Bug 627693

Summary:	virsh doesn't give correct error when run as non-root
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	aquini, berrange, clalance, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, rvokal, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Bill Nottingham 2010-08-26 17:12:40 UTC

Description of problem:

[notting@nostromo: ~]$ virsh edit splat-f13
error: failed to get domain 'splat-f13'
error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'splat-f13'

[notting@nostromo: ~]$ su
[root@nostromo notting]# virsh edit splat-f13
<works>

Ideally, I'd get an error message from the unprivleged execution that more accurately describes what happened.

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

libvirt-client-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2010-08-31 11:00:29 UTC

The error message *does* accurate describe what happened, thus...


 * No URI was provided to virsh, so it picked the first one it finds.
    - When running unprivileged it picks 'qemu:///session' which is a private per-user instance of libvirtd. 
    - When running privileged, it picks 'qemu:///system' which is a single system wide instance of libvirtd.
   (It might not even pick QEMU at all if QEMU is not installed, trying lxc or xen or something else)

 * The session & system instances of libvirt are completely separate, having no knowledge of each other's guests. Thus the message "no domain with matching name 'splat-f13'" is correct.