[et-mgmt-tools] user access to virt-manager guests

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:17:40PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> Hi. Is it possible to allow non-root users to access a guest operating
> system? Once the guest is set up, it should be possible to choose to
> allow the guest to look after its own security and authentication. As
> far as I can see, this isn't now possible. Perhaps some /etc/sudoers
> incantation?  The difficulty is that virt-manager is used both
> to set up *and* to use guests; those functions should be separated.

Users can access the guest via SSH (or any network login service
running inside the guest), or they can use a standalone viewer program
like virt-viewer to access the graphical console without needing admin
privileges. 

Dan.
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