[et-mgmt-tools] user access to virt-manager guests
Bob Tennent
rdtennent at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 04:33:24 UTC 2008
>|> 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.
Thanks. virt-viewer isn't mentioned in "Virtualization in Fedora 8".
Bob T.
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