[libvirt-users] unable to get domain list of KVM guests from libvirt as non-root user

[Tom Georgoulias]

On 03/12/2010 09:18 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>> When I try the same thing on the KVM server:
>>
>> [testu at kvm ~]$ python
>> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep  3 2009, 15:37:37)
>> [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>    >>>  import libvirt
>>    >>>  conn = libvirt.openReadOnly(None)
>> 14:33:07.303: error : No vport operation path found for host0
>> 14:33:07.320: error : No vport operation path found for host4
>> 14:33:07.325: error : No vport operation path found for host3
>> 14:33:07.367: error : No vport operation path found for host1
>> 14:33:07.368: error : No vport operation path found for host2
>
>    http://libvirt.org/uri.html
>
> try libvirt.openReadOnly("qemu:///system")

That fixed it, thanks!

sh-3.2$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep  3 2009, 15:37:37)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import libvirt
 >>> conn = libvirt.openReadOnly("qemu:///system")
 >>> domains = conn.listDomainsID()
 >>> print domains
[14, 8, 13]
 >>>


Looks like I used an example from the wrong page:

http://www.libvirt.org/python.html

Tom