@host" where it asks for the host name. Does that help? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift= </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </div> </font>