[libvirt-users] What is the difference between running "virt-manager" and "sudo virt-manager"?

[Sven Schwedas]

On 2014-10-27 09:31, Allen Qiu wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> What is the difference between starting virt-manager by "virt-manager"
> and by "sudo virt-manager"? It seems that there are two copy of
> virt-manager running in the background.
>  
> When I run *"virt-manager",* I got a error of "*Unable to open a
> connection to the libvirt management daemon. **Libvirt URI is:
> qemu:///system **Verify that: - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started*".
>  
> Whereas when I run *"sudo virt-manager",* I got a error of *"Error
> starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration
> server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP
> networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash.
> See **http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/**for information."*
> ** 
> How should I deal with the two issues respectively? Is there any
> drawback by simply running "virt-manager"?

You should set up correct permissions for libvirtd (cf. libvirtd.conf,
unix_sock_group) and use virt-manager/virsh as unprivileged user.

>  
> Regards,
>  
> Allen
>  
> 2014-10-27
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> Allen Qiu
> 
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