Fedora 32: virsh command in a system session without sudo

black3dynamite

Even though you are a member of the libvirt group, by default when you run virsh commands without sudo, you are actually in a user session instead of system session.

To operate in a system session without using sudo, you need to use virsh -c qemu:///system.

# Running a one-liner virsh commands
virsh -c qemu:///system list --all

# Entering a virsh interactive terminal
virsh -c qemu:///system

EddieJennings

Excellent tip! Just tried this out and it worked.

black3dynamite

@EddieJennings said in Fedora 32: virsh command in a system session without sudo:

Excellent tip! Just tried this out and it worked.

If you want to avoid typing -c qemu:///system and make it default when using virsh command, create an alias in your .bashrc file.

alias virsh="virsh -c qemu:///system"

JaredBusch

I can see the use for this in a multi user system where you have virtualization admin. They would not need sudo access to do things.

For most though, just using sudo will suffice.