Bug 538378 - Would be nice to provide virsh with defaults in config file for connection
Summary: Would be nice to provide virsh with defaults in config file for connection
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libvirt
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
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: 732364 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-18 12:41 UTC by Olivier Berger
Modified: 2015-04-08 11:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-04-08 11:38:17 UTC
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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.
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