Bug 1035121

Splitting out the documentation of adding virsh systems from bug 1004622

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1004622 +++

I recently installed beaker and there are a few things that would have been nice to have in those docs:

 - requirements for power configuration on virthosts (ssh keys, polkit changes etc.)
 - configuration of VMs to use with beaker (set to boot from network, hd and power settings for virsh)

A lot of this is discussed in the dev env setup guide [1] but would be useful to have it in the main install documentation.

--- Additional comment from Amit Saha on 2013-09-05 14:52:37 EST ---

Tim, thanks for reporting these.

(In reply to Tim Flink from comment #0)
>  - requirements for power configuration on virthosts (ssh keys, polkit
> changes etc.)

Could you describe the polkit changes that you needed to do? I don't remember having to do any when I setup/wrote the docs for Fedora.

--- Additional comment from Tim Flink on 2013-09-05 15:46:34 EST ---

(In reply to Amit Saha from comment #2)
 
> Could you describe the polkit changes that you needed to do? I don't
> remember having to do any when I setup/wrote the docs for Fedora.

It's not so much a "have to" as I chose not to use root on the virthost.

Add the file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-libvirt.rules which contains:

polkit.addRule(function (action, subject) {
    if (action.id == "org.libvirt.unix.manage" && subject.isInGroup("kvm"))
        return polkit.Result.YES;
});

then add the remote user to the kvm group and you don't need to have passwordless root access to the virthosts