Bug 538378

Summary:	Would be nice to provide virsh with defaults in config file for connection
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Olivier Berger <olivier.berger>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
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Description Olivier Berger 2009-11-18 12:41:16 UTC

Description of problem:

virsh seems to have no other way to specify the default connection it has to use other than by environment var VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI

It would be great to be able to store this in a kind of ~/.virshrc file

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.7.2

How reproducible:

All times

This is obviously a wishlist.

Comment 1 Ján Tomko 2015-03-16 16:49:30 UTC

*** Bug 732364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Martin Kletzander 2015-04-08 11:38:17 UTC

There is a possibility to setting the default connection (even without using an alias or shell wrapper function) in cat ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf; that file has the same syntax as the system-wide config file /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf, but sets it for the user only.  Also applies to all connections, not just virsh.

Example config file is the system-wide one, we cannot initialize example file for all users on the system during installation.  Therefore I believe this bug is fixed.