<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" <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Friends:</span><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><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></div><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:~> virt-install --version</div><div>1.2.1</div></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">libvirt version : libvirt-1.3.4-565.1.x86_64</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><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></div><div style="font-size:13px">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:13px"><div>virtual@SLES12-bare:~> 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></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Thank You for your time and attention.</div></div>
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