Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov <gleb at redhat.com> wrote: >> So why don't you use virt-manager? > > The original intention was to run the host without any graphical > desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based > on reading and such which recommends not having anything beyond the > necessary to minimize potential security problems and maximize > resources available. > > Then there were those pages which warn that virt-manager didn't work > too well if bridged networking was required. > > Last but not least, when I finally gave up and installed the desktop, > virt-manager couldn't find the hypervisor. Checking up, it appears > that the user needed additional permissions to certain files, which > after given and tested via CLI, I still get errors. > > Starting up X as root gave me this ominous warning that I really > shouldn't be doing this and since I didn't think it was wise in the > first place to have the desktop with root access running on what's > supposed to be a production machine, I stopped trying that route and > went back to figuring how to get virt-install to work. I log in as root and setup KVM guest, set it to boot automatically and next login as root is only if something is wrong. Ljubomir > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >