Bug 996986

Summary:	virsh does not honor uri_default setting in /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Slagle <jslagle>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	berrange, clalancette, itamar, jforbes, jyang, laine, libvirt-maint, veillard, virt-maint
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Description James Slagle 2013-08-14 12:16:12 UTC

Description of problem:
virsh does not honor uri_default setting in /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf.
I have 'uri_default = "qemu:///system"' uncommented in /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf but running 'virsh uri' shows that I'm still connecting to qemu:///session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@dublin libvirt]# rpm -q libvirt libvirt-client
libvirt-1.0.5.5-1.fc19.x86_64
libvirt-client-1.0.5.5-1.fc19.x86_64


How reproducible:
[jslagle@dublin ~]$ grep uri_default /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf
uri_default = "qemu:///system"
[jslagle@dublin ~]$ virsh uri
qemu:///session
(I tried restarting libvirtd as well, but that had no effect)

Note that setting the value in ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf does work:
[jslagle@dublin ~]$ echo uri_default = \"qemu:///system\" >> ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf
[jslagle@dublin ~]$ virsh uri
qemu:///system


Actual results:
I'm still connecting to qemu:///session

Expected results:
should be connected to qemu:///system

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2013-08-14 12:33:51 UTC

The test steps you list work fine for me.

$ virsh uri
qemu:///session
$ echo uri_default = \"qemu:///system\" >> ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf
$ virsh uri
qemu:///system


Do you have either LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI or VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI env variables set ? Those will override what's in the config file.

Comment 2 James Slagle 2013-08-14 12:55:15 UTC

(In reply to Daniel Berrange from comment #1)
> The test steps you list work fine for me.
> 
> $ virsh uri
> qemu:///session
> $ echo uri_default = \"qemu:///system\" >> ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf
> $ virsh uri
> qemu:///system

Yes, setting the value in ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf does work for me as I noted.

Setting it in /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf is what does not work.

> Do you have either LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI or VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI env
> variables set ? Those will override what's in the config file.

No.

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2013-08-14 13:02:02 UTC

(In reply to James Slagle from comment #2)
> (In reply to Daniel Berrange from comment #1)
> > The test steps you list work fine for me.
> > 
> > $ virsh uri
> > qemu:///session
> > $ echo uri_default = \"qemu:///system\" >> ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf
> > $ virsh uri
> > qemu:///system
> 
> Yes, setting the value in ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf does work for me as
> I noted.
> 
> Setting it in /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf is what does not work.

That works if you are running virsh as root. The /etc/libvirt directory is intentionally not readable by non-root users, since some of the files there may contain passwords.