Re: Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:33:00 -0400 Overkill wrote: > I can live with that until I figure out why this > polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 has an issue with nx client. I've noticed that my gnome-settings-daemon aborts when run under NX, apparently due to no sound being available (that's only a

Re: Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread Overkill
With everyone's help I finally figured out that it works just fine from the console/desktop and the error is caused with the nomachine/freenx client. So I did the same little workaround like Lee suggested and modified the argument in the "Main Menu" to use "ssh -X r...@localhost 'virt-manager

Re: Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 05/23/2010 05:34 AM, KC8LDO wrote: > Paolo; > > You have a couple of choices here. I'm not a Policykit expert but the below > two methods should work. > > 1. At the command line run [u...@system]su -c "virtmanager". Where the > "[u...@system]" is the command line prompt for your system and "vir

Subject: Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-23 Thread KC8LDO
Paolo; You have a couple of choices here. I'm not a Policykit expert but the below two methods should work. 1. At the command line run [u...@system]su -c "virtmanager". Where the "[u...@system]" is the command line prompt for your system and "virtmanager" is the exact name for the virtmanager

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Overkill
All, I know that libvirtd is running. How can I quickly make this policy change to ask for the password again? I try running that command /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 tool from the command and no luck. I'll have to read up on it. Thanks again, [r...@system ~]# ps -ef | gr

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 05/22/2010 10:11 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 > Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > >> When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I >> was prompted for the root password. >> > Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the > /usr/libexec/

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/22/2010 10:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 > Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > >> When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I >> was prompted for the root password. >> > Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the > /usr/libexec/p

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:03:27 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > When I tried running the virtual machine manager as a regular user I > was prompted for the root password. Ah, but the root password prompt comes from the /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 tool, if you are trying to use

Re: Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 05/22/2010 08:51 AM, Overkill wrote: > Greetings, I'm currently using FC12 32bit using the GNOME and need some > help bringing up virt-manager as a regular user. When I go to > Applications -> System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager it gives me an > error that its > > "Unable to open a connec

Gnome virt-manager

2010-05-22 Thread Overkill
Greetings, I'm currently using FC12 32bit using the GNOME and need some help bringing up virt-manager as a regular user. When I go to Applications -> System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager it gives me an error that its "Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon." I know it