[libvirt] [PATCH] Default to qemu:///system if accessible

[Eric Blake]

On 09/03/2010 02:38 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:
>> NACK, I don't think we should be changing this. If the user
>> is unprivileged, it should always default to the unprivileged
>> libvirtd, regardless of whether they are also authorized to
>> connect to the privileged libvirtd (via socket permissions or
>> policykit, or kerberos). If the unprivileged user still wants
>> the privileged libvirtd, they should given an explicit URI.
>
> Hm... I didn't think this was going to be controversial :)

Maybe a less-controversial patch would be changing configure.ac to add a 
configure option for the default URI string for non-privileged users? 
Right now, the default is hard-coded to qemu:///session, but by letting 
it be a configure choice, then it would be up to the end user (or 
distro) whether to risk the default of qemu:///system as well as 
exposing the socket as writable.

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