On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 11:09:09AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
And now that you say that, I just realised that it would be as simple as:
https://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#permission-denied-when-running-lib...
LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct virt-edit...
While that will indeed work, we're trying to discourage people from doing that, since it removes the other good things that libvirt does, such as setting up SELinux. The real solution here IMHO is for libvirt to make session mode work for root without changing UID. It actually goes out of its way to stop this working at the moment[1]. Rich. [1] In qemuStateInitialize -> virQEMUDriverConfigNew, I think -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v