Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 13.1

As a revisit to my previous post on connecting to libvirtd as a non-root user on openSUSE 12.2, the way to do it on openSUSE 13.1 is the same that worked for Marek Goldmann on Fedora 18 (although he used the wheel group). Create /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-libvirt-manage.rules with the following content: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id ==… Continue reading Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 13.1

Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 12.2

An old bug still bites one trying to connect to libvirtd/, eg. when starting virt-manager. By default, a password prompt asking for the root password appears. You might think that virt-manager would behave like VirtualBox and adding yourself to the libvirt group would suffice but to no avail. While that group exists, in the default… Continue reading Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 12.2

PXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (1/2)

During the past days at FOSDEM, I wanted to do some work on automatic OS installs via PXE servers. Therefore, I set up a virtual machine in VirtualBox and enabled network booting. VirtualBox has a sparely documented DHCP/TFTP server built-in when you set up the network adapter in NAT mode, but for all what it’s… Continue reading PXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (1/2)