[libvirt-users] libvirtd via unix socket using system uri

[Michal Privoznik]

On 4/29/19 1:06 PM, lameventanas at gmail.com wrote:
> I want to run libvirtd as a special user, and allowing users that belong
> to a special group to connect via qemu+unix:///system (eg: unix socket).
> 
> I did everything necessary to do so: created a libvirt user and group,
> added the libvirt user to the kvm group, added my normal user to the
> libvirt group, and made sure the socket is owned by libvirt:libvirt with
> permissions set to 770.
> 
> libvirtd starts successfully, but when I try to connect as the normal
> user I get this error:
> 
> bash$ virsh --connect qemu+unix://system
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: invalid argument: using unix socket and remote server 'system' is
> not supported.

This is not valid URI.

https://libvirt.org/uri.html

You may want to use 'qemu+unix:///system' or simply 'qemu:///system' 
which is the same because libvirt connects via unix socket by default.

Anyway, you'll need to run libvirtd privileged, otherwise it'll get 
EPERM when trying to do almost anything.

Michal