[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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