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    <p>Both virt-install and virsh require that your user, at a minimum,
      be a member of libvirt. You can alternatively run commands as
      root.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/11/2016 08:15 PM, Héctor Abreu
      wrote:<br>
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      <p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
      <p dir="ltr">I am new to virt-install but I read in some tutorials
        (and I think on the man page too) that you need root privileges
        in order to run virt-install commands.</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Regards,</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Héctor.</p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">El may 11, 2016 7:05 PM, "Narahari 'n'
        Savitha" &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>&gt;
        escribió:<br type="attribution">
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          <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Friends:</span>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">I need some help and guidance
              from you regarding this virt-install issue I am seeing.</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">OS : SuseEnterpriseLinuxServer
              (SLES) 12 Service Pack 1</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">virt-install version on the box</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">
              <div>virtual@SLES12-bare:~&gt; virt-install --version</div>
              <div>1.2.1</div>
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            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">libvirt version
              : libvirt-1.3.4-565.1.x86_64</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">What I tried:</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">=========</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
            </div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">I tried to start virt-install as
              regular user and I am seeing errors listed below.</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
            </div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">If I start the same with sudo it
              works (the user virtual shown here is a sudo enabled user)</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
            </div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">I really want to start the
              virt-install as a regular user.</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
            </div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">Please help.</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
            </div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">Error</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px">====</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
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              <div>virtual@SLES12-bare:~&gt; virt-install --connect
                qemu:///session -n SLES12_SP1 --memory 4096 --vcpus 2
                --cdrom
                /data/ADP_x86_64_SLES12SP1.x86_64-12.1.6.preload.iso
                --graphics spice --disk /data/kvm_images/SLES12_SP1.img</div>
              <div>WARNING  Graphics requested but DISPLAY is not set.
                Not running virt-viewer.</div>
              <div>WARNING  No console to launch for the guest,
                defaulting to --wait -1</div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>Starting install...</div>
              <div>ERROR    Failed to connect socket to
                '/run/user/500/libvirt/virtlogd-sock': No such file or
                directory</div>
              <div>Domain installation does not appear to have been
                successful.</div>
              <div>If it was, you can restart your domain by running:</div>
              <div>  virsh --connect qemu:///session start SLES12_SP1</div>
              <div>otherwise, please restart your installation.</div>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
            <div style="font-size:13px"><br>
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            <div style="font-size:13px">Thank You for your time and
              attention.</div>
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