Description of problem: virsh currently relies on the user having obtained PolicyKit credentials externally. In PolicyKit 0.7 there is a new 'polkit-auth' binary is suitable for being run by command line tools to obtain credentials. If the command line tool has an X session active it will use the graphical prompt, otherwise it'll do a text terminal prompt. We should use this, rather than attempting to write equivalent ourselves. cf comment #2 on http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2008/01/policykit-and-libvirt-integration_11 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Fixed in libvirt-0.4.1-7.fc9