[libvirt] libvirt 0.3.3 and unix_sock_group

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:06:52PM -0700, Daniel Labrosse wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been using libvirt 0..4.4 for a few weeks now. I have
> unix_sock_group = "mygroup" set so that i can perform non-root
> management capabilities on the host. 
> 
> I have recently installed a new host running Scientific Linux 5.3 and
> libvirt 0.3.3 comes as default. First off, there is no libvirtd.conf
> file included with 0.3.3, so I copied the file from libvirt 0.4.4 (which
> is running on my Fedora 8 box).

The 'unix_sock_group' config param *is* supported in 0.3.3, but the
libvirtd  daemon will not change the group ownership in the directory
/var/run/libvirt where the socket is created. So you almost certainly
won't be able to access the socket itself. You could try chgrp'ing the
directory. A good test is to make sure you can access the socket as
non-root, eg

  ls -l /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock


Daniel
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