On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:53:57PM +0530, vipul borikar wrote: > Hi, > I have a code : > > > import libvirt > con = libvirt.openReadOnly(None) > print con.listDomainsID() > > > When i run the above code using root i get the proper output... but when i > use non-root user it givers be a empty list [ ] > > If i change the 2nd line to > > con = libvirt.open(qemu:///system) > It works. > > > I am using RHEL 6.1 with default kvm and libvirt.
When you pass 'None' to the open API call, libvirt will guess what driver to use. If you run non-root, it guesses 'qemu:///session' but when you run as root it guesses 'qemu:///system'. You should always pass an explicit URI if you know which one you want to use. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
