Hi,

I'm using KVM like the following without having to use root access:

su -
yum install libvirt virt-manager qemu-kvm
chkconfig libvirtd on
# create new group for libvirt
groupadd libvirt
# add my user to this group
usermod -G myuser libvirt
# enable groups for libvirt instead of the default root
# http://libvirt.org/auth.html#ACL_server_unix_perms
nano /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
        unix_sock_group = "libvirt"
        auth_unix_rw = "none"
service libvirtd start
exit
# log out and back on
virt-manager


On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:38:48 -0500
Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'd love to be able to use sudo with virt-manager, but it simply
> fails. It does work on Ubuntu, and I'd like to be able to use sudo for
> all access to my KVM servers, rather than direct root login.
> 
> Is anyone using sudo successfully with virt-manager on SL 6.3? Other X
> applications work just fine.