On Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:31:12 -0500,
Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> On 1/1/22 11:05 PM, John Covici wrote:
> > Well, I foujnd out something. If I go to the file menu, I can
> > add the connection manually and it works,
>
> That sounds familiar.
>
> > but I wonder why I have to do that?
>
> Because the KVM Virtual Manager is designed such that it can
> administer KVM / libvirt / qemu on multiple systems. It's really
> client-server infrastructure. You're just needing to point the
> client at your local server one time.
>
> > Also, before I do anything, it asks me for the root password
> > and says system policy prevents local management of virtual
> > machines. Do you know why this is so?
>
> This also seems familiar.
>
> Try re-starting the libvirt / kvm daemons. They may not be aware
> that your user is now a member of the proper group. -- Aside:
> This is why a reboot is ... convenient, but not required.
>
> This /should/ be taken care of proper group administration for
> your normal user.
>
> I ran into this a long time ago when I set up KVM on my last
> Gentoo system. I don't remember exactly what I had to do to
> resolve it. I do know that it was less than five minutes of
> searching the web to find the answer, cussing at what needed to
> be done, and doing it. That system has been running perfectly
> fine for many years.
>
OK, more progress and a few more questions.
In the virt-manager, I could not figure out how to add disk storage to
the vm. I have a partition I can use for the disk storage -- is this
different from the virtual machine image?
Of even more importance, how do I bridge the vm onto my existing
network? I have a nic for internal items named eno1 and another nic
which connects to the outside world, I would like to bridge to the
internal network, that would give the vm a dhcp address, etc.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
cov...@ccs.covici.com
