[libvirt] iface-list command in virsh

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Tue Apr 20 11:38:43 UTC 2010


On 04/19/2010 04:06 PM, Dev.Atom wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to list physical interface of a remote tcp host via the C 
> API and it fails. I have tried to use virsh iface-list in remote TCP 
> connection and it fails also. I have trying on the libvirt host with 
> my normal account and it fails also, but when I connect under root 
> account on the libvirt host, iface-list works. Any clue ?

When you run virsh locally as non-root, it connects to qemu://session, 
which doesn't have root privileges, and the iface-* commands won't work 
(because netcf requires root to run). If you run virsh as root, you will 
be connected to qemu://system, which has root, and iface-* will work.

The failure to work when connecting to a remote libvirtd is puzzling, 
though.

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